Global Warming

Methane Global Warming Potential
Methane global warming potential is enormous. This article will provide you with an overview about the damaging potential methane has on global warming.

Global Warming Effects on Earth
Although we are aware about the various global warming effects on Earth, we don't really know when we'll be confronted by them. Glacier melting, climate change and mass extinction are just some of the many effects of global warming on earth. In fact, the United States Geological Survey has revealed that by the year 2030 the renowned Glacier National Park in the United States will be left without any glaciers!

Maldives Islands Sinking
The Maldives islands sinking threat has given a new life to the global warming debate. The possibility of sinking of Maldives was ascertained by the 2004 tsunami, which swept across these low-lying islands with immense ease. Today, Maldives may advocate the need to curb global warming desperately, but the fact which even they acknowledge is that their fate lies in the hands of other nations.

Global Warming and Carbon Dioxide (CO2)
Both as a environmental phenomenon and as a topic, 'global warming and carbon dioxide' has been showing no signs of cooling down. Know about the different repercussions of global warming and CO2 emissions in the environment, from what follows...

Global Warming for Kids
Here are some interesting fact about global warming for kids. Hope, they help you in understanding the grave problem of our planet and its worsening condition.

Global Warming Causes and Effects
Since the signing of the Kyoto Protocol in 1992, to curb the menace of global warming, the planet has witnessed a 35 percent rise in global carbon dioxide emissions due to the burning of fossil fuels. The rate at which the Greenland ice cover is melting has increased by over 70 percent in the last 5 years. Read on to know more about global warming causes and effects.

Global Warming Effects on Animals
The effects of global warming on life on Earth is a known, undisputed fact. This article mulls over the hows and whys of the global warming effects on animals.

Facts about the Greenhouse Effect
Existence of life on Earth is due to the greenhouse effect. To get an overview of facts about the greenhouse effect, leaf through this article.

Global Warming and The Greenhouse Effect
The greenhouse effect is caused by the emission of greenhouse gases which prevent the outgoing radiation of the sun from returning back into space. This entrapped energy of the sun results in the excessive heating up of the earth, and causes the much spoken about phenomenon of global warming, thus exhibiting the relation between global warming and the greenhouse effect.

Ozone Layer Depletion: Effects and Causes of Ozone Depletion
Ozone is a colorless gas found in the upper atmosphere of the Earth and formed by the action of ultraviolet radiation on oxygen. Ozone forms a layer in the stratosphere, which protects life on Earth from the harmful effects of ultraviolet radiation. To know more about ozone layer depletion as well as its causes and effects, read on.

Vermont Farmers Going Green, Cutting Cow Emissions
Vermont farmers are changing their cows’ feed to reduce methane emissions, in the process making their charges healthier.

What is Global Warming
Global warming, a gradual rise in the global temperature, is caused due to natural and man-made factors. The effects of global warming are climate change, rise in sea level, etc. To know more, read on...

Obama Exploring Radical Geoengineering Solutions to Global Warming
Barack Obama's chief science adviser, John Holdren, explained during an interview that the administration was exploring all options to fight global warming, including trying to cool the planet by artificially blocking sunlight.

I Think - About Global Warming
Even as 'global warming' screams off rostrums, how many environmentalists are willing to show us the change in lifestyle they have incorporated to deal with the problem...

Natural Causes of Global Warming
Global warming is exactly what the term suggests. It implies an increased temperature of surface air that is responsible for major climate changes. The rise in the sea water level and melting glaciers are just some of the implications...

Solar Car Goes Around the World, Sans Fossil Fuel
A Swiss teacher, on a mission to stop global warming, drove his solar-powered prototype car 32,000 miles around the world.

Global Warming and Deforestation
What are the causes and effects of deforestation? What is global warming? How is it linked to deforestation? Let us find out.

Arguments Against Global Warming
Global warming is a controversial issue today. Some say that it has been overly hyped. Let's take a look at their arguments.

Polar Bears and Global Warming
The Polar Bears are becoming an endangered species since the glaciers are melting as a result of Global Warming. So here is an article which discusses if there is any way to save the largest land carnivore.

Global Warming
Global warming is causing drastic effects on our planet. Read more about it here.

Ways to Prevent Global Warming
The one single concern that is threatening the very existence of lives in this planet is global warming. Global warming can be minimized to a great extent, if we eliminate the causes which are mostly human made…

How to Stop Global Warming?
Global warming refers to the increase in average temperature of the earth, particularly at the lower atmosphere due to the abundant increase of greenhouse gases. Let’s try to find out some ways to stop global warming here…

Global Warming Solutions
Global warming is a serious problem and if you think somebody else will solve this for you, you have got the wrong picture! Here are some global warming solutions we must use in our daily lives to save our planet Earth.

Global Warming And Melting Glaciers
Glaciers are melting at an alarming rate worldwide. Most of the blame for these fast melting glaciers goes to 'global warming' caused by humans over the past century.

The Effects and Consequences of Global Warming
Global warming has effects and consequences on all walks of life. The consequences of global warming can be seen in the atmosphere, weather as well as the health of individuals.

What Causes Global Warming?
What are the causes of Global Warming? What is the Green House effect? Is it really that destructive? Read on for information on Global Warming Causes.

Global Warming Myths and Facts
Global Warming has long been an issue to individuals as well as authorities. Here are some details about Global Warming, which will help one decide whether Global Warming is a fact or a myth.

Individual actions to help stop global warming
A walk to the store will do you good--while keeping climate-altering greenhouse gases out of the atmosphere.

Hole in Ozone Layer over Antarctica Reaches Greatest Size Ever
NASA says that this year’s annual measurement of the hole in the ozone layer over Antarctica shows that the hole is three times the size of the United States.

"Carbon sequestration" and global warming
What's better, capturing and "sequestering" carbon emitted by smokestacks like this one, or eliminating the pollution in the first place?

Researchers Say Earth is the Warmest It’s Been in 12,000 Years
A report by the National Academy of Sciences says that the temperature of planet Earth has climbed to levels that are the warmest in the last 12,000 years.

California Sues Automakers for Global Warming
California has filed a lawsuit against six of the world’s largest auto manufacturers, saying that the greenhouse gases emitted from their vehicles have caused billions of dollars in damages.

Global warming and the spread of disease
Climate change accelerates the spread of disease in part because warmer global temperatures enlarge the geographic range in which disease-carrying insects, like this mosquito, can survive.

