Climate Change
'Zero-carbon' homes can still emit CO2
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.
Inside Climate Change
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.
Most popular in Environment
Read
1 When do protests go overboard?
2 Elephants help each other out
3 World's sixth mass extinction may be underway - study
5 The £6bn trade in animal smuggling
6 The worlds greatest green inventions
7 Bleaching and resilience: can reefs survive?
8 Snowfalls are now just a thing of the past
9 The world's rubbish dump: a tip that stretches from Hawaii to Japan
10 Letters to a heretic: An email conversation with climate change sceptic Professor Freeman Dyson
Emailed
Commented
The Green List
Britain's top 100 environmentalists
Register for free to find your perfect partner with Independent Singles
Partners
-
Compare hundreds of deals on top finance offers
-
Register for free to find your perfect partner with Independent Singles
-
Find and compare 1000’s of business & professional Training Courses
-
Holidays for the discerning traveller from the Independent Holiday directory
Shop online with The Independent