Full Coverage: Climate change

15.05.2008 Major changes in the Earth's natural systems are being driven by global warming, according to a vast analysis.
From: BBC

15.05.2008 Lexus tries to cash in on its climate change credentials by presenting Paul McCartney with a hybrid car. Unfortunately, it delivered the vehicle by plane.

13.05.2008 Climate scientists are ready to bet serious money that recent global cooling predictions are wrong.
From: RealClimate

10.05.2008 British government ministers have scrapped radical plans to test a carbon rationing scheme that would have forced citizens to carry a carbon card to swipe every time they bought petrol or paid an electricity bill. They claim the idea was too expensive and would be unpopular.
From: The Guardian

09.05.2008 Global production of solar photovoltaic cells increased 51 percent in 2007, to 3,733 megawatts.

08.05.2008 A study by the world's leading experts has revealed that airlines are pumping 20 per cent more carbon dioxide into the atmosphere than estimates suggest.
From: The Independent

08.05.2008 Climate change is happening faster than predicted and the world could be as much as seven degrees hotter by the end of the century, an Australian scientist says.
From: Sydney Morning Herald

07.05.2008 Global warming will take its biggest toll on insects in the tropics--home to more than half the world's species, scientists predict.
From: ScienceNow

07.05.2008 Like Kiribati and Tuvalu, the islands of the Torres Strait are slowly being submerged. But unlike their Pacific neighbours, the plight of their inhabitants is being overlooked.
From: The Independent

06.05.2008 Scientists report that the rising temperature of Lake Baikal, located in frigid Siberia, shows that this region is responding strongly to global warming.
From: Terra Daily

06.05.2008 Policymakers should not succumb to pumping vast amounts of taxpayers money into the elusive promise of carbon capture and storage, concludes Greenpeace in a new report.

06.05.2008 UNITED NATIONS, May 5 (OneWorld) - The United Nations is facing scathing criticism from the world's indigenous communities for its attempts to promote carbon trading as a tool to address climate change concerns.

05.05.2008 Caribou may serve as an indicator species for global warming, says a biology professor. It seems that the timing of peak food availability no longer corresponds to the timing of caribou births.
From: Science Daily

05.05.2008 The American Petroleum Institute has just begun running a feel-good commercial that argues "America's future" lies in drilling out domestic reserves of oil and natural gas.
From: Gristmill

04.05.2008 Just as the need for renewables becomes critical, the oil giants signal an alarming retreat, writes Jeremy Leggett.
From: The Guardian

03.05.2008 "Dead zones" containing too little oxygen for fish to breathe are growing as global temperatures increase.
From: New Scientist

02.05.2008 Future technology designed to cut the carbon cost of air travel will be displayed to the public for the first time in a new exhibition that opens at the Science Museum in London on 15 May.

02.05.2008 The Energy Bill being debated by parliament needs to be amended to guarantee a premium payment - known as 'feed-in tariffs' - for all the green energy generated by householders, businesses and local communities, says Friends of the Earth.

02.05.2008 Root for the hottest environmental entrepreneurs as they try to get their carbon-cutting innovations past a panel of climate change and business experts. Hear the straight-talking feedback and cast your vote for the best idea.

02.05.2008 Demand for biofuels is destroying tribal peoplesÂ’ land and lives, according to a new report. Palm oil is one of the most destructive crops followed by sugar cane, soy, corn, manioc and jatropha.
From: Survival