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greenhouse gas, from underground peat in subarctic wetlands, Dutch research indicates.  The research suggests rising temperatures are adding to the magnitude and velocity of global warming, Free University plant ecologist Ellen Dorrepaal and colleagues write in the journal Nature.  Their research shows that raising temperatures about 1 degree Celsius accelerates total ecosystem respiration rates by as much as 60 ...</p><p>Fri, 31 Jul 09<br /><strong>Recession helps reshape India carbon deals</strong><br />http://www.reuters.com/article/environmentNews/idUSTRE56T25G20090730?feedType=RSS&feedName=environmentNews<br />Reuters: The recession and falling prices of U.N.-backed carbon credits are changing the way carbon deals are structured in India, project developers and consultants say, with more players seeking partners to spread financial risks.  India is the second top source of carbon offsets under the U.N.'s Clean Development Mechanism, or CDM, and until recently clean-energy projects were developed by Indian investors by themselves. Most usually hung on to the credits hoping for higher ...</p><p>Fri, 31 Jul 09<br /><strong>Concern about air pollution declines in California</strong><br />http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-poll30-2009jul30,0,2739721.story<br />LA Times: The percentage of Californians who believe air pollution is a &quot;big problem&quot; has dropped precipitously in recent years, especially in Los Angeles County and the Central Valley, among the nation's dirtiest regions, according to a new survey.  At the same time, the poll by the nonpartisan Public Policy Institute of California found that support for the state's landmark 2006 law to slash greenhouse gases has declined, and fewer people think that global warming is a serious threat to the ...</p><p>Fri, 31 Jul 09<br /><strong>Efficiency Drive Could Cut Energy Use 23% by 2020, Study Finds</strong><br />http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/30/business/energy-environment/30energy.html?_r=5&partner=rss&emc=rss<br />New York Times: The biggest opportunity to improve the nation's energy situation is a major investment program to make homes and businesses more efficient, according to a study released Wednesday by the consulting firm McKinsey. An investment of $520 billion in improvements like sealing ducts and replacing inefficient appliances could produce $1.2 trillion in savings on energy bills through 2020, the study found.  The report said such a program, if carried out over the next decade, could cut the ...</p><p>Fri, 31 Jul 09<br /><strong>Californians' global warming concern cools: poll</strong><br />http://www.reuters.com/article/environmentNews/idUSTRE56T0S820090730?feedType=RSS&feedName=environmentNews<br />Reuters: The tough economy has undermined the environmental enthusiasm of Californians, hitting the U.S. state that pioneered climate change legislation just as the federal government is taking on the issue, a survey showed on Wednesday.  The poll by the Public Policy Institute of California shows support for urgent action on climate change has split on political lines, with a third of respondents from the more conservative Republican Party now saying global warming will never ...</p><p>Fri, 31 Jul 09<br /><strong>United Kingdom:  The Big Question: Why did the Met Office get it so wrong?</strong><br />http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/climate-change/the-big-question-why-did-the-met-office-get-it-so-wrong-1764529.html<br />Independent (UK): Why are we asking this now?  In case it has escaped your attention, which is unlikely, this summer is rapidly turning into a washout. The bad weather has led the Met Office to revise its summer forecast saying that instead of the warm, dry weather it predicted in April, the beginning of August is likely to be unsettled and wet.  The misery of heavy showers, cooling winds and cloudy skies has dampened expectations that Britain could finally experience the sort of summer it had ...</p><p>Fri, 31 Jul 09<br /><strong>Australian PM vows to create 50,000 'green' jobs</strong><br />http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090730/ap_on_re_au_an/as_australia_green_economy<br />Associated Press: Australia's prime minister promised Thursday to create 50,000 &quot;green&quot; jobs and apprenticeships to combat climate change and unemployment simultaneously.  Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has prioritized environmental legislation this year even as his government forecast that Australian unemployment would rise to 8.5 percent next year from the current 5.8 percent because of the global downturn.  &quot;The government I lead will not stand idly by while thousands of young Australians have their ...</p><p>Fri, 31 Jul 09<br /><strong>Jellyfish help to stir the ocean</strong><br />http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8173384.stm<br />BBC: Jellyfish help to stir up the ocean as they move, researchers have found.  Using a green dye, scientists showed how the animals' umbrella-shaped bodies were a key factor in this mixing.  The distribution of heat, nutrients and chemicals helps maintain the marine environment and has an important influence on global climate.  Reporting in the journal Nature, the researchers said that marine animals of many shapes and sizes contributed to ocean turbulence.  Charles ...</p><p>Fri, 31 Jul 09<br /><strong>United Kingdom:  Universities told to cut carbon</strong><br />http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2009/jul/30/universities-carbon-emissions<br />Guardian: Universities should exceed ambitious national targets for cutting greenhouse gas emissions, the government's higher education funding body said today.  Launching a new consultation on how the higher education sector can reduce its carbon footprint, the Higher Education Funding Council for England (Hefce) said universities should aspire to cutting emissions 50% by 2020 against 1990 levels, and 80% by 2050. The 2020 aspiration is much tougher than the government's legally-binding target ...</p><p>Fri, 31 Jul 09<br /><strong>United Kingdom:  Global warming pushes up building insurance costs</strong><br />http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2009/jul/30/global-warming-building-insurance-premiums<br />Guardian: Householders face higher building insurance premiums after a sharp increase in property damage blamed on climate change. A rise in insurance claims has been caused by flash floods and storms in areas of Britain previously immune to severe weather events.  The AA, which produces an insurance premium index monitoring costs, reports a 15% rise in claims in the first six months of 2009 over the same period in 2008 &quot;in the number and cost of payments for buildings damaged by flash floods ...</p><p>Fri, 31 Jul 09<br /><strong>Australian coal-fired plant sued for carbon emissions</strong><br />http://www.businessgreen.com/business-green/news/2246964/australian-coal-fired-plant<br />Business Green: The increasing legal risk faced by carbon-intensive firms worldwide was underlined this week with the news a coal-fired power plant in Australia is to face the country's first legal challenge against a company's carbon emissions.  Green group Rising Tide earlier this week lodged a civil court action against the government-owned Bayswater power station, which is one of the largest greenhouse gas emitters in New South Wales (NSW). 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Authorities have closed power plants with a total of 7,467 generating units, meeting a previously announced goal 18 months ahead of schedule, said Sun Qin, deputy administrator of the Cabinet's National Energy Administration.  &quot;This couldn't be done when power ...</p><p>Fri, 31 Jul 09<br /><strong>Global poll shows differing attitudes to climate change</strong><br />http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2009/jul/30/climate-change-us<br />Guardian: A majority of peoples around the world want their governments to put action on climate change at the top of the political agenda, a new global public opinion poll suggests.  Unfortunately for Barack Obama though, who has put energy reform at the top of his White House to-do list, Americans are not necessarily among them.  Only 44% of Americans thought climate change should be a major preoccupation for the Obama administration, the survey co-ordinated by the University of ...</p><p>Fri, 31 Jul 09<br /><strong>Taiwan revs up electric scooter market with new subsidy</strong><br />http://www.businessgreen.com/business-green/news/2246972/taiwan-revs-electric-scooter<br />Business Green: Taiwan will subsidise the purchase of electric scooters starting in November in a bid to boost domestic production and sales of the eco-friendly transport vehicle.  Under the plan, announced earlier this month, subsidies of $246 (£150) to $339 (£207) will be provided to buyers of e-scooters with a plug-in detachable lithium-ion battery pack. 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The &quot;urban heat island effect&quot; in which buildings absorb and release heat, maintaining a higher temperature in cities than ...</p><p>Fri, 31 Jul 09<br /><strong>Jellyfish Stir Up Oceans, May Influence Climate</strong><br />http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=111346982&ft=1&f=1025<br />National Public Radio: Jellyfish and other related creatures may be playing an unwitting role in the Earth's climate by stirring up the oceans, according to a new study in this week's issue of the journal Nature.  The findings are helping to revive a decades-old debate over whether animals in the ocean can contribute significantly to ocean mixing, the process by which warm water on the surface combines with the cold water far below. 