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Energy: Only nuclear dreams mushrooming.
The proposal by the Paris-based International Energy Agency for more than 1,400 nuclear power plants to be built over the next 40 years is unfeasible, environmental activists say.
Inter Press Service.
13 June 2008
More disease outbreaks in Europe with climate change: experts.
Europe could face an increase in outbreaks of diseases carried by insects and rodents as the climate on the continent becomes hotter and wetter, EU health experts said Friday.
Agence France-Presse.
13 June 2008
Harnessing the weather.
While coaxing more rain or snow seems a modest achievement, projects on the drawing board might revolutionize our relationship with the elements and eliminate those tragic, weather-based “acts of God.”
Discover.
13 June 2008
Don't make the desert bloom.
Israel shares its water sources with the Palestinians, as well as Jordan and Syria. Fast-growing populations are putting a strain on those sources. So is global warming.
Economist.
13 June 2008
The threat of carbon dioxide to the marine environment.
Increasing carbon dioxide emissions could leave species such as coral and sea urchins struggling to survive by the end of the century because the gas is making the oceans more acidic, research led by British scientists suggests.
Fiji Times.
13 June 2008
More disease outbreaks in Europe with climate change.
Europe could face an increase in outbreaks of diseases carried by insects and rodents as the climate on the continent becomes hotter and wetter, EU health experts said.
France 24.
13 June 2008
Africa: If you can't escape climate change, adapt to it.
A conference on climate change, about to wrap up in Kenya, has heard that adaptation to the effects of shifting weather patterns can play a key role in efforts to address climate change -- alongside the bid to lessen greenhouse gas emissions.
Inter Press Service.
13 June 2008
Warming has some animals heading for hills.
Global warming is forcing 30 species of reptiles and amphibians to move uphill as habitats shift upward, but they may soon run out of room to run.
LiveScience.
13 June 2008
Launch of satellite to track sea levels set for June 20.
The launch of a US-French satellite that will track rising sea levels and ocean currents has been rescheduled for next Friday, US space agency NASA said.
Agence France-Presse.
13 June 2008
Whither the coral reefs?
Global warming and overfishing are killing reefs while scientists struggle to save them.
Discover.
13 June 2008
Arctic sea ice melting faster than expected.
Arctic Ocean sea ice – one of the most visible indicators for global warming – may be headed for another record-breaking summer decline.
Christian Science Monitor.
13 June 2008
BrightSource's novel solar thermal power concept for California heats up.
In Israel's Negev Desert blooms a field of 1,640 robotic mirrors that behave like sunflowers. It is the world's 'highest-performing, lowest-cost' sun-energy system. says the company testing it.
Los Angeles Times.
13 June 2008
The cost of cleaning up fossil fuels - and the price of doing nothing.
The Mountaineer power station in West Virginia is a modest project, but if it works, the plant's place in the history books, as the first successful trial of a complete carbon capture and storage (CCS) unit attached to a power station, will be assured.
London Guardian.
13 June 2008
Under the hood of the first real fuel-cell car.
You could drink the exhaust of the Honda FCX Clarity. The four-door sedan—the first hydrogen fuel-cell car available to the general public—emits only water. But is it the zero-emission sedan of the future?
Discover.
13 June 2008
Colo. lab makes tailpipe dream a reality with new Prius.
If a car that gets 100 miles per gallon of gasoline sounds like a driver's futile fantasy, think again.
Scripps Howard News Service.
13 June 2008
US urges support for global warming fund.
U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson urged other Group of Eight industrialized nations Friday to back a special fund of up to $10 billion to help developing countries fight global warming.
Associated Press.
13 June 2008
Severn barrage will be costly ecological disaster, say environment groups.
Britain's largest environment groups have strongly rejected plans for a massive £15bn tidal barrage across the Severn that would provide about 5% of the UK's annual electricity demand and help the government meet climate-change targets.
London Guardian.
13 June 2008
Madagascar to sell carbon credits to protect forest.
Madagascar will sell nine million tons of carbon offsets in a voluntary scheme to help protect one of its biggest and most pristine forests, a conservation group said on Thursday.
Reuters.
13 June 2008
Citi tips climate change, infrastructure firms.
Climate change and infrastructure are two major investment themes for the next few years being pushed by Citi wealth managers, part of Citigroup Inc.
Reuters.
13 June 2008
Let them heat coke: how green taxes hurt the poor.
In America the Congressional Budget Office has estimated that a cap-and-trade system, designed to cut emissions by 15%, would reduce the average income of the lowest quintile of the population by 3.3% and the richest quintile by just 1.7%.
Economist.
13 June 2008
Tampa one step closer to eco-friendly construction.
Two years after introducing the idea, the City Council on Thursday gave preliminary approval to measures that will bring eco-friendly buildings and policies to the city.
St. Petersburg Times.
13 June 2008
China's carbon emissions soaring past the US.
