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Agreement reached on greenhouse gas curb (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 09-03-2007 at 09:00:58
| Negotiators from 158 countries reached basic agreement Friday on rough targets aimed at getting some of the world's biggest polluters to reduce emissions of the greenhouse gases blamed for global warming.
A weeklong U.N. climate conference concluded that industrialized countries should strive to cut emissions by 25 percent to 40 percent of their 1990 levels by 2020. Experts said that target would serve as a loose guide for a major international climate summit to be held in December in Bali, Indonesia.
"We have reached broad agreement on the main issues," said Leon Charles, a negotiator from Grenada who helped oversee the Vienna talks. |
Talks on climate change impact in Africa (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 09-03-2007 at 09:00:59
| Climate change could worsen Africa's struggle to feed itself, but simple steps - a cistern to catch rainwater, a solar panel, or hardier seeds for crops - could help the continent's subsistence farms, specialists and activists said Friday.
About 250 researchers, donors, and officials met in Oslo this week for the Second Green Africa Revolution Conference, which follows up a 2004 challenge from former U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan to revolutionize African farming. |
Environmental effects kept in check on farms (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 09-03-2007 at 09:00:59
| Environmental activists have long criticized pharmaceutical use by hog farmers and veterinarians in treating swine disease, saying pharmaceuticals are being overused and errantly contaminating the environment. But new research from the University of Guelph has shown that environmental contamination from antibiotics does not pose appreciable risks to soil and aquatic organisms. |
Judge Imposes Flow Limits to Protect Fish that Swim in Water Used by Californians (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 09-03-2007 at 09:00:59
| A federal judge on Friday imposed limits on water flows caused by huge pumps sending water from the San Joaquin-Sacramento River delta to users around the state, saying the pumps were drawing in and destroying a threatened fish. |
Back to School, Eco-Style (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 09-03-2007 at 09:00:59
| The back-to-school rush is on. If you’re a college or university student eager to help save the planet, you may want to consider carefully the impact of your return to campus. From recycled school supplies to local food, environmentally savvy students have lots of options for lightening their eco-footprints |
French GDF, Suez agree to power merger (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 09-03-2007 at 09:00:59
| Gaz de France and Suez on Monday cleared the way to create the world's third-largest electricity and gas company after their boards approved the revised terms of a politically charged merger.
The "merger of equals," first drawn up 18 months ago but delayed by disputes over valuation and control, will be on the basis of 21 Gaz de France shares for 22 Suez shares and involves the spin-off of Suez's water and waste-management activities.
Excluding the environment business, the new GDF Suez is valued at around 78 billion euros ($107 billion), making it the third-largest power utility after France's EDF and Germany's E.ON
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Pope Urges Young People to Care for Planet, Ensure that Water Is Equally Shared among All (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 09-03-2007 at 09:00:59
| The planet risks irreversible decline from environmentally unsustainable development, Pope Benedict XVI warned Sunday, urging young Catholics to take the lead in caring for the Earth and its precious resources. |
Power Outage From California Heat Wave (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 09-03-2007 at 09:00:59
| Dozens of cooling centers opened across California as a scorching heat wave strained the state's electrical grid and left many residents without power.
Nearly 14,000 customers were without power late Sunday, largely because of increased demand on air conditioners. Highs reached 109 degrees in Woodland Hills in the San Fernando Valley and more than 100 degrees in other parts of the state. |
Experts Urge Gene Bank of Rare Livestock Breeds to Ensure Healthy Diversity (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 09-03-2007 at 09:00:59
| Precious genetic material that could protect farm animals from future threats posed by disease and climate change might be lost unless action is taken to protect rare breeds from extinction, the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization said Monday. |
Report: African, Asian, Latin American Farm Animals Face Extinction (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 09-03-2007 at 09:00:59
| With the world’s first global inventory of farm animals showing many breeds of African, Asian, and Latin American livestock at risk of extinction, scientists from the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR) today called for the rapid establishment of genebanks to conserve the sperm and ovaries of key animals critical for the global population’s future survival.
