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Global warming grips Greenland, leaves lasting mark (View Original Story)
Source: enn.com Posted: 10-12-2008 at 10:01:06
| ILULISSAT, GREENLAND mdash; Beyond the howl of sled dogs echoing across this hilly coastal village is the thunderclap of ancient icebergs splitting apart, a deafening rumble you feel in your bones.
There's no mistaking its big, loud, and powerful boom, a sound that can work up to a crescendo like rolling thunder. Or be as sudden as a shotgun blast. |
U.N. says credit crisis could enable green growth (View Original Story)
Source: enn.com Posted: 10-11-2008 at 10:00:58
| UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Instead of sidelining the fight against climate change, the global credit crisis could hasten countries' efforts to create green growth industries by revamping the financial system behind them, the U.N. climate chief said on Friday. |
Cost of Deforestation is Vastly Greater than that of the Current Financial Crisis (View Original Story)
Source: enn.com Posted: 10-11-2008 at 10:00:58
| While your 401K smolders in ruins, take a gander at this BBC article and it might give you some perspective. Unfortunately, it's not immediately an optimistic perspective: We are actually losing more money through deforestation than through the current financial meltdown. The reasoning behind this is clear when we start calculating the often overlooked value ofNatural Capital - resources provided by our environment including minerals, water, air, sunlight, heat, plants, animals, and other organic matter.
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Green alarm as EU ministers mull climate opt-outs (View Original Story)
Source: enn.com Posted: 10-10-2008 at 11:00:49
| France, Germany and Austria called on Friday for an easing of EU climate ambitions to help industries facing an economic downturn, causing green groups to warn that the battle against climate change was in jeopardy. |
Research shows link between bisphenol A and disease in adults (View Original Story)
Source: enn.com Posted: 10-10-2008 at 11:00:49
| A research team from the Peninsula Medical School, the University of Exeter, the University of Plymouth and the University of Iowa, have found evidence linking bisphenol A to diabetes and heart disease in adults
A research team from the Peninsula Medical School, the University of Exeter, the University of Plymouth and the University of Iowa, have found evidence linking Bisphenol A (BPA) to diabetes and heart disease in adults. |
Ethiopia signs deal for largest wind farm in Africa (View Original Story)
Source: enn.com Posted: 10-10-2008 at 11:00:49
| Ethiopia on Thursday signed a 220-million-euro (300 million dollar) deal with a French company for the construction of Africa's largest wind farm.
The contract was inked by representatives of the Ethiopian Electric Power Corporation (EEPC) and French wind turbine manufacturer Vergnet. |
Carbon tax seen as best way to slow global warming (View Original Story)
Source: enn.com Posted: 10-10-2008 at 11:00:49
| Climate taxes, not cap and trade markets alone, will lead to the vast technological changes the world's energy system needs to fight global warming, a top U.S. economist said on Thursday.
Cap and trade has emerged as the dominant attempt to slow global warming. Global deals in permits to emit greenhouse gas emissions have hit nearly $65 billion a year. |
Cutting air pollution in cities may raise global temps, says scientist (View Original Story)
Source: enn.com Posted: 10-10-2008 at 11:00:49
| Cleaning air in Beijing and in other large cities suffering from pollution problems by limiting car and power-plant emissions may raise global temperatures instead of lowering them, a German scientist warns. |
Wall Street seen adding to global rout (View Original Story)
Source: enn.com Posted: 10-10-2008 at 09:00:58
| Wall Street headed to another huge decline Friday, extending a global sell-off on concerns that even low interest rates won't help end the worsening credit crisis. Dow Jones industrials futures plunged 400 points ahead of the opening bell in New York. |
Global Warming Triggers an International Race for the Arctic (View Original Story)
Source: enn.com Posted: 10-10-2008 at 09:00:58
| A new epoch is beginning at the top of the Earth, where the historic melting of the vast Arctic ice cap is opening a forbidding, beautiful, and neglected swath of the planet. Already, there is talk that potentially huge oil and natural gas deposits lie under the Arctic waters, rendered more accessible by the shrinking of ice cover. Valuable minerals, too. |
U.S. focus on climate could ease financial crisis (View Original Story)
Source: enn.com Posted: 10-09-2008 at 04:00:41
| If the United States focused on curbing climate change as soon as a new president took office -- or sooner -- it could help pull the world from the financial brink, environmental policy experts told Reuters. |
Climate change could force millions from homes (View Original Story)
Source: enn.com Posted: 10-09-2008 at 12:01:55
| Environmental damage such as desertification or flooding caused by climate change could force millions of peoples from their homes in the next few decades, experts said on Wednesday.
All indicators show we are dealing with a major emerging global problem, said Janos Bogardi, director of the U.N. University`s Institute on the Environment and Human Security in Bonn, Germany. |
UN agency questions wider use of biofuels (View Original Story)
Source: enn.com Posted: 10-09-2008 at 12:01:55
| The International Herald Tribune, October 8, 2008 Wednesday - The United Nations food agency on Tuesday called for a review of biofuel subsides and policies, noting that they had contributed significantly to rising food prices and the hunger in poor countries.
With policies and subsidies to encourage biofuel production in place in much of the developed world, farmers now often find it more profitable to plants crops for fuel rather than for food, a shift that has helped lead to global food shortages. |
Focus sharpens on forests for climate fix (View Original Story)
Source: enn.com Posted: 10-09-2008 at 10:00:54
| NEW YORK (Reuters) - Payments from polluters in rich countries to tropical communities in exchange for slowing deforestation may soon play a bigger role in combating climate change if problems like measuring preservation efforts can be overcome. |
One Megawatt Solar Power System Unveiled at Gap Inc.'s West Coast Distribution Center (View Original Story)
Source: enn.com Posted: 10-09-2008 at 10:00:54
| MMA Renewable Ventures and SunPower Corporation joined representatives from Gap, Inc. on Tuesday to unveil a one megawatt solar power system at the Gaprsquo;s West Coast Distribution Center in Fresno.
