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31.07.2011
Has Climate Change Increased Seasonal Allergies?
It may be good news for the makers of Kleenex and Claritin, but it’s bad news for us: a recent study suggests that severe seasonal changes may lead to higher levels of outdoor airborne allergens and increased allergy susceptibility among infants and babies in utero. This is especially true in industrialized nations.
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30.07.2011
Climate change project kicks off
BAGUIO CITY, Philippines — The AsianCitiesAdapt, a project that brings together science and policy to address climate change issues in four pre-identified cities each in the Philippines and India, was launched recently in this city.
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30.07.2011
Mexico's Small-Scale Farmers Gain Entry to Global Carbon Markets
When Mexico's Bosque Sustentable AC sold the first voluntary carbon credits from its Sierra Gorda Biosphere Reserve in 2006, the Verified Carbon Standard (VCS) didn't yet exist, and the Climate, Community & Biodiversity Alliance (CCBA) hadn't yet approved a single forestry project under its CCB Standard.
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28.07.2011
Climate change brings tea and apricots to Britain
(Reuters) - British farmers are experimenting with crops such as olives and nectarines which have traditionally been imported from southern Europe while the first British tea plantation has opened with a changing climate set to transform the nation's countryside.
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27.07.2011
Climate unit releases virtually all remaining data
The University of East Anglia Climatic Research Unit, target of "ClimateGate", has released nearly all its remaining data on temperature measurements following a freedom of information bid.
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27.07.2011
Most of Keys may be lost to sea by 2100
South Florida can't afford to ignore growing dangers from pollution-fueled climate change, according to new findings from the Natural Resources Defense Council.
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26.07.2011
Un urs polar a inotat fara oprire 700 de km
O femela de urs polar a inotat fara oprire aproape 700 de kilometri ca sa ajunga la cea mai apropiata banchiza, stabilind un nou record, potrivit site-ul Maxisciences, care citeaza un studiu realizat de cercetatorii institutelor US Geological Survey si Polar Bears International.
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26.07.2011
Climate change talks "fail to deliver real solutions"
Today representatives from 35 countries met in Auckland to discuss action on climate change as part of the continuing United Nations negotiations on the issue. Unfortunately these talks, like the two decades of talks on this issue which proceed them, are not likely to result in real action to prevent climate change, and in fact are promoting dangerous fake climate solutions which today are already harming more people than climate change itself.
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26.07.2011
Fighting Climate Change by Not Focusing on Climate Change
Climate change advocates haven't had much to celebrate recently, but New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg's announcement last week that he was giving $50 million to the Sierra Club's Beyond Coal campaign marked a real win. The Sierra Club — the nation's largest environmental group — has successfully stopped more than 150 proposed coal plants from being built over the past decade through the campaign. Bloomberg's money — and perhaps more importantly, the imprimatur of one of the richest and most influential people in the country — will enable the Sierra Club to bring its war on coal to a new level, preventing untold millions of tons of greenhouse gas emissions from warming the planet.
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25.07.2011
Carbon capture and utilisation could make economic sense
Passing carbon dioxide through slag left over from steel-making turns the waste product into a strong material that can be used for construction. Pumped into greenhouses, it provides a growing boost for crops. Put into tanks of algae, it can be used to make biofuels. Waste carbon dioxide can even be cleaned up to "food grade" and injected into fizzy drinks.
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20.07.2011
Nigeria’s Climate Change Commission still a mirage
The build up to the seventeenth conference of parties (COP17) to the United Nations framework Convention for climate change scheduled to hold in Durban, South Africa from Nov28-December 9 may have reached an appreciable level for many participating countries.
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19.07.2011
Opposition denies shift on 2020 emissions target
ELEANOR HALL: The Prime Minister today went on the attack against Tony Abbott over climate change, accusing him of walking away from a bipartisan commitment on addressing global warming, and aligning himself with climate sceptics.
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18.07.2011
New climate in Australia
Better late than never. Australia, the world’s biggest per capita polluter, and yet a hesitant signatory to the Kyoto protocol on climate change, has now mooted a domestic carbon pricing regime that can put the country on the track to clean development. Its top 500 environment-polluting industries will have to pay a carbon tax from July next year which, three years later, will be replaced by a market-based emission trading system on the lines of the European Union’s internal emission trading scheme.
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