G8 2007: Day 3 Students gather to plan global action on climate change
2007-06-04 20:06:56
China unveils climate change plan China sets out its strategy for tackling climate change, but stresses it will not sacrifice economic growth.
2007-06-04 10:22:34
Land conversion and climate threaten land birds Evaluating changes in range size of land bird species using Millenium Ecosystem Assessment scenarios reveals that land conversion, as well as climate change, will lead to the decline of many species, particularly those in the tropics.
2007-06-04 00:00:00
G8 2007 Day 2 (Sunday): 600+ create Human Banner demanding urgent action on climate change
2007-06-03 22:26:10
Australia PM pledges climate plan Australian Prime Minister John Howard announces a new policy on climate change, pledging pollution limits.
2007-06-03 11:26:12
UN welcomes Bush's climate plans A leading UN climate official welcomes US President George Bush's new climate change imitative.
2007-06-01 17:44:31
Blair push for climate progress Tony Blair welcomes George Bush's call for a global warming summit but says more needs to be done.
2007-06-01 11:51:23
Bush bowing to the inevitable over emissions - Huhne <P>Commenting on the speech by President Bush calling for global greenhouse gas
targets, <B>Liberal Democrat Shadow Environment Secretary</B>,<B> Chris Huhne
MP</B> said:<BR><BR>"President Bush is at last
2007-06-01 00:00:00
Green taxes needed to cut transport emissions - Huhne <P>Commenting on new Office of National Statistics figures which show that in
2005 there was a rise in transport emissions, <B>Liberal Democrat Shadow
Environment Secretary</B>, <B>Chris Huhne MP </B>said:<BR><BR
2007-06-01 00:00:00
Bush tries to sabotage fight against climate change In response to President Bush’s speech this afternoon, Friends of the Earth’s Director, Tony Juniper, said:
“President Bush claims the USA is a leader on climate change, yet the US has some of the highest per capita emissions in the w
2007-05-31 17:52:00
US urges new greenhouse gas goals US President George W Bush outlines a new plan to tackle greenhouse gas emissions, ahead of a G8 summit.
2007-05-31 15:51:02
Research finds that Earth's climate is approaching 'dangerous' point NASA and Columbia University Earth Institute research finds that human-made greenhouse gases have brought the Earth's climate close to critical tipping points, with potentially dangerous consequences for the planet.
2007-05-31 00:00:00
Research finds evidence tropical cyclones have climate-control role Purdue University researchers have found evidence that tropical cyclones and hurricanes play an important role in the ocean circulation patterns that transport heat and maintain the climate of North America and Europe. These findings suggest that there is
2007-05-31 00:00:00
Soils offer new hope as carbon sink The huge potential of agricultural soils to reduce greenhouse gases and increase production at the same time has been reinforced by new research findings from the NSW Department of Primary Industries'. Trials of agrichar -- a product hailed as a savior of
2007-05-31 00:00:00
HSBC in $100m climate initiative HSBC, the UK's largest bank, is funding a new $100m initiative to tackle global climate change.
2007-05-30 23:34:43
Razorlight s Johnny Borrell records solar powered song for Friends of the Earth A new Razorlight song has been recorded by Johnny Borrell in support of The Big Ask, Friends of the Earth climate campaign, at the UK's only solar powered recording studio today (30 May). The song, Funeral Blues, has been recorded to highlight the solutio
2007-05-30 17:49:00
Great apes 'facing climate peril' The great apes are facing an "inevitable crisis" arising from climate change, a leading conservationist warns.
