"Abnormal" weather is becoming the norm in many parts of the world. Average temperatures, precipitation and wind patterns are changing, and non-climate factors --primarily the accumulation of greenhouse gases produced from human activities- -- are driving this change. Find out more about the forces that are generating extreme weather phenomena, melting glaciers, endangering species by altering ecosystems, pushing indigenous peoples from their traditional homelands, raising sea levels, and producing new deserts -- but also about the growing citizen awareness and new climate policies towards sustainable development.
Winners of the 2009 Friends of the Earth International photo
competition
on the theme "Biodiversity Lost, Biodiversity Preserved"
IPS environment and science correspondent Stephen Leahy appears on
Vancouver's Radio Ecoshock to discuss climate change, the future of the
oceans, and why leading scientists are hitting the streets to demand policy
changes.