China's carbon emissions are soaring past those of the US, new figures reveal, making it the dominant country in the global warming debate.
London Guardian.
13 June 2008
Shaky ground.
Warming may eventually destabilize massive frozen carbon reserves trapped in the east Siberian permafrost, but not for centuries, finds a new study.
Nature.
13 June 2008
CO2 plan threatens new coal power plant.
Britain's most controversial power project, the £1.5bn coal-fired plant at Kingsnorth, faces an uncertain future as a result of a tough greenhouse gas emissions standard that will be proposed by David Cameron next week.
London Guardian.
13 June 2008
WP&L vows to offset coal plant emissions.
Seeking to win support for a new coal-fired power plant at a time when such projects around the country are being scrapped, Wisconsin Power & Light Co. vowed Thursday to offset the greenhouse gas emissions from its proposed power plant in southwestern Wisconsin.
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.
13 June 2008
New zealand, home to 40 million sheep, seeks greener pastures.
Over thousands of years of evolution, sheep, cattle and other cud chewers developed a nasty habit. They burp and break wind a lot. That gives New Zealand a distressing gas problem.
New London Day.
13 June 2008
Have desert researchers siscovered a hidden loop in the carbon cycle?
Findings in two deserts on opposite sides of the world suggest that deserts are a larger sink for carbon dioxide than scientists had assumed.
Science.
13 June 2008
A coastal escape.
Unaccounted-for carbon in mangrove forests is probably washed away with the tides.
Nature.
13 June 2008
German coalition agrees on green car tax.
Germany's left-right coalition said on Thursday it had agreed on plans to tax new vehicles on how much they pollute instead of engine size in a bid to encourage the production of greener cars.
Agence France-Presse.
13 June 2008
Tax credit for wind farms is stalled.
While lawmakers offer numerous proposals to lower energy prices and slow global warming, Congress still hasn't taken a small step to help a clean source of power -- wind generators.
Gannett News Service.
13 June 2008
Rich nations fail to take lead at climate talks - UN.
Industrialised nations are failing to lead enough at UN climate talks in Bonn even as developing states are showing interest in a new global warming treaty, the UN's top climate official said on Wednesday.
Reuters.
13 June 2008
UN climate chief spurs talks on new global warming pact.
UN climate chief Yvo de Boer called on industrialised countries on Thursday to start showing some of their cards in a slow-paced poker game whose prize is a new pact to tackle global warming.
Agence France-Presse.
13 June 2008
Nuclear power among options for UN greenhouse cuts.
Developing nations might get help to build nuclear power plants under proposals at 170-nation climate talks in Bonn for expanding a fast-growing UN scheme for curbing greenhouse gases.
Reuters.
13 June 2008
G8 must fill £15bn aid gap - Oxfam.
Rich countries must increase spending on aid, take urgent action to cut emissions and put a freeze on biofuels targets to tackle poverty and the food crisis, Oxfam has said.
Birmingham Mail.
13 June 2008
Japan to sell climate fund at G-8 talks.
Japan will use today's opening of the Group of Eight finance ministers' meeting in Osaka to rally support and contributions for two multilateral climate-change funds.
Asahi Shimbun.
13 June 2008
G-8 finance ministers in Japan discussing climate, oil.
Officials were meeting in the western Japanese city of Osaka for a two-day Group of Eight gathering of industrialized nations, where the agenda will focus on helping developing nations fight global warming and sharing views on soaring oil and food prices.
Associated Press.
13 June 2008
Japan's move on climate "doesn't go far enough": UN climate boss.
The top UN official for climate change on Thursday urged Japan to flesh out an announcement that it intended to slash carbon emissions blamed for stoking global warming.
Agence France-Presse.
13 June 2008
Aussie, indonesia pledge climate cooperation.
The leaders of Australia and Indonesia Friday pledged to join forces to fight climate change by saving forests and promoting carbon trading.
Agence France-Presse.
13 June 2008
EU protests U.S. aid for fuel producers.
Picking a new trade fight with the United States, the European Union on Thursday accused U.S. producers of biodiesel of benefiting from subsidies that threaten to put European producers out of business.
Reuters.
13 June 2008
G8 finance chiefs ready for oil, food crisis talks.
Finance ministers from the world's leading industrialised powers prepared for talks Friday seeking a way to stem soaring food and oil prices that are endangering world economic growth.
Agence France-Presse.
13 June 2008
Climate negotiators discuss changing key elements in new global warming agreement.
Back when negotiators set the clock for fighting climate change, they fixed 1990 as noon. Now, as midnight approaches, there is talk of resetting the hour hand.
Associated Press.
13 June 2008
G8 finance ministers face credibility test: Oxfam.
The credibility of finance ministers from the G8 rich nations meeting in Japan is on the line as soaring food prices and climate change threaten to worsen poverty, aid agency Oxfam said Friday.
Agence France-Presse.
