Climate Change

Inside Climate Change

'£80 cost' of hidden taxes to combat climate change

Tuesday, 29 June 2010

Households are typically being charged more than £80 a year in hidden taxes to help combat the impact of climate change, research suggested today.

Drought-hit utility firm asks for more water

Thursday, 24 June 2010

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.

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.

Plans for new runways at Heathrow and Stansted are withdrawn

Tuesday, 25 May 2010

The airport operator BAA bowed to the inevitable yesterday and formally announced it was abandoning plans for new runways at Heathrow and Stansted.

The real Climategate

Friday, 21 May 2010

Johann Hari: Global warming - and the worst environmental disasters - will only be tackled when green lobbyists in the US stop taking cash from Big Oil and Big Coal

Man-made climate change blamed for 'significant' rise in ocean temperature

Thursday, 20 May 2010

The world's oceans are warming up and the rise is both significant and real, according to one of the most comprehensive studies into marine temperature data gathered over the past two decades.

Michael McCarthy: This is no forecast. Climate change is here and now

Tuesday, 18 May 2010

You can look at the warming of Lake Tanganyika as a geographical and scientific curiosity; but you're probably wiser to look at it with a considerable sense of foreboding.

Small nations given voice on climate

Tuesday, 18 May 2010

The United Nations has appointed a Costa Rican diplomat as its new climate change chief after small island nations intervened to press for a choice who would represent their concerns about the risks of global warming.

Campaigners believe war on climate change will be stymied

Sunday, 16 May 2010

The parties are divided over nuclear power, offshore oil drilling and many other green issues - and critics say that will hinder the fight against global warming

Grace Boyle: Greenpeace survey finds radiation 5000 times background levels in Delhi market

Friday, 14 May 2010

A survey has today uncovered levels of radioactivity up to 5000 times background levels in Mayapuri scrap market, West Delhi, after the area was previously surveyed and declared safe by government authorities

Lizards are dying out because of climate change, study says

Friday, 14 May 2010

They have been around since the time of the dinosaurs and have in the past survived several global mass extinctions of species, but now lizards are at serious risk of disappearing from the face of the earth as a result of climate change, scientists said yesterday.