Climate Change
Drought-hit utility firm asks for more water
A utility firm hit by north-west England's driest start to the year since 1929 wants to take more water from lakes and rivers.
Inside Climate Change
Car fumes raise spectre of 1980s revival...acid rain
Wednesday, 23 June 2010
Michael McCarthy: Acid rain may be making a comeback but there's a change in the chemicals responsible.
Acid rain: An environmental crisis that disappeared off the radar
Wednesday, 23 June 2010
You can tell an environmental problem has gone off the radar screen when Friends of the Earth don't have anybody tracking it, and that's the case with acid rain. There is currently no acid rain campaigner at FoE in London (although they will cheerfully point you in the direction of an expert).
Disaster is making US think again about cleaner energy
Thursday, 17 June 2010
The Deepwater Horizon oil spill is making Americans think more about a clean energy future – but not yet to the extent of having to pay for it, or to tackle climate change, one of the leading US thinkers on global warming policy said yesterday.
Climate campaigners win police payout
Friday, 11 June 2010
Police have agreed to compensate three people, including 13-year-old twins, who were unlawfully stopped and searched during a climate camp demonstration two years ago.
Climate groups call on FTSE to remove BP from ethical stock market indices
Wednesday, 9 June 2010
Environmental groups are calling for BP's removal from stock market indices tracking socially and environmentally responsible companies.
Briton is first woman to row solo across Pacific
Sunday, 6 June 2010
A British environmentalist has become the first woman to row alone across the Pacific Ocean, receiving a rock star welcome in Papua New Guinea after finishing a nearly 8,000-mile (13,000-kilometre) journey that nearly claimed her life.
Coral islands bigger despite ocean's rise
Friday, 4 June 2010
Some South Pacific coral atolls have held their own or even grown in size over the past 60 years despite rising sea levels says new research.
Summertime 2100, and the living isn't easy
Sunday, 30 May 2010
What will London be like a century from now? Seven degrees warmer, with water-absorbent streets and parched public parks. Marek Kohn paints an unnerving picture of metropolitan life in the sweaty grip of a radically changed climate
Extreme droughts to be 'more common'
Thursday, 27 May 2010
Britain is heading for water shortages and crop failures as extreme droughts like that of 1976 become more frequent, experts have warned.
Tony Blair gets another new job – in Silicon Valley
Wednesday, 26 May 2010
Tony Blair's crusading belief in science as a way of solving global warming has landed him another lucrative business appointment.
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