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Australia: A real plan for warming (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 03-08-2006 at 06:00:07
| Age: It has been a terrible week for Kim Beazley and the Labor Party. The furore about factionalism overshadowed Beazley's bold and thoughtful speech on Tuesday on the threat of climate change and what a Beazley Labor government would do about it. This is a pity. Beazley is perceived to have no ticker. But this speech shows that, unlike the Government, he is prepared to spell out the enormity of the problem of climate change, accept the fact that it is largely man-made, and put forward ... |
Carbon fiber cars could put U.S. on highway to efficiency (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 03-08-2006 at 06:00:07
| Innovations Report: Highways of tomorrow might be filled with lighter, cleaner and more fuel-efficient automobiles made in part from recycled plastics, lignin from wood pulp and cellulose. First, however, researchers at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory, working as part of a consortium with Ford, General Motors and DaimlerChrysler, must figure out how to lower the cost of carbon fiber composites. If they are successful in developing high-volume renewable sources of carbon fiber ... |
United States: Forest changes linked to global warming (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 03-08-2006 at 06:00:07
| Minnesota Public Radio: Trees in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness are changing so rapidly, scientists say that within 50 years the wilderness could look completely different. Cold-weather pine and birch species that are the hallmark of Minnesota's boreal forests are dwindling. In their place, hardwoods, more common to central Minnesota, are popping up. Changes are also taking place in central and southern Minnesota woods. Scientists think global warming is changing, perhaps forever, the state's ... |
Green Technology Investments Boosted (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 03-08-2006 at 06:00:07
| Associated Press: Venture capitalists are seeing green in clean technologies. The amount of North American venture capital invested in environmentally friendly technologies jumped 35 percent last year to more than $1.6 billion, according to a report to be released Wednesday by the Cleantech Venture Network. "Cleantech" investments by venture capital firms rose to a record $502 million during the fourth quarter of 2005 -- 18 percent more than the previous quarter and 60 percent more ... |
Warming weapon? Oil giants plan to bury CO2 (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 03-08-2006 at 06:00:07
| Reuters: Energy groups Statoil and Shell plan the world's biggest project to bury carbon dioxide beneath the seabed in a billion-dollar project off Norway to raise oil output and curb global warming, the firms announced Wednesday. It would be the world's first project to use carbon dioxide to boost oil recovery offshore, though the gas has been injected into onshore oilfields in Texas, company officials said. Norway's Statoil and Anglo-Dutch Shell said the plan, due to start in 2010-12 ... |
Bicycle Taxis Thrive on Streets of New York; City Considers Crackdown (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 03-08-2006 at 06:00:07
| Reuters: Bicycle taxis are weaving through the clogged streets of midtown Manhattan in a movement growing so rapidly that the city is proposing regulations before it spins out of control. Known as pedicabs, these vehicles look like giant tricycles with a passenger carriage in the back. Some tourists and New Yorkers see them as an affordable, pollution-free way to see the city and sail through gridlock. The City Council is examining whether this burgeoning fad, grown from a ... |
Carbon burial plan for North Sea (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 03-08-2006 at 06:00:07
| BBC: British and Norwegian oil companies have announced plans to bury carbon dioxide under the bed of the North Sea. Statoil and Shell plan to take CO2 from a power station in Norway and pipe it to an oil field, where it will be used to force oil to the surface. The $1.2bn-1.5bn scheme will require major investment from governments. The process of carbon sequestration is viewed by some as a partial solution to climate change, but can also help companies exploit oil ... |
China's big reform (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 03-08-2006 at 06:00:07
| United Press International: China has embarked on a revolutionary shift in social and economic priorities in an attempt to repair some of the damage done to the environment and social system by two decades of breakneck economic growth. The new five-year plan now being presented to the current session of the People's Congress, the nearest China has to a parliament, sees a marked shift of resources to the lagging rural sector, to neglected social problems like health care and pensions and to the country's badly ... |
US Nuclear Plant Leaks Fuel Local Health Concerns (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 03-08-2006 at 06:00:07
| Reuters: Years of radioactive waste water spills from Illinois nuclear power plants have fueled suspicions the industry covers up safety problems and sparked debate about the risks from exposure to low-level radiation. The recent, belated disclosures of leaks of the fission byproduct tritium from Exelon Corp.'s Braidwood, Dresden, and Byron twin-reactor nuclear plants - one as long ago as 1996 - triggered worries among neighbors about whether it was safe to drink their water, or even stay. ... |
Wildfire worries rise in drought-stricken Southwest (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 03-08-2006 at 06:00:07
| Associated Press: The statistics in the Southwest read like a laundry list of bad news: Phoenix has been without rain for four months. Tucson is suffering through its driest winter on record, as is Albuquerque, New Mexico. Some Tucson homeowners have actually watered cactus plants to keep them alive. And that's raising a serious worry: The Southwest's spring wildfire season could come early. "The conditions right now are about the worst we've seen," said Jim Payne, spokesman for the ... |