Global warming's real and present impacts
Maple syrup on your morning pancakes may become just a distant memory if global warming's impact on seasonal harvesting cycles persists.

The day after tomorrow
With the help of astonishing and nerve stimulating special effects, filmmaker Roland Emmerich has tried his best to bring the most unthinkable to life on screen. The movie tries to bring in to picture disastrous effects of Global warming and the changes in climatic conditions that can be triggered because of it...

Global Warming Information - How it Works
Global Warming has 2 interconnected parts - the warming created by humans and Natures response to counteract the warming. The releasing of Greenhouse Gases is the human disregard for nature, nature responds by the creation of severe weather systems and changes to weather patterns attempting to counter act the warming. The more warming the hard the counter reaction is.

Consequences of Global Warming Part 1: Sea Level Rise
It is without a doubt that the Earth is warming and many scientists explain this phenomenon through what they call global warming. But whether or not humans are to blame for global warming is a touchy political issue that is best left to a more appropriate individual to discuss.

Fight Global Warming: Eat a Cow
A logical look at the issue of global warming.

Air Pollution and Global Warming
When we talk of global warming, it makes sense to refer to and consider the harmful effects of air pollution in this context

Living a Little More Quietly
Survival first and economic prosperity second. Due mainly to global warming, we are in danger of extinction, I guess. Let’s start planting vegetables on balcony or backyards. If you plant trees, that is even better.

Tough Powers Urged to Curb Global Warming
Government report calls for radical overhaul of global institutions to combat climate change

Scientists Fear Worst on Global Warming
Poll of attendees at Copenhagen climate conference exposes gulf between political rhetoric and expert opinion

Obama Climate Adviser John Holdren: Geo-engineering Could Be Used to Tackle Global Warming
Barack Obama's chief scientific adviser raises possibility of large-scale technological fixes to combat climate change

America: Talking Green but Leaving a Trail of Red
Even if every word about global warming were the immutable gospel truth and even if we never cut down another tree the trail America is leaving behind is conspicuously a brilliant red.

Switch off Lights on Earth Hour
Earth Hour is celebrated on 28th March, 2009 (Saturday), when India along with many international capitals will switch off its lights for 1 hour(08:30 pm-9:30 pm) and show its ardent towards combating the harmful effects of global warming or climatic changes.

The Tropics on Fire: Scientist's Grim Vision of Global Warming
Temperature rises will turn damp and humid forests into parched tinderboxes, warns Dr Chris Field

Bushfires and Global Warming: is There a Link?
Scientists have a hunch rising temperatures due to human activity are making fire and flood more likely

Melting Ice May Slow Global Warming
Scientists discover minerals found in collapsing ice sheets could feed plankton and cut C02 emissions

The Readers' Editor on ... Anonymous Sources and Claims of Eco-terrorism
Stephen Pritchard: You might think The Observer's concern for the environment arose only in the past 20 years as global warming became apparent

Europe Joins International Contest for Arctic's Resources
Mineral riches opened up by global warming could be key source of energy, according to EU paper

"Global Warming"
For all of us....

Global Warming Threatens Asia-pacific Security, Warns Australian Pm
Kevin Rudd announces increase in defence spending in response to accelerating arms race in region

UN Says Eat Less Meat to Curb Global Warming
Top expert's advice on diet change to save environment likely to provoke strong reaction from food industry

Global Warming: Sea Level Rises May Accelerate Due to Melting Ice Sheet
By the end of the century sea levels may be rising three times as fast as they are at present, as a result of rapid melting of the Greenland ice sheet

Help Stop Global Warming and Save Your Family!
These water injection systems increased gas mileage and improved engines performance under battle conditions. But just recently, a completely new technology has emerged that actually combines water molecules with gasoline, creating HHO gas fuel. The global result from water fuel cars will help to reduce our carbon footprint on this plant by half.

Global Warming Danger - Stop Global Warming and Save Your Life!
These water injection systems increased gas mileage and improved engines performance under battle conditions. But just recently, a completely new technology has emerged that actually combines water molecules with gasoline, creating HHO gas fuel.

Global Warming Documentary: The Ofcom Report at a Glance
The main points of Ofcom's report into the Channel 4 documentary The Great Global Warming Swindle

Global Warming is a Brutal Truth
George Monbiot: Channel 4's dismissal of Ofcom's damning verdict about its flawed program is self-deception on a massive scale

Global Warming Effects – Should We Be Concerned About Them?
There is no shortage of discussions on whether global warming is caused by man-induced pollution or naturally by the sun. However, the main question is different: should we be concerned about global warming effects which have become all to obvious, or not?

Channel 4 to Be Censured Over Controversial Climate Film
Watchdog finds documentary was unfair to scientists but did not mislead viewers

Plants and Tress Head for the Hills to Escape Global Warming
Trees, shrubs and other plants that make up mountainside forests are shifting to higher ground to escape the warming climate, researchers have found

Deep-sea Carbon Storage Must Be Tested, Says Leading Scientist
Scientists must start pumping carbon dioxide into the deep ocean to see whether it provides a safe way of tackling global warming, a leading expert on climate change has said

Scientists Call on Us to Heavily Cut Carbon Emissions
A unique collection of 1,700 leading scientists today called on the US government to take the lead in fighting global warming

Saving The World From Global Warming Through Legacy Modernization
There is one way that businesses can help save the world from global warming today. The answer - legacy modernization.

Global Warming
I had to write this for school, and I think it makes a good point.

In Praise of ... Chelsea Flower Show
An institution that has survived two world wars, the onset of global warming - and now food inflation

Surge in Fatal Shark Attacks Blamed on Global Warming
Increase in human hours in sea water also responsible for shark attacks, researchers say

US Evangelical Rift on Global Warming Widens
Modernizing Southern Baptist leaders urge action on emissions and label their church's timid policy as reckless

Global Warming - A Big Con?
You are probably wondering, as I am, where is this global warming that Gore character keeps going on about? If our planet is supposed to be warming up, why am I freezing my butt off?

The Year of Sun-Made Global Cooling
Article on the dramatic cooling of the planet in the last twelve months and man-made global warming.

Global Warming & the Bush Administration
President George W. Bush administration attempts to undermine the science of global warming

IPCC Report and Its Critics
The findings of Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) on global warming state that the probability that changes in the climate system are a result of man made increases in atmospheric greenhouse gases (GHG) concentrations is "very likely larger than 90%". It is to this claim that the eco-skeptics object, many of them claiming this probability is less than 50%. Is such a skeptic stance reasonable?

