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16/3/2010
Fertilising the oceans with iron to absorb carbon dioxide could increase concentrations of a chemical that can kill marine mammals, a study has found.
Iron stimulates growth of marine algae that absorb CO2 from the air, and has been ...
16/3/2010
The head of Australia's Bureau of Meteorology has come out in defence of the science which says that climate change is real. Director Greg Ayers says a century's worth of climate records show definitive evidence that the weather patterns are ...
15/3/2010
Americans have grown more content about current environmental quality over the past year, though 53 percent still rate conditions as only fair to poor, according to a Gallup poll released on Monday.
Forty-six percent of the 1,014 adults ...
15/3/2010
Climate activists are predicting a campaign of direct action against a new coal-fired power station that could be the UK's first to fit carbon-capture technology.
Campaigners say that if the proposed 1.6GW station in Ayrshire is ...
15/3/2010
Pressure is building on the French shipping company Delmas to cancel large shipments of rosewood, which was illegally logged in Madagascar during the nation's recent coup. Today two environmental groups, Global Witness and the Environmental ...
15/3/2010
A drought that happens once in a hundred years had little negative or positive effect on the Amazon rainforest according to a NASA funded study in Geophysical Research Letters.
"We found no big differences in the greenness level of these ...
15/3/2010
Toyota dismissed the story of a man who claimed his Prius sped out of control on the California freeway, saying Monday that its own tests found the car's gas pedal and backup safety system were working just fine.
The automaker stopped ...
15/3/2010
The £250bn cost of developing Canada's controversial tar sands between now and 2025 could be used to decarbonise the western economy by funding ambitious solar power schemes in the Sahara or a European wide shift to electric vehicles, according ...
15/3/2010
Energy bills will rise but thousands of jobs could be created in green industries under a European plan to impose the world's most stringent restrictions on greenhouse gas emissions.
The Government will today support a proposal tabled in ...
15/3/2010
The head of Australia's peak science body has spoken out in defence of climate scientists, saying the link between human activity and climate change is beyond doubt.
The head of the CSIRO, Dr Megan Clark, says the evidence of global ...
15/3/2010
Kumi Naidoo said the organisation had no intention of scaling back its tactics as he compared protesters' actions to Mahatma Ghandi, Nelson Mandela and Martin Luther King saying they too broke the law.
"In some ways we will probably ...
15/3/2010
Australia circa 2050, population 35 million, climate change induced rising sea levels have flooded the Gold Coast resort region, apartment blocks are now used to grow food and people commute in monorail pods above the sea.
In another ...
15/3/2010
Australia's top scientists on Monday released a "State of the Climate" report at a time of growing scepticism over climate change as a result of revelations of errors in some global scientific reports.
The scientists said their ...
15/3/2010
Keeping the public looped in on what scientists are discovering has never been easy. For one thing, the traditional explainers – journalists – can distort, hype, or oversimplify the latest breakthroughs. But the need to communicate science ...
15/3/2010
U.N. climate scientists attacked by skeptics after they published an erroneous global warming forecast won support Monday from European Union environment ministers.
Climate skepticism has gathered pace since the U.N.'s Intergovernmental ...
15/3/2010
Compromise climate control legislation being developed in the U.S. Senate will use a cap-and-trade approach to reduce carbon emissions from utilities such as power plants, a key senator said on Monday.
The senator, who asked not to be ...
15/3/2010
Climate change has already wrought "pervasive, wide ranging" effects on the United States, and the federal government has "significant gaps" in its strategy to cope with those effects as they accelerate in the future, a White House task force ...
15/3/2010
Australia's top science body said on Monday temperatures had risen about 0.7 degrees Celsius (0.44 Fahrenheit) in the last 50 years, describing the finding as "significant evidence" of climate change.Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial ...
15/3/2010
A dramatic reduction in Canadian media coverage of climate change science issues is the result of the Harper government introducing new rules in 2007 to control interviews by Environment Canada scientists with journalists, says a newly released ...
15/3/2010
The first steps to kick start a global REDD scheme to halt deforestation and build on progress in Copenhagen have been taken at a meeting in Paris. A further $1 billion has been promised and a ten-nation steering group established to drive the ...
15/3/2010
Environment Minister Jim Prentice wants to know what Canadians think about a proposed new strategy to ensure the environment is taken into consideration when the federal government develops policies and programs.
His department has ...
15/3/2010
Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh on Monday said the UPA government will back Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) chairman RK Pachauri on the Himalayan glacier issue.
"We are backing the IPCC chairman and will fight any ...
14/3/2010
Something is wrong with the mighty Mekong River, which frames the lives of 250 million people in six countries of Southeast Asia through which it flows and on which 60 million people depend directly for their livelihoods.But there are ...
14/3/2010
An area of 247 square kilometers (95 square miles) of Brazilian rainforest was cut down in the months of October and November 2009, which may seem like a lot, but it was a significant drop in Amazon deforestation.
In fact, it was 72.5% ...
14/3/2010
China's Premier Wen Jiabao hit back on Sunday at critics who blamed China for the feeble outcome of the Copenhagen climate conference, saying he was not even invited to a key meeting he was accused of skipping.
Wen's defensive comments ...