| Rare Mineral Can Track Ancient Climates, And Foretells Major Meltdown |
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| By discovering the meaning of a rare mineral that can be used to track ancient climates, geologists are helping climatologists to better understand what we're probably in for over the next century or two as global warming begins to crank up the heat and, ultimately, to change life as we know it. |
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| A first test for the other Miliband |
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| Well, they asked for it – and now they've got it. In 2007 the Government decided to go with the bright idea of a legally-binding programme for reducing its greenhouse gases step by step, and a powerful independent committee to oversee the process. Yesterday the committee, chaired by Adair Turner, came up with its recommendations, and it may have caused a few gulps in Whitehall. The targets it proposed are the toughest in the world. |
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| 12 years to halve UK CO2 |
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| Britain should adopt the world's toughest climate change target and slash nearly half of its greenhouse gas emissions in the next 12 years, the Government's new climate advisory committee said yesterday in its first report. |
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| Pump firm plans on wind turbine |
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| A pump company in the Forest of Dean has become the most recent to seek to reduce its carbon emissions and earn some funds by setting up a wind turbine. |
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| Low-carbon, low-heat energy needed |
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| As well as being low-carbon, electricity generation technologies should generate low waste heat, according to two scientists. |
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| Hundreds of jobs 'lost in months' |
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| A council and development agency estimate 300 posts have been lost in six months on the islands. |
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| Editorial: End of the climate change party |
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| Editorial: This a brave, bold step and Gordon Brown is to be congratulated for taking it |
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| Country diary: Wessex |
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| The road between Blandford and Wimborne runs for two and a half miles under the tall green arches formed by the grand colonnades of beech that William John Bankes laid out in 1835 as part of the Kingston Lacey estate. |
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| Energy saving: Changes in daily routine may become second nature |
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| You step out of the solar-heated shower, only fill the kettle for one cup of coffee, and wince at the latest electric bill while it boils. |
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| George Monbiot: Lord Turner's climate change report is long, detailed and impressive - but futile |
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| Lord Turner has two jobs. The first, as chair of the Financial Services Authority, is to save capitalism. |
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| Study finds Antarctic seas richer in life than tropics |
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| Seas surrounding an archipelago near the tip of the Antarctic peninsula are richer in animal life than the Galapagos islands, scientists claim today. |
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| Rivers Are Carbon Processors, Not Inert Pipelines |
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| Microorganisms in rivers and streams play a crucial role in the global carbon cycle that has not previously been considered. Freshwater ecologists note that our understanding of how rivers and streams deal with organic carbon has changed radically. |
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| Biofuel Plantations On Tropical Forestlands Are Bad For The Climate And Biodiversity, Study Finds |
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| Keeping tropical rain forests intact is a better way to combat climate change than replacing them with biofuel plantations, a study in the journal Conservation Biology finds. |
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| UK emissions 'must be cut by a third' |
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| The UK must cut its greenhouse gas emissions by at least 34 per cent by 2020,
the committee set up to advise the Government on climate change recommended
today. |
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| Schools invited to Shout About climate change |
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| Friends of the Earth is calling on schools and youth groups across the UK to sign up to its Shout About activity week. The project will show young people how to take action to tackle climate change in their local communities |
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| Committee sets 'trajectory' for 80% carbon cut |
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| Official advisers to the UK government have demanded a cut of more than a third in greenhouse gases by 2020, against 1990 levels. |
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| Wildlife Trust calls for natural flood prevention |
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| A Wildlife Trust report has called on the government to ensure natural methods are at the heart of flood prevention. |
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| Press release |
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| "We're delighted that the Committee recognises that UK greenhouse gas emissions must be slashed by 42 per cent by 2020 if we are to play our part in avoiding catastrophic global warming - but this must not be conditional on reaching an international deal. |
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| Poznan kicks off as EU climate talks stumble |
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| Delegates from 186 nations are in Poznan, Poland today (1 December) to launch 12 days of?talks designed to bring forward an international deal to tackle climate change. But the conference is?currently overshadowed by an EU internal row over how to share the 'effort' of reducing CO2 emissions. |
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| First Level 5 Sustainable Homes constructed |
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