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Let Live: A Bike Ride, Climate Change and the CIA
Daniel Copley
5th January, 2012
What could have been a rip-roaring yarn with an important message is spoiled by unlikely dialogue and overly simple characters, says Daniel Copley more...
Durban climate change conference: is it time to forget about 2 degrees of warming?
Tom Levitt
8th November, 2011
Ahead of the latest UN climate conference, is it time we let go of the holy grail of carbon emission reduction targets and looked at alternatives such as 'carbon clubs'? more...
An Iceberg as Big as Manhattan
Gervase Poulden
29th September
David Shukman’s book is both an entertaining collection of a journalist’s tales and the perfect introduction to the environmental challenges facing the world today, says Gervase Poulden more...
Endgame for polar bears as Arctic habitat melts away
Gavin Haines
24th August, 2011
The recent polar bear attack in Norway is the latest reminder that time is running out for these iconic mammals, with runaway climate change and habitat loss. Gavin Haines reports more...
‘Extreme Science’ with Philippe Cousteau
Ecologist and explorer Philippe Cousteau will be taking viewers to the Arctic to study global warming in CNN documentary ‘Extreme Science’ more...
Study of spiders shows species may be able to adapt to global warming
William McLennan
10th March, 2011
Species may be able to adapt to gradual increases in temperature preventing the collapse of biological communities in the face of global climate change more...
Arctic
Ruth Styles
3rd February, 2011
Part travelogue, part lament for a threatened way of life, Ruth Styles says that Bruce Parry’s latest book, Arctic, shows us exactly what we stand to lose if global warming isn’t stopped - todaymore...
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...
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...
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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...
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...
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...
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...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...
Climate Camp comes to The City
Peter McDonnell
16th March, 2009
'If you liked sub-prime, you'll love carbon trading!' Join the Camp for Climate Action on the 1st of April as they set up in the Square Mile to greet global leaders and remind them that climate change must remain on the agenda more...Members
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