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September 14, 2012

CLIMATE CHANGE: Farmers too hungry to adapt

(IRIN) - Small farmers in the developing world who are going hungry for long periods of time - in some cases for up to half the year in Ethiopia's Borana region - are failing to find ways to adapt to an increasingly erratic climate, a new survey has found.

May 19, 2012

'Apocalyptic' floating island of waste in the Maldives

(BBC) The Maldives are known as an unspoilt, paradise island destination for upmarket tourists but the BBC's Simon Reeve has paid a visit to a part of the Maldives that tourists do not see - a huge floating island waste dump.

May 14, 2012

Antarctic ice shelf at tipping point

(TG Daily) British and American scientists have discovered a previously unknown sub-glacial basin nearly the size of New Jersey beneath the West Antarctic Ice Sheet (WAIS) - and say it puts this area of the ice sheet at risk of collapse.

November 21, 2011

Massive Oyster Die-offs Show Ocean Acidification Has Arrived

(Yale Environment 360)- The acidification of the world’s oceans from an excess of CO2 emissions has already begun, as evidenced recently by the widespread mortality of oyster larvae in the Pacific Northwest. Scientists say this is just a harbinger of things to come if greenhouse gas emissions continue to soar.

November 14, 2011

India's controversial mining boom

(BBC) The bitter row over iron ore mining in India

CLIMATE CHANGE: How rivers will behave - IRINnews.org

PRETORIA (IRIN) - Soaring temperatures and erratic rains brought on by a changing climate may radically alter water flows in the world's major river basins, including the Limpopo in southern Africa, forcing people to give up farming.
October 24, 2011

Climate Skeptics Take Another Hit

(Mother Jones) Global temperatures have gone up considerably over the past century, and the increase has accelerated over the past few decades. Yesterday, BEST confirmed these results and others in its first set of published papers about land temperatures.

September 20, 2011

Siemens to Exit Nuclear Energy Business

(Der Spiegel) Siemens plans to pull out of the nuclear energy business, CEO Peter Löscher told SPIEGEL. After the Fukushima nuclear disaster "the chapter is closed," he said. The company will expand its renewable energy activities instead.

March 18, 2010

Climate change and habitat loss posing great threat to Europe's small creatures

(Irish Times) THE LATEST European Red List, commissioned by the EU and released yesterday, shows that habitat loss and climate change are having a serious impact on Europe’s butterflies, beetles and dragonflies.

October 14, 2009

GLOBAL: Put women at core of climate change debate, say activists

(IRIN) Women are being excluded from the debate over climate change, despite being most at risk, and governments should do more to ensure their situations and views are represented, campaigners and experts say.

October 5, 2009

GLOBAL: Island nations frustrated at climate talks

(IRIN) Up to half a million people in the Pacific will lose their homes and their countries to rising sea levels because small island nations cannot persuade the rest of the world to reduce greenhouse gas emissions sufficiently, campaigners say

September 24, 2009

Climate-related disasters force 20 million out of homes in 2008

JOHANNESBURG (IRIN) - Climate related natural disasters like droughts, hurricanes and floods forced 20 million people - slightly less than the population of Australia - out of their homes in 2008 alone said a new study, making a strong case for regularly monitoring displacement in the context of climate change.

July 27, 2009

Revealed: the secret evidence of global warming Bush tried to hide

(Guardian) Photos from US spy satellites declassified by the Obama White House provide the first graphic images of how the polar ice sheets are retreating in the summer. The effects on the world's weather, environments and wildlife could be devastating

May 15, 2009

Coral Triangle countries to enhance co-op in rescuing coral reefs

MANADO, Indonesia (Xinhua) -- Leaders from Coral Triangle countries on Friday signed an agreement to enhance cooperation in rescuing the regional coral reefs in Manado of Indonesia's North Sulawesi province.

