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Obama and Hu need to take the lead on tackling climate change

Press release | March 31, 2009 at 17:05

Presidents Barack Obama and Hu Jintao’s first meeting on 1 April, is a key opportunity for the world’s two largest greenhouse gas emitters to lead the way on tackling climate change.

G8 - Environment Nil!

G8 - Environment Nil!

Feature story | July 9, 2008 at 17:27

When you're in the business of saving the future - and you give yourself a specific deadline, such as 2050 - you need to make sure that every single day between then and now counts. Unfortunately, the G8 Summit was a waste of three whole days.

A Match Made in Car Industry Heaven?

A Match Made in Car Industry Heaven?

Feature story | April 10, 2008 at 0:00

We bring news of one of the biggest weddings of the year, between French President Nicolas Sarkozy and German Chancellor Angela Merkel.

Sarkozy marries Merkel, but screws the climate instead

Press release | April 10, 2008 at 11:52

A "wedding cortege" of the most-polluting German cars travelled along the Champs Elysée in Paris today, stopping in various showrooms to distribute invitations to the marriage of French President Nicolas Sarkozy and Germany's Chancellor Angela...

Carbon’s not the only bad guy in town

Carbon’s not the only bad guy in town

Blog entry by Caroline Chisholm | September 28, 2011

It’s easy to forget, with global attention focused on reducing CO 2 emissions, that carbon is not the only gas that’s turning up the heat for our planet’s atmosphere. And although most people are aware of the damaging effects of...

HFCs in the Copenhagen Deal

Publication | December 3, 2009 at 13:02

Hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs) have been increasingly used in the last decade or so as alternative refrigerants to ozone-damaging CFCs, which are now banned under the Montreal Protocol. Unfortunately, although considered ozone-friendly, HFCs are...

The Qori Kalis is disappearing at an alarming rate

The Qori Kalis is disappearing at an alarming rate

Image | April 1, 2000 at 1:00

The Qori Kalis is disappearing at an alarming rate: between 1998 and 2001 it retreated an average of 155 metres per year - an alarming 32 times faster than the average annual retreat from 1963 to 1978.

Grinnell Glacier in the USA's Glacier National Park

Grinnell Glacier in the USA's Glacier National Park

Image | April 1, 1914 at 1:00

Grinnell Glacier in the USA's Glacier National Park flows into the semi-arid high plains through the St Marys and South Saskatchewan Rivers through Canada Hudson's Bay.

Imja Glacier in the Himalayan Khumbu Range of Eastern Nepal

Imja Glacier in the Himalayan Khumbu Range of Eastern Nepal

Image | April 1, 1961 at 1:00

The Imja Glacier in the Himalayan Khumbu Range of Eastern Nepal, southeast of Mount Everest. This glacier is retreating at nearly 10 metres per year.

Equatorial glaciers rapidly retreating

Equatorial glaciers rapidly retreating

Image | April 1, 1906 at 1:00

The Orubare Glacier (or Elena Glacier) covers a face of Uganda's Mount Rwenzori on the border with the Democratic Republic of Congo. In 1906 this glacier was in one solid piece. Equatorial glaciers are rare and this legendary African glacier on...

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