Hurricanes and Global Warming Devastate Caribbean Coral Reefs
Storm damage from waves and death of vital algae likely to become more common, report warns

The Facts About Hybrid Car Emissions and Global Warming
Hybrid car emissions in comparison to conventional car pollution.

Can Green Cars Help Minimize the Problem of Global Warming?
Global warming is one of the most hotly debated issues today. Cars have been identified as one of the leading contributors to the escalating global warming problem. To minimize the effects of cars on the environment and limit its impact on global warming, a potential solution has been identified: green cars.

At Last, Some Wisdom on Global Warming
Leader: Skeptics are right to worry that Bali did not deliver a carbon-cutting breakthrough. But as a statement of intent it signals real progress

World on Brink of Deal to Combat Global Warming
· Last minute compromise at UN conference · Campaigners and officials celebrate breakthrough

Global Warming Relief May Come From The Sun
Article on Global Warming, the United Nations and the Sun.

Congress Passes Global Warming Bill
Congress yesterday defied the threat of a presidential veto and passed the first legislation aimed at curbing global warming, voting to impose higher automobile fuel standards for the first time in three decades.

Is Global Warming Real?
Some unknown facts about global warming

The Secret Scientific Debate On Global Warming
Article on the debate in the scientific community over global warming.

Pacific Rim Climate Deal is No Laughing Matter for Green Activists
The first day of the Asia-Pacific Economic Co-operation (Apec) summit ended yesterday in Sydney with 21 Pacific Rim leaders agreeing to curb global warming.

Ice-free Arctic Could Be Here in 23 Years
The Arctic ice cap has collapsed at an unprecedented rate this summer and levels of sea ice in the region now stand at a record low, scientists said last night.

Star of Hit Show 24 Fights Global Warming 'crime'
Kiefer Sutherland, the actor who plays secret agent Jack Bauer in the hit US show 24, has pledged to fight global warming as the series aims to become the first carbon neutral TV program.

Live Earth Made Me Cry
This article is about the Live Earth concert and the emotions it gave to the author. The hope of humanity becoming one is offered as a result of the united effort to stop global warming.

Global Warming Growing
A short ramble about the state of the nation and the world when it comes to global warming

Canada Flexes Its Muscles in Scramble for the Arctic
Eight countries lay claim to oil-rich, unspoilt region - Global warming opens up fabled North-west Passage

New Analysis Counters Claims That Solar Activity is Linked to Global Warming
Study undermines climate skeptics' arguments - Correlations 'inconsistent' with temperature rise

Useful Tips for Avoiding Flood Damage
Climate Change and Global Warming has seen some extraordinary weather conditions throughout the World in recent years. This article gives just a few tips on how businesses can potentially avoid losses when flooding occurs.

Is The Electric Tumble Dryer A Doomed Appliance?
As Global Warming and Climate Change start to show us that they are indeed a real advent of our modern society, when do we get to a point and say, well some things just have to change!

Senate Votes for First Rise in Car Fuel Standard in 32 Years
Democrats in the US Senate have taken a tentative step in the fight against global warming by imposing the first increase in fuel efficiency standards on car manufacturers in almost 20 years.

G8 and Climate Change: a Concession or a Convenience?
The G8 is not collectively committed to a single target. Angela Merkel, the German chancellor has failed in securing a statement that global warming needs to be kept below 2C. By Patrick Wintour

Viewpoint: David Attenborough
Sir David Attenborough said yesterday that he detected signs of a "moral change" in the public's attitude to global warming.

Abuse and Incompetence in Fight Against Global Warming
Up to 20% of carbon savings in doubt as monitoring firms criticized by UN body.

Everest Ice Forest Melting Due to Global Warming, Says Greenpeace
One of the world's most spectacular ice formations - the towering serac forest near Mount Everest's base camp - is rapidly shrinking as a result of global warming, Greenpeace said today.

Easy Ways to Be Environmentally Friendly
It is easy to become very overwhelmed with all the chatter about global warming and pollution. When it comes to saving the environment we should all do our share. The solution should be to find simple but important things that will make a difference as well as making an effort to get others to take part. I am offering five easy suggestions that can make a difference:

'The Scariest Man in Washington'
Ewen MacAskill meets the Democratic congressman snapping at Republican heels on issues from Iraq to global warming.

Global Warming - Are You Worried About it?
These are alarming times we live in. You can either be fearful or at peace about what is coming.

UN Scientists Warn Time is Running Out to Tackle Global Warming
Scientists say eight years left to avoid worst effects - Panel urges governments to act immediately

UN: We Have the Money and Know-how to Stop Global Warming
Report obtained by the Guardian spells out strategy to reverse climate change.

Pope Issues New Green Message for World's Catholics
Pope addresses climate change conference - US church leaders lobby Bush on global warming

Protect God's Creation: Vatican Issues New Green Message for World's Catholics
Pope addresses climate change conference - US church leaders lobby Bush on global warming

Outsourcing Global Warming
Al Gore’s documentary, ‘An Inconvenient Truth’ may have won an Oscar, but the man himself is no longer on the VIP guest list of many manufacturing companies across America and Europe.

Global Warming is a Security Threat to Us All
The debate on climate change at the UN top table is a sign that the big powers are at last beginning to see sense. By Jonathan Freedland

Death in the Rainforest: Fragile Creatures Give the World a New Climate Warning
Amphibian and reptile numbers fall by 75% in reserve meant to save them.

There is Climate Change Censorship - and It's the Deniers Who Dish It Out
Global warming scientists are under intense pressure to water down findings, and are then accused of silencing their critics. By George Monbiot

Global Warming: Is The Bush II Government Pursuing A Policy Of Genocide By Proxy?
In World War II the Nazi's genocide weapon-of-choice was hydrogen cyanide gas, what irony that in the upcoming global warming related genocide, gas too is the weapon of choice; carbon dioxide gas!

Global Warming--How It Could Spark World War III
For the longest time we have been misled that global warming was just a myth by parties who profit by spreading such lies. Truth is global warming exists and it is here with a vengance today!

US Supreme Court Overrules Bush's Refusal to Restrict C02
The US supreme court yesterday issued a landmark ruling in favour of environmentalists and against George Bush's stance on global warming.

