Climate change can be halted, UN concludes
Published: 05 May 2007
Global warming is solvable, United Nations climate change experts said in a landmark judgement yesterday.
Malaria fear as global warming increases
Published: 04 May 2007
Global warming could lead to a return of insect-borne diseases in Britain such as malaria, and increased incidence of skin cancer caused by exposure to the sun, a government report warns today.
A holiday at the end of the Earth: tourists paying to see global warming in action
Published: 03 May 2007
Bored with your usual holiday? Try watching bits of the world as they start to heat up!
Researchers 'seed' ocean with iron to soak up CO2
Published: 03 May 2007
A research ship is about to begin a project around the Galapagos Islands, in the Pacific Ocean, that will highlight the importance of marine plankton in the fight against global warming and climate change.
Arctic sea ice 'vanishing at faster rate than expected'
Published: 02 May 2007
Scientists may have seriously underestimated the speed at which Arctic sea ice will melt in the coming decades, caused by global warming, according to a study published today.
Overheating Britain: April temperatures break all records
Published: 28 April 2007
Meanwhile, in Australia a global crisis arrives in the back yard
Published: 28 April 2007
When the timer pings, Emma Kendall-Marsden knows that her four minutes in the shower are up. In her native Northamptonshire she loved to linger under a powerful hot jet. But this is Brisbane, and the water is running out.
The Great Pall of China
Published: 25 April 2007
An island made by global warming
Published: 24 April 2007
The melting of the great Greenland ice sheet has produced its most remarkable phenomenon. A new island has appeared off its coast, a development that is being seen as an alarming sign of global warming.
Michael McCarthy: Successor deal to Kyoto now vital for former refusenik
Published: 20 April 2007
Two years ago at the Australian high commission in London I heard the pugnacious Australian Foreign Minister, Alexander Downer, explain why his country would not ratify the Kyoto protocol on climate change.
Bangladesh: A nation in fear of drowning
Published: 18 April 2007
Beckett defends UN debate on climate change and conflict
Published: 18 April 2007
The UN Security Council held a groundbreaking debate yesterday on the impact of climate change on conflicts, in spite of objections from developing countries that global warming was not an issue of international peace and security.
Blair and Merkel lean on Bush to join climate change battle
Published: 15 April 2007
George Bush is coming under unprecedented pressure from Tony Blair and the German Chancellor, to agree to tough new measures to stop global warming accelerating
Who's cool in the great celebrity green rush?
Published: 15 April 2007
Odds offered online on global warming's possible coastal impact
Published: 14 April 2007
Joining the debate about the effects of global warming, an online gambling service has started accepting bets on when rising waters would submerge Virginia's Cape Henry and Cape Hatteras on North Carolina's Outer Banks.
Price war drives down the cost of transatlantic flights
Published: 13 April 2007
They may be cheap. But don't expect them to be cheerful. The new era of inexpensive transatlantic flights may prove to be an endurance test for the passengers who will flock to them. Out-of-the way airports, endless transit bus journeys; all the irritations that come with bargain basement European air travel will be replicated in spades in the US. But that is unlikely to stop anyone.
Retailers told less waste means more customers
Published: 13 April 2007
Shoppers are furious about the amount of packaging on everyday food, according to research for the food industry that may encourage companies to reduce waste.
Carbon cost of climate change concert criticised
Published: 11 April 2007
It has been billed as the greenest concert of the summer, a continent-crossing event aimed at galvanising support for the fight against global warming.
Life returns to a dead sea
Published: 10 April 2007
Unicorns of the sea: Dying in the depths
Published: 08 April 2007
How the worst effects of climate change will be felt by the poorest
Published: 07 April 2007
Humanity will be divided as never before by climate change, with the world's poor its disproportionate victims, according to a new United Nations report.
Scientists in war of words over global warming report
Published: 06 April 2007
Scientists and diplomats are haggling over the fine print of an alarming report that will today warn how global warming will warm seas, melt glaciers and change weather patterns.
Arctic sea ice is shrinking in 'downward spiral'
Published: 05 April 2007
Winter sea ice in the Arctic has failed to reform fully for the third year in a row. Scientists said yesterday that the area of ocean covered by Arctic ice at the end of the winter months was lower only in March 2006.
IPPR: 'Put green warnings on adverts for flights'
Published: 05 April 2007
Ads for flights, holidays and cars should carry tobacco-style health warnings to combat the public's "addiction" to polluting transport and reduce climate change, a think-tank recommended yesterday.
Carbon trading scheme failing to curb emissions from big polluters
Published: 03 April 2007
Europe's big polluters pumped more climate-changing gases into the atmosphere in 2006 than during the previous year, according to figures that show the EU's carbon trading system failing to deliver curbs.
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