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US Chief Scientist says world could become 'unliveable' under global warming
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14th September, 2007
The US Government's chief scientist Professor John Marburger has admitted that the world could become 'unliveable' if CO2 emissions are not checked. more...
Adriatic sea could become a dead marine island
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12th September, 2007
A cold current which normally allows the waters of the Mediterranean and Adriatic seas to mix has disappeared as a result of global warming, scientists have revealed. more...
Arctic ice cover at new low
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5th September, 2007
Levels of sea ice around the North Pole now stand at their lowest ever levels, the Guardian has reported. more...
Brits holiday closer to home
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29th August, 2007
Britons are increasingly choosing healthy holidays in the UK, according to recent surveys more...
US accused of suppressing climate change reports
News
23rd August, 2007
A federal judge has reprimanded the US Government for failing to release two overdue reports laying out plans for climate change research and mitigation. more...
Embracing the waters
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21st August, 2007
Sustainable cities will welcome floods rather than building defences, say futurologists at the Royal Institute of British Architects. more...
Arctic sea ice free by 2030, say scientists
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20th August, 2007
Arctic sea ice is melting faster than climate models predicted and there is less sea ice in the Arctic now than at any time since records began, scientists from the US National Snow and Ice Data Centre (NSIDC) have discovered. more...
Trees shouldn’t be sold as carbon offsets, says study
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14th August, 2007
Trees planted in drought-prone or nutrient poor areas don’t store enough carbon dioxide to offset emissions, a new study by Duke University in North Carolina has found. more...
Canada and Russia are leading the stampede for a wealth of oil and gas exposed as climate change melts the Arctic sea-ice.
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13th August, 2007
Russia last week planted a flag on the Arctic seabed while the Canadian Prime Minister announced $57 million plans to establish military control over a key future Arctic shipping route, in symbolic moves to seize previously inaccessible Arctic fossil fuel reserves. more...
BAA on the run
John Stewart
9th August, 2007
John Stewart, chairman of aviation pressure group HACAN ClearSkies, explains why BAA has been out-gunned and out-manoeuvred more...
BAA win high court battle - or did they?
Vivienne Raper
9th August, 2007
Did the BAA or the protestors win a High Court order banning climate change demonstrators from Heathrow airport?more...
Sweeping emissions under the carpet
Peter Lockley
9th August, 2007
International aviation is the UK’s fastest-growing source of carbon emissions, and yet the government isn't even accounting for them. Peter Lockley explains why we urgently need to call a halt to airport expansion more...
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Environmentalists sue over US coal subsidies
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27th July, 2007
Environmental groups in the US are taking the government to court over its plans to subsidise new coal-fired power plants. more...
Rising ozone levels could stunt plant growth
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26th July, 2007
Rising levels of ozone in the atmosphere could make plants less able to absorb carbon dioxide, scientists have found. more...
Last bastion of climate sceptics topples
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11th July, 2007
Today, Martin Durkin and Channel 4 must hang their heads in shame. more...
Weather Report
Merlin Sheldrake
1st July, 2007
With floods in the north of England and no summer in sight what has happened to the weather? Merlin Sheldrake tries to make sense of a record-breaking year for the setting of weather records more...
China building 2 power stations a week
News
20th June, 2007
One of global warming's most famous statistics has now doubled. more...
The 11th Hour
Zac Goldsmith
19th June, 2007
Zac Goldsmith talks to Leonardo DiCaprio about his new environmental film The 11th Hour more...
Exxon may stop funding climate deniers
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15th June, 2007
ExxonMobil, the notorious US oil giant at the top of environmentalists' 'most wanted' list, has said it may stop funding controversial think-tanks which produce research claiming that climate change is not happening. more...
Emissions Trading won't make a difference, says WWF
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14th June, 2007
The second stage of the EU's much-criticised Emissions Trading System (ETS) will fail to deliver any significant cuts in Europe's carbon dioxide emissions, campaign group WWF said yesterday. more...
Time to green your PC
News
11th June, 2007
As awareness grows of the huge and swelling carbon footprint made by the world’s IT infrastructure, the government has launched a task-force to green our PCs. more...
Attenborough launches new climate campaign
News
31st May, 2007
Veteran naturalist and broadcaster Sir David Attenborough has launched a new multi-million pound fund to combat climate change. more...
Museum exhibition toned down to avoid government censure
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22nd May, 2007
The Smithsonian Institute's Museum of National History in Washington DC 'toned down' an exhibition on climate change to avoid offending senior politicians, Time magazine has reported. more...
Nuclear power can’t take the heat
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21st May, 2007
Future nuclear power plants, which are to be given the green light in the Government’s Energy White Paper later this week, will be forced to reduce their output as temperatures rise as a result of climate change, the International Herald Tribune has reported. more...
The Day After Tomorrow will just be even warmer
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17th May, 2007
The scenario depicted in the film ‘The Day After Tomorrow’, in which global warming triggers a new ice-age in the Northern hemisphere is unlikely to happen according to new scientific data. more...Members
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