climate change

A three week Greenpeace scientific expedition to the retreating Arctic ice pack, completed on July 31st,has uncovered new evidence that climate change appears to be impacting on the wildlife and ecology of the region, particularly walrus young.

United Nations conservation advisers have declared St Kilda to be at "high risk" from proposed oil development and recommended that the islands be added to the list of World Heritage Sites "in danger". These remote and spectacular islands are Britain's only natural World Heritage Site putting them in the same category as the Great Barrier Reef and the Taj Mahal.

In 30 years the world's coral reefs will be devastated by warming tropical oceans which will 'bleach' them white and eventually kill most of them, unless projected levels of climate change are stopped, according to a new scientific report released internationally today by Greenpeace.