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British energy project challenged in Russian wilderness (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 10-02-2006 at 12:00:15
| Agence France-Presse: Sirens scream, jeeps fly past, helicopters prepare for take-off. Russia's flamboyant environmental enforcer Oleg Mitvol is in town. Mitvol's mission this time may be his biggest yet: to halt a 20-billion-dollar (15.8-billion-euro) energy project led by British oil giant Shell on Russia's eastern edge. "Sakhalin Energy is treating us like a banana republic," Mitvol said Friday on a helicopter tour to a section of oil and gas pipelines that run like a scar down 800 ... |
Buy your own slice of Amazon rainforest (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 10-02-2006 at 12:00:15
| West Australian: Britain is proposing an extraordinary scheme to battle climate change in which the Amazon rainforest would be turned into an international trust and its trees sold to individuals and groups. Plans for the wholesale "privatisation" of the rainforest will be raised by David Miliband, the Environment Secretary, at an environmental summit in Mexico this week. The scheme, endorsed by Prime Minister Tony Blair, is aimed at protecting the plants and wildlife from logging companies. ... |
Carbon dioxide from rain forests may be contributing to climate change (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 10-02-2006 at 12:00:16
| Paramus Post: In the middle of Terry McGlynn's lab at the University of San Diego sits a seemingly incongruous object for a biologist dedicated to teasing out secrets about how tropical rain forests work. It's a brown metallic Singer sewing machine that looks to be decades old. Around it are neatly sewn bags about the size of McGlynn's hand and remnants of mesh materials from which the bags are made. The concept is in textbooks and economic models: Central and South American woodlands are ... |
Will green power fizzle if oil prices keep slumping? (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 10-02-2006 at 12:00:16
| Christian Science Monitor: The first oil shock of the 21st century has eased since the summer's highs, allowing motorists and businessmen to breathe a little more easily. But that's not the case for those in renewable energy, whose fortunes have waxed and waned with the price of oil. Will those stocks fare better this time around? To find out, the Monitor's Laurent Belsie sat down with two Boston-based experts on green energy: Jack Robinson, founder of the Winslow Green Growth Fund, and Eric Becker, portfolio manager ... |
Coal regains regal status as energy prices rise (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 10-02-2006 at 12:00:16
| Denver Post: King Coal is back. Years of punishing increases in natural gas prices have the nation's utilities preparing to shift away from expensive gas-fired generation in favor of more than 150 new coal-burning plants. "There's no doubt that coal will be playing a much bigger role in power generation," said Stuart Sanderson, president of the Colorado Mining Association. "That bodes well not only for Colorado coal but for Western coal in general." The move ... |
United Kingdom: Global warming rewrites the record books (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 10-02-2006 at 12:00:16
| Northern Echo: WE haven't had a September like it for 277 years. Last month, which ended on Saturday, was the warmest since 1729, meteorologists revealed. The average temperature was 16.6C - 2.9C above the average for September. Last September's average was 15.1C. Amateur meteorologist David Hardaker, from Newton Aycliffe, County Durham, confirmed the North-East was unusually warm last month. He said: "Looking back over my records, the previous warmest September was in ... |
Singapore Skies Smoggy from Indonesia Fires; Air Quality Rated Moderate (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 10-02-2006 at 12:00:16
| Associated Press: Forest fires in Indonesia have created smoggy skies in neighboring Singapore, although the city-state says the air quality hasn't deteriorated to unhealthy levels. Hazy skies appeared in Singapore because of forest fires on Indonesia's Sumatra island and a change in wind direction, the National Environment Agency said Monday. It also said air quality was likely to stay "moderate" -- a grade above "unhealthy" -- until Wednesday, when the situation is ... |
United States: Wind now runs suburb's water plant (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 10-02-2006 at 12:00:16
| Chicago Tribune: Northbrook is doing its part to make the air better to breathe by turning wind into water. By signing an electricity contract last month the village became the first municipality in Illinois, and one of the first in the country, to purchase enough wind-generated energy to run an entire municipal utility, its water plant. "There are others in the state that are thinking about it, but Northbrook is the first to jump on board," said Leslie McCain, a spokeswoman for ... |
