Monthly Archives: October 2007
Reducing Emissions Could Speed Global Warming
A rapid cutback in greenhouse gas emissions could speed up global warming, the veteran environmental maverick James Lovelock will warn in a lecture today. Prof Lovelock, inventor of the Gaia theory that the planet behaves like a single organism,...
Threats to Bumblebees Fly Under Radar
Looking high and low, Robbin Thorp can no longer find a species of bumblebee that just five years ago was plentiful in northwestern California and southwestern Oregon.
Thorp, an emeritus professor of entomology from the University of California...
AL Gore’s ‘An Inconvenient Truth’ Shown to School
Al Gore’s climate-change documentary An Inconvenient Truth promotes “partisan political views”, a High Court judge has ruled. Normally that would almost certainly make it unlawful for the Oscar-winning film to be shown to schools.
But...
