Australia has warned that it will have to switch off the water supply to the continent's food bowl unless heavy rains break an epic drought - heralding what could be the first climate change-driven disaster to strike a developed nation.
What could make me believe that this warming planet could continue to produce weather increasingly frigid and increasingly violent? It's really simple. To begin with, the world's glaciers are not retreating. As Robert W. Felix, author of "Not by Fire But
With global warming taking centre stage in the climate change debate, the idea that Earth might be heading towards an ice age seems outdated. Yet scientists studying microfossils from deep-sea cores have discovered that we may still have much to learn abo
The UK's carbon emissions rose by an estimated 1.25% last year, according to provisional figures published today, but the environment secretary, David Miliband, insisted the government is still on track to meet its Kyoto targets. Mr Miliband admitted the
Queensland is the world’s largest coal exporter and South Africa the second-largest, which make the two natural partners in the campaign to produce clean coal timeously and thereby save the industry, said Queensland premier Peter Beattie. In a flying vi
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