Carbon-curbing pledges under the Copenhagen Accord are likely to doom Earth to warming of three degrees Celsius (5.4 degrees Fahrenheit) or more, compared to the deal’s target of 2C (3.6 F), scientists said on Wednesday. In an analysis published by the journal Nature, researchers at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) near Berlin [...]

The Greenhouse Neutral Foundation encourages you to take the Clinton Foundation’s climate change quiz and tell your friends to do it too! For every person who takes the quiz by April 22 – Earth Day, $2 will automatically be donated to purchase solar flashlights for victims of the Haiti earthquake. When it comes to saving [...]

Source GM Watch This detailed history of Monsanto was prepared by GM Watch Monsanto was created in 1901. The company’s first product was the artificial sweetener saccharin. In the 1920s Monsanto expanded into basic industrial chemicals. During the Second World War Monsanto contributed to research on uranium for the Manhattan Project, which lead to the [...]

The Voice of Russia, April 16 2010 Russia has started the annual Days of Defence against Environmental Hazards from the 15th of April to the 5th of June with the announcement of sensational results of an independent work of research. Scientists have proved that Genetically Modified Organisms are harmful for mammals. The researchers discovered that [...]

Population debate misses the facts by CLIVE HAMILTON April 19, 2010 SMH If further proof were needed that, despite their pious words, our political leaders do not take climate change seriously, the recent population debate provides it. The argument over whether we should aim for 36 million people by the middle of the century is [...]

It has been a great honour and privilege to come to know Deborah Barrie. Dedorah became a crusader for the banning of CCA treated timber after her families tragic poisoning from inhaling arsenic fumes from the burning by her neighbour of CCA (Copper Chrome Arsenate) treated timber. Deborah has committed the remaining time she has left [...]

Close to 50 years of data show the Devon Island ice cap, one of the largest ice masses in the Canadian High Arctic, is thinning and shrinking. A paper published in the March edition of Arctic, the journal of the University of Calgary’s Arctic Institute of North America, reports that between 1961 and 1985, the [...]

How many gallons of water does it take to produce $1 worth of sugar, dog and cat food, or milk? The answers appear in the first comprehensive study in 30 years documenting American industry’s thirst for this precious resource. The study, which could lead to better ways to conserve water, is in ACS’ Environmental Science [...]

Hi everyone.   After the Voice for Change Newsletter was sent on March 28th we suffered a major computer system crash with the hard drive on this main communications computer failing. As a consequence we have been offline for some 10 days.   Also as a result of the crash all emails both sent and [...]

VANCOUVER — Warming soils in Canada’s north are releasing a vast store of carbon that has been inert for millennia, which could further accelerate the rate of climate change, according to the author of a new study published in the journal Nature. Field work conducted in Canada by the study’s co-author Ben Bond-Lamberty suggests that [...]