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Alaska Chukchi Sea oil lease offer draws fire (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 01-03-2008 at 09:00:55
| ANCHORAGE, Alaska (Reuters) - The Minerals Management Service said Wednesday it will offer oil and gas exploration rights next month to 29.7 million acres in the remote Chukchi Sea off northwestern Alaska.
The decision to hold the February 6 lease sale, the first in the Chukchi since 1991, comes days before the Fish and Wildlife Service will decide whether to list the polar bear as threatened and has drawn fire from environmentalists seeking to limit oil development in the area. |
Croatia seizes Italian trawler for illegal fishing (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 01-03-2008 at 09:00:55
| ZAGREB (Reuters) - Croatia's navy seized an Italian trawler in Croatian territorial waters on Thursday, in the first such incident since Zagreb enforced a protected fishing zone in the Adriatic despite opposition from the European Union.
"According to my information, a Croatian military ship caught an Italian trawler illegally present in (Croatia's) territorial waters. The trawler has been taken to a port on the (southern Adriatic) island of Vis for an investigation," a Transport and Maritime Ministry official told Reuters. |
Sugarcane ethanol: Brazil's biofuel success (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 01-03-2008 at 11:00:54
| Thirty years ago, when one litre of ethanol was worth three times more than one litre of gasoline, most nations would not have considered investing in it as a biofuel. But Brazil took this path, and now produces the cheapest ethanol in the world.
Brazil's favorable conditions and tradition for culturing sugarcane — the most efficient raw material for the production of ethanol — were essential for developing the sector.
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Asset manager says bet on future scarcities (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 01-03-2008 at 11:00:54
Over 9 billion people are expected to compete for the
globe's resources by 2050, up from a population of around 6.6
billion currently, according to the United Nations. |
New Certification Scheme Aims to Protect Socially Responsible Companies (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 01-03-2008 at 11:00:54
| More and more businesses across the globe are finding that they can be successful while also being environmentally and socially responsible. But in some cases, the companies are so successful that they end up being bought out by larger conglomerates, some of which then cut out the socially beneficial aspects of the original business. So how can consumers and investors tell which companies are truly responsible? |
Insect Attack May Have Been Death Knell for Dinosaurs (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 01-03-2008 at 11:00:54
| Asteroid impacts or massive volcanic flows might have occurred around the time dinosaurs became extinct, but a new book argues that the mightiest creatures the world has ever known may have been brought down by a tiny, much less dramatic force — biting, disease-carrying insects. |
Handling Pesticides Associated With Greater Asthma Risk In Farm Women (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 01-03-2008 at 11:00:54
| "Farm women are an understudied occupational group," said Jane Hoppin, Sc.D., of the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences and lead author of the study. "More than half the women in our study applied pesticides, but there is very little known about the risks." |
First UK coal plant in 30 years clears hurdle (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 01-03-2008 at 11:00:54
A local government authority has recommended central
government approve its proposal, E.ON said. |
Tokyo seen eyeing China's carbon credits (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 01-03-2008 at 11:00:54
| Japan is planning to buy up carbon credits yielded by its investments in emissions-cutting projects in China, a newspaper said on Thursday.
The two governments agreed the deal on Wednesday and will formally sign it when President Hu Jintao visits Japan, probably in late March, the Yomiuri Shimbun said. |
Global warming hits Australia with fires and floods (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 01-03-2008 at 11:00:54
| CANBERRA (Reuters) - Australia endured bushfires, floods and record high temperatures in its drought-ravaged foodbowl in 2007 as global warming brought the nation's sixth hottest year on record, the weather bureau said on Thursday. |
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