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Climate refugees: Environmental Justice Foundation teams up with London cinemas
The Ecologist
14th March,2011
EJF’s ‘No Place Like Home’ film is part of their campaign arguing the case of people affected by climate change, who without international help and new binding agreements on assistance, will have no where to go and no means to survive... more...
Climate change 'will wreak havoc on Britain's coastline by 2050'
Jamie Doward, Observer
7th March, 2011
Millions living near the coast are likely to be hit by rising sea levels, erosion and storm surges, warns a new study by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation more...
Kiribati and Tuvalu will drown without global climate action
Scott Leckie and Dan Lewis
11th November, 2010
The causes of climate change are far from their shores, but these tiny Pacific nations face growing social strife and eventual annihilation unless western governments wake up and take responsibility, argue Scott Leckie and Dan Lewis more...
Atlantic Rising: Living on the edge on Nantucket Island in the US
Lynn Morris
28th September, 2010
Homes are being moved and maps redrawn as coastal erosion eats away at an island off Massachusettsmore...
Atlantic Rising: sea level rise threatens the Orinoco Delta in Venezuela
Will Lorimer
1st September, 2010
Rising sea levels are forcing the migration of indigenous peoples and threatening the freshwater ecosystem of catfish and piranha found in the Orinoco Delta near the coast of Venezuela more...
Atlantic Rising: Senegal's crumbling coast
Lynn Morris
14th October, 2009
When inadequate coastal walls only make the effects of sea level rise worse, is it time to move further inland? more...
Atlantic Rising: the plan to save Mont Saint Michel
Tim Bromfield
9th September, 2009
France's tourist haven Mont Saint Michel is threatened. A new scheme to recreate the rock will have dramatic, albeit short-lived, results 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...
The world's first environmental refugees
Dan McDougall
30th January, 2009
The disappearance of Lohachara beneath the waters of the Bay of Bengal created the world’s first environmental refugees. Dan McDougall reports on other islanders in the Sundarbans delta who have no escape from the rising ocean. Photography by Robin Hammond more...
Will climate change make your house uninsurable?
Jon Hughes, Rebecca Bole
29th January, 2009
The insurance industry is set to abandon two million British homeowners to the perils of climate change. Jon Hughes and Rebecca Bole report more...
Earth Shattering: Ecopoems edited by Neil Astley
David Hawkinns
1st June, 2008
Context is all in a comprehensive new anthology of verse with an environmental bent. These poems make sense of a disappearing world... more...
The Vanishing Arctic
Vivienne Raper
4th October, 2007
One of the most memorable parts of Al Gore’s film 'An Inconvenient Truth' was the cartoon polar bear trying to climb on the last piece of sea-ice in the Arctic, failing, and despondently swimming off into the sunset. With scientists this week reporting that autumn Arctic sea-ice coverage reached a record low this year, Al Gore’s cartoon may not be as far-fetched as it seems. more...
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Arctic ice cover at new low
News
5th September, 2007
Levels of sea ice around the North Pole now stand at their lowest ever levels, the Guardian has reported. more...
Embracing the waters
News
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
News
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...
Canada and Russia are leading the stampede for a wealth of oil and gas exposed as climate change melts the Arctic sea-ice.
news
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...
Safe as Houses?
Jon Hughes and Rebecca Bole
1st July, 2007
The insurance industry is set to abandon two million British homeowners to the perils of climate change. Jon Hughes and Rebecca Bole report more...
The Day After Tomorrow will just be even warmer
News
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...
IPCC Report: We are the problem
News
2nd February, 2007
The IPCC, a UN based organisation made up of over 1200 climate experts from 40 countries and the most respected global authority on Climate Change science, has said the rise in global temperatures could be as high as 6.4°C by 2100. The report also predicts sea level rises and increases in the frequency of hurricanes. more...
The Stern Review: Editors Comment
Jon Hughes
1st December, 2006
Sir Nicholas Stern was asked to find out what way of averting climate change was economically feasible. A loaded question that has allowed him to find a perverse solution to a fatal problem. more...
Crossing the threshold
Peter Bunyard
1st February, 2004
It takes no more than a gentle nudge to push a man over the edge of a cliff, but it is almost impossible to haul him back before he hits the ground. Given that we show no sign of putting a stop to global warming, Peter Bunyard takes a look at what the future might hold more...
Death of Venice
Tony Zamparutti
20th March, 2001
This month a construction consortium will start pouring millions of tons of rock and cement into the Venice Lagoon – one of the Mediterranean’s most important wetlands. The consortium claims the dam project will ‘save’ the city from flooding. But the project failed its environmental impact assessment, threatens the ecology of the lagoon and – with global warming and rising sea-levels –may not even protect Venice anyway. Tony Zamparutti reports from Italy. more...Members
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