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Tony Blair: 'Heavy price' for climate inaction
World leaders may pay a heavy price in history if they fail to tackle global warming, Tony Blair has warned. He said politicians did not have to wait for chaotic climate change in order for them to act.
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Power of persuasion creates critical mass for climate action
People cannot be forced to accept the fact of climate change. But people are ultimately persuaded by rational argument and the objectivity of science.
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Government's strategy on climate change? Just wait and see what U.S. will do
'Canada so far easily the worst performing country on climate change in the rich world,' says expert.
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Geography maps life in an era of global turmoil
Students of geography would know that the world's poorest people are already suffering due to climate change and will continue to suffer the most with more prolonged droughts, more severe floods and storms, less food and more disease.
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Climate change and food security
Food security is going to be the politics of climate change. The country that has food and water will rule the world, a few decades from now. Keeping in tune with the problems, governments have begun to promote research in agriculture, to generate solutions for climate change adaptation.
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Diverse water sources key to food security
Increasingly erratic rainfall patterns related to climate change pose a major threat to food security and economic growth, water experts said on Monday, arguing for greater investment in water storage.
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World facing mass extinction: Australian scientist
Climate change, over-fishing and other human impacts have pushed the oceans to the brink of a mass extinction, which means tens of millions of years before a full recovery, an Australian scientist told media on Monday.
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10 of 18 penguin species experience further serious population decline
Ten of the planet's eighteen penguin species have experienced further serious population decline, warn Penguin biologists from around the world. Among the major factors contributing to the decline are, climate change, over fishing, chronic oil pollution and predation by introduced mammals.
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Bee decline already having dramatic effect on pollination of plants
Researchers have found that pollination levels of some plants have dropped by up to 50 per cent in the last two decades. The "pollination deficit" could see a dramatic reduction in the yield from crops.
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Bjørn Lomborg: $100bn a year needed to fight climate change
The world's most high-profile climate change sceptic is to declare that global warming is "undoubtedly one of the chief concerns facing the world today" and "a challenge humanity must confront", in an apparent U-turn that will give a huge boost to the embattled environmental lobby.
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