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Friday 30 October, 2009 (Climate change)
The EU has agreed a conditional deal on how to help other nations fight global warming, ahead of a key climate summit, but set no figure on what it would pay.
The EU agreed climate change would need 100bn euros ($148bn; £90bn) a year by 2020, and would pay its "fair share", conditional on other nations.
UK PM Gordon Brown said the deal, which came after a deadlock on cost sharing was broken, was a "bold proposal".
However, Green groups...
Source: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/8319741.stm
Thursday 22 October, 2009 (Poverty)
The Ethiopian government has asked the international community for emergency food aid for 6.2 million people.
The request came at a meeting of donors to discuss the impact of a prolonged drought affecting parts of East Africa.
The UN's World Food Programme says $285m (£173m) will be needed in the next six months. Some aid officials say the numbers of hungry could rise.
Aid agency Oxfam has called for a new approach to tackling the risk of disaster in ...
Source: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/8298553.stm
Friday 9 October, 2009 (Climate change)
The latest round of UN climate talks in Bangkok has ended with deep divisions over the shape of a new global treaty.
Developing countries want an extension of the Kyoto Protocol; but developed nations are arguing for a completely new agreement.
Poorer countries and environment groups accuse the west of lacking ambition.
There are now only five negotiating days left until the opening of the UN summit in Copenhagen in December that is supposed to finalise the new t...
Source: http://www.smh.com.au/national/sydneys-1b-rubbish-bin-20091008-goz8.html
Thursday 8 October, 2009 (Waste)
SYDNEY households throw out more than $600 million worth of fresh produce every year - and that does not include leftovers, which account for another $182 million in the bin, university research has found.
The $603 million fresh food waste is close to the $660 million combined income of all the farms in the metropolitan basin, the University of Western Sydney's Urban Research Centre has calculated.
''Sydney is such a rich consumer society that it happily thr...
Source: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/8267686.stm
Tuesday 22 September, 2009 (Pollution)
Three-quarters of rivers in England and Wales fall below a new European environmental standard, according to a report from the Environment Agency.
But the report also says that water quality has improved for the 19th year in a row, and that wildlife is returning to a number of rivers.
Environmental groups want tougher action as only five of the 6,000 rivers surveyed are classified as pristine.
The agency announced plans to improve more stretches of river by 2...
Source: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/8257766.stm
Wednesday 16 September, 2009 (Climate change)
By Richard Black
Environment correspondent, BBC News website
The authors believe climate change will increase rates of malnutrition
Failure to agree a new UN climate deal in December will bring a "global health catastrophe", say 18 of the world's professional medical organisations.
Writing in The Lancet and the British Medical Journal, they urge doctors to "take a lead" on the climate issue.
In a separate editorial, the jou...
Source: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8236797.stm
Friday 4 September, 2009 (Climate change)
Arctic temperatures are now higher than at any time in the last 2,000 years, research reveals. Source: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/london/8222488.stm Wednesday 26 August, 2009 (Activism) About 1,000 climate change protesters are making their way to Blackheath in south-east London where they plan to set up camp for a week. Source: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/london/8221283.stm Wednesday 26 August, 2009 (Activism) Police have promised a low-key approach to planned climate change protests this week to avoid trouble that flared during the G20 summit. Source: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8221132.stm Wednesday 26 August, 2009 (Endangered species) By Judith Burns
Changes to the Earth's orbit drove centuries of cooling, but temperatures rose fast in the last 100 years as human greenhouse gas emissions rose.
Scientists took evidence from ice cores, tree rings and lake sediments.
Writing in the journal Science, they say this confirms that the Arctic is very sensitive both to changes in solar heating and to greenhouse warming.Activists gather at climate camp
Activists had been gathering in central London waiting to swoop on a site kept secret by organisers. The protesters were informed by text and Twitter.
The site was chosen because it is within view of the City and near the River Thames, said organisers.
Police said: "We are standing off and allowing people to set up camp...Police prepare for green protests
The location of a Climate Camp will not be announced by demonstrators until noon. A week of protests intend to disrupt targets in London.
Organiser Natalie Swift said: "Direct action is the aim - we are trying to disrupt the climate criminals."
It will be the first big test of the policing of protests since the...'Extinction threat' to flying fox
Science and environment reporter, BBC News
flying fox
Scientists attached collars to the bats to track their movements by satellite
Scientists are urging the government of Malaysia to ban the hunting of the world's largest fruit bat.
Researchers say the large flying fox will be wiped out on the Malaysian peninsula if the current unsustainable level of hunting continues.
Writing in the Journal of Applied Ecology they say ...