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Arctic – 2 kilometres under the ice – temperatures are 1ºC higher and warming is faster than previous assumptions.

31/10/2010 New Scientist Narwhals diving nearly 2 kilometres below polar ice have revealed that climatology models used for the Baffin bay region Read the rest of this entry »

UK – Why have Britons lost touch with the natural world?

31/10/2010 Guardian by Fiona Reynolds. Read the rest of this entry »

New data collection might change our destructive behaviour- David Parker’s innovation is geomatics

31/10/2010 Observer “Oh no. Do I need to attempt a succinct explanation of geomatics?” Read the rest of this entry »

Japan -Nagoya Biodiversity conference deal shows the world has at last woken up

30/10/2010 Independent by Michael McCarthy. Read the rest of this entry »

Japan – Nagoya biodiversity deal restores faith in UN

Goodwill and compromise: Nagoya biodiversity deal restores faith in UN. Read the rest of this entry »

UN conference on biodiversity in Japan – 200 nations agree new strategy

Biodiversity talks: Ministers in Nagoya adopt new strategy. Read the rest of this entry »

Japan biodiversity meeting mostly about money

30/10/2010 BBC Banking on innovation for green shoots by Richard Black. Read the rest of this entry »

Japan – Biodiversity meeting ends with weak deal but call for ‘urgent’ action by Richard Black

30/10/2010 BBC Japan are likely to emerge with credit after ensuring tough negotiations were not derailed. Read the rest of this entry »

In the media and the courts, the battle to undermine climate science and its researchers hasn’t let up

29/10/2010 New Scientist In the media and the courts, the battle to undermine climate science and its researchers hasn’t let up, warns climatologist Michael Mann. Read the rest of this entry »

Nature deal ‘on knife-edge’ as nations clash on money by Richard Black

29/10/2010 BBC  Protesters are reminding delegates of the need to protect plants. Read the rest of this entry »

Edward Norton- UN Ambassador on biodiversity – interview

28/10/2010 New Scientist Edward Norton: What’s the first rule of Peace Club? Read the rest of this entry »

World Bank to lead economic push on nature protection by Richard Black

28/10/2010 BBC   The World Bank has launched a global partnership aimed at helping countries include the costs of destroying nature into their national accounts. Read the rest of this entry »

Germany success with solar power requires new grid development

28/10/2010 New Scientist Solar power could crash Germany’s grid. Read the rest of this entry »

Grim figures on species loss at biodiversity meeting

28/10/2010 New Scientist Almost a fifth of vertebrate species are endangered. Read the rest of this entry »

The battle for the UK energy industry -will solar become the norm?

28/10/2010 Independent “It is a great big battle of ideas, and we haven’t won it yet,” says Jeremy Leggett. Read the rest of this entry »

Japan offers hope to biodiversity summit with $2bn conservation fund

28/10/2010 Guardian  Progress of conference boosted by rapid improvement in negotiations, with 15 of 20 targets agreed upon. Read the rest of this entry »

Harrison Ford appeals to Nagoya Biodiversity meeting – on the clear and present danger

28/10/2010 BBC Raiders of the lost bark by Richard Black. Read the rest of this entry »

One fifth of animal and plant species are under the threat of extinction by Richard Black

27/10/2010 BBC More species slide to extinction.Some 13% of birds qualify for inclusion on the Red List. Read the rest of this entry »

EU plans to clamp down on £1.6bn carbon trading scam – Chinese gas projects

26/10/2010 Guardian The European commission is planning to clamp down on a £1.6bn carbon trading scam. Read the rest of this entry »

Leading scientists accuse thinktanks of being logging lobbyists

26/10/2010 Guardian  Twelve leading scientists, including the former head of Kew Gardens and the biodiversity adviser to the president of the World Bank, have written an open letter Read the rest of this entry »

UK Parliament – Cabal of climate sceptics meet for ‘Climate Fools’ Day but who are the fools?

26/10/2010 by Leo Hickman The UK’s close-knit cabal of climate sceptics will descend on parliament tomorrow. Read the rest of this entry »

Soaring demand in China and political unrest in Madagascar are fuelling illegal logging for hardwoods

26/10/2010 BBC by Richard Black Some of the ebony and rosewood, like the wood shown here, is destined for use as guitar fretboards. Read the rest of this entry »

Obstacles to nature protection emerge as stakes rise by Richard Black

26/10/2010 BBC From the UN Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) meeting in Nagoya: Read the rest of this entry »

USA Tea Party climate change deniers are funded by BP and other major polluters

26/10/2010 Guardian US Senate climate change deniers and Tea Party favourites including Jim DeMint and James Inhofe are being funded by BP and other polluters. Read the rest of this entry »

Nagoya biodiversity summit is showing depressing parallels with Copenhagen failure

