The atmosphere is to the earth as a layer of varnish is to a desktop globe. It is thin, fragile and essential for preserving the items on the surface.150 years of burning fossil fuel have overloaded the atmosphere to the point where the earth is ill. It now has a fever. Read the detailed article, Soothing Gaia’s Fever for an evocative account of that analogy. The items listed here detail progress on coordinating 6.5 billion people in the most critical project undertaken by humanity.Â
Carbon credits row could derail UN climate talks, says Brazil Head of Brazilian delegation says countries should not be allowed to carry over credits into second round of Kyoto protocol Share5 inShare.0 Email Fiona Harvey, environment correspondent guardian.co.uk, Sunday 2 December 2012 18.23 GMT The climate change talks are taking place in Doha, Qatar. Photograph: Continue Reading →
Polar ice sheets melting – in pictures Ice sheets covering Greenland and Antarctica are melting three times faster today than they were in the 1990s, according to a ‘definitive’ study of satellite data. These pictures show the different ways that melting occurs Share278 inShare0 Email guardian.co.uk, Thursday 29 November 2012 19.00 GMT Share Contact us Continue Reading →
Friends — Last week, we emailed to tell you about Global Power Shift (GPS). It’s a new initiative we’re undertaking to massively scale up the climate movement. Six hundred of us will meet in Turkey in June of 2013 to train and develop a coordinated strategy for the coming year. Then, we’ll go back to our Continue Reading →
Greenland and Antarctica ‘have lost 400bn tonnes of ice’ in 20 years • Landmark study by global team of scientists published• Finds melting polar ice has led to 11mm rise in sea level• Greenland losing ice mass at 5x rate of early 1990s Share51 inShare6 Email Damian Carrington The Guardian, Thursday 29 November 2012 19.04 Continue Reading →
Green news roundup: Doha talks, ivory industry and pesticides The week’s top environment news stories and green events • If you’re not already receiving this roundup, sign up here to get the briefing delivered to your inbox Environment editor guardian.co.uk, Thursday 29 November 2012 06.14 EST The eighteenth session of the Conference of the Parties Continue Reading →
Sea levels rising 60% faster than projected: studyRenewEconomyThe rate of sea–level rise in the past decades is greater than projected by the latest assessments of the IPCC, while global temperature increases in good agreement with its best estimates. This is shown by a study now published in the journal …See all stories on this topic Continue Reading →