Despite good global cereal harvests this year, millions of people in dozens of poor countries are in desperate need of emergency humanitarian aid due to stubbornly high food prices, the United Nations agricultural agency warned in a report released today.
Critical food insecurity is affecting 31 countries and the situation is particularly acute in East Africa, [...]

Take all the power stations in the United States. Together, they produce almost 1000 gigawatts of electricity – enough to boil several billion kettles simultaneously.
Now imagine building another five power stations for every one that already exists in the United States. That is about the amount of electricity generation that the world is on track [...]

This is a satellite picture of the weather patterns over the South Pole (Antarctica) on November 11th 2009. (Day 2) It has been suggested to the Greenhouse Neutral Foundation by an independent source that over the next 7 days we should keep an eye on what unfolds.
Day 1 image is linked here.
The source suggests there [...]

One of Britain’s leading ethical travel operators has launched a scathing attack on the carbon offset industry and has decided to stop offering offsets to its customers as a way of reducing their greenhouse gas emissions. Justin Francis, the founder of responsibletravel.com, said he had decided to abandon offsets because he believes they have become [...]

Source Guardian UK – George Monbiot
 How many times have you heard the argument that small green actions lead to bigger ones?
I’ve heard it hundreds of times: habits that might scarcely register in their own right are still useful because they encourage people to think of themselves as green, and therefore to move on to tougher [...]

The emission reduction commitments made by countries in the Copenhagen climate negotiation sessions are still far less ambitious than those needed to limit global warming to 2°C, let alone 1.5°C. This “Climate Action Tracker” is an independent science-based assessment, which tracks the emission commitments and actions of countries. The website provides an up-to-date assessment of [...]

LONDON (Reuters) – The general insurance industry may not be able to cope with the increased frequency and severity of floods and typhoons brought about by climate change, the Association of British Insurers (ABI) said on Wednesday.
ABI research, commissioned from Britain’s Met Office and catastrophe risk modeling firm AIR Worldwide, examined the implications of 2 [...]

New climate research that accounts for the nutrient requirements of vegetation and other aspects of the nitrogen cycle suggests that over the coming century ecosystems could accumulate 2−3 times less carbon than previously estimated. The likely consequence is that levels of atmospheric CO2 will be significantly higher than predicted, researchers conclude in a recent report [...]

Rapid changes already underway to the Earth’s climate, ecosystems and land cover threaten the health of billions, undermining key human life-support systems and threatening the core foundations of healthy communities worldwide, according to a new report released Wednesday.
The disruption represents the greatest public health challenge of the 21st century and leaves poor populations mostly in [...]

Source Sydney Morning Herald – BIG greenhouse polluting companies around the world, employing thousands of lobbyists, are exerting heavy pressure on governments to weaken climate change laws at home and slow progress on an international climate agreement in Copenhagen, a global investigation reveals.
In Australia, 20 companies who have already won the most concessions from the [...]