So it appears now that Icelandic Glacial, a water bottling company, based in Iceland, proudly claiming to be ‘Carbon Neutral’ can supply their tasty h2o exclusively to Hilton Hotels. What a coup? Paris will be pleased. Back in 2007 Icelandic Glacial won the award for Best Sustainability Initiative at the BottledWaterWorld awards in Mexico City. [...]
Egypt's fertile Nile Delta falls prey to climate change
By Fatma Ahmed Agence France-Presse The Nile Delta, Egypt’s bread basket since antiquity, is being turned into a salty wasteland by rising seawaters, forcing some farmers off their lands and others to import sand in a desperate bid to turn back the tide. Experts warn that global warming will have a major impact in the [...]
Climate change sceptics and lobbyists put world at risk, says top adviser
By David Adam, environment correspondent, writes for The Guardian Climate change sceptics and fossil fuel companies that have lobbied against action on greenhouse gas emissions have squandered the world’s chance to avoid dangerous global warming, a key adviser to the government has said. Professor Bob Watson, chief scientist at the department for environment and rural [...]
Bolivia: Lake Titicaca at dangerously low levels
By CARLOS VALDEZ (AP) LA PAZ, Bolivia — Evaporation blamed on global warming has reduced Lake Titicaca, one of the world’s highest navigable lakes, to its lowest level since 1949, authorities said Thursday. Diminished rainfall and a rise in solar radiation have in the past four years led to critically low water levels that now [...]
UK warns of lack of urgency over Copenhagen talks
Peter Griffiths for REUTERS LONDON (Reuters) – The world lacks a sense of urgency over the importance of the U.N. climate change talks in Copenhagen in preventing a “human emergency” affecting hundreds of millions of people, the British government said on Thursday. With United Nations talks on a new deal to combat global warming less [...]
Third-World Stove Soot Is Target in Climate Fight
In the first of a new series of articles from The New York Times. ‘By Degrees’ will address appliance-efficiency standards, reducing global-warming gases other than carbon dioxide. From KOHLUA, India. ELISABETH ROSENTHAL writes… While carbon dioxide may be the No. 1 contributor to rising global temperatures, scientists say, black carbon has emerged as an important [...]
Shrinking Tibetan Glacier Threatens Water Shortages
Saturday, 17 January 2009. Roughly 2 billion Asians will experience water shortages in the coming decades as global warming diminishes glaciers on the Tibetan Plateau, scientists warned on Friday. The plateau has more than 45,000 glaciers that accumulate during the region’s snowy season, before they drain into Asia’s main rivers, which include the Yellow, Yangtze, [...]
More than 2T tons of ice melted in artic since '03
WASHINGTON – More than 2 trillion tons of land ice in Greenland, Antarctica and Alaska have melted since 2003, according to new NASA satellite data that show the latest signs of what scientists say is global warming. More than half of the loss of landlocked ice in the past five years has occurred in Greenland, [...]
Experts: Half world faces water shortage by 2080
The Associated Press | November 18, 2008 KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia: Half the world’s population could face a shortage of clean water by 2080 because of climate change, experts warned Tuesday. Wong Poh Poh, a professor at the National University of Singapore, told a regional conference that global warming was disrupting water flow patterns and increasing [...]