2007-05-30 15:03:08
Stansted expansion is madness - Carmichael <P>Commenting on the first day of the public inquiry into the expansion of
Stansted Airport today, <B>Liberal Democrat Transport Secretary</B>,<B> Alistair
Carmichael MP</B> said:<BR><BR>"Labour must demo
2007-05-30 00:00:00
NASA mission checks health of Greenland's ice sheet and glaciers A NASA-led research team has returned from Greenland after an annual three-week mission to check the health of its glaciers and ice sheet. About 82 percent of Greenland is made up of a giant ice sheet. During the Arctic Ice Mapping Project, researchers me
2007-05-30 00:00:00
CANADA SUED FOR BREACHING KYOTO Friends of the Earth Canada has launched a landmark lawsuit today against the Government of Canada for abandoning its international commitments under the Kyoto Protocol. Filed in Federal Court in Ottawa by Canada’s foremost environmental law organi
2007-05-29 13:05:00
Conductive plastics made from natural, renewable, environmentally friendly soybeans Polymer matrix composites with carbon black are very interesting materials. This is because the carbon black can be used as filler material and can beneficially modify the electrical and mechanical properties of the used matrixes.
2007-05-29 00:00:00
UK 'must pay more for emissions' Britain needs to spend more to help poorer nations deal with climate change, Oxfam says.
2007-05-28 23:13:50
Review of pilot phase of European Union Emissions Trading Scheme finds it to be successful Articles published today in the first issue of new journal, Review of Environmental Economics and Policy[1], describe the European Union's Emissions Trading Scheme (EU ETS) as by far the most significant accomplishment in climate policy to date, concludin
2007-05-28 00:00:00
Japan eyes greenhouse gas cut The world should halve emissions of greenhouse gases by 2050, Japan's prime minister says.
2007-05-24 14:13:42
Councils need more power to tackle waste - Huhne <P>Speaking ahead of the Government's waste strategy announcement today,
<B>Liberal Democrat Shadow Environment Secretary</B>, <B>Chris Huhne MP
</B>said:<BR><BR>"Britain is the dirtiest rich country in t
2007-05-24 00:00:00
ENERGY WHITE PAPER REACTION Today’s Energy White Paper is a huge missed opportunity, Friends of the Earth said today. The environmental campaign group said that it should have set out tougher polices on energy efficiency, renewable power and cleaner transport to make the UK a
2007-05-23 15:00:00
Last minute HIPs changes shows Government's incompetence - Stunell <P>Commenting on Ruth Kelly’s emergency statement to the House of Commons this
afternoon on Home Information Packs, <B>Liberal Democrat Shadow Local Government
Secretary, Andrew Stunell MP</B> said:<BR><BR>"
2007-05-23 00:00:00
Nuclear consultation a farce - Kramer <P>Commenting on the launch of the Government’s Energy White Paper today,
<B>Liberal Democrat Shadow Trade and Industry Secretary</B>, <B>Susan Kramer MP
</B>said:<BR><BR>"This consultation is a
2007-05-23 00:00:00
Climate 'threatening UK species' Action is needed to protect British wildlife from the effects of climate change, a report says.
2007-05-22 00:53:44
Scientists concerned about effects of global warming on infectious diseases As the Earth’s temperatures continue to rise, we can expect a signficant change in infectious disease patterns around the globe. Just exactly what those changes will be remains unclear, but scientists agree they will not be for the good.
2007-05-22 00:00:00
Nuclear power will divert investment from renewable energy - Kramer <P>Commenting ahead of tomorrow's Energy White Paper, <B>Liberal Democrat Shadow
Trade and Industry Secretary</B>, <B>Susan Kramer MP</B> said:<BR><BR>"The
Government is in danger of missing the opportuni
2007-05-22 00:00:00
When lava flows and glaciers recede, predicting how species take over When fire, clearcutting, lava or receding glaciers create empty habitat, species arrive to form a new ecological community. Adverse conditions -- such as isolation of the new community or an unfavorable climate -- may hinder the arrival of new species and
2007-05-22 00:00:00
Predicting catastrophic transitions Complex systems, such as the earth's climate, coral reefs, oceans and socioeconomic systems, seem to respond little to gradual change until a critical tipping point is reached, after which the system may collapse completely. After such collapse, the origi
2007-05-22 00:00:00
Climate change threatens wild relatives of key crops Wild relatives of plants such as the potato and the peanut are at risk of extinction, threatening a valuable source of genes that are necessary to boost the ability of cultivated crops to resist pests and tolerate drought, according to a new study release
2007-05-21 00:00:00
Deadlock for UN climate meeting UN-hosted talks on climate change aimed at paving the way for a climate summit in December end in deadlock.
