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King Penguins Threatened By Global Warming
Warming of the sea surface by as little as several tenths of a degree can pose a serious threat to King penguins. This was shown in a new report by the team of Yvon Le Maho, CNRS senior researcher at the Institut pluridisciplinaire Hubert Curien...
Global Warming Creates Odd Couples
Al Gore and his organization, the Alliance for Climate Protection, are hoping that a campaign pairing unlikely couples will generate more support for their cause.
The commercials, scheduled to begin, will team up offbeat celebrity couples...
Are You Concerned About Antarctica’s Melting Ice?
An ice shelf of 5,000 square miles in western Antarctica has started to collapse in what scientists have labelled as further evidence of global warming.
The Wilkins ice sheet, the largest on the Antarctic Peninsula to be threatened, is “hanging...
Global Warming Blamed for Ice Shelf Collapse
An ice shelf of 5,000 square miles in western Antarctica has started to collapse, scientists said. The disintegration of the Wilkins ice sheet, the largest on the Antarctic Peninsula to be threatened, is more evidence of rapid climate change...
Bush to Defend Iraq War in Speech
On the fifth anniversary of the beginning of the war in Iraq, President Bush is defending the conflict as one that was necessary and is succeeding.
In remarks prepared for delivery Wednesday at the Department of Defense, Mr. Bush said, “Removing...
Bugs for Beating Global Warming
The latest news about climate change is so alarming (the right wing would say alarmist) as to make many people want to plant their aching heads in the sand. Some scientists using advanced computer models now argue that if we want to stop the...
Climate Skeptics Roast Al Gore on Global Warming
Al Gore, who won the Nobel Peace Prize and an Oscar for his environmental advocacy, was the main target at a conference of dissident scientists skeptical of his views on global warming.
Several speakers at the conference on climate change whose...
Telegraph Earth Pulse
The Telegraph Earth Pulse tracks what’s hot in global coverage of green issues, displays the number of stories published in each area, and ranks by percentage weekly change.
Exclusive to telegraph.co.uk, the Earth Pulse tracks news stories...
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...
