UK pressure groups laud new climate change ministry

Oct. 3, 2008

LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's new minister for energy and climate change must balance efforts to combat global warming against the country's energy security needs, environment and business groups said on Friday.

Climate change putting forests at risk

BOGOR, Indonesia, Dec. 1 (UPI) -- An Indonesian forestry research group says large areas of Earth's forests could succumb to climate change, resulting in disaster for forest-dependent people.

Climate change effort opens in Poland

POZNAN, Poland, Dec. 1 (UPI) -- The first meetings of an effort to craft a successor to the 1997 Kyoto Protocol on global climate change got under way Monday in Poland, observers said.

New South Wales gets solar subsidies

SYDNEY, Nov. 24 (UPI) -- The minister for environment and climate change in the Australian state of New South Wales announced a new solar feed-in tariff.

British government holds carbon auction

LONDON, Nov. 21 (UPI) -- The British government announced it held Europe's first carbon allowance auction.

Study: Warming could cost Calif. trillions

BERKELEY, Calif., Nov. 13 (UPI) -- A study released Thursday estimates around $2.5 trillion of California's real-estate value is at risk from climate change.

Climate change helps some invasive species

VALENCIA, Spain, Nov. 11 (UPI) -- A British study suggests climate change has assisted some invasive species to advance in a much quicker fashion.

Ocean data predicts climate change

ITHACA, N.Y., Nov. 11 (UPI) -- U.S. ecologists say oceanographic data now being used to predict future climate change suggest dramatic changes in the Earth's climate and biosphere.

Dried mushrooms may slow global warming

IRVINE, Calif., Nov. 5 (UPI) -- U.S. scientists have discovered dried mushrooms might be slowing climate warming in dry spruce forests in Alaska, Canada and Scandinavia.

Study: Climate change at poles man-made

LONDON, Nov. 1 (UPI) -- Temperature increases in Antarctica and the Arctic region are the result of man-made emissions of greenhouse gases, researchers in England have concluded.

Global warming, soil decomposition studied

ATHENS, Ga., Oct. 29 (UPI) -- U.S. scientists say they've found elevated temperatures created by global warming don't result in persistent elevated levels of decomposing organic matter.

Economic woes hit green energy

SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 13 (UPI) -- The global economic crisis is widespread and now may be affecting the fight against climate change.

Climate change increasing disease risk

BARCELONA, Spain, Oct. 8 (UPI) -- Conservationists meeting in Spain outlined 12 deadly diseases that could spread into new regions because of global warming.

U.K. forms new energy department

LONDON, Oct. 6 (UPI) -- A recent Oxfam report prompted the British government to form a new department.

Prince Charles has climate change concerns

LONDON, Oct. 6 (UPI) -- Britain's Prince Charles is voicing concerns about global warming and calling for a more revolutionary approach to solving the problem.

U.N.: Youth can be hip, save planet

UNITED NATIONS, Oct. 1 (UPI) -- Teenagers can stay on top of the latest trends while combating global climate change under a United Nations initiative, organizers said.