2007-05-18 15:13:33
Bognor Regis P&P lobbying politicians and school decision makers. Since they started in autumn 2006, Bognor Regis People & Planet group have had a fantastic year with a huge amount of activity. Their main focus has been on climate change, however they have also promoted Fairtrade in their school, learnt about extrem
2007-05-17 13:03:53
Miliband refuses to back international climate targets - Horwood <P></P>
<P>David Miliband today refused to assure Parliament that the Government would
back European demands, against the wishes of the United States, for binding
targets to combat climate change. His comments came during questionin
2007-05-17 00:00:00
Climate change affects Southern Ocean carbon sink The first evidence that recent climate change has weakened one the Earth's natural carbon 'sinks' is published this week in the journal Science. A four-year study by scientists from the University of East Anglia, British Antarctic Survey and the Max-Planc
2007-05-17 00:00:00
Public health impact of climate change, poverty, disaster response and housing design Leading global experts provide insight into protecting public health and promoting health equity in urban settings in a supplement to the May/June 2007 issue of the New York Academy of Medicine's Journal of Urban Health. The supplement includes reports r
2007-05-17 00:00:00
Permanent ice fields are resisting global warming The small ice caps of Mont Blanc and the Dôme du Goûter are not melting, or at least, not yet. This is what CNRS researchers1 have announced in the Journal of Geophysical Research. At very high altitudes -- above 4200 meters -- the accumulation
2007-05-16 00:00:00
Investigating coral reefs to help understand past and future climate change Increasing Earth temperatures and rising sea levels. Both of these are effects of climate change. The current concern is that human activity is changing our climate at a rate well above the natural climate cycling. Understanding how the Earth's climate sy
2007-05-16 00:00:00
Working with Inuit community is part of scientific expedition When Elizabeth Thomas, a graduate student at the University at Buffalo, travels this month to Baffin Island in the northeast Canadian Arctic, she not only will be sampling sediments from the bottom of frozen lakes, she also will be educating a native Inui
2007-05-16 00:00:00
Journal details how global warming will affect the world's fisheries Watching the ebb and flow of populations of fisheries around the world can provide some insight into understanding the effects of global warming on our planet, according to a group of researchers writing in the summer 2007 issue of Natural Resource Modeli
2007-05-16 00:00:00
Call to tax plasma televisions Governments should tax "energy intensive" plasma TVs, according to a leading expert on climate change.
2007-05-15 12:07:53
Climate messages are 'off target' Alarmist messages about global warming are counterproductive, a leading climate scientist argues.
2007-05-15 00:02:08
HIPs fiasco typical of government incompetence - Stunell <P>Commenting on the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors announcement that
it has commenced judicial review proceedings over Home Information Packs,
<B>Liberal Democrat Shadow Local Government Secretary</B>, <B>Andrew Stun
2007-05-15 00:00:00
Still time to tackle climate change - Huhne <P>Commenting on today’s [Tuesday] WWF report which predicts that world leaders
have five years to save the planet from a climate change disaster, <B>Liberal
Democrat Shadow Environment Secretary</B>, <B>Chris Huhne M
2007-05-15 00:00:00
Charity warns of migration crisis The effects of climate change could cause massive waves of migration, says the charity Christian Aid.
2007-05-14 01:28:41
Report highlights failure to deal with migration crises - Moore <P>To mark the beginning of the 50<SUP>th</SUP> annual Christian Aid Week,
Christian Aid today [Monday] published its report 'Human Tide: The Real
Migration Crisis.'<BR><BR>The report predicts that climate change and conf
2007-05-14 00:00:00
'Build parks to climate proof our cities' Scientists looking at the effect global warming will have on our major cities say a modest increase in the number of urban parks and street trees could offset decades of predicted temperature rises.
