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Climate criminals lurking at India talks

They're back! Last year the Bush-led US government walked away from the Kyoto Protocol. As a result, it took heroic efforts by other countries to salvage this world-wide effort to address climate change. But after their dramatic exit from the Protocol, what are the Americans doing in New Delhi now as negotiations continue?

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Investigation of Exxon front group

Did conservative elements in the White House provoke an Exxon front group to sue EPA to suppress a report on climate change? That's the question that two State Attorney Generals have asked US Attorney General John Ashcroft to investigate, after Greenpeace uncovered a routine email in a Freedom of Information Act request.

Greenpeace activists display 10 model wind turbines on the premises of a nuclear power plant in Penly, France in protest at the French government's decision to build another reactor on the site. Enlarge Image

No to new nukes: go wind

Since the French power authority has refused to build wind farms, we built our own this morning on the grounds of a nuclear power plant in Penly, France. We put ten wind turbines up to protest the French government decision to build another nuclear reactor on the site, despite a large nuclear energy overcapacity and the far more environmentally and economically sane option of investing in wind energy.

Over one million tonnes of oil were spilled into the world's oceans during the 1990s Enlarge Image

Pay up, Exxon

When the Exxon Valdez ran aground in 1989, it was said that lawyers not yet born would argue the case. Those lawyers are 15-year-olds today. We'll make another prediction: lawyers not yet born will be taking Exxon to court again in the future. The charge will be negligent asphyxiation of our planet.

Greenpeace activists in 19 countries demonstrated in 2003 in front of Russian Embassies urging President Putin to sign the Kyoto Protocol. Enlarge Image

Kyoto saved: not the planet

The Russian Parliament voted to ratify the Kyoto Protocol in a body blow to George W Bush's opposition to action on climate change.

A young girl living next to the sea, on the South Pacific island of Kiribati, watches the sea water during a 'king tide' wash over a wall built by her family to protect their land from erosion by the encroaching sea. Enlarge Image

King tide pummels Kiribati

Less than a week before the Kyoto Protocol enters into force, the tiny island nation of Kiribati is ravished by a 'king tide' -- an example of the kind of sea-level rise we can expect to see more of as global temperatures increase.

Walrus on ice floe; Greenpeace tour investigating climate change effects, Chukchi Sea, Alaska. Enlarge Image

Ice melts as globe warms

The cryosphere is that part of the Earth made of frozen water and soil: Iceworld, if you will. And according to a new study to be published in January, it's a world that is vanishing rapidly, with potentially devastating consequences.

Jorge Quinteros at the HPS31 glacier viewpoint holding the photo taken during his expedition in 1955 showing the extent of the melt. Enlarge Image

Patagonia revisited

The icefields in Patagonia are suffering from the fastest glacial retreat on Earth caused by global warming. Jorge Quinteros who first visited the area during an expedition 50 years ago, joined the Artic Sunrise to witness firsthand the speed of the devastation.

Puzzlin Evidence: who is this man, and how many nuclear weapons does he have? Enlarge Image

Nuclear proliferation starts at home

While the glare of the world's media is focused upon the release of Mordechai Vanunu after 18 years in prison for revealing the world's most open secret - that Israel has the bomb - diplomats from all over the world are preparing for an important, little reported, international nuclear weapons control conference deep in the bowels of the UN in New York. And while the conference may not be secret, a whistleblower could certainly reveal much about the treaty's dark underside that most people don't know, and which may someday hurt them.

15,000 postcards from the public calling for renewable energy are delivered in a ball of ice to the Bonn Renewables conference. While there was some progress at the conference it still left much to do to tackle global warming. Enlarge Image

The Solar Generation

Who are we? Young people who want to change the world! What do we want? Renewable Energy! Make no mistake - the world is heading for climate disaster if we don't change our dirty energy ways soon. The young people of the Solar Generation project don't want to be living in a disaster of our making. They are campaigning now for the switch to clean renewable energy across the globe.

Local resident contemplates the roof of his home perched on a nearby tree after Hurricane Charley. Enlarge Image

Extreme weather warnings

Hurricane devastation in the US, flash floods in Japan and a UK village washed into the sea. As climate change gathers pace, devastation caused by extreme weather is becoming more common. Take a visual tour of storm and flood destruction.

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Key findings of the Pentagon Report (source: The Observer)

  • Future wars will be fought over the issue of survival rather than religion, ideology or national honour.
  • By 2007 violent storms smash coastal barriers rendering large parts of Holland inhabitable.
  • In California the delta island levees in the Sacramento River area are breached, disrupting the aqueduct system transporting water from north to south.
  • Between 2010 and 2020 Europe suffers an average annual temp drop of 6F degrees. Weather patterns in Britain begin to resemble Siberia.
  • Nuclear arms proliferation is inevitable. Japan, South Korea, and Germany develop nuclear-weapons capabilities, as do Iran, Egypt, and North Korea.
  • A 'significant drop' in the planet's ability to sustain its present population will become apparent over the next 20 years.
  • Rich nations like the US and Europe would become 'virtual fortresses' to prevent millions of migrants fleeing flooded or starving lands.
  • Deaths from war and famine run into the millions until the planet's population is reduced to a point the earth can support.
  • Access to water becomes a major battleground. Nile, Danube and the Amazon are all mentioned as high risk.
  • Europe will face huge internal struggles as it copes with massive numbers of migrants washing up on its shores.
  • Bangladesh becomes nearly uninhabitable because of a rising sea level, which contaminates inland water supplies.
Read the full report here.