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A distraction of Himalayan proportions
Saturday, 23 January 2010
A claim that the mountain glaciers of the Himalayas will vanish by 2035 has been debunked. Climate-change sceptics are jubilant. They shouldn't be, says Steve Connor. Their disappearance is still only a matter of time
Creating glaciers out of thin air
Friday, 22 January 2010
Andrew Buncombe: Chewang Norphel has an ingenious solution to the droughts in his Himalayan homeland.
Himalayan glacier melt overstated
Thursday, 21 January 2010
The UN panel of climate scientists yesterday expressed regret for exaggerating how quickly Himalayan glaciers are melting in a report that wrongly projected that they could all vanish by 2035.
Finnish winters less icy by century's end: study
Thursday, 21 January 2010
Freezing weather could be a thing of the past in parts of Finland by the end of the century as climate change leads to rising temperatures, Finland's Meteorological Institute said Tuesday.
Cameron is sticking to his green guns
Tuesday, 19 January 2010
Michael McCarthy: most politicians consider there are very few votes in the environment.
The sinking Sundarbans
Monday, 11 January 2010
With Copenhagen, Obama’s cap-and-trade bill, and numerous green policy initiatives coming out of Westminster, climate change is finally receiving the attention it deserves in a policy sense. But the plight of people whose lives have already been devastated by climate change has received surprisingly little attention. Fortunately, photojournalist Peter Caton’s new exhibition of photographs from the Sundarbans region in India helps to redress this.
Fusion breakthrough a magic bullet for energy crisis?
Monday, 11 January 2010
Sceptics and environmentalists may be locked into endless arguments around global warming, but there's little debate that an energy crisis looms large.
The Big Freeze 2010: An audit
Sunday, 10 January 2010
Bitter north-east winds compounded the misery for icy Britain this weekend as forecasters predicted the Arctic weather could last another 10 days, making this the coldest winter the country has endured since 1962/3.
Braving the big chill: Meet the heroes... and the villains
Sunday, 10 January 2010
Finding it hard to keep up with the weather-related news? David Randall, Paul Bignell, James Hague and Sarah Clark provide blanket coverage of the good, the bad and the funny as the UK shivers
China says it achieved its goal in Copenhagen climate deal
Saturday, 9 January 2010
Chinese negotiators achieved their goal at Copenhagen climate talks in ensuring financial aid for developing nations was not linked to external reviews of China's environmental plans, its top climate envoy said today.
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