Global warming could cause the huge Greenland ice sheet to melt past “tipping points” from which it could not fully recover – even if carbon dioxide levels were slashed, a Met Office report has warned. Research has shown that the 1.7 million kilometre square ice sheet could melt entirely over several thousand years if temperatures [...]

BANGKOK — Whether to tweak, bolster or bury the Kyoto Protocol — the only binding global agreement for curbing greenhouse gases — has become a red-hot issue as UN negotiators in Bangkok try to lay the groundwork for a successor treaty. The flare-up has erupted only two months before the December 7-18 UN conference tasked [...]

More than any other country, action taken by the United States to limit greenhouse gases and build a clean energy economy is needed to achieve a sustainable solution to our global climate crisis.  This December world leaders will gather in Copenhagen to negotiate a global response to climate change. As a world leader in greenhouse [...]

There are more hungry people in the world than ever before. More than one billion people, almost a sixth of humanity, are now undernourished, according to the latest estimates from the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization. ROME – The number of hungry people on the planet will this year reach a historic high of 1.02 [...]

For OpEdNews: Andrew Glikson – Writer Climate change is tracking toward levels which transcend the planetary boundaries which allowed the development of humans over the last 3 million years1. These limits have already been crossed in terms of the rise in greenhouse gases (CO2, methane, Nitric oxide) and extensive loss of species1. Given lag effects, [...]

HUNGER – WE ARE DESENSITISED Climate change will result in the deaths of many of the world children over the coming years as droughts become more severe and crop losses devastate the world’s food reserves. We are being desensitised by the media and news reports and the views of suffering, to the point where we [...]