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And this odd habitat, thinner than a human hair, is home to an unusual menagerie of microbes. &quot;It's really a distinct ecosystem ...</p><p>Wed, 29 Jul 09<br /><strong>A quest for batteries to alter the energy equation</strong><br />http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/28/science/28batt.html?_r=5<br />New York Times: In a gleaming white factory here, Bob Peters was gently feeding sheets of chemical-coated foil one afternoon recently into a whirring machine that cut them into precise rectangles. It was an early step in building a new kind of battery, one smaller than a cereal box but with almost as much energy as the kind in a conventional automobile.  The goal of Mr. Peters, 51, and his co-workers at International Battery, a high-tech start-up, is industrial revolution. Racing against other ...</p><p>Wed, 29 Jul 09<br /><strong>When rain falls on snow, Arctic animals may starve</strong><br />http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=111109436<br />National Public Radio: When wildlife biologists visited a remote spot in Canada called Banks Island in the spring of 2004, they discovered thousands upon thousands of dead musk oxen. It took years to determine the cause. They called it &quot;rain-on-snow&quot; -- the worst case of it ever documented.  Musk oxen clash horns in a battle for dominance on Alaska's Seward Peninsula. Researchers suspect that herds of reindeer, musk oxen, and other Arctic animals may face starvation as a warming climate impacts their ability ...</p><p>Wed, 29 Jul 09<br /><strong>Utility PACs generous to key lawmakers in climate debate</strong><br />http://www.nytimes.com/gwire/2009/07/27/27greenwire-utility-pacs-generous-to-key-lawmakers-in-clim-54282.html<br />New York Times: Large electric utilities that rely heavily on coal poured money into re-election campaigns as the House shaped and passed landmark climate legislation, a bill that helps those businesses partly sidestep its toughest provisions.  Employee-run committees for American Electric Power Co. Inc., Duke Energy Corp. and Southern Co. gave $165,000 to 70 House members in April, May and June. They sprinkled money among senators, too, contributing $46,500 to 18 Senate re-election ...</p><p>Wed, 29 Jul 09<br /><strong>US, China push issue of climate change</strong><br />http://www.smh.com.au/environment/us-china-push-issue-of-climate-change-20090728-e07g.html<br />Sydney Morning Herald: THE chief US climate negotiator, Todd Stern, has given his most bullish prediction yet of a successful outcome at the forthcoming Copenhagen meeting, saying China is equally keen to achieve a new climate treaty.  Speaking after the first day of a US-China economic and strategic dialogue between the world's two powerhouse economies, Mr Stern said that ''on the US side, the issue has risen to the top of the US national security set of priorities''.  ''With respect to prospects, you ...</p><p>Wed, 29 Jul 09<br /><strong>DR Congo needs clear logging policies: Greenpeace</strong><br />http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20090728/wl_africa_afp/drcongoforestryenvironmentgreenpeace<br />Agence France-Presse: Greenpeace has urged authorities in the Democratic Republic of Congo to clarify reforms bringing transparency to the logging sector in the world's second biggest rainforest after the Amazon.  The &quot;objective is still far from being reached,&quot; the global environment campaign group said in a letter to the minister of the environment, a copy of which was given to AFP on Tuesday.  &quot;It is urgent to have clarifications of the current situation, marked by irregularities.&quot;  Since ...</p><p>Wed, 29 Jul 09<br /><strong>Australia mulling more coal support in carbon plans</strong><br />http://www.reuters.com/article/environmentNews/idUSTRE56R04K20090728?feedType=RSS&feedName=environmentNews<br />Reuters: Australia's government is considering doubling compensation for coal miners under its carbon trade scheme, media reports said on Tuesday, as a new poll found Australians want the plan delayed to next year.  Australia is the world's top coal exporter but the coal industry has complained the planned emissions trading system (ETS), due to start in July 2011, would force mines to close and lead to thousands of job losses.  The Australian newspaper said the government was considering ...</p><p>Wed, 29 Jul 09<br /><strong>Eastern suburbs leafy - but not green</strong><br />http://www.news.com.au/adelaidenow/story/0,22606,25844403-2682,00.html<br />AdelaideNow: ADELAIDE'S eastern suburbs are the state's worst greenhouse gas polluting areas, latest figures show.  The traditionally affluent area, bounded by Campbelltown, Burnside, Unley, Adelaide and Prospect councils, generates the most greenhouse gas emissions in 12 out of 19 sectors revealed in the State Government's Trade and Economic Development Department statistics.  The EasyData, which features economic, social and environmental indicators, shows the eastern Adelaide region was ...</p><p>Tue, 28 Jul 09<br /><strong>Fertile Crescent 'will disappear this century'</strong><br />http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn17517-fertile-crescent-will-disappear-this-century.html?DCMP=OTC-rss&nsref=climate-change<br />New Scientist: Is it the final curtain for the Fertile Crescent? This summer, as Turkish dams reduce the Tigris and Euphrates rivers to a trickle, farmers abandon their desiccated fields across Iraq and Syria, and efforts to revive the Mesopotamian marshes appear to be abandoned, climate modellers are warning that the current drought is likely to become permanent. The Mesopotamian cradle of civilisation seems to be returning to desert.  Last week, Iraqi ministers called for urgent talks with upstream ...</p><p>Tue, 28 Jul 09<br /><strong>On the stormy seas of carbon reduction</strong><br />http://www.smh.com.au/environment/global-warming/on-the-stormy-seas-of-carbon-reduction-20090726-dxip.html<br />Sydney Morning Herald: BARACK OBAMA went into the White House determined to lead the world on climate change, but he is facing a very rough passage.  His administration is trying to navigate a flimsy vessel through an impossibly narrow channel between two rocky shoals.  The President's rickety boat? A preliminary piece of legislation.  The US House of Representatives narrowly passed a bill that proposes to cut American carbon output by 15 per cent by 2020 and by 80 per cent by 2050. Obama has ...</p><p>Tue, 28 Jul 09<br /><strong>South Korean industrial firms to spend $2.6bn on "clean coal" projects</strong><br />http://www.businessgreen.com/business-green/news/2246771/south-korean-firms-spend-6bn<br />Business Green: SK Energy, South Korea's largest oil refiner by output, is teaming with domestic steel maker Pohang Iron and Steel Co (Posco) to develop &quot;clean coal&quot; technologies at a total cost of 3.35 trillion won (US$2.6bn, £1.6bn).  The two companies have signed a deal to jointly develop a manufacturing process for synthetic natural gas, according to an announcement at the weekend by the Ministry of Knowledge Economy. The ministry, which regulates economic policy in the industrial and energy ...</p><p>Tue, 28 Jul 09<br /><strong>Nike and Coke unveil deforestation and water commitments</strong><br />http://www.businessgreen.com/business-green/news/2246777/nike-coke-bolster-green-creds<br />Business Green: Nike and Coca-Cola Enterprises, two of the world's most high-profile and at times criticised brands, extended their sustainability initiatives last week in moves designed to boost their environmental credentials.  Following a report last month from Greenpeace that linked Nike's complex supply chain -- alongside those of other shoe manufacturers including Adidas, Reebok and Timberland -- to deforestation in the Amazon, the company said last week that it will take further steps to ensure ...</p><p>Tue, 28 Jul 09<br /><strong>United Kingdom:  Climate Camp to return to London for annual August protest</strong><br />http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2009/jul/27/climate-camp-august-protest<br />Press Association: Activists from the group Climate Camp vowed today to return to London over the August bank holiday for their annual summer protest against global warming.  Climate Camp was last in the capital in April, when they set up tents and stalls in the City of London as part of the G20 protests, in which one man died and the tactics of police officers were criticised.  The climate protests in April focused on the European Climate Exchange on Bishopsgate, the centre of carbon trading in ...</p><p>Tue, 28 Jul 09<br /><strong>In Texas, drought means conserving every last drop</strong><br />http://www.physorg.com/news167825881.html<br />Associated Press: Off-duty police officers are patrolling streets, looking for people illegally watering their lawns and gardens. Residents are encouraged to stealthily rat out water scofflaws on a 24-hour hot line. One Texas lake has dipped so low that stolen cars dumped years ago are peeking up through the waterline.  The nation's most drought-stricken state is deep-frying under relentless 100-degree days and waterways are drying up, especially in the hardest-hit area covering about 350 miles across ...</p><p>Tue, 28 Jul 09<br /><strong>Infrastructure woes hamper China wind farms' push for profitability</strong><br />http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2009/jul/27/network-windpower<br />Business Green: Chinese wind farm operators are struggling to earn a profit as a lack of wind resources and an insufficient power infrastructure has hampered efforts to provide clean energy to the grid.  