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Australia: Call for carbon tax to fund research (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 01-06-2006 at 12:00:07
| Canberra Times: Australia must move to cut rising greenhouse gas emissions by introducing a carbon tax and using the funds to boost investment in solar energy, says federal Greens leader Senator Bob Brown. But federal Environment Minister Senator Ian Campbell has hinted at an emerging role for nuclear power in tackling climate change, flagging that it will be discussed at next week's Asia Pacific climate forum in Sydney. Senator Brown said these comments indicated the Government was preparing ... |
China Welcomes Small Cars Back to its Streets (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 01-06-2006 at 12:00:07
| Reuters: BEIJING - China will encourage the manufacture and use of small, low-emission cars, overturning current restrictions on them to help curb its growing appetite for oil, the country's top economic planning body said. Parking fees for small cars should be lower, officials should lead the way in using them and limits on their use as taxis should be lifted, the National Development and Reform Commission said in a statement on its Web site. "The safety, power and appearance of energy ... |
Tiger census starts in India in bid to halt big cat's slide to extinction (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 01-06-2006 at 12:00:07
| Independent: Wildlife experts in India have begun the largest census in history of the endangered tiger in an effort to prevent the world's biggest cat from being poached to extinction. Hundreds of officials armed with radio collars and night-vision cameras fanned out yesterday across the largest natural tiger habitat of West Bengal's sparsely populated Sunderbans, a 10,000sq-km (3,900sq-mile) area of mangrove marshland on the eastern coast. Using speedboats to help cover the vast ... |
Australia: Bushfires blazing through western NSW (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 01-06-2006 at 12:00:08
| AAP: Landholders are being urged to prepare their own firebreaks as a bushfire continues to burn unchecked in central western NSW. The blaze has burnt through 5,200ha of the rugged Weddin Mountains National Park, near Grenfell, and moved into an adjacent state forest. The Rural Fire Service (RFS) said 40kph winds had fanned the blaze. "We had a bit of an outbreak there last night ... with it spotting over into Bimbi State Forest," RFS spokeswoman Meeka Bailey ... |
Europe warms to nuclear power (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 01-06-2006 at 12:00:08
| Christian Science Monitor: PARIS – After nearly two decades, Europe's antinuclear tide is showing signs of turning. For the first time in 15 years, a European country has begun construction of a nuclear reactor, and six more are likely to be built in the next decade. Other countries are revising plans to phase out their nuclear programs. And this week's brief but brutal drop in Europe's supplies of crucial Russian gas has only served to fuel the trend. "People are saying 'let's take a second look' ... |
Ancient Global Warming Flipped Ocean Circulation, May Do So Again (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 01-06-2006 at 12:00:08
| Environment News Service: SAN DIEGO, California, January 5, 2006 (ENS) - For the first time, evidence that global warming triggered a reversal in the circulation of deep ocean patterns around the world has been uncovered by scientists affiliated with the Scripps Institution of Oceanography. While the changes they describe occurred 55 million years ago, the scientists say today's conditions are similar and could have similar drastic effects on ocean circulation. In today's issue of the journal ... |
Burning questions raised over logging (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 01-06-2006 at 12:00:08
| Nature: Common assumptions about the ecological benefits of 'salvage' logging following forest fires are wrong, according to a study of the aftermath of a 2002 fire in Oregon. Culling any remaining timber after a forest fire is sometimes thought to be good for forests, because it removes dead trees that might spark future fires, and because it clears the ground for more seedlings to grow. But these ideas aren't backed up by the facts, says Dan Donato, a forest ecologist from Oregon State ... |
Kenya's Deadly Drought Could Last All Year - Forecast (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 01-06-2006 at 12:00:08
| Reuters: NAIROBI - Poor rains could extend Kenya's deadly drought for at least the next 12 months, increasing famine and undermining the country's energy, tourism and agriculture sectors, Kenya's weather chief warned on Thursday . Kenya, along with Ethiopia and Somalia, is suffering from drought and millions face food shortages while their livestock die from shrinking pasture and water supply. Beyond that, the drought could cut hydroelectric power supplies, harm sugar and tea crops and ... |
Europe Seeks Homegrown Power Solutions (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 01-06-2006 at 12:00:08
| Associated Press: The EU has a harsh New Year's resolution to keep after a gas dispute between Russia and Ukraine led to official exhortations for Europe to look for a wider range of suppliers and energy sources. European governments must tighten their belts, concentrate more on renewable energy and reconsider nuclear power, EU officials said this week. "As long as we spend more and more on energy, we will be getting more and more dependent," said EU Energy Commissioner Andris ... |
