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D.C. area sees spike in rate of emissions.
The Washington area is in the middle of a carbon dioxide binge, with emissions of this greenhouse gas from vehicles and electricity users having increased at more than twice the national rate between 2001 and 2005.
Washington Post.
29 April 2007
Germany to become world's most energy-efficient country.
The German Environment Ministry this week unveiled a set of highly ambitious proposals that would lead Germany to become the world's most energy-efficient country in the coming years.
Deutsche Welle.
29 April 2007
In mosquito, a small tale of climate change.
In a woodsy bog on the road between Millinocket and Baxter State Park, a mosquito that can barely fly is emerging as one of climate change's early winners. The insect, which lives in the carnivorous purple pitcher plant, is genetically adapting to a warming world.
Boston Globe.
29 April 2007
Environmental guru energizes Canadians.
An internment camp for Japanese Canadians was an unlikely place to start for the man now embraced by Canada as a national icon, voted one of the country's "Greatest Canadians."
Washington Post.
29 April 2007
A starring role for ‘green’ construction.
Not too long ago, the concept of “green” building was discounted as impractical, something that might be good for the environment but not necessarily for the business climate. But that mind-set is changing rapidly.
New York Times.
29 April 2007
Carbon-neutral is hip, but is it green?
The rush to go on a carbon diet, even if by proxy, is in overdrive.
New York Times.
29 April 2007
Buying carbon-neutral.
Google the term “carbon neutral” and any number of businesses pop up, offering, for a fee, to offset carbon emissions.
New York Times.
29 April 2007
Trap gases and save the planet, says new report.
A worldwide programme to capture greenhouse gases from power stations and factories could be humanity’s best chance of saving itself from climate change, a report will say this week.
London Times.
29 April 2007
Carbon emissions: Improved monitoring of rainforests helps pierce haze of deforestation.
Deforestation produces a significant amount of greenhouse gas emissions through burning, clearing, and decay. But exactly how much?
Science.
29 April 2007
Warming to the challenge of climate change.
Having helped seize the world's attention on global warming, a UN expert is uniquely placed to map the fight against it.
Chicago Tribune.
29 April 2007
Automakers to wrap up emissions case Monday.
If the auto industry's testimony in U.S. District Court in Burlington is to be believed, prospects are dim for slashing greenhouse gas emissions from American cars and trucks in the next decade.
Burlington Free Press.
29 April 2007
Tourist trap.
There's a new threat to the Arctic: champagne tourism. Tens of thousands of visitors want to see the amazing ice floes and majestic wild life but can a landscape, already threatened by climate change, really cope?
London Guardian.
29 April 2007
State to create pollution tracking system.
The state will create a system to track pollution as part of a new law that addresses global warming.
Associated Press.
29 April 2007
Legislators to take up bill to fight warming.
Pressure is mounting on Oregon lawmakers to take a lead on climate change issues.
Associated Press.
29 April 2007
Climate change talks grow in importance.
As the world warms and scientists' warnings grow urgent, climate negotiators are counting down toward make-or-break talks later this year, hoping for progress on a long-term deal to sharply reduce greenhouse-gas emissions.
Associated Press.
29 April 2007
Costs of cutting greenhouse gases expected to take center stage at talks.
The costs of cutting greenhouse gases and who will pay for doing it are likely to be the key issues at a major U.N.-backed climate change meeting of scientists and diplomats in the Thai capital this week, participants said Sunday.
Associated Press.
29 April 2007
Scientists struggle to predict global warming future.
While scientists say they now know what caused the most rapid global warming in known geological history, predicting what lies in the planet’s future is a tough call.
San Francisco KCBS Radio.
29 April 2007
Panel links climate change to new national security threat.
Concern is growing that global warming could foster terrorism worldwide and draw our armed forces into messy regional conflicts in Africa, Asia and Latin America.
Associated Press.
29 April 2007
UN facing a backlash on emissions action plan.
Environmental groups go on the attack as world experts reveal proposals to tackle climate change.
London Observer.
29 April 2007
UN panel to offer steps to fight climate change.
The world's leading climate scientists are to meet in Bangkok from Monday to set out ways of minimising the damage to the Earth as rising temperatures dramatically affect life as we know it.
Agence France-Presse.
29 April 2007
Orbiting giant sunshade gets thumbs down from climate scientists.