Climate change takes toll on Bering Sea (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 10-02-2006 at 12:00:16
| United Press International: Scientists suspect global warming in having a major negative impact on the Bering Sea, where much of the fish consumed the United States is caught. The Seattle Times reported that the Bearing Sea, where the annual catch totals some $1.7 billion, is seeing its sea life population dropping sharply. Researchers told the newspaper, for instance, the snow crab catch has declined by 85 percent over the last six years. Part of the reason is over-fishing, the Times said, but the ... |
United Kingdom: Greens 'aid destruction of planet' (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 10-02-2006 at 12:00:16
| Times (UK): ENVIRONMENTAL groups are setting back the fight against global warming with misguided and irrational objections to nuclear power, according to Britain's leading thinker about the future. Climate change will be the greatest of many significant challenges for humanity over the next century, and every tool available, including nuclear energy, will be needed to prevent it wrecking the planet, James Martin told The Times. While the anti-nuclear campaign is well-intentioned, it ... |
Canada: Tories face balancing act as they prepare to unveil green plan (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 10-02-2006 at 12:00:16
| CanWest News Service: Nearly two-thirds of Canadians believe the Conservative government will fail to take adequate steps to fight global warming, and blame the oil and gas industry for making matters worse. And a similar number 63 per cent are ''desperately concerned'' that the ''world may not last much longer than another couple of generations'' if drastic action isn't taken immediately. Those findings from a recent Ipsos Reid survey of 1,296 adult Canadians are released as the Tories prepare to ... |
Ecological upheaval on the edge of the ice (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 10-02-2006 at 12:00:16
| Seattle Times: As the research vessel Thomas G. Thompson steamed toward St. Paul Island, crab fisherman Wayne Baker was holed up in the tiny Alaskan harbor, waiting for a break in the weather. It hadn't been a great season so far. "I've never seen so many blanks," said Baker, who set pots for four days without pulling up a single crab. St. Paul is a speck of land in the Bering Sea, the treacherous expanse of water that separates Siberia and Alaska near the top of the ... |
Green Experts Call for More Investment in Sustainability (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 10-02-2006 at 12:00:16
| Deutsche Welle: Members of a national council for sustainable development have criticized the German federal government for not treating sustainablity projects as a top priority. At the Annual Conference of the German Council for Sustainable Development, held in Berlin this week, chairman of the expert panel Volker Hauff urged a stronger political commitment from Chancellor Angela Merkel's ruling Christian Democrat party to support environmentally cleaner production technologies. The council ... |
Media take heat on climate stories (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 10-02-2006 at 12:00:17
| Cape Cod Times: Earth scientist Anthony Socci and Republican Sen. James Inhofe from Oklahoma agree on at least one thing: The mainstream media often misses the mark on the global warming story. But Socci, a senior science and communications fellow with the American Meteorological Society, and Inhofe, the chairman of the Senate Committee on the Environment and Public Works, disagree on just where the media goes wrong. ''I think there's a disconnect,'' Socci said, following a recent presentation ... |
Brazil: Miliband promotes plan to buy rainforests (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 10-02-2006 at 12:00:17
| Telegraph: Ministers are proposing an extraordinary scheme to tackle climate change in which the Amazon rainforest would be turned into an international trust and its trees sold to individuals and groups. Plans for the wholesale "privatisation" of the rainforest will be raised by David Miliband, the Environment Secretary, at a summit in Mexico this week. The scheme, endorsed by Tony Blair, aims to protect the plants and wildlife from logging. About 13 million hectares of the ... |
'When the world warms up, we'll need new maps' (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 10-02-2006 at 12:00:17