France Faces Possible Record Drought in 2006 (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 01-06-2006 at 12:00:08
| Reuters: PARIS - France could face a record drought in 2006 after a 50 percent drop in autumn rainfall in some areas and three consecutive dry years, the environment minister said on Thursday. "This could be a very difficult year, and perhaps a record in terms of drought," Nelly Olin told a news conference. She said that after the heatwave in 2003, a dry 2004/2005 winter and low rainfall in the 2005 autumn, the water table was now seriously low. "Even if it rains ... |
Get ready for climate change refugees, Australia told (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 01-06-2006 at 12:00:08
| Agence France-Presse: The Australian government has been urged to prepare to accept a flood of refugees fleeing Pacific islands swallowed by rising sea levels caused by global warming. "In time, it is likely that one or more Pacific island countries will have to be completely evacuated," the opposition Labor Party said in a policy statement. "Labor believes that Australia should, as part of an international coalition, do its fair share to accept climate change refugees as part of our ... |
United States: Gov. to Seek New Freeway Toll Lanes (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 01-06-2006 at 12:00:08
| LA Times: SACRAMENTO – Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger will propose today adding special toll lanes – some exclusively for trucks – to California's most congested freeways, and speeding their construction by easing environmental reviews. The toll proposal is only part of a multibillion-dollar public works agenda the governor will unveil during his annual State of the State speech, administration officials said Wednesday. But it would have a direct impact on the quality of life for millions of ... |
Insurance Company Offers Hybrid Car Owners 10 Percent Discount (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 01-06-2006 at 12:00:08
| Reuters: NEW YORK - Are tree-hugging, middle-age owners of hybrid vehicles a better risk than drivers of ordinary autos? St. Paul Travelers Companies Inc. is betting they are. Travelers, the fourth largest property and casualty insurer in the United States, is giving a 10 percent discount on auto insurance to hybrid owners beginning in February. It is the first auto insurer to implement such a discount nationwide. "Call it 'The Gas Station Revelation,"' said Greg ... |
Lack of Arizona snowpack could worsen wildfire season (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 01-06-2006 at 12:00:08
| Associated Press: Arizona's lack of winter snow will translate into problems statewide later this year for communities dependent upon surface water flows and will worsen the wildfire season, experts say. Water supply specialist Larry Martinez, snow survey program manager for the Natural Resources Conservation Service, says snowpack is virtually non-existent this winter all across the ponderosa pine belt from Williams to Alpine. "All indications are that based on the snowpack that we have ... |
Ore. adopts tough emission standards (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 01-06-2006 at 12:00:08
| Capital Press: The Oregon Environmental Quality Commission on Dec. 22 adopted temporary rules strengthening the state's vehicle emission standards – in the process, triggering the adoption of similar tough standards in Washington state. The Washington Legislature in May approved the stricter standards, but made their adoption contingent upon Oregon accepting them. The standards are designed to curb global warming and improve air quality by reducing carbon dioxide emissions. Commonly called ... |
United Kingdom: Cool kettles bring climate to boil (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 01-06-2006 at 12:00:08
| Guardian: Ignore cheap flights to the sun and forget about gas guzzling SUVs, energy experts have identified a new destructive agent of climate change in our modern lifestyle: the fashionable kettle. New designs coming on to the market that hold more water and boil faster will use more electricity and produce more greenhouse pollution than older versions, according to research commissioned by the government. Features such as a hot plate to keep boiled water warm, electronic whistles and a ... |
Australia: Climatic convulsions, disaster, and arrogance (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 01-06-2006 at 09:00:08
| Age: AFTER the New Year hangovers have cleared, we typically reflect on the year past and contemplate the ways in which we can make the coming one happier and more successful. National leaders would do well to reflect on the work of Pulitzer Prize and double National Science Book Prize winner Jared Diamond, who has conducted comprehensive research into why societies have prospered or failed over the past 13,000 years. In his 1997 book Guns, Germs and Steel, Diamond tried to answer the ... |
Kyoto recalcitrants unite (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 01-06-2006 at 09:00:08
| Australian: WHEN the world's most powerful woman, Condoleezza Rice, flies into Sydney midweek, she will join a raft of business and political heavyweights trying to resolve arguably the most pressing issue facing the world. With exquisite timing, the US Secretary of State, accompanied by an entourage of heavyweights including US Energy Secretary Samuel Bodman and presidential adviser James Connaugh, will arrive as the top-billing attendee at the first Asia-Pacific Partnership on Clean Development ... |