Analysis says ice thawing earlier on Maine lakes (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 03-08-2006 at 06:00:07
| Associated Press: Ice on dozens of lakes in Maine and four other states is melting earlier in the year than in decades past, according to a new analysis. The study, "On Thin Ice: The Melting of an American Pastime," examined the records of ice cover on more than 50 lakes in Maine, Wisconsin, Minnesota, New York and Alaska. In Maine, the study found that Moosehead Lake, the state's largest body of water, is now thawing eight days earlier than its historic average based on 149 years of ... |
United Kingdom: Blair says meeting energy/climate targets without nuclear a 'challenge' (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 03-08-2006 at 06:00:07
| AFX: Britain faces a 'major challenge' in meeting its energy needs and climate change obligations without considering nuclear power 'in the mix', said Prime Minister Tony Blair. Speaking during Prime Minister's Questions, Blair seemed to move further towards supporting construction of a new generation of nuclear stations. 'I still think there is a major challenge as to whether we can really make sure we can meet both our energy needs and our environmental targets without nuclear ... |
EU Commission launches push for common energy policy (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 03-08-2006 at 06:00:07
| Reuters: The European Union must diversify its energy supplies and consider storing more oil and gas for times of crisis, the bloc's executive said on Wednesday, presenting an outline for a common EU energy policy. Coming on the heels of a gas dispute between Russia and Ukraine that disrupted supplies to Europe, the European Commission's proposals aim to address concerns about import dependence, climate change and high oil prices. "The energy challenges of the 21st century require ... |
Ford Says US Oil Companies Need More Ethanol Pumps (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 03-08-2006 at 06:00:07
| Reuters: With millions of flexible-fuel vehicles on US roads and more coming, major oil companies must install many more service station pumps to provide gasoline made mostly from ethanol to run them, a top Ford Motor Co. official told Congress on Tuesday. State officials in the US Midwest, where farmers grow much of the corn used in ethanol production, have accused big oil companies of dragging their feet in providing motorists with fuel that is a mixture of 85 percent ethanol and 15 percent ... |
Is drought killing pastoralism? (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 03-08-2006 at 06:00:07
| Reuters: Around the few deep boreholes dotted across Kenya's arid empty north, villages of thatched huts are growing by the day. Dozens of families arrive, leading camel trains and herding the few bony cattle they have left, pushed by drought to the vast frontier bordering Somalia and Ethiopia. Tribal lore passed down the generations says the only way for these nomads to survive is to keep moving, from watering hole to river, from one pasture to the next, living off the milk and meat of their ... |
Australia: Labor's climate blueprint 'little new' (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 03-08-2006 at 06:00:07
| AAP: Labor has produced little new policy in Opposition Leader Kim Beazley's blueprint speech on climate change, Environment Minister Ian Campbell says. The proposal for solar cells for schools had been matched easily by the government's $100 million on solar projects, he said. Mr Beazley committed Labor to a 60 per cent cut in greenhouse gas emissions by the year 2050, based on 2000 levels. He also reaffirmed Labor's commitment to signing the Kyoto Protocol on climate ... |
Rain Blesses East Africa, But Drought Not Over (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 03-08-2006 at 06:00:07
| Reuters: Heavy rains from Burundi to central Kenya have drenched parched fields and flooded streets this week, but forecasters say a months-long drought that has put millions of people at risk is not over yet. While the recent rains have lifted the hopes of farmers who are rapidly planting crops, others fear flash floods could end up causing damage and know that only long, sustained rainfall will help drive the drought away. "People are asking if this the end of the drought, but what ... |
Study: Warming may hit ski resorts (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 03-08-2006 at 06:00:07
| Associated Press: Global warming could hurt the quality of future ski seasons in the Pacific Northwest, according to a study released Tuesday by Oregon State University. OSU researchers estimate if average temperatures rise 2 degrees Celsius in the next 40 years as some scientists anticipate, the region's ski areas could see more snowy days turn to rainy ones and experience warmer winters overall. The study, which will be published soon in the Journal of Hydrometeorology, looked at 3,600 square ... |
N.C. Islands Threatened by Rising Ocean Levels (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 03-08-2006 at 06:00:07
| Associated Press: An East Carolina University geologist says some of North Carolina's barrier islands will sink fast under sea levels rising because of global warming. Stanley Riggs says if the development boom on the islands continues, more people will lose money when the rising tides wash over the low-lying land. Riggs was speaking yesterday to a commission on global climate change created by the state legislature in Raleigh. The commission is exploring whether oceans are rising, and how North ... |
Warm US Winter Eases Energy Burden for Homeowners (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 03-08-2006 at 06:00:07
| Reuters: A warm winter in the United States has eased some of the pain for households facing record prices for natural gas and heating oil this year, the US government said Tuesday. The average residence using natural gas as a heating fuel this winter will end up paying about 17 percent more than last year, or $127 - a sharp jump but not nearly as bad as the 48 percent spike predicted at the start of the season. The reprieve comes as lower demand for fuel in the key heating regions of ... |
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