Full Coverage: Climate change

31.01.2005 World renowned eco-economy expert Lester Brown uses plain language and accessible examples to show how human demands are outstripping the earth's natural capacities, outlining the steps to securing future food supplies. Read an advance copy of the chapter "Stabilizing Climate" from the forthcoming book, Outgrowing the Earth, only on OneWorld.

24.01.2005 Action to prevent climate change requires more efficient methods of heating our homes. One approach is to encourage conventional heating fuel suppliers to source energy from biomass crops. Email your MP to support the Renewable Heat Bill.

18.01.2005 The UN meet on small island developing States concluded today with a call for promoting the use of renewable energy sources and cleaner fossil fuel technologies as they were suffering from the onsequences of climate change.

18.01.2005 A major global conference on the fate of small island countries such as Haiti and Fiji concluded Friday with agreement that special trade preferences and serious efforts to combat climate change are needed to save many of these poor nations from economic as well as physical devastation.

13.01.2005 The amount of land suffering from severe drought around the world has more than doubled in the past 30 years, and rising global temperatures are the key culprit, say U.S. researchers, noting that other than parts of the country's West, the United States is one of the few places on Earth to have largely been spared from the drying trend.

11.01.2005 Many Pacific islands are either volcanic islands or low-lying atolls where cyclones, floods and droughts occur periodically. Rising global temperatures will alter rainfall patterns and seasonal conditions, endangering the fragile the regionÂ’s ecosystem.

11.01.2005 Since the 1990s, glaciers around the world have been receding more rapidly than previous years as global temperatures rise. Their loss, a direct indication of climate change, directly affects human populations and ecosystems from Ecuador to Nepal.

11.01.2005 Rapid changes in global temperature, extreme weather patterns and super storms are the immediate visible impact of the warming climate. Rising sea level will lead to the loss of species habitat and trigger sudden collapse of biological and ecological systems.

10.01.2005 Do we really need a global agreement on greenhouse gas emissions? Why are developing countries not obligated to ratify the Kyoto Protocol? Greenpeace provides answers to these and more contentious questions on the first ever global agreement to cut emissions.

05.01.2005 The tsunami triggered by an earthquake in the Indian Ocean that struck the Horn of Africa coastline just over a week ago has affected about 18,000 households of varying sizes in Somalia, the UN Office for Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) says.

04.01.2005 Friends of the Earth describes the EU Emissions Trading Directive as "the most important piece of climate change legislation anywhere in the world". Guess which European country has caved in to business demands and is not ready for the 1st January start date.