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A forest of change.
Scientists have long thought it would take generations if not centuries for tree populations to shift in response to a warming world. But new research suggests that climate change might affect New England forests far sooner.
Boston Globe.
17 March 2008
Letting nature clear the air.
Photosynthesis is being enlisted as California gradually reshapes forest management into an ally in the campaign to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and prevent severe climatic disruptions.
San Diego Union-Tribune.
17 March 2008
Climate change could turn Ireland's green to brown.
Forty shades of beige? Climate change could turn Ireland's legendary emerald landscape a dusty tan, with profound effects on its society and culture, a new study released in time for St. Patrick's Day reported.
Reuters.
17 March 2008
EPA says carbon caps won't harm economy much.
The leading congressional proposal to cap carbon emissions could be implemented without significantly harming U.S. economic growth over the next two decades, an analysis by the Bush administration concludes.
Wall Street Journal.
17 March 2008
World sanitation goals slip; nature can help.
Judged by its sewers, the world is not doing well. Only 3 in 10 people now have a connection to a public sewerage system. And with the world's population expanding, a goal of improving sanitation by 2015 is slipping out of reach.
Reuters.
17 March 2008
Vanished 'bridge' jolts ice pack.
Canada's largest research project in International Polar Year has been forced to switch gears because Arctic sea ice is disappearing faster than anyone imagined.
Toronto Star.
17 March 2008
Health chiefs warn of invasion of blood-sucking tick which causes paralysis and death.
Rising temperatures have helped tick-borne encephalitis take hold in 27 European countries - 16 more than just two years ago.
Daily Mail.
17 March 2008
Will a warmer Ireland wear a lot less green?
Just in time for St. Patrick's Day, Irish and American scientists have published a report on how global warming is slowly changing Ireland - including in ways that are being seen in Virginia.
Hampton Roads Virginian-Pilot.
17 March 2008
Lawsuit seeks relocation of Native Alaska village.
A tiny and impoverished Alaskan village of Inupiat Eskimos located in the Arctic Circle, Kivalina, filed a lawsuit March 4 against industrial corporations that emit large quantities of greenhouse gases.
Indian Country Today.
17 March 2008
Thaw of world's glaciers quickens to new record - UN.
A thaw of the world's glaciers has accelerated to a new record with some of the biggest losses within Europe, in a worrying sign of climate change, the UN Environment Programme said on Sunday.
Reuters.
17 March 2008
Glaciers suffer record shrinkage.
The rate at which some of the world's glaciers are melting has more than doubled, data from the United Nations Environment Programme has shown.
BBC.
17 March 2008
Climate change warnings & international security.
The risks posed by climate change are real and its impacts are already taking place.
Scoop.
17 March 2008
Thaw and order.
Scene of the crime. Glacier Bay National Park. The crime: Global warming. Intergovernmental investigators have ID’d the perpetrator: it’s us.
Great Lakes Radio Consortium.
17 March 2008
World's glaciers are melting fast.
Glaciers are shrinking at record rates and many could disappear within decades, the UN Environment Programme said on Sunday.
South African Press Association.
17 March 2008
Glaciers shrinking rapidly.
Glaciers are shrinking at record rates and many could disappear within decades, the U.N. Environment Program said Sunday.
Associated Press.
17 March 2008
Savings in the sun.
Growing interest in the concepts of global warming and energy independence are providing a boon for California's emerging green economy.
Long Beach Press-Telegram.
17 March 2008
Carbon-trading exchange opens in New York.
The New Green Exchange — a part of the New York Mercantile Exchange — launches Monday with an offering of futures contracts tied to the cost of pollution in Europe.
Morning Edition.
17 March 2008
British company to build world’s largest tidal power scheme .
A British firm has agreed to build a giant tidal power scheme - the world’s largest - in South Korea, using underwater turbines that experts say could make the proposed £15 billion Severn Barrage obsolete.
London Daily Telegraph.
17 March 2008
Europe's next green thing.
While wind and solar have dominated the recent rush to invest in renewables, market watchers reckon it could now be marine energy's turn to shine.
Der Spiegel.
17 March 2008
Agencies looking to develop power from within the Earth.
Heat that’s been trapped for eons beneath the Earth’s surface could be used to power a growing amount of city work if state energy regulators approve a San Francisco grant application.
San Francisco Examiner.
17 March 2008
Growing greener.
For cities, being “green” — that is, reducing pollution and energy use — encompasses everything from protecting ecosystems to instituting recycling programs to getting people out of cars into public transportation, and that takes time and effort.
