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Canada: A critical shield against global warming (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 01-04-2008 at 12:00:32
| Globe and Mail: The boreal forest occupies nearly half of Canada's land mass, yet it's more significant to national myth and memory - as home to the coureurs de bois and the hewers of wood - than it is to any discussion of a shared future. But the blanket of woodlands that runs all the way from Yukon to the coast of Labrador may play a huge role in the battle to protect the planet from climate change. As one of the last great intact forests on Earth, along with the Russian taiga and the Amazon ... |
United Kingdom: A test of the Government's environmental credentials (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 01-04-2008 at 12:00:32
| Leader: The decision Gordon Brown makes on whether to proceed with Britain's first new coal power station in two decades will make or break his environmental reputation. It will either confirm the Prime Minister's claims to be a leader in the struggle against climate change, or expose him as an imposter. The owner of the Kingsnorth power station in Kent, E.on UK, wants to replace the existing plant with two new coal units by 2012. According to the company's chief executive, these units will ... |
Dramatic food price increases threaten the world's hungry (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 01-04-2008 at 12:00:32
| Reuters: World food prices are rising faster than they have for more than 30 years, putting hundreds of millions of vulnerable people at increased risk of hunger and malnutrition, food experts warn. "The world food system is in trouble. The situation has not been this much concern for 15 years", Joachim von Braun, head of the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), cautions in Christian Science Monitor. The end of the cheap food era is likely to see more people ... |
Indonesia: Farmers suffer from booming palm oil (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 01-04-2008 at 12:00:33
| Jakarta Post: The Indonesian Farmers' Union criticized the government Wednesday for mismanagement in the food crop sector, highlighting the massive displacement of farmers by the expansion of oil palm plantations. Union chairman Henry Saragih said the palm oil industry had been aggressively expanding plantations to capitalize on a continuing rise in crude palm oil prices expected to result from higher world demand, especially in India and China. He cited 2006 records of the Agriculture ... |
Northern plants 'losing carbon' due to warming (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 01-04-2008 at 12:00:33
| SciDev.Net: Global warming could cause plants in northern regions to lose carbon to the atmosphere rather than sequester it, according to a new international study. The research, published in Nature yesterday (3 January), looked at atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations and carbon dioxide held in ecosystems such as forests in the Northern Hemisphere in the past 20 years. It is widely believed that the warming trend in the past two decades – with spring starting earlier and winter ... |
EU considers carbon tariff (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 01-04-2008 at 12:00:33
| Reuters: The European Commission is debating whether to push for a carbon tariff on imports from countries that do not tackle their greenhouse gas emissions, as part of climate change proposals due out this month. Supporters of the measure say it would level the playing field for European companies facing tougher domestic emissions penalties. The new rules would be part of a raft of post-2012 proposals covering issues including national emissions targets and clean energy ... |
Plans to drill for Alaskan oil threaten polar bear numbers (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 01-04-2008 at 12:00:33
| Independent: Environment groups are protesting against plans by the US government to open up a vast area of Arctic sea off Alaska for oil exploration, saying it would pose an unacceptable new threat to polar bears and walruses. The Minerals and Management Service, MMS, said it would be seeking bids for petroleum licences in the Chukchi Sea on 6 February. The 46,000-square-mile area, located between Alaska and the coast of the Russian Far East, holds 15 billion barrels of recoverable oil and a huge ... |
Poll: Most Kansans support blocking construction of coal power plants (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 01-04-2008 at 12:00:33
| Dodge City Daily Globe: By a 2-1 margin, Kansas voters favored the state's rejection of two coal-fired electricity plants near Holcomb, according to poll results released Thursday. The Alexandria, Va.-based Democratic political polling firm Cooper and Secrest Associates conducted a telephone poll of 1,007 Kansas voters on energy issues on Nov. 19, 20, 25 and 26. The poll was conducted six or seven weeks after Kansas Department of Health and Environment Secretary Rod Bremby denied Sunflower Electric Corp.'s ... |
Fighting Goliath: Texas Coal Wars, Movie Screening (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 01-04-2008 at 12:00:34
| KWTX: On Jan. 10 and 11, 2008 in Waco and Dallas---The Redford Center at Sundance Preserve will host free film premiers of its new documentary, Fighting Goliath: Texas Coal Wars, to boost awareness and engagement in the state's battle against conventional coalfired power plants. Narrated by Robert Redford and produced by Alpheus Media, the film follows the story of Texans fighting a high-stakes battle for clean air and centers around the unlikely partners– mayors, ranchers, lawyers, cities, ... |
Low prices seen threat to UK organic beef (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 01-04-2008 at 12:00:34
| Reuters: British retailers must pay more for domestically produced organic beef because current prices are unfair and unsustainable, a leading organic food certification body said on Friday. The Soil Association said in a report issued on Friday that some key supermarkets are not paying enough to cover production costs and choosing to import organic beef even though there could easily be enough supply in Britain. The report called on retailers and processors to increase the prices they ... |
