World at Risk - Year 12 Edexcel Geography

Pickering is among 37 riverside communities where householders will get pumps, airbrick covers and doorguards to keep the water out The curious but so far effective defences of Eamont Bridge in Cumbria are serving as a model for other flood-risk areas which are getting £1,300,000 from the Environment Agency.

It may seem obvious, but negotiating cuts in emissions while building fossil-fuel power stations just won't work

Rio Tinto says laws to reduce toxic emissions will make cost of running aluminium plant at Lynemouth near Newcastle too high Rio Tinto has become the latest multinational to blame a factory closure on new carbon taxes, after it announced that it was shutting an aluminium smelter near Newcastle upon Tyne with the loss of 515 jobs.

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Not a tonne of coal or a barrel of oil will be left in the ground if money can be made from extracting and burning it Build a bunker with a vegetable plot on some high but sheltered ground and leave it to your grandchildren: dangerous levels of climate change now look all but inevitable.

Australia's Senate has approved a controversial law on pollution, after years of bitter political wrangling.

Leaders of nearly 200 major companies around the world have called for tougher action on climate change.

A visual map of the arguments for and against human-caused global climate change.

Firms announce CCS plans for Peterhead power station following collapse of £1bn proposals for Longannet Two major energy companies have combined forces to bolster the case to build the UK's first carbon-capture project at Peterhead power station near Aberdeen.

Floods Continue to Wreak Havoc Across SE Asia Reported death toll from continued flooding in SE Asia now exceeds at least 1,000.

The science of global warming is clear and so are the solutions, yet the world is moving in reverse. Why? Emissions are rising by record amounts, and time is running out to avoid catastrophic warming. What is going wrong and how can the problems be solved?

An asteroid that is 400m (1,300ft) wide has passed by Earth, much to the delight of astronomers.

The leaders of the G20 group of nations have re-affirmed their commitment to the Green Climate Fund (GCF) but failed to make any other targets for the upcoming UNFCCC climate talks in Durban.

President Barack Obama's chief climate change negotiator has issued a warning over the future of the Kyoto protocol, casting doubt on a key plank of international climate talks this December in South Africa.

Saturday, 28 May 2011 16:58 Agence France-Presse DEAUVILLE, France: Russia, Japan and Canada told the G8 they would not join a second round of carbon cuts under the Kyoto Protocol at United Nations talks this year and the US reiterated it would remain outside the treaty, European diplomats have said.

Mudslides leave at least 2 dozen people dead, many more injured or missing States of Emergency have been declared in 27 of Colombia's 32 departments after extreme rains triggered about 400 separate incidents of flooding and mudslides.

Earthquakes have a bigger impact on health than other natural disasters such as floods and hurricanes, US researchers say.

EU plans for carbon pricing aviation, "broken promises" on finance and the West's historical emissions look set to divide nations at the UN climate summit.

The levels of greenhouse gases are higher than the worst case scenario outlined by climate experts just four years ago

Many parts of the United States could be devastated by extreme climatic, geophysical and geological episodes over the next 18 months