Environmental News

• Job satisfaction is high but pay rises are low for environmentalists
  05 March 2010

  Careers in the environment are stimulating and rewarding despite some pay freezes and even cuts, according to the results of IEMA’s recent Environmental Practitioner Survey.

• Coral reefs could disintegrate by 2100
  04 March 2010

  The world's coral reefs will begin to disintegrate before the end of the century as rising carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere make the oceans more acidic, scientists have warned.

• Warning over surge in e-wastes
  04 March 2010

  Sales of electronic products in countries like China and India and across continents such as Africa and Latin America are set to rise sharply in the next 10 years. And, unless... (66 words total)

• Africa lagging behind in development of ‘green’ energy economy
  04 March 2010

  Africa is lagging behind the rest of the world in developing renewable energy projects with initiatives aimed at producing clean and ‘green’ energy remaining largely under-exploited, according to a new... (39 words total)

• Spain eyes doubling renewables output by 2020
  04 March 2010

  Spain's Government has proposed more than doubling production from renewable energy sources by 2020 to just over 20% of total energy use, which would meet EU targets.

• British public's belief in climate threat declines
  04 March 2010

  Public conviction about the threat of climate change has declined sharply, according to a new poll in the UK. The proportion of adults who believe climate change is "definitely" a... (46 words total)