http://uk.oneworld.net/article/archive/1985 en_GB_uk http://uk.oneworld.net/link/gotolink/addhit/86011 Scientists have inventoried an astonishing abundance, diversity and distribution of deep sea species that have never known sunlight – creatures that somehow manage a living in a frigid black world down to 5,000 metres below the ocean waves. http://uk.oneworld.net/article/view/164060/1/1985 The proposed Energy Bill that would allow the British Government to raise money to fund carbon capture and storage demonstration projects "does nothing to prevent new large coal plants being built with only a small fraction of their emissions being captured," a leading environmental group warned today. http://uk.oneworld.net/link/gotolink/addhit/85966 Kenya hopes to eliminate malaria by 2017, a malaria conference heard last week. http://uk.oneworld.net/link/gotolink/addhit/85959 Scientific predictions of the impact of climate change are becoming more alarming but the mood of climate sceptics appears to be hardening. George Monbiot strives to explain this alarming contradiction. Monbiot.com http://uk.oneworld.net/link/gotolink/addhit/85873 An Oxfam researcher offers helpful guidance on the correlation between extreme weather events and climate change. Melting glaciers and ice have the strongest link. From Poverty to Power http://uk.oneworld.net/link/gotolink/addhit/85394 Rwanda's Science and technology Minister, Professor Romain Murenzi, says science and technology will be at the heart of his country's development strategies. http://uk.oneworld.net/article/view/162216/1/1985 Scientists have documented evidence of cold water-loving species shifting towards both poles to escape rising ocean temperatures, according to explorers conducting a census of marine life. http://uk.oneworld.net/article/view/162113/1/1985 Climate change is now such a pressing problem that “it is both prudent and necessary” to try out geoengineering schemes, the director of London’s Science Museum, Professor Chris Rapley, told a meeting at the Royal Geographical Society. http://uk.oneworld.net/article/view/161551/1/1985 The Science Museum is to stage an exhibition that looks into the global food crisis and the debate surrounding genetically modified crops. The exhibition will be officially launched on 17 December by Professor John Beddington, the Government Chief Scientific Advisor. http://us.oneworld.net/article/view/159929/1/1985 NEW YORK, Apr 18 (OneWorld) - A nonprofit environmental group is calling on one of the country's largest textbook publishers to correct a school book that it says contains a discussion of global warming "so biased and misleading it would humble a tobacco industry PR man." http://uk.oneworld.net/article/view/159555/1/1985 Hundreds of Cogolese villagers - mostly hunter-gatherers or subsistence farmers - will use high-tech GPS (Global Positioning System) devices to produce digital maps to prove their existence to the government and to loggers. http://us.oneworld.net/article/view/158959/1/1985 UNITED NATIONS, Mar 18 (OneWorld) - Alarmed by new scientific data showing a continued increase in the melting of the world's glaciers due to global warming, top UN environmental officials are making fresh calls for a new international agreement to cap greenhouse gas emissions. http://uk.oneworld.net/link/gotolink/addhit/82958 A new family exhibition at the Science Museum in London explores how our lives could be affected by changing climate and resources, and gives a glimpse of how we might live in 2050. http://southasia.oneworld.net/article/view/158517/1/1985 The newly-opened Global Seed Vault (GSV) at Svalbard in Norway is being criticised by Indian and other NGOs for excluding farmers from its institutional framework. Farmers being the first link in the food chain, should be involved in conserving genetic biodiversity, they argue. http://us.oneworld.net/article/view/158483/1/1985 SAN FRANCISCO, Mar 4 (OneWorld) - The vast majority of scientists and other specialists at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) have withdrawn from a key labor-management partnership, citing rising distrust of the agency's chief Stephen Johnson.