Great white hope.
| Airline emissions ‘far higher than previous estimates’ The aviation industry’s failure to curb its soaring carbon emissions could lead to the “worst case scenario” for climate change, as envisaged by the United Nations. An unpublished study by the world’s leading experts has revealed that airlines are pumping 20 per cent more carbon dioxide into the atmosphere than estimates suggest, with total emissions set to reach between 1.2 billion and 1.5 billion tonnes annually by 2025. |
| Great white hope. If the scientists who study global warming are right, polar bears disappearing due to ice shrinkage is about to become much more of a problem in the Arctic. |
| Global Call to Stop the Planting of Genetically Engineered Trees Bonn, Germany–Organizations and scientists from around the world spoke today about their opposition to genetically engineered trees which will be negotiated at the UN Convention on Biological Diversity’s Ninth Conference of the Parties (CBD COP-9) beginning next week in Bonn.They are demanding that governments at the UN agree to accept the proposal to suspend all releases of genetically engineered (GE) trees into the environment, due to their extreme ecological and social threats. |
| Giant study pinpoints warming effects. Human-generated climate change made flowers bloom sooner and autumn leaves fall later, turned some polar bears into cannibals and some birds into early breeders, a vast global study reported on Wednesday. |