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Amazon under threat

December 15, 2004

The Amazon is currently caught between two destructive forces – deforestation and climate change.

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Cast Adrift

December 10, 2004

How the rich are leaving the poor to sink in a warming world.

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Millions at risk

December 06, 2004

A startling projection of how many additional millions of people will be at risk of water shortage, malaria, coastal flooding, and hunger under various global warming scenarios.

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Millions at risk: dangerous to whom?

December 06, 2004

There is a fundamental irony and injustice at the heart of the climate change problem. Today’s growing body of evidence of climate change indicates very clearly that the first and worst impacts of climate change are being felt by the poor in the developing world. The responsibility for the problem, however, lies elsewhere, primarily in the rich countries of the OECD but increasingly with rapidly industrializing countries.

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How much climate change can we bear?

October 22, 2004

The consequences of a two degree centigrade rise in global temperature and how to avoid it.

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Impacts of climate change on glaciers around the world

February 09, 2004

The Patagonian ice-fields of Chile and Argentina, the largest non-Antarctic ice masses in the Southern Hemisphere, are melting faster than any other glaciers on Earth. They have lost 42 cubic kilometres of ice every year over the past seven years, which is equivalent to the volume of ten thousand large football stadiums. Today, they account for nearly 10 per cent of global sea-level change caused by mountain glaciers, according to a new study by NASA and Chile's Centro de Estudios Cientificos, and the rate at which they are melting is accelerating.

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The Prestige Disaster: One Year On.

November 10, 2003

Far away from the press headlines, an almost silent battle is being fought between those who profit from the business of transporting hazardous substances by sea and those of us who defend drastic measures to prevent new oil slicks. Ever since the Prestige began to pour lethal fuel into the Atlantic one year ago, little has changed in legal terms. Although the European Union has forbidden the entry of single-hulled ships carrying heavy fuel into European ports, this type of fuel represents only around 5 percent of all the oil products that enter Europe. Nevertheless, the International Maritime Organisation (IMO) has already hit the roof over this timid initiative.

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