March 18, 2009

Expert Says Days of 'Easy Water' Are Over

(VOA) The fifth World Water Forum opened on Monday in Istanbul, Turkey. Thousands of people are at the meeting - from heads of state and environmental and business leaders to scientists and activists - to discuss ways to manage and conserve the precious resource.

March 5, 2009

Wildlife and radiation in evacuated Chernobyl zone

BABCHIN, Belarus (Reuters) - We venture out at dawn from a dilapidated shack nestled in a forest to see the animals, although rising early is not always necessary.

February 21, 2009

Don't judge states on wealth, emissions: climate envoy

SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Judging small, rich island nations purely on their wealth and emissions is unfair in climate change negotiations, Singapore's climate envoy said on Saturday, as pressure builds on more countries to curb carbon pollution.

December 15, 2008

GLOBAL: Talks and more climate change talks in 2009

JOHANNESBURG (IRIN) - Maldives, an archipelago off the southeastern coast of India, told the climate change conference in Poznan, Poland, that even a 2°C rise in temperature would take the world into the "danger zone" of irreversible climate change.

November 18, 2008

Greenhouse gas emissions of 40 countries rises by 2.3%

New York, Nov 18 (PTI) Greenhouse gas emissions of 40 industrialised countries rose by 2.3 per cent between 2000 and 2006 but were still about five per cent below the 1990 level, UN figures released two weeks before a major review conference on the issue, show.

November 13, 2008

Giant Asian smog cloud masks warming impact: U.N.

BEIJING (Reuters) - A three-kilometer thick cloud of brown soot and other pollutants hanging over Asia is darkening cities, killing thousands and damaging crops but may be holding off the worst effects of global warming, the U.N. said on Thursday.

October 23, 2008

Wind development seen biggest challenge for power grid

HOUSTON (Reuters) - The need to build high-voltage power lines to link growing electric supply from renewable sources, such as wind and solar, to homes and businesses is the biggest challenge facing the power grid, the North American Reliability Corp (NERC) said in a report to be issued Thursday.

September 9, 2008

Forecast: dry, becoming drier

(Guardian) There's more than enough fresh water in the world to sate our thirst. The problem is getting it to where it is desperately needed.

Climate chief urges vegetarian diet

(Radio Australia) The head of the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has called for a worldwide move towards vegetarianism to combat climate change. Speaking in London last night, Rajendra Pachauri made a serious call for people to stop eating red meat. Not surprisingly, the idea has been attacked by Australian farmers.

September 4, 2008

Overfished: demise of the anchovy

(Guardian) They are plucked off pizzas and discarded from caesar salads across the country, but somebody, somewhere has been eating too many anchovies. The fish that has divided food fans for years is today named on a list of unsustainable fish and shellfish that ethical consumers should not eat.

August 27, 2008

UN climate talks make headway on emission limits

ACCRA, Ghana (AP) — Talks on a new global warming agreement have begun to resolve some major sticking points, the U.N. climate chief said Wednesday, sounding a promising note after months of sluggish negotiations often marked by confrontation among industrial and developing countries.

August 25, 2008

Climate change threatens South Asia food supplies

DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) Melting Himalayan glaciers, rising sea levels and depleting fresh water sources as a result of global climate change are posing grave threats to food production and economic development in the populous South Asia region, experts said Monday.

August 20, 2008

Water: The hidden cost of your food and drink

(Guardian) Vast amounts of water are often used to produce the food and drink we eat, frequently in countries already suffering from drought. See the volumes of water needed for coffee, beef, bread and more. Data source: waterfootprint.org

August 19, 2008

Polluting ships blamed for 60,000 deaths a year

(Business Green) New research claims impact of shipping pollution far higher than previously thought, paving way for tighter regulations

August 12, 2008

Bush wants some endangered species rules extinct

WASHINGTON (AP) — Just months before President Bush leaves office, his administration is antagonizing environmentalists by proposing changes that would allow federal agencies to decide for themselves whether subdivisions, dams, highways and other projects have the potential to harm endangered animals and plants.

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