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Boost for local renewable energy from new planning rules
A new wave of local renewable energy supply and community power schemes will get government backing today.
Mental Health Impacts of Climate Change
How the Next Victim of Climate Change Will Be Our Minds : Australia is suffering through its worst dry spell in a millennium. The outback has turned into a dust bowl, crops are dying off at fantastic rates, cities are r...
Micro–Wind assessment from BRE
The Building Research Establishment, in 'Micro-wind turbines in urban environments: an assessment', published on 30 November:
Climate change mission for chief scientist
After seven years in one of the most high-pressure jobs in government, Sir David King will on Monday hand over his role as chief scientist to John Beddington, a population biologist at Imperial College London.
New Climate Report: Port Cities Under Threat
'Ranking port cities with high exposure and vulnerability to climate extremes', published by the Organisation for Economic Cooperation & Development on 4 December, concludes that ...
US Candidates remain cool over climate change
The US administration's position on climate change was in the spotlight last weekend as its delegation was booed in the closing hours of the marathon United Nations meeting in Bali.
Windy Future for Manahoy
High on a mountainside outside of Mahanoy City, 13 wind turbines, each taller than the Statue of Liberty, dominate a landscape where veins of coal deep beneath the ground fueled the Industrial Revolution.
Pope Supports Caution on Climate Change
Pope Benedict XVI has launched a surprise attack on climate change prophets of doom, warning them that any solutions to global warming must be based on firm evidence and not on dubious ideology.
An Inefficient Truth : Global Action Plan Highlights IT
'An inefficient truth', published by the charity Global Action Plan on 3 December, says that the growing information and technology industry is responsible for about 2% of manmade CO2 annually, which is on a par with the...
Population Growth and the Environment
The global rate of human population growth peaked around 1963, but the number of people living on Earth�and sharing finite resources like water and food�has grown by more than two-thirds since then, topping out at over 6...