Yesterday the Independent highlighted how rising sea-level rise is causing catastrophe in the South Pacific, and today the New York Times reports of melting Himalayan glaciers, which “points to a looming worldwide concern, with particularly serious repercussions for India and its neighbors”.
The paper reports: “The thousands of glaciers studded across 1,500 miles of the Himalayas […]

On the eve of the Live Earth concerts this weekend, Peter Hillary and Jamling Tenzing the sons of the first two men to climb Everest, have said the mountain is now so ravaged by climate change that they would no longer recognise it.
The Independent newspaper reports that the base camp where Sir Edmund and Norgay […]

More alarming news that climate change is occurring faster than previously expected. A new study by the British Antarctic Survey shows that 300 glaciers in Antarctica have begun to move more quickly into the ocean.
Using radar images taken between 1993 and 2003, scientists at BAS in Cambridge mapped a 12 per cent increase in the […]

As you might expect this week’s blog is going to focus heavily on the G8. We will have reports from Graham at the G8, (see his first one here) as well as all the main news stories relating to climate change – one of the main areas for discussion.
Having blogged for Oil Change for about […]

Bangladesh is often seen as being in the fragile front line of climate change, being especially susceptible to sea-level rise.
But now climate scientists are worrying about another equally dramatic effect – the retreat of the Himalayan glaciers that feed the great rivers on which the country depends.