Climate Change
Coral islands bigger despite ocean's rise
Some South Pacific coral atolls have held their own or even grown in size over the past 60 years despite rising sea levels says new research.
Inside Climate Change
Summertime 2100, and the living isn't easy
Sunday, 30 May 2010
What will London be like a century from now? Seven degrees warmer, with water-absorbent streets and parched public parks. Marek Kohn paints an unnerving picture of metropolitan life in the sweaty grip of a radically changed climate
Extreme droughts to be 'more common'
Thursday, 27 May 2010
Britain is heading for water shortages and crop failures as extreme droughts like that of 1976 become more frequent, experts have warned.
Tony Blair gets another new job – in Silicon Valley
Wednesday, 26 May 2010
Tony Blair's crusading belief in science as a way of solving global warming has landed him another lucrative business appointment.
Plans for new runways at Heathrow and Stansted are withdrawn
Tuesday, 25 May 2010
The airport operator BAA bowed to the inevitable yesterday and formally announced it was abandoning plans for new runways at Heathrow and Stansted.
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
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