2007-05-14 00:00:00
Marine reserves could save coral reefs Marine reserves have already proved to be a successful way of protecting marine life against commercial fishing. Now, research published today (May 16, 2007) in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, shows for the first time how marine reserves
2007-05-14 00:00:00
US seeks G8 climate text changes The US tries to block sections of a draft agreement on climate change prepared for next month's G8 summit.
2007-05-13 14:24:20
Citizens' climate summit opens Government, business and consumers need to cooperate to reduce climate change, Environment Secretary David Miliband says.
2007-05-12 12:52:33
Wychwood festival to reduce its carbon footprint The Wychwood Music Festival, which runs from 1-3 June at Cheltenham Racecourse, is linking up with Friends of the Earth to reduce the environmental impact of the festival. The Festival is rebranding the Big Top Tent as the Friends of the Earth ‘Big
2007-05-11 16:52:00
Confirmed -- Deforestation plays critical climate change role New research confirms that avoiding deforestation can play a key role in reducing future greenhouse gas concentrations. Dr Pep Canadell, from the Global Carbon Project and CSIRO Marine and Atmospheric Research, says today in the journal Science that tropi
2007-05-11 00:00:00
Climate swings have brought great CO2 pulses up from the deep sea A study released provides some of the first solid evidence that warming-induced changes in ocean circulation at the end of the last Ice Age caused vast quantities of ancient carbon dioxide to belch from the deep sea into the atmosphere.
2007-05-11 00:00:00
BLAIR'S GREEN RECORD Tony Blair’s green record as Prime Minister has been disappointing, Friends of the Earth said today. The environmental campaign group said that despite some notable and important successes – such as putting climate change on the international
2007-05-10 15:25:00
China warns over climate change China says it is likely to be hit by more adverse weather this year than in the past decade, due to climate change.
2007-05-10 06:33:16
Radical engine redesign would reduce pollution, oil consumption Researchers have created the first computational model to track engine performance from one combustion cycle to the next for a new type of engine that could dramatically reduce oil consumption and the emission of global-warming pollutants.
2007-05-10 00:00:00
Climate policy: It's good to be in the 'RED' Tropical deforestation, which releases more than 1.5 billion metric tons of carbon to the atmosphere every year, is a major contributor to global climate change. Recognizing this, a group of forest-rich developing nations have called for a strategy to mak
2007-05-10 00:00:00
Climate action from Poitiers to Bacolod Students and young people around the world are taking action on climate change. Read on for some inspiration!
2007-05-08 14:34:45
Lib Dems in Commons challenge to Government over Climate Change <P>The Liberal Democrats are today challenging the government to “inject a sense
of urgency” into their efforts to combat climate change. In an opposition day
debate, led by <STRONG>Shadow Environment Secretary, Chris H
2007-05-08 00:00:00
Melting of the Greenland ice cap may have consequences for climatic change At the last ice age, before the great ice sheets of the Arctic Ocean began to melt, early sporadic episodes of melting of the old ice sheet which covered the British Isles had already begun to affect the circulation of the ocean currents. Based on this ob
2007-05-07 00:00:00
Tropical plants go with the flow ... of nitrogen Tropical plants are able to adapt to environmental change by extracting nitrogen from a variety of sources, according to a new study. By demonstrating that not all plants specialize in one specific source of nitrogen, the result turns a commonly held theo
2007-05-07 00:00:00
Is climate change likely to increase disease in corals? High-resolution satellite data of ocean temperature across the Great Barrier Reef reveal that warm temperature anomalies can drive outbreaks of coral disease under conditions of high coral cover.
2007-05-07 00:00:00
Climate change: options to tackle it are affordable, agree governments BANGKOK, THAILAND, 4 May 2007 -- The world's leading scientists say governments can tackle climate change and that the solutions are affordable and available, in a key United Nations (UN) report published here today.
2007-05-04 17:08:00
Climate change report confirms the need for a tough climate change law The world's leading scientists say governments can tackle climate change and the solutions are affordable and available, according to a key United Nations (UN) report published in Bangkok today. They also state that governments will need to be much more a
2007-05-04 17:02:00
Law challenge to Gore school film The government faces a legal challenge over its move to send Al Gore's climate change film to England's secondary schools.