13 June 2008
U.S. climate change bill dies, but the energy remains.
After weeks of preparation, the U.S. Senate failed to engage in a historic debate last week on how to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. But that hasn't stopped both sides from declaring victory.
Science.
13 June 2008
Trading dirt.
The Lieberman-Warner climate change bill is likely to serve as a template for any future bill, and the negotiations over it provide a good indication of the horse-trading to come.
Economist.
13 June 2008
Global warming: Debating the Climate Security Act.
Far-reaching legislation to reduce greenhouse gas emissions stalled in the Senate recently, but supporters expect to revive it in 2009 with White House backing from either Republican John McCain or Democrat Barack Obama.
Gannett News Service.
13 June 2008
Boucher introduces key bill in push for clean coal energy.
U.S. Rep. Frederick C. “Rick” Boucher, D-Va., introduced legislation in congress today with broad-based bipartisan support that will pump $1 billion into technology aimed at developing viable carbon capture and storage to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
Bluefield Daily Telegraph.
13 June 2008
Policymakers struggle with green energy goals.
Minnesota policymakers applauded themselves in 2007 for passing historic energy legislation that started what could be a decades-long fight against global warming. Now some lawmakers wonder if the state can fulfill goals put in place just a year ago.
Minneapolis Forum.
13 June 2008
Former Michigan governors urge water protection.
Two former governors -- Republican William Milliken and Democrat James Blanchard -- prodded legislators Thursday to prevent large-scale uses of Michigan water that would not be in the public interest.
Associated Press.
13 June 2008
Africa gets heated on climate change.
Africa has taken a major step towards challenging the “divide and rule” tactics of developed countries on climate change.
Port Elizabeth Herald.
13 June 2008
Environmentalists decry deforestation, pollution.
The irrational use of waste and the indiscriminate felling of trees for fuel became the concern of environmentalists during this year's World Environment Day celebrations in Yaounde.
Buea Post.
13 June 2008
Namibia must relook value of agriculture – expert.
Namibia should reconsider its emphasis on agricultural production as a means of economic development, if climate change has to be taken into consideration, Dr. Pierre Smit said.
Windhoek New Era.
13 June 2008
Japan utilities, steelmakers say climate plan unfair.
Nippon Steel Corp. and Tokyo Electric Power Co. led opposition by Japanese heavy industries to Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda's plan to cap greenhouse-gas emissions.
Bloomberg News.
13 June 2008
Federal attacks may confuse voters, Campbell says.
B.C.'s groundbreaking carbon tax could take an image hit from federal Tory attacks on a planned federal Liberal carbon tax, Premier Gordon Campbell says.
Toronto Globe and Mail.
13 June 2008
France poaches top climate change eurocrat.
France is recruiting Europe’s top climate change diplomat as it prepares to preside over the European Union from next month.
Financial Times.
13 June 2008
Research aircraft to study climate change in remote atmospheric region.
Scientists are deploying an advanced research aircraft to study a remote atmospheric region that influences climate change by affecting the amount of solar heat that reaches Earths surface.
Asian News International.
13 June 2008
Air New Zealand to test new plant oil biofuel.
A noxious weed with inedible berries is to power an Air New Zealand flight in the latest attempt by the aviation industry to cut emissions and combat the rocketing oil price.
London Telegraph.
13 June 2008
EU probes U.S. biodiesel subsidies In new trade row.
The European Union, opening up a new transatlantic trade spat, will investigate whether soaring imports of U.S. biodiesel break global trade rules because of subsidies.
Reuters.
13 June 2008
Country warming again to solar power.
Solar power is drawing renewed attention in resource-poor Japan in the runup to the annual Group of Eight summit, where global warming will be high on the agenda.
Kyodo News.
13 June 2008
Energy Department grants $30M to plug-in vehicle projects.
The U.S. Energy Department on Thursday announced $30 million in funding over three years for a trio of plug-in vehicle projects; a step they praised nonetheless.
Detroit News.
13 June 2008
The ozone layer's unwelcome return?
Although it protects us from harmful UV rays, the layer's recovery could spell trouble for Antarctica.
Science.
13 June 2008
Nigeria: Lagos to reduce emission.
The city of Lagos as a member of the C40 cities is collaborating with Clinton Climate Initiative towards actualising the reduction of greenhouse gases emission.
Lagos This Day.
13 June 2008
Ex-TVA head blasts plans for nuke plants.
Former TVA Chairman S. David Freeman returned to his native Chattanooga Thursday to denounce proposals by the Tennessee Valley Authority to build more nuclear reactors.
Chattanooga Times Free Press.
13 June 2008
FERC environmental review OKs Bradwood LNG terminal.
Federal regulators signed off last week on a proposed liquefied natural gas terminal near Astoria, clearing a significant hurdle for developers hoping to build gas pipelines through the Willamette Valley.
Hillsboro Argus.
13 June 2008