An Inconvenient Snowstorm
Global Warming continues to make the news, but is it real? I'm a little suspicious that we're being snowed by the power structure. How can we validate that we're being told the truth?

Global Warming Study Warns of Vanishing Climates
Scientists warn of disaster in biodiversity hotspots - Species 'must evolve or migrate' to survive

Fighting for Air: Frontline of War on Global Warming
Progress comes at a high price for China and India, but there are grounds for hope.

Pill Stops Cow Burps and Helps Save the Planet
Cut down on flying, sell the car and recycle your bottles. But if you really want to tackle global warming, you should stop your cow from burping.

World Breaks Temperature Records
The world experienced its warmest period on record during this year's northern hemisphere winter, the US government said today. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration report said the globally averaged combined land and sea surface temperature for December to February was the...

Country Diary: Gloucestershire
The birdsong of spring, whether or not birds know that global warming is making things earlier, continues to be a delight. By Colin Luckhurst

The Target Wreckers
Two ministries appear to be set on scuppering the government's plans to combat global warming. By George Monbiot

Split on Nuclear Power Threatens Agreement on Global Warming
Divisions over nuclear power and renewable energy threatened to derail the EU's campaign to assume a global leadership role in the fight against climate change at the bloc's spring summit.

Climate Change: Scientists Warn It May Be Too Late to Save the Ice Caps
A critical meltdown of ice sheets and severe sea level rise could be inevitable because of global warming, the world's scientists are preparing to warn their governments.

What Color Are You?
Landlods need to be looking at turning green. How and why? This article explains.

Contention on the Catwalk As Fashion Finds Its Conscience
Heated debate on skinny models, organic clothing and global warming.

Country Diary: North Derbyshire
It seemed to me that global warming had been confirmed when I looked out the other morning to see a duck-billed platypus on the grass behind the...By Roger Redfern

Q&A: The Ipcc Report on Global Warming
The report the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) published today in Paris was almost three years in the making.

Why the News About Warming is Worse Than We Thought: Feedback
Oceans, soil and trees will become worse at absorbing carbon dioxide as temperatures rise.

Bush Administration Accused of Doctoring Scientists' Reports on Climate Change
Inconvenient conclusions censored, hearing told - Researchers warned not to talk about global warming

Bush is Left Isolated As America Turns Green
For years, the most powerful voice in the US Senate on the environment was a conservative Republican from Oklahoma, James Inhofe, who famously declared "global warming is a hoax", and compared warnings about climate change to Nazi propaganda.

All Marching, But Not to the Beat of the Same Drum
How countries around the world are reacting to global warming.

US Answer to Global Warming: Smoke and Giant Space Mirrors
Washington urges scientists to develop ways to reflect sunlight as 'insurance'.

Bush Set for Climate Change U-turn
Downing Street says that belated US recognition of global warming could lead to a post-Kyoto agreement on curbing emissions.

Global Warming Blamed As Russian Winter Fails to Materialise
The brick grotto where Moscow zoo's bears live was today finally devoid of snuffling. After weeks of insomnia caused by the record mild winter in Russia, the six bears that live in the craggy enclosure have at last nodded off. Russia's famous winters may have scuttled the invasion plans of both Napoleon Bonaparte and Hitler but this year the winter has spectacularly failed to materialise in Moscow.

The Permafrost Factor - End of the World Scenario Revisited
40,000 years ago during the commencement of the ice age, the area of Western Siberia (and Alaska) permafrosted...producing a sort of flash frozen soil and the potential consequences for our world could be disasterous.

Blizzards, Reindeer, Darkness: New Klondike is Hottest Place in Europe
Shoppers from four countries flock to buy flatpacks as global warming ignites the Arctic economy.

Bush Backtracks on Global Warming With Plan to Protect Polar Bears
Melting arctic ice prompts climate change concession- Campaigners hope to force cuts in carbon emissions

Pistes Feel the Heat of Climate Change
Some of Europe's best-known ski resorts could be ruined by global warming, a report by the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development, warned today.

Ski Resorts Face Uncertain Future
Global warming could devastate European ski resorts within decades, forcing lower-altitude resorts to close and threatening winter sports which now attract up to 80 million tourists a year.

How We Slept Through The Climate Alarm
It was not until the dawn of this century that science finally woke up to the fact that climate change could occur abruptly and has done so several times in the Earth's history. Climate science is now scrambling to catch up with the escalating climate changes induced, this time, by anthropogenic global warming.

Global Warming? I'll Bring You Some Back From Macy's
Hopping over to New York for a few bargains takes our shopping and flying manias to their limits. But we know it can't go on. By Jackie Ashley

Court May Force Bush's Hand on Environment
States challenge policy on global warming - Victory would pave way for CO2 emission controls

The Untold Truth About Global Warming
The inconvenient truth about global warming is that it's a lot more than a moral issue that will mainly affect future generations. Climate change is happening now, could rapidly escalate, and could have a profound impact on every person alive today.

Will Global Warming Unleash More Seismic Activity?
Recent climate change research predicts that we will see more earthquakes, volcanoes and tsunamis as global warming unfolds. What's the connection between global warming and seismic activity? This report reviews the latest evidence.

This is a Dazzling Debunking of Climate Change Science. It is Also Wildly Wrong
Deniers are cock-a-hoop at an aristocrat's claims that global warming is a UN hoax. But the physics is bafflingly bad. By George Monbiot

African Nomads to Be First People Wiped Out By Climate Change
Kenya's herdsmen are facing extinction as global warming destroys their lands.

It's Hard to Explain, Tom, Why We Did So Little to Stop Global Warming
Looking back, 40 years on, we were intoxicated with an idea of individual freedom that was little more than greedy egotism. By Madeleine Bunting

Analysts Sceptical About Report's Impact in Us - and Benefits of Using Al Gore
The news that Sir Nicholas Stern would be coming to the US to promote the recommendations of his global warming study was welcomed by environmentalists yesterday but there was widespread scepticism that it would contribute to a change of policy while George Bush is in office.

Government Cowardice Could Be the Death of Us All
New Labour need to show a lot more nerve on global warming than they have over faith schools, alcohol and gambling. by Polly Toynbee

Car-makers and Eu Head for Showdown
The global car industry is heading for a showdown with the EU over commission plans to propose legislation to curb carbon dioxide emissions from new cars as part of the fight against global warming.

Figures Reveal Europe Falling Far Short of Climate Targets
Seven countries set to break emission limits, says environment commissioner.

