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Scientists Warn of Melting Ice in Arctic (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 02-07-2006 at 12:00:09
| Associated Press: Scientists on Monday painted a gloomy picture of the effects of global warming on the Arctic, warning of melting ocean ice, rising oceans, thawed permafrost and forests susceptible to bugs and fire. "A lot of the stories you read make it sound like there's uncertainty," said Jonathan Overpeck, a professor of geosciences at the University of Arizona. "There's not uncertainty." The questions scientists continue to address, he said after his presentation at ... |
U.S. congressmen push at U.N. for new climate talks (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 02-07-2006 at 12:00:09
| Reuters: A key U.S. senator called on the Bush administration on Monday to open global climate talks, warning that the dangers of global warming were not only a threat to the United States but India and China as well. Sen. Richard Lugar, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, told the 15-nation U.N. Security Council that the world's dependence on oil and other fossil fuels damaged the environment and many nations' economies. "With this in mind, I have urged the Bush ... |
Annan Urges Oil Producers to Champion Clean Energy (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 02-07-2006 at 12:00:09
| Reuters: United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan called on Monday for an end to pollution of the environment and urged oil producing nations to spearhead efforts to develop clean energy. Speaking in the United Arab Emirates, a major oil producer, where he received the Zayed International Prize for the Environment, Annan said the world was doing too little to safeguard the environment by continued reliance on fossil fuel. "Protecting the environment has been considered an ... |
Corn Power Put to the Test (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 02-07-2006 at 12:00:09
| New York Times: The endless fields of corn in the Midwest can be distilled into endless gallons of ethanol, a clean-burning, high-octane fuel that could end any worldwide oil shortage, reduce emissions that cause global warming, and free the United States from dependence on foreign energy. There is only one catch: Turning corn into ethanol takes energy. For every gallon that an ethanol manufacturing plant produces, it uses the equivalent of almost two-fifths of a gallon of fuel (usually natural gas), ... |
Bush Budget Triples Money from Alaska Oil Drilling (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 02-07-2006 at 12:00:09
| Reuters: The Bush administration Monday again asked Congress to allow oil drilling in Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR), but almost tripled its estimate for the amount of money that would be collected in leasing fees from energy companies. In its proposed budget for the 2007 spending year, the White House said it assumed the initial tracts in the refuge could be leased in 2008 and bring in $7 billion in new revenues, half of which would be shared with the state of Alaska. ... |
EU Commission to Rule Soon on UK Emissions Plan (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 02-07-2006 at 12:00:09
| Reuters: The European Union executive will decide soon whether to approve Britain's revised emissions trading plan after an EU court ruled the UK had the right to make its plan easier for industry to swallow. The EU's emissions trading scheme sets limits on how much carbon dioxide (CO2), the main gas blamed for global warming, high-polluting factories like power plants can emit. Companies buy or sell rights to pollute, based on limits that are set by national governments and approved ... |
Indonesia: Kyoto Fails Endangered Orang-Utan (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 02-07-2006 at 12:00:09
| Epoch Times: It is very easy to cast a roving eye over the planet and find some less than humane human acts perpetrated against other creatures–whether they be destruction of protected habitats, or the wholesale wiping out of a scarce endemic species. But to find these things and one or two others, including corporate acquisitiveness, wrapped up in a single situation is rather tragic. Palm oil, which sounds innocuous enough, is now found in 10% of supermarket products and hails from South East ... |
Annan urges action on climate change (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 02-07-2006 at 12:00:09
| OneWorld South Asia: As he accepted a top global award in Dubai for his work with the environment, Secretary-General Kofi Annan urged world leaders to use the United Nations-backed Kyoto Protocol to move on climate change and called for governments, businesses and citizens to adopt a new mindset on energy resources. "Now that the Kyoto Protocol has entered into force, the world has a dynamic tool for stabilizing and reducing emissions and supporting climate-friendly projects in developing counties," said ... |
Bush seeks 4 pct cut in US environment budget (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 02-07-2006 at 12:00:09
| Reuters: The Environmental Protection Agency's 2007 budget would decrease by 4 percent to $7.3 billion, the fourth cut in a row for the agency's yearly budget, the Bush administration said on Monday. Stephen Johnson, the EPA's administrator, told reporters that even with the budget cut his agency would help achieve the president's goals of fighting the war on terror, strengthening homeland defense and strengthening the economy. The department's budget increases funding for security ... |
Deadly fungus threatens beloved Panamanian frog (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 02-07-2006 at 12:00:09
| Reuters: A deadly fungus is creeping through Panama, killing hundreds of thousands of amphibians and putting the country's national symbol, the golden frog, at risk of extinction, scientists say. "I would say that the golden frog was already in critical danger, however, the advance of the fungus outbreak makes matters worse to a point that this species is likely to become extinct," said Roberto Ibanez, an amphibian expert at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute in ... |
New EPA Soot Limits Faulted by Scientists (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 02-07-2006 at 12:00:09
| Associated Press: The Environmental Protection Agency's proposed regulations on soot were criticized Friday as too weak by scientists advising the agency and as too politicized by health advocates and Democrats. Rogene Henderson, a biochemist and toxicologist who chaired the EPA advisory panel, and Dr. Frank Speizer, a Harvard University professor and panel member, said in a telephone conference that the science supports tougher standards than EPA chose. Henderson said the panel's continuing ... |
Climate Change, Rising Seas, and a New Noah's Flood (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 02-07-2006 at 12:00:09
| Inter Press Service: Climate change is not just an environmental issue; it is pre-eminently an issue of social and economic justice, writes Mark Sommer, director of the U.S.-based Mainstream Media Project and host of the internationally-syndicated radio programme, ''A World of Possibilities''. In this article, Sommer writes that as seen in New Orleans and after the South Asian tsunami, the victims of climate change will be overwhelming the poor, who can't afford to construct sea walls, rebuild their ... |
Power industry seeks clarity on emissions (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 02-07-2006 at 12:00:09
| Reuters: Britain's power industry on Monday called for swift clarification of the government's plans to curb utilities' greenhouse gas emissions under the Kyoto Protocol. Tensions are running high among power generators as they wait to hear about the level of emissions caps to be imposed on utilities and other industrial firms in the period 2008-2012 -- phase two of the European Union's emissions trading scheme. "Generators are nervous," said David Porter, chief executive of ... |
Fossilised myths: new thinking on 'dirty' coal and dwindling oil (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 02-07-2006 at 03:00:06
| Guardian: As Finland embraces a nuclear future another unlikely conversion has taken place in the energy business - Mark Jaccard likes coal. For decades Jaccard was a leading expert in sustainable energy, darling of the environmental movement and bane of Big Oil. But now he proclaims that the world can continue to rely on fossil fuels. And his reasoning, while consistent with his beliefs, comes as a huge surprise. The professor says he has not stopped caring about the environment; it's just ... |
United Kingdom: When the crude runs out: Life after oil (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 02-07-2006 at 03:00:06
| Independent: Burly, blue-eyed and with an outdoor blush to his face, Peter Kendall looks exactly like the successful Home Counties farmer he is. But he is producing oil, at the cutting edge of an energy revolution unexpectedly endorsed by President George Bush last week. Mr Kendall farms 1,500 acres in the village of Eyeworth, in Bedfordshire. Not long ago, it was a traditional local farm - now 400 acres are devoted to growing crops, not for food, but for fuel. And, wearing another hat, as ... |
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