Climate Change To Devastate Or Destroy Many Penguin Colonies
Half to three-quarters of major Antarctic penguin colonies face decline or disappearance if global temperatures are allowed to climb by more than 2°C.
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Financial crisis shows how politicians could act on climate change
IT IS amazing the political will and financial resources rich nations can marshal when they are under threat. The result is hundreds of billions of dollars invested to prevent a meltdown of the US financial system and its impact on economies everywhere.
Financial crisis shows how politicians could act to stem tide of climate change.
Climate change seen aiding spread of deadly diseases
A “deadly dozen” diseases ranging from avian flu to yellow fever are likely to spread more because of climate change, the Wildlife Conservation Society said on Tuesday.
Tackling climate change means millions of “green jobs”
Emergence of a ”green economy” is now clearly visible and efforts to tackle climate change could result in millions of ”green jobs” in India and other countries, says a UN sponsored report.
Fish stocks at risk from climate change
CLIMATE change is likely to hit supplies of many of Australia’s favourite eating fish, including barramundi, salmon, rock lobster and prawns, the most extensive study on the subject yet undertaken by the Federal Government has warned.
Prince Charles: World is not acting quickly enough over climate change
Prince Charles has warned that the world is not reacting quickly enough to combat climate change.
Palin fought polar bears safeguards with studies by climate sceptics
The Republican Sarah Palin and her officials in the Alaskan state government drew on the work of at least six scientists known to be sceptical about the dangers and causes of global warming, to back efforts to stop polar bears being protected as an endangered species, the Guardian can disclose. Some of the scientists were funded by the oil industry.
Expert calls for $600b clean energy fund
An international expert on climate change is calling for an urgent 10-fold increase in funding for clean energy.
WHO says climate change poses health risks
The World Health Organization on Wednesday warned Asia Pacific countries that they could be vulnerable to health risks and food shortages as a result of climate change.
Gordon Brown says CO2 targets must be raised to 80% by 2050
Gordon Brown is ready to adopt much tougher targets for slashing the UK’s greenhouse gas emissions.
New group forms to protect wildlife from climate change
RESEARCHERS, academics and business leaders have formed a new group in South Australia to protect and manage wildlife in the face of climate change.
Met Office says climate change deniers deluded
Climate change sceptics such as Nigel Lawson who argue that global warming has stopped have their “heads in the sand”, according to the Met Office.
Firms warned about not acting on climate change
Companies that fail to tackle climate change could lower the value of their businesses, a report by the UK’s Carbon Trust suggests.
UK business chiefs urge action on climate change
Business leaders including directors at Tesco, Lloyds TSB and other top high street names have urged Gordon Brown to drop his slowly, slowly approach to tackling global warming and go for “transformational change”, saying the prime minister should not be held back by fears over the current financial crisis.
‘Let us strike over climate change’
UNIONS are looking to change industrial laws to allow employees to strike over climate-change issues
Arctic ice could be thinnest ever amid fears climate is ‘low priority’
AS ANOTHER report reveals the vanishing state of the Arctic ice, scientists have raised fears that the message about the urgent need to act on climate change is not getting through fast enough.
Greenpeace Power station protesters cleared
Six Greenpeace activists have been cleared of causing criminal damage during a protest over coal-fired power.
The Environment Report
We hear a lot about carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. But half of all man-made CO2 is stored in the world’s oceans. When CO2 mixes with water, it increases the oceans’ acidity.
Climate change policies must be linked to human rights – Oxfam
RICH COUNTRIES must start basing their climate change policies on human rights principles and stop using economic excuses to “wriggle out of their responsibilities”, says international aid agency Oxfam in a new report published today
British military reacting to climate change
Climate change is forcing the British military to tailor its strategy and equipment for more extreme weather, a junior defense minister said Wednesday.
