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Bottled water: No longer cool?
Why drink bottled water? Packaging and shipping water consumes energy and contributes to global warming. Empty bottles add to litter and solid waste. And, as a rule, bottled water is no safer or healthier than the H2O that flows from municipal water systems.
Fortune.
26 April 2007
Industry caught in carbon smokescreen.
Companies and individuals rushing to go green have been spending millions on “carbon credit” projects that yield few if any environmental benefits.
Financial Times.
26 April 2007
China moves to shrink its carbon footprint.
While still insisting on their right to industrialize hundreds of millions of Chinese out of poverty, Chinese leaders are showing the first tentative signs of readiness to accept mandatory emissions-reductions targets.
Christian Science Monitor.
26 April 2007
China struggles to square growth and emissions.
With a new coal power plant being built there roughly every four days, China's emissions are soaring. The question is by how much. A new report says that under a "business as usual" scenario, they will triple by 2050.
Nature.
26 April 2007
California to sue EPA if it fails to act quickly on air standards.
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger on Wednesday said his administration will sue the Environmental Protection Agency if it fails to act more quickly on California's request to regulate greenhouse gas emissions from automobiles.
Associated Press.
26 April 2007
Critics blast environment plan as 'out of sync' with science.
Critics say measures proposed by the Conservative government on climate barely scratch the surface of what is needed and will leave Canada lagging well behind other countries.
Toronto Globe and Mail.
26 April 2007
Beware the carbon offsetting cowboys.
Unlike the Kyoto and EU carbon neutral markets, the voluntary market is unregulated, with no legally binding standards, giving rise to several potential problems.
Financial Times.
26 April 2007
Only mother nature knows how to fertilize the ocean.
Blooms of algae created by pumping nutrients into the ocean can suck up at least ten times more CO2 from the atmosphere than was previously thought. But the findings lend no support to controversial schemes to encourage such blooms to reduce global warming.
Nature.
26 April 2007
New technique pumps out more oil.
Carbon offsetting credits are being offered for sale to help support ‘enhanced oil recovery’ projects, in which liquid carbon dioxide is pumped into oil wells to help flush out more oil.
Financial Times.
26 April 2007
Seeing the forest for the methane.
Plant-made methane has become a slush fund for balancing the global methane budget, but how big is the account?
Environmental Science & Technology.
26 April 2007
Ice shrinks, birds migrate early in warmer Arctic.
A Norwegian glacier has shrunk on an island 1,000 km (600 miles) from the North Pole, a usually frozen fjord is ice-free and snow bunting birds have migrated back early in possible signs of global warming.
Reuters.
26 April 2007
China racing to be world's worst polluter.
China has delayed the release of a long-expected national plan on tackling global warming amid warnings that the country is set to overtake the United States as the world's biggest source of greenhouse gases this year - much earlier than forecast - because of its runaway economic growth.
Asia Times.
26 April 2007
Unseen particles may confuse climate models.
Clouds are surrounded by a 'twilight zone' of diffuse particles, invisible to the naked eye, extending for tens of kilometres around the cloud's visible portion. These vast haloes could have skewed attempts to understand how clouds influence climate.
Nature.
26 April 2007
Why burying CO2 gets wide interest.
Swedish power company Vattenfall AB is trying to rehabilitate one of the world's dirtiest yet most-used forms of energy -- coal.
Wall Street Journal.
26 April 2007
China's emissions may surpass the US in 2007.
China may become the world's greatest emitter of greenhouse gases before the end of 2007, says the International Energy Agency's chief economist. But that is not the most worrying forecast.
New Scientist.
26 April 2007
More oaks in future forests?
Isoprene, made by species such as oak, palm, and spruce trees, protects plants that produce it from the damaging effects of ozone pollution, even as it makes matters worse for other species by helping to create more ozone.
Environmental Science & Technology.
26 April 2007
Global warming and Antarctic ice is focus of multinational workshop.
