Ocean cooler, less salty
17/02/2005 09:48 - (SA)
Scientists have discovered a rapid change in the temperature and salinity of the Southern Ocean that could have a major impact on global climate.
http://www.news24.com/News24/Technology/News/0,,2-13-1443_1663662,00.html
World leaders still failing
24/01/2005 20:31 - (SA)
World leaders have made no progress in keeping promises to tackle key global challenges such as poverty or climate change, reveals WEF report.
http://www.finance24.com/articles/default/display_article.asp?Nav=ns&ArticleID=1518-25_1651698
US won't budge on Kyoto
08/12/2004 08:11 - (SA)
The US, the world's largest producer of global-warming gases, has said it will not change its approach to climate change.
http://www.news24.com/News24/World/News/0,,2-10-1462_1632764,00.html
Africa 'should act'
26/11/2004 07:58 - (SA)
Nobel Laureate Wangari Maathai has challenged African countries not to wait for developed countries to act on climate change.
http://www.news24.com/News24/Technology/News/0,,2-13-1443_1626251,00.html
Russian president signs Kyoto
05/11/2004 14:12 - (SA)
Russian President Vladimir Putin has put his signature to the UN's Kyoto climate change treaty.
http://www.news24.com/News24/World/News/0,,2-10-1462_1616479,00.html
Human cost of climate change
20/10/2004 10:08 - (SA)
Environmental groups say global warming threatens to hit the world's poorest people hardest and magnify existing injustices.
http://www.news24.com/News24/Technology/News/0,,2-13-1443_1607769,00.html
Climate changes 'grim'
07/10/2004 15:05 - (SA)
The government has released its first official response to the influence of climate change on the country, saying "it's a grim picture".
http://www.news24.com/News24/South_Africa/News/0,,2-7-1442_1601347,00.html
Climate could spell disaster
20/05/2004 14:49 - (SA)
Climate change will have a disastrous effect on rivers that provide water for most of earth's cities, New Scientist says.
http://www.news24.com/News24/Technology/News/0,,2-13-1443_1529571,00.html
'Climate change to cause war'
22/02/2004 20:35 - (SA)
A secret Pentagon report warns that climate change may lead to global catastrophe costing millions of lives and is a far greater risk than terrorism.
http://www.news24.com/News24/Technology/News/0,,2-13-1443_1466843,00.html
Melting glaciers spell
disaster
Oct 05 2004
Beijing - An "ecological catastrophe" is developing in Tibet because
of global warming, and most glaciers in the region could
have melted away by 2100 if no efficient measures are taken,
state media said on Tuesday. The stark message is the result
of surveys performed by a group of 20 scientists from China
and the United States over a 40-month period, the China
Daily reported.
http://www.news24.com/News24/Technology/News/0,,2-13-1443_1599784,00.html
Protect our platinum - Kasrils
Oct 05 2004
Oct 05 2004 01:36:45:960PM
Intelligence Minister Ronnie Kasrils says SA must protect its platinum because it is the energy fuel of the future.
Johannesburg - Citing oil as a cause of instability in the Middle East and Iraq, South Africa's intelligence chief said his country must take steps to protect its sought-after platinum reserves "for the benefit of our people."
"The struggle for limited resources such as oil has seen a century of instability in the Middle East and the cycle of intervention and resistance of which the present upheaval in Iraq is just another tragic chapter," Intelligence Minister Ronnie Kasrils said in an address late on Monday.
The minister spoke of platinum as a key component to develop an alternative energy source, the hydrogen fuel cell.
http://www.news24.com/News24/South_Africa/News/0,,2-7-1442_1599951,00.html
'Rising seas point to glaciers'
Oct 05 2004
Mar 25 2004 08:50:40:993AM
Melting glaciers and eroding snowcaps have contributed more to rising sea levels than is usually estimated.
Paris - Melting glaciers, eroding snowcaps and icefields contributed more to rising sea levels in the last century than is usually estimated, according to a new study that touches on a controversial aspect of global warming.
Ocean levels rose by between 15 and 20 centimetres in the 20th century, most of which can be attributed to run-off from melting ice on land, it says.
http://www.news24.com/News24/Technology/News/0,,2-13-1443_1502997,00.html
Folded ice discovered
Dec 17 2003
Ap 24 2004 05:38:15:507PM
Glaciers in Antarctica are thinning faster than they did in the 1990s researchers have discovered.
Washington - Glaciers in Antarctica are thinning faster than they did in the 1990s and researchers have discovered an unexpected folded section deep beneath the ice cap, findings that may indicate the ice is less stable than had been thought.