A report posted earlier this week on the web site of the State Electricity Regulatory Commission (SERC), a government agency that oversees China's power sector, noted that some wind farms are suffering from a lack of wind, with many recording lower utilisation hours than had been estimated by ...</p><p>Tue, 28 Jul 09<br /><strong>Earth system science: From heresy to orthodoxy</strong><br />http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/jul/27/climate-change-gaia-theory<br />Guardian: Earth system science is shorthand for the recognition that El Niño, climate change and the calamitous 2004 tsunami are all very complex events. El Niño is a natural cyclic blister of hot water in the Pacific that ruins the anchovy harvest off the coast of Peru. It also disturbs weather patterns to trigger floods on the western coasts of the Americas, stoke droughts and forest fires in Indonesia, and blight harvests in Africa. Human complicity in dangerous climate change is now ...</p><p>Tue, 28 Jul 09<br /><strong>Australia:  Act now on climate change or pay later: expert</strong><br />http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/07/27/2637480.htm?site=idx-act<br />Australian Broadcasting Corporation: The Climate Change Institute in Canberra has warned that Australia must think beyond the emissions trading scheme, if it wants to have an impact on global warming.  Climate change experts are meeting at a summit at the Australian National University to discuss Australia's response to the threat of global warming.  As the Federal Government and Opposition battle it out over the detail of an ETS, Climate Change Institute director Will Steffen is advising Australians to embrace the ...</p><p>Tue, 28 Jul 09<br /><strong>75 million to flee climate change: report</strong><br />http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/07/27/2637587.htm?section=world<br />Australian Broadcasting Corporation: A new report says climate change could produce 75 million refugees in the Asia Pacific region in the next 40 years.  It urges Australia to put new immigration measures in place to help with people movements, and to cut deeply into its own climate-changing greenhouse gas emissions.  The report, by aid agency Oxfam Australia and think-tank the Australia Institute, says the effects of climate change are already being felt in the region.  It says addressing the immigration ...</p><p>Tue, 28 Jul 09<br /><strong>Greenhouse gases target likely to be 15%, says Key</strong><br />http://www.radionz.co.nz/news/stories/2009/07/27/1245bca7e48b<br />Radio New Zealand: The Government is likely to set a target of a 15% reduction in greenhouse gas emissions by 2020, says Prime Minister John Key.  A round of public consultation on what the target should be has just been completed, with environmental groups pushing for a 40% reduction.  The target will be tabled at the next round of international climate change negotiations in Germany in August.  Mr Key says Climate Change Minister Nick Smith will present his recommendation to Cabinet in the ...</p><p>Tue, 28 Jul 09<br /><strong>Mongolian wilds inspire UN's Ban</strong><br />http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/8169858.stm<br />BBC: United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has been in the wilds of Mongolia, travelling over rough roads to meet a nomad family.  He has attended a traditional sports festival and visited a nature reserve.  Mr Ban's primary reason for visiting the north Asian country is to learn how climate change affects the far-flung corners of the globe.  Desertification and deforestation are major threats to Mongolia's nomads, despite recent flooding in the capital.  Child ...</p><p>Tue, 28 Jul 09<br /><strong>Climate change 'threatens' Pacific isles</strong><br />http://news.theage.com.au/breaking-news-world/climate-change-threatens-pacific-isles-20090727-dydv.html<br />Age: New Zealand and Australia need to take urgent action against climate change to stop neighbouring Pacific Islands becoming uninhabitable, Oxfam says.  Millions of people from developing Pacific nations faced increased risk from cyclones, storm surges, king tides and ecosystem destruction due to climate change, the development agency said in a report released on Monday.  &quot;Without a significant effort by developed countries now, some island nations in the Pacific face the very real ...</p><p>Tue, 28 Jul 09<br /><strong>Boom in hydropower pits fish against climate</strong><br />http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-hydro-power27-2009jul27,0,2321552.story<br />LA Times: The Rocky Reach Dam has straddled the wide, slow Columbia River since the 1950s. It generates enough electricity to supply homes and industries across Washington and Oregon.  But the dam in recent years hasn't produced as much power as it might: Its massive turbines act as deadly blender blades to young salmon, and engineers often have had to let the river flow over the spillway to halt the slaughter, wasting the water's energy potential.  The ability of the nation's aging ...</p><p>Tue, 28 Jul 09<br /><strong>US-China talks to focus on global economy, environmental policy</strong><br />http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-china27-2009jul27,0,3762994.story<br />LA Times: Reporting from Washington and Beijing -- The United States and China today kick off talks in Washington that are expected to highlight Beijing's unease about its massive holdings in federal bonds, Washington's desire to reduce China's reliance on exports and the need for both sides to reach consensus on tackling climate change.  Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and Treasury Secretary Timothy F. Geithner will lead the American side in the two-day U.S.-China Strategic and ...</p><p>Tue, 28 Jul 09<br /><strong>Climate change helped the Incas build civilisation</strong><br />http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/environment/climatechange/5916353/Climate-change-helped-the-Incas-build-civilisation.html<br />Telegraph: The climate remained dry but melting glacial ice provided a constant supply of water, resulting in a surplus of crops to feed the population.  The men freed up from agricultural duties were then able to focus on other activities, among them constructing roads and buildings such as the Incas' 3,250-mile Royal Road through the highlands, the 2,520-mile Coastal Road and Machu Picchu, the Lost City of the Incas.  Dr Alex Chepstow Lusty, a British palaeoecologist working for the ...</p><p>Tue, 28 Jul 09<br /><strong>India not to succumb to pressure on carbon emission pact: Govt</strong><br />http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/News/PoliticsNation/India-not-to-succumb-to-pressure-on-carbon-emission-pact-Govt/articleshow/4824987.cms<br />Press Trust of India: India will not succumb to any international pressure on committing to a legally binding agreement on cutting carbon emissions but will deal with climate change issues as per its own plans, Environment and Forest Minister Jairam Ramesh said on Monday.  &quot;Under no international agreement, will we accept legally binding mitigations,&quot; he said, replying to questions in Rajya Sabha.  He said Parliament will be taken into confidence on measures drawn by New Delhi.  At the recent ...</p><p>Tue, 28 Jul 09<br /><strong>Pacific needs help to combat climate change: Oxfam</strong><br />http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5jyGamB_tI4ACB2oisMkoxYPGLhgA<br />Agence France-Presse: Developed countries need to act urgently to help vulnerable Pacific island nations cope with climate change, international aid group Oxfam said Monday.  By the year 2050, about 75 million people could be forced to leave their homes due to climate change in the Asia-Pacific region, the Oxfam report said.  &quot;Climate change has the potential to affect almost every issue linked to poverty and development in the Pacific,&quot; said Oxfam New Zealand executive director Barry ...</p><p>Tue, 28 Jul 09<br /><strong>India not to commit to legally binding climate change agreement</strong><br />http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2009-07/27/content_11780714.htm<br />Xinhua: An Indian minister said on Monday that India will not succumb to any international pressure on committing to a legally binding agreement on cutting greenhouse emissions but will deal with climate change issues according to its own plans, reported the semi-official Press Trust of India.  India's Environment and Forest Minister Jairam Ramesh said that under no international agreement will India accept &quot;legally binding mitigations&quot; of greenhouse gas which could hamper the country's ...</p><p>Tue, 28 Jul 09<br /><strong>Why the Arctic is central to climate change negotiations</strong><br />http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/opinion/westview/why-the-arctic-is-central-to-climate-change-negotiations-51776087.html<br />Winnipeg Free Press: As nations meet to discuss the impacts of climate change and promote their interests in the lead-up to the negotiations in Copenhagen in December, we hope that one element of the big picture does not get lost -- the critical role of the Arctic region.  An international agreement reached in Copenhagen that does not safeguard the Arctic will be mere window-dressing. The Arctic ice and tundra act as a vital cooling system for our planet. Without white ice to reflect heat and light, the ...</p><p>Tue, 28 Jul 09<br /><strong>Carbon in the forests of Guyana</strong><br />http://www.stabroeknews.com/2009/features/daily/07/27/carbon-in-the-forests-of-guyana/<br />Stabroek News: (This is the first in a 10-part series)  This series of articles is intended to look at some of the issues surrounding Guyana's bid for funds from the World Bank-administered Forest Carbon Partnership Fund (FCPF) and from Norway, and for the President's Low Carbon Development Strategy (LCDS). While most of the government information is on the government's LCDS website &ndash; www.lcds.gov.gy &ndash; that site is still under development at the time of writing and it is not possible to read about ...