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Climate change only one symptom of a stressed planet
In releasing its latest comprehensive report, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) focuses an important spotlight on the current state of the Earth’s climate. However, climate change is just one of the many symptoms exhibited by a planet under pressure from human activities, says a global research group. ... more
Campaigners call for tougher action on climate
Environment pressure groups have greeted the latest IPCC report on climate change with a universal call for much more urgent action to combat global warming which threatens human civilisation with increasing drought, flooding, storms and runaway sea rise. ... more
Evidence of human-caused global warming unequivocal
Changes in the atmosphere, the oceans, glaciers and ice caps show unequivocally that the Earth is warming, according to the first global assessment of climate change science in six years, The Environment News Service reports. ... more
Worldwide glacier melt continues to rise
Mountain glaciers around the world continue to melt, with new, still tentative figures for 2005 indicating a further average loss in thickness by a set of reference glaciers over the past two and a half decades amounting to 9.6 metres. ... more
Young people fear for the future says survey
In 25 years the oil will run out and tigers will be extinct in the wild, according to a uniquely wide-ranging survey in the UK of young people's expectations of the future. ... more
Lukewarm response to Bush statement on climate change
President Bush won lukewarm praise, or outright condemnation, from around the world, following his comments on climate change in his State of the World address this week. ... more
70,000 threatened by rising seas
Rising seas, caused by global warming, have for the first time washed an inhabited island off the face of the Earth, Geoffey Lean reported in The Independent on Sunday. ... more
2006 was one of warmest years
by Michael Renner
Humanity confronts a continuous rise in global temperatures, a changing and less predictable climate, and potentially huge dislocations - and 2006 provided further evidence of the warming trend, says Michael Renner of the Wordlwatch Institute. ... more
Drought 'will spread across a third of planet'
Drought, threatening the lives of millions, will spread across half the land surface of the Earth in the coming century because of global warming, according to predictions from Britain's leading climate scientists. This report is by Michael McCarthy, Environment Editor of the Independent newspaper. ... more
How the world is subsidizing climate change
by Lester R. Brown
Each year the world's taxpayers provide an estimated $700 billion of subsidies for environmentally destructive activities, such as fossil fuel burning, overpumping aquifers, clearcutting forests, and overfishing. An Earth Council study, Subsidizing Unsustainable Development, observes that "there is something unbelievable about the world spending hundreds of billions of dollars annually to subsidize its own destruction." ... more
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