John Vidal
WARSAW: Most of the world’s coal reserves should be left in the ground to avoid catastrophic global warming, the...
Published 20 Nov, 2013 07:24am
LONDON: Air pollution from traffic and industry is dangerously high in east London, according to tests by local...
Published 06 Oct, 2013 07:12am
INDIA’S breakneck pace of industrialisation is causing a public health crisis with 80-120,000 premature deaths and 20m new asthma cases a year due to air pollution from coal power plants, a Greenpeace report warns.
Published 12 Mar, 2013 12:02am
THE world’s climate could be hijacked by a rogue country or wealthy individual firing small particles into the stratosphere, claims a warning that comes from a sober report from the World Economic Forum (WEF).
Published 10 Jan, 2013 12:00am
AN explosion of car use has made fast-growing Asian cities the epicentre of global air pollution and become, along with obesity, the world's fastest growing cause of death according to a major study of global diseases.
Published 19 Dec, 2012 12:00am
LONDON, Aug 23: Arctic sea ice is set to reach its lowest ever recorded extent as early as this weekend, in “dramatic changes” signalling that man-made global warming is having a major impact on the polar region.
Published 24 Aug, 2012 02:55am
AIR pollution is prematurely killing 13,000 people a year in Britain compared with fewer than 2,000 deaths a year from road accidents, a major study from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has
Published 23 Apr, 2012 12:01am
LONDON: Half of all households in Britain could face water restrictions unless exceptionally heavy and prolonged rain falls by April, water companies and the environment agency have warned
Published 16 Feb, 2012 08:31pm
LONDON: The year 2011 is another ecologically tumultuous year with greenhouse gases rise to record levels, Arctic sea ice nearly equalling 2007’s record melt, and temperatures the 11th highest ever recorded.
Published 23 Dec, 2011 09:40pm
IN a first attempt to link financial costs to emissions from large power stations, refineries, waste plants and factories, the European Environment
Published 26 Nov, 2011 12:55am
LONDON Artificial meat grown in vats may be needed if the 9 billion people expected to be alive in 2050 are to be...
Published 18 Aug, 2010 12:00am
LONDON: Artificial meat grown in vats may be needed if the 9 billion people expected to be alive in 2050 are to be...
Published 18 Aug, 2010 12:00am
OUT in the real world Russia is burning, Pakistan and China are grappling with floods and mudslides, and millions of...
Published 11 Aug, 2010 12:00am
LONDON Giant hydroelectric dams being built or planned in remote areas of Brazil, Ethiopia, Malaysia, Peru and ...
Published 10 Aug, 2010 12:00am
TWELVE Russian scientists famously chose to starve to death rather than eat the unique collection of seeds and ...
Published 10 Aug, 2010 12:00am
BONN The waste-pickers who scour the world`s rubbish dumps and daily recycle thousands of tonnes of metal, paper and...
Published 06 Aug, 2010 12:00am
WHEN BP`s chief Tony Hayward said in May that the Gulf oil spill was “tiny in relation to the total water volume” — ...
Published 19 Jul, 2010 12:00am
WASHINGTON Last month was the hottest June ever recorded worldwide and the fourth consecutive month that the ...
Published 18 Jul, 2010 12:00am
THE UN is set to pay billions of pounds of public money to giant energy companies to build 20 heavily polluting...
Published 16 Jul, 2010 12:00am
GREENHOUSE gas emissions from rich countries fell a record seven per cent in 2009 because of the recession, but the...
Published 03 Jul, 2010 12:00am