</p><p>Tue, 28 Jul 09<br /><strong>China's largest desert lake may vanish in decades, experts warn</strong><br />http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2009-07/27/content_11781336.htm<br />Xinhua: China's largest desert lake - Hongjiannao - is still shrinking as a result of climate change and human activities, and may vanish in a few decades, experts have warned.  &quot;Just 10 years ago, one couldn't see the other bank of the Hongjiannao even through a telescope. Today, it's visible with the naked eye,&quot; He Fenqi, a researcher with the Chinese Academy of Sciences, said at an international seminar on wetland preservation over the weekend in Shenmu County of northwest China's Shaanxi ...</p><p>Tue, 28 Jul 09<br /><strong>SolarWorld keeps outlook, lifts solar stocks</strong><br />http://www.reuters.com/article/GCA-GreenBusiness/idUSTRE56Q0N120090727<br />Reuters: German solar bellwether SolarWorld on Monday kept its 2009 sales outlook, helping European solar stocks gain, as it said cost savings had helped it offset most effects of the sector's ongoing price slump.  SolarWorld, Germany's third-biggest solar company by revenue, unexpectedly released second-quarter key figures and said it was still sticking to its sales forecast of 1 billion euros ($1.42 billion) for 2009.  &quot;SolarWorld AG thus succeeded in largely counteracting the price ...</p><p>Tue, 28 Jul 09<br /><strong>Climate change: New study backs UN panel on ocean rise</strong><br />http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5jihKzsfwiS84PUHL3e_dYbp4ECKw<br />Agence France-Presse: The UN's climate panel has been backed over a key question as to how far global warming will drive up sea levels this century, a study published on Sunday says.  The UN experts are right that the oceans are unlikely to rise by an order of metres (many feet) by 2100, as some scientists have feared, it says.  But, its authors caution, low-lying countries and delta areas could still face potentially catastrophic flooding if the upper range of the new estimate proves right.  In ...</p><p>Tue, 28 Jul 09<br /><strong>Peru:  Climate study puts Incas' success down to 400 years of warm weather</strong><br />http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/science/article6728241.ece#cid=OTC-RSS&attr=3392178<br />Times (UK): Supreme military organisation and a flair for agricultural invention are traditionally credited for the rise of the Incas. However, their success may have owed more to a spell of good weather -- a spell that lasted for more than 400 years.  According to new research, an increase in temperature of several degrees between AD1100 and 1533 allowed vast areas of mountain land to be used for agriculture for the first time. This fuelled the territorial expansion of the Incas, which at its ...</p><p>Tue, 28 Jul 09<br /><strong>Peru:  Hotter weather fed growth of Incan empire</strong><br />http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn17516-hotter-weather-fed-growth-of-incan-empire.html?DCMP=OTC-rss&nsref=climate-change<br />New Scientist: The meteoric rise of the Incan empire between 1400 and 1532 was driven by a sustained period of warmer weather, new research on Peruvian lake sediments suggests.  The sediments, from a core going back 4000 years, contain biological and organic evidence revealing sharp changes in land use and agriculture around Marcacocha, a small lake near Cuzco at the heart of the ancient empire.  The higher temperatures, starting around 1150, ended thousands of years of cold aridity, and ...</p><p>Tue, 28 Jul 09<br /><strong>Tasmania gets Australia's first REDD deal</strong><br />http://news.mongabay.com/2009/0726-redd_tasmania.html<br />Mongabay: A forest conservation project in Tasmania has become Australia's first Reduced Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation (REDD) project to meet Climate, Community and Biodiversity Standards.  The project, run by Sydney-based Redd Forests, is on 860 hectares of private land in Tasmania. Logging of old-growth forests in Tasmania is increasingly controversial: environmentalists regularly clash--sometimes violently--with forestry companies.  The new project provides an alternative ...</p><p>Mon, 27 Jul 09<br /><strong>Revealed: the secret evidence of global warming Bush tried to hide</strong><br />http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2009/jul/26/climate-change-obama-administration<br />Guardian: Graphic images that reveal the devastating impact of global warming in the Arctic have been released by the US military. The photographs, taken by spy satellites over the past decade, confirm that in recent years vast areas in high latitudes have lost their ice cover in summer months.  The pictures, kept secret by Washington during the presidency of George W Bush, were declassified by the White House last week. President Barack Obama is currently trying to galvanise Congress and the ...</p><p>Mon, 27 Jul 09<br /><strong>Mexico City announces emergency water-rationing plan</strong><br />http://www.laht.com/article.asp?ArticleId=339917&CategoryId=14091<br />Latin American Herald Tribune: Mexico City authorities have announced an emergency, 10-month water rationing plan in response to severe shortages that Mayor Marcelo Ebrard blames on global warming.  &quot;This year we've had the least amount of rainfall in many years. That's caused the Cutzamala system, which ... accounts for a significant percentage of the city's supply, to have lower levels than it should have,&quot; Ebrard told a press conference on Thursday.  The National Water Commission, or Conagua, has warned in ...</p><p>Fri, 24 Jul 09<br /><strong>Scripps-led study shows ocean health plays vital role in coral reef recovery</strong><br />http://www.innovations-report.de/html/berichte/umwelt_naturschutz/scripps_led_study_shows_ocean_health_plays_vital_136513.html<br />Innovations Report: The new research study led by scientists at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego suggests that by improving overall ocean health, corals are better able to recover from bleaching events, which occur when rising sea temperatures force corals to expel their symbiotic algae, known as zooxanthellae. Coral bleaching is a phenomenon that is expected to increase in frequency as global climate change increases ocean temperatures worldwide.  The new findings, published in the ...</p><p>Fri, 24 Jul 09<br /><strong>Climate insurance: what kind of deal can be made in Copenhagen?</strong><br />http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2009/jul/23/network-climate-change<br />Guardian: As even the staunchest advocates will tell you, climate insurance is by no means a magic bullet. But clearly the tools of modern finance could certainly help make poor nations prepare for and respond to all manner of natural disasters big and small.  We explore some of these ideas in this week's issue of Nature, taking a quick look at how the insurance debate is playing out in the ongoing United Nations climate talks. The upshot is that some kind of insurance mechanism is likely to ...</p><p>Fri, 24 Jul 09<br /><strong>UN sees $10 billion aid as good start to climate pact</strong><br />http://www.reuters.com/article/GCA-GreenBusiness/idUSTRE56M2BO20090723<br />Reuters: Aid of $10 billion from rich nations would be a &quot;good beginning&quot; to launch a U.N. climate treaty due to be agreed in Copenhagen in December, the United Nations' top climate official said Thursday.  Yvo de Boer, head of the U.N. Climate Change Secretariat, also told the BBC World Service in an interview that rich countries needed to pledge deep cuts in greenhouse gas emissions by 2020 and the poor had to slow the rise in their emissions.  But cash was needed to kick-start a ...</p><p>Fri, 24 Jul 09<br /><strong>EU could provide billions for forests - report</strong><br />http://in.reuters.com/article/oilRpt/idINLN15125420090723<br />Reuters: The European Union could provide up to 2.5 billion euros ($3.55 billion) a year to help poor nations protect tropical forests, the EU executive said in a report to ministers meeting in Sweden on Thursday.  The European Commission report will be discussed at the meeting of EU energy and environment ministers in the mountain resort of Are. The talks will also tackle energy efficiency and preparations for global climate talks in Copenhagen in December.  Forests and finance for poor ...</p><p>Fri, 24 Jul 09<br /><strong>India:  Obama's climate man talks of sticky deal with India</strong><br />http://ibnlive.in.com/news/obamas-climate-man-talks-of-sticky-deal-with-india/97751-2.html<br />IBN: While Hillary Clinton's visit to India is being considered a huge diplomatic success on the climate change front not much progress was made. As part of Hillary's contingent was President Obama's Special Envoy on climate change, Todd Stern. Stern spoke exclusively to CNN-IBN's Environment Editor Bahar Dutt on the road ahead for India and the US on sticky issue of climate change.  Bahar Dutt: Would you say that talks between India and the US have been inconclusive as far as climate ...</p><p>Fri, 24 Jul 09<br /><strong>Spain:  Rainfall to decrease over Iberian Peninsula</strong><br />http://www.physorg.com/news167552453.html<br />Physorg: Scientists have recorded a decline in winter precipitation over the past 60 years in Spain, and they now forecast that precipitation will also decrease in spring and summer. A team from the Pyrenean Institute of Ecology (CSIC) has studied rainfall data from 1950 to 2006 and the climate projections for coming decades, showing that less rain will fall in future over the Iberian Peninsula. However, precipitation will continue to be more frequent in winter than in spring-summer.  