The Antarctic Marine Geology Research Facility at Florida State University houses the premier collection of Antarctic sediment cores -- and a hot new acquisition will offer an international team of scientists its best look yet at the impact of global warming on oceans worldwide.
SPX.
26 April 2007
Satellites play vital role in understanding the carbon cycle.
The global carbon cycle plays a vital role in climate change and is of intense importance to policy makers, but significant knowledge gaps remain in our understanding of it.
SPX.
26 April 2007
Travelers willing to pay extra for green holidays.
Travelers from Korea, China, Germany and India are willing to pay more for holidays in Asia that are environmentally friendly, a travel survey showed.
Reuters.
26 April 2007
German G8 climate bid meeting US resistance.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel's bid to forge an international agreement on combating climate change at a G8 summit in June faces resistance from Washington.
Reuters.
26 April 2007
NASA launches satellite to study clouds.
A NASA spacecraft was launched aboard a rocket Wednesday on the first mission to study mysterious clouds that float 50 miles above Earth.
Associated Press.
26 April 2007
British Millennium flora store banks billionth seed.
Britain's Millennium Seed Bank filed away its one billionth seed on Thursday in a race against time to save the world's plants from global warming wipe-out.
Reuters.
26 April 2007
EU lawmakers agree rules to help prevent floods.
The European Parliament backed new legislation on Wednesday designed to help prevent floods, which scientists say are likely to increase in Europe as the climate warms.
Reuters.
26 April 2007
Two EU parliament seats bad for climate.
The European Union emits 20,268 extra tonnes of carbon dioxide (CO2) a year by holding parliamentary sessions in France and Belgium, according to a report on Wednesday.
Reuters.
26 April 2007
Warmer Wales 'spells doom' for Snowdonia.
Global warming will lay waste to some of the most iconic natural attractions in and around Snowdonia, experts have warned.
Cardiff Western Mail.
26 April 2007
Climate winners, losers must adapt -- German expert.
Architects in Germany must start adjusting building design to cope with global warming, while winter sports in the nation may gradually disappear, the German weather service warned on Tuesday.
Reuters.
26 April 2007
UK vineyards helped by global warming.
English wines, once the butt of mocking jokes by connoisseurs, enjoyed their best harvest for a decade as global warming created ideal conditions for grapes.
Sydney Morning Herald.
26 April 2007
Spinal Tap will make a mockery of fight to halt global warming.
The fight against global warming suffered a setback yesterday when the legendary rockers Spinal Tap announced that they are reforming to save the planet.
London Times.
26 April 2007
Move to block emissions 'swindle' DVD.
Dozens of climate scientists are trying to block the DVD release of a controversial Channel 4 programme that claimed global warming is nothing to do with human greenhouse gas emissions.
London Guardian.
26 April 2007
Dutch consider tough biofuels criteria.
On Friday, a Dutch committee will unveil stringent criteria for growing biofuels in ways that don't damage the environment or release more greenhouse gases than they save.
Associated Press.
26 April 2007
Miliband calls for worldwide 'ecological conversion'.
Climate change must be tackled through a coalition grounded in morality and ethics, the environment secretary, David Miliband, told a Vatican conference today.
London Guardian.
26 April 2007
EasyJet calls for EU to ground 'dirty' planes.
EasyJet today called on governments across Europe to ban nearly 700 of the “oldest and dirtiest” aircraft from flying in an effprt to tackle climate change.
London Times.
26 April 2007
European parliament's 'travelling circus' slammed for waste.
The commute - by plane, train or automobile - continues even as EU leaders agree that the 27-nation bloc must take the lead in the fight against climate change.
Daily Mail.
26 April 2007
Greenpeace urges poor nations to use clean energy.
Environmental group Greenpeace on Thursday urged developing Asian nations to power their growing economies with renewable energy rather than polluting fossil fuels.
Agence France-Presse.
26 April 2007
China premier to head environment panel.
