Climate Change

Ten countries worldwide, including five African nations, are at "extreme risk" because of limited access to clean, fresh water, according to a new global water security index. And the effects of climate change and population growth will exacerbate the stress on these water supplies, potentially threatening stability in many regions, according to the analysis by Maplecroft , a UK-based consulting group.

Climate change could drive up sea levels by twice as much as previously predicted, a scientist has warned at a Canberra conference.

Philanthropic support for climate-change issues tripled in 2008.

Some scientists are calling for more study of technological interventions to forestall catastrophic global warming. Why?

The United States and China clashed on Friday about how to revive climate talks in 2010, complicating the first U.N. session since the acrimonious Copenhagen summit fell short of agreeing a treaty.

Climate negotiators meet in Bonn on Friday for the first time since the fractious Copenhagen summit but with scant hopes of patching together a new legally binding U.N. deal in 2010.

t's the Rudd Government's favourite line against critics of its 5 per cent target for emissions cuts: in per capita terms, we're doing more than Europe is. The PM, Penny Wong and Wayne Swan use it every time. But there are two things wrong with it. The smaller error is that their numbers are wrong — all of them! The larger error is that they tell only a small part of the story, and the part they don't tell matters more.

FOUR in 10 Australians believe Australia's projected population of 35 million by 2049 will be too many people, according to an Age/Nielsen poll MARY-ANNE TOY AND MICHELLE GRATTAN November 10, 2009

The Victorian Government has released maps showing the possible effects of sea level rises on vulnerable coastal regions over the next 100 years. ABC News Posted Mon Nov 16, 2009 12:38pm AEDT

US Special Envoy for Climate Change Todd Stern warns that it is \“certainly possible there won't be a deal" at the at the Copenhagen change summit in December