Topic: United Kingdom

Scarce resources, climate biggest threats to world health

LONDON (Reuters) - The Earth's natural resources like food, water and forests are being depleted at an alarming speed, causing hunger, conflict, social unrest and species extinction, experts at a climate and health conference in London warned Monday.Increased hunger due to food ...

The Dependable Warmer

Even without humans, there are many processes that can change the concentration of carbon dioxide (CO2) in Earth's atmosphere and affect global climate. (1) provide the first direct evidence that very high CO2 levels occurred about 40 million years ago during the ...

UK crops to face water supply crunch, may relocate

LONDON (Reuters) - Agricultural crops in Britain may need to be moved to new areas as the threat of both drought and flooding rises in the coming decades, a report commissioned by the Royal Agricultural Society of England said on Monday.The report ...

Google Earth Map Shows Temperature Rise

A new Google Earth map highlights the devastating impact a 4C rise in temperature would have on different parts of the world. The interactive tool, which was released by the UK's coalition government, aims to stimulate the debate on carbon emissions and ...

Anything Harvard Can Do...

LEONARD Blavatnik, who bats number 40 in the Forbes Rich List, has just reached into the small change in his waistcoat pocket and thrown seventy five million pounds at Oxford University to found a School of Government. The Blavatnik spondoolicks are terrific ...

Spring is sprung sooner

The article reports on the data gathered by the Royal Meteorological Society concerning the climate in Great Britain in the first half of the 20th century. The data revealed that fewer days of frost were experienced in Great Britain while average temperatures ...

Building More Sustainable Cities

If civilization needed an icon, "the city" would be it. Even the generally conservative U.S. National Intelligence Council (NIC) recently predicted that global demand for energy, food and water could easily outstrip supplies over the next decade or so, triggering trade-disrupting international ...

UK must adapt better to face climate change-report

LONDON (Reuters) - Britain needs to increase its efforts to adapt infrastructure and homes to cope with the effects of climate change, a UK parliamentary committee said on Thursday."Even if all the world's power stations were switched off tomorrow, past emissions mean ...

British university orders climate science review

LONDON (Reuters) - The British university embroiled in an email row ordered a review Thursday of its climate researchers' work after accusations they distorted or hid evidence to support the case for man-made global warming.The center, which has contributed to U.N. climate ...
British university at center of climate change e-mail scandal broke disclosure laws The university at the center of a climate change dispute over stolen e-mails broke freedom of information laws by refusing to handle public requests for climate data, Britain's data-protection watchdog ...
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