26/10/2010 Guardian by Jonathan Watts. Nagoya biodiversity summit is showing depressing parallels with Copenhagen. Read the rest of this entry »

Global food crisis forecast as prices reach record highs

26/10/2010 Guardian India has had food price inflation of 17% in the last year. Read the rest of this entry »

India leads – Biodiversity, dollars and social sense by John Palmer

25/10/2010 Guardian India’s decision to publish measurements of the changes – positive and negative – in its “natural wealth” including its plant, water and other environmental resources is a development of global significance. Read the rest of this entry »

UK needs green economics minister, advisers urge by Richard Black

25/10/2010 BBC  The minister would place financial values on the UK’s natural world such as undeveloped land, woodland, rivers and marshes. Read the rest of this entry »

UN Report – we must change global economic model to save biodiversity

23/10/2010 Independent The global economy must be radically altered to put a value on forests, reefs and other elements of nature but the financial benefits of doing so will be enormous, Read the rest of this entry »

Film director James Cameron accused of being climate change hypocrite

24/10/2010 Independent on Sunday James Cameron labelled climate change ‘hypocrite’. Read the rest of this entry »

US warns of record Arctic warming – Report by 69 international scientists

24/10/2010 Independent on Sunday The Arctic region continues to warm at an unprecedented rate, impacting people and ecosystems there Read the rest of this entry »

Nagoya biodiversity talks stall on cash and targets by Richard Black

23/10/2010 BBC  The Nagoya conference aimed to secure a future for the endangered natural world. Read the rest of this entry »

UK government CRC energy efficiency scheme lets big polluters evade the taxman

23/10/2010 Guardian George Osborne’s spending review this week dealt a shocking blow to participants in a government carbon-cutting scheme for companies and organisations with
medium-size energy use, Read the rest of this entry »

UK rail network is ‘at risk’ from climate change by Howard Falcon-Lang

22/10/2010 BBC  The study warns that the UK rail network faces an increased risk of damage in the future. Read the rest of this entry »

River and lake fish areas essential for food are threatened by global warming

22/10/2010 Guardian  b y Richard Black.The report argues that biodiversity is key to keeping critical fisheries afloat. Read the rest of this entry »

China biodiversity plan wil protect 25% of it land area

22/10/2010 New Scientist Nearly one-quarter of Chinese territory is set to be designated a protected area, Read the rest of this entry »

Global warming up 12°C – half the world will be uninhabitable

22/10/2010 New Scientist Thermogeddon: When the Earth gets too hot for humans. (Long article). Read the rest of this entry »

Climate war has a new front: the courtroom

22/10/2010 New Scientist INTERNATIONAL climate talks may be stalled, but the fight to protect the planet from dangerous warming goes on. Read the rest of this entry »

Leo Hickman’s alternative guide to the trailer for Bjørn Lomborg’s Cool It film

22/10/2010 Guardian Bjørn Lomborg, author of The Skeptical Environmentalist, has a new film out. Read the rest of this entry »

Biodiversity summit must tackle destructive impacts of food production by Janet Ranganathan and Frances Irwin

22/10/2010 Guardian  Forests in Brazil have been cut down to make way for crops such as soya. Read the rest of this entry »

UK cuts its green investment

22/10/2010 Guardian How will the spending review affect the environment? by Damian Carrington. Read the rest of this entry »

Positive News

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Reykjavik, Iceland shines Peace Tower of Light with message ‘imagine peace’ in 24 languages

14/9/2010 www.positivenews.org.uk Peace Tower Lights Up Read the rest of this entry »

Ecuador first nation to offer to leave its oil in the ground if compensated.

13/9/2010 www.positivenews.org.uk Issue 65 Ecuador to Leave Oil Underground by Sean Dagan Wood. Read the rest of this entry »

USA Battle over California’s climate change law – huge donations for NO campaign

21/10/2010 Guardian  Avatar director James Cameron and Intel co-founder Gordon Moore have weighed in with huge donations for the ‘no to Prop 23′ Read the rest of this entry »

India set to be first country to publish ‘natural wealth’ accounts – as recommended in key Report

21/10/2010 Guardian India is set to become the first country to publish accounts of its ‘natural wealth’. Read the rest of this entry »

E.ON energy firm has withdrawn from competition to build Kingsnorth coal powered generator with CCS plant, saying the

21/10/2010 Guardian E.ON shelves plans to build Kingsnorth coal plant. Read the rest of this entry »

Global index and world map of vulnerability to climate change

The Climate Change Vulnerability Index was produced by Maplecroft, a British risk analysis firm. Read the rest of this entry »

Global index of vulnerability to climate change

20/10/2010 New Scientist Asia tops climate change’s ‘most vulnerable’ list. Read the rest of this entry »