2007-05-04 16:06:15
Climate action 'needs devolution' Tackling climate change effectively and cost-efficiently means giving power to local councils and communities.
2007-05-04 08:23:03
Climate change 'can be tackled' Experts at a UN climate change summit agree that emissions can be limited with small impacts on economies.
2007-05-04 06:39:05
Widespread 'twilight zone' detected around clouds There is something new under the sun that could complicate scientists' efforts to get a fix on how much the world will warm in the future. In addition to greenhouse gases, clouds, and aerosol particles that influence the temperature of the atmosphere, a n
2007-05-04 00:00:00
Climate change impacts stream life Climate change is warming Welsh streams and rivers, affecting the number and variety of some of their smallest animals, a major Cardiff University study has found.
2007-05-04 00:00:00
Vote Liberal Democrat on May 3rd <P><IMG alt="Ballot paper" hspace=5 src="/media/images/voting_175.jpg"
align=right vspace=5 border=0>Urging people to vote Liberal Democrat in the 2007
May elections, Ming Campbell focused on crime and the environment,
2007-05-03 00:00:00
CO2 row threatens climate report Environmentalists fear a key climate report is based on outdated science, leading to dangerous climate change.
2007-05-02 12:35:33
Drought limits tropical plant distributions, scientists at the Smithsonian report Drought tolerance is a critical determinant of tropical plant distributions, researchers working at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute in Panama report in the journal Nature, May 3. In a novel coupling of experimental measurements and observed p
2007-05-02 00:00:00
Prince's 'mayday' climate alert Prince Charles issues a "mayday" alert over climate change, and calls for urgent action to curb emissions.
2007-05-01 11:07:58
Climate change was the cause of Neanderthal extinction in the Iberian Peninsula Recent studies carried out in Gorham's cave, on Gibraltar, proved to be definitive for this work. Results show that the Neanderthal extinction could have been greatly determined by environmental and climate changes and not by competitiveness with modern h
2007-05-01 00:00:00
More recycling on the farm could reduce environmental problems An analysis argues that semiclosed agricultural systems could enhance global sustainability of biological resources, curtail greenhouse gas emissions and groundwater contamination, and reduce farming’s reliance on oil imports and water.
2007-05-01 00:00:00
Liberal Democrats are the party of principle <P>Visiting Watford today<B> Liberal Democrat Leader Menzies Campbell</B>
accused both Labour and the Conservatives of favouring passing fashion over
principle. He will urge those wanting a party of principle to vote Liberal
Democr
2007-05-01 00:00:00
Report final nail in coffin of ill-fated HIPs - Stunell <P>Commenting on the House of Lords Merits of Statutory Instruments Committee’s
report into the Home Information Packs, <B>Liberal Democrat Shadow Local
Government Secretary</B>, <B>Andrew Stunell MP</B> said:&l
2007-05-01 00:00:00
Climate change will mean more early deaths from summer smog - Huhne <P>On the day that air quality figures for 2006 are released, the Liberal
Democrats have published research showing that smog and ozone are causing
thousands of premature deaths.</P>
<P>In 2006 there were at least 5,000 premature de
2007-05-01 00:00:00
US Earth-observing satellites in jeopardy, AAAS Board cautions As US policy-makers prepare for hearings later this week on space-science and climate-change research, the world's largest general science society today warned that budget cuts are threatening US satellites essential for weather forecasting, hurricane war
2007-05-01 00:00:00
Climate change a threat to Indonesian agriculture, study says Rice farming in Indonesia is greatly affected by short-term climate variability and could be harmed significantly by long-term climate change, according to a new study by researchers at Stanford University, the University of Washington and the University
2007-05-01 00:00:00
Arctic melt faster than forecast Computer models of climate change have underestimated the pace of Arctic melting, a study concludes.
2007-04-30 22:37:09
