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River Flow Management Key to Protecting Communities From Climate Change

Improved river flow management will be vital to protecting communities from the worst impacts of climate change and to achieving international goals on poverty reduction, according to a new report issued on the eve of World Water Week

16 Aug 2009

Warmest Global Ocean Surface Temperatures on Record Reported for July

The planet's ocean surface temperature was the warmest on record for July, breaking the previous high mark established in 1998

16 Aug 2009

Research Grant to Assist Carbon Capture, Nuclear Energy, Renewable Fuels, Electrical Energy Storage and Energy Harvesting

DoE grant to assist with carbon capture, nuclear energy, renewable fuels, electrical energy storage and energy harvesting research

13 Aug 2009

Research Into Climate Change and Carbon Storage Gets Major Boost

Research into minerals exploration, climate change, greenhouse gas technologies and poultry has received a major funding boost of AU$96.1 million under the latest round of the Australian Government’s Cooperative Research Centres (CRC) Program

12 Aug 2009

UPM Kymi Pulp Mill Succeeds in Cleaning Up Emissions and Chemicals

href="http://www.upm-kymmene.com" target=_blank>UPM Kymi pulp mill's new chemical recovery plant has succeeded as planned. The plant, started up in summer 2008, is top-class in terms of energy efficiency and its lo...

11 Aug 2009

Climate Change is the Biggest Challenge the World Faces, Says UN Chief

U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said Monday that climate change is the greatest challenge facing a world beset by crises and called on governments to reach a deal on the environment at a meeting in Denmark later this year

10 Aug 2009

New Zealand Sets Feeble Climate Change Target

The New Zealand Government’s announcement today that it will only tackle climate change if a shopping list of conditions are met is a clear example of the developed world’s lack of leadership on climate, Greenpeace warned today

10 Aug 2009

Climate Change Caused Biodiversity Booms and Busts in Ancient Plants and Mammals

A period of global warming from 53 million to 47 million years ago strongly influenced plants and animals, spurring a biodiversity boom in western North America, researchers from three research museums report in a paper published online this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

10 Aug 2009

UNIFEM Joins United Nations Seal the Deal Campaign on Climate Change

UNIFEM Executive Director Inés Alberdi has signed onto the United Nations Seal the Deal campaign, joining several other UN agencies and organizations that are encouraging governments to reach an ambitious and effective global climate agreement in Copenhagen this December

4 Aug 2009

Carbon Dioxide Emissions Inadequate for Climate Change Treaty

Current methods for estimating greenhouse gas emissions have limitations that make it difficult to monitor CO2 emissions and verify an international climate treaty

3 Aug 2009