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24.08.2011
'Happy' Bhutan alarmed by Himalayan climate change
Bhutan's prime minister has issued a dire warning about the impact of Himalayan climate change, saying it could wreck the tiny kingdom's ambitious plans to be a world leader in hydropower.
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23.08.2011
An island's climate response
AN island in the Lau Group has started taking steps to strengthen its resilience to the impacts of climate change.
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22.08.2011
World Leaders Praise Libyan Rebel Advances
World leaders are applauding the rebel advance into Libya's capital, Tripoli, as a step toward ending violence in the country and beginning a democratic future.
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22.08.2011
EU may propose plan to extend Kyoto:sources: report
LONDON - The EU could yet table a proposal that would throw the beleaguered Kyoto Protocol a lifeline and secure the future of the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) beyond 2012, government negotiators and observers have told Point Carbon News.
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19.08.2011
Wildlife Responds Fast To Climate Change: Study
Plants and animals are responding up to three times faster to climate change than previously estimated, as wildlife shifts to cooler altitudes and latitudes, researchers said on Thursday.
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18.08.2011
EU backing Jordanian energy plans
The European government said $102 million in financial assistance to Jordan will help support the country's renewable energy objectives.
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16.08.2011
"Climate Change Is Affecting Traditional Knowledge"
The traditional knowledge of nature developed since ancestral times by Colombia’s indigenous peoples is increasingly challenged by the unnatural effects of climate change, a phenomenon that is deeply troubling to the keepers of this knowledge, says biologist Brigitte Baptiste.
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15.08.2011
On endless ice, searching for clues to our future
ON JAKOBSHAVN GLACIER, Greenland—The pilot eased his five-ton helicopter toward the glacier's rumpled surface, aiming for the lightest of setdowns atop one of the fastest-flowing ice streams on Earth.
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12.08.2011
Cabinet to consider SA’s COP 17 negotiation stance in October
Water and Environmental Affairs Minister Edna Molewa reports that South Africa’s negotiating position for the seventeenth United Nations (UN) Framework Conven- tion on Climate Change Conference of the Parties, or COP 17, will be submitted for Cabinet approval in October.
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11.08.2011
Climate, natural hazards and change in Southeast Asia
Climate change is projected to bring more extreme weather events to this part of the world: but that is not a new occurrence, as researchers at the Asia Research Centre can show. But their ground-breaking project, which investigates the impacts of climate-related and other natural hazards on the economy, society and history of Southeast Asia since the 10th century, demonstrates how disastrous such events can be for human societies, with important consequences for the debate on climate change policy.
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