All posts by Diana Thebaud Nicholson

EU paper warns of climate chaos
March 20, 2008, Comments Off on EU paper warns of climate chaos

Rising temperatures will damage even strong economies and pose a global threat to security, top officials say. Extreme c ...

Spring 2008 in the U.K.
March 20, 2008, Comments Off on Spring 2008 in the U.K.

   How the blurring of the seasons is a harbinger of climate calamity By Michael McCarthy, Environment Editor Thursday ...

Wednesday Night #1359
March 19, 2008, 1 Comment

We had promised that Beryl would be with us last week to talk about the new publication, The MetropolitaIn, that he will ...

Carbonating India by Cleo Paskal
March 18, 2008, Comments Off on Carbonating India by Cleo Paskal

There is now widespread scientific consensus that human-produced carbon emissions are contributing to global climate cha ...

Chinese biofuel 'could endanger biodiversity'
March 18, 2008, Comments Off on Chinese biofuel 'could endanger biodiversity'

Jatropha curcus Flickr/jurvetson [BEIJING] Using China’s forests and ‘idle land’ to produce biofuels c ...

Why carbon capture is an illusion
March 18, 2008, 1 Comment

BRUCE COX, Executive Director of Greenpeace Canada Globe and Mail March 18, 2008 On March 10, Environment Minister John ...

La Niña and Climate Chaos
March 13, 2008, Comments Off on La Niña and Climate Chaos

Flooding in eastern Bolivia.Credit:Franz Chávez/IPS (IPS) SANTIAGO, Mar 13 (Tierramérica) – It is still difficul ...

Green building
March 13, 2008, Comments Off on Green building

Commercial and residential buildings have huge environmental impacts. It is estimated that, in the United States alone, ...

Costly Fuel Means Costly Calories
March 12, 2008, Comments Off on Costly Fuel Means Costly Calories

March 12 While we scarcely agree with the all of the thoughts voiced in this article – not all biofuel production ...

Wednesday Night #1358
March 12, 2008, 3 Comments

It seems we are stuck in a topic rut and not only in terms of frequency, quantity and quality of snowfall. The news appe ...