“China and India are taking action to address the challenge of developing their economies and people’s futures in a climate-challenged world. It is time for some developed countries to stop using China and India as the excuses for their own inaction and get down to business as time is running out for the planet,” Ailun […]
The European Union’s new French presidency expects tough negotiations among the bloc’s 27 countries in coming months as it seeks an ambitious deal to protect the climate ahead of international talks in December.
“It will not be easy — it will be much work,” French Environment Minister Jean-Louis Borloo told reporters as he and his peers […]
Google’s motto is “Don’t be evil.” But when it comes to its environmental impact, some think the company can’t live up to its own hype.Now that it has unseated Microsoft as Earth’s most recognizable and influential technology behemoth, Google has gone from a crowd-favorite upstart to an octopus multinational beneath the bull’s-eye. As such, its […]
Floods like those that inundated the U.S. Midwest are supposed to occur once every 500 years but this is the second since 1993, suggesting flawed forecasts that do not take global warming into account, conservation experts said on Tuesday.”Although no single weather event can be attributed to global warming, it’s critical to understand that a […]
Labelled a “green gold rush,” global investment in renewable energy surged some 60 per cent to $148 billion in 2007Global investment in renewable energy surged 60 per cent to $148 billion (74.3 billion) last year and is still accelerating despite the slowdown in the wider economy, according to the United Nations.
Wind energy attracted the biggest […]
The government has stepped up the pace of change in the battle against global warming by announcing a shortlist of four bidders pre-qualifying for its carbon capture and storage (CCS) demonstration project and outlining a proposed new legislative framework for “clean coal”.Among the bidders are E.ON, which wants to use CCS for its controversial Kingsnorth […]
The 850 fires burning in California alone should be a wake up call that we’re unprepared for rapid climate change.The hundreds of fires hitting California right now are a wake-up call to both government and California residents: we’re unprepared for a rapid climate change crackling at our doorstep.
The facts are unequivocal, and point to a […]
Bangladesh has proposed the creation a fund to fight climate change in densely populated South Asia, which experts say is vulnerable to rising seas, melting glaciers and greater extremes of droughts and floods.Regional experts on climate change began two days of talks in Dhaka on Tuesday, ahead of a meeting of environment ministers from countries […]
Penguin colonies are collapsing because global warming, pollution and over-fishing are damaging their ocean habitat in the southern hemisphere, a researcher at the University of Washington said.Penguins are serving as a “canary in the coal mine,” and their declining numbers are evidence that people are altering the animals’ environment, said Dee Boersma, a biology professor […]
California has more than two thousand kinds of plants that are not found anywhere else. A new study says climate change could severely affect these plants by the end of the century.Many could move northward and toward the Pacific coast in reaction to rising temperatures and changes in rainfall. Others might climb up mountains to […]
