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29/8/2008
Hubert Kokuluk squints with his one good eye to examine the tiny polar bear he has just carved from a fragment of walrus tusk. He isn't happy with the yellowish hue, but good ivory is hard to come by these days, since quickly melting sea ice has ...
29/8/2008
Ten dollars a gallon may seem unthinkable to American drivers still smarting
from the spike in gas prices to around $4 a gallon. But that was nearly the
price that Marco Annarumi faced recently when filling his Jeep on his way home
from ...
29/8/2008
THE long battle over the proposed Tasmanian pulp mill may soon be over, with proponent Gunns unable to give an assurance that the controversial project will proceed.
In a marked change of tone, the timber company last night told the ...
29/8/2008
The Australian government is seeking to introduce one of the world's most inclusive carbon trading schemes by 2010 but needs the support of big business, which fears emissions trading will make them less competitive.
Energy Minister ...
29/8/2008
The city of Austin, Tex., approved plans on Thursday for a huge plant that will burn waste wood to make electricity, the latest sign of rising interest in a long-dormant form of renewable energy.
When completed in 2012, the East Texas ...
29/8/2008
Papua New Guinea will draw up a detailed plan to improve power supply in the country where 90% of the population still has no electricity.
The Japan Special Fund, administered by the Asian Development Bank (ADB), is providing a $1.2 ...
29/8/2008
Australia's fossil fuel emissions are growing more than four times faster than figures quoted by the Federal Government, placing Australia's Kyoto target at risk.
Figures published online yesterday by one of the world's top authorities ...
29/8/2008
The government is looking to get India's 'national solar mission' underway with steps to set up research-industry partnerships, tariff structures and tax breaks to citizens aimed at promoting competitiveness and even seed 'solar valleys' for ...
29/8/2008
A majority of Europeans back planned legislation to enforce big cuts in carbon dioxide emissions from new cars, a public opinion poll in the European Union's five biggest countries showed on Thursday.
The survey, carried out by the TNS ...
29/8/2008
Environment groups demanded on Friday that Australia ignore the "greenhouse mafia" as major energy and mining companies met the government to demand greater compensation for a coming emissions trading regime.
The government is planning ...
29/8/2008
Gordon Brown faces an embarrassing defeat at next month's Labour Party conference over the Government's refusal to impose a windfall tax on the energy companies.
Supporters of a one-off raid on energy firms to fund help for people paying ...
29/8/2008
Toyota Motor Corp cut its 2009 vehicle sales forecast by nearly 7 percent as high fuel prices hammer demand for large cars and pickup trucks, and said it will speed up the rollout of hybrid and electric cars as their popularity ...
29/8/2008
CLIMATE change is a global problem requiring a global solution. And, as Ross Garnaut has observed, the roadblock to a global solution is the prisoners' dilemma or free rider problem: if we all wait for others to act first, nothing gets ...
28/8/2008
Evidence that Earth's climate continues to heat up comes this week in the form of satellite data that shows the extent of Arctic sea ice this year has shrunk below the 2005 minimum to stand as the second-smallest since observations from space ...
28/8/2008
Xcel Energy is one of five big electric companies targeted last fall by New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo. Using a New York state law, he subpoenaed them to determine whether their reports to the Securities and Exchange Commission -- the ...
28/8/2008
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28/8/2008
The British government should end subsidies for biofuels and instead use the funds to slow destruction of rainforests and tropical peatlands argues a new report issued by a U.K.-based think tank.
The study, titled "The Root of the ...
28/8/2008
More ominous signs Wednesday have scientists saying a global-warming "tipping point" in the Arctic seems to be happening before their eyes: Sea ice in the Arctic Ocean is at its second- lowest level in about 30 years.
The National Snow ...
28/8/2008
Rich countries are pushing developing nations with the strongest economies to do far more to combat climate change, opening a faultline between rich and poor in U.N. talks on global warming.
The European Union, for instance, says that ...
28/8/2008
Palm oil companies operating in Indonesia have opposed any moratorium on forest and peat land conversions, saying it will play havoc with the industry and the national economy.
The Indonesian Palm Oil Producers Association (GAPKI) said ...
28/8/2008
They are the fiercest economic rivals as well as neighbours that infrequently spar over international borders. But the 'Hindi-Chini bhai bhai' bonding is hard to miss at the climate change talks in Accra.
Their close coordination, ...
28/8/2008
It`s getting down to the wire: Will the Arctic ice cap`s annual melt-off this year top last year`s record?
In one sense, it`s a trivial 'horse race' question, because at this point in the summer, stats for the two years are sufficiently ...
28/8/2008
The transition from the mostly ice-free Greenland of three million years ago, to the ice-covered region that we see today, can be attributed to changes in the carbon dioxide (CO2) levels.
Though there have been many reports in the media ...
28/8/2008
Climatologists poring over Greenland's ancient past say global cooling, unleashed by a fall in atmospheric greenhouse gases, caused the vast island to ice over around three million years ago.
In a study released Wednesday, the British ...
28/8/2008
Canada, criticized by environmentalists for not adequately protecting polar bears from the effects of climate change, said on Thursday it will take more time study its next step.
A scientific panel on Thursday released detailed findings ...