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Australian Bushfires Destroy Homes, Temperatures Soar (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 01-03-2006 at 12:00:27
| Reuters: SYDNEY - Raging bushfires destroyed several homes and threatened others north of Sydney on Sunday as scorching temperatures and dry winds fanned fires across southeastern Australia. Temperatures reached up to 44 degrees Celsius (111 F) in some areas, and firefighters were battling scores of blazes, although authorities said cooler weather and rain had brought relief to South Australia and Victoria. In New South Wales, Australia's most populous state, residents were evacuated ... |
United Kingdom: Cost of cleaning up after nuclear power stations are closed down rises to £70bn (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 01-03-2006 at 12:00:27
| Independent: The projected cost of cleaning up the sites of Britain's old nuclear power stations is likely to leap to more than £70bn when new figures are published early this year. The Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA), set up last April to supervise state-owned nuclear plants, said it was "almost certain" that its initial estimate of £56bn - itself the equivalent of a charge of £800 for every adult and child in the country - would have to be revised upwards. Inflation ... |
Spain Braces for Second Year of Drought (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 01-03-2006 at 12:00:27
| Reuters: MADRID - Spanish farmers are preparing for losses and the government is taking emergency measures as meteorologists say a drought has entered its second year and there is no sign of relief in the short term. Spain suffered its worst drought since records began this year and the National Meteorological Institute (INM) says the drought persisted in the first quarter of the new water year, which runs from September to August. "The forecasts, at least what we can see in the ... |
United Kingdom: Warmer winters tempt the nuthatch to head north (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 01-03-2006 at 12:00:27
| Telegraph: Climate change has led to a bird with a unique characteristic moving from England and Wales to colonise Scotland. The nuthatch, the only British bird to scurry head-first down tree trunks, has long been a common sight in southern Britain but its occurrence used to come to a halt at the Scottish border. When the Atlas of Breeding Birds in Britain and Ireland was published in 1976 the species was shown to be scarce even in much of northern England, especially Lancashire, Cumbria ... |
India: West Bengal to set up green energy firm (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 01-03-2006 at 12:00:27
| New Kerala: In a bold step to harness green energy, West Bengal will set up India's first renewable energy corporation. The new company will aim to produce at least 400 megawatt of power by harnessing wind, biomass, bio-diesel and municipal waste, S.P. Gon Chowdhuri, director of West Bengal Renewable Energy Development Agency, told IANS. The decision was taken at a meeting of the power department keeping in view the central government's aim to provide electricity to every household by ... |
In coal country, heat rises over latest method of mining (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 01-03-2006 at 12:00:27
| Christian Science Monitor: When Maria Gunnoe looks over her 40-acre farm in southern West Virginia, she finds it hard to believe it's the same place that, growing up, she considered her "own little private heaven." Seven floods in five years have washed out most of her yard, filled her barn with debris, and destroyed parts of her bridge. The stream where she used to swim and catch bait is now a pollution discharge system. The well water is now so toxic that bathing in it has caused problems. ... |
Wildfires rage across U.S. southern prairie (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 01-03-2006 at 12:00:27
| Associated Press: OKLAHOMA CITY Grassfires raged across the dry southern prairie, burning homes in Oklahoma City, destroying two small towns in Texas, and creating patchworks of flames as burning embers were blown by the gusting winds. Dozens of fires burned Sunday across the dry Oklahoma landscape as the wind gusts reached 50 mph (80 kph). In Texas, more than 20 fires sprang up, including a 22,400-acre (8,960-hectare) blaze that threatened 200 homes near Carbon, about 125 miles (200 kilometers) west ... |
Australia: Heat blitz fuels climate change fear (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 01-03-2006 at 06:00:07
| Age: LAST year broke heat records by a meteorological mile – it was more than one degree hotter than average, prompting the Bureau of Meteorology to sound a renewed climate change alarm. The bureau's annual Australian climate statement, to be released today, shows the average national temperature in 2005 was 22.89, 1.09 degrees hotter than the average between 1961 and 1990. This makes it the hottest year since records began by a considerable margin. The previous record holder, 1998, ... |
Low-cost lamps brighten the future of rural India (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 01-03-2006 at 06:00:07
| Christian Science Monitor: KHADAKWADI, INDIA – Until just three months ago, life in this humble village without electricity would come to a grinding halt after sunset. Inside his mud-and-clay home, Ganpat Jadhav's three children used to study in the dim, smoky glow of a kerosene lamp. And when their monthly fuel quota of four liters dried up in just a fortnight, they had to strain their eyes using the light from a cooking fire. That all changed with the installation of low-cost, energy-efficient lamps that are ... |
United Kingdom: Companies spending £1bn a year on energy that is wasted (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 01-03-2006 at 06:00:07
| Independent: British firms could help the environment and increase their profits by saving the £1bn a year they waste on energy, according to a government watchdog. The Carbon Trust, a government-funded environmental group, said UK businesses spent more than £6bn a year on energy - but £1bn was wasted because of a failure to cut carbon emissions. Simple measures such as lowering the office temperature by one degree centigrade would reduce the typical business's heating bill by up to 8 per cent a ... |
United Kingdom: Radical action demand over global warming (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 01-03-2006 at 06:00:07
| Belfast Telegraph: Politicians in Northern Ireland were today coming under fresh pressure to tackle global warming after counterparts in the Republic backed calls for radical action. Friends of the Earth (FoE) has gathered more than 60 signatures to its "climate pledge" among public representatives in the south and this has sparked calls for similar action in Northern Ireland. The lobby group is warning that Ireland will be affected by a century of storms, floods and droughts if ... |
Nigeria Burns an Opportunity (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 01-03-2006 at 06:00:08
| LA Times: Plans to end the environmentally damaging practice of burning off unused natural gas by oil companies in Nigeria are being stymied by funding problems amid pressure to increase oil production, industry officials and environmentalists say. Nigeria is committed to ending "gas flaring" by 2008 as part of its attempt to find commercial solutions for gas produced with oil pumped from the Niger Delta region. But levels of so-called associated gas flaring have been rising again in ... |
US floods, fires bring tempestuous start to 2006 (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 01-03-2006 at 06:00:08
| Agence France-Presse: Violent weather across the United States has brought a tempestuous start to 2006, as wildfires swept across southern parts of the country Monday and storms triggered floods in California. Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger declared a state of emergency Monday in northern California amid floods and landslides. At least five people have died in weather-related accidents in southern and northern California. Schwarzenegger said the weather had caused "conditions of ... |
United Kingdom: Environmentalists warn against 'raiding' rivers for water as winter drought hits South-east (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 01-03-2006 at 06:00:08
| Independent: The worst winter drought for a generation is gripping parts of Britain, leaving reservoirs a third full and forcing water companies to resort to emergency "raids" on rivers to replenish their dwindling reserves. Experts warned yesterday that without an unprecedented increase in rainfall in the coming months, serious water shortages are inevitable this summer in south-east England. The Environment Agency described the management of water supplies in the South-east ... |
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