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Lamb, beef and cheese have largest food footprint
Ecologist
27th July, 2011
US analysis highlights the high greenhouse gas emissions of popular animal products in comparison to alternatives like lentils, rice and tomatoes more...
Carbon offsetting version two: a greener way to travel?
Valentina Jovanovski
12th May
Carbon offsetting isn't perfect but Much Better Adventures’ partnership with environmental charity, the Converging World, has produced an initiative that just might work more...
UK shale gas boom 'may be dirtier than coal'
Tom Levitt
13th April, 2011
Despite outrage in the US over ‘fracturing’ techniques used to extract shale gas and new evidence its greenhouse gas footprint may be higher than that of coal, the UK has given the go-ahead to companies here to begin drilling. Tom Levitt reports from the centre of this potential unconventional gas boom near Blackpool more...
Man-made climate change doubling risk of extreme flooding
The Ecologist
17th February, 2011
By allowing emissions to to rise humans may have doubled the likelihood of further floods like those that struck the UK in 2000, say climate scientists in first attempt to prove link between man-made climate change and extreme weather more...
UK's greenhouse gas emissions reductions an 'illusion'
Eifion Rees
2nd February, 2011
The UK may appear to have made great progress in reducing its carbon emissions, but declaring only what it produces, rather than consumes, presents a skewed picture of its carbon responsibilities and the balance sheet more...
Freshwater lakes and rivers contributing to climate change
Tom Levitt
12th January, 2011
Study estimates emissions of methane from freshwater systems to be 103 million tonnes per year - equivalent to 25 per cent of all the carbon dioxide absorbed by the world's land areas more...
Cancun climate summit fails to agree successor to Kyoto Protocol
Tom Levitt
12th December, 2010
Major industrialised powers claim progress has been made towards a legally-binding agreement but campaigners warn new deal will be 'weak' and 'wholly inadaquate' in preventing climate change more...
Campaigners issue warning on refrigerant emissions
Dearbhla Crosse
October 27th, 2010
UK efforts to combat ozone-depleting CFC gases has seen supermarkets and other refrigerant users switch to a problematic alternative in HFCsmore...
US climate sceptics fail to stop carbon emissions being labelled danger to health
Ecologist
30th July, 2010
Campaigners say ruling 'opens the door' to the US to limit carbon emissions from industry under existing laws and removes the need to force through new bitterly opposed climate legislation more...
Greening my office: I got them to switch the heating off!
Sylvia Sunshine
9th July, 2010
Sylvia scores her first eco success - persuading her sceptical boss that heating an unoccupied portion of the office is a terrible waste of resources more...
Let's stop people scamming billions from the carbon market
Fionnuala Walravens
8th April, 2010
It was a loophole that most of us thought had been sewn up. But new research shows that companies are continuing to cash in on the 'super' greenhouse gas HFC-23 more...
Carbon emissions: the world in 2010
Tom Levitt
23rd December, 2009
A post-Copenhagen look at where the carbon emissions are coming from and how that is projected to change over the coming decade more...
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Change farming to cut CO2 emissions by 25 per cent
Eifion Rees
3rd July, 2009
A new report has revealed that a change in the way we manage agricultural land could help sequester a quarter of the world's carbon dioxide emissions every year more...
Industrial nations must tackle deforestation at Copenhagen, say MPs
Ecologist
30th June, 2009
A Commons environmental audit committee has called for industrialised nations to change their patterns of consumption if alarming rates of global deforestation are to be arrested and reversed more...
UK Met Office's forecast on human induced climate change - a mixed message?
Peter Bunyard
18th February, 2009
As US climatologists and scientists are urging the world that greenhouse gas emissions be curbed rapidly to prevent runaway global warming, the UK Met Office appears to be back pedalling on human induced climate change. Peter Bunyard reports on some mixed messages more...
A bad appraisal
Rebekah Phillips
19th June, 2008
Forget environmental considerations, money’s in the driving seat when it comes to approving transport schemes. It’s time to reappraise the appraisers, says Rebekah Phillips more...
Power On - Nuclear Power
Jon Hughes and Mark Anslow
1st November, 2007
Even among green campaigners, nuclear energy is quietly gaining ground as a potential solution to the impending energy crisis. However several issues – particularly those of raw materials, cost and waste – remain unaddressed within the mainstream of opinion.more...
US greenhouse gas bill proposed
News
19th October, 2007
Two US Senators have proposed a bill which would force the country to cut greenhouse gas emissions by at least 60 per cent by 2050. more...
Airport expansion: passenger demand means small airports plan to get bigger
News
28th February, 2007
Record demand for cheap flights has resulted in 21 (mostly regional) airports publishing expansion plans in the last 5 years. They have been spurred on to do so by the Government’s plans to raise plane passenger numbers from 200 million in 2003 to 500 million by 2030. more...
Behind the lies: Shell
The Ecologist
1st March, 2003
The adverts tell you the company’s green. The Ecologist tells you the truth. more...Members
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