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28-Mar-08

Oil, climate and the looming food crisis

"Only a radical change of diet can halt looming food crises. Costs are high now, but rising oil prices will bring enormous problems for a world with appetites that it simply can't sustain"


28-Mar-08

Cut in coal burning brings UK emissions down by 2%

"The country now emits 18% less than it did in 1990, well inside the Kyoto reduction target of a 12.5% cut, but critics argue that last year's drop is almost entirely due to energy companies burning less coal because it became...


26-Mar-08

New eco-towns to make it hard going for cars with 15mph limit

"In a series of anti-car measures announced by Hazel Blears, the secretary of state for communities, large parts of the towns of up to 20,000 homes each will be car-free. Homes will instead be built no farther than 400 metres...


26-Mar-08

Antarctic shelf 'hangs by thread'

"A chunk of ice the size of the Isle of Man has started to break away from Antarctica in what scientists say is further evidence of a warming climate."

Category: Climate Change

23-Mar-08

In search of a green machine

"What use is saving trees if the very technology that made it possible to go paperless is shipped across continents, non-recyclable and so power-hungry it has a carbon footprint the size of a bear?"

Category: Climate Change

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