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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 […]

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 […]

This issue is becoming one of the most important environmental battlegrounds. The bottom line is that we cannot carry on flying and save the climate at the same time.
Now an unpublished study by the world’s leading experts has revealed that airlines are pumping 20 per cent more carbon dioxide into the atmosphere than estimates suggest, […]

A new survey in the UK makes interesting reading. More than seven in 10 voters insist that they would not be willing to pay higher taxes in order to fund projects to combat climate change.
The survey also reveals that two-thirds of Britons think the entire green agenda has been hijacked as a ploy to increase […]

At a briefing today on the Stategic Framework on Climate Change and Development, a World Bank official conceded that the proposed “Clean Technology Fund” might better be called the “Slightly Cleaner Technology Fund,” but said she would not go so far as to call it the “Dirty Technology Fund.”





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