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'Carbon sinks' drain water (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 01-01-2006 at 09:00:08
| Australian: THE rush to plant forests to soak up carbon dioxide, which contributes to global warming, could cause as many problems as it solves, with new research showing they can reduce local water supplies by up to 50per cent. An international study on the use of forest plantations as carbon sinks has found that while intensive plantations can help mitigate the effects of global warming, they can also sap streamflows and cause salinity. The study, co-authored by CSIRO Land and Water ... |
Australia: Scorching winds fan raging fires (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 01-01-2006 at 09:00:08
| Agence France-Presse: Bushfires swept across areas of NSW on Sunday destroying homes and property as the state found itself at the mercy of searing heat and strong winds that had already helped fires cut a swathe of destruction in Victoria. On the hottest New Year's Day recorded in Sydney and the second-hottest January day ever, fires destroyed at least three homes on the Central Coast and five houses at Junee in the state's south west. In both areas, other homes were damaged, hundreds of people ... |
Climate Change: It's getting hot in here (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 01-01-2006 at 09:00:08
| Independent: 2005 was the year in which concerns about the stability of the climate regularly made the headlines; 2006 may be the year when demands to do something about it finally become irresistible. The past 12 months have seen big changes in the political - as well as the actual - climate. Perhaps the Rubicon was crossed when David Cameron was seen with Zac Goldsmith, editor of The Ecologist, discussing the ins and outs of global warming. Once the party of big business and anti-regulation, ... |
Ready for Everything Under the Solar Panel (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 01-01-2006 at 09:00:08
| New York Times: UNTIL recently, the alternative energy industry was decidedly alternative. It conjured up images of off-the-grid bohemians heating their cabins with wood-burning stoves, and eccentric tinkerers tricking out cars to run on vegetable oil. Making Connections at the Skybox But in 2005, alternative, or renewable, energy vaulted the highly fortified border separating cottage industry and big business. With oil and gas prices soaring, the allure of alternate energy sources is ... |
Sweeping change reshapes Arctic (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 01-01-2006 at 09:00:08
| Seattle Times: BARROW, Alaska – The hunter rose each day last summer from his bunk in a condemned wildlife lab, down the hall from where Inupiat villagers carve whale meat on a band saw. He slipped on hip waders and a furry white parka, slung a rifle over his shoulders and trudged onto the Arctic tundra. Through icy fog beneath a never-setting summer sun, Eric Seykora set out to earn the nickname given him by Barrow scientists: "The Fox Killer." Arctic foxes had been eating the ... |
Biodiesel in Washington state: a waste of energy? (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 01-01-2006 at 09:00:08
| Seattle Times: REARDAN, Wash. - On a blazing day last July at his farm west of Spokane, Fred Fleming placed a machine that looks like a meat grinder the size of a truck engine on a concrete slab and started dumping tiny canola seeds into the top. The machine kept clogging as it squashed the seeds into oil, and Fleming was reduced to slowly pouring in the seeds. After three straight days under the searing Eastern Washington sun, he shut down the crusher. After all that, he had managed to ... |
Chevron fights allegations of human rights, environmental abuses (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 01-01-2006 at 09:00:08
| Associated Press: SAN FRANCISCO - A young boy holds out a deformed hand. A woman is missing a lower leg that was amputated to remove a tumor. A gaunt middle-aged man lays in a hammock dying of stomach cancer. The haunting images displayed in a photo exhibit at San Francisco City Hall claim to document the devastating effects of more than three decades of oil extraction in Ecuador's Amazon rainforest. Humberto Piaguaje came to help launch the exhibit and seek justice from the powerful petroleum ... |
Cod doomed - and it's the climate's fault (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 01-01-2006 at 09:00:08
| Times (UK): CLIMATE change, rather than overfishing, is the pricipal cause of falling cod stocks in the North Sea, and conservation measures imposed by the European Union will do nothing to reverse the decline, a new study has revealed. Changes in the North Atlantic current, caused by global warming, have disrupted supplies of plankton, which are essential for the survival of newly hatched cod. According to the study by the Natural Environment Research Council, the amount of vital ... |
Debate swirls as wind power grows rapidly across country (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 01-01-2006 at 09:00:08
| Associated Press: Giant windmills are popping up on farms, scenic mountain ridges, prairie grass and now an Indian reservation, dramatically changing the nation's landscape and spinning a debate about where they belong. Wind power grew rapidly in 2005, becoming more competitive as natural gas prices jumped and crude oil prices reached record highs. Improved technology, a federal tax credit and pressure on utilities to use clean energy sources helped fuel the growth from coast to coast. ... |
Malaysia: Palm oil can light up biofuel advantage (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 01-01-2006 at 09:00:08