Glaciers in West Antarctica are discharging 60% more ice into the sea than they are accumulating from snowfall, a research team led by Robert Thomas at Nasa Goddard Space Flight Centre reports in Thursday's issue of the journal Science.
http://www.news24.com/News24/Technology/News/0,,2-13-1443_1594530,00.html
SA firms warned to curb toxic
emissions
Dec 17 2003
After the
establishment of the World Economic Forum's Global Greenhouse
Gas register, SA companies will face increasing pressure to
publicly disclose their carbon emissions and reduction targets
http://www.businessday.co.za/bday/content/direct/1,3523,1506972-6079-0,00.html
Arctic ice shelf breaks up
Sep
23 2003 07:45:37:670AM
The largest ice shelf in the
Arctic off Canada's coast has broken up due to changing
climate.
http://www.news24.com/News24/Technology/News/0,,2-13-1443_1420134,00.html
Blame
it on global warming
Sep 11 2003 01:37:49:700PM
Sydney residents have been slapped with water
restrictions and local officials blame global warming.
http://www.news24.com/News24/Technology/News/0,,2-13-1443_1414843,00.html
Feeling
the heat
Jan 03 2003 03:45:05:013PM
Global
warming is impacting the natural world by forcing animal and
plant species worldwide to shift habitats, according to two
major US biology studies.
http://www.news24.com/News24/Technology/News/0,,2-13-1443_1303257,00.html
Stop
global warming or...
Oct 27 2002 04:30:23:750PM
By the year 2080, Manhattan and Shanghai could be
underwater, droughts and floods could become more extreme and
millions of people will be at risk from disease, starvation
and water shortages, a Greenpeace official says.
http://www.news24.com/News24/Technology/Science_Nature/0,,2-13-46_1276953,00.html
Global
warming breeds monsters
Aug 01 2002 01:16:15:783PM
Global warming is giving squid bigger appetites and
faster breeding cycles, turning the denizens of the deep into
sea monsters, an Australian scientist claims.
http://www.news24.com/News24/Technology/Science_Nature/0,,2-13-46_1226645,00.html
Global
warming melting glacier
Jun 07 2002 09:36:48:613AM
A glacier from which Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing
Norgay set out to conquer Mount Everest nearly 50 years ago
has retreated three miles up the mountain due to global
warming, a UN body says.
http://www.news24.com/News24/Technology/Science_Nature/0,,2-13-46_1196148,00.html
Warm
water changes fish species
Apr 02 2002
11:42:29:143AM
Rising water temperatures have
dramatically changed the species of fish in Portugal.
According to a reseacher, global warming had caused such
cold-water species as flounder and red mullet almost to
disappear in the last two decades.
http://www.news24.com/News24/Technology/Science_Nature/0,,2-13-46_1163597,00.html
Global
warming affects all species
Mar 28 2002
11:47:20:503AM
From dying coral reefs to later autumns
and endangered male painted turtles, global warming has
started to affect plant and animal life across the planet,
scientists say.
http://www.news24.com/News24/Technology/Science_Nature/0,,2-13-46_1162301,00.html
Antarctic
ice shelf collapses
Mar 19 2002 11:23:09:147AM
In what is being touted as the biggest event of its
kind in 30 years, an Antarctic ice shelf has collapsed and
broken up into thousands of icebergs. The ice shelf is
believed to be suffering the effects of global warming.
http://www.news24.com/News24/Technology/Science_Nature/0,,2-13-46_1158556,00.html
Global
warming changes birds' direction
Dec 03 2001
11:38:36:407AM
Global warming is changing the
migration patterns of many birds, altering flight paths that
have remained unchanged for generations and that were firmly
anchored in their genes, scientists say.
http://www.news24.com/News24/Technology/Science_Nature/0,,2-13-46_1116436,00.html
Prepare
for longer days
Feb 13 2002 11:59:55:920AM
Global warming will not only flood the most beautiful
tropical beaches, help spread disease and in general mess up
the weather -- it is going to make the days longer, too,
Belgian researchers report.
http://www.news24.com/News24/Technology/Science_Nature/0,,2-13-46_1143712,00.html
'Whites
are turning black'
Aug 14 2003 09:12:39:653AM
Global warming and severe heat and sunlight may cause
white Europeans to turn a darker shade, German scientists
claim.
http://www.news24.com/News24/Technology/News/0,,2-13-1443_1401785,00.html |
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