Have ...</p><p>Fri, 24 Jul 09<br /><strong>United Kingdom:  Even the Isle of Wight wants Miliband to buck the market</strong><br />http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/jul/22/green-jobs-market-vestas-strike<br />Guardian: The Isle of Wight is an unlikely setting for an industrial rebellion. It's true Karl Marx was once a regular visitor, but the island's a generally conservative place, better known for sailing than strikes. That changed on Monday, when workers occupied Britain's only major wind-turbine factory in protest at its imminent closure. Tonight they were still there, barricaded in the Newport plant's offices, surrounded by police and security guards, as hundreds of other workers and their supporters ...</p><p>Fri, 24 Jul 09<br /><strong>Japan Denies Buying 'Hot Air' Credits Created in Kyoto Accord</strong><br />http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601101&sid=auYplIVXDnYY<br />Bloomberg: Japan is defending itself against criticism that it is exploiting a surplus of assigned emission credits and buying &quot;hot air.&quot;  The Japanese government and its largest companies plan to buy more than 350 million tons of emission credits in the five years ending in 2012, said Keiji Hisata, an official in Tokyo's Kyoto Mechanisms Office at the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry. The purchase may include units assigned to the 37 countries with targets under the 1997 Kyoto Protocol, ...</p><p>Fri, 24 Jul 09<br /><strong>China to subsidise solar power projects</strong><br />http://www.themalaysianinsider.com/index.php/business/33094-china-to-subsidise-solar-power-projects<br />Malaysian Insider: China's government says it will pay up to 70 per cent of the price of new solar power systems in an effort to speed up development of clean energy industries.  The Finance Ministry's announcement on Tuesday comes as Beijing tries to reduce China's surging demand for imported oil and gas and create companies that cash in on growing global demand for clean energy technology.  The subsidies are meant to develop the solar industry as a new source of economic growth for the country, ...</p><p>Fri, 24 Jul 09<br /><strong>Australia:  Wong pours cold water on nuclear power</strong><br />http://news.theage.com.au/breaking-news-national/wong-pours-cold-water-on-nuclear-power-20090723-du9y.html<br />AAP: Climate Change Minister Penny Wong has poured cold water on suggestions Australia could move towards nuclear power.  The government's own nuclear body, the Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation (ANSTO), says it's time to give &quot;active consideration&quot; to nuclear power, which it says is safe, reliable and would become more cost-effective.  Mining giant Rio Tinto has talked up nuclear power and called on the government to make a decision about it by 2020.  But ...</p><p>Fri, 24 Jul 09<br /><strong>Australia:  Nuclear is the answer: Opposition</strong><br />http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/07/23/2634155.htm?section=australia<br />Australian Broadcasting Corporation: Nuclear power is the only suitable form of energy for Australia's long-term electricity needs as the country seeks to reduce its carbon emissions, the Opposition says.  Speaking on ABC radio in Darwin this morning, Opposition spokesman on energy and resources, Ian Macfarlane, said: &quot;It is the only zero-emission, base-load electricity that Australia can install in the next 30 years.&quot;  Yesterday, the Climate Change Minister, Penny Wong, rejected calls for Australia to consider ...</p><p>Fri, 24 Jul 09<br /><strong>Ancient ocean temperatures 'could predict climate change'</strong><br />http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/07/23/2634247.htm?section=australia<br />Australian Broadcasting Corporation: A Canberra scientist has released new research on ancient deep ocean temperatures which could be used to predict climate change.  Sindia Sosdian studied shells from tiny sea creatures dating back more than three million years to understand changes in deep ocean temperatures and ice sheets.  Overall the international research team found a cooling of 3 degrees Celsius in the deep Atlantic ocean.  Dr Sosdian says the shells provide a lengthy historic record which can be used ...</p><p>Fri, 24 Jul 09<br /><strong>Australia:  Carbon emmssions must be cut by 80 per cent: scientist</strong><br />http://www.radioaustralia.net.au/connectasia/stories/200907/s2634156.htm<br />Radio Australia: Despite urgent global warming warnings, there's little hope that December's Copenhagen climate change meeting will secure an international agreement.  Even domestic measures are subject to bitter politics and trade-offs, like the Australian government's plans to cut emissions by five-to-15 per cent by the year 2020. Even if such measures did pass, one expert says it'd be like giving aspirin to a cancer patient. He says nothing less than 80 per cent emissions cuts over the next ten ...</p><p>Fri, 24 Jul 09<br /><strong>Australia:  Emissions scheme 'extra stress' for farmers</strong><br />http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/07/23/2634281.htm<br />Australian Broadcasting Corporations: A biologist and climate change expert says it is becoming increasingly difficult for farmers to adapt to climate change, and being included in an emissions trading scheme will be of little benefit.  Dr Jennifer Marohasy will today speak at a grains forum organised by the South Australia Farmers Federation.  She says farmers need to keep informed about the changing climate and governments need to ease the strain they already face.  &quot;Placing additional stress on farming ...</p><p>Fri, 24 Jul 09<br /><strong>Downpours hurt harvest in Mekong Delta's shrinking rice fields</strong><br />http://www.thanhniennews.com/features/?catid=10&newsid=51027<br />Thanh Nien Daily: Farmers in Tra Vinh Province have harvested nearly 30,000 hectares of rice, of which 5,000 hectares were harvested during rainy days, the Vietnam News Agency reported Tuesday.  Many farmers in the province have had to sell rice as animal feed at low prices to husbandry farmers after failing to dry the seeds that began to germinate.  The same situation faces more than 52,000 hectares that are ready for harvesting. Farmers rely on sunshine for drying the rice and if the rains ...</p><p>Fri, 24 Jul 09<br /><strong>Wealthy nations urged to help poor deal with climate change</strong><br />http://www.radionz.co.nz/news/stories/2009/07/23/1245bc6ad21a<br />Radio New Zealand: The United Nations' chief negotiator on climate change says wealthy nations will have to find at least $US10 billion to help developing countries deal with climate change.  Yvo de Boer says that commitment would be one measure of success for a climate change conference to be held in Copenhagen in December.  Mr de Boer says $US10 billion is just the bare minimum to help developing nations.  Two other critical issues have to be resolved at the conference, the BBC ...</p><p>Fri, 24 Jul 09<br /><strong>Australia:  US scientists to tour Murray-Darling Basin</strong><br />http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/07/23/2634401.htm?site=goulburnmurray<br />Australian Broadcasting Corporation: A visiting group of American scientists will see first-hand the effect drought has had on the Murray-Darling Basin.  Scientists from eight American states will arrive in Albury today for a three-day tour of the Murray.  The Murray-Darling Association is hosting the tour, that runs from Albury to Mildura.  The association's Adrian Wells says the scientists are studying the effect of climate change on water systems.  &quot;Well we've noticed over the years that there's an ...</p><p>Fri, 24 Jul 09<br /><strong>GE Seeks Growth In Clean Coal, Wind In Australia</strong><br />http://money.cnn.com/news/newsfeeds/articles/djf500/200907230042DOWJONESDJONLINE000008_FORTUNE5.htm<br />Dow Jones: General Electric Co. (GE) is vying to cash in on Australia's push to cut greenhouse gas emissions, and expects to unveil several deals with developers of wind farms in the country soon.  At the same time, GE is promoting gas turbines for power generation in expectation that Australia will try to cut the number of conventional coal-fired power plants in operation, said Kenji Uenishi, president of GE's energy business in the Asia-Pacific region.  &quot;We are talking about many ...</p><p>Fri, 24 Jul 09<br /><strong>NZ says tough to set 2020 carbon reduction target</strong><br />http://www.reuters.com/article/latestCrisis/idUSWEL481400<br />Reuters: New Zealand's growing carbon emissions makes setting a reduction target for 2020 a tough task, the government said on Thursday, while it sees a trading scheme as the best means of fighting climate change.  Data showing New Zealand's total emissions increased 24 percent from 1990 to 2008, has highlighted the scope of the challenge in setting a target for 2020, Climate Change Minister Nick Smith said.  &quot;I'm certainly concerned that New Zealand's track record of emissions increases ...</p><p>Fri, 24 Jul 09<br /><strong>United Kingdom:  Greenwash: easyJet's carbon claims written on the wind</strong><br />http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/blog/2009/jul/23/easyjet-climate-change-claims<br />Guardian: You probably weren't watching BBC3 at 4am on Monday morning. Not if you had a job to go to in the morning, anyhow. So you probably missed a nice little programme called Britain's Embarrassing Emissions.  It door-stepped the budget airline easyJet about claims on the company's website that it is greener than a hybrid car. Or, more particularly, that its emissions were less than those of a Toyota Prius. It's greenwash, of course. As, I discovered, are several of its other environmental ...