Full Coverage: Climate change

28.02.2006 Investment in renewable alternatives and energy efficiency and conservation measures will deliver greater emissions reductions than nuclear power, more cheaply, and without safety risks, Britain's Green Party said on Tuesday as it launched its Alternative Energy Report.

28.02.2006 Tony Blair appears, yet again, to be sidelining the Kyoto process for dealing with climate change, Friends of the Earth said after the Prime Minister met campaigners on Tuesday morning and was told that UK policies fall far short of the action needed to avert disaster.

28.02.2006 The Earth's temperature could rise under the impact of global warming to levels far higher than previously predicted, according to the United Nations' team of climate experts.

28.02.2006 Stop Climate Chaos campaign group will urge the UK Government to take urgent and effective action on climate change when they meet with the Prime Minister, Tony Blair, and an exceptional line-up of other cabinet ministers including the Chancellor, Gordon Brown today.

28.02.2006 UK Energy Minister Malcolm Wick's call for higher rates of tax for urban 4x4s is half-hearted and much tougher measures are needed, the Green Party said yesterday.

27.02.2006 If you just saved 20% of the energy you use everyday you'll help prevent climate change, says the Energy Saving Trust. Find out how to reduce your impact on the environment and save money.

24.02.2006 The wind energy industry installed more than $14 billion worth of new generating equipment around the world last year, a 25 per cent increase over the previous year, according to the Global Wind Energy Council.

24.02.2006 Construction giants Lafarge, Skanska and Arelor were among the founding members of an international initiative to ‘green’ the multi-billion dollar building and construction sector this week.

23.02.2006 Most British people would accept new taxes on goods and services that damage the environment, according to a Guardian/ICM poll which reveals a widespread willingness to make personal sacrifices to tackle the threat of climate change.

22.02.2006 The fact that the US President consulted novelist Michael Crichton on global warming would be funny — if the consequences of George Bush's policies weren't so dire, says Frank O'Donnell.

22.02.2006 The periodic warming of the Pacific Ocean known as El Niño threatens food supplies for millions of Africans by reducing crops yields, say researchers.

21.02.2006 How would our winter olympians fare if the snow turned to slush, or vanished altogether? Watch some short film clips about the likely consequences.

21.02.2006 The Lena River, ninth-longest river in the world, flows through one of the world’s iciest lands, where the sun is seldom seen during winter. Nearly 80% of the watershed is continuous permafrost – earth that never thaws fully, even in summer. However, climate change is reaching this remote outpost; with consequences not just locally but, probably, for the rest of the world as well.

21.02.2006 Britain could lose its ability to impose environmental taxes, restrictions and safeguards on airlines under a draft treaty between the EU and US which curtails the power of national governments.

21.02.2006 On the first anniversary of the Kyoto Protocol's entry into force, a senior U.N. official said that industrialized countries are "on their way" to reaching self-imposed targets on greenhouse gas emissions.

20.02.2006 Greenland's glaciers are melting even faster than previously thought and contributing more and more to sea level rise. Scientific reports say the amount of ice being dumped into the ocean from the Greenland Ice Sheet has doubled in the last five years.

17.02.2006 The world's plants are using less water, thanks to boosted atmospheric carbon dioxide – it may mean raised rivers and greater flood risks.

17.02.2006 "A new energy source that can save the world from climate crisis and destruction has been discovered: yellow coal, the harnessed energy of human spite. But how long will it last, and what happens when people start to get happy?" openDemocracy presents the first English translation of Russian writer Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky's darkly satirical short story, Yellow Coal, written in the 1920s, on how humans almost save the world from climate change.

16.02.2006 from the BBC:
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16.02.2006 The level of carbon dioxide in the Earth's atmosphere is likely to grow more than expected as soil bacteria, in response to rising temperatures, break down more organic material and produce more CO2, according to results by an international research team.