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17/3/2010
Establishing a Green Investment Bank -- a concept suggested by all major UK political parties -- must be a top priority if Britain is to make the transition to a low-carbon economy, financial experts said yesterday.
"We have to build the ...
17/3/2010
After two years of drought, the rains now falling in Kenya are not bringing the expected relief for Kenya's farmers. Why? Erratic weather means no one knows when to put in a crop anymore.
"We are confused. It rains in the dry season. Has ...
17/3/2010
Australian scientists say they have uncovered a "causal link" between the early emergence of a common butterfly and human-induced global warming.
Dr Michael Kearney of the University of Melbourne and colleagues report their study on the ...
17/3/2010
Generating 20 percent of America's electricity with wind, as recent studies proposed, would require building up to 22,000 miles of new high-voltage transmission lines. But the huge towers and unsightly tree-cutting that these projects require ...
17/3/2010
Senior White House and Obama administration officials say they are worried the nation's economic recovery could stall if Congress doesn't pass a climate bill this year.
The officials warn that investors are so uncertain about the future ...
17/3/2010
A TRAIN hauling nearly 100 carriages crawls through a warehouse as if straining from the effort. As each carriage reaches a trigger point, its belly breaks open to spew lustrous black coal onto a conveyor belt beneath the track. The sound of the ...
17/3/2010
THE LATEST European Red List, commissioned by the EU and released yesterday, shows that habitat loss and climate change are having a serious impact on Europe`s butterflies, beetles and dragonflies.
Nine per cent of butterflies, 11 per ...
17/3/2010
Many Africans blame themselves for climate change even though fossil fuel emissions there are less than 4% of the global total, a new survey suggests.
The report, the most extensive survey ever conducted on public understanding of the ...
17/3/2010
Chinese officials said Wednesday they are investigating heightened lead levels among hundreds of children in Hunan province thought to be linked to local smelters -- one of many cases underscoring the toll pollution is taking on the health of ...
17/3/2010
U.S. environmental groups are trying to expand a climate change bill being written in the Senate to help foreign countries pay for enforcing laws they already have in place for protecting forests as one way of reducing carbon ...
17/3/2010
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce petitioned U.S. EPA yesterday for reconsideration of the agency's finding that greenhouse gases "endanger" public health and welfare, a determination that sets the stage for broad climate change ...
17/3/2010
The US solar energy industry welcomed a major new player this week with news that a company backed by billionaire media mogul and vocal environmental campaigner Ted Turner has announced plans for its first solar farm.
Turner, who founded ...
17/3/2010
The integrity of the EU's emissions trading scheme could be badly undermined unless governments resist the temptation to sell on "recycled" certified emission reduction (CERs) credits that have already been surrendered by ...
17/3/2010
Long famous as one of the world's most polluted megalopolises, gritty Mexico City is beginning to see the fruits of years of clean-up efforts and to breathe somewhat cleaner air, experts say.
"The pollution problem is still there, but it ...
17/3/2010
During the past decade, the Environmental Protection Agency's commitment to keeping children safe from the effects of pollution has lapsed, and top officials routinely ignored scores of recommendations by the agency's own children's health ...
17/3/2010
The climate change debate should be reframed in economic and security terms ahead of a year-end UN summit in Mexico seeking a binding climate deal, the president of the Maldives said Wednesday.
A price tag needs to be put on "the extent ...
17/3/2010
Australia's peak scientific body, farmers and supermarkets say they are gearing up for a new Green Revolution.
In 50 years the world's population will be more than nine billion people, supplies of fertiliser could be severely depleted, ...
17/3/2010
Climate bill supporters are leaning toward exempting big oil companies from a broader cap on greenhouse gases as a way of winning critical support from industry players and key lawmakers.
The three co-authors of the Senate climate bill ...
17/3/2010
An international gang of biologists has carried out an audacious heist, stealing valuable electrons from photosynthesising algae.The power grab could open a route to more efficient exploitation of photosynthesis to power machines: with ...
17/3/2010
The world may soon achieve something long dreamed of by governments and policymakers: higher economic growth without using more oil.
Rising efficiency, conservation and substitution are steadily reducing the amount of oil needed to fuel ...
17/3/2010
Underlining that the UN will lead the climate change negotiations, Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has rejected the possibility of a "double track" approach being adopted on Climate Change where simultaneous talks between the big economies run in ...
17/3/2010
EU carbon market authorities, exchanges and traders are scrambling to defuse the threat that trading in recycled CER carbon credits poses for the credibility of the world’s biggest carbon market. News that the Hungarian government had on-sold ...
16/3/2010
Carlos Martínez and his colleagues were enjoying soda and sandwiches in the bar, having chosen not to watch a film -- "Appaloosa,' with Ed Harris -- that was playing on overhead screens. They barely seemed to notice the arid landscape whizzing by ...
16/3/2010
Europe can meet 100 percent of its power supply from renewable sources by 2050 if countries work together and massively invest in grids and storage, experts and politicians say."This is not utopia but a vision that can be realized," ...
16/3/2010
Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono has issued new regulations, which will allow underground mining in protected areas, according to the Jakarta Post. The new rules will also allow power plants, renewable energy, and transportation such ...