Global Warming and Climate Change News

Air over Antarctica is warming, scientists say.
Friday March 31st 2006, 8:00 am

In the winter sky over Antarctica, scientists have detected a vast cap of steadily warming air, in the first sign that record levels of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere may be trapping heat above the ice sheets of the South Pole. [News Source]

Executive in pledge to cut greenhouse gas output by 2.7m tonnes.
Friday March 31st 2006, 8:00 am

Ministers called on every household and business to play a part in reducing emissions equivalent to 2.7 million tonnes of carbon a year by 2010 compared to 2000. [News Source]

China crucial to climate debate.
Friday March 31st 2006, 8:00 am

The high economic growth rates of China and India-- 8 percent to 10 percent this year for China and about 7 percent to 8 percent for India -- are cause for concern when is comes to climate change. [News Source]

New NASA policy backs free discussion by scientists.
Friday March 31st 2006, 8:00 am

Two months after NASA's top climate scientist complained that political operatives in the agency's press office were trying to censor his views on global warming, NASA issued a new communications policy. [News Source]

How wind, waves and pigs’ muck are fuelling a revolution on AIM.
Friday March 31st 2006, 8:00 am

Over the past couple of years, London's Alternative Investment Market has seen dozens of companies list which promise to help take us to a future no longer dependent on fossil fuels. [News Source]

Caribbean coral suffers record death.
Friday March 31st 2006, 8:00 am

A one-two punch of bleaching from record hot water followed by disease has killed ancient and delicate coral in the biggest loss of reefs scientists have ever seen in Caribbean waters. [News Source]

Antarctic air is warming faster than rest of world.
Friday March 31st 2006, 8:00 am

Air temperatures above the entire frozen continent of Antarctica have risen three times faster than the rest of the world during the past 30 years. [News Source]

Energy policy.
Thursday March 30th 2006, 1:00 pm

Why oppose oil and gas drilling in the eastern Gulf of Mexico? Let us count the reasons. [News Source]

Nuclear climate.
Thursday March 30th 2006, 1:00 pm

Both of North Carolina's giant electric utilities now are enlisted in the fight against global warming, and that's good news. [News Source]

Villagers pushed between the sea and a rock.
Thursday March 30th 2006, 1:00 pm

Ngomeni is practically being submerged by the Indian Ocean in an aggressive inch by inch war of attrition. [News Source]

New safety fear as British nuclear plant set for sale to private company.
Thursday March 30th 2006, 1:00 pm

The move to privatise the plant will spark major new concerns that private owners of Sellafield will put profit before safety. [News Source]