The tragedy is that many throughout the world have little food to survive on and many go to bed hungry every night. It was recently reported that world hunger now touches the lives of over 1 billion of the worlds population. It is a sad reality that someone dies of starvation every three seconds of [...]

China has unveiled its first firm target for limiting greenhouse gas emissions, two weeks before a global summit on climate change in Copenhagen. Beijing said it would aim to reduce its “carbon intensity” by 40-45% by the year 2020, compared with 2005 levels. Carbon intensity, China’s preferred measurement, is the amount of carbon dioxide emitted [...]

Three Liberal frontbenchers have been confirmed as having resigned from the shadow cabinet. Senior Liberal frontbencher Tony Abbott, Senator Stephen Perry and Liberal MP Sophie Mirabella announced their resignation this evening. Tony Abbott’s resignation from the shadow cabinet fuels speculation Malcolm Turnbull may soon face another leadership challenge. Mr Abbott says he and Senate leader [...]

While agriculture and food production have long been considered untouchable in international climate talks, calls to make the sector contribute to greenhouse gas mitigation efforts have been growing louder. Food is strategic and agricultural production is a vital sector of many national economies. Yet, discussions are shifting from how to adapt farming to climate change to how to make agriculture [...]

Well to say that I’m underwhelmed with the grandiose offer to reduce it’s greenhouse gas emissions in the “range of 17 percent below 2005 levels by 2020,” according to the White House official statement, and that Obama will grace the Copenhagen Climate Change conference with his presence for a day on December 9th en route [...]

Aussies eye iceberg as floating bar A group of Australians is planning to fly a helicopter out to an iceberg off the New Zealand coast, carve out an ice bar and then stage a party. Reynold Bierman, 38, a Sydney builder, said his team was still firming up details of the project. Glaciologists would make [...]

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change—the world’s foremost body for weighing and assessing climate science—received a kick in the pants today from members who say the climate situation is much worse than the IPCC has so far reported. Twenty-six climatologists—including 14 IPCC members—have released a startling update to the panel’s work, reporting that sea levels [...]

Climate scientist James Hansen talks about global warming, Copenhagen, and his new book. James Hansen, director of NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies in New York, is one of the world’s most famous climatologists. He testified at a 1988 U.S. Senate hearing that the emission of carbon dioxide from burning fossil fuels was already producing [...]

Australia’s endangered and threatened sharks continue to be relentlessly killed for their fins, including in our World Heritage Great Barrier Reef. As life on earth heavily depends on the health and stability of our oceans, damaging the fabric of our ocean ecology by removing the top predators is a threat to us all. Can you [...]

ScienceDaily (Nov. 24, 2009) — In a provocative new study, a University of Utah scientist argues that rising carbon dioxide emissions — the major cause of global warming — cannot be stabilized unless the world’s economy collapses or society builds the equivalent of one new nuclear power plant each day. “It looks unlikely that there [...]