Unconventional schemes for tackling global warming by installing a giant sunshade in orbit, sowing the seas with iron and scattering sulphur into the upper atmosphere are set to be bluntly rejected by UN experts this week.
Agence France-Presse.
29 April 2007
Antarctic treaty meeting begins tomorrow.
India's case for setting up another research base in Antarctica and concerns about tourism and its effects on the environment are some of the issues that will come up at the 30th Antarctic Treaty Consultative Meet beginning here tomorrow.
The Hindu.
29 April 2007
The hottest April since records began.
Much of Britain will bask in scorching 22C temperatures today as the Met Office confirmed last night that April 2007 will be the warmest since records began in 1659.
London Independent.
29 April 2007
Britain sizzles in record heatwave.
Sunseekers are expected to pack Britain's beaches again today as the country enjoys the hottest day of the year so far - with temperatures soaring to 25C.
London Sunday Mirror.
29 April 2007
China dream a nightmare for climate change.
The problem for the world as it tries to tackle climate change is that more than one billion Chinese want to live the China dream of a modern upper class lifestyle.
Agence France-Presse.
29 April 2007
U.S., China should take lead in global pollution solutions.
Almost everywhere one turns today in China, the environmental consequences of the country's economic juggernaut are evident.
San Jose Mercury News.
29 April 2007
Scientists peer into past to understand climate change.
Secrets about the earth's climate over the past 10,000 years could be unravelled as scientists at Goa's National Centre for Antarctic and Ocean Research study ice cores obtained from Antarctica.
The Hindu.
29 April 2007
Green economics.
You can call it heart-warming. When the whole world is crying hoarse about global warming, Indian corporates are increasingly turning eco-friendly — from planting trees to using energy saving lighting systems to constructing smart eco-friendly buildings and what have you.
Bombay Economic Times.
29 April 2007
A hot summer is a mere mirage!
Every summer you feel as if the last one was a lot better – but then there’s nothing on record to substantiate the perception of hot days.
Goa Herald.
29 April 2007
Howard's nuclear strategy to pressure opposition.
As Labor prepares to debate its new uranium mining and nuclear policy on the floor of the party's national conference in Sydney today, the Prime Minister will use climate change and job-creation arguments to put further pressure on a divided Opposition.
Sydney Australian.
29 April 2007
Cheap loan plan to green homes.
Families will be able to borrow up to $10,000 in low interest loans under a $300 million Labor plan to give Australians access to rainwater tanks, solar panels and other initiatives to combat climate change.
Australian Associated Press.
29 April 2007
Kyoto target means little to gauge gas emission cuts.
The sweet deal the Howard Government struck for Australia at the Kyoto Protocol negotiations means there is little practical difference between the 1990 and 2000 benchmarks for measuring cuts in greenhouse gas emissions.
Sydney Australian.
29 April 2007
Greens clamour to be heard.
The accelerated mainstreaming of the public debate on climate change and the growing acceptance of the need for substantial policy reform are driving a new type of competitive environmentalism.
Sydney Australian.
29 April 2007
Labor loans for green homes.
About 200,000 households will be able to get cheap loans of up to $10,000 from a Labor government to install solar panels, water tanks and other ''green'' climate friendly devices.
Sydney Morning Herald.
29 April 2007
Gore blasts green plan.
Global warming crusader Al Gore has put the Conservative government in his climate change crosshairs, lambasting the feds' recently released green plan. Gore yesterday slammed the Conservatives' environmental plan as a fraud.
Calgary Sun.
29 April 2007
Canada lagging many countries on climate fight.
Just as Environment Minister John Baird was bragging that Canada now has one of the "most aggressive" anti-climate change plans in the world, Denmark's energy minister was inadvertently helping to punch holes in the claim.
Canadian Press.
29 April 2007
Gore blasts Canada's greenhouse-gas plan.
Environmental crusader and former US vice president Al Gore on Saturday accused the Canadian government of preparing a fraudulent emissions cutback plan, drawing a sharp response from Ottawa.
Agence France-Presse.
29 April 2007
'Benefits always outweigh costs.'
Adds John Bennett, of Climate for Change, a new Ottawa-based non-profit organization devoted to climate change issues: "When it came to putting money in to make it work, they haven't done that."
Edmonton Journal.
29 April 2007
Still within our grasp.
