Tasmania: Conservationists arrested protesting logging in Tasmania and...
Conservationists have today participated in a protest on a Hobart wharf in Tasmania, where a vessel is being loaded for the Malaysian logging company Ta Ann. The protest highlights the ongoing loss of...
View ArticleIndian monsoon more likely to fail as global warming accelerates - Climate...
A new predictive study for future monsoon failure in India says that full season failure will become much more likely in the next two hundred years. Failure of the Indian Seasonal Monsoon (ISM) has...
View ArticleThe Link between Emission Cuts, Right to Development and Transformation of...
Statement from Focus on the Global South.Humanity is running out of time. If there are no deep and real cuts in the next five years the impacts of climate change will lead to a en lire plus
View ArticlePhilippines: Death toll from Typhoon Bopha rises as climate negotiator...
Update 8 December: Typhoon Bopha has turned back on the Philippines in the South China Sea and is expected to slam into the northern tip of the main island of Luzon on Sunday, threatening the Ilocos...
View ArticleIncrease in cyclone frequency in Indonesia blamed on climate change
Tropical Cyclone Iggy: Image Courtesy NASA, January 2012Cyclone frequency in Indonesia in 2012 is 28 times that for the year 2002, according to the Indonesian Disaster Management Agency BNPB, with the...
View ArticleChina's coral reef ecosystems suffer devastating 80 per cent decline
Coral Atoll in South China Sea: Image by Storm Crypt - Boomerang Island - part of the disputed Spratly Islands in South China Sea - from Flickr used under Creative commons licence (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)In...
View ArticleMangrove forests threatened by Climate Change in the Sundarbans of Bangladesh...
A new study has found the Sundarban coast retreating up to 200 metres in a single year due to rapidly deteriorating health of the world's largest Mangrove forest in the Sundarbans, the Ganges delta...
View ArticlePermafrost climate tipping point threshold at 1.5 degrees - Siberian caves...
At what point might we trigger a permafrost tipping point? New research from the caves of Siberia points to a threshold temperature of just 1.5 degrees celsius. At that temperature we could see large...
View ArticlePhilippines: Climate campaigners expose dirty coal, demand shift to renewable...
Philippines protest on Earth Day 2013Philippines, 22 April 2013. 300-strong climate activists and anti-coal advocates stormed the Department of Energy to voice out their opposition to coal mines and...
View ArticleChina: Super Typhoon Usagi drawing energy from record warm waters
Super Typhoon Usagi. NOAASuper Typhoon Usagi is the strongest tropical cyclone storm on a global level this year, bringing destruction to the Northern Philippines, Taiwan, Hong Kong and southern China....
View ArticleSuper typhoon Haiyan strongest on record with over 10,000 feared dead in...
Super typhoon HaiyanOn the eve of the annual United Nations Framework Climate Change Convention (UNFCCC) meeting in Warsaw Poland, an extreme weather disaster has struck the Philippines with...
View ArticlePhilippines negotiator: "time to take action. We need an emergency climate...
Philippines lead negotiator Yeb SanoHalf a world away from the devastation of Typhoon Haiyan, the Philippines delegation is in Warsaw, Poland, for the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate...
View ArticlePhilippines: Time for turning tears into anger says Walden Bello
Walden Bello is a Filipino author, academic, and political analyst.en lire plus
View ArticlePhilippine groups demand action on climate finance, loss and damage in Warsaw...
Philippine groups demand action on climate finance, loss and damage in Warsaw climate talksTyphoon Haiyan solidarity should turn to climate action, groups say.en lire plus
View ArticleTyphoon Haiyan: This is a climate crime
By Rodne Galicha. See original article in Sydney Morning Herald published November 15, 2013 Typhoon Haiyan speaks to us of climate inaction, injustice, apathy and irresponsibility.en lire plus
View ArticleChina roars ahead with Renewables
By John Mathews, Macquarie Graduate School of Management and Hao Tan, University of NewcastleChina’s National Energy Administration (NEA) has just released some remarkable data on the addition of new...
View ArticleIndia innovating with solar PV, poised to become a global solar leader
India is building solar canals: Image meme by GreenpeaceYesterday I saw an image shared on my Facebook timeline. It was of solar PV panels installed over an irrigation canal in India. This has the...
View ArticleImportance of Mangroves, nature's shield against typhoons and tsunami
MangrovesBy Lindsay Stringer, University of Leeds and Steven Orchard, University of LeedsFollowing typhoon Haiyan, the Philippines’ Department for Environment and Natural Resources has earmarked around...
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