| New Straits Times: WILL the lights go out in certain countries in about 50 years when the world's fossil fuel resources dry up and new reserves are not found? As the answer rests squarely on whether the world can find renewable energy to replace depleting fossil fuels, many countries have joined the race in search of sustainable energy. Many have turned to vegetable oil for the production of biofuel. Having put the biofuel policy on the backburner, Malaysia is now set to venture full steam into ... |
Special report on Arctic takes broad view of ecological change (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 01-01-2006 at 09:00:08
| Seattle Times: "Weird" seems to be the word most frequently used to describe the changes in the North Slope of Alaska. Some bird breeds are disappearing and other previously unseen warm-weather breeds are migrating in. Foxes are feeding on duck eggs because the lemmings they usually eat are scarce. The entire food chain is evolving. Glaciers are shrinking, sea ice is melting and polar bears appear to be drowning. Arctic lakes have drained and disappeared. The meat of ... |
Watching as the world vanishes (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 01-01-2006 at 09:00:08
| Boston Globe: IT WAS SHAMEFUL, everyone agreed afterward, that no one did anything at the time. Because people knew it was happening. There were reports, early on. People saw things, near where it was happening. They knew. Later, they said they hadn't known, really; they hadn't understood the scale of it. They explained their reasons for doing nothing. They said the government was responsible, there was nothing they could do. Certainly the government was determined to carry out its plans, and maybe people ... |
Scientists warn tree plantations can be harmful (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 01-01-2006 at 09:00:08
| Australian Broadcasting Corporation: A global study on the use of forest plantations to offset the effects of global warming has found they can be harmful to the environment. Plantations are used to absorb carbon gases that lead to global warming, in a process known as carbon sequestration. But researchers say large plantations can have an adverse effect on water supplies, soil nutrition and salinity. Dr Damien Barrett from the Australian scientific research agency, the CSIRO, says it is important to choose ... |
none: Climate Changes Spawn Droughts, Floods (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 01-01-2006 at 09:00:08
| Standard: SOUTHERN African countries have begun experiencing extreme weather patterns such as persistent droughts and occasional floods whose implications could be even harsher in future, environmental activists and government officials have warned. This emerged from the recent 10-day United Nations Conference on Climate Change which attracted 10 000 delegates from around the world. Until recently, floods caused by cyclones were unheard of in Southern Africa but the last few years have ... |
Philippines: Arroyo forms group for flood measures (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 01-01-2006 at 09:00:08
| Philippine Inquirer: BAGUIO CITY– President Macapagal-Arroyo has tasked MalacaƱang's infrastructure and environment officials to design new measures against recurring floods that hit several provinces in the country. Ms Arroyo, who visited Isabela on Friday, told reporters at The Mansion here that the government would need to respond properly to "aberrant" floods, which she blamed on global warming. "The flood-threatened areas are the eastern seaboard of the country [which includes] ... |
Nevada power plant to close after dispute (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 01-01-2006 at 09:00:08
| Associated Press: LAUGHLIN, Nev. - A large coal-fired power plant at the center of a dispute several years ago will close at the end of the year rather than violate a court-ordered deadline to install an estimated $1.1 billion in pollution-control measures. Southern California Edison said Thursday the Mohave Generating Station near Laughlin would close. The plant has provided the utility with 7 percent of its electricity, but the company said its 13 million customers would not be immediately affected ... |
U.S. renewable energy firms cash in (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 01-01-2006 at 09:00:08
| United Press International: With European nations struggling to keep their promised targets under the Kyoto Protocol for greenhouse gas emissions, U.S. firms are set to cash in on the increased attention on renewable energies. "All of the countries of the European Union are beginning to feel these broad environmental pressures," said Mark Farber, vice president of strategic planning for Evergreen Solar Inc. "Kyoto is an important piece of this puzzle." Evergreen, a Marlboro, Mass., ... |
United States: Group raises concerns about carbon dioxide (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 01-01-2006 at 09:00:08
| Baltimore Sun: Carbon dioxide pouring out of the smokestacks of Maryland's coal-fired power plants contributes to global warming and sea level rise that washes away 260 acres of coastal land around the Chesapeake Bay each year, an environmental group said in a report released yesterday. To highlight the dangers of rising sea levels, the Maryland Public Interest Research Group, a nonprofit advocacy organization, held a news conference with other organizations in Baltimore's waterfront Fells Point ... |
United Kingdom: Revealed: top secret plan for nuclear power plant in Wales (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 01-01-2006 at 09:00:08
| Western Mail: SECRET plan for a new nuclear power station in Wales has been hatched in Westminster. The UK Department of Energy privately wants a nuclear power station to be built on Anglesey, a senior Government source has told us. Although the official line is that Britain's future energy requirements are merely under review, it is understood that Energy Minister Malcolm Wicks has already decided that new nuclear power stations should go ahead, including one at Wylfa. An existing ... |
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