</p><p>Fri, 24 Jul 09<br /><strong>Report: US, China must improve climate cooperation</strong><br />http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5j3xDadXt3jZgfM607Ma7Go6x39CAD99K0NE00<br />Associated Press: The United States and China should use high-level meetings next week to work toward improved cooperation in curbing greenhouse gases, according to a new Senate report.  The Foreign Relations Committee report released Thursday says new efforts to address emissions by the United States and China, the world's largest emitters of climate-altering pollution, could be &quot;the key to a global solution&quot; to climate change.  The report urges the countries to make climate change a priority. It ...</p><p>Fri, 24 Jul 09<br /><strong>Is time running out to seal post-Kyoto climate pact?</strong><br />http://in.reuters.com/article/environmentNews/idINTRE56M1I620090723<br />Reuters: Negotiators face a mammoth task to try to agree by the end of the year on the outlines of broader climate pact to replace the U.N.'s Kyoto Protocol.  Key issues such as financing climate change adaptation programs in developing nations, transfer of clean-energy technology and disagreements over rich nations' targets to cut planet-warming emissions still need to be resolved.  Following are responses from Howard Bamsey, Australia's special envoy on climate change, on how the ...</p><p>Fri, 24 Jul 09<br /><strong>Australia:  Rudd ridicules Opposition's nuclear push</strong><br />http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/07/23/2634719.htm?section=australia<br />Australian Broadcasting Corporation: Prime Minister Kevin Rudd says Labor's policy of opposing nuclear power generation in Australia is clear.  The Labor Party's decision to scrap its limit on the number of uranium mines has seen several new mining operations open up.  Opposition energy and resources spokesman Ian Macfarlane has called for the uranium to be used to generate electricity domestically.  But Mr Rudd says that is not something the Government is considering.  &quot;Can I say our policy on this was ...</p><p>Fri, 24 Jul 09<br /><strong>Taiwan doing on climate what China won't</strong><br />http://www.carbonpositive.net/viewarticle.aspx?articleID=1621<br />Carbon Positive: In a twist to the stand-off between China and the US over greenhouse emission reduction responsibilities, Taiwan appears to set to commit to the hard targets to cut emissions that mainland China rejects.  There appears to be the broad political support necessary in Taipei for laws to cap greenhouse emissions and implement an emissions trading scheme with foreign carbon offset provisions. The Greenhouse Reduction Act is headed for a final vote in the Taiwanese parliament as early as ...</p><p>Fri, 24 Jul 09<br /><strong>Climate Change Needs Government Push in Global Investors' Poll</strong><br />http://news.yahoo.com/s/bloomberg/20090722/pl_bloomberg/ag1_0hhlg_2e<br />Bloomberg: Global investors say climate change is a threat and want government action to combat it, even as a plurality says the effort will hurt corporate profits.  Dissenting from a consensus in Asia and Europe, almost two- thirds of U.S. investors say climate change is a minor danger or &quot;no real threat,&quot; according to the first Quarterly Bloomberg Global Poll. In Asia, 61 percent say higher global temperatures are a major problem, and 56 percent in Europe agree.  The differences ...</p><p>Fri, 24 Jul 09<br /><strong>Genetically modified rice 'crucial in drought battle'</strong><br />http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5j2mM24ul8x2YfZPzbZfTQeI6GIOA<br />Agence France-Presse: Genetic modification may be the only viable way to produce sufficient quantities of rice in the future as drought, climate change and dwindling acreage impact yields, experts said in a new report.  Rice is the staple food of around three billion people and the main challenge facing producers is how to raise yields of the water-dependent crop as 70 percent of the world's food-growing areas turn increasingly parched, said the International Rice Research Institute in its latest quarterly ...</p><p>Fri, 24 Jul 09<br /><strong>United Kingdom:  Wind turbine protesters continue sit in as police accused of blocking food</strong><br />http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article6723850.ece#cid=OTC-RSS&attr=3392178<br />Times (UK): A handful of men - tired, hungry and soon to be unemployed - stood cheering on the balcony of a wind turbine factory on the Isle of Wight, in what has become an unlikely front line of a clash over the future of Britain's green economy.  About 25 workers were last night still inside the Vestas plant outside Newport, three days into a sit-in which has grown increasingly bitter. The occupiers of Britain's only significant wind farm factory have accused managers of trying to starve them ...</p><p>Fri, 24 Jul 09<br /><strong>Think Tank sparks row over biofuel jet fuel targets</strong><br />http://www.businessgreen.com/business-green/news/2246595/think-tank-sparks-row-biofuel<br />Business Green: Right-wing think-tank The Policy Exchange yesterday sparked a row over the best way to cut emissions from aviation with the release of a report urging the government to pursue measures designed to cut emissions rather than the number of flights.  The report, entitled Green Skies Thinking, concluded that while measures to reduce demand for flying may be required, the government should also move to accelerate the development and use of sustainable aviation biofuels that promise to ...</p><p>Wed, 22 Jul 09<br /><strong>Kerry panel looks at climate change and national security</strong><br />http://www.boston.com/news/politics/politicalintelligence/2009/07/kerry_panel_loo.html<br />Boston Globe: Massive crop devastation, melting glaciers, water shortages, millions of displaced people -- all of these will drag the US military into conflict if global climate change goes unchecked, a Senate panel was warned today.  The Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing, convened by Senator John F. Kerry of Massachusetts, focused on what so far has received only modest attention in the climate change debate: the effect it is bound to have on national defense.  &quot;Addressing the ...</p><p>Wed, 22 Jul 09<br /><strong>CU study: Climate change threatens Colo. River water supply</strong><br />http://www.coloradodaily.com/news/2009/jul/21/cu-boulder-study-climate-change-colorado-river/<br />Colorado Daily: The Colorado River system -- which 30 million people depend on for drinking and irrigation water -- could fully deplete all of its reservoir storage by the middle of the century, a new University of Colorado study shows.  Under the most drastic climate change scenario, the study shows a 50 percent chance of depletion if current management practices continue while the West warms and the Colorado River dries up. The study is published in the American Geophysical Union journal Water ...</p><p>Wed, 22 Jul 09<br /><strong>Geoengineering Climate Requires More Research</strong><br />http://www.redorbit.com/news/science/1724507/geoengineering_climate_requires_more_research/index.html?source=r_science<br />redOrbit: Geoengineering - deliberately manipulating physical, chemical, or biological aspects of the Earth system to confront climate change &ndash; could contribute to a comprehensive risk management strategy to slow climate change but could also create considerable new risks, according to a policy statement released by the American Meteorological Society (AMS) today.  According to the Society, geoengineering will not substitute for either aggressive emissions reduction or efforts to adapt to ...</p><p>Wed, 22 Jul 09<br /><strong>Climate change could put the heat on California crops</strong><br />http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-climate-farms22-2009jul22,0,7564338.story<br />LA Times: The Lockes have tilled the rich soil along the Mokelumne River since 1850. Now Chris Locke, 57, looks forward to passing down his orchards of 40,000 walnut trees to his four sons.  But the threat of global warming has him worried. &quot;I talk to my boys about climate change,&quot; he said. When he was young, frigid fogs rolled off the delta into Lockeford, the town named for his forebears. &quot;We would go a week without seeing the sun. But we don't seem to get that weather anymore.&quot;  If San ...</p><p>Wed, 22 Jul 09<br /><strong>Climate change could ruin California fruit, nut crops</strong><br />http://www.reuters.com/article/environmentNews/idUSTRE56L00320090722?feedType=RSS&feedName=environmentNews<br />Reuters: Climate change could devastate tree crops such as walnuts, cherries, prunes and peaches in California's fertile Central Valley, researchers reported on Tuesday.  These kinds of trees require a certain amount of winter chill to be productive, and winters could be warmer than normal as climate change proceeds, scientists at the University of California-Davis and the University of Washington wrote in the peer-reviewed journal PLoS ONE.  The study projected losses of more than half ...</p><p>Wed, 22 Jul 09<br /><strong>Indonesia:  Palm oil companies trade plantation concessions for carbon credits from forest conservation</strong><br />http://news.mongabay.com/2009/0721-palm_oil_redd.html<br />Mongabay: Indonesian palm oil producers are eying forest conservation projects as a way to supplement earnings via the nascent carbon market, reports Reuters.  Frank Momberg, Fauna and Flora International's Asia-Pacific director for program development, told Reuters' David Fogarty that plantations companies have agreed to forgo converting rainforest areas in West Kalimantan on the island of Borneo in exchange for a share of the revenue generated from the sales of forest carbon credits. Forest ...