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17/6/2009
Sobering report is the most comprehensive to date.
Government officials and scientists released a 196 page report detailing the impact of global warming on the U.S. yesterday. The study, commissioned in 2007 during the Bush ...
17/6/2009
Beijing has reined in China’s unbridled dam-building spree, issuing warnings to power-hungry developers that stimulating the economy in a time of crisis should not be used as an excuse to forego environmental reviews of big hydroelectric ...
17/6/2009
African farmers will soon face growing seasons hotter than any in their experience. To cope with this rapid climate change, they "“ and the plant breeders who supply their crops "“ will need to make big changes, and soon.
Agricultural ...
17/6/2009
Conservation groups challenging a plan to open nearly 2 million acres of public land in Wyoming, Utah and Colorado to commercial oil shale development say potential effects on climate change weren't considered and that violates federal ...
17/6/2009
How many varieties of date palm or melon exist? And why should we care? IPS spoke to three 'Guardians of Diversity' so named by Bioversity International for their contribution to conservation.
Bioversity International is the largest ...
17/6/2009
Australia's government introduced laws on Wednesday aimed at driving renewable energy investment and curbing greenhouse emissions, but remained deadlocked with rivals over ambitious plans to start carbon trading.
The centre left Labor ...
17/6/2009
THIS summer, Tony Tomelden hopes to be making bloody marys at the Pug in Washington, D.C., with tomatoes and chilies grown above the bar, thanks to the city’s incentives for green roofs.Mr. Tomelden, the Pug’s principal owner, says he’s ...
17/6/2009
In China, electric bicycles are leaving cars in the dust. Last year, Chinese bought 21 million e-bikes, compared with 9.4 million autos. While China now has about 25 million cars on the road, it has four times as many e-bikes. Thanks to ...
17/6/2009
Churning out 488 grams of carbon dioxide every kilometre, 322 mature oak trees would be needed to absorb the American sports car's emissions in a year, experts warned.
The Environmental Transport Association made the disclosure following ...
17/6/2009
Utahns have heard it before: Climate change threatens to make water more scarce. It will shrink the ski season, and swell the demand for summertime air conditioning.
But there are new messages for the Southwest in the White House report ...
17/6/2009
Damon Matthews, a professor in Concordia University's Department of Geography, Planning and the Environment has found a direct relationship between carbon dioxide emissions and global warming.
Matthews, together with colleagues from ...
17/6/2009
ADVOCATES of the energy bill making its way through the House say that it will help America make the transition to a new, green economy. But first it must get past the powerful agriculture bloc.Among many other things, the bill -- known ...
17/6/2009
he windmills stand in rows like an army of Goliaths, steel towers taller than the Statue of Liberty and topped with blades as long as a jetliner's wing. The blades whoosh through the humid air, carving energy from a wind that rushes across ...
17/6/2009
Engineering our climate to stop global warming may seem like science fiction, but at a recent National Academy of Sciences meeting, scientists discussed some potential geoengineering experiments in earnest.
Climate researcher Ken ...
17/6/2009
Natural and man-made disasters killed nearly a quarter of a million people in 2008 and warnings about looming disasters, particularly climate change, are not being heeded, the Red Cross said Tuesday.
In 2008, disasters ranging from the ...
17/6/2009
The CSIRO says 250 million people across the world are in danger of losing homes and employment if the problem of desertification is not addressed.
Desertification is the degradation of dry lands through soil erosion, mismanagement and ...
17/6/2009
Top government scientists on Tuesday warned that climate change already is wreaking devastating changes on the United States, threatening the Southwest with blistering heat, the Atlantic Coast with dangerous hurricanes and the Midwest with ...
17/6/2009
It's silent, it's pollution free, it's nippy, and it'll get you round town for £2,500 a year, fuel and maintenance included. So, is it the car of the future? Maybe.
The developers of the hydrogen-powered Riversimple Urban Car certainly ...
17/6/2009
Noise pollution from helicopter flights over Victoria Falls could badly affect important elephant herds in Zimbabwe, environmentalists have warned.
They say senior government ministers are backing plans for a four-fold increase in ...
17/6/2009
President Gloria Arroyo said Wednesday that the world leaders should keep their economies afloat without forgetting about climate-change concerns.
People should not lose sight of the challenges facing the environment that were around ...
17/6/2009
A U.S. Senate committee on Wednesday approved a comprehensive energy package that would require utilities to generate 15 percent of electricity from renewable sources such as solar and wind power.
Utilities could meet about a quarter of ...
17/6/2009
Bjorn Lomborg, a Danish business school professor and author who has riled environmentalists by arguing that addressing climate change should be a lesser priority than global health and nutrition initiatives, is calling for a $7 per ton tax on ...
17/6/2009
Following hot on the heels of the launch of the UK's new clean coal consultation, energy giant E.ON has stepped up pressure on the government to approve its plans for a new coal-fired power plant at Kingsnorth in Kent featuring carbon capture and ...
17/6/2009
Continental Airlines said a blend of biologically derived fuel and jet fuel performed slightly better than jet fuel alone during a test flight by the world's fifth-largest airline.
During some parts of a 90-minute test flight in January, ...
17/6/2009
COAL-FIRED electricity will get a big boost in funding and the state's greenhouse gas emissions will keep rising, according to figures outlined in the budget yesterday.
The state's second-largest coal-fired power station, which already ...