Updated: 2009-11-29 08:23:25
Hotel guests should have their electricity monitored; hefty aviation taxes should be introduced to deter people from flying; and iced water in restaurants should be curtailed, the world’s leading climate scientist has told the Observer.
Rajendra Pachauri, the chair of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), warned that western society must undergo a radical value [...]
Updated: 2009-11-29 08:21:55
Nasa’s James Hansen was the first to point out the perils of climate change to the US Congress. Here, he begins a heated debate with experts from around the world, from China to the threatened Maldives, and argues that our leaders must be shaken out of their complacency. But will they show enough courage at [...]
Updated: 2009-11-29 08:19:57
Crude is still being discovered; existing fields are not being exploited to the full. So it’s hard to predict the exact point at which the world’s dwindling reserves will precipitate a crisis. But it’s coming
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The knock-on effects of peak oil
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Updated: 2009-11-29 08:17:47
The next Ice Age could take only weeks to engulf Britain. Scientists say the last great disruption to the Gulf Stream 12,800 years ago took only a couple of months to trigger a massive plunge in temperatures across Europe.
“It was as if Europe had been shifted 20 degrees north and Ireland moved to Svalbard,” [...]
Updated: 2009-11-27 23:25:18
A systematic review in the BMJ reports that the most important things associated with early parenthood are dislike of school, poor material circumstances, an unhappy childhood and low expectations for the future. No great surprises there, you may think, but accurate identification of causes can lead to effective interventions. In the second half of the [...]
Updated: 2009-11-27 23:23:58
An event, organised by the European Crop Protection Association (ECPA) and designed to explore competing visions of food security and how Europe can best meet its supply challenges, took part in Brussels, Belgium this week.
Under the banner ‘Food Supply Forum: Choices and Implications’, the conference attracted over 150 participants to the Concert Noble in Brussels, [...]
Updated: 2009-11-27 23:22:43
Water looks likely to become one of this century’s scarce commodities. Without massive investment in more efficient water use and making seawater drinkable, there won’t be enough to go round.
Global water requirements could rise 53% to 6,900 billion cubic meters over the next two decades, 40% above current accessible, reliable supplies, according to research by [...]
Updated: 2009-11-27 23:21:43
Have the climate wars of Africa begun? Tales of conflict emerging from this remote, arid region of Kenya have disturbing echoes of the lethal building blocks that turned Darfur into a killing ground in western Sudan. Tribes that lived side by side for decades say they’ve been pushed to warfare by competition for disappearing water [...]
Updated: 2009-11-26 21:47:59
Immigration to the UK continued to rise last year, according to the Office for National Statistics (ONS).
About 590,000 people came to live in Britain in 2008, compared with 574,000 the year before, figures showed.
However, a growing number of people have been leaving the UK permanently. About 427,000 people emigrated last year, up from 341,000 in [...]
Updated: 2009-11-26 21:45:45
75% worried about impact immigration is having on Britain,5% are pleased. Nearly 2/3rds of Labour voters want immigration sharply cut.
On the day that new Government statistics show that immigration in 2008 was 163,000, a new YouGov poll for Migrationwatch UK reveals the vast majority of the public are concerned about immigration and want it cut [...]
