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PLAYING SATURDAY AFTERNOON SPORT was unpleasant when I grew up in the 1970s. There were no air pollution inspectors on duty at weekends and heavy industry operated with impunity. Driving [...]

THE WORLD OF ENERGY IS CHANGING. Currently we have around $8 billion invested in energy projects at the advanced planning stages, and 93 per cent of this investment is in [...]

THE INITIALLY STRIKING OBSERVATION was the sophistication of the average Brit's understanding of climate change. Four years ago, discussing climate change in Australia was like discussing politics--a no-go zone unless [...]

Scientists are linking a rise in new and previously suppressed infectious diseases with the dramatic environmental changes now sweeping the planet. Loss of forests, road and dam building, the spread [...]

Taxis in London will have to meet tough new anti-pollution standards as part of the Mayor of London's plan for the United Kingdom capital to become a low-emission zone by [...]

Strong new evidence shows that ocean temperatures are rising because of human activity, and the impact on people and ecosystems worldwide could be severe, scientists on a American Association for [...]

Researchers at the Arnold Arboretum in Boston have established that the spring-flowering trees and shrubs bloomed, on average, eight days earlier from 1980 to 2002 than they did from 1900 [...]

The Australian Institute of Engineers found that their members strongly favour ratifying the Kyoto treaty and introducing emissions trading, favour renewable energy over 'sustainable coal', and are dubious about geosequestration. [...]

Mountain glaciers are also melting and several of them may disappear entirely over the next twenty years. Cotopaxi Volcano (pictured) alone lost 31 percent of its ice cover between 1976 [...]

A 14 year long study off the coat of California has found that although sea cucumbers live 4km below the surface of the ocean, they are impacted by climate changes [...]

Research in Japan indicates that climate change will have serious implications for grain yields in a country where rice is the staple food. With carbon dioxide emissions rising by annual [...]

Twenty-five of the least developed countries (LDCs) in the world including representatives from Africa, the Caribbean and the Pacific met in Tanzania in November and are planning to demand that [...]

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has forecast a massive 150 million environmental refugees by 2050. ********** In China, around 4,000 villages are threatened by desertification because the great [...]

Inuit communities are struggling with the rapid climactic changes in the Arctic. ********** Sheila Watt-Cloutier is the chairwoman of the group that represents about 155,000 Inuit in the Arctic regions [...]

A Noah's Ark of historic buildings and monuments at risk from climate change was launched in June. ********** With 1.2 million euro in European Commission funding, the three-year project will [...]

A dead zone has formed off the Oregon Coast in the United States, killing marine fife and leading researchers to the conclusion that fundamental changes are taking place in ocean [...]

NOT-FOR-PROFIT organisation Greenfleet, which offers subscribers the opportunity to offset their vehicle emissions by purchasing trees, has come up with another novel and interesting idea called the 'Tree Totaller'. Under [...]

Low emission hybrid cars are now on the market hut they're competing with the popular but highly polluting 4WD market. LOOKING AT THE AUTOMOBILE industry is like viewing the front [...]

Habitat looks at some interesting new services designed to encourage us to act more sustainably, and save money. ********** IN THE APRil 2003 EDITION of Habitat we reported on the [...]