Premier Wen Jiabao will head a new team aimed at ensuring China's environmental goals are met, amid a rising sense of urgency in official ranks to tackle the problem, state press reported Thursday.
Agence France-Presse.
26 April 2007
CA threatens to sue EPA over greenhouse gas regulations.
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger on Wednesday said his administration will sue the Environmental Protection Agency if it fails to act more quickly on California's request to regulate greenhouse gas emissions from automobiles.
San Francisco KCBS Radio.
26 April 2007
Film on global warming is challenged.
A group of British climate scientists is demanding changes to a skeptical documentary about global warming, saying there are grave errors in the program billed as a response to Al Gore's "An Inconvenient Truth."
Associated Press.
26 April 2007
Tackling climate change.
China may become the world's single biggest polluter sooner than you think.
Economist.
26 April 2007
China won't be top CO2 emitter this year -- official.
Reports that China is on course to become the world's top emitter of greenhouse gases this year or next are "utter nonsense", a top Chinese climate change official was quoted on Wednesday as saying.
Reuters.
26 April 2007
China rebuts carbon emission forecast.
Beijing’s top climate change official says a claim China will become the world’s larger emitter of greenhouse gases as early as this year is “complete nonsense” and an attempt to pressure the country ahead of future global negotiations.
Financial Times.
26 April 2007
WWF launches campaign for Philippine firms to cut carbon dioxide emissions.
Global warming threatens to submerge parts of Manila and wipe out entire islands, a conservation group warned Thursday, as it brought its campaign to cut carbon dioxide emissions to the Philippines.
Associated Press.
26 April 2007
Cut greenhouse emissions, says researcher Liu.
Academia Sinica researcher Liu Shao-chen yesterday called on the government to pay attention to the trend of global warming by reducing greenhouse gas emissions.
Taipei China Post.
26 April 2007
Climate just one of many related problems.
Addressing the risk of climate change is interwoven with taking a long-term view on a wider range of key issues facing Australia and developing a vision for the future, according the chairman of the Australian Davos Connection, Michael Roux.
Sydney Australian.
26 April 2007
Brawls loom on climate burdens.
The latest report by the world's pre-eminent climate change advisory body will unleash a series of diplomatic rows about the levels of emissions cuts that should be shouldered by individual countries.
Sydney Australian.
26 April 2007
Global warming hits classrooms.
The NSW Board of Studies is reviewing the kindergarten to Year 6 science and technology syllabus and will look at introducing specific classes on climate change.
Sydney Daily Telegraph.
26 April 2007
Australia's greenhouse blowout.
John Howard's stance on climate change is in tatters, with new figures confirming that Australia will exceed the Kyoto Protocol emissions targets by the end of the decade.
Sydney Daily Telegraph.
26 April 2007
Survey reveals huge concern on climate .
More than 90 per cent of people surveyed in NSW and Qld believe climate change is a vital issue, CSIRO surveys reveal.
Australian Associated Press.
26 April 2007
Brazil prepares to develop carbon market.
Brazil is the third largest source of carbon credits in the world after China and India, and the country has potential to develop further through agribusiness and hydroelectricity generation.
Financial Times.
26 April 2007
The meat of Tory emissions plan finally to be put on the bone.
Canadian voters will be positioned to pass judgment on Prime Minister Stephen Harper's four-month-old conversion to green Thursday after the Conservative government rolls out its plan for dealing with the major industrial polluters.
Edmonton Journal.
26 April 2007
Canada announces greenhouse gas targets.
Canada's Conservative government said it will cut greenhouse gas emissions 20 percent by 2020 and ban inefficient incandescent lightbulbs by 2012 as part of a national environmental initiative.
Associated Press.
26 April 2007
Canadian business: Tory green plan better than Kyoto.
Canadian business greeted the new Tory green plan with all the enthusiasm of a defendant handed a minimum sentence for his crime.
Canadian Press.
