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25-Mar-09

Melting snow prompts border change between Switzerland and Italy

"Global warming is dissolving the Alpine glaciers so rapidly that Italy and Switzerland have decided they must re-draw their national borders to take account of the new realities. "

Category: Climate Change

24-Mar-09

Biochar: "It's the Atkins plan of the low-carbon world"

"The latest miracle mass fuel cure, biochar, does not stand up; yet many who should know better have been suckered into it." Proposals for using biomas char to remove CO2 from the atmosphere would require more space than the...

Category: Climate Change

24-Mar-09

Opposing wind farms should be socially taboo

"Opposition to wind farms should become as socially unacceptable as failing to wear a seatbelt, Ed Miliband, the climate change secretary, has said. Speaking at a screening in London of the climate change documentary The Age of...


23-Mar-09

World faces 'perfect storm' of problems by 2030

"Food, water and energy shortages will unleash public unrest and international conflict, Professor John Beddington will tell a conference tomorrow"


23-Mar-09

Obama pledges billions for renewable energy projects

"President says $129bn that has been allocated for environmental plans is off limits to Congress"


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