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Arctic coastlines recede by 'several metres' a year
Monday, 18 April 2011
Arctic coastlines are crumbling away and retreating at the rate of two metres or more a year due to the effects of climate change. In some locations, up to 30 metres of the shore has been vanishing every year.
Arctic fresh water build-up could spell trouble for UK
Wednesday, 6 April 2011
Steve Connor: Scientists fear huge volumes of meltwater from ice caps may divert the Gulf Stream.
Ozone layer damaged by unusually harsh winter
Wednesday, 6 April 2011
The stratospheric ozone layer, which shields the Earth from the Sun's harmful ultraviolet rays, has been damaged to its greatest-ever extent over the Arctic this winter.
Glaciers melting at fastest rate in 350 years, study finds
Monday, 4 April 2011
Some mountain glaciers are melting up to 100 times faster than at any time in the past 350 years.
Long cold spell led to rise in greenhouse gas
Friday, 1 April 2011
Greenhouse gas emissions in Britain rose last year because of people heating their homes during the prolonged cold weather.
The hour the world goes dark
Friday, 25 March 2011
Lights will switch off around the globe tomorrow for the fifth annual Earth Hour.
Green measures: Carbon price goes up to fund renewables
Thursday, 24 March 2011
Two long-awaited steps towards Britain becoming a low-carbon economy were announced by Mr Osborne: the creation of a Green Investment Bank (GIB) and the establishment of a "floor price" for carbon.
Has Climate Week been compromised by teaming up with RBS?
Thursday, 24 March 2011
Climate Week has come under attack for linking up with the Royal Bank of Scotland as the bank has very substantial investments in the fossil fuel economy.
No 'offsets' says climate committee
Tuesday, 22 March 2011
The UK should meet targets to reduce greenhouse gases up to 2017 by action at home and not by buying "offsets", the Government's climate committee said today.
The desert city in serious danger of running dry
Tuesday, 22 March 2011
Peru's arid capital faces a crisis as glaciers and rainfall dwindle. Simeon Tegel reports
Melting ice sheets fuelling sea-level rise, warns Nasa
Thursday, 10 March 2011
Steve Connor: Melting ice sheets in Antarctica and Greenland could overtake mountain glaciers as the main contributors to rising sea levels, US scientists say.
'Zero-carbon' homes can still emit CO2
Friday, 25 February 2011
Oliver Wright: Newly built houses will be allowed to emit tons of CO2 every year and still be called "zero carbon" under new rules being considered by ministers.
Letters to a heretic
Friday, 25 February 2011
Read Steve Connor's email conversation with climate change sceptic Professor Freeman Dyson.
British floods 'were the result of climate change'
Thursday, 17 February 2011
The catastrophic floods of autumn 2000, which saw river levels reach 400-year highs and left 10,000 homes underwater across England and Wales, were most likely the result of global warming.
Special report: Catastrophic drought in the Amazon
Friday, 4 February 2011
Steve Connor: Region set to outstrip US as CO2 emitter.
EU needs €2.2 trillion to meet carbon targets
Thursday, 3 February 2011
Europe must bridge a €2.2trillion (£1.9trn) "carbon capital chasm" if it is to meet 2020 carbon emissions reduction targets.
Melting sea ice forces polar bear to swim for nine days
Wednesday, 26 January 2011
Rob Hastings: In a remarkable feat of endurance, a polar bear has been tracked swimming for nine days continuously in a desperate bid to reach new ice floes, covering 426 miles in the process.
Fish threatened by global warming to be moved north
Sunday, 23 January 2011
Matt Chorley: Scores of radical measures planned to help us and our wildlife cope with climate change.
Last year was second hottest on record, say scientists
Friday, 21 January 2011
Steve Connor: In Britain it ended in freezing temperatures and weeks of snow and ice. Globally, though, 2010 was still the second warmest year on record, according to the Met Office.
Rise in flood risk could make one million homes uninsurable
Sunday, 9 January 2011
Firms warn of effect of government spending cuts on planned defences
How Assam's tea is beginning to feel the strain of global warming
Monday, 3 January 2011
Lush green tea plantations, so bright they often look fluorescent, blanket the hills of Assam in northeastern India. Women plucking the leaves in black aprons with large baskets on their backs dot the gardens that contribute to India's production of nearly a third of the world's tea. But this picturesque industry that the British began in the early 19th-century faces a very modern problem: climate change.
India's hidden climate change catastrophe
Sunday, 2 January 2011
Alex Renton: Over the past decade, as crops have failed year after year, 200,000 farmers have killed themselves.
Expect more extreme winters thanks to global warming, say scientists
Friday, 24 December 2010
Steve Connor: Link established between snowy winters in Britain and melting sea ice in the Arctic.
The UK may be cold, but it's still a warm world, says Met Office chief
Tuesday, 21 December 2010
Professor Julia Slingo, the Met Office's chief scientist, is adamant that the current cold weather is merely a natural fluctuation – and does not mean that global warming is all a myth.
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