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Rural Americans Views on the Environment Divided Along Religious Lines

Reflecting the heterogeneous nature of rural America, rural Americans are divided – primarily along religious lines – on their perspectives of environmental conservation and climate change, a new brief from the Carsey Institute finds.

20 Oct 2008

Tommy Hilfiger Group to Host Al Gore's The Climate Project European Summit

The Climate Project announces that it will hold the first-ever summit in Europe of Al Gore's Climate Project

20 Oct 2008

Mapping Boreal Forests With Radar From Space

How best to map 'boreal' or northern forest with spaceborne radar is the focus of an ESA campaign currently underway in northern Sweden

20 Oct 2008

Energy Revolution in Sardinia Started by Greenpeace

Sardinian authorities have promised to revise the region's energy plans to meet EU climate protection targets, following a Greenpeace blockade at the E.ON owned Fiume Santo coal-fired power station to protest planned expansion of climate changing coal capacity in the region

20 Oct 2008

34 Million Year Model Shows Sensitivity of Earth to CO2 and Global Warming

In a new model of atmospheric carbon dioxide levels, sea level variation, Northern Hemisphere ice sheets and Antarctic ice over the past 34 million years climatologist Robert DeConto and colleagues cast new light on estimates of polar ice volume and the relationship to sea level. Their model has implications for understanding future effects of global warming

20 Oct 2008

Turning a 1930s Home into an Energy Efficient House of the Future

A three year research project is about to start at The University of Nottingham that will help people living in 1930s Semi's to meet the Government’s ambitions to reduce CO2 emissions from homes

20 Oct 2008

WWF Releases Greenprint for Presidential Candidates

WWF-US has released a "Greenprint" agenda, a policy roadmap for the next US president to address global threats to environmental, social and political stability in four key areas

16 Oct 2008

Animals Responding to Climate Change and Biodiversity Loss

Climate change is one of the greatest environmental threats facing the planet and is driving biodiversity loss, affecting both individual species and their ecosystems

15 Oct 2008

WWF Calls on European Governments Not to Allow Financial Crisis to Overcome Importance of Adressing Climate Change

WWF has launched an appeal to the French Presidency of the European Union and to all European governments not to let the financial crisis undermine the need to reach an agreement on a solid package of measures to address climate change before the end of the year

15 Oct 2008

Climate Change Online Media Toolkit Focused on Climate Change Launched by University of Maryland

The University of Maryland, one of the country’s leading climate change research institutions, has launched a new Web site, Research at Maryland – Climate Change - - a media toolkit that provides a comprehensive collection of climate-related resources found at Maryland and around the world, as well as direct access to internationally recognized experts

15 Oct 2008