U.K. Government Nuclear-Power Inquiry `Failed,' Academics Say (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 01-04-2008 at 12:00:34
| Bloomberg: A U.K. government inquiry into whether the state should back the construction of new nuclear power stations ``failed'' because it obscured or overlooked some issues, a group of academics said. ``The key assumptions underpinning the government's approach to the 2007 nuclear consultation remain open to critical analysis,'' the group said in a report published today on its Web site. The report's contributors, led by Warwick University's Paul Dorfman, are `` concerned that these framing ... |
Australia Hit by Floods, Fires Amid Global Warming (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 01-04-2008 at 07:00:32
| 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. The crucial Murray-Darling river basin, home to 2 million people and almost half the country's fruit and cereal crop, had its hottest known year, the Bureau of Meteorology said in its 2007 Australian Climate Statement. The mean maximum temperature of 28.6 Celsius (83.5 ... |
Calif., other states challenge US on car emissions (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 01-04-2008 at 07:00:32
| Reuters: California and 15 other U.S. states on Tuesday sought to overturn a Bush administration decision in December that denied California's attempt to set tough new standards for auto emissions. The legal challenge, which was widely expected, returns the matter to the courts where states have had some success recently in the long-running fight to force the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) hand in the fight against global warming. "The EPA has done nothing at the ... |
Pop goes the solar bubble? (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 01-04-2008 at 07:00:33
| Salon: Moore's law giveth, and Moore's law taketh away. A little more than a year ago, in a post reviewing Taiwan's charge into solar power, I wrote the following sentence: Few things are certain in this world, but if Taiwanese high-technology companies are betting on the future of solar power, then consumers can expect that prices will drop, fast. If ever there was a country whose citizens operated as if disobeying Moore's Law was punishable by death, it would be Taiwan. ... |
Saving the Continent's Forests - The 'Lungs of the World' (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 01-04-2008 at 07:00:33
| Africa Renewal: From the air the forests of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) stretch as far as the eye can see, broken only by distant, shining ribbons of rivers and streams. Dense, deep, seemingly impenetrable, the forests of the Central African region extend over 200 mn hectares, inspiring awe and sometimes dread among residents and visitors, and providing refuge for everything from rare and endangered plants and animals to ferocious militias accused of brutal crimes against humanity. It ... |
Carbon dioxide pollution kills hundreds a year: study (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 01-04-2008 at 07:00:33
| Reuters: Climate-warming carbon dioxide spewed by coal-fired power plants and fossil-fueled vehicles has been causing hundreds of premature U.S. deaths each year over the several decades, a new study reported. The deaths were due to lung and heart ailments linked to ozone and polluting particles in the air, which are spurred by carbon dioxide that comes from human activities, according to the study's author, Mark Jacobson of Stanford University. As the planet warms due to carbon dioxide ... |
China to Study Sources of Its Pollution (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 01-04-2008 at 07:00:33
| Associated Press: China will conduct its first national survey of pollution sources in February to help control environmental deterioration in a country with some of the world's most tainted cities, state media said Friday. The study will identify and collect data on sources of industrial, agricultural and residential pollution for two months, the official Xinhua News Agency said, citing the head of the State Environmental Protection Administration, or SEPA. "The results of the census will ... |
Scientist sees few benefits from biofuels (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 01-04-2008 at 07:00:34
| Reuters: Rising production of biofuels has distorted government budgets, helped to drive up food prices and led to deforestation in south-east Asia, the chief scientist of Defra said on Friday. "The way we are currently producing biofuels is not the way to go," former World Bank chief scientist Robert Watson said, citing the U.S. ethanol programme and German support for biodiesel as among the least cost effective. Watson told the Oxford Farming Conference that biofuels ... |
Tokyo Eyes Buying Carbon Credits From China - Report (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 01-04-2008 at 07:00:34
| Reuters: 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. Tokyo and Beijing will then select emissions-cutting projects to be funded by yen-denominated loans, the Yomiuri said. A third of the projects funded by such loans ... |
Carbon dioxide linked to deaths (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 01-04-2008 at 07:00:34
| United Press International: A U.S. researcher has linked increased mortality to higher levels of carbon dioxide in the Earth's atmosphere. Using a computer model of the atmosphere that incorporates physical and chemical environmental processes, Stanford University Professor Mark Jacobson found that for each increase of one degree Celsius caused by carbon dioxide, the resulting air pollution would lead to about a thousand additional deaths and many more cases of respiratory illness and asthma in the United ... |
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