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Climate Change

Climate change divides the Alps down the middle

Global warming is already causing flooding in the north and water shortages in south, report says

Inside Climate Change

Former UN secretary-general Kofi Annan in London last Friday presiding over a think tank on worldwide action on climate change

Leaders called to special climate talks

Sunday, 31 May 2009

Unprecedented number of summits as world struggles to hammer out agreement before vital meeting in December

Climate crisis equal to nuclear arms threat

Friday, 29 May 2009

Climate change poses as great a threat to the world as the nuclear arms race, scientists warned yesterday as they called on leaders to take urgent action to tackle the problem.

Houses with white roofs, like these in Greece, would be able to reflect light back through the atmosphere, according to Steven Chu, the US Secretary of Energy

Obama's climate guru: Paint your roof white!

Wednesday, 27 May 2009

Some people believe that nuclear power is the answer to climate change, others have proposed green technologies such as wind or solar power, but Barack Obama's top man on global warming has suggested something far simpler – painting your roof white.

20 vehicles have been targeted in the last week by the gang

Eco-vandals take on the gas-guzzlers

Saturday, 23 May 2009

Spate of attacks on 4x4 vehicles in Manchester

U.S President Barack Obama: 'We have done little to increase the fuel
efficiency of our cars for decades'

Obama opens new front in climate change battle

Wednesday, 20 May 2009

President bids to wean US from gas-guzzling instincts with push for action to lower car emissions

Explorer Hadow returns after months on thin ice

Sunday, 17 May 2009

British team's fresh data indicates alarming rate of Arctic meltdown

The disintegration of the Antarctic ice sheet could cause catastrophic flooding on the east and west coasts of America

Melting ice could cause gravity shift

Friday, 15 May 2009

Northern hemisphere sea levels 'will rise the most' if Antarctic sheet disintegrates say scientists.

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Google Ocean shows effects of climate change

Friday, 15 May 2009

The same satellite technology that allows more than 500 million users to view everything from the Grand Canyon to a neighbour's backyard is now helping them glide through the depths of the ocean, track a whale or compare reviews of their favourite dive locations.

Martin Hartley, Ann Daniels and Pen Hadow

The Catlin Arctic Survey Team are on their way home

Friday, 15 May 2009

After 73 days, 17 hours, 23 minutes and 15 seconds on the ice, the team were successfully picked up from the ice at 1800 BST yesterday.

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