An inhospitable planet? As climate change forces increasingly large numbers of people to flee their homes, Ecologist blogger Dan Box considers what 'climate change refugees' actually means
Dan Box Blog: climate change refugees Dan Box | 5th March 2009 Comment Climate Change Blog Dan Box Refugees Carteret Islands Islanders Climate Change Campaigns Green Living Climate Change An …
Working up to his departure for the Carteret Islands to report on the world's first officially recognised climate change refugees, Dan Box considers how travel insurance takes on a whole new meaning...
… regular boats to the next biggest island ( Buka ), let alone to the mainland itself. If an …
Something is starting to bother me about this trip. It’s not the travelling (though when I picked up my flight tickets yesterday, the travel agent warned me that people in Papua New Guinea still wear bones through their noses. I promised to keep an eye out).
Dan Box Blog - The Carteret Islanders Dan Box | 26th February 2009 Comment Blog Dan Box Climate Change Carteret Islands Island Islanders Climate Change Comments And Analysis Climate Change Society …
Isolated by the surrounding desert, Kashgar was once
an oasis on the old Silk Road. Now the city is being overwhelmed in the rush to open up the region’s oil and gas reserves. By Dan Box.
… instruments, the dance borrows from the ‘Mukam’, or ‘12 Great Melodies’, that have been …
Lying off the coast of Papua New Guinea, the Carteret Islands are slowly being engulfed by a rising sea. Follow Dan Box's weekly blog as he journeys to meet the Carteret Islanders - the first people to be officially labelled as climate change refugees.
BLOG: The Carteret Islanders Dan Box | 12th February 2009 Comment Blog Climate Change Refugees Global Warming Climate Change Climate Change Lying off the coast of Papua New Guinea, the Carteret …
In 1996 there were no farmers’ markets anywhere in the UK. Today they outnumber Asda stores. Dan Box celebrates their comeback and why we should all be using them.
… were no farmers’ markets anywhere in the UK. Today they outnumber Asda stores. Dan Box … FARMERS MARKETS IN NUMBERS 0 Number of UK farmers’ markets in 1996 420 Number of UK farmers’ markets today 13 Number of …
Our lives are now so dependent on oil that it is impossible to conceive of a world without it. Before long, however, we will have no choice. The sooner we start planning for that reality, and changing the way we live, the better our chance of survival.
… blockades spread around the country, to the UK’s main refineries and petrol terminals. As … today accounts for over one-third of the UK’s final energy use. As we reach the end of … collapse. Since currently 30 per cent of the UK’s gross domestic product comes from …
In 1956, at a meeting of the American Petroleum Institute in San Antonio, US geophysicist, M King Hubbert predicted that US oil production – which until then had been constantly increasing – would peak in the early 1970s, and then start to fall.
Hubbert's Peak Dan Box | 27th September 2005 News Peak Oil Hubbert Oil Energy In 1956, at a meeting of the American Petroleum Institute in San Antonio, US geophysicist, M King Hubbert predicted that …
Where the wild things are... Planning his trip to the Carterets Islands, Dan Box wonders what he'll encounter while in transit on Papua New Guinea
Dan Box Blog: Keeping an eye out Dan Box | 19th March 2009 Comment Dan Box Blog Climate Change Papua New Guinea The Carteret Islands Campaigns Climate Change Comments And Analysis Climate Change …
Dan Box teaches a class about climate change and its effects on the Carteret Islands, which are sinking due to rising sea levels, and how children can help stop climate change.
Dan Box Blog: learning about climate change Dan Box | 26th March 2009 Comment Dan Box Blogs Children Climate Change Carteret Islands Blog Climate Change Children Blog Climate Change Science And …
So, the Carteret Islands are sinking, but why should you care? It’s a question well worth trying to answer; after all, the islands are a long, long way away, you are unlikely to meet the people who are about to loose their homes and when they do, it won’t change your daily life.
Blog: The Carteret Islanders Dan Box | 19th February 2009 Comment Carteret Islanders Climate Change Global Warming Islands Journey Refugees Climate Change Global Warming Climate Change So, the …
As the worst drought in 100 years makes its effects felt in the southern hemisphere, Dan Box asks whether the Australian interior is becoming a terra nullius – a genuine no-man’s-land
Drought in the Australian interior Dan Box | 16th December 2008 News Australia Drought Aboriginals Dust Bpwl Desert Global Warming Comments And Analysis Climate Change bigdry_MAIN.jpg As the worst …
Dan Box makes a detour to the G20 climate protests in London, but leaves disappointed. Later, a lecture by Nicholas Stern, author of the Stern review, lifts his spirits.
Dan Box blog: listening to the radicals Dan Box | 2nd April 2009 Comment Dan Box G20 Protests Blueprint For A Safer Planet Nicholas Stern Blog Climate Change Blog Politics And Economics Society Dan …
'You have camera?' The taxi driver makes a tube out of his forefingers and thumb and holds it to his eye.
Dan Box blog: Almost there Dan Box | 15th April 2009 Comment Dan Box Blog Carteret Islands Climate Change Climate Change Blog Climate Change Blog Climate Change 'You have camera?' The taxi driver …
Dan Box is on-site to witness the world's first climate refugees being evacuated due to rising sea levels
… only yesterday, a day after arriving in Buka. It has been on again and off again many … Tinputz this morning, first by boat across Buka passage, which separates the island on … Carterets themselves, who had travelled to Buka on trading boats and wanted to be at …
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.
… will go direct to Tinputz, rather than Buka as planned. I don’t think I will be able …
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
Dan Box Blog - Paradise lost Dan Box | 14th May 2009 Comment Dan Box Blog The Ecologist Ecologist Carteret Islands Global Warming Climate Change Refugess Climate Change Global Warming Climate Change …
What happens when the market research on the good guys starts looking a lot like the profile of the bad guys? You breathe a sigh of relief, argues Dan Box
… vast amount of work required to update the UK National Grid alone so wind farms and other …
As US troops pulled out of Iraq last week the bidding for the country's oil fields began. Big Oil makes for epic (tragic) drama says Dan Box
As the troops withdraw, the oil execs move in... Dan Box | 7th July 2009 Comment Energy Oil Iraq Bp There Will Be Blood Iraq Petrol Company danboxcomment.jpg As US troops pulled out of Iraq last week …
Tackling climate change will have lots of knock-on benefits, but one we probably haven't considered is what it will do to car-related injuries. Dan Box meets a man who has...
… of fossil fuels. But will they? Last week’s UK government energy white paper went the …
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?
The first climate evacuation: what have we learned? Dan Box | 28th July 2009 News Climate Change Evacuation Carteret Refugees Global Warming carteretevac.jpg Earlier this year, journalist Dan Box won …