When It Comes to Global Warming, Market Rule Poses a Mortal Danger
Gentle regulation will simply not suffice for a problem this big. Governments must act - swiftly and substantially. By Jonathan Freedland

Blair Warns of Climate Change 'tipping Points'
Tony Blair will warn today that the world will reach "catastrophic tipping points" on climate change within 15 years, unless serious action is taken to tackle global warming.

Will Next Season's Colour Be Green?
The giants of the old economy can make a major contribution to fighting global warming - but it'll take a change in fashion, writes William Keegan.

Enter: The Environmental "Period of Consequences"
Have humans passed the global warming 'tipping point'? Could we have wasted so much of the earth's natural resources that there's just no going back? What on earth can you, as a website owner, do about it?

Water for Millions at Risk As Glaciers Melt Away
· Crisis threatens parts of South America and Asia · Decline accelerates as global warming takes hold

What is Ethical Shopping?
Increasingly we find ourselves beset by problems that seem beyond our control; global warming, GM Foods...

What’s Green Living all About?
Increasingly we find ourselves beset by problems that seem beyond our control...

Carbon Trading– What’s all that about?
There is an emissions trading scheme in operation internationally but many people aren’t aware that this is perceived to be the cornerstone of the climate change policy in the EU and USA.

Engine Upgrades For Earth’s Sake
Global warming, thinning ozone layer, greenhouse effect along with its ill effects to health make the populace apprehensive and terrified of the things that are about to come. This is the very reason why environmentalists and other cause-oriented individuals are promoting different methods to reduce the causes as well as the effects of these hazards and one of the ways is to choose upgraded engines.

California Sues Car Firms for Global Warming
· Green campaigners hail landmark action · Six largest manufacturers creating 'public nuisance'

An Inconvenient Truth: Beware the Politician in Fleece Clothing
Al Gore's film delivers a stunning lesson on global warming. It should also alert Britons to the danger of voting on personality. By Jonathan Freedland

Global Warming to Wash Away Beaches, Warns Spanish Study
The fight for space on Spain's beaches looks set to grow fiercer over the next four decades as the sand starts to disappear under a rising sea that also threatens to flood beach-side homes, according to a Spanish environment ministry report.

Siberian Thaw to Speed Up Global Warming
The release of trapped greenhouse gases is pushing the world past the point of no return on climate change.

We Can't Reverse Global Warming By Triggering Another Catastrophe
Sulphate pollution killed hundreds of thousands of Africans. A plan to use sulphur to fight climate change risks the same. By George Monbiot

Cities in Peril As Andean Glaciers Melt
Ice sheets expected to last centuries could disappear in 25 years, threatening water supplies.

The Advantageous Hybrid Cars
Hybrid cars are environment friendly as it has 90% fewer emissions. Scientists believe that hybrid cars do not contribute much on air pollution thus it reduces the possibility of global warming.

The Last of California's Summer Wine?
Global warming could see 80 per cent of the area's famous vineyards disappear, say scientists

Diary
Forget the melting of the ice-caps and the drying up of mighty rolling rivers: the most significant indicator that global warming is now out of control came from court number four in the Royal Courts of Justice in the Strand yesterday. By Duncan Campbell

Loss of Mangroves Threatens Pacific Islands
Rising sea levels caused by global warming are posing a threat to mangroves and therefore communities in Pacific island nations, according to United Nations studies due to be released tomorrow.

Vast Chunk of Rock Threatens to Fall From Eiger As Global Warming Opens Up Crack
A vast chunk of Europe's most ill-famed mountain threatens to break loose and crash down in the next few days, a geologist monitoring the situation...

Half of Global Car Exhaust Produced By Us Vehicles
· Hummers and SUVs blamed for high emissions · Average US car does less than 20mpg, says study

US Scientists Back Manmade Warming Claim
US scientists have endorsed the contentious findings of a global warming study that showed humans are drastically altering the climate.

California Emission Standards Implemented In Canada
Quebec, one of Canada’s major provinces, has just most recently announced that it will be imposing vehicle emission limits that are very much like those that are being followed in the USA’s sunshine state, California. Officials in this state have come to believe that these emissions are main factors in global warming which is affecting not only the country but the rest of the globe as well.

Monaco - Luxury Yacht Show Fights Global Warming
22,000 visitors, 95 super Yachts and 530 exhibitors are heading to Monaco for the annual yacht show...and the organisers have pulled off a balancing act of a luxury yacht show that isn't damaging the environment.

Global Warming Predictions Are Underestimated Say Scientists
Climate change models have dramatically underestimated the extent to which global warming will raise temperatures, scientists warned yesterday.

His Adequacy Hits Out Over Climate Change
Former vice-president Al Gore opted for the big entrance at Cannes for the European premiere of An Inconvenient Truth, a documentary on the "planetary emergency" of global warming.

Trade Winds Weaken With Global Warming
Trade winds that sweep around half the globe are weakening as global warming disrupts normal atmospheric circulation, scientists report today.

Secrecy Breach By Us Officials Steals Thunder of Climate Change Report
· Draft findings posted on internet months early · Action on global warming undermined, experts fear

Global Warming Sparks a Scramble for Black Gold Under Retreating Ice
Unlike the Antarctic continent spread around the south pole, the Arctic has no formal international treaty to regulate activities. And while howling winds, drifting icebergs and months of freezing darkness kept prospecters at bay, there was little activity to regulate.

Monaco Prince Takes Pole Position
Less than a year after succeeding to the throne, Prince Albert of Monaco is swapping the luxury of his palace for the wilds of the North Pole to highlight global warming.

Oops, We Helped Ruin the Planet
· Guide owners join to discourage 'casual flying' · Books to carry warnings on global warming

Forecast Shows Africa to Face River Crisis
Africa's rivers face dramatic disruption that will leave a quarter of the continent severely short of water by the end of the century, according to a global warming study published today.

Pro-Bush Nasa Official Quits Over False Cv
A Nasa public affairs officer who worked on George Bush's re-election campaign and was linked to a campaign to stifle discussion by space agency scientists on global warming, has resigned.

Evangelicals Launch Green Action Plan
· Challenge to Bush from his Christian constituency · Leaders call on devout to 'solve global warming'

The Scam of Global Warming is That We Pay Others for Our Complacency
The most destructive effect of the carbon offset trade is that it allows us to believe we can carry on polluting.

Boiling Point for the Fight Against Climate Change
Environmentalists must use their anger at the government's betrayal on global warming to mobilise the mainstream.

