Olav Mathias-Eira is a reindeer-herder. He is a member of the Sami community, one of the largest indigenous groups remaining in Europe, and his family have been herding reindeer in the same stretch of the Norwegian Arctic since the 1400s.
But, because of climate change, their lifestyle, unchanged for centuries, is now at risk. So Mr […]

One of the ways climate change will affect us will be in ways we do not expect. We may have climate models, but we cannot predict all the horrors that lie in store.
Here is one such horror. The New Scientist has run a story about how “decades after most countries stopped spraying DDT, frozen stores […]

First it was the polar bear, now its the Koala. Both are threatened by climate change.  The bears are threatened by the rising level of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere because it saps nutrients from the eucalyptus leaves they feed on.
According to Ian Hume, emeritus professor of biology at Sydney University, the amount of […]

A judge has told the US government to decide within weeks whether to list polar bears as an endangered species.
The federal judge rejected the Bush administration’s pleas for a further delay, and ordered it to make and implement its decision by 15 May. A listing could restrict oil and gas exploration in the US Arctic, […]

Now to the other side of our oil addiction. Climate change is already affecting the prospects for children in the world’s poorer countries, according to Unicef.
The UN children’s agency says that increases in floods, droughts and insect-borne disease will all affect health, education and welfare. While richer societies can adjust, it says in […]