Category Climate change

The Age newspaper in Australia has reported that the country’s resorts are planning to follow the American ski industry, with a campaign telling snowboarders and skiers that global warming will cut short their winter over the coming decades.

Ocean levels are rising twice as fast as they were 150 years ago, providing further evidence of man-made global warming.

Occasionally there is a tiny glimmer of hope that our planet might not turn to trash. During next week’s Kyoto Protocol conference, which runs parallel to the UN Climate Change Conference, a Quebec City researcher’s project on the isolation and…

Analysis of air bubbles trapped in ice taken from east Antarctica has revealed the stark comparison and the findings will be added to evidence of human interference in the Earth’s climate, which has been collected for next week’s United Nations’…

Mountain snows and alpine glaciers represent key reservoirs of fresh water for some 1.6 billion people worldwide. In 50 years, however, a warming planet is likely to disrupt many of these sources, leaving millions of people scrambling for additional supplies.…