Discouraging inaction on the federal front gives Ontario an opportunity to lead the way on climate change.
Toronto Star.
29 April 2007
Gore calls green plan a 'fraud'.
The Conservative government has taken the easy route and produced an environmental plan that is a "complete and total fraud" on the Canadian public, former U.S. vice-president Al Gore told a Toronto audience yesterday.
Toronto Star.
29 April 2007
Al Gore says Tories' green plan a 'fraud'.
The Conservatives' new environmental platform is a "complete and total fraud" that is "designed to mislead the Canadian people," former U.S. vice-president Al Gore said Saturday.
Canadian Press.
29 April 2007
UW conference will address the ethics of climate change.
For activist-scholar Paul Baer, a University of Washington professor, limiting global warming won't happen unless a worldwide system is established that's fair to rich and poor countries alike.
Seattle Times.
29 April 2007
Fighting sea rise 'a public policy decision'.
Most of Hutchinson and Orchid islands are flooded, including areas surrounding the St. Lucie Nuclear Plant. So are parts of Stuart, Vero Beach, the Fort Pierce waterfront, and the Town of St. Lucie Village, which has stood since the mid-19th century.
TC Palm.
29 April 2007
Gore urges area students to take lead on environment.
Al Gore on Friday afternoon addressed 3,500 high school students from 80 area high schools at the University of Buffalo with a call to reverse climate change.
Buffalo News.
29 April 2007
Low-energy bulbs increasingly in limelight.
Fluorescent lights went in, and incandescent bulbs went out, at Juan and Paty Garcia's home in Turlock four years ago. They are among the people who have found that fluorescents use about a quarter of the energy needed for conventional lighting.
McClatchy Newspapers.
29 April 2007
Coal producers seeking U.S. help cleaning up.
Coal-fired power plants that don’t contribute to global warming will take 15 years and require “significantly” higher levels of government funding, according to a draft report from the largest U.S. coal producers and users.
Bloomberg News.
29 April 2007
Tourism's future must be green, experts say.
Governments, hotels and major tourism operators must take the lead in boosting environmentally friendly tourism, which has yet to make a major impact on the industry, experts said at a recent United Nations-backed conference on climate change.
Agence France-Presse.
29 April 2007
Online greenhouse gas calculator used in Australia.
Australian cotton farmers are using the Internet to become more environmentally friendly. Through their computers, they've unearthed an unexpected carbon dioxide culprit.
Beijing CCTV.
29 April 2007
To plant or not to plant . . .
Try telling a man who's been in the tree-planting circuit for 24 years about a new report claiming that tree-planting in northern climes could do more harm than good in the fight against global warming and you get a troubled man who dismisses the science as hogwash.
Calgary Sun.
29 April 2007
Science on the seas.
Two labs, home to at least one scientist and a technician each week, represent an unusual partnership between the cruising industry and a university as part of an effort to understand how ocean currents interact with climate change.
Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel.
29 April 2007
Anti-sprawl laws receive tepid review.
State Assembly Bill 842, authored by a Sacramento-area legislator, asks that regional growth plans require people in newly developed areas to drive 10 percent less than people in the rest of the region.
Oakland Tribune.
29 April 2007
Climate meet 'will recommend nuclear.'
The United Nations Inter-governmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) which gathers in Bangkok this week is expected to throw its weight behind nuclear energy as a means of mitigating global warming, media reports said Sunday.
Bangkok Post.
29 April 2007
The fuel future.
Instead of spending $20,000 for a storage tanker for their pilot biodiesel refinery farm, Thompson Butz and his three brothers found a used tanker on e-Bay for $1,000 and drove to Massachusetts to retrieve it.
Frederick News-Post.
29 April 2007
Critics: Biodiesel might not be worth the energy.
Producing ethanol and biodiesel from corn and other crops may not be worth the energy. The study demonstrated that turning plants, such as corn, soybeans and sunflowers into fuel uses much more energy than the resulting ethanol or biodiesel generates.
Frederick News-Post.
29 April 2007
Wind farms a winner.
If somebody had mentioned wind farms 70 years ago, it might have been considered a bad joke.
Chillicothe Gazette.
29 April 2007
Green foods equal green dollars for grocers.
Supermarkets are spurred by a voracious consumer demand that has pushed organic food sales from about $3.6 billion in 1997 to $14.6 billion in 2005, according to the latest industry data.
