Environmental stories tagged with: ice

Dr Vicky Pope, Met Office Head of Climate Change, calls on scientists and the media to 'rein in' some of their assertions about climate change.

Fair Trade has seen massive growth over the last decade, to the extent that you can now find Fair Trade products in every supermarket.  This weekend sees the 7th World Fair Trade Day being celebrated around the world in more than 70 countries.

Do you feel overwhelmed by the plethora of eco-prefixed products?  It's not an illusion, according to new research, the US Patent and Trademark Office has been flooded with applications for eco-green-organic-earth-friendly trademarks.

A new study by WWF warns that climate change is having a greater and faster impact on the Arctic than previously thought.

Amazon deforestation and fires are being aggravated by US farm subsidies, claims Smithsonian Tropical Research Institution's staff scientist William Laurance.

The Mayor of London, Ken Livingstone has launched the UK's first 'green homes' service to help Londoners cut climate change emissions by offering an easy, one-stop-shop for information on how to make homes more carbon efficient.

Homes across the country will have access to a one stop shop service to help make their homes greener, Environment Secretary Hilary Benn announced today.

The world is becoming more humid under climate change and exacerbating global warming, research reveals. Scientists from the Met Office Hadley Centre and the Climatic Research Unit at the University of East Anglia have found strong evidence of human influence on changes in global surface humidity.

BT has announced that its newly formed Global Services sustainability practice has launched a service to help large corporates and public sector organisations reduce their energy consumption and carbon footprint.

Before the Suez Canal opened in 1869, the shortest sea route to Asia was the perilous journey around the southern tip of South Africa, but now an alternative route has opened up, but this is not good news.

For students concerned at their carbon footprint and looking to achieve more from their gap year than a great tan, an affordable alternative is to take a time out in the UK with CSV (Community Service Volunteers), a UK based volunteering charity.