Nasa to conduct Antarctic survey

Nasa is about to conduct an extensive survey of Antartica which will reveal the true effects of global warming on the continent to determine how sea levels will be affected in the future......

Grim predictions as 6.3 degree F temp rise forcast

It seems that the world is heading for a 6.3 F degree rise in temperature by the end of the century, even if the most stringent cuts are put in place in Copenhagen in December...

Arctic/Antarctic Melting

New evidence from satellites using the latest laser technology shows Greenland and Antarcitca to melting at an increasing rate. Meltwater from these land based galciers, will increase sea levels....

China To Agree Emissions Reductions

The Worlds largest emitter of CO2 is ready to reduce emissions and agree new climate deal, laying down challenge for USA....

Point of No Return? Inportance of Copenhagen

Professor Anderson talks about the importance of the Climate Change summit in Copenhagen.....

A taste of things to come?

Thick dust storms "red" out Sydney as freak weather hits country....

Slowdown in Arctic ice melt

2009 reveals a slowdown in Arctic ice melt over previous two years, but is this just a temporary blip...?

Bill Gates in bid to control hurricanes

Bill Gates invests in plan to reduce Hurricane strength by reducing surface ocean temperatures....

Fabled North-East Passage now navigable

The fabled North-East passage has become navigable for the first time in 100's of years, but Arctic sea ice is still some 900,000 km2 above 2007 Artic summer melt record, suggesting that it would have been possible to navigate the waterway in 2007 if someone had tried...?

Latest Arctic Sea loss data

The latest Artic Sea loss figures show that Artic Sea ice is at it's third lowest on record, but still some 900,000 km2 more than the lowest, set in August 2007...

World heads toward climate abyss says UN Chief

Ban Ki Moon, clearly concerned after his visit to the Arctic makes his thoughts heard in preparation for December climate conference

Geo-engineering projects given serious consideration

The Royal society consider Geo-engneering projects as a viable Plan B in fight against climate change...

Greenland to prosper as it's ice melts?

As Greenland's glaciers melt into the sea, raising sea levels, the continent of Greenland actually rises as the weight of the ice is released. Untold riches could lie underneath, waitng for the Greenlanders to exploit....

Warming Arctic triggers methane gas release

A warming Arctic is triggering methane gas to be relased from it's previously frozen and stabe state as warmer waters trigger its release. Each molecule of methane is twenty times more powerful than CO2 when talking about it's greenhouse gas warming potential...

Heavier Rainstorms now linked to global warming

Global warming will increase the intensity as a warmer atmosphere is able to retain more water vapour.

World's oceans warm

The worlds oceans are now the warmest on record and a full degree above 20th Century average temperatures..

Antarctic glaciers melting

The Pine Island glacier in Antartica seems to be melting at an unprecedented rate, despite global warming skeptics suggesting that Antartica is unaffected by global warming. The melting of Pine Island, will increase sea levels as it melts, listen to the video...

Global Warming mitigation

Ships that spout sea water from the ocean in order to form clouds to reflect sunlight in order to cool the ocean could work, scientists say..

Glaciers melt as global warming takes hold

Three glaciers that have been monitored by the US Geological Survey prove to have been melting since 1958 as a result of Global Warming...

Arctic Tundra releasing methane as area warms

The Arctic Tundra is warming resulting in increased growth of plants and weeds, resulting in darker heat absorbing areas, which will further warm and release greater amounts of global warming greenhouse gases, especially methane... read more.

G8 agree 80% CO2 emission cuts

The G8 Countries have agreed to cut carbon dioxide emissions by 80% by 2050 and for India and China to cut their emissions by 50% in an effort to keep temperatures from rising above 2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial, a figure which may cause dangerous climate change.... is it too late though..?

96 months to save the planet

According to the UK's Prince Charles we only have 96 months left to save the planet from economic and environmental collapse.....

Amazon Rainforest threat

The Amazon could lose as much as 40% of it's rainforest if tempratures increase to 2degrees above pre-industrial.... temperature has already increased by .74 degrees Celsius over the last 100 years....

Permafrost Problem

Scientists have doubled their estimates of the amount of carbon dioxide trapped within the permafrost which will escape as warming causes the permafrost in Northern latitudes to melt....

Missing sunspots will return!

Scientists, alarmed at the suns lack of sunspots of late seem to have discovered why the sun has been so inactive, when it should have been entering a period of sunspot activity... the sunspots and hence an increase in solar activity is set to return... .