26 April 2007
Canada criticized for not meeting Kyoto targets.
Sir Richard Branson criticized the Canadian government for not acting more quickly to meet targets set out in the Kyoto Protocol.
CanWest News.
26 April 2007
Canada plans to curb gas emissions 20 percent by 2020.
Canada, which sits on the biggest oil reserves outside the Middle East, promised to cut greenhouse-gas emissions 20 percent by 2020 in a bid by the government to improve a plan that rival parties rejected.
Bloomberg News.
26 April 2007
Branson promotes green campaign.
The British entrepreneur-come-eco-warrior joined forces with Roots, MuchMusic and the local environmental group Environmental Defence today to launch his latest campaign to combat "the issue of our time" - global warming.
Toronto Star.
26 April 2007
Canada vows to cut emissions by 20 pct by 2020.
Canada aims to bring greenhouse gas emissions 20 percent below current levels by 2020 under an environment plan to be unveiled this week, the government said on Wednesday.
Reuters.
26 April 2007
Branson tells Canada to 'Flick Off', save energy.
British billionaire Richard Branson promised a music festival prize on Wednesday to the Canadian community that does the most to cut its greenhouse gas emissions in an environmental challenge called Flick Off.
Reuters.
26 April 2007
Polluters brace for crackdown.
Canada's largest industrial polluters are bracing themselves to shoulder the biggest load in the Conservative government's plan to clean up the environment.
Toronto Star.
26 April 2007
Canadian province joins California climate pact.
Canada's Pacific Coast province of British Columbia has joined five Western US states in an emerging carbon trading market spearheaded by California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger.
Reuters.
26 April 2007
Politics proves costly business.
Canada's astute politicians no longer have to read tea leaves to discover most Canadians care deeply about global warming and want to reduce carbon emissions.
Calgary Sun.
26 April 2007
Oil sands hit by climate change politics.
Alberta's oil producers are finding themselves squarely in the cross-hairs of the government's new climate change regulations, which aim to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 20 per cent by 2020, even as industry plans to triple oil sands production.
Toronto Globe and Mail.
26 April 2007
Government announces green targets.
The Harper government offered a look Wednesday at its strategy to battle global warming and the lowly lightbulb has caught their attention. The federal government's new green plan will see a country-wide ban of the inefficient bulb by 2012.
Thunder Bay Post.
26 April 2007
Learn more about how to cut carbon.
Bringing Chilliwack residents together to discuss new ways of reducing greenhouse gases and fossil fuel dependency is the goal of a public meeting Thursday night at Vedder Middle school, says organizer Graham Dalton.
Chilliwack Progress.
26 April 2007
Canada to ban traditional light bulbs.
Canada will be among the first countries in the world to ban the purchase of traditional light bulbs as part of the government's plan to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions.
Toronto Globe and Mail.
26 April 2007
Green becomes a 5-letter word.
The Ontario government's decision to help fund an edgy ad campaign against global warming is a "flicking" disgrace that shows a shocking lack of judgment, the opposition charged yesterday.
Canadian Press.
26 April 2007
Belgian adventurers reach North Pole on foot.
Belgian adventurers Alain Hubert and Dixie Dansercoer have reached the North Pole after walking for 53 days, Belgian radio station VRT reported Wednesday.
Deutsche Presse-Agentur.
26 April 2007
State may sue EPA over clean air law.
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger on Wednesday said California will sue the federal government if the state is not allowed to implement its landmark law slashing greenhouse gases from vehicles within six months.
Los Angeles Times.
26 April 2007
'08 hopefuls tout climate-change plans.
Liberal or conservative, declared or undeclared, candidates eyeing the 2008 presidential election are feeling political heat on climate change.
Christian Science Monitor.
26 April 2007
Thin ice.
From Canada's north, ground-level view of warming. As scientists work to establish the impact of global warming, explorers and hunters slogging across northern Canada and the Arctic ice cap on sled and foot are describing the realities they see on the ground.
