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Corries high in the Scottish mountains are to become “lookout posts” in an effort to better monitor the effects of climate change.Scottish Natural Heritage (SNH) is leading the Snowbed Project which will attempt to uncover evidence of warming temperatures on fauna and flora.
Corries are large circular, hollow depressions on a mountainside.
Climate change models predict a […]

A three-day meeting of Directors-General for Forestry began Tuesday in Slovenia. The main topics of the meeting concern forests and climate change, and the question of what role forests should play in adapting to and mitigating climate change. The Directors-General will also discuss the initiative for concluding a legally binding agreement on forests in Europe […]

The fountains in Trafalgar Square are surrounded by plastic tents, aid agency four-wheel drives and a frighteningly real looking ruin of a house, complete with smouldering remains and torn clothing.The mock refugee camp in the centre of London is the UN Refugee agency’s publicity push and has captured the attention of passing school children.
“Their house […]

A new project to help the Government of Côte d’Ivoire and others in the region manage hazardous waste was launched today by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP).The project is designed to tackle issues raised by the incident in 2006 when the dumping of toxic waste from the vessel Probo Koala in Abidjan left several […]

Greenpeace says green renewable energy can be cheaper, cleaner, and create more jobs than fossil fuels.The organisation also says that if the alternative energy is embraced now, it could see the phasing out of coal use by 2030.
In a new report titled Australia’s Energy Revolution, the group says the right recipe would deliver 40 per […]

Climate change threatens to devastate coral reef fish populations and increase the likelihood of fishery collapses, Australian researchers warned Monday.Coral reefs’ vulnerability to global warming has already been established by researchers, but the fish living in the reefs are also at risk, James Cook University’s Centre for Excellence in Coral Reef Studies found.
“We have already […]

India may have won the first round at Bali in December 2007 but the UN meeting on climate change at Bonn from June 2-13 saw the developed countries try to alter the Bali agenda.India, along with the G-77 grouping, had to fight hard in the subsidiary meeting to defend the Bali roadmap.
There was an attempt […]

The wind is free and almost limitless in this huge, coal-dependent country, but harnessing its power for energy is more expensiveWhen glimpsed from afar, the huge wind turbines look impossibly silent. Eleven machines, with 34-meter-long rotor blades, have been erected on the fringe of a large recreational park in Shanghai’s Nanhui district, about 34 kilometers […]

The computer you’re reading this article on might just be getting more electricity from renewable energy. That’s because a new, renewable energy power plant just started generating electricity earlier this week. The bio-mass power plant is located in eastern Arizona in the town of Snowflake. A bio-mass power plant takes materials that would normally be […]

UN climate chief Yvo de Boer called on industrialised countries on Thursday to start showing some of their cards in a slow-paced poker game whose prize is a new pact to tackle global warming.De Boer, executive secretary of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), said talks unfolding among senior officials here marked “the […]