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A holiday at the end of the Earth
The effects of climate change are leading to a distinctive new form of 21st-century travel: global-warming tourism.
Positive Energy: Harnessing people power to prevent climate change
Barely a week goes by without a press headline warning us of the dangers we face from climate change. Behind the stories, real people are already being hit, with climate change now killing 150,000 people a year. The tech...
Green Guide for Health Care
The Green Guide for Health Care is a voluntary, self-certifying sustainable design toolkit tailored to the health care industry, offering tips and tools for adding healing design features, energy and water efficiency str...
Researchers 'seed' ocean with iron to soak up CO2
A research ship is about to begin a project around the Galapagos Islands, in the Pacific Ocean, that will highlight the importance of marine plankton in the fight against global warming and climate change.
Survey Finds Most Facility Managers Miss the Boat on Green Roofs
In a recent online survey conducted by Weston Solutions, a leading consumer-focused manufacturer, the majority of more than 2,500 facility managers across the U.S. were not well-versed on what green roofs are and how the...
Green Roof Industry Survey 2006
Since 2004, Green Roofs for Healthy Cities has surveyed the growth of green roof installations across North America. In 2006, the industry grew more than 24 percent, and Chicago and Washington, D.C. top the list for most...
Global rush to energy crops threatens to bring food shortages and increase poverty, says UN
The global rush to switch from oil to energy derived from plants will drive deforestation, push small farmers off the land and lead to serious food shortages and increased poverty unless carefully managed, says the most ...
April weather set to break record
The UK Met Office has released figures showing that this month is likely to be the warmest April since records began.
WWF names Europe's dirtiest power stations
A new ranking of Europe's worst climate polluting power stations, the "Dirty Thirty", is released today by WWF. The report shows the least efficient power stations in Europe with the biggest emissions of carbon dioxide.
Beware the carbon offsetting cowboys
People - from prime ministers to popstars - and businesses are paying to cancel out their impact on global warming.