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21/5/2012
Cuban climate change scientists have been sharing their research findings and experience over the past few years with the rest of the Caribbean islands, using PRECIS, a regional climate modelling system, to help design adaptation ...
21/5/2012
Development and environment groups in southern countries are having a growing influence on government policy to tackle climate change, and are helping get the concerns of the poorest and most vulnerable people heard at national level, according ...
21/5/2012
A man has been charged with criminal damage to property at a research station housing a field trial of genetically modified wheat, according to Hertfordshire police.
Hector Christie, 50, from Tapeley Park Lodge, Instow, in north Devon, ...
21/5/2012
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency warns that the proposed large-scale Pebble Mine development in the hills above Alaska's Bristol Bay could cause devastating habitat lossfor the world's largest sockeye salmon fishery. In a draft report, ...
21/5/2012
Gregory Jaczko, the beleaguered US nuclear regulator, has announced he is stepping down from his post after months of bureaucratic warfare over the safety of America's ageing reactor fleet.
Jaczko had been at the forefront of attempts to ...
21/5/2012
Founded in 1951, The Nature Conservancy (TNC) works in more than 30 countries and has projects in all 50 of the United States. The Conservancy has over one million members, and has protected more than 119 million acres of wild-lands and 5,000 ...
21/5/2012
We are living through a delicious disaster. Never has so much food been offered to us from so many parts of the world, and in such elaborate combinations. The average supermarket carries over 45,000 different product lines, and yet the provenance ...
21/5/2012
Ninth grade science at the Academy for Career and College Education began the usual way last fall. Victoria Matthew's students learned the difference between biotic and abiotic characteristics, then progressed to the basics of scientific method. ...
21/5/2012
Climate change may have led to declining water levels in Genda Village in Zambia’s Eastern Province, but Mercy Mwanza and the women here discovered there was a positive side to it and found a new way to earn a living.
Decreasing water ...
21/5/2012
U.S. scientists report that they have discovered new sources of methane percolating up from underground reservoirs as glaciers, ice caps, and permafrost melt in the Arctic. University of Alaska researchers, conducting aerial and ground surveys, ...
21/5/2012
A year-and-a-half after a landmark summit that pledged to double the world's number of tigers by 2022, and still 65 percent of tiger reserves lack minimum standards of protection for the world's largest cat, according to the World Wide Fund for ...
21/5/2012
A review has cleared the scientist Peter Gleick of forging any documents in his expose of the rightwing Heartland Institute's strategy and finances, the Guardian has learned.
Gleick's sting on Heartland brought unwelcome scrutiny to the ...
21/5/2012
A clear change in salinity has been detected in the world's oceans, signalling shifts and an acceleration in the global rainfall and evaporation cycle.
In a paper just published in the journal Science, Australian scientists from the ...
21/5/2012
Global demand for food will double in coming decades, through population growth and rising levels of consumption. Ensuring the planet produces enough food for all in a sustainable way will be a real challenge, and climate change will hamper our ...
21/5/2012
Apple is cleaning up its energy act.
The computer company says that by early next year, the energy used to power its worldwide data centers will all come from renewable sources, such as solar, wind power, or hydro-electric dams. It ...
21/5/2012
Despite a sustained Conservative attack that accuses him of pitting east against west, Thomas Mulcair refuses to back down from his assertion the unchecked development of the oil sands is responsible for the loss of hundreds of thousands of jobs ...
21/5/2012
PEOPLE have fretted about when the world's oil will start to run out ever since M. King Hubbert came up with the idea of "peak oil" back in the 1950s. The American geologist, who worked for Shell, pointed out that we are destined to reach a ...
21/5/2012
Melting Arctic permafrost could put even more methane - a potent greenhouse gas - into the atmosphere than previously thought, with worrying implications for the pace of global warming.
Many ice sheets that sit like caps over rock ...
21/5/2012
Turmoil over budget cuts roils Greek streets. France elects an anti-austerity president. Even Germany's Austerity Queen Angela Merkel faces electoral backlash. It appears Europeans are getting sick of tightening their belts. But when you can't ...
21/5/2012
Researchers have found that methane stored underground for millions of years in the Arctic is seeping out into the atmosphere and threatening to cause adverse climatic changes by raising the levels of greenhouse gas.
The study documented ...
21/5/2012
At some point, the way Colorado River water gets divvied up is going to have to change. As we've noted in past writings, the lower basin states of Arizona and Nevada use more water than they're allowed to under the compact that runs the river. ...
21/5/2012
The energy savings achieved by Boulder's Climate Action Plan programs have been "impressive" and reasonably cost-effective, but they still leave the city far from achieving its Kyoto Protocol goal.
That was the conclusion of analysts ...
21/5/2012
The story of the Chagos islanders' treatment at the hands of the UK government is one for which I am ashamed to be British. It is a story of deceit and tragedy that has been described by some as the darkest day in British overseas ...
21/5/2012
La Nina conditions, which generally bring colder temperatures to many parts of the world, ended last month resulting in the fifth warmest April since record-keeping began, and the hottest April yet in the terrestrial Northern Hemisphere, ...
21/5/2012
Humanity's unquenchable thirst for fresh water is driving up sea levels even faster than melting glaciers, according to new research. The massive impact of the global population's growing need for water on rising sea levels is revealed in a ...