Associated Press.
26 April 2007
Dubai-based adventurer is 'on top of the world'.
Adrian Hayes said the effects of global warming in melting the Arctic ice caps were clear to see during his trek to the North Pole.
Dubai Gulf News.
26 April 2007
Spinal Tap to reunite for Tribeca Film Fest, Live Earth concert.
Spinal Tap is back, and this time the band wants to help save the world from global warming.
Associated Press.
26 April 2007
EPA may allow states to regulate tailpipe emissions.
EPA Administrator Stephen Johnson said today his agency would move to allow California to limit car tailpipe emissions as a result of a Supreme Court ruling.
US News & World Report.
26 April 2007
British Columbia province joins California climate pact .
Canada's Pacific Coast province of British Columbia has joined five Western US states in an emerging carbon trading market spearheaded by California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger.
Reuters.
26 April 2007
Spinal Tap reunite to fight climate change.
The spoof heavy-metal band immortalised by the mock documentary "This is Spinal Tap" has reunited to join a campaign to save the world from global warming.
Reuters.
26 April 2007
House unanimously approves energy bill.
The Florida House unanimously passed an energy bill Wednesday that would provide sales tax exemptions for the purchase of hybrid vehicles and require state and local governments to construct energy-efficient buildings.
St. Petersburg Times.
26 April 2007
8th grader rides to fight global warming.
Scott O'Dell, 14, wants to stop global warming and he's starting by changing his own habits. Instead of taking the school bus to school as he normally does, O'Dell decided to ride his bike to school to increase awareness of global warming.
Hornell Evening Tribune.
26 April 2007
Don’t call them ‘green teens’.
Some teens prefer to spend their energy on important things. Like saving the planet. A project Sabrina Russo's been working on for a good part of this academic year: the effects of global warming on blue fin tuna.
Monterey County Weekly.
26 April 2007
Wave power firm hopes report calms surfing storm.
Controversy over a wave power project off the southwest coast could be calmed by a new report saying the "Wave Hub" will have less impact on surfing than feared.
Reuters.
26 April 2007
Well, watt-a-ya- know.
Mayor Bloomberg agrees with the Daily News - the city needs to turn out the lights.
New York Daily News.
26 April 2007
Scientist invents device to absorb greenhouse gases.
Klaus Lackner's invention has been called many things -- a wind scrubber, a synthetic tree, a carbon vacuum, even a giant fly swatter. The energy guru, inventor and professor at Columbia University prefers to call it an "air extractor."
Newark Star-Ledger.
26 April 2007
Governor says 'clock ticking' on EPA action to curb emissions.
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger threatened Wednesday to sue the Bush administration for delaying action on California's request to regulate greenhouse gas emissions from cars and trucks.
San Francisco Chronicle.
26 April 2007
Governor says he will sue EPA over emissions.
Frustrated by 16 months of stalling, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger announced yesterday that he plans to sue the Bush administration over its refusal to allow California to force automakers to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
San Diego Union-Tribune.
26 April 2007
Ahead of the Bell: Senate looks at coal.
A Senate subcommittee meets Thursday to discuss technologies that could help power plants burn coal more cleanly and reduce emissions of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere.
Associated Press.
26 April 2007
House approves energy, climate bill with tax breaks for hybrids.
The first $10,000 on the purchase of a hybrid or alternative fuel vehicle would be exempt from sales taxes during the next three Octobers, and ethanol and biodiesel could become more prevalent at Florida gas stations, under a wide-ranging energy plan the state House passed Wednesday.
Associated Press.
26 April 2007
Satellite blasts off to study 'night shining' clouds.
A NASA spacecraft has launched to study iridescent, silvery blue clouds at the edge of space that may be connected to global warming.
New Scientist.
26 April 2007
Virginia gets serious about saving energy.
With many elected officials at the state and federal levels of government still wringing their hands over what to do about global warming, Gov. Timothy M. Kaine acted recently to do something about it.
