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Scientists Say Warm Seas Threaten Coral (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 07-04-2006 at 12:00:16
| Associated Press: Caribbean Sea temperatures have reached their annual high two months ahead of schedule -- a sign coral reefs may suffer the same widespread damage as last year, scientists said Monday. Sea temperatures around Puerto Rico and the Florida Keys reached 83.5 degrees Saturday -- a high not normally seen until September, said Al Strong, a scientist with the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Coral Reef Watch. "We've got a good two more months of ... |
'Climate crisis' debate opinions (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 07-04-2006 at 12:00:16
| BBC: An expert panel commissioned by the BBC is meeting to debate issues raised by James Lovelock's recent book, The Revenge of Gaia. In the publication, Professor Lovelock argues that climate change poses a major threat to the Earth's well-being, that nuclear power is the best short-term energy option, and that the size of the human population is at the root of our environmental problems. As the panel convened, members gave their initial thoughts: James Lovelock ... |
United Kingdom: Government aims for nuclear energy (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 07-04-2006 at 12:00:16
| Reuters: Britain is in a nuclear bind, environmentalists say, with the government keen to promote atomic energy but hard pressed to find funding after it said it will not use public money. Prime Minister Tony Blair has said a major review of energy policy, expected next week, will have to embrace a new generation of nuclear power plants. Blair says that will keep the lights burning and also help to cut global warming carbon emissions. But ministers have also said they will not use ... |
Poor score for Australia on climate (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 07-04-2006 at 12:00:16
| AAP: AUSTRALIA is the least prepared of all the world's developed countries to tackle the issue of climate change, a report by a newly-formed environmental foundation says. The survey by the Climate Institute Australia has identified the top ten world trends in what it says is a shift in the fight against greenhouse warming. Its Top Ten Tipping Points on Climate Change report, launched in Sydney tonight, concludes that science is the number one trend in the fight against global ... |
United Kingdom: A heatwave so fierce we need to splash out (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 07-04-2006 at 12:00:16
| icWales: WALES will continue to sweat in sweltering temperatures this week with the current heatwave lasting past Wednesday. The mercury has reached 30C in the last two days and even the normally cooler Welsh coasts have enjoyed temperatures of up to 28C. The Met Office raised its Heat-Health alert to "level three" after threshold temperatures were met for two days in a row. Despite a series of violent thunder storms and flash floods on Sunday night forecasters were ... |
United Kingdom: Blair 'changed mind' on nuclear (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 07-04-2006 at 12:00:16
| BBC: Tony Blair has told MPs he has changed his mind in the last three years on the need for new nuclear power stations. An Energy White Paper in 2003 was sceptical about building new nuclear plants, but left the option open. A government energy review, due this month, is expected to call for additional nuclear power stations. Mr Blair said he believed new nuclear stations were needed to tackle climate change but wanted the review to decide whether he was right or not. ... |
Blair Says UK Needs Nuclear Power to Meet Energy Requirements (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 07-04-2006 at 12:00:16
| Bloomberg: Prime Minister Tony Blair said the U.K. needs new nuclear power stations to meet its energy requirements and achieve commitments on cutting carbon emissions. ``It's difficult for me to see how we can have secure energy supplies and tackle climate change without replacing our nuclear power stations,'' Blair told a committee of lawmakers in London. The Department of Trade and Industry will make recommendations on Britain's energy policy before Parliament starts its summer ... |
Greenpeace expedition reaches North Pole (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 07-04-2006 at 12:00:16
| Associated Press: The last thing Lonnie Dupre (doo-PREE') and Eric Larsen expected was to use their canoes to reach the North Pole. The two explorers, sponsored by Greenpeace, say they had to paddle canoes across puddles caused by melting ice to get to the top of the world yesterday. Larsen says seeing water instead of ice at the North Pole proves to him that global warming "is happening right now and it's because of us." Dupre says enough of the polar ice cap has melted over ... |
United Kingdom: Health Alert Issued as Heatwave Set to Continue (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 07-04-2006 at 12:00:16
| Reuters: Hot weather is set to continue for the next few days across much of Britain, forecasters said on Monday, as the government issued a heatwave warning for the southeast and west midlands. London and the southeast is forecast to bake again on Monday and Tuesday with temperatures rising up to 31 degrees centigrade (88F), but by Wednesday the weather should be cooling with the possibility of thundery rain. On Sunday, temperatures rose to over 32 degrees in London but further north ... |
Time for a Declaration of Energy Indepedence (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 07-04-2006 at 12:00:16
| Indianapolis Star: Today, families across Indiana will celebrate the ideals our Founding Fathers demonstrated when they declared our nation's independence from Colonial rule. We owe our current strength and success to their courage and foresight. Now, more than two centuries later, we stand at a similar turning point, and we will need a similar spirit of innovation and forward thinking if we are to meet this challenge. What we need is a new Declaration of Independence -- a Declaration of Energy ... |
Vietnam Firm to Make Biofuel From Catfish Fat (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 07-04-2006 at 12:00:16
| Reuters: Vietnamese catfish processor and exporter Agifish plans to turn catfish fat into fuel to run diesel engines, a company official said on Monday. "We are planning to commercialise the fuel based on the result of pilot tests," Agifish Deputy Director Nguyen Dinh Huan told Reuters. Huan said Agifish has been using the fuel, made from fat left over from processing, to run pumps at its fish ponds in the Mekong Delta province of An Giang in southern Vietnam. ... |
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