Climate Change
Plans for new runways at Heathrow and Stansted are withdrawn
The airport operator BAA bowed to the inevitable yesterday and formally announced it was abandoning plans for new runways at Heathrow and Stansted.
Inside Climate Change
The real Climategate
Friday, 21 May 2010
Johann Hari: Global warming - and the worst environmental disasters - will only be tackled when green lobbyists in the US stop taking cash from Big Oil and Big Coal
Man-made climate change blamed for 'significant' rise in ocean temperature
Thursday, 20 May 2010
The world's oceans are warming up and the rise is both significant and real, according to one of the most comprehensive studies into marine temperature data gathered over the past two decades.
Michael McCarthy: This is no forecast. Climate change is here and now
Tuesday, 18 May 2010
You can look at the warming of Lake Tanganyika as a geographical and scientific curiosity; but you're probably wiser to look at it with a considerable sense of foreboding.
Small nations given voice on climate
Tuesday, 18 May 2010
The United Nations has appointed a Costa Rican diplomat as its new climate change chief after small island nations intervened to press for a choice who would represent their concerns about the risks of global warming.
Campaigners believe war on climate change will be stymied
Sunday, 16 May 2010
The parties are divided over nuclear power, offshore oil drilling and many other green issues - and critics say that will hinder the fight against global warming
Grace Boyle: Greenpeace survey finds radiation 5000 times background levels in Delhi market
Friday, 14 May 2010
A survey has today uncovered levels of radioactivity up to 5000 times background levels in Mayapuri scrap market, West Delhi, after the area was previously surveyed and declared safe by government authorities
Lizards are dying out because of climate change, study says
Friday, 14 May 2010
They have been around since the time of the dinosaurs and have in the past survived several global mass extinctions of species, but now lizards are at serious risk of disappearing from the face of the earth as a result of climate change, scientists said yesterday.
Save the planet on the low-carbon diet
Sunday, 9 May 2010
At Otarian, menus have a feelgood global-warming index. A gimmick, or the next step in ethical eating?
The chance discovery that averted ecological disaster
Thursday, 6 May 2010
Steve Connor on how the hole in the ozone layer was discovered by UK scientists a quarter of a century ago.
For one night only? Climate change back on election agenda
Tuesday, 27 April 2010
climate change came back into the election as a live issue yesterday when the three main parties clashed over each other's credentials for fighting global warming.
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