Glaciers around the world are melting on a scale without precedent in recorded history, writes Alex Kirby. Measurements of over 5,000 glaciers show that they have been retreating so fast so far this century that even if climate is stablised, the ice losses will continue for years to come.
… that even if climate is stablised, the ice losses will continue for years to come. … metre of thickness every year - at least twice the average loss for the 20th century - and remote …
From Darina Allen's mountain picnics to Mark Boyle's moneyless meditations and Craig Sams decorating with fungi, 11 environment-minded luminaries tell us what they'll be doing this festive season
… Hopkins Transition Network Livia Firth Eco Age Mark Boyle Freeconomy Sam Roddick Tom … out shopping again straight away. Go for a nice walk instead. I relax playing board games … organic apple cider. On my wish-list is an ice-cream machine and an Erin O’Connor ‘She …
From Darina Allen's mountain picnics, to Mark Boyle's moneyless meditations and Craig Sams decorating with fungi, 11 environment-minded luminaries tell us what they'll be doing this festive season
… Hopkins Transition Network Livia Firth Eco Age Mark Boyle Freeconomy Sam Roddick Tom … out shopping again straight away. Go for a nice walk instead. I relax playing board games … organic apple cider. On my wish-list is an ice-cream machine and an Erin O’Connor ‘She …
Evidence stretching back 40,000 years shows that global warming will increase drying in a region of East Africa where drought already causes humanitarian crises, writes Alex Kirby - dashing earlier hopes of increased rainfall.
… experienced a wet period during the Little IceAge (1450-1850 AD) - dried out. And they … change" , says Tierney. The development agency Oxfam says Ethiopia is facing a major …
Writer turned climate change activist Bill McKibben is organising a global day of witness on 24th October. Mark your calendars now
… Climate Change And Energy Bill McKibben Copenhagen nagpur_india.jpg Writer turned climate … following the Arctic's heavy loss of sea ice two summers ago, have begun to revise the … is change at the top that resets the price of carbon in a real way. The only way to …
The last 30 years of European summers have been the hottest in thousands of years, writes Alex Kirby, and we had better start getting used to it - most of all in the Mediterranean and the Arctic, where a 1.5C global temperature rise could be amplified to 3.4C and 6C respectively.
… 2,000 years that have exceeded the mean average European summer temperature of the years … in Nature on the meaning of a 2C global average warming. She says: "We even see starkly … period was followed by a mostly cold Little IceAge from the 14th to the 19th centuries. …