Climate Change

Around 77 per cent of American households recycle, which is increasing all the time. And couples have sex, on average, around once every four days - this amounts to 85 times a year. So what do the two things have to do with one another? Sex…

Five major aspects of environmental wellness are threatening our health, and will continue to do more and more damage. This is according to a team of 28 climate scientists from US government agencies, universities, and independent research…

According to Peter Lilley, the Conservative MP for Hitchin and Harpenden and former Cabinet minister, ‘One of the ersatz religions which fills the void in recent years is belief in Catastrophic Man-Made Global Warming. It claims to be based…

Once. That’s how many time’s climate change is mentioned in the draft new syllabus for the geography GCSE exam. Although this was revealed last week by England's education secretary Michael Gove, this isn’t the only disappointing…

The planet’s poor environmental wellness may not be our fault. This is according to Tim Yeo, the MP who, as chair of the Commons energy and climate change committee, scrutinises government policy on climate change. Last week, Yeo accepted…

If you’ve found that asthma or allergies have particularly taken their toll on your wellbeing lately, you might want to take a look to climate change for a culprit. Environmental wellness experts have noted a link between carbon dioxide, a…

When Cy Maramangalam strolled onstage at James Blake High School’s auditorium in Silver Spring, Maryland, sporting jeans and a shaved head, he looked more like he was about to introduce a hot new band than do a talk on environmental…

German Chancellor Angela Merkel has demanded an international climate deal by 2015, while also declining to push for badly needed fixes to Europe's ailing carbon cap-and-trade programme. According to Merkel, ‘I believe that we have a good…

As climate change takes hold and leads to the danger of much more destructive storms, floods, heavy rainfall and higher sea levels, cities around Europe may have to erect flood barriers similar to the Thames Barrier that protects London…

When it comes to environmental wellness, your children may have something to teach you. This is according to a new poll for Unicef, which found that British children are deeply concerned about the impact of climate change on their own…

According to a worrying new report, the extreme heat waves, flooding and bush fires striking Australia have already been made worse by the effects of climate change and they could even be set to get even worse in future. In fact, at…

In what could be a very important and potential far-reaching move, the poorest countries in the world have now said that they are prepared to commit themselves to binding cuts in their emissions of greenhouse gases. Until very…

Not only is climate change affecting the amount of food the world produces; it’s also having an impact on the quality. This is according to a new study published in the journal Nature Climate, which revealed that nutritional…

If ragweed pollen allergy or asthma affects your wellbeing, your symptoms may have seemed to last longer over the last several years. According to US researchers, it’s not in your head, but actually climate change and global warming has led…

Asthmatics will know just how many potential triggers there are for their condition. It’s a tricky condition to consistently manage due to this multitude of factors and the best way to do this is simply to be prepared for all the…