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'Dead zone' forms again off Oregon's coast (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 08-01-2007 at 09:00:34
| Oregonian: For the sixth year in a row, a suffocating blanket of oxygen-starved water is forming off the central Oregon coast, with marine life struggling to endure the repeated trauma, Oregon State University scientists say. The return of the "dead zone," where water holds so little oxygen that fish and other life cannot survive, suggests a fundamental shift in wind and water patterns off Oregon that may reflect global warming trends, the scientists said. Last year's unusually ... |
China blames climate change for extreme weather (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 08-01-2007 at 09:00:34
| Reuters: China blamed global warming on Wednesday for this year's weather extremes, which have led to more than 700 deaths from flooding and left more than seven million with little access to water. Such extremes are likely to get worse and more common in the future, said Song Lianchun, head of the China Meteorological Administration's Department of Forecasting Services and Disaster Mitigation. "It should be said that one of the reasons for the weather extremes this year has been ... |
Russia: Climate change contributing to Siberian forest fires (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 08-01-2007 at 09:00:34
| ANI: Researchers at the university of Leicester have found that changing climate is contributing to forest fires in Central Siberia. The massive fire of 2003 had destroyed 38000 km2 of the region's woodlands and the thick smoke plumes caused air pollution as far as in the United States. Now, an international team of scientists led by Professor Heiko Balzter of the Department of Geography at the University of Leicester have found that Siberian fires are influenced by climate ... |
United States: Huge solar power park to rise in Mojave Desert (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 08-01-2007 at 09:00:34
| MSNBC: California utility company PG&E Corp. said it will purchase 553 megawatts of solar power annually from a solar park in the Mojave Desert run by Israel-based Solel Solar Systems. The initiative will bring renewable energy to 18 percent of the company's total power supply in coming years, and closer to compliance with a California requirement of 20 percent by 2010. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. PG&E said the agreement will provide enough energy to ... |
China blames climate change for floods (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 08-01-2007 at 09:00:35
| Reuters: Global warming is partly to blame for this year's weather extremes in China, which have led to more than 700 deaths from flooding and left millions of others without water, an official said to day. And such extremes are likely to get worse and more common in the future, said Song Lianchun, head of the China Meteorological Administration's Department of Forecasting Services and Disaster Mitigation. "It should be said that one of the reasons for the weather extremes this ... |
Russia: Climate Change Threatens Siberian Forests (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 08-01-2007 at 09:00:35
| Innovations Report: Catastrophic forest fire outbreaks in Siberia are happening more frequently because of climate change, new research published in the "Journal of Climate" on 1 August 2007 has found. In Central Siberia alone, fires have destroyed 38 000 km2 in the extreme fire year of 2003. In that year the smoke plumes were so huge that they caused air pollution as far as in the United States. An international team of scientists believes that Siberian fires are influenced by climate change. The study ... |
UN chief urges 'decisive action' to fight climate change (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 08-01-2007 at 09:00:35
| Xinhua: United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has called for 'decisive action' to tackle climate change as a global challenge. 'We cannot continue with business as usual,' Ban said, addressing an informal debate of the UN General Assembly Tuesday. 'The time has come for decisive action on a global scale.' He said the effects of climate change are already grave, and that they are growing. 'We cannot go on this way for long.' 'I am convinced that this challenge, and what we ... |
United Kingdom: 'Bullying' BAA seeks Heathrow protest injunction (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 08-01-2007 at 09:00:35
| Guardian: The Heathrow operator, BAA, will today seek "the mother of all injunctions" at the high court to prevent thousands of people affiliated to environmental organisations from attending a protest at the airport. BAA wants to ban the Camp for Climate Action demonstration planned at Heathrow from August 14 to 21. The company says it wants to "protect the airport and the safety of passengers and staff against the planned direct action by environmental ... |
Climbers Bring Climate Change From Mountaintop to Laptops (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 08-01-2007 at 09:00:36
| Environment News Service: The glaciers of the Tibetan Plateau provide more than 70 percent of the fresh water used by 178 million people who live downstream in Pakistan, India, and China. Recent shrinkage of these glaciers in the lofty Himalaya, Karakoram and Hindu-Kush mountain ranges is threatening to dry the rivers that provide this vital water supply. A climbing expedition led by two world-class American athletes, Alison Gannett and Zoe Hart, is bringing the story of glacier melt in the Karakoram to a ... |
UN Climate Change Meeting Aims at Rich Countries (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 08-01-2007 at 12:00:33
| Reuters: The first U.N. special session on climate change focused on the world's rich countries Tuesday, as policy-makers urged long-standing polluters to shoulder much of the burden for cutting greenhouse gases. British economist Nicholas Stern said poor and developing countries also need to participate in a "global deal" to curb the human-made emissions that swaddle the planet like a blanket. Stern, author of a path-breaking report last year on the economic consequences of ... |
Democrats Lack Unity in House Over Energy Bill (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 08-01-2007 at 12:00:34
| Washington Post: This week's energy bill is Exhibit A of why it is difficult to hold House Democrats together and why energy policy and congressional politics don't mix easily. Last week, Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) spent an hour trying to mollify representatives from oil and gas districts by changing provisions on oil royalties and permitting on federal leases, but half a dozen of those 25 Democrats were still unhappy with provisions on water use, land rights and taxes. Meanwhile, ... |
China faces twin woes of floods, drought (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 08-01-2007 at 12:00:34
| China Daily: Much of China was inundated by the worst rains of the year, testing the Three Gorges Dam's anti-flood capacity, even as over a million people suffered from serious drought, China media said Tuesday. In northwest China's Shaanxi province, 21 were confirmed dead and 18 others were still missing in floods triggered by heavy downpours that began Saturday, the Xinhua news agency reported. As of Tuesday morning, 660,000 people in Shaanxi had been affected, and over 38,000 had been ... |
Australia: NSW to announce shift away from coal (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 08-01-2007 at 12:00:34
| AAP: Gas has reportedly replaced coal as the preferred energy source for NSW's future major power stations. The NSW Government will announce the shift on Wednesday, Fairfax reports, as the state responds to the challenges posed by climate change. Fairfax says coal remains the cheapest energy source but a carbon trading regime, proposed by the federal government from 2011, would make it much more expensive. In a speech on Wednesday, Premier Morris Iemma will outline the case ... |
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