| Sunday Herald: The Scottish parliament discovered climate change this week – or rather the denial of it. The Futures Forum had decided to invite one of the last of the climate-change sceptics, the Danish statistician Bjorn Lomborg, to address an invited audience in the Garden Lobby. I was asked to be the interlocutor. Which I was happy to do. Some environmentalists argue that you should never share a platform with climate-change deniers. I take the opposite view – they should be welcomed. If it ... |
United Kingdom: Fleet Street's sins of emission (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 10-02-2006 at 12:00:17
| Observer: It isn't a sideshow any longer, as both Blair and Brown agree. It's the biggest, most inescapable show in town. Cue passionate words about climate change and global warming. Cue Sir David Attenborough saving the planet for the BBC, green living supplements dropping out of the Independent and poly-bagged eco survival guides with your Saturday Guardian. Cue the Mail papering Britain with wildfowl wallcharts and the Sun - at long, long last - embracing ecology as enthusiastically as a Page ... |
India's plight: It's soaked or parched (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 10-02-2006 at 12:00:17
| New York Times: Early on a Monday morning during the August monsoon, after several days of torrential rains, the engineers in charge of the Ukai Dam upstream from this diamond-polishing hub faced a harrowing crisis. The massive dam stands 105 meters tall, or 345 feet. With water brimming well past permitted levels, according to official records, and the skies showing no sign of relief, the engineers apparently threw open the reservoir's 21 sluice gates. Water then did what water does. Like a ... |
Australia: Land weeps as debate on climate change solution continues (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 10-02-2006 at 12:00:17
| Canberra Times: CLIMATE change is broadly accepted by the scientific community to be a fact, not a fiction, and the scientists are busily producing reports to confirm our worst fears. In the past week - which began with bushfires when hot, windy weather swept over NSW and the ACT - scientists warned of a new El Nino building up in the Pacific, which would extend the current disastrous drought; and of 3000 weed species dramatically expanding their range in Australia under climate warming, at a cost of ... |
United States: Last stand for our forests? (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 10-02-2006 at 12:00:17
| Pioneer Press: A 'perfect storm' of invading pests, deer, global warming and lack of fire could wipe out the BWCA and forests that define northern Minnesota – all in the next century, a leading ecologist predicts. Kiss the Boundary Waters, as we know it, goodbye. Do the same for the rest of the Quetico-Superior forest along the Minnesota-Ontario border. A devastating collection of forces will change how that region looks over the next 50 to 100 years, lessening the allure that brings hundreds ... |
United Kingdom: Rural power pioneers sail into the wind (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 10-02-2006 at 12:00:17
| Guardian: When Andrew King decided to sink £2,000 of his own money into the proposition that an empty field in south Cumbria could be turned into a wind farm, he had no idea that 10 years later he would be leading a people-power revolution to bring the benefits of wind energy to local communities. King and his wife thought hard before taking up a Swedish firm's proposal to transplant the Scandinavian model of community-owned wind initiatives to Britain with an installation near Ulverston. 'It ... |
Suddenly, California Hates the Car (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 10-02-2006 at 12:00:17
| New York Times: BUSINESS ethics have mostly to do with business. But business is touched, sometimes trampled on, by government in a large way. So let's imagine that there is such a thing as government ethics as it relates to the conduct of business, and talk about that. California is my home. It's a beautiful state with mostly great weather, endless beaches, haunting deserts, immense redwood forests, seascapes and escapes that most people can only dream of. In short, it's a fine place. I especially ... |
United States: Biodiesel seeks power at pump (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 10-02-2006 at 12:00:17
| Monterey Herlad: Monterey is a long way to go to fuel up for Prunedale's Cyrus Morse. But he thinks it's worth it. Morse is one of a growing number of regular customers who purchase biodiesel at Alliance Mart on Fremont Street in Monterey, the county's first and only retail location for the alternative fuel. While it helps that Morse regularly commutes to Monterey for his job as a general contractor, fueling up at Alliance Mart is still out of his way. He must pay $3.40 a gallon to fill the tank in ... |
Experts paints worrisome picture of BWCA (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 10-02-2006 at 12:00:17
