Selfish adults ‘damage childhood’
BBC World Service | 02 Feb 2009
The way adults live their lives should change to stop the damage being done to children, a major new report recommends.

Australia carbon scheme needs re-think: analyst
Reuters | 02 Feb 2009
CANBERRA (Reuters) – Australia’s government has failed to take account the international financial meltdown in plans for [...]

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Climate Change’s Impact On Invasive Plants In Western US May Create Restoration Opportunities
ScienceDaily.com | 30 Jan 2009
A new study has found that global climate change may lead to the retreat of some invasive plant species in the western United States, which could create unprecedented ecological restoration opportunities across millions of acres throughout America. At the [...]

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US hopefuls in tense final debate
BBC
The US presidential candidates clash over the economy and negative campaigning in a testy final pre-election debate.
As it happened: McCain v Obama
BBC
All the action and reaction from the the third debate between US presidential candidates John McCain and Barack Obama.
Red squirrel ‘becoming immune’ to killer virus
The Independent
The embattled red squirrel [...]

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Today’s Earthwire news round-up
Climate plan concern as EU meets
BBC World Service
Environmentalists fear an EU summit will see climate change plans hit by cost concerns, as financial uncertainty persists.
Autumn colours
Guardian Unlimited
Damp soil and warmer temperatures are providing the UK with a wonderful display of autumn leaves
Climate plan concern as EU meets
BBC
Environmentalists fear an EU summit will [...]

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A Review of Different National Approaches to the Regulation of THMs in Drinking Water
Foundation for Water Research
Review of England and Wales Monitoring Data for Which a National or International Standard Has Been …
Foundation for Water Research
Byproduct Of Steel Shows Potential In Carbon Dioxide Sequestration
ScienceDaily.com
With steelworks around the world emitting huge amounts of carbon dioxide, scientists [...]

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Possibly the largest Earthwire news round up ever!
World ‘to fail’ on nature target
BBC World Service
The world’s governments will fail to meet their agreed target of curbing biodiversity loss by 2010, conservationists tell the BBC.
Brown’s plan to save rainforests
BBC
A new deal to protect the world’s rainforests is proposed in a report drawn up for Gordon Brown.
‘Wild [...]

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Expansion of Stansted wins Hoon approval
The Independent
The Government has been accused of reneging on its commitment to tackle climate change and ignoring local opinion after it stepped in to approve a major expansion of Stansted.
Thinning Of Greenland Glacier Attributed To Ocean Warming Preceded By Atmospheric Changes
ScienceDaily.com
The sudden thinning in 1997 of Jakobshavn Isbræ, one of [...]

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Earthwire comprehensive round-up of environmental news.
Gas fuels green research centre
BBC
A university opens the first centre of its kind in the UK highlighting the potential of hydrogen gas as a fuel.
Climate votes offer missing piece in Chinese coal puzzle
EurActiv
MEPs have voted in support of a multi-billion euro fund to drive the construction of CO2 capture and [...]

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Development of a GIS Procedure to Implement a UK Geomorphic Channel Typology
Foundation for Water Research
Canal plan to power 45,000 homes
BBC
Turbines along British canals and rivers could power 45,000 homes within five years under new plans.
‘Deadly Dozen’ Reports Diseases Worsened By Climate Change
ScienceDaily.com
A new report lists 12 pathogens that could spread into new regions as a [...]

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UK ’should cut greenhouse gases by 80 per cent’
The Independent
The UK should cut its greenhouse gas emissions by at least 80 per cent by mid-century, the Government’s climate change committee recommended today.
Swimming with humpbacks: the journey of life
The Independent
In the aquamarine waters off the paradise atolls of French Polynesia a diver comes face to face [...]

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