Galveston County Daily News.
29 April 2007
Old hands at energy efficiency.
Biggs, 79, and his wife, Margaret, 78, have made a point of making their homes energy efficient since the 1973 oil crisis, when there were long lines at the gas pump - sometimes with no gas left - and the cost of heating oil soared.
Hagerstown Herald-Mail.
29 April 2007
Labor 'illogical' over nuke stance.
State Labor governments have lined up to reject nuclear power stations in their backyards after Prime Minister John Howard announced a strong push to build them.
Melbourne Sunday Herald Sun.
29 April 2007
Australia’s drought, rainfall send mixed signals.
While the Australian government plays down any link between the current severe drought and global warming, the Australian Bureau of Meteorology is "reasonably confident" climate change is taking place.
Epoch Times.
29 April 2007
No logic to labor's nuclear stance: govt.
The federal government has accused Labor of hypocrisy by voting to expand uranium mining but opposing nuclear power. State Labor governments have lined up to reject nuclear power stations in their backyards after Prime Minister John Howard announced a strong push to build them.
Australian Associated Press.
29 April 2007
PM says Australians understand need for atomic power.
Prime Minister John Howard said Sunday his pledge to pave the way for nuclear power in Australia was not politically risky because the public understands that atomic energy is necessary to combat global warming.
International Herald Tribune.
29 April 2007
Labor ends 25-year opposition to new uranium mines.
Kevin Rudd has won his party's support for an expansion of uranium mining, arguing that some nations have to use nuclear power because they do not have the rich range of energy alternatives that Australia has at its disposal.
Sydney Australian.
29 April 2007
No need for nuke power in Vic: Baillieu.
Mr Baillieu spoke outside the Victorian Liberal state council where he said the state's future low-emission energy needs could be met with "clean coal" technology, and not nuclear power.
Australian Associated Press.
29 April 2007
How roads promote climate change -- and cost us 26% of our tax bill.
The degradation of Bronson Avenue helps to explain why climate change is an issue for Ottawa: roads, sprawl, diesel buses, fewer trees, pollution, shortage of money -- it's all connected.
Ottawa Citizen.
29 April 2007
Anti-sprawl laws receive tepid review.
As progressive-minded as the Bay Area is, one might expect regional transportation planners to embrace a law aimed at limiting suburban sprawl, relieving congestion and fighting global warming.
Tri-Valley Herald.
29 April 2007
Fourth nuclear reactor planned for Del. river.
The last time the federal government considered how dangerous the Salem, N.J., nuclear complex could be, it came to this conclusion: In the unlikely case of a meltdown, 100,000 people in the region would die within one year, with 75,000 injuries and 40,000 later deaths to cancer.
Wilmington News Journal.
29 April 2007
Environmentalist saying goodbye to Volusia County.
North Causeway resident Lee Bidgood just needs to look out his back window to remember how he began his long journey as a local environmental advocate. Bidgood also is constantly reminded why he got involved, as he and his wife of 58 years, Catherine, watch manatees cruising down the canal behind their home.
Daytona Beach News-Journal.
29 April 2007
Kane County starts Earthfest.
Although largely an economic development initiative, the event - which organizers hope will be an annual one - also will have a scientific orientation designed to enhance understanding of the plateau's distinct ecology.
Salt Lake Tribune.
29 April 2007
Environmental group: Key is less trash, not a bigger dump.
The environmental group Sustainable Novato is taking on a simmering issue: the future of the Redwood Landfill.
Marin Independent Journal.
29 April 2007
Chernobyl reminds us that nukes are not green.
Twenty-one years ago this week, lethal radiation poured into the breezes over Europe and into the jet stream above, carrying death and disease around the planet.
Columbus Free Press.
29 April 2007
Climate may be right for agency devoted to it.
You can't go two days without hearing how global climate change is threatening national security, endangering Florida, creating more hurricanes, upsetting the delicate balance of Earth, or, if you prefer, a crackpot conspiracy.
St. Petersburg Times.
29 April 2007
Sustainable Living: A cleaner Earth? Start with your street.
You might remember the commercial that featured a beautiful landscape trashed with litter, and a Native American man with a tear rolling down his weathered cheek.
Middletown Times Herald-Record.
29 April 2007
