Obama picks nobel prize winner physist for environment

Steven Chu  is an American experimental physicist and, President-elect Barack Obama's choice for Secretary of Energy. He is known for his research in laser cooling and trapping of atoms, which won him...

Scottish Climate Bill Proposed, Aggressive Reductions Promised

The Scottish Government has proposed a new climate change bill that seeks a drastic reduction in GHG emissions. "The targets in the Scottish Climate Change Bill will include a 50% reduction in greenhouse gas...

Al Gore waves off official role

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Climate change may uproot 6 million annually:UN

It is areality that climate is all about change, it changes in every second.It is supportive to human existance after the same process of change.But the speed with which it is changing is alarming, this normal...

London National Climate Change March

"London National Climate Change March Almost 4000 marchers, along with several hundred cyclists, demonstrated in London on Saturday 6 December, marching from Grosvenor Square along Piccadilly, past...

Climate Change Now the Main Driver of Natural Disasters

"Most natural disasters today are linked to climate change, says the UN emergency relief coordinator. From 1988 through 2007, over 75 percent of all disaster events were climate-related and accounted for 45...

Climate solutions from Canada's youth

The Canadian Youth Delegation head to Poland for climate change talks

Canada's Progress at the United Nations Conference on Climate Change, Poland

Canada decided to appear in a better way, the conference in Poland just started to find a follow-up for the Kyoto protocol 2012 "POZNAN, POLAND, Dec 01, 2008 (MARKET WIRE via COMTEX) -- The Government of Canada is...

Carbon Emissions by rich nations up by 10% in 16 yrs

Despite all the promises Developed nations have not been able to cut down their carbon emission. In fact green house gas emission of the developed countires have increased leading the world to tipping point. This...

India to host Live Earth 2008 on December 7

"On December 7, 2008, Mumbai will host Live Earth 2008, this year’s concert for a climate in crisis"

Obama repeats vow to move rapidly on climate issues

" Speaking to a bipartisan group of governors by video on Tuesday, the president-elect said that despite the weakening economy, he had no intention of softening or delaying his aggressive targets for reducing...

The Animals and Plants We Cannot Live Without

"Nearly 17,000 species are now considered to be threatened with extinction and 869 species are classed as extinct or extinct in the wild on the International Union for Conservation of Nature's Red List. In...

Current warming sharpest climate change in 5,000 years: study

"This NASA image received in February 2006 shows the calving front, or break-off point into the ocean, of Helheim Glacier""Research on Arctic and North Atlantic ecosystems shows the recent warming trend counts...

Legarda to UN: ‘Don’t lose focus on climate change’

Attractive, eloquent and intelligent- These words are most often used to describe broadcast journalist and senatorial reelectionist Loren Legarda- Leviste... Looking at the list of her academic, media and...

Al Gore in The New York Times: The Climate for Change

Environmentalist Al Gore has written an inspring piece in The New York Times that highlights the immediate necessity that humans begin a resuce of civilization from the rapid threat posed by the climate crisis. He...

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