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United States: Climate change upsets food chain in Pacific (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 03-01-2007 at 09:00:25
| Tri-Valley Herald: Delayed onset of the Pacific Ocean's annual spring upwelling off California's coast can warp the ocean's food chain and wreak havoc with the region's historically rich ecosystem. And delays are more likely as the climate warms, scientists say. Two years ago, the winds that churn the Pacific and bring cold, nutrient-rich deep water to the surface didn't materialize until June – a month late. That delay, analyzed by Oregon State University researchers in work published this week in the ... |
Canada to study polar ecosystem for climate clues (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 03-01-2007 at 09:00:25
| Reuters: The largest research project ever undertaken in the Arctic will study the impact of global warming on the sensitive region's ecosystem next winter, Canadian project leaders said on Thursday. Researchers will troll a frigid open channel on the Beaufort Sea using a retrofitted icebreaker to study the Arctic environment and its shrinking sea ice. The C$40 million ($34 million) investigation involving more than 200 researchers from 14 countries is believed to be the largest single ... |
Inuits Blame U.S. for Climate Change (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 03-01-2007 at 09:00:25
| Business Portal 24: As the world's largest emitter of greenhouse gases, the United States has come under heavy criticism, including from people who live almost on top of the world. The Inuits of Northern Canada and beyond are taking their case against the United States on Thursday to an international human rights commission. They have scant chance of a breakthrough but still hope to score moral and political points against the U.S. and its carbon spewers. "The point here is that our way of ... |
New evidence that global warming fuels stronger Atlantic hurricanes (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 03-01-2007 at 09:00:28
| EurekAlert: Atmospheric scientists have uncovered fresh evidence to support the hotly debated theory that global warming has contributed to the emergence of stronger hurricanes in the Atlantic Ocean. The unsettling trend is confined to the Atlantic, however, and does not hold up in any of the world's other oceans, researchers have also found. Scientists at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the National Climatic Data Center (NCDC) of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric ... |
Group Says Ocean Harm Should Force U.S. Carbon Regulation (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 03-01-2007 at 12:00:26
| Reuters: A wildlife conservation group said it is trying to pressure U.S. states to regulate carbon dioxide emissions under federal clean water laws because of harm the gas does to the cycle of life in the ocean. Unlike most other developed countries, the United States, the world's top greenhouse gas emitter, does not regulate carbon dioxide and other gases that scientists link to global warming. Efforts by states and environmental groups to regulate CO2 through clean air laws have so far ... |
Diesel Soot Filters Urged to Protect U.S. Commuters (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 03-01-2007 at 06:00:25
| Reuters: Filters should be placed on millions of old diesel engines to protect Americans who breathe large amounts of lung-and-heart-damaging soot particles during their daily commutes, according to a clean air group. The Boston-based Clean Air Task Force report released Wednesday said that up to 70,000 peoples' lives in the United States are shortened by fine particulates. Tiny soot particles from sources including diesel engines can cause lung cancer, asthma, and heart problems, ... |
NOAA Outlines Dangers of Coastal Living (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 03-01-2007 at 06:00:25
| Associated Press: The head of the nation's weather and climate research agency says the biggest challenge facing the world is population growth and people's desire to live in coastal areas where they can be endangered by storms. "I believe that the population issue is huge," Conrad Lautenbacher said Thursday. "And it's not just the U.S., there are six billion ... getting up to seven billion people on the Earth and they all want to live in coastal zones." Lautenbacher is head ... |
Polar year starts with worries of rising seas (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 03-01-2007 at 06:00:25
| Reuters: More than 60 nations started the biggest scientific investigation of the Arctic and Antarctic on Thursday amid new evidence that global warming is thawing polar ice and raising sea levels. About 3,000 children made slushy snowmen and waved banners saying "give us back the winter" in Oslo, scientists met in Paris and other experts gathered on a research vessel in Cape Town to mark the start of International Polar Year (IPY). "The polar year is important for everyone on the ... |
Solar World: Market boom boosts inverters (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 03-01-2007 at 06:00:25
| United Press International: A booming solar market is good news not just for makers of solar panel technology -- the companies that make the inverters are benefiting as well. "We talk about our inverters as the enabling device for renewable energy applications, or the 'brains' of the system," Audey Korpus, a marketing manager at British Columbia, Canada-based Xantrex Technology Inc. wrote to United Press International in an e-mail. Indeed, as a body can't function without a brain, solar ... |
US CO2 emissions 'violate rights' (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 03-01-2007 at 06:00:26
| BBC: A delegation of Inuit has travelled to Washington to argue that the US government's climate change policies violate human rights. The group has filed a legal petition to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, demanding that the US limits its emission of greenhouse gases. The Inuit say pollution is contributing to melting ice and thawing permafrost, affecting their way of life. Temperatures in the Arctic are rising at about twice the global average. ... |
Canada increases its wind power (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 03-01-2007 at 06:00:26
| United Press International: Schneider Power Inc. announced recently four new wind farms for Ontario, adding to Canada's growing wind power market. The leading Toronto-based owner and builder of renewable energy generation projects will spend $90 million dollars in capital to renovate and build new projects. Three new 10 megawatt, low-impact wind farms will be built ant the Providence Bay/Spring Bay Wind Farm will be expanded to its full 11.6 megawatt capacity by end of 2008. In total, these four wind ... |
Canada sees possible nuclear renaissance (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 03-01-2007 at 06:00:26
| Reuters: Concern over global warming has breathed new life into Canada's nuclear industry, which is eyeing the possibility of its first new plants in the country in a quarter century, industry officials said on Thursday. "The climate change driver is so compelling a case that the nuclear file becomes a critical part of the solution," Duncan Hawthorne, chairman of the Canadian Nuclear Association and chief executive of Bruce Power, told Reuters. Though atomic energy always ... |
Germany's SolarWorld to build solar factory in US (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 03-01-2007 at 06:00:26
| Reuters: German solar cell maker SolarWorld (SWVG.DE: Quote, Profile, Research) said on Thursday it had bought a solar factory in the United States for 30 million euros ($40 million). SolarWorld said it would further develop the Oregon site for silicon wafer and cell production, investing 300 million euros ($400 million) and expecting to reach a capacity of 500 megawatts by 2009. The state of Oregon will make 25-50 percent of the investments through its anti-global-warming program, ... |
Whalers, North Alaskans Try to Block Oil Lease Sale (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 03-01-2007 at 06:00:26
| Associated Press: Groups in Alaska have sued the U.S. Interior Department to block an offshore oil and gas lease sale that residents say threatens Arctic marine wildlife and the traditional Inupiat Eskimo way of life. The North Slope Borough and the Alaska Eskimo Whaling Commission, in a lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court in Anchorage Tuesday, claim the Minerals Management Service did a sloppy job in preparing for the Beaufort Sea lease sale scheduled on April 18. The lawsuit claims the MMS ... |
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