Climate Change

It's oil money that fuels our museums

Protests against BP arts funding are wildly misplaced, says Tiffany Jenkins. In fact, big-business benefactors should be lauded

Inside Climate Change

Smog alert: Britain's lung weekend

Friday, 22 April 2011

Steve Connor and Sarah Morrison: Government warns of hazardous levels of air pollution across England and Wales as great Easter getaway begins.

Antarctic ozone hole 'creating rainfall in subtropical region'

Friday, 22 April 2011

Steve Connor: The ozone 'hole' over Antarctica could be increasing the amount of rainfall as far away as the subtropical regions of the southern hemisphere, according to a study that highlights the global nature of climate changes.

Environmental activists occupy Arctic oil rig

Friday, 22 April 2011

Greenpeace activists climbed aboard an oil rig off Turkey today in a bid to prevent it from leaving for Greenland to begin deep-water drilling in the Arctic.

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.

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