</p><p>Wed, 22 Jul 09<br /><strong>Governors call for carbon-neutral buildings by 2030</strong><br />http://www.climateark.org/shared/reader/welcome.aspx?linkid=133328<br />Greenwire: The National Association of Governors is the latest legislative group to support the American Institute of Architects' goal of zeroing out new and renovated buildings' greenhouse gas emissions by 2030.  The NGA -- which is convening in Biloxi, Miss., for its annual meeting -- endorsed the AIA goal as part of a resolution on energy efficiency and conservation. The U.S. Conference of Mayors and the National Association of Counties have also endorsed the AIA goal by vowing to integrate ...</p><p>Wed, 22 Jul 09<br /><strong>US government pumps $57m into smart grid</strong><br />http://www.businessgreen.com/business-green/news/2246468/government-pumps-57m-smart-grid<br />Business Green: The US Department of Energy (DoE) once again opened up its stimulus fund war chest yesterday, awarding over $57m to eight smart grid demonstration projects across the country.  The new investment, which follows $17m of government smart grid funding awarded last year, will aim to accelerate the roll out of projects designed to demonstrate the feasibility of smart grid technologies capable of managing and reducing energy use across the grid.  &quot;Modernising our electrical grid to ...</p><p>Wed, 22 Jul 09<br /><strong>Global ocean temperatures at warmest level since 1880</strong><br />http://news.mongabay.com/2009/0721-ocean_temperatures.html<br />Mongabay: Global ocean temperatures rose to the warmest on record, according to data released last week by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). The combined average global land and ocean surface temperature for June was second-warmest since global recording-keeping began in 1880.  NOAA reports that both the Northern and Southern Hemispheres experienced record sea surface temperatures in June. Temepratures in the Northern Hemisphere were 1.17°F (0.65°C) above normal, ...</p><p>Wed, 22 Jul 09<br /><strong>Parent stress, air pollution up kids' asthma risk</strong><br />http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090721/hl_nm/us_kids_asthma<br />Greenwire: Children with stressed-out parents may be more prone to developing asthma associated with environmental &quot;triggers&quot; such as high levels of traffic-related pollution and tobacco smoke, hints a study published today.  In the study, researchers found that children whose parents reported high levels of psychological stress and who were exposed to cigarette smoke in the womb and to traffic-related pollution early in life had a much higher risk of developing asthma, compared to children only ...</p><p>Wed, 22 Jul 09<br /><strong>Montreal Protocol Eyed as Weapon in Fight Against Climate Change</strong><br />http://www.climateark.org/shared/reader/welcome.aspx?linkid=133317<br />New York Times: There's growing momentum for amending the Montreal Protocol, the landmark treaty credited with rescuing the earth's ozone layer, for use in a global battle against climate change.  Widely regarded as the most successful environmental treaty of all time, the Montreal Protocol is credited with eliminating 97 percent of gases used in refrigerant and cooling systems that were eating away at the atmospheric layer that protects life from harmful ultraviolet radiation.  Now, some ...</p><p>Wed, 22 Jul 09<br /><strong>US moving toward strong climate action</strong><br />http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20090721/pl_afp/unusclimatewarming<br />Agence France-Presse: The United States has undergone an important mood-shift on climate change and is on the path toward &quot;strong climate action,&quot; a key UN official said here Tuesday.  &quot;The mood is completely different now... There's a sense that the country's on the move toward strong climate action,&quot; Michael Zammit Cutajar, who chairs the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) working group on long-term cooperative action, told reporters.  The US House of Representatives last month ...</p><p>Wed, 22 Jul 09<br /><strong>Governors say climate policy could create jobs</strong><br />http://www.boston.com/news/nation/washington/articles/2009/07/21/governors_say_climate_policy_could_create_jobs/?rss_id=Boston.com+--+Latest+news<br />Associated Press: Three Democratic governors told a Senate panel Tuesday that efforts to curb global warming and spur the development of cleaner sources of energy have created jobs and new businesses in their states, a trend that could expand nationwide if Congress passes federal legislation.  All three states -- New Jersey, Colorado, and Washington -- have adopted measures to achieve reductions in the gases blamed for global warming and standards requiring a certain percentage of electricity from ...</p><p>Wed, 22 Jul 09<br /><strong>Informal world climate talks in Bonn in August</strong><br />http://www.reuters.com/article/environmentNews/idUSTRE56K5Q620090721?feedType=RSS&feedName=environmentNews<br />Reuters: World climate negotiators will gather in Bonn next month to edit an &quot;indigestible&quot; set of proposals into a manageable document for international consideration, the head of a key U.N. panel said on Tuesday.  The August meeting is the first step in a timeline aimed at reaching a new worldwide agreement to combat climate change in Copenhagen in December, said Michael Zammit Cutajar, chairman of a working group of the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate change.  Not previously ...</p><p>Wed, 22 Jul 09<br /><strong>U.S. green jobs seen taking years of planning</strong><br />http://www.reuters.com/article/environmentNews/idUSTRE56K5YY20090721?feedType=RSS&feedName=environmentNews<br />Reuters: Alternative energy jobs can provide vocations across many sectors of the economy but policy to spark them can take years to develop, U.S. governors told a Senate committee on Tuesday.  State green power mandates and regional cap-and-trade plans on emissions have been useful tools in pushing local economies to begin to convert from fossil fuel plants to green jobs, the governors told the Senate's Committee on Environment and Public Works.  &quot;This didn't happen by accident,&quot; ...</p><p>Wed, 22 Jul 09<br /><strong>Climate bill impact on U.S. farms bearable: Lawmaker</strong><br />http://www.reuters.com/article/environmentNews/idUSTRE56K6EZ20090721?feedType=RSS&feedName=environmentNews<br />Reuters: The impact on U.S. farms and ranches from climate-change legislation will be bearable, partly because of the chance to earn money for controlling greenhouse gases, said the House Agriculture Committee chairman on Tuesday.  Agriculture Chairman Collin Peterson, during a speech to American Soybean Association members, pointed to think-tank estimates the climate bill passed by the House would drive up crop production costs by 1.8 percent-4.6 percent in the near term.  &quot;We don't want ...</p><p>Wed, 22 Jul 09<br /><strong>Greenpeace charged in Mount Rushmore demonstration</strong><br />http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090721/ap_on_re_us/us_rushmore_indictments<br />Associated Press: A federal grand jury has indicted the environmental group Greenpeace and 11 people involved in hanging a banner on Mount Rushmore.  Greenpeace has said three of its members hung the 65-by-35-foot banner calling for a stop to global warming July 8 while others blocked access to the site.  U.S. Attorney Marty Jackley says Greenpeace trained the protesters and hired a helicopter to photograph and record the protest. The organization has been charged with helping the protesters ...</p><p>Wed, 22 Jul 09<br /><strong>Will Global Warming Melt the Permafrost Supporting the China-Tibet Railway?</strong><br />http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=global-warming-china-tibet-railway<br />Scientifc American: Building a railway across the unstable soil of the Tibetan Plateau was an improbable endeavor from the start, but an army of Chinese government engineers did it anyway.  Now, with the frozen soil disturbed by the process of laying down the rail and a warming climate on the plateau, some scientists question whether the $4-billion rail line will survive as is or require major reconstruction.  Three years after the railway opened in 2006, international research shows that the ...</p><p>Wed, 22 Jul 09<br /><strong>United Kingdom:  Workers at the Vestas wind turbine factory stage a sit-in protest</strong><br />http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/hampshire/8160331.stm<br />BBC: Police said about 200 workers were protesting outside the factory after being turned away when they arrived earlier but management have been allowed inside.  The protesters have locked themselves in a first floor office and claimed no members of management had come to talk to them.  A demonstrator, who did not want to be named, said police in riot gear had gathered outside the office.  He said: &quot;It is our last-ditch attempt to save the jobs.  &quot;This is a green industry ...</p><p>Wed, 22 Jul 09<br /><strong>Pachauri defends India's climate stand</strong><br />http://www.thaindian.com/newsportal/enviornment/pachauri-defends-indias-climate-stand_100221052.html<br />Indo-Asian News Service: India will continue to use coal to meet its energy demands, says Rajendra Pachauri, chair of the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).  &quot;Can you imagine 400 million people who do not have a light bulb in their homes,&quot; Pachauri told reporters here Monday.  &quot;You cannot, in a democracy, ignore some of these realities and as it happens with the resources of coal that India has we really don`t have any choice but to use coal in the immediate short term,&quot; he ...