China is now world leader in clean energy: study finds

20/10/2010 Independent The world’s top polluter, China, is a surprise leader in clean energy efforts, a study showed Tuesday, outstripping the United States and Japan Read the rest of this entry »

Solving nature loss: Child’s play? by Richard Black

20/10/2010 BBC From the UN Convention on Biological Diversity meeting in Nagoya, Japan: Read the rest of this entry »

Britain is growing greener at the expense of the rest of the world by Tony Juniper

18/10/2010  Observer The impending extinction of tigers, the melting icecaps and the ravaging of the rainforests are symptoms of an emerging global crisis. Read the rest of this entry »

What are the prospects for the Nagoya biodiversity summit? by George Monbiot

19/10/2010 Guardian What does the draft declaration tell us about the prospects for the biodiversity summit in Japan? Read the rest of this entry »

‘Ten years’ to solve nature crisis, UN meeting in Japan hears

18/10/2010 BBC By Richard Black Delegates will consider adopting new set of targets for 2020 that aim to tackle biodiversity loss. Read the rest of this entry »

Temperature – global warming if Cop-15 implemented

Temperature – global warming up 3.9ºC by 2100 even if Cop-15 implemented. Read the rest of this entry »

Global 9 ways in which we have damaged the planet’s capacity to sustain us

Planet earth – graphic of 9 ways in which we have damaged the planet’s capacity to sustain us. Read the rest of this entry »

Temperature – global warming 1850 to present

Temperature – global warming 1850 to present. Read the rest of this entry »

Temperature – extreme global temperatures 100 million years ago

Temperature – extreme global temperatures 100 million years ago. Read the rest of this entry »

Energy renewables – wind

Wind energy – floating turbine. Read the rest of this entry »

CO2 global emissions graph since 1950 to 2007 – still rising steeply

CO2 global emissions graph – still rising steeply. Read the rest of this entry »

Antarctic Pine island glacier

Antarctic Pine island glacier. Read the rest of this entry »

CO2 emissions compared across countries 1. total current 2. total historic 3. per person

Three different ways to compare CO2 emissions across counties. Total current, total history, and per person. Read the rest of this entry »

China’s wind power capacity to increase five-fold by 2020

18/10/2010 Independent China’s wind power capacity will increase more than five-fold over the next decade from 2009, Read the rest of this entry »

10:10 climate campaign gains support from four medical associations

18/10/2010 Guardian  10:10 climate campaign gains support from four medical associations. Read the rest of this entry »

UN Japan forum “We’re now close to a tipping point on biodiversity,”

18/10/2010 Delegates will consider adopting new set of targets for 2020 that aim to tackle biodiversity loss. Read the rest of this entry »

Crompton, Tom Common Cause: The Case for Working with our Cultural Values.

100 page Report available as a pdf file of the full Report- Read the rest of this entry »

Common Cause: The Case for Working with our Cultural Values. Report by WWF, COIN, CPRE, FOE, Oxfam

15/9/2010 WWF website The case for working with our cultural values. Read the rest of this entry »

Threat to environmental policies – read the left has to start asserting its own values by Goerge Monbiot.

12/10/2010 Guardian So here we are, forming an orderly queue at the slaughterhouse gate. Read the rest of this entry »

Renewables policies must be improved, not undermined with cuts by Robert Gross and Jim Watson

15/10/2010 Guardian  In the run-up to the comprehensive spending review in less than a week’s time, there have been repeated rumours Read the rest of this entry »

IPCC plenary meeting in Busan -comment by Richard Black

13/10/2010 BBC The future of the world’s climate science authority is being decided behind the glass and steel facade of a modern conference centre in South Korea’s second city. Read the rest of this entry »

IPCC aims for clarity and relevance in new report – by Richard Black

15/10/2010 BBC Thomas Stocker argued local climate models have not been user-friendly. Read the rest of this entry »

Population – aging projection

Population – aging projection. Read the rest of this entry »

End the carnage decimating the natural world

15/10/2010 New Scientist THERE is a mass extermination going on, right under our noses. Read the rest of this entry »

Planet EARTH is starting to crumble as the strain of climate change flattens cities.

15/10/2010 New Scientist A warming world could leave cities flattened. Read the rest of this entry »

10/10/2010 350 actions across the planet nearly 8000 events in 188 countries

Go to: www.350.org  to see the video click here. Read the rest of this entry »

Rajendra Pachauri the Chairman is to remain chief and pledges IPCC reforms

15/10/2010 Guardian  The UN panel of climate scientists agreed today to change its practices in response to an error in a 2007 report, Read the rest of this entry »

Europe on track for Kyoto targets but not counting 40% rise in emissions from imported goods

14/10/2010 Guardian  Europe has cut emissions but has exported its global warming pollution. Read the rest of this entry »

Paris, Amsterdam, Zagreb and Mexico City have signed up to 10:10 carbon emissions cuts.

