30/3/2006 Africa’s soils are being depleted of nutrients. Africa’s farmland is rapidly becoming barren and incapable of sustaining the continent’s already hungry population, according to a report. Read the rest of this entry »
30/3/2006 BBC Data from nine research stations were used in the study. Winter air temperatures over Antarctica have risen by more than 2C in the last 30 years, a new study shows. Read the rest of this entry »
30/3/2006 BBC The cost of the UK’s nuclear waste clean-up programme could be more than £70bn, according to the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority NDA). The authority’s previous estimate of the cost was £56bn.
28/3/2006 BBC In the Liajiang Valley some 10,000 families are putting pigs manure to good use - to fuel methane stoves. Read the rest of this entry »
28/3/2006 BBC “International trends” have blocked the road to missions reductions. Read the rest of this entry »
23/3/2006 Greenland’s glaciers have been sliding faster towards the sea. A study in the US journal Science suggests a threshold triggering a rise in sea level of several metres could be reached before the end of the century. Read the rest of this entry »
14/3/2006 BBC By David Shukman science correspondent. Air samples have been taken from Colorado’s Rocky Mountains US climate scientists have recorded a significant rise in the concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, pushing it to a new record level. Read the rest of this entry »
5/3/2006 BBC A new weather station is expected to show the extent of melting from global warming in the Himalayas. Himalayan glaciers are ’melting fast’ . UN investigates Everest threat.
1/3/2006 BBC The global scientific body on climate change is expected to report soon that emissions from humankind are the only explanation for major changes on earth. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) formerly said greenhouse gases were “probably” to blame. Read the rest of this entry »