"I think we have a very brief window of opportunity to deal with climate change, no longer than a decade at the most." James Hansen, NASA Scientist The NASA satellite results reported yesterday read like the opening exposition of an epic disaster movie. Arctic 'perennial ice' (thick ice that remains frozen all year round) shrunk, between 2004 and 2005, by 14%. In previou...

  Films To Air on Discovery Channel & Wildscreen Festival Seven Indian wildlife documentary filmmakers have been awarded British Environment Film Fellowships for 2006. The fellowships, worth Rs 600,000 each,  have been awarded to Sonya V Kapoor, Himanshu Malhotra, Jay Mazoomdar, Gurmeet Sapal, Kalpana Subramanian, Ashima Narain and Balan for film work towards checking wil...

  Movie-goers have been packing a theatre in western India to see a film kept off screens amid protests over criticism of a dam project by its star, Aamir Khan. The cinema, in Jamnagar, Gujarat, is guarded by armed police for screenings of Fanaa. Other cinema owners have refused to show the film, fearing protests.