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Climate Change

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Antarctic study to help understand climate change »

A GPS station at Lake Ellsworth during last year's survey

Researchers from Edinburgh University are preparing for a study based in the Antarctic, which is hoped to provide a long-term perspective on natural climate change. During the trip scientists will analyse ancient rocks that have been embedded in the W...

Wed 30 Nov 2011 by Katie Richardson | Read more »

Climate of opportunity »

Boyack: "We don't need more talk, we need action"

During the last session of the Scottish Parliament, MSPs put in place tough climate change targets but it will fall to this and subsequent parliaments to deliver on them. With the right leadership from the Scottish Government, our efforts to tackle cl...

Wed 05 Oct 2011 by Sarah Boyack | Read more »

Edinburgh University's climate change group receives knockback »

A climate change group at Edinburgh University will have to make cutbacks after its bid for more funding was deemed "too ambitious". The group, Transition Edinburgh University, had been granted over £350,000 from the Scottish Government's Climat...

Wed 04 May 2011 by James Johnstone | Read more »

Climate change: the battle for public opinion »

Climate change is here to stay. In fact we are ‘locked in’ - destined as it were - to observe at least a certain level of warming over the next ten years. But this is by no means a doomsday prediction or a submission that future developmen...

Wed 26 Jan 2011 by Laura Morris | Read more »

The SNP's green-washed facade »

Wind power 2

Those who oppose wind farms and new power lines on an aesthetic basis would be well advised to pay a visit to Scotland’s central coal belt in Lanarkshire, where thousands of acres of centuries-old woodland have recently been torn up to access the...

Sat 13 Feb 2010 by Joel Sharples | Read more »

G20: Clearing the air »

Bankers Hiding Their Heads in the Sand

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Wed 11 Nov 2009 by Marthe Lamp Sandvik | Read more »

Enter the dragon »

China

“One or twice a year we are invited to attend an important climate change event such as this one,” Mohammed Naseed, president of the Maldives, told a United Nations climate change summit in New York last week. “Deep down, we know you ...

Wed 07 Oct 2009 by Marthe Lamp Sandvik | Read more »

Government must back industry over carbon capture, say experts »

A study challenging government and industry to "step up their commitment" to countering growing carbon emissions has been published in the journal Science following recent research from the University of Edinburgh. The research indicates that there is...

Wed 30 Sep 2009 by Chris Grainger | Read more »

UN Chief predicts US climate revolution »

Rajendra Pachauri

The chief advisor to the UN on climate change has claimed that a US revolution could come about as a result of proposed carbon cuts. The head of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), Rajendra Pachauri, claimed that if Barack Obama comm...

Mon 23 Mar 2009 by Demian Hobby | Read more »

Energy policy: Down to business »

Following an interview with Shell CEO Jeroen van der Veer, the Guardian journalist George Monbiot recently wrote an article accusing oil companies of trying to throw a thin, green camouflage net of insignificant expenditures in renewable energy sources...

Mon 09 Mar 2009 by David Loughman | Read more »

NI environment minister denies climate change »

In a controversial move, an official ad campaign on climate change has been banned in Northern Ireland. The controversial decision to block the TV and radio advert was taken by Stormont’s environment minister Sammy Wilson, who does not believe h...

Sat 07 Mar 2009 by Nina Conlon | Read more »

CNN criticised for climate change coverage »

CNN

A principal author of the 2007 report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has criticised the media’s coverage of climate change. Stanford Professor Stephen Schneider’s comments come after American television channel, Cable New...

Mon 23 Feb 2009 by Kevin Guyan | Read more »

Heathrow: Wrong time, wrong place »

Heathrow

The decision to give the green light to Heathrow expansion is likely to haunt Labour for years to come. The columnist Polly Toynbee put it well: “Whenever Labour tries to say or do anything green, the groundswell of protesters will shout back &ls...

Wed 28 Jan 2009 by John Stewart | Read more »

Edinburgh in space race against global warming »

In a bid to help curb global warming, researchers at the University of Edinburgh are to analyse data from two new satellites built by NASA and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, JAXA. The American and Japanese-built crafts, The Orbiting Carbon Ob...

Wed 28 Jan 2009 by Cameron Robinson | Read more »

Edinburgh student leads Stansted protest »

Plane

VIDEO: Lily Kember talks to ITN News An Edinburgh student was at the centre of Monday’s Plane Stupid protest at Stansted Airport in London, which saw 57 people arrested for cutting through the perimiter fence and obstructing the ru...

Mon 08 Dec 2008 by Paris Gourtsoyannis | Read more »

Green Week: 'every little helps' »

Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmare

More than 1,000 students took part in over thirty events during Green Week, an initiative co-ordinated by the Edinburgh University Students' Association (EUSA) to raise awareness on climate change and “effect real changes in people’s lives ...

Mon 13 Oct 2008 by Guy Robertson | Read more »

Met Office issues strongest warning yet on climate change »

Climate change

The UK’s largest environmental services provider has issued its strongest warning yet on climate change, in the lead up to the UN climate conference in December. Research from the Met Office's Hadley Centre warns a three per cent cut on global e...

Mon 13 Oct 2008 by Demian Hobby | Read more »

Edinburgh named UK's greenest city »

Edinburgh's winning greenery

For the third year running, Edinburgh has ranked first in a poll of the UK's greenest cities, providing the best quality of life for its residents and the lowest pollution levels. The capital’s results score above Glasgow, who came in eleventh ou...

Mon 13 Oct 2008 by Alice Stanes | Read more »

Green as I say, not as I do »

John Swinney

SNP minister John Swinney has been slated by opposition MSPs for environmental hypocrisy after he used his ministerial car for a journey of 200 metres. As the Scottish Government Minister for Finance and Sustainable Growth, Mr Swinney has overall ...

Fri 15 Feb 2008 by Helen Walker | Read more »

Antarctic lake study could shed light on the origins of life »

Glacier

Research conducted by a University of Edinburgh professor on a sub-glacial lake in Antarctica may hold clues to the origins of life. Dr Ross and three fellow researchers are investigating Lake Ellsworth, located 3.2km below Antarctica’s western ...

Fri 15 Feb 2008 by Cameron Robinson | Read more »

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