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The climate change unbelievers
12 10 2008 The caption calls him the "high priest of deceit and global destruction". The picture has him belching fire like a dragon. And who is the subject of this highly personal attack? None other than Al Gore, who last year won the Nobel Peace Prize, along with the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), for their success in bringing the climate-change crisis to global public attention.
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End of our affair with air travel?
12 10 2008 Air travel is declining for the first time in almost 20 years, The Independent on Sunday discloses today. Airline failures, harder economic times and a dismal airport experience have caused a sharp downturn in the number of travellers boarding planes at British airports. 
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Climate change 'threatens biodiversity in tropics'
10 10 2008 Climate change may soon make the tropics too hot for many native species, which will be forced to head for higher ground to escape the heat, US researchers said yesterday. 
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Expansion of Stansted wins Hoon approval
10 10 2008 The Government has been accused of reneging on its commitment to tackle climate change and ignoring local opinion after it stepped in to approve a major expansion of Stansted.
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Farah Mihlar: In the climate change debate, indigenous peoples are not being heard
07 10 2008 I am feeling slightly apprehensive. A global forum of 8000 environmentalists and conservationists is not familiar territory for a human rights activist like me - but here I am, at the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) forum in Barcelona. 
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UK 'should cut greenhouse gases by 80 per cent'
07 10 2008 The UK should cut its greenhouse gas emissions by at least 80 per cent by mid-century, the Government's climate change committee recommended today. 
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Ground-level ozone pollution to increase
06 10 2008 Ground-level ozone pollution is contributing to hundreds of deaths a year in the UK - and climate change could help make the situation worse, a report from the Royal Society warned today. 
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Half of Europe's frogs face extinction
27 09 2008 More than half of all amphibian species in Europe could become extinct by 2050 because of a combination of habitat loss, infectious diseases and the effects of climate change, scientists have found.
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Cabinet split on Kingsnorth power station
26 09 2008 The Cabinet is split over whether to approve a controversial plan for a £1bn coal-fired power station at Kingsnorth in Kent which has become a key test of its green credentials.
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Half of Europe's frogs face extinction
26 09 2008 More than half of all amphibian species in Europe could become extinct by 2050 because of a combination of habitat loss, infectious diseases and the effects of climate change, scientists have found.
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Hundreds of methane 'plumes' discovered
25 09 2008 British scientists have discovered hundreds more methane "plumes" bubbling up from the Arctic seabed, in an area to the west of the Norwegian island of Svalbard. It is the second time in a week that scientists have reported methane emissions from the Arctic.
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Exclusive: The methane time bomb
23 09 2008 The first evidence that millions of tons of a greenhouse gas 20 times more potent than carbon dioxide is being released into the atmosphere from beneath the Arctic seabed has been discovered by scientists.
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Phase out coal and burn trees instead, urges leading scientist
14 09 2008 Humanity must urgently embark on a massive programme to power civilisation from wood to stave off catastrophic climate change, one of the world's top scientists has told The Independent on Sunday.
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Cleared: Jury decides that threat of global warming justifies breaking the law
11 09 2008 The threat of global warming is so great that campaigners were justified in causing more than £35,000 worth of damage to a coal-fired power station, a jury decided yesterday. In a verdict that will have shocked ministers and energy companies the jury at Maidstone Crown Court cleared six Greenpeace activists of criminal damage.
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Michael McCarthy: Another summer of sodden misery. Is it bad luck – or worse?
09 09 2008 It's getting wearisomely familiar, isn't it? Last summer's toll of sodden misery is with us again as people are flooded out of their homes from one end of the land to the other and, for the second year running, a famous medieval abbey is an island. You could be forgiven for thinking, is this really all just coincidence?
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Pollution can make you fat, study claims
07 09 2008 Pollution can make children fat, startling new research shows. A groundbreaking Spanish study indicates that exposure to a range of common chemicals before birth sets up a baby to grow up stout, thus helping to drive the worldwide obesity epidemic.
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Nasa scientist appears in court to fan the flames of coal power station row
04 09 2008 The Nasa scientist who first drew attention to global warming 20 years ago appeared in a British court yesterday as a key witness in support of climate change activists charged with damaging a power station. 
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Solar panels 'take 100 years to pay back installation costs'
03 09 2008 Solar panels are one of the least cost-effective ways of combating climate change and will take 100 years to pay back their installation costs, the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (Rics) warned yesterday.
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Can engineering the earth save it from catastrophe?
01 09 2008 Fears that the world is not doing enough to cut carbon dioxide emissions are forcing scientists to "think the unthinkable" by taking seriously the idea that humans may have to alter the global climate artificially with mega-engineering projects. 
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For the first time in human history, the North Pole can be circumnavigated
31 08 2008 Open water now stretches all the way round the Arctic, making it possible for the first time in human history to circumnavigate the North Pole, The Independent on Sunday can reveal. New satellite images, taken only two days ago, show that melting ice last week opened up both the fabled North-west and North-east passages, in the most important geographical landmark to date to signal the unexpectedly rapid progress of global warming.
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Johnson warns of climate threat to London
29 08 2008 Climate change could seriously threaten quality of life in London and the capital's position as a leading world city, Mayor Boris Johnson has warned today. 
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Schemes to offset carbon 'overpriced and unfair'
25 08 2008 Britain's booming carbon offset industry is riddled with inconsistencies and clashes of interest that have caused a "crisis of legitimacy" which threatens to dissuade consumers from contributing to cutting their greenhouse gas emissions, leading academics claim today.
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New CO2 emissions treaty is imminent
24 08 2008 Climate negotiators have made unexpected headway towards a new international treaty to combat global warming, easing a logjam that has held up progress for years.
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Clegg reveals his grand vision on renewable energy
21 08 2008 Nick Clegg will today unveil plans to make Britain an exporter of green energy by 2050, as he called for a programme "on the scale of the Apollo moon landings" to transform Britain's dependence on foreign oil, gas and coal supplies.
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Britons bid to blow away world speed record
21 08 2008 Two Britons are preparing an attempt to smash the world speed record for a wind-powered vehicle. 
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