Tuscaloosa News.
17 March 2008
'Green' Bamburi to switch to biomass energy.
Bamburi Cement Group is turning to biomass to reduce carbon dioxide emissions.
Nairobi Nation.
17 March 2008
The 'naked truth' about telecommuting.
Global warming often has been cited as another reason - besides traffic congestion and air pollution - for joining a car pool, taking mass transit to the office or working closer to home. Now it is being cited as a reason for working at home.
San Diego North County Times.
17 March 2008
Carbon-trading system recommended.
The debate over which is better -- a carbon tax or a carbon trading system -- is unlikely to be resolved anytime soon. And in the end, the answer may be that both are needed, delegates to the Globe 2008 conference heard Friday in Vancouver.
Vancouver Sun.
17 March 2008
Building green vital for climate, panel says.
Making buildings greener is the easiest, quickest and cheapest way to reduce greenhouse gases, a panel at Globe 2008 told delegates Friday in Vancouver.
Vancouver Sun.
17 March 2008
Drivers to be offered incentives in £15m move to limit car use.
Free bus and train tickets and cut-price bicycles could be offered to drivers to slash car use under radical plans being launched today.
Edinburgh Scotsman.
17 March 2008
Indigenous people can offer climate change solutions: IUCN.
Honduras' Quezungal farmers have an age-old trick to protect their crops from hurricanes -- planting them under trees whose roots would anchor the soil, thereby holding the crops steady.
Agence France-Presse.
17 March 2008
The mighty microbe.
While scientists have determined that humans probably are warming the world, it's Earth's microscopic inhabitants that may have even bigger climate clout.
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.
17 March 2008
BA jumbos fly 15,000 miles with no passenger.
British Airways was criticised last night for operating at least three long-haul "ghost flights" totalling 15,000 miles with no passengers on board in little over a week.
London Daily Telegraph.
17 March 2008
'Green' bills get states' attention.
Kansas and Missouri lawmakers are trying to go green this year but, so far anyway, it looks to be a pretty pale shade.
Kansas City Star.
17 March 2008
G20 climate talks end divided.
The Group of 20 environment and energy ministers vowed Sunday to continue their fight against global warming but fell short of reaching a consensus on a framework to succeed the 1997 Kyoto Protocol.
Japan Times.
17 March 2008
Top polluters divided on climate change goals.
The world's top 20 greenhouse gas emitters agreed Sunday to work together to draft a successor to the Kyoto Protocol but rich and developing nations remained divided on their roles.
Agence France-Presse.
17 March 2008
G20 nations discuss shape of post-Kyoto pact.
The world's major greenhouse gas emitters headed into a final session of talks on Sunday on the shape of a post-Kyoto Protocol climate pact, with Japan's aim to promote sectoral caps for industry under fire.
Reuters.
17 March 2008
Government figures hide scale of CO2 emissions, says report.
Britain's climate change emissions may be 12% higher than officially stated, according to a National Audit Office investigation which has strongly criticised the government for using two different carbon accounting systems.
London Guardian.
17 March 2008
Senator remains tireless in push for energy policy.
State Senator Ellen Anderson's become the Senate's most aggressive leader on energy issues — prodding and pushing colleagues to move away from fossil fuels such as coal and oil to cleaner options, and to embrace the idea that global warming is real and the state must respond quickly and aggressively.
St. Paul Pioneer Press.
17 March 2008
Lights off along Roxas Blvd for Earth Hour.
The Pasay City government will turn off all lights along Roxas Boulevard’s seaside strip from 8 p.m. to 9 p.m. on March 29 as its participation in Earth Hour, a global movement that uses the simple action of turning off the lights and electrical gadgets for an hour to deliver a message about the need for a concerted action against global warming.
Manila Today.
17 March 2008
Cowra residents encouraged to take part in Earth Hour.
Cowra Council is encouraging members of the local community to get on board for the 2nd annual Earth Hour event to be held at 8.00pm on Saturday March 29th.
Cowra Guardian.
17 March 2008
Australia confronts cold facts.
The Minister for Climate Change, Penny Wong, warns the Government's plan to cut greenhouse gases will produce the biggest shake-up to the economy in decades, and has promised by July to set how households and businesses will be hit.
Sydney Morning Herald.
17 March 2008
Green paper on costs of offsets.
Businesses making multi-billion-dollar investment decisions in a green paper will know by December what emissions trading will cost them under a strict timeline to be unveiled today by the Rudd Government.