Private Sector Will Defeat Climate Change, Us Tells Anti-kyoto Summit
The United States yesterday announced it would rely on the private sector to tackle global warming by devising more fuel-efficient technologies.

American Global Warming Gas Emissions Accelerate to a Record High
Emissions of global warming gases from the United States have nearly doubled in 14 years and reached an all-time high in 2004, according to figures released by the American government. But new analysis suggests Europe is also falling behind in its attempt to meet legally binding United Nations targets.

US Resists Climate Change Pressure at Un Conference
Crucial talks aimed at combatting the threat of global warming opened in Montreal yesterday with the US government signalling that it will resist attempts to be drawn into a new international process to cut emissions.

Millions Face Glacier Catastrophe
Global warming hits Himalayas.

The Perks of Global Warming!
Good News! Those pesky glaciers are finally melting off. At first, news of devastating global climate change might seem a bit of a bummer. Relax. Your faith is about to be restored.

EU-Russia Summit Focuses on Global Warming
The EU is today expected to press Russia to do more about global warming, at a summit in London attended by Vladimir Putin and Tony Blair.

Michael Crichton Testifies on Global Warming
It was still something of a shock yesterday to find Michael Crichton as an expert witness testifying on global warming in front of the United States Senate. Jamie Wilson

Corporations Are Ready to Act on Global Warming
Corporations are ready to act on global warming but are thwarted by ministers who resist regulation in the name of the market. George Monbiot

Global Warming Could End Sahara Droughts, Says Study
Global warming could significantly increase rainfall in Saharan Africa within a few decades, potentially ending the severe droughts that have devastated the region, a new study suggests.

Global Companies Snub Survey on Climate Change
More than 100 of the world's largest companies have been accused of not facing up to global warming after they snubbed a global survey of corporate attitudes to climate change.

Prescott Links Global Warming to Katrina
John Prescott sparked controversy yesterday by linking America's refusal to tackle climate change to the devastation of the New Orleans hurricane.

Global Warming is Dictator's Legacy
A bungled attempt to turn swaths of Indonesian peat swamps into rice plantations threatens to increase global warming on a massive scale, a scientist said yesterday.

Forget the Med, Chuck Your Towel on a British Beach
Beat global warming, the crowds and the queues by holidaying at home. Jackie Ashley

Visitors Rush to Glimpse Vanishing Glaciers
Attention turns to Alaska where climate change is transforming the landscape.

GLOBAL WARMING: Why consumers and insurers are getting hot under the collar over life insurance
Whilst financial products may never have been simple, the diversity and complexity of personal finance and insurance products is beginning to bewilder even educated consumers.

Warming Hits 'tipping Point'
Siberia feels the heat It's a frozen peat bog the size of France and Germany combined, contains billions of tonnes of greenhouse gas and, for the first time since the ice age, it is melting.

Six-country Pact on Clean Energy 'not Meant to Undermine Kyoto'
A US-led, six-nation pact to develop clean energy technologies and combat global warming was launched yesterday with its members denying it was designed to undermine the Kyoto protocol.

US: Climate Deal Complements Kyoto
The US today insisted that its surprise announcement last night of a new pact over clean energy technologies with other five countries was not a threat to the Kyoto emissions treaty. A deal between the US, Australia, China, India, South Korea and Japan was announced late yesterday in a...

US Accepts Earth is Warming in Bid to Avert Clash
Top G8 officials in late-night negotiations.

Bush's Climate Row Aide Joins Oil Giant
A senior White House official accused of doctoring government reports on climate change to play down the link between greenhouse gas emissions and global warming has taken a job with Exxon Mobil, the world's largest oil company.

US Environmental Policy Chief Quits
A former oil industry lobbyist accused of doctoring official US policy papers on global warming to play down the link between greenhouse gas emissions and global warming, has resigned.

Shrinking Lakes of Siberia Blamed on Global Warming
Lakes in two large swaths of Siberia are shrinking in size and 125 of them have disappeared altogether, a US study reveals.

Ex-oil Lobbyist Watered Down Us Climate Research
A former oil industry lobbyist edited the Bush administration's official policy papers on climate change to play down the link between greenhouse gas emissions and global warming, it was reported yesterday.

US Told to Face Up to Climate Change
The environment secretary, Margaret Beckett, says Washington is not doing enough to help the fight against global warming.

New Zealand First to Levy Carbon Tax
New Zealanders will pay an extra NZ$2.90 (£1.11) a week for electricity, petrol and gas when the country becomes the first in the world to introduce a carbon tax to address global warming.

Global Warming Rate Discovered
The world is getting warmer and US scientists now know precisely how much warmer - 1 watt lightbulb shining constantly over an area of 1 sq metre everywhere on the planet.

900,000-year-old Ice May Destroy Us Case on Kyoto
An Italian expedition to the Antarctic has taken a sample of ice which could give scientists evidence of past climate changes which would discredit global warming doubters.

Higher and Higher: Ski Resorts in Fight to Survive Global Warming
Critics fear loss of last wildernesses as industry seeks fresh pistes.

Oceans of Evidence for Global Warming
The first evidence of human-produced global warming in the oceans has been found, thanks to computer analysis of seven million temperature readings taken over 40 years to depths of 700 metres (2,300ft).

Kyoto Protests Disrupt Oil Trading
Violent clashes at London energy exchange after Greenpeace activists use direct action to mark global warming treaty.

Kyoto Protocol Comes Into Force
The delayed Kyoto protocol on global warming came into effect today, seven years after it was first negotiated.

Global Warming the Key to Life on Mars
US scientists have thought up a new way to create a second home - by warming up the atmosphere of Mars.

Climate Change 'will Hit Africa Hardest'
Urgent action must be taken in order to prevent Africa from bearing the brunt of global warming, a scientific conference on climate change was told today.

Today’s Doomsday: Is There A Solution To Global Warming?
Global Warming, modern times Doomsday: We’re pledging our future, and the future of upcoming generations, and it has to stop...

To Save the Planet, Bring Back Byers
Jackie Ashley: The fight against global warming needs a champion in government. Now here's an odd plea from someone who's repeatedly made clear a preference for a Brown premiership: bring back Stephen Byers.

Bear Facts Point to Global Warming in Arctic
Mild winter sets record for higher than normal temperatures, and leaves nature confused.

