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Country Takes Carbon Emission Debate to UK
A team of five senior government officers and private sector players will next week meet executives of the UK-based Tesco supermarket chain over the raging food miles controversy. The controversy that threatens to reduce...
Garden Centre axes eco–unfriendly patio heaters
Garden centre chain Wyevale will stop selling a raft of environmentally unfriendly but lucrative products, including gas-powered outdoor patio heaters, it announced today.
Global Scientists Can't Win
The drafting of reports by the world's pre-eminent group of climate scientists is an odd process. For months scientists contributing to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change tussle over the evidence. Nothing gets...
Africans Must Ratify Kyoto to Slow Desert Expansion – Conference
An international desertification conference concluded here Wednesday with a call to all African countries to ratify the Kyoto Protocol, to help slow the rapid expansion of deserts on the continent, AFP reported Wednesday...
Ford Aims High and Thinks Big
At an Amsterdam Car Conference last week, Ford's Executive VP Lewis Booth called global warming "one of the biggest challenges facing our planet". He outlined Ford's solutions to the climate problem: thinking big.
Life returns to a dead sea
Seen from space, the Aral Sea looks like a collapsed pair of lungs and a sliver of liver that have atrophied in the fierce central Asian sun. Once the world's fourth largest source of inland water, the lake has shrunk to...
UK dairy summit to tackle environment issues
Growing concerns over the food industry's impact on climate change have prompted a dairy industry conference on farming and the environment in the UK.
Retreating Himalayan icefields threatening drought in Bangladesh
Notorious for its annual floods, Bangladesh may seem the last place in the world to worry about a drying up of the rivers that flow from the Himalayas. But the country is as much at risk from drought as it is from floodi...
Coal comeback pushes up UK emissions
The UK's carbon emissions rose by an estimated 1.25% last year, according to provisional figures published today, but the environment secretary, David Miliband, insisted the government is still on track to meet its Kyoto...
Industry unable to meet UK demand for renewable power
A growing gap is emerging between supply and demand for electricity produced from renewable energy sources in the UK with production expected to fall short in 2007, according to a survey by Datamonitor.