Sydney Australian.
17 March 2008
Australia to have carbon trading scheme by 2010: minister.
Australia will have a carbon emissions trading scheme in place by 2010, under a plan released Monday by the minister for climate change, Penny Wong.
Agence France-Presse.
17 March 2008
G20 climate-change meeting concludes without concrete agreement.
The Group of 20 4th Ministerial meeting of the Gleneagles Dialogue on Climate Change, Clean Energy and Sustainable Development concluded here on Sunday as differences between developed and developing nations on how to share greenhouse gas emissions reduction responsibilities remained unsolved.
Xinhua News Agency.
17 March 2008
Blair says global climate talks need new initiative.
Former British prime minister Tony Blair urged the world's top greenhouse gas emitters on Saturday to launch a revolution to fight climate change and said he'll work to sell a new global framework to slash carbon emissions.
Reuters.
17 March 2008
Greenhouse gas reduction plan has 'loopholes.'
Federal government steps to regulate the release of greenhouse gases created by industry will not enable Canada to cut emissions by the new, lower target replacing the Kyoto Accord, local and national critics say.
Northumberland Today.
17 March 2008
$1m prize for climate change professor.
A British scientist has won a $1m (£500,000) international award for his work on using chemical fossils to understand past climatic change. Prof Geoffrey Eglinton of Bristol University will be awarded the Dan David prize on May 19 at Tel Aviv University in Israel, at a ceremony attended by the country's president Shimon Peres.
London Guardian.
17 March 2008
Climate change and cyber attacks among security threats.
Gordon Brown this week is expected to reveal a long-delayed national security strategy setting out a wide range of threats facing Britain and how the government intends to tackle them.
London Guardian.
17 March 2008
US $22 billion eco-project opened in Abu Dhabi.
The United Arab Emirates, which has one of the largest per capita carbon footprints in the world, opened a US$22 billion eco-city project in Abu Dhabi in February 2008.
UN IRIN.
17 March 2008
Global warming skeptics plot new strategies.
Several hundred global warming skeptics and deniers gathered in the beginning of March at the Marriott New York Marquis Times Square Hotel in New York City for The 2008 International Conference on Climate Change.
Scoop.
17 March 2008
Water in dams, reservoirs preventing sea-level rise.
Dams and reservoirs have stored so much water over the past several decades that they have masked surging sea levels, a new study says.
Astana Kazinform.
17 March 2008
Global warming 'not to blame' for drought.
A new research report claims to prove the cause of droughts in south eastern Australia is regional dimming over South East Asia caused by that region's widespread rainforest fires, rather than global warming.
North Queensland Register.
17 March 2008
Nuclear industry wants a reboot.
Stoked by new federal subsidies and worries over global warming, the nuclear power industry is beginning to glow brightly once again.
San Luis Obispo Tribune.
17 March 2008
Energy 'collapse' will force nuclear use, says expert.
A professor of geology has warned there will be no option other than embracing nuclear power in Australia when other energy sources collapse.
ABC News.
17 March 2008
Use leftovers or we could soon be running on empty.
The YMCA is just the kind of active local charitable organisation that would be ideal to convert its short-range transport to run on rotting sprout stalks, potato peelings and grass clippings.
Liverpool Daily Post.
17 March 2008
Local team building 'super-car'.
When a team of Arizona engineers and mechanics are finished tricking out a 1980s Chevy Blazer, it will get at least 100 miles per gallon, accelerate from 0 to 60 mph in at least 12 seconds, and emit a fraction of the carbon emissions of a regular car.
Havasu News-Herald.
17 March 2008
Green group slams proposed Payatas biogas plant.
A group of environmentalists Monday questioned the Quezon City government’s plan to open a biogas plant in Payatas, saying that it has yet to implement the long overdue closure of the dump in the area.
Philippine Daily Inquirer.
17 March 2008
Is Brazil's Green Revolution killing the green?
Despite the multitude of approaches that have been suggested to deal with the developing energy crisis, the universal consensus that the world's oil supply will shortly be depleted leaves a number of countries engaged in an active search for new alternative energy.
Brazzil.
17 March 2008
State criticizes U.S. on ozone limits.
The head of the federal Environmental Protection Agency ignited a firestorm of protest last week when he announced that the agency was tightening its restrictions on ozone -- but not as much as his own scientists had recommended.
Cherry Hill Courier-Post.
17 March 2008