Jurassic Park Author Pours Cold Water on Global Warming
Michael Crichton's new techno thriller fantasises a world free of the pall of greenhouse gases.

Global Warming 'will Leave Arctic Ice-free'
Global warming is causing the Arctic ice-cap to melt at such an unprecedented rate that by the summer of 2070 it may have no ice at all.

Global Warming a Bigger Threat to Poor
Global warming threatens to reverse human progress, and make unachievable all UN targets to reduce poverty, according to some of the world's leading international and development groups. In a report published today, Oxfam, Greenpeace, Christian Aid, Friends of the Earth, WWF and 15 other...

This 'please Miss, She Did It Too' Politics Gets Us Nowhere
The climate and pensions crises demand a commitment to the future. Here are three examples of real politics. On Monday we had news about carbon emissions which has baffled scientists and suggests the world may be on the edge of "runaway global warming".

Climate Fear As Carbon Levels Soar
Scientists bewildered by sharp rise of CO2 in atmosphere for second year running. An unexplained and unprecedented rise in carbon dioxide in the atmosphere two years running has raised fears that the world may be on the brink of runaway global warming.

Bush U-turn on Climate Change Wins Few Friends
In a dramatic reversal of its previous position, the White House this week conceded that emissions of carbon dioxide and other heat-trapping gases were the only likely explanation for global warming. Citing the "best possible scientific information," an administration official, James...

Put Us All on Rations
It will take more than a few extra pounds on our gas bills to make us do something about global warming.

US Power Giants Face Landmark Climate Lawsuit
Eight state authorities demand cuts in emissions. Eight states and New York city have launched an unprecedented civil action against five of America's largest power companies, demanding that they cut carbon dioxide emissions because of global warming.

Global Warming Has Cut Yields, Say Scientists
Global warming has cut rice harvests by at least 10% and possibly much more, scientists in the Philippines reported yesterday after studying 12 years of rising temperatures and falling yields. The team, based at the International Rice Research Institute, said the impact could be...

Flood Risk to 2bn By 2050, Says Study
More than 2 billion people could be at risk of flood devastation by 2050, according to research today. One billion people are already at risk from the kind of floods that might occur every 100 years. But with global warming, that number could double in two generations, according to United...

An Idea Whose Time Has Come
By tackling global warming, Blair can show he is not a US poodle. A month ago, Tony Blair made a big speech about global warming. The prime minister's message could not have been clearer.

Scientists Hand Putin Weapon to Kill Kyoto Treaty
Leading Russian scientists told President Vladimir Putin that the Kyoto emissions treaty discriminates against Russia, would damage its economy and would not significantly reduce global warming, increasing the chance that the Kremlin will refuse to ratify the agreement.

Global Warming May Melt Greenland's Ice, Scientists Warn
Greenland's icy mountains and the island's entire ice cap could disappear in the next 1,000 years because of global warming, European scientists warn today. If that occurs sea levels will rise by seven metres, drowning low-level coastlines around the world. Greenland is covered...

Global Warming Forces Sale of Scottish Winter Sports Resorts
The future of skiing and snowboarding in Scotland appeared bleak last night after two of the country's five ski resorts were put up for sale after large financial losses. The owners of Glencoe and Glenshee put the resorts on the market yesterday morning after deciding they could no longer...

1 in 10 Animals and Plants Will Be Extinct By 2050
· Global warming to kill off 1m species
· Scientists shocked by results of research
· 1 in 10 animals and plants extinct by 2050

Global Warming Kills 150,000 a Year
Disease and malnutrition the biggest threats, UN organisations warn at talks on Kyoto.

Global Warming is Killing Us Too, Say Inuit
The Inuit people of Canada and Alaska are launching a human rights case against the Bush administration claiming they face extinction because of global warming. By repudiating the Kyoto protocol and refusing to cut US carbon dioxide emissions, which make up 25% of the world's total,...

Shrinking Ice in Antarctic Sea 'exposes Global Warming'
Frozen oceans that affect currents such as the Gulf Stream have decreased dramatically, say scientists.

EU Alarmed As Putin Backtracks on Kyoto
President Vladimir Putin refused yesterday to commit Russia to ratifying the Kyoto treaty designed to cut global warming, backtracking on previous pledges and causing alarm in the EU and among environmental groups. Opening a conference on climate change in Moscow, Mr Putin said Russia's...

Why the lights go out: free-market frugality, freakish weather, no standby power
Deregulation and global warming are among the reasons why recently blackouts have occurred from California to Kent, and now in Italy.

Bush Covers Up Climate Research
White House officials play down its own scientists' evidence of global warming. White House officials have undermined their own government scientists' research into climate change to play down the impact of global warming, an investigation by The Observer can reveal.

Record Heatwave Closes Mont Blanc to Tourists
Dramatic proof of global warming as peaks begin to crumble in high temperatures and snowline retreats. It figured as a stop on adventurous young men's nineteenth-century Grand Tour, and in summer 300 people might climb it in a single day. This year, for the first time since its conquest in 1786, the heatwave has made western Europe's highest peak too dangerous to climb.

EU Drive to Fight Global Warming
The European commission yesterday unveiled tough proposals to cut emissions of particularly potent greenhouse gases by a quarter before 2010, in the fight against global warming. To meet commitments under the Kyoto protocol, the commission proposed phasing out fluorinated greenhouse gases...

Barrier reef bleaching worsens
Coral bleaching caused by global warming could devastate swaths of Australia's Great Barrier Reef within 50 years, according to a report.

Global Warming May Be Speeding Up, Fears Scientist
Alarm at 'unusual' heatwaves across northern hemisphere. One of Europe's leading scientists yesterday raised the possibility that the extreme heatwave now settled over at least 30 countries in the northern hemisphere could signal that man-made climate change is accelerating.

Global Warming Affecting Squirrel Reproduction
University of Alberta researchers recently concluded a 10-year study showing that red squirrels in the Yukon are reproducing earlier in the year in response to global warming and thus being genetically affected by it.

Decades of Devastation Ahead As Global Warming Melts the Alps
A mountain of trouble as Matterhorn is rocked by avalanches. Mountain guide Victor Saunders and his companion Craig Higgins had reached the Solvay bivouac hut on the Matterhorn's Hornli ridge last week when their balmy morning climb turned into a nightmare.

White House cuts global warming from report
The White House has removed damaging references to global warming from a major US government report on the environment due to be published next week.

