An ancient species of tree is helping the UK's birds adapt to climate change (BBC News)
An ancient species of tree is helping Britain's birds survive the effects of climate change, scientists find.

Climate change ideas could win £40,000 (ic CheshireOnline)
HALTON entrepreneurs could win £40,000 for climate change tackling ideas at the Shell Springboard Awards. Oil giant Shell is running the competition and, with the Government pledging to create one million ?green collar? jobs, says small and medium sized enterprises should capitalise.

UK: Cars account for 10% of man-made CO2 - govt adviser (just-auto)
While acknowledging that cars are part of the problem and solution to climate change, adviser to the UK government and former Ford exec Richard Parry-Jones has also pointed out that cars produce just 10% of man-made CO2.

Ancient Woodland in Oxfordshire to be European Base for International Climate Change Research Programme (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance)
This summer, Wytham Woods near Oxford in the UK will become the European hub of an ambitious global research programme into the impacts of climate change on forests.

Government urged to legislate on climate change (Maltamedia.com Daily News)
Updated 20:05 CEST The Malta Labour Party (MLP) is urging the government to actively consider drafting a legislation bill, in the form of a white paper, on climate change. Meanwhile in a press release on Monday evening, the Ministry for Resources and Rural Affairs said that a committee of experts is already working on implementing a plan on how Malta can reduce greenhouse gases ...

Psychologists rally to fight climate change (New Scientist)
By switching our mindset from despairing fatalism to "can-do" optimism, psychologists say they have a unique and vital role to play in the fight against global warming (full text available to subscribers)

Scientists urge U.S. to protect economy from climate (Reuters via Yahoo! News)
Eight scientific organizations urged the next U.S. president to help protect the country from climate change by pushing for increased funding for research and forecasting, saying about $2 trillion of U.S. economic output could be hurt by storms, floods and droughts.

Birds 'off the pace' with warming (BBC News)
French birds are moving northwards in response to climate change, but not fast enough, a study suggests.

UK citizens using 58 baths of water a day (Environmental News Network)
While each person in the UK drinks, hoses, flushes and washes their way through around 150 litres of mains water a day, they consume about 30 times as much in ?virtual? water embedded in food, clothes and other items ? the equivalent of about 58 bathtubs full of water every day.

Call For Better Protection Of Older People From Climate Change Impact (Medical News Today)
A new report published by the Stockholm Environment Institute, University of York, in collaboration with Help the Aged, calls on Government and public authorities to take action to better protect older people from the future effects of climate change. The report Growing Old in a Changing Climate is the first national report to examine the impact of climate change on an ageing population.




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