| Associated Press: An expert on the ecology of the Boundary Waters wilderness is predicting that the pristine wilderness area, a place beloved by generations of campers and canoeists, is certain to undergo massive changes in the next 50 to 100 years. A combination of forces both natural and manmade will team up to lessen the allure of the picturesque maze of lakes, rivers and pines for the hundreds of thousands of visitors every year, said Lee Frelich, director of the Center for Hardwood Ecology at the ... |
United States: Global warming's impact gauged in Oshkosh area (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 10-02-2006 at 12:00:17
| Green Bay Press-Gazette: A warmer Lake Winnebago may not be the end of the world. "But, boy, over a while, it's going to change things," said Mark Sesing, Water Resource Management Specialist for the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources. He's talking about global warming, and it's not just ice caps anymore. It could be happening in the Fox RiverValley. "I think some of the effects are starting to crawl in our own backyards," Sesing said. "I'm not an expert on global ... |
Government says no to nuclear energy in Ireland (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 10-02-2006 at 12:00:18
| Irish Examiner: The Government has ruled out any use of nuclear energy in Ireland in the future. A new green paper on energy launched today outlines other initiatives, such as support for families whose homes are energy efficient, and land set aside for renewable energy plants. Minister for the Environment Dick Roche said today that nuclear energy is not efficient and we should focus on cleaner forms of power instead. |
Canada: More pest infestations expected: forestry official (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 10-02-2006 at 12:00:18
| Canadian Press: The mountain pine beetle infestation that has devastated B.C. forests is likely to be followed by other new pests taking advantage of rising average temperatures, says the president the Forest Products Association of Canada. Avram Lazar says the B.C. beetle infestation is almost certain to move across the Rockies into the boreal forest. He believes it shows the need for more public focus on adaptation to climate change. "We're a little obsessed with this because we're paying ... |
Study: Farms, forests help curb global warming impact (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 10-02-2006 at 12:00:18
| Palladium-Item: An Indiana University professor says farms and forests have a significant role in reducing the impact of global warming. Ken Richards, an associate professor at the Indiana University School of Public and Environmental Affairs, is the co-author of a Pew Center report on carbon sequestration. "There is a vast array of practices that could increase carbon sequestration in the U.S. Given the tremendous variety of practices, land types and landowners, the art of program design ... |
Farmers urged to grow biofuels (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 10-02-2006 at 12:00:18
| Times (UK): BRITAIN'S farmers should switch from growing food to providing the next generation of eco-friendly energy, according to Tony Blair's new countryside czar. Stuart Burgess, who formally takes up his position as Blair's rural advocate this week, believes the countryside should be used to grow "biofuels". He is urging the government to hand some of the funds earmarked for tackling climate change to the country's farmers, whom he believes may hold the key to reducing carbon emissions. ... |
Australia: Canberra, take note: climate change is what terrifies us (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 10-02-2006 at 03:00:19
| Sydney Morning Herald: THIS year's Lowy Institute poll reveals Australian concern over global warming to be the big "sleeper" issue of national affairs, a problem that worries Australians more than Islamic fundamentalism. Australian public convictions on climate change have crept up on our political leaders and have now overtaken them. The political party that can best respond will harness a powerful force. As the institute's executive director, Allan Gyngell, observes, "this has become mainstream; ... |
Australia: Changing climate 'a threat to Australia's stability' (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 10-02-2006 at 03:00:19
| Age: CLIMATE change will destabilise the Asia-Pacific region, exacerbate food, water and energy shortages and threaten Australia's security, a Lowy Institute research paper says. Research suggests weather extremes and wilder fluctuations in rainfall and temperatures could transform the region, resulting in a large-scale displacement of people in heavily populated areas and triggering a surge of "climate change refugees". The impact could also create new security risks for ... |
Air samples show build-up of CO2 (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 10-02-2006 at 03:00:19
