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PG and E Plans to Develop Up To 500MW of Solar Power in California

Pacific Gas and Electric Company has announced plans for a five-year program to develop up to 500 megawatts (MW) of clean solar photovoltaic (PV) power in its northern and central California service area

2 Mar 2009

Climate Change Evidence From Millions of Years Ago Points to an Underestimation of Current Climate Change Predictions

New temperature data and numerical climate model simulations contradict the long-held idea that global temperatures were steady in the greenhouse-to-icehouse transition 34 million years ago. This suggests that models in use now to predict climate change may be underestimating future polar warming

1 Mar 2009

Volunteers to Track Climate Change by Obeserving Flowers Blooming

Thousands of volunteers are taking part in a nationwide initiative to track climate change by recording the timing of flowering, leafing, and other plant life cycle events

1 Mar 2009

Hungary Loses Green Credibility By Propping Up Budget Rather Than Spending Carbon Credit Money on Renewable Energy

Hungary - a major seller of carbon credits– will weaken its credibility in the growing international carbon markets by using revenues to prop up its budget rather than green its energy production, WWF-Hungary has warned

1 Mar 2009

28 Million Scouts Get Behind Earth Hour

The Scouts, the world's largest youth movement with more than 28 million members in 160 countries, lead thousands of community groups around the world mobilising their supporters for Earth Hour, the global expression of a desire for serious and sustained action on climate change

1 Mar 2009

Abrupt Temperature Changes In the Last Ice Age Were Global

Very large and abrupt changes in temperature recorded over Greenland and across the North Atlantic during the last Ice Age were actually global in extent, according to an international team of researchers led by Cardiff University

26 Feb 2009

Polar Research Shows New Evidence of Global Environmental Change

It now appears clear that the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets are losing mass contributing to sea level rise. Warming in the Antarctic is much more widespread than it was thought prior to the IPY, and it now appears that the rate of ice loss from Greenland is increasing

25 Feb 2009