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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

Pine Trees May Benefit From High Levels of Carbon Dioxide

Pine trees grown for 12 years in air one-and-a-half times richer in carbon dioxide than today's levels produced twice as many seeds of at least as good a quality as those growing under normal conditions

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

Carbon Capture Pilot Plant Commences Operation

Babcock and Wilcox Power Generation Group has completed construction and has begun pilot-scale testing of carbon dioxide control technology at its state-of-the-art Regenerable Solvent Absorption Technology (RSATTM) facility

30 Jul 2009

Coal Power Industry Told to Stop Deception and Pleading Over Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme

The Climate Institute has called on the coal industry and other big polluters to end their campaigns of relentless special pleading and deception over the Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme as it threatened to stifle growing jobs and profits in a clean energy economy

30 Jul 2009

CSIRO Scientist Honored For Greenhouse Gas Storage Work

CSIRO scientist Dr Martin Leahy has been honoured for his work in carbon dioxide storage technologies, receiving a Victorian Fellowship award and an Australian French Association for Science and Technology (AFAS) FEAST-France Fellowship top up

30 Jul 2009

Global Cooling the Likely Result of Nuclear War

While global warming looms large as a serious threat, a leading physicist visiting Sydney this week says we should be just as concerned about the catastrophe that would result from widespread global cooling following a nuclear war

29 Jul 2009

Greenhouse Gas Emissions Targeted by Transportation Website

A new website is being launched by the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials to highlight strategies to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from transportation

27 Jul 2009

Climate Change, Malnutrition and Poverty Could All Be Solved By Widespread 'Green' Agricultural Practices

The World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF) and the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) are calling for the widespread uptake of 'green' agricultural practices that will deliver multiple benefits to the world's rapidly growing populations - from combating climate change and eradicating poverty to boosting food production and providing sustainable sources of timber

26 Jul 2009