Global Warming and Climate Change News

Climate change will allow tropical disease to spread to Europe.
Wednesday October 08th 2008, 6:00 pm

Climate change will allow wildlife diseases to spread more easily, a new report warns. [News Source]

WFD focusses on climate change.
Wednesday October 08th 2008, 6:00 pm

World Food Day provides an occasion to highlight the plight of 862 million undernourished people in the world; and now the challenges of climate change and bio-energy are making things worse. [News Source]

B.C. glaciers could be gone in 150 years, expert says.
Wednesday October 08th 2008, 6:00 pm

Climate experts are warning that if carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions aren't reduced, most of B.C's glaciers will be melted within 150 years. [News Source]

Penguins on thin ice as 2C increase threatens to halve emperor numbers.
Wednesday October 08th 2008, 6:00 pm

Half of the Emperor penguins in the Antarctic could vanish within 40 years due to climate change--according to a new WWF report. [News Source]

Global warming may ‘dry up the Mersey’.
Wednesday October 08th 2008, 6:00 pm

The River Mersey could almost run dry in just 40 years as hot summers trigger climate change, says a new report. [News Source]

Bumper season despite global warming fears.
Wednesday October 08th 2008, 6:00 pm

Australia's Ulladulla's fishing industry is experiencing a bumper season despite global warming fears and the Climate Change Minister's warnings. [News Source]

Climate change seen aiding spread of deadly diseases.
Wednesday October 08th 2008, 6:00 pm

A "deadly dozen" diseases ranging from avian flu to yellow fever are likely to spread more because of climate change, the Wildlife Conservation Society said on Tuesday. [News Source]

Flooding and drought mean water must be managed better, says National Trust.
Wednesday October 08th 2008, 6:00 pm

Water is a vital and dwindling resource which has to be better managed and protected, a new National Trust report claims. [News Source]

Mitigating climate change with trees.
Wednesday October 08th 2008, 6:00 pm

After decades of scepticism about global warming and its after effects, the world has come face-to-face with the realities of that danger. [News Source]

Storm study to model warming effects.
Wednesday October 08th 2008, 6:00 pm

A new study announced today will attempt to predict whether the number and intensity of future hurricanes will increase in the Gulf of Mexico as a result of global warming. [News Source]

Antarctica warming.
Wednesday October 08th 2008, 6:00 pm

If there is a "canary in the coal mine" in Antarctica, it is the Adelie penguin, and global warming is rapidly reducing the species' population, according to a National Geographic photojournalist who has specialized in the coldest continent. [News Source]