The worst drought in a century, especially in Australia’s most populated and fastest growing regions, has forced state governments to make expensive, and in some quarters unpopular, decisions to secure water supply. As rainfall dwindles, new dams are a less-than-promising prospect, so governments have looked to the boundless resource surrounding the country — the [...]

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A Scots religious site that predates the pyramids and Stonehenge may have been abandoned because of climate change, researchers claim. Kilmartin Glen, in Argyll, has one of the most important concentrations of Neolithic and Bronze Age remains in Europe. The glen contains at least 350 ancient monuments, many of them prehistoric, including burial cairns, [...]

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Speaker: Guy Dauncey, President, BC Sustainable Energy Association
Date: Wednesday, November 5, 2008
Time: 6:00–8:00 pm
Location: Chances, 240 1st Avenue West, Prince Rupert
Cost: Free!
How can Prince Rupert prepare itself for the impacts of global warming, and the coming global energy crunch?  How can it develop solutions that will tackle climate change, and provide local sources of renewable [...]

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The risks of inaction over climate change far outweigh the turmoil of the global financial crisis, a leading climate change expert said, while calling for new fiscal spending tailored to low carbon growth.
“The risk consequences of ignoring climate change will be very much bigger than the consequences of ignoring risks in the financial system,” [...]

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