| Australian: THE world's oldest library of airsamples has recorded the biggest increases in atmospheric carbon dioxide since sampling began in 1978. CSIRO air librarian Paul Fraser said the levels of the primary greenhouse gas have been growing at an increasing rate each year since 1978 and may reach an annual increase of two parts per million by the end of this year. Global CO2 levels have increased from 340ppm to 380ppm in the past 30 years due to combustion of fossil fuels. ... |
Harper's Canadian 'Kyoto' faces hurdles (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 10-02-2006 at 03:00:19
| Financial Times: Canada's prime minister Stephen Harper faces serious obstacles in his quest to create a "made-in-Canada" version of the Kyoto protocol that both satisfies the business community and placates voters. While the country was among the first signatories of the protocol on April 29, 1998, the election of the Conservatives brought that commitment to an end. Mr Harper's solution to the Conservatives' public rejection of Kyoto is the "Green Plan", expected to be ... |
Smoke From Indonesian Fires Spreads (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 10-02-2006 at 03:00:19
| Associated Press: Smoke and ash from land-clearing fires in Indonesia blanketed a large swath of the country's west on Monday, sending air quality levels plummeting there and in neighboring Singapore and Malaysia, officials said. The smoke was shrouding an estimated 215,000 square miles of land on Indonesia's islands of Sumatra and Borneo, forcing many residents to wear protective masks and delaying flights, officials and media reports said. "The haze has persisted for a whole week," ... |
United Kingdom: Warning over climate 'time bomb' (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 10-02-2006 at 03:00:19
| BBC: Scotland is sitting on a global warming time bomb according to a former government adviser on the environment. Prof James Curran said greenhouse gas released from moorlands could make climate change irreversible. He said moorland soil, which contains massive amounts of carbon, was drying up and eroding as temperatures rose causing the release of carbon dioxide. Prof Curran, who has just left enivornment protection agency Sepa, said it was happening on a large scale. ... |
Analysis: Climate action 'boosts economy' (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 10-02-2006 at 03:00:19
| United Press International: When President Bush pulled the United States out of the Kyoto Protocol as one of the first acts of his presidency, he did so largely on the basis that it would damage the U.S. economy and cost millions of jobs. But as clean energy becomes one of the world's fastest-growing industries, many are now wondering whether that decision was not somewhat shortsighted. Speaking at the British Labor Party conference last week, former President Clinton said the vibrancy of the British economy ... |
Summer Heat Wave Draws Attention to Solar Energy (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 10-02-2006 at 03:00:19
| Renewable Energy Access: Triple-digit temperatures and record weekly electricity use grabbed headlines from gasoline prices for a short while over the summer. Demand in turn led to record-high natural gas prices, as this is used to generate around 18 percent of the nation's electricity. Farmers rely both on electricity and natural gas in the production, processing and storage of commodities so they get a double-whammy when these prices rise. In California, Farm Bureau members participated in a ... |
Thick Smog In Indonesia's Jambi Province Uncontrollable (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 10-02-2006 at 03:00:19
| Bernama: Jambi deputy governor Antony Zeidra Abidin held an impromptu meeting Sunday with a number of head of agencies and related authorities under his administration to deal with the increasingly thickening fog over Jambi, caused by forest and oil palm plantation fire. Antony, in charge of the Jambi province forest fire control and eradication team, held the emergency meeting after inspecting the fire raging in the oil palm estates in Arang-Arang on Saturday, according to a report by the ... |
Indonesian forest fires cause mild smog in Singapore (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 10-02-2006 at 03:00:20
| Kyodo: Singapore has been hit by its worst case this year of smoke haze from burning forests on Indonesia's Sumatra Island, the National Environment Agency said Monday. The agency said in a statement that the level of haze pollution is "moderate" but "the highest recorded this year." The haze wafted to Singapore on Sunday afternoon but cleared up on Monday morning after a change in wind direction. It returned again on Monday afternoon. "The smoke haze ... |
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