Lynchburg News and Advance.
26 April 2007
U.S. and Japan sign nuclear power pact.
The Bush administration's plan to rapidly expand global nuclear energy took a key step Wednesday when the government signed an agreement with Japan to conduct joint research on a new generation of reactors and a new type of nuclear fuel.
Los Angeles Times.
26 April 2007
The fight's still on, but sides look different.
The nuclear power debate that gripped the country in the 1970s and 1980s is heating up again, but don't expect a replay of the same old arguments. The nuclear industry is donning a green hat this time around.
Houston Chronicle.
26 April 2007
EPA is warned of state lawsuit.
In a rebuke of the Bush administration's environmental policy, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger threatened Wednesday to sue the federal government if it does not decide by October whether to allow California to regulate greenhouse gas emissions on new vehicles.
Sacramento Bee.
26 April 2007
Reactor of the future powered by toxic-waste.
Later this year, scientists at Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee hope to take a big step toward solving America's nuclear-waste woes. Pending clearance from the Department of Energy, they will demonstrate a new toxic-waste recycling process.
CNN.
26 April 2007
Climate solution growing in Alberta.
Five processing plants across the province would produce ethanol for cars and biodiesel for trucks, buses and tractors, if all goes according to plan.
Edmonton Journal.
26 April 2007
Test sales of biofuel to start in Tokyo metropolitan area.
It will be the first time in Japan for the biofuel--a mixture of gasoline and plant-derived ethanol--to be sold for general use in such a wide area, the Petroleum Association of Japan said.
Asahi Shimbun.
26 April 2007
Here comes the sun — and power — at Hayward's Pan Ocean.
Rows of photovoltaic cells lean toward the sky, absorbing the sun's beams and generating enough electricity to power about 20 homes.
San Leandro Daily Review.
26 April 2007
Uprooting the organic claims.
Sales of organic produce are booming on the back of alleged benefits to our health and the environment, as well as claims of higher standards of animal welfare. But are we being seduced by "feel good" claims that don't stand up to scientific scrutiny?
BBC.
26 April 2007
Businesses see the 'eco' logic.
Buses at Santa Clarita' s Transit Maintenance Facility are parked underneath a canopy with solar paneling on top, and workers enjoy a cool building with straw insulation and plenty of natural lighting.
Van Nuys Signal.
26 April 2007
Farming a local economy.
Most people probably don't look into a salad and see a bowl of world travelers. But ask Brook LeVan of Sustainable Settings. He'll tell you the typical salad hitches up to 2,000 miles to make it to your fork.
Aspen Daily News.
26 April 2007
Flying lab will study dust in Asian deserts.
Vast plumes of fine-grained desert sand and pollution sweep constantly from Asia across the Pacific and over North America, darkening skies along the way and affecting the weather and global warming.
San Francisco Chronicle.
26 April 2007
Torrential rain causes havoc in China.
Sudden torrential downpours in China's southeastern province of Guangdong destroyed more than 1,300 houses and forced 20,000 people from their homes, the official Xinhua agency reported late on Monday.
Reuters.
26 April 2007
Limiting industry's energy use.
Improving energy efficiency and using cleaner-burning fuels are simple first steps for companies to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions, yet many U.S. businesses could do more. To address this, the U.S. EPA has issued a new report.
Environmental Science & Technology.
26 April 2007
Utah power plant idea not 'cool' enough?
A group of municipal utilities is moving ahead with plans to add a coal-fired power plant despite a dwindling customer list and opposition from environmental groups and doctors who want Utah to switch to cleaner power.
Associated Press.
26 April 2007
DuPont shareholders reject accountability proposals.
DuPont shareholders today overwhelmingly defeated a host of proposals seeking more information from the company on issues including genetically modified food, global warming and PFOA, a controversial chemical used in the production of Teflon and other products.
Associated Press.
26 April 2007
