Gordon Brown has told the United Nations that $30 billion will be needed for the world’s poorest countries to deal with the effects of climate change.
Speaking in New York, the UK Prime Minister said international public finance should meet a significant proportion of this figure.
Mr Brown was among world leaders attending a climate change summit [...]

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Ed Miliband, Minister for Energy and Climate Change has announced the UK’s plans to cut emissions.  The plan is set out so that the UK can achieve 34% cuts in the levels found in 1990 by 2020.  This cut is equivelant to cutting emissions entirely from four cities the size of London.

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Could plants save us from the rising carbon dioxide levels from human emissions and greenhouse gases and save us from the Climate Crunch? 

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Discover what really happens with your recyclables. It’s time for another round of That’s Just Weird.

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As well as affecting people and wildlife, climate change could destroy the insurance markets, according to a recent report.
The study by the Chartered Insurance Institute pointed out opportunities for insurance products but also highlighted the risk of insurance market failure.
According to the report, climate change could already be compounding catastrophe losses by two per cent [...]

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Gore calls on scientists everywhere to get more involved in their communities and especially politics. We as a species cannot afford to wait any longer to act…

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Geographers in project at Kruger National Park
Geographers from the University of Leicester are to use state-of-the-art technology to investigate how climate change is affecting the world famous Kruger National Park in South Africa.
It is part of a wider project examining the impact of climate change of African savannas.
The academics in the Department of Geography at [...]

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Trees in the western United States are dying twice as quickly as they did three decades ago and scientists think global warming is to blame.
In their surveys, ecologists found that a wide range of tree species were dying including pines, firs and hemlocks and at a variety of altitudes. The changes can have serious long-term [...]

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An international team of researchers, including Antoni Rosell, ICREA researcher at the Institute of Environmental Science and Technology (ICTA) and professor of the Department of Geology, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, who participated as a member of the direction team, have created MARGO (Multiproxy Approach for the Reconstruction of the Glacial Ocean Surface), a new quantitative [...]

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Is global climate leadership about to pass from Europe to the United States? It seems so. And Barack Obama’s plans to rejoin international climate negotiations, green American energy policy, and build an electricity super-grid to bring renewable energy out of the West could be a planet-saver.
Europe’s leadership on fighting climate change seemed unassailable until just [...]

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