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IEMA Launches Principles on Climate Change Mitigation and EIA
IEMA recognises that EIA has a key role to play in assisting in the UK's efforts to minimise greenhouse gas emissions and adapt to our changing climate.
Canadian logging campaigners end protest with unprecedented forest truce
Environmental action groups called a halt to decades of protests and have come to a truce with logging companies in a deal that will preserve an enormous swath of forest in Canada's northern wilderness. The groups say it...
New study shows 'significant' rise in ocean temperature
The world's oceans are warming up and the rise is both significant and real, according to one of the most comprehensive studies into marine temperature data gathered over the past two decades.
Costa Rican named as new climate change chief
Christiana Figueres of Costa Rica has been appointed to lead UN efforts to combat climate change. She will take the reins of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) from Yvo de Boer, who announced that he ...
Oil from ruptured rig spreads toward Florida
Thick oil pouring into the Gulf of Mexico has breached the fragile marshlands of Louisiana and appears to have been picked up by a powerful current that could carry the crude as far as Florida and Cuba.
Social media campaign leads to responsibly sourced palm oil
Greenpeace has claimed social media led to its success in a campaign that linked global food giant Nestle's chocolate bar KitKat to deforestation in Indonesian rainforests and the destruction of orang-utan habitats.
Dolphin and seal damage warning over wind farm expansion
A new generation of offshore wind and tidal farms could produce �14 billion of electricity every year for Scotland but pose a "significant" threat to wildlife, the fishing industry and islanders' ferries, an official rep...
Climate change threatens health by Mediterranean
People in cities around the Mediterranean including Athens, Rome and Marseilles are likely to suffer most in Europe from ever more scorching heatwaves this century caused by climate change, according to scientists.
Iceland volcano has spewed 250 million cubic metres of ash
Iceland's Eyjafjoell volcano has emitted massive amounts of ash since it began erupting a month ago and there is no end in sight, experts have said.
Getting real forecasts for China's future coal use
From 1980 to 2000 China quadrupled its Gross Domestic Product (GDP) whilst only doubling its energy use. New research has indicated that this trend will not continue and China is likely to experience much greater energy ...