More than 100 penguin-loving tourists, including dozens from Britain, are trapped by ice off Antarctica aboard a Russian ice-breaker cruise ship.
The Russian transportation ministry says the Kapitan Khlebnikov is in a bay near Snow Hill island, off the northeastern end of the Antarctic Peninsula, and cannot leave as the bay is sealed off with ice.
An [...]

Cast your vote in the Angry Mermaid Award and help decide which company or lobby group is doing the most to sabotage effective action on climate change.
Voting is open until Sunday 13 December 2009.
Crucial UN climate talks take place in Copenhagen this December. While people, organisations and social movements around the world are calling for strong [...]

In the first study of its kind, climate scientists looked at how much pollution the world could afford to produce between now and the end of the century in order to keep temperature rises within a “safe limit”.
A number of different scenarios were run and the most likely outcome was that carbon dioxide from factories [...]

“Severe mental health problems are likely to surge, in the U.S. and elsewhere, unless Congress exerts dramatic leadership to help slow climate change — and soon,” began an e-mail message that found its way into my in-box last week.
It came from a group called Psychologists for Social Responsibility.
(I get a lot of e-mail messages.)
“Many Americans [...]

WASHINGTON — President Obama came into office pledging to end eight years of American inaction on climate change under President George W. Bush, and all year he has promised that the United States would lead the way toward a global agreement in Copenhagen next month to address the warming planet.
But this weekend in Singapore, Mr. [...]

Despite the fact that summer 2009 had more sea ice than in 2007 or 2008, scientists are seeing drastic changes in the region from just five years ago and at rates faster than anticipated. The findings were presented October 22 in the annual update of the Arctic Report Card, a collaborative effort of 71 national [...]

ScienceDaily (Nov. 11, 2009) — Georgia Tech City and Regional Planning Professor Brian Stone is publishing a paper in the December edition of Environmental Science and Technology that suggests policymakers need to address the influence of global deforestation and urbanization on climate change, in addition to greenhouse gas emissions.
According to Stone’s paper, as the international [...]

ScienceDaily (Nov. 15, 2009) — California experienced centuries-long droughts in the past 20,000 years that coincided with the thawing of ice caps in the Arctic, according to a new study by UC Davis doctoral student Jessica Oster and geology professor Isabel Montañez.
The finding, which comes from analyzing stalagmites from Moaning Cavern in the central Sierra [...]

“Climate change is a really abstract thing in most of the world”
Climate change: “Is the change in precipitation and temperature patterns” – That is Climate Change 101. 
You may brush the Green House effect off like most people thinking it’s something the governments are trying to use in order for us to buy other kinds of [...]

A team of New Zealanders is preparing to drill in Antarctica in the New Year, and they hope to strike – whisky.
Among the supplies British explorer Sir Ernest Shackelton abandoned on his unsuccessful 1909 expedition to the pole were two crates of the now extinct rare old brand of McKinlay and Co whisky.
Now Whyte Mackay, [...]