20 years left to achieve climate stability - scientist (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 01-06-2006 at 09:00:08
| Irish Examinier: A leading Australian scientist believes that the world has just 20 years to turn the tide on global warming and that leaders at a summit in Sydney next week must take concrete steps to tackle the problem. Tim Flannery, a respected Australian scientist and author, says the world's economic powerhouses must take drastic measures over the next two decades before the Earth's climate is irreversibly altered. "We have to make deep, deep reductions in emissions within the next 20 ... |
Booming population 'threat to climate change fight' (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 01-06-2006 at 09:00:08
| Independent: Environmental problems such as global warming can be tackled only if the international community addresses the problem of population growth, a leading scientist warned today. Professor Chris Rapley, the director of the British Antarctic Survey, said the 76 million annual increase in the world's population threatens "the welfare and quality of life of future generations". But he said population growth was the "Cinderella" issue of the environmental debate, ... |
Climate fund's $100m kickstart (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 01-06-2006 at 09:00:08
| Australian: AUSTRALIA is considering injecting about $100 million into an international fund to kick-start the adoption of clean technology in China and India as part of a regional push to cut greenhouse gases. The US is also expected to be a major contributor to the scheme, designed to encourage the world's two largest developing nations to accelerate the fight against climate change. John Howard will next week reaffirm Australia's commitment to establishing a new global agreement on the ... |
Getting in early as China cleans up (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 01-06-2006 at 09:00:08
| International Herald Tribune: PARIS An incident in China in early December offered hope, to some at least, that the trend of environmental degradation that has accompanied the country's rapid industrialization might soon change. After sustained protests over the construction of a large power plant and the sale of a local lake, residents of Dongzhou, a fishing village near Hong Kong, seized the plant. The police moved in, and as many as 20 residents were killed as the police opened fire in the ensuing melee, ... |
High price to pay for China's wealth (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 01-06-2006 at 09:00:08
| Sydney Morning Herald: GROWING prosperity in China threatens to place intolerable burdens on the world's natural resources, an environmental researcher has warned. Unless the global economy is fundamentally restructured, the world will be unable to produce enough energy, food and other resources to meet Chinese demand, the president of the Earth Policy Institute, Lester Brown, said. Dr Brown called for an international "Earth restoration budget" of $US161 billion ($216 billion) a ... |
Australia: Labor slams govt over climate change (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 01-06-2006 at 09:00:08
| AAP: Labor says federal Environment Minister Ian Campbell has revealed his government's attitude to climate change is simply "let's hope it never happens". And Senator Campbell's comment that there was no imminent danger of Pacific island nations being swamped by rising sea levels has led the Greens to label him as a Canute. Canute was an ancient Danish king of Britain who is remembered for the legend of how he commanded the waves to recede. Senator Campbell said on ... |
Canada: Conservatives coy on Kyoto (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 01-06-2006 at 09:00:08
| Canadian Press: OTTAWA -- The Conservatives are maintaining an ambiguous position on the Kyoto Protocol, criticizing the climate treaty without saying they would withdraw from it. In response to a questionnaire from the Sierra Club, the Conservative party affirms the need for global action on climate without saying what form that action would take. "A long-term, global and inclusive approach to reducing greenhouse emissions is the only tangible and workable solution to tackling the ... |
Canada: Controversial forest study creates heat (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 01-06-2006 at 09:00:08
| CanWest News Service: CANADA'S forests may actually worsen global warming rather than cool the planet, says a controversial study by a Stanford University physicist and environmental scientist. This doesn't mean we should bulldoze forests to fight global warming, says Ken Caldeira. Forests are still valuable ecological features in many ways. But he says it's "premature at least," and maybe even dead wrong, to plant new forests and maintain existing ones in the belief that this will cool ... |
Arctic taking on most of global heat (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 01-06-2006 at 09:00:08
| United Press International: A University of Alabama scientist says global warming is not nearly as global as some people think. With a global average temperature that was .54 F degrees warmer than seasonal norms, 2005 tied with 2002 as the second warmest year in the past 27, data processed at the university revealed. Temperatures in 2005 followed a general pattern seen since 1978, with the most significant warming seen in the northernmost third of the planet. Large regions of slightly warmer than normal ... |
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