Archive for December, 2007



The majority of the world’s coral reefs are in danger of being killed off by rising levels of greenhouse gases, scientists have warned.
Researchers from Britain, the US and Australia, working with teams from the UN and the World Bank, voiced their concerns after a study revealed 98% of the world’s reef habitats are likely to […]

This decade looks set to be the hottest on record and this year is almost certain to be the seventh warmest worldwide since 1850.
Eight years in the past decade are in the world’s ten hottest, according to Met Office statistics released to coincide with Bali conference.
In the UK 2007 is expected to be the third […]

Its the greenhouse Groundhog day, again. How often has America prevented progress over international agreements on climate change?
The US is trying to remove a reference to 25-40% cuts in carbon pollution by 2020 for developed countries, which remained in the draft roadmap released by the UN yesterday.

Great analysis on the Bali conference from Charles Clover, the environment correspondent from the UK right-wing Telegraph, which we reprint in full:
“As an exhibition of hypocrisy, the UN climate change conference in Bali takes some beating. The Indonesian President Yudhoyono is there, playing delegates the video of a song he wrote about saving the planet, […]

Suddenly another week cannot go past without another oil spill. Recently, we have had spills in Russia, California, South Korea and now Norway.
Yesterday, about 25,000 barrels of oil spilled into the Norwegian sector of the North Sea at the Statfjord oil field. It is Norway’s second worst oil spill, and yet it is […]





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