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Greece Brings Deadly Fires Under Control (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 09-03-2007 at 09:00:59
| ATHENS, Greece - Forest fires that have ravaged Greece for more than 10 days have largely come under control after killing 64 people and leaving thousands homeless, the fire brigade said on Monday. Dozens of villages in the southern Peloponnese peninsula and the island of Evia north of the capital have burned down while hundreds of thousands of acres of pristine forest have been destroyed in the fires that broke out across central and southern Greece. |
Felix becomes rare top-ranked storm (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 09-03-2007 at 09:00:59
| Hurricane Felix became an extremely dangerous Category 5 storm on Sunday as it swept through the southern Caribbean on a path toward Central America and Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula, U.S. forecasters said.
On a similar -- though more southerly -- track as last month's powerful Hurricane Dean, which killed 27 people, Felix's top sustained winds had increased to 165 miles per hour(270 kph) by 8 p.m. EDT, the U.S. National Hurricane Center in Miami said.
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Carbon From Cars Drops (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 09-03-2007 at 09:00:59
| Climate-warming carbon emissions from new cars and light trucks in the United States dropped 3 percent in 2005, the first decrease in nearly two decades, Environmental Defense reported Thursday. "We see some signs of good news here," said the group's Jon DeCicco in a telephone news briefing announcing the findings. |
APEC Set For World Trade, Climate Change Talks (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 09-03-2007 at 09:00:59
| U.S. President George W. Bush hopes to spur momentum for a world trade pact and a global target on climate change at this week's APEC summit in Sydney, but host Australia has warned not to expect binding greenhouse targets. Organizers anticipate violent demonstrations at the Asia Pacific Economic Co-operation (APEC) summit, which will be attended by 21 leaders including Bush, and are staging the nation's biggest ever security operation. |
China Vows to Clean Up Toxins Amid Food Scares (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 09-03-2007 at 09:00:59
| China will clamp down on foods tainted with illegal and excessive chemicals as it seeks to quell domestic and foreign alarm about toxins in meat, seafood and vegetables, the country's top agriculture official said. China is battling a torrent of warnings and recalls abroad that have shaken international markets' confidence in the "made in China" label on products ranging from toothpaste and toys to food and tires. |
Researchers Warn of Livestock Extinctions (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 09-03-2007 at 09:00:59
| NAIROBI - Over-reliance on just a few breeds of imported farm animals is putting others in poor countries at risk of extinction, researchers warned on Monday and called for the urgent creation of livestock gene banks. |
Myanmar Wildlife Pays The Price For Chinese Demand (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 09-03-2007 at 09:00:59
| MONG LA, Myanmar (Reuters) - If the market of Mong La is anything to go by, the remaining wild elephants, tigers and bears in Myanmar's forests are being hunted down slowly and sold to China. Nestled in hills in a rebel-controlled enclave on the Chinese border, the "Las Vegas in the jungle" casino town is clearly branching out from narcotics and prostitution into the illegal wildlife business. |
Powerful Hurricane Felix Threatens Central America (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 09-03-2007 at 12:00:52
| TEGUCIGALPA - Hurricane Felix, a potentially catastrophic storm with 160 mile-per-hour winds, threatened on Monday to plow along the Caribbean coast of Honduras and dump torrential rain across Central America.
Felix, the second hurricane of the 2007 season, and like last month's Hurricane Dean a top-ranked Category 5 storm on the five-step Saffir-Simpson scale, maintained its deadly power overnight as it roared swiftly westward over the warm waters of the Caribbean. |
Dutch Build Towering Wind Turbines Out At Sea (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 09-03-2007 at 06:01:03
| IJMUIDEN, Netherlands - There is no shortage of wind in the densely-populated Netherlands but there is a shortage of space and in a nation which likes its houses small and its gardens cosy, opposition to wind farms is immense.
That is why a new Dutch wind farm is being built so far out to sea it is barely visible on the horizon, reducing the visual impact of its 60 turbines to virtually nil whilst at the same time harnessing higher offshore wind speeds. |
Thousands Flee Hurricane Felix (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 09-03-2007 at 06:01:04
| TEGUCIGALPA - Tens of thousands of people, including Miskito Indians and foreign tourists, began fleeing low-lying coastal areas on Central America's Caribbean coast on Monday to escape the approaching Hurricane Felix.
The highly dangerous Category 4 storm charged toward Nicaragua and Honduras with top sustained winds of 145 mph, provoking fears of a repeat of Hurricane Mitch, which killed some 10,000 people in Central America in 1998.
"We are faced with a very serious threat to lives and property. The most important thing is that people pay heed to the call for evacuation so that we don't have to count bodies later," said Marco Burgos, head of Honduras' civil protection agency.
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