Full Coverage: Climate change

29.08.2008 Every now and then you get a small, but significant shift in the battle against climate change and this could be one of those moments.
From: Oil Change

29.08.2008 Attempts to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions will fail unless people first alter their thinking and behavior, writes Bob Doppelt.

28.08.2008 As the latest round of UN climate talks closes, Greenpeace has urged governments to pick up the pace of the negotiations which, in just over a year, must deliver a global deal to save the climate.

28.08.2008 New estimates show that frozen Arctic soil contains far more potential greenhouse gas than previously recognized--and could speed climate change as it melts.
From: Scientific American

27.08.2008 Top car manufacturers selling vehicles in the UK and elsewhere in Europe are not cutting carbon dioxide emissions from their vehicles fast enough to meet proposed EU targets, warns Friends of the Earth.

27.08.2008 The next US president will find it hard to curb greenhouse gas emissions by 2020 enough to satisfy many of America's allies, says chief US climate negotiator at Ghana climate talks.
From: Planet Ark/Reuters

26.08.2008 Is it necessarily bad news that the world economy will no longer grow at its recent rate of 5% a year? asks Larry Elliott.
From: The Guardian

26.08.2008 All of Australia's annual carbon dioxide emissions more than 600 million tonnes can be ''easily and permanently'' stored in the soil by switching to a radical new way of farming, a Senate climate change inquiry has been told.
From: Canberra Times

25.08.2008 Climate negotiators have made unexpected headway towards a new international treaty to combat global warming, easing a logjam that has held up progress for years.
From: The Independent

25.08.2008 Trading carbon emission rights between developed and developing nations caused a split on Sunday between delegates at protracted international climate change talks in Ghana.
From: Yahoo/AFP

23.08.2008 Spending money now to slow global warming can ensure that ruinous catastrophe never happens, says Oliver Tickell.
From: The Guardian

22.08.2008 The Olympic motto “swifter – higher – stronger” has to guide the discussions at the Accra climate talks, urges WWF.

22.08.2008 In an effort to stay competitive in a global market where increasing demands are made by consumers for 'green' products, South African fruit and wine farmers have launched an initiative to determine the environmental impact of their industries.

21.08.2008 French birds are moving northwards in response to climate change, but not fast enough, scientists have found.
From: BBC

21.08.2008 The United Nations will create a climate change center to help Pacific island nations threatened by rising seas because of global warming, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said.
From: Bloomberg.com

20.08.2008 Rich nations should not wait for the election of a new US president before making progress on agreeing ambitious 2020 greenhouse gas cuts, the chair of a UN committee said ahead of climate talks in Ghana.
From: Planet Ark/Reuters

20.08.2008 Increased use of nuclear (an outright competitor to coal as a deliverer of baseload power) is essential to combat climate change, argues Mark Lynas.
From: marklynas.org

19.08.2008 Like climate itself, climate science is turbulent and the media focus on disagreements implying that the science is uncertain. The journalistic whiplash effect does not work in isolation, writes Andrew Dessler, but is reinforced by the denial industry and their agenda of pushing "uncertainty."
From: Gristmill

19.08.2008 Even if the atmospheric temperature near the earth's surface has become cooler recently, that doesn't mean the planet as a whole isn't heating up, explains Michael Le Page in a New Scientist myth-busting article.
From: New Scientist

18.08.2008 A coalition of environmental groups wants Australia and New Zealand to ease immigration for Pacific Islanders displaced by rising sea levels.
From: UPI