14/10/2010 Guardian Four capital cities sign up to 10:10 Read the rest of this entry »

UK Green quangos hit by cuts – James Randerson and Damian Carrington

15/10/2010 Guardian  Caroline Lucas says the ‘bonfire of the quangos’ has had a ‘slash-and-burn apporach’. Read the rest of this entry »

IPCC Climate panel agrees ‘milestone’ reforms but defers others by Richard Black

14/10/2010 BBC  The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has adopted new guidelines on dealing with scientific uncertainties following criticism of its 2007 report. Read the rest of this entry »

Living Planet Index: We consume 50% more than is sustainable.

14/10/2010 Independent A new report reveals just how fast we are consuming the Earth’s resources – and the dire consequences. Read the rest of this entry »

The whole world’s resources. Can we put a price on them?

13/10/2010 New Scientist How much would you pay for planet Earth? Read the rest of this entry »

Carbon footprint – how best to dispose of old solar panels

13/10/2010 New Scientist Green Machine: Where do solar cells go when they die? Read the rest of this entry »

Tropics are being destroyed at an increasing rate for western consumerism

14/10/2010 Guardian  Mangrove destruction for shrimp farming in Thailand. Wildlife and ecosystems in the tropics are under pressure, WWF report shows. Read the rest of this entry »

Global Map of ecological footprints

World Wildlife Fund – A global map of the relative ecological footprint per person in 2007. The darker the colour, the higher the footprint. Read the rest of this entry »

Global Cleantech 100 list – US still high but China rising fast.

14/10/2010 Guardian Sun shines on California in Global Cleantech 100 list – for now. Read the rest of this entry »

World War 1 ships to chart past climate

13/10/2010 BBC A new project aims to use old Royal Navy logbooks to help build a more accurate picture of how our climate has changed over the last century. Read the rest of this entry »

UK Carbon footprint labels: the latest aid for ethical shopping

13/10/2010 Independent Shoppers familiar with seeing fair trade, organic or rainforest labels during their weekly shop will have to get used to another logo: the carbon footprint. Read the rest of this entry »

Adaptation against the odds: enabling communities to cope with climate change

12/10/2010 Guardian Today, the NGO Practical Action will highlight its work with a photo exhibition of images Read the rest of this entry »

Why landfill mining could be the next big thing

12/10/2010 Guardian If the UK keeps dumping rubbish at its current rate it will run out of landfill space by 2018. Read the rest of this entry »

Battle of the UN climate conferences – China and USA blame each other

12/10/2010 BBC Roger Harrabin looks at the outcomes of the climate conference in Tianjin, China. Read the rest of this entry »

Population shifts ‘substantially influence’ emissions by Mark Kinver

12/10/2010 BBC   An increasing number of people may not necessarily lead to a similar rise in emissions, the study says. Read the rest of this entry »

Floating turbines promise to deliver reliable wind, says report

12/10/2010 Guardian  A prototype Hywind floating wind turbine – the Energy Technologies Institute says such designs could help turbines access higher wind speeds off the UK
coast. Read the rest of this entry »

UK 3 women Climate Rush activists storm Daily Express newsroom

12/10/2010 Guardian How do you grab a 20-minute meeting with a head honcho at the Express Newspaper group to talk about the failures of its papers’ climate change coverage? Read the rest of this entry »

Climate change could lead to Arctic conflict, warns senior Nato commander

11/10/2010 Guardian One of Nato’s most senior commanders has warned that global warming and a race for resources could lead to conflict in the Arctic. Read the rest of this entry »

MEPs urge EU to lead battle to save biodiversity by Mark Kinver

11/10/2010 BBC  They voiced “deep concern” about an apparent lack of urgency among nations to protect habitats and species. Read the rest of this entry »

UK Environment adviser warns against green funding cuts

11/10/2010 Guardian  Tim Yeo likened a reduction in spending on low-carbon technology to cutting the budget for Spitfires in 1939. Read the rest of this entry »

Tianjin talks and a ‘global work party’ by Richard Black

11/10/2010 BBC 10/10/10, if you care to write dates that way – is set for what’s probably the biggest mass event ever in pursuit of curbing climate change. Read the rest of this entry »

Green fatigue hits campaign to reduce carbon footprint

10/10/2010 Independent Car sales, flights and waste all increase as the recession takes its toll on consumers’ motivation. Read the rest of this entry »

World Wide Day of action on climate change – biggest climate change demonstration ever

9/10/2010 www.350.org Biggest climate change demonstration world wide ever claim organisers – 7347 actions world wide in 188 countries. See the pictures. Read the rest of this entry »

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