The five-acre installation is one of the largest in northern California. Designed bySunPower, the system features SunPower Tracker technology that tracks the sunrsquo;s movements throughout the day. The system increases energy capture by up to 25% over fixed-tilt systems, while decreasing land use requirements. |
Map reveals species most at risk from climate change (View Original Story)
Source: enn.com Posted: 10-09-2008 at 10:00:54
| We heard this week that a quarter of all mammals are threatened with extinction. One of those, the polar bear, made headlines earlier this year for being the first animal to be listed on the US Endangered Species Act, because of its vulnerability to climate change. |
Clean energy act sets Philippines up for $3 billion rebate (View Original Story)
Source: enn.com Posted: 10-09-2008 at 10:00:54
| Manila, Philippines - With the passing of its Renewable Energy Act mdash; legislation that spent 19 years in limbo - the Philippines can save over US$2.9 billion, a WWF and University of the Philippines study has found.
The savings would come from increasing the countryrsquo;s renewable energy share in its power generation mix from 0.16 per cent to 41 per cent from wind, solar, ocean, run-of-river hydropower and biomass. |
'Acoustic smog' is major threat to whales, say researchers (View Original Story)
Source: enn.com Posted: 10-09-2008 at 10:00:54
| BARCELONA (AFP) mdash; Underwater cacophony caused by commercial and military ships has become so intense that it is killing whales, scientists at the World Conservation Congress here say.
Sounds ranging from the hum of yacht motors to sonar blasts strong enough to destroy a whale's inner ear are wreaking havoc on the ability of these cetaceans to migrate, feed and breed, they said on Thursday as a historic case began to be heard by the US Supreme Court. |
Sea-level to rise by one-metre this century: scientists (View Original Story)
Source: enn.com Posted: 10-09-2008 at 10:00:54
| Global warming calculations have been too optimistic, and the sea level round the globe is likely to rise a full metre this century, two senior German scientists warned Wednesday.Hans Joachim Schellnhuber, who heads the Potsdam Institute for Research on Global Warming Effects and Jochem Marotzke, a leading meteorologist, said UN-backed data on climate change, predicting a rise of 18 to 59 centimetres, was out of date. |
Fisheries losing $50 billion a year: World Bank (View Original Story)
Source: enn.com Posted: 10-09-2008 at 10:00:54
| Thomson Financial News Super Focus, October 9, 2008 Thursday 6:08 AM GMT - As more and more fishermen chase fewer and fewer fish, $50 billion is lost each year in potential economic benefits to the fishing industry, a report released Wednesday said.
Released by the World Bank and the United Nations' Food and Agricultural Organization, the report blamed poor management, inefficiencies and overfishing for more than $2 trillion of avoidable economic losses over the last three decades. |
More Mammals Seeing Red (View Original Story)
Source: enn.com Posted: 10-08-2008 at 12:01:08
| Barcelona, Spain mdash; Marine mammals, such as the Narwhal and Irawaddy dolphin, and land mammals, such as tree kangaroos were confirmed to be closer to extinction by IUCNrsquo;s updated Red List of Threatened Species.
The Red List ranks species according to their population status and threat levels. It shows the effects that habitat loss and degradation, over-exploitation, pollutants and climate change are having on the worldrsquo;s species. |
Oregon Winery Offers Glass Bottle Recycling Incentive (View Original Story)
Source: enn.com Posted: 10-08-2008 at 12:01:08
| Willamette Valley Vineyards is celebrating its 25th Anniversary this year. One of the wineryrsquo;s commitments since from the beginning has been to offer 10 cents for each wine bottle brought in for recycling, regardless of the original producer. |
Is There a Green Upside to the Economic Meltdown? (View Original Story)
Source: enn.com Posted: 10-08-2008 at 12:01:08
| The economic meltdown could be good news for the area of clean energy investing, according to Steven Fraser, a senior lecturer at the University of Pennsylvania and author of the recently published Wall Street: America's Dream Palace. Fraser believes that backlash to the recent economic crisis will result in a new era of enlightened regulation and investment akin to Roosevelt's New Deal, which helped America climb out of the Great Depression. Fraser offered these opinions in a recent interview on WHYY's Fresh Air program. |
Netgear Introduces Green Routers (View Original Story)
Source: enn.com Posted: 10-08-2008 at 12:01:08
| Netgear didnrsquo;t get much of a mention in our recent post ldquo;The Greenest Routers of 2008ldquo;. But now the company has released two green routers mdash; the NetgearWNR2000 router, and its DSL modem-equipped DGN2000. Both these routers comes with EnergyStar-rated power supplies, and they come in new packages made with 80 percent recycled content. |
Biotechnology 'no cure-all' for food insecurity (View Original Story)
Source: enn.com Posted: 10-08-2008 at 12:01:08
| [NAIROBI] Biotechnology is no panacea to the food insecurity and poverty problems in Africa and other developing countries, warned scientists at the first All Africa Congress on Biotechnology in Nairobi, Kenya, this week (23 September).
This is no silver bullet to the food insecurity in Africa and the rest of the developing world, but it must be looked at as one of the most important tools that will contribute to increased food production and thus, poverty reduction, said Clive James, chairman of the International Service for the Acquisition of Agri-Biotech Applications. |
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