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Global Water Crisis Worsening (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 12-03-2006 at 06:00:21
| Epoch Times: For years, experts have been warning that the world is facing a freshwater crisis of unprecedented proportions. As populations grow, demand for fresh water is soaring, yet there is less water on earth now than there was 2,000 years ago, when the population was 3 percent of what it is today. While the crisis is already well underway in Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia, the freshwater shortage isn't just confined to a particular region–it's a worldwide issue. The World Bank has said ... |
Environmental groups sue Bush administration over climate report (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 12-03-2006 at 06:00:21
| Associated Press: The Bush administration is being sued by a Tucson-based environmental group for refusing to produce a national climate-change report. The Center for Biological Diversity, along with environmental groups Greenpeace and Friends of the Earth, filed the suit November 14th in U-S District Court. The suit accuses the White House of ignoring a 1990 law requiring the government to produce a national assessment on global warming every four years. The last report was published in ... |
Lessons to be learned from West's beetle infestations (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 12-03-2006 at 06:00:21
| Denver Post: Bark beetles have killed more than a billion pines and spruce across western North American in recent years, and now they are spreading into the northern-most forests in Canada. What's going on? Several causes are behind the beetle infestations, from fire suppression to drought to global warming, factors that can provide lessons about how to manage our forests in the future. Across the West, beetles are on a tear, and four species have destroyed enough wood to supply ... |
United States: Environmentalists protest plans for new coal-burning plant (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 12-03-2006 at 06:00:21
| ABC News: More than 100 people braved the cold to rally on the steps of the capitol, protesting plans for Kansas to build three new coal plants and asking the governor to increase renewable energy use. "It's a new day. There's been a paradigm shift. They are not acceptable in Kansas," said activist Bill Griffith of the Sierra Club. With the possibility of three new coal-fired plants being built near Holcomb, environmentalists like Bill Griffith say the impact on Kansans could be ... |
United Kingdom: MPs urge 'climate change' budget (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 12-03-2006 at 06:00:21
| BBC: MPs are urging Gordon Brown to put climate change at the heart of his pre-Budget report next week. Members of the cross-party Environmental Audit Committee are calling on the Treasury to take action to help curb greenhouse gas emissions. The influential group of MPs have written a letter asking for financial incentives for those reducing emissions and penalties for those who do not. They say the Treasury has not heeded recent warnings on climate change. The ... |
United Kingdom: Virgin Atlantic to trial fuel-saving plan (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 12-03-2006 at 06:00:22
| Reuters: Richard Branson's Virgin Atlantic will start trialling a new plan aimed at cutting aviation emissions by towing aircraft to take-off areas at London airports this month, the airline said on Sunday. Some aircraft will be towed closer to the runway before takeoff at Heathrow and Gatwick airports in an effort to cut fuel burn by reducing the time engines are running before takeoff to about 10 minutes. "Towing aircraft from a stand substantially reduces the amount of time they ... |
Permit glut forces carbon values down (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 12-03-2006 at 09:00:18
| Sydney Morning Herald: CARBON prices in the European market are continuing to dive in the run-up to the 2008 commencement of the Kyoto carbon trading regime. In recent days the price has recorded lows of €7.90 ($13.38) per tonne after falling from €8.80 a week ago. That represents a massive spill from the highs of €30.53 reached in April. The bulk of the fall from €30 was triggered when the market discovered that European governments - in a bid to protect their high emission industries from harm - ... |
Australia: Gas emission cuts will hurt (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 12-03-2006 at 09:00:19
| Australian: AUSTRALIA'S farm sector and multibillion-dollar metals processing industry risk decimation if deep cuts in domestic greenhouse gas emissions are put in place by 2050. The grave warning is the result of modelling by the CSIRO and ABARE to be released this week. Renewables rather than nuclear or clean coal are projected to be the big winners from significant emissions cuts in the future, with wind and biomass comprising up to 41 per cent of stationary energy supply by 2050. ... |
Flowers in Alps, bears can't sleep as winter waits (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 12-03-2006 at 09:00:19
| Reuters: Flowers are blooming on the slopes of Alpine ski resorts and bears are having trouble hibernating in Siberia amid a late start to winter that may be a portent of global warming. Rare December pollen is troubling asthma sufferers as far north as Scandinavia, sales of winter clothing are down and Santa Claus is having to reassure children his sleigh will take off on Christmas Eve, snow or no snow. From Ottawa to Moscow, temperatures have been way above average at the start of the ... |
United Kingdom: It's hot - but climate research is being cut (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 12-03-2006 at 09:00:19
| Guardian: Britain's leading centre for researching climate change has been ordered to cut its budget, despite warnings that global warming is one of the most critical and costly threats facing the world today.The Met Office has been told to make savings of nearly 3 per cent to its main budget, prompting experts to condemn the government as 'hypocritical' on climate change, given its response to the recent Stern report which argued that unchecked climate change could cost billions.The move emerged as the ... |
Water power puts climate in peril (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 12-03-2006 at 09:00:19
| Observer: Hydroelectric power plants - hailed as providers of clean energy - could be dangerous contributors to climate change. This is the startling claim of scientists who say that the dams the plants use produce large amounts of methane, one of the most potent causes of global warming. At a meeting of Unesco in Paris this week, scientists from France and Brazil will present evidence to show that organic matter is often trapped in reservoirs when dams are built. This matter then decays with ... |
Airline carbon quotas planned by Brussels (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 12-03-2006 at 09:00:19
| Times (UK): CHEAP flights are under threat as European Union officials this weekend finalise plans to give airlines "carbon quotas" that limit aircraft emissions. Passengers will have to pay up to €40 extra per return flight to cover the impact their trip has on the climate. New laws are expected to be announced this week or next by Stavros Dimas, the EU environment commissioner. If any airline wants to break its annual emissions limit, it will have to pay for an increased ... |
Canada Liberal party elect green leader (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 12-03-2006 at 09:00:19
| Toronto Star: The Liberals have entrusted their party to St̩phane Dion, the quiet-spoken veteran of the Chr̩tien years best known for his "green" policies and his hard-line approach to Quebec separatists. Dion, 51, came from well back to win the party's leadership in a roller coaster of a convention that kept 5,000 delegates guessing the outcome through four ballots over two days. "The most exciting race in the history of our party is over Рlet's get ready for the ... |
Charles to launch green project (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 12-03-2006 at 09:00:19
| Press Association: The Prince of Wales will focus his passion for a green revolution on big business next week. Charles wants industry leaders to better assess, and eventually reverse, the damage they and their products are doing to the environment. The heir to the throne will launch a new project in front of up to 200 politicians, businessmen and other guests at St James's Palace on Wednesday night. He will be supported by the Archbishop of Canterbury and a video message by former US ... |
Will U.S. Supreme Court Help Global Warming? (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 12-03-2006 at 03:00:19
| Sci-Tech Today: As it has been so many times in the past, the Supreme Court might be the final arbiter of one of the nation's hot-button controversies. At issue in the case of Massachusetts v. EPA is whether the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has the power to control the emission of carbon dioxide, widely believed to be the chief culprit behind global warming. Massachusetts, which has sued the EPA to force it to control carbon emissions more stringently, is joined by eleven states -- ... |
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