Climate Change archive

31.08.2005 Climate change will wreak havoc on the UK's marine environment, deepening the decline of cod, threatening the future survival of some sea bird colonies, and causing wide-scale coastal disruption, says a new report.

31.08.2005 Is micropower generation - which has been hailed as the environmental equivalent of the leap from the steam engine to the diesel locomotive - the solution to climate change?

29.08.2005 Forests may not get a growth spurt from extra carbon dioxide, according to a study by Swiss scientists which challenges a widespread belief that rising concentrations of CO2 might be partly kept in check by additional plant growth.

26.08.2005 Floods and mudslides in the Alps and Danube basin, fires in the Iberian Peninsula, drought destroying harvest in France, Spain and Portugal — these are signals of a world suffering from climate change, says a leading international environmental organisation.

26.08.2005 The combined emissions of the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide from hundreds of new coal-burning power plants could exceed current UK emissions.

25.08.2005 The Bush administration has proposed modest new fuel economy standards for the US's burgeoning fleet of large vehicles.

24.08.2005 Scientists say global warming is melting one of Canada's last remaining ice shelves.

22.08.2005 A coalition for political action on climate change - Stop Climate Chaos - is to be launched next month by a group of NGOs.

19.08.2005 Coral reef ecosystems of the United States and associated Pacific Islands are still under pressure from overfishing, disease, pollution, coastal development and climate change, accoding to a new national assessment.

17.08.2005 The Indian monsoon, which waters India's agriculture, could run dry because of human impacts on the environment, a team of climate researchers has warned.

11.08.2005 Reports that the world's largest frozen peat bog is melting, potentially releasing billions of tonnes of the global warming gas methane, showed the urgent need for international action to tackle climate change, says a leading environmental group.

11.08.2005 A vast expanse of western Sibera is undergoing an unprecedented thaw that could dramatically increase the rate of global warming, climate scientists warn today.

11.08.2005 As climate scentists warn that a vast expanse of western Sibera is undergoing an unprecedented thaw that could dramatically increase the rate of global warming (Warming hits 'tipping point'), new research shows European capitals are getting hotter - with London recording the biggest increases in average maximum summer temperature.

05.08.2005 Climate change can increase the spread of cholera by creating patterns of rainfall that favour the disease's transmission, a study of Bangladeshi medical records has found.