Bear facts
A polar bear cub that was rescued after its mother was killed by hunters has made headlines across Canada, but global warming means that other members of his species may not be so lucky, writes Anne McIlroy

Memo exposes Bush's new green strategy
The US Republican party is changing tactics on the environment, avoiding "frightening" phrases such as global warming, after a confidential party memo warned that it is the domestic issue on which George Bush is most vulnerable.

Advisers tell Bush climate plan is useless
George Bush's strategy on global warming suffered a setback yesterday when a panel of scientists convened at the request of the White House condemned it as lacking vision, and wasting time and money on research questions that were resolved years ago.

Global warming endangers Amazon
A warmer world could mean the loss of the Amazon rainforest and yet more global warming as levels of carbon dioxide increased in the atmosphere.

Underground Fires Wreak Havoc
Blazing coal seams threaten wildlife and stoke global warming. Thousands of underground coal fires around the world could be fuelling toxic pollution, contributing up to 3% of the rate of global warming and threatening wildlife, scientists warned yesterday.

Global Warming May Turn Deadly Route Through Ice Into Plain Sailing
The perilous dream of a North-west Passage is likely to become a commercial and problematic reality.

Bush Cuts Into Green Laws By Stealth
The White House is quickly but quietly undermining environmental protection laws with dozens of small administrative changes in favour of landowners and corporations, according to a report yesterday. While the US rejection of the Kyoto treaty on global warming focused world attention on...

Anti-green author dishonest, says scientific panel
Bjorn Lomborg - the director of Denmark's Environmental Assessment Institute and a leading would-be debunker of mainstream scientific opinion on issues like global warming and overuse of natural resources - has been found guilty by a Danish government committee of "scientific dishonesty".

ExxonMobil Deflects Critics With $100m Green Donation
ExxonMobil, the biggest publicly quoted oil group in the world, yesterday wrongfooted green activists by announcing plans to invest $100m (£63m) into a project organised by Stanford University to tackle global warming. The move was dismissed by Greenpeace as an attempt to buy off its...

Dirty dealing in Delhi
The Bush administration has never disguised its contempt for the Kyoto protocol, which aims to curb global warming. George Bush pulled out of the climate change deal on arriving in office, saying it would place unacceptable limits on American growth.

Bush Snubs Earth Summit
George Bush will not attend this month's Johannesburg earth summit, the White House confirmed yesterday: a decision environmentalists said illustrated the administration's contempt for green issues. It did not come as a surprise. Mr Bush abandoned the Kyoto protocol on global warming last...

Disasters waiting to happen
The social and economic costs of global warming will block all progress in the developing world. As the US finally concedes that global warming is happening, dramatic new data is emerging on the impact of "natural" disasters.

It's official, global warming does exist, says Bush
In an extraordinarily secretive manoeuvre, the Bush administration has subtly altered its position on global warming, officially admitting that there is a crisis while still declining to offer policies to combat it.

France? It's like 1970s America
At odds over the Middle East, at war over trade and bitterly split over global warming - the gap between Europe and America has rarely seemed so wide.

Planet is running out of time, says Meacher
Global warming: Government to warn that America's actions threaten to make the planet "uninhabitable".

US and Oil Lobby Oust Climate Change Scientist
The head of the international scientific panel on climate change, which has called for urgent action to curb global warming, was deposed yesterday after a campaign by the Bush administration, Exxon-Mobil and other energy companies to get him replaced. At a plenary session of the...

Oil Giant Bids to Replace Climate Expert
The Bush administration, at the urging of the world's biggest oil company, ExxonMobil, is trying to oust Robert Watson, the British scientist and chairman since 1996 of the panel that has advised the world about the dangers of global warming. In what had been a nonpolitical process, the...

Antarctica sends 500 million billion tonne warning of the effects of global warming
Scientists stunned as ice shelf the size of Wales falls apart in a month. An area of ice the size of Wales thought to weigh almost 500 million billion tonnes has broken off the Antarctic continent and shattered into thousands of icebergs in one of the most dramatic examples yet of the effects of climate change.

Denmark gives green post to global-warming denier
Denmark's self-styled "sceptical environmentalist", Bjorn Lomborg, is no stranger to controversy, but his recent elevation to one of the country's senior environment jobs has shocked green campaigners and politicians alike.

EU Votes for Kyoto and Increases Pressure on Bush
Hailing a step forward in attempts to save the planet, the EU yesterday reaffirmed its commitment to the Kyoto treaty on global warming - and told the US that it should make the same commitment. EU environment ministers meeting in Brussels gave their formal blessing to the decision, which...

Canadian emissions threaten Kyoto
While the prime minister, Jean Chretien, faces a growing number of anti-Kyoto voices, his own commitment to fight global warming has been found wanting, writes Anne McIlroy

New Satellite Will Monitor Global Warming
A £1.4bn environmental monitoring satellite the size of an articulated lorry was today launched from a base in French Guiana. Designed in part by researchers at the Leicester University space centre, Envisat will record information on environmental changes, including global warming,...

Plea As Nation Sinks Below Waves
The tiny Pacific island nation of Tuvalu will use its maiden speech to the Commonwealth heads of government meeting this weekend to call for action on global warming before it disappears under rising seas. The new member's speech reflects anger among impoverished, low-lying Commonwealth...

Going Down
Tuvalu, a nation of nine islands - specks in the South Pacific - is in danger of vanishing, a victim of global warming. As their homeland is battered by ferocious cyclones and slowly submerges under the encroaching sea, what will become of the islanders? Patrick Barkham reports.

Clear Skies for Us, Gloom for Kyoto
President Bush unveiled an environmental policy yesterday which sharply differed from the international Kyoto agreement on global warming.

Nature's Crown Jewels Face Ruin
They are the most vulnerable natural habitats on Earth, containing many of the world's most beautiful and rare animals. But almost all face destruction by the end of this century because of global warming. In a devastating study, scientists from the conservation group WWF have predicted...

Global Warming Threatens Australia's Unique Habitats
Many of Australia's unique animals and "mega-diverse" ecosystems could disappear before the end of this century because of global warming, a study warned yesterday. Ninety Australian animals, including rare species of wombat, possum and wallaby, could be wiped out if forecasts of average...

Ice field loss puts Alpine rivers at risk
The great rivers of Europe that rise in the Alps may change from being permanently swollen in summer to being dried up, when global warming finally finishes off the ancient mountain ice fields in 20 to 30 years' time. David Collins, of Salford University, presenting...