350. It’s the amount of carbon dioxide that scientists believe is the safe upper limit for our planet. It’s also the name of a global movement that is mobilising the world to take action on Saturday October 24, the International Global Day of Climate Action. The day of action will include actions from almost every [...]

A selection of green news from this week, including: US climate plan, New battery made by viruses, GM maize problems in SA, Fish oil and flatulence, Dolphins: good and bad news, as well as CDM and carbon capture and storage plans in SA

Tomorrow from 12pm to 2pm environmental activists will be marking April 1 by handing over this year’s South African Fossil Fool of 2009 Award to Sasol at their head office in Sturdee Avenue, Rosebank, Johannesburg. The award is Earthlife Africa’s way of highlighting the role Sasol plays in warming our planet.

Sea level could rise by a metre or more by the end of the century, according new science presented yesterday at the International Scientific Congress on Climate Change in Copenhagen. This has disastrous implications for the 10 percent of the world’s population, or 600-million people, living in low-lying areas.

Amazing footage of water gushing down into a bottomless pit in a glacier in Greenland. Glaciologist Dr Jason Box estimates that 42-million litres of water a day drains down this moulin. Glaciers are the epicentre of global warming, he says.

We are living in the year of crisis – the biggest financial crisis since the 1930s and a climate change crisis that potentially has even greater, more dangerous consequences. But it also a time of great opportunity if we act to solve the two crises together, says economist Nicholas Stern (he of the Stern Review) in an interview for the McKinsey Quarterly.