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Anger at opening of Shell-sponsored climate change exhibition
Tom Levitt
6th December, 2010
Campaigners accuse oil giant of trying to 'buy itself goodwill' within government and academia by donating £1 million to a new exhibition at The Science Museum in London more...
'Uneven' sea level rises threaten Indian Ocean coastal regions
Ecologist
14th July, 2010
Global warming is adversely affecting certain countries around the Indian Ocean with higher than average sea level rises, according to analysis published in Nature Geoscience more...
Australia getting warmer springs and uneven rainfall
Ecologist
14th March, 2010
Australian meteorologists have published an up-to-date summary of how rainfall and temperature levels have changed across the country over the past 100 years more...
Global Warring by Cleo Paskal
Samuel Bonham
16th February, 2010
An ambitious but at times over-simplistic look at how environmental, political and economic crises will redraw the world map more...
The West helped create the Somali pirate situation
Simon Fairlie
28th December, 2009
What few have stopped to consider in the continuing 'battle' against Somali pirates is what industrialised nations have been doing to the country's fishing grounds for years more...
Protecting forests AND the rights of forest peoples
Laura Sevier
8th December, 2009
The plans currently under consideration for saving forests might help the trees, but they could ride roughshod over indigenous communities. Here are some ways to change that more...
Copenhagen deal taking world to 3.5 degree rise
Ecologist
7th December, 2009
Industrialised countries need to decrease their emissions to between 25-40 per cent on 1990 levels by 2020, according to IPCCmore...
Schools using art to learn about climate change
Rebecca Heald
27th July, 2009
Can climate art help save the world? Rebecca Heald reports on a school art installation and its ambitious 'Cool it Schools' global online initiative more...
10 groups pushing for cultural change
Ecologist
19th June, 2009
Inspiration for change comes in many guises – from downshifting your personal life to celebrating a community Apple Day to joining a movement for social justice. more...
Climate Change - Our Warming World
Amy Dickson
10th November, 2009
Christina Hutchins' book delivers the facts in a simple, effective and stark way rather than bombarding you with scientific data more...
If You Love This Planet: A Plan To Save The Earth
Henry Unwin
2nd November
Helen Caldicott outlines the most pressing issues in the world today and provides a basic framework for solutions more...
Atlantic Rising: tracing the sea in 2100
Lynn Morris
27th August, 2009
In the first post of a new blog, Lynn Morris outlines how and why she and two team-mates are about to trace the contour of 2100's Atlantic Ocean... more...
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Heatstroke: Nature in an Age of Global Warming
Andrea Kayne
24th August, 2009
Is the entire global ecosystem on the verge of collapse? Anthony D. Barnosky explores the threats facing the natural world and outlines some solutions more...
Ocean temperatures hit record high for July
Ecologist
20th August, 2009
Combined land and ocean surface temperatures for the world are fifth warmest on record more...
Copenhagen and the carbon conundrum
Felicia Jackson
10th August, 2009
It's too late to create an entirely new global climate framework, argues Felicia Jackson. We need to put a price on carbon to reflect its true cost, and Copenhagen, while flawed, is our best hope more...
The New Renaissance
Julian Rose
28th July, 2009
When it comes to solving global problems, we need local solutions, change in every area of life and a 'people's movement' for self-governance...more...
The first climate evacuation: what have we learned?
Dan Box
28th July, 2009
Earlier this year, journalist Dan Box won recognition from environmentalist George Monbiot for documenting the world's first climate change evacuation, of the Carteret islands in the South Pacific. Now, he returns to his experiences to ask if this is the first evacuation of many, how should we do it in future? more...
The 300-350 Show: Arctic special - part two
Phil England
27th July, 2009
In the second part of a special programme looking at the significance of the Arctic in the context of climate change, Phil England hears about the rush to exploit the region's oil and gas supplies... more...
Copenhagen success rests on cash and commitment
Ecologist
10th July, 2009
New research has revealed that a lack of finance and political commitment lie at the heart of the slow take-up of renewables, as a UK think tank calls for cash for low-carbon technology to be ringfenced more...
An audience with Sir David King
Jon Hughes
1st February, 2007
Sir David King is credited with bringing climate change to serious political attention. But he is also a campaign of GM crops. How does that square? more...
Dan Box Blog - Paradise lost
Dan Box
14th May, 2009
Dan Box reports from a community in its death throes, as the Carteret islanders pack up their homes and prepare to become the world’s first climate change refugees more...
Struggling for Éire
Molly Scott Cato
11th May, 2009
If it is not to be choked by debt and taxes, Ireland must return to the self-sufficient, localised vision of one of its founding fathers more...Dan Box Blog: Morning in Tinputz
Dan Box
29th April, 2009
I slept in my clothes last night, on the bare wooden floor of one of the houses the first boatload of people to be evacuated from the Carteret Islands are building for their families. It was a jet-black night in the small clearing hacked out amid the jungle, the dark broken only by our two candles and the lights of Fireflies jigging in the trees. more... Possum or polar bear?
William Laurance
8th April, 2009
With global warming putting pressure on animals and biodiversity in the tropics, is it time we had a new poster child for climate change, asks William Laurance more...
The G20 marches - a pointless protest against everything, or the dawn of a new collective action?
Sylvia Rowley and Rachel Rickard Straus
2nd April, 2009
Protests. A political free-for-all or a new collective activism around social and environmental problems? Sylvia Rowley and Rachel Straus find out. more...Members
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