</p><p>Wed, 22 Jul 09<br /><strong>Gingrich joins call for offshore oil drilling</strong><br />http://www.ajc.com/news/gingrich-joins-call-for-91307.html<br />Atlanta Journal Constitution: Newt Gingrich on Tuesday joined congressional Republicans in taking the Obama administration to task for not doing more to promote offshore oil drilling.  On the one-year anniversary of the lifting of a presidential ban on offshore oil exploration, Gingrich said the White House is hurting the economy by not pushing aggressively for drilling.  &quot;Returning energy production to the United States means American jobs, keeping American money at home,&quot; Gingrich, the former House speaker ...</p><p>Wed, 22 Jul 09<br /><strong>Clinton's Trip to India: Lots of Talk, Not Much Action</strong><br />http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1911878,00.html<br />Time Magazine: The big take-aways of Clinton's visit are three key agreements. The first is an &quot;end-use monitoring&quot; agreement that allows the U.S. to track arms supplied to India to ensure they are not sold or otherwise given to third parties. This agreement, required by U.S. law, enables U.S. companies to sell high-tech military equipment and technology to India, immediately benefiting Boeing and Lockheed Martin who will be able to bid for contracts to supply 26 fighter jets to India for a $10-billion ...</p><p>Wed, 22 Jul 09<br /><strong>Senate Democrats Prep Team Girds for Climate Battle</strong><br />http://www.climateark.org/shared/reader/welcome.aspx?linkid=133302<br />ClimateWire: When the Senate debated climate change legislation earlier this decade, it generally was understood the bill had no chance of becoming law.  Floor debates in 2003 and 2005 came about after high-profile senators forced votes to score political points and embarrass the George W. Bush administration. Just one committee wrote last year's cap-and-trade bill, which crashed on the floor and became a political liability for Senate Democrats.  This time around, Senate Democrats are trying ...</p><p>Wed, 22 Jul 09<br /><strong>Canadian tar sands developers to face fresh legal challenge</strong><br />http://www.businessgreen.com/business-green/news/2246410/tar-sands-developers-face-fresh<br />Business Green: The Canadian tar sands industry became mired in yet more controversy this week following an international appeal for financial aid to support an indigenous community's legal battle against further development.  The charitable trust fund has been set up to help the Beaver Lake Cree Nation, which claims that prospecting, strip mining and drilling for oil in their ancestral lands is polluting water supplies and damaging both human health and that of local wildlife. In the latter instance, ...</p><p>Wed, 22 Jul 09<br /><strong>China wind turbine makers blow over foreign rivals</strong><br />http://www.businessgreen.com/business-green/news/2246411/chinese-wind-turbine-makers<br />Business Green: China-based wind turbine manufacturers have overtaken foreign competitors in the race to supply domestic wind power projects for the first time -- a lead that is likely to widen due to the government's controversial &quot;buy Chinese&quot; procurement policy.  According to figures from the state-run Chinese Wind Energy Association, domestic and Sino-foreign joint venture turbine makers accounted for 61.8 per cent of China's market share at the end of 2008, surpassing overseas producers for the ...</p><p>Wed, 22 Jul 09<br /><strong>India refuses to set emissions reduction target despite US "pressure"</strong><br />http://www.businessgreen.com/business-green/news/2246419/india-refuses-set-emissions<br />Business Green: The Indian government has insisted that it is under no obligation to set an emission reduction target, despite &quot;pressure&quot; to do so from US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton during a visit to the subcontinent over the weekend.  Indian environment minister Jairam Ramesh told Clinton that &quot;there is simply no case for the pressure that we, who have among the lowest emissions per capita, face to actually reduce emissions&quot;.  During an hour-long private meeting with Clinton, Ramesh ...</p><p>Wed, 22 Jul 09<br /><strong>India says no to emission reduction</strong><br />http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2009/jul/21/india-emissions<br />Guardian: India's minister for environment and forests Jairam Ramesh has ruled out the country's agreeing to specific targets for reducing carbon emissions.  &quot;There is simply no case for the pressure that we [India] -- who have among the lowest emissions per capita -- face to reduce emissions,&quot; Ramesh told visiting US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton yesterday (19 July).  &quot;And as if this pressure was not enough, we also face the threat of carbon tariffs on our exports to countries such ...</p><p>Wed, 22 Jul 09<br /><strong>Activists reveal plan to storm Copenhagen climate summit</strong><br />http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2009/jul/21/copenhagen-climate-summit-protest<br />Guardian: A network of radical green groups is planning to disrupt the international climate change meeting in Copenhagen in December by invading the conference hall and stopping the talks, it has emerged.  The anti-globalisation group Climate Justice Action has said it hopes to mobilise up to 15,000 protesters to storm the climate summit, and a large carbon dioxide emitter nearby, while negotiators try to thrash out a replacement for the Kyoto protocol.  &quot;We want to take over the summit ...</p><p>Wed, 22 Jul 09<br /><strong>Climate Change Effect: Warmer Waters Shrinking European Fish</strong><br />http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,637295,00.html#ref=rss<br />Spiegel: A new study has found that Europe's fish are smaller than they have been in decades and the researchers believe global warming may be to blame. They warn that smaller fish could eventually have a domino effect on the food chain.  European fish are getting smaller. Over the past two to three decades some varieties have lost almost half of their body weight. And while smaller fish now make up a greater percentage of all fish species, European fish stocks have also shrunk -- by around 60 ...</p><p>Wed, 22 Jul 09<br /><strong>Jet turbine could power hybrid electric car</strong><br />http://www.reuters.com/article/environmentNews/idUSTRE56K1SC20090721?feedType=RSS&feedName=environmentNews<br />Reuters: With a brief, muffled hiss of a jet engine, the test vehicle that an Israeli start-up hopes will be the future of the hybrid electric car, ignites.  The car is built on the shell of a normal Toyota Prius, a top-selling gasoline-electric hybrid, but without the need for its internal combustion engine.  Instead, an electric engine, containing a supercapacity battery and a micro-jet turbine engine, powers from the rear as it drives almost silently around a test track.  With ...</p><p>Wed, 22 Jul 09<br /><strong>Giant Chinese dustball circles the Earth</strong><br />http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/china/5877583/Giant-Chinese-dustball-circles-the-Earth.html<br />Telegraph: A group of Chinese and Japanese scientists claimed that the dustball, which weighed 800,000 tons, was kicked up during a storm in 2007 in the Taklamakan desert.  The desert, which is roughly the size of France, lies in China's far-Western Xinjiang province, and is fringed by mountains on three sides, including the Pamir mountains on the border with Afghanistan and the Karakoram range, an extension of the Himalayas.  The dust ball was formed when a wind storm ripped across the ...</p><p>Wed, 22 Jul 09<br /><strong>India:  Hurdles Aplenty Before Nuclear Deal Goes Commercial</strong><br />http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=47736<br />Inter Press Service: As U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton began talks with Indian officials in New Delhi on Monday to take a forward a civilian nuclear cooperation agreement, signed by the previous Bush administration, it was apparent that there were many roadblocks to be cleared before deals worth an estimated 10 billion dollars are signed.  Robert Blake, assistant secretary of state for South Asia, said last week, that the deal presented a &quot;major opportunity for American companies, and opens up as ...</p><p>Wed, 22 Jul 09<br /><strong>IPCC to increase focus on economic costs of climate change</strong><br />http://www.businessgreen.com/business-green/news/2246431/ipcc-increase-focus-economic<br />Business Green: The economic and development impacts of climate change on specific regions and countries will lie at the heart of the UN's next official report on climate change, the head of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) confirmed yesterday.  Speaking at an event in New York to outline plans for the IPCC's fifth assessment, Rajendra Pachauri said that the focus of the next report would shift to pay more attention to both the financial implications of climate change and the ...</p><p>Wed, 22 Jul 09<br /><strong>Taiwan climate bill aims for end-2009 vote</strong><br />http://www.reuters.com/article/environmentNews/idUSTRE56K21720090721?feedType=RSS&feedName=environmentNews<br />Reuters: Legislators in Taiwan aim to pass an ambitious bill that would return the island's greenhouse gas emissions to pre-2000 levels by making factories clean up or pay, officials said on Tuesday.  The Greenhouse Reduction Act, which stalled after being introduced in parliament in February last year because of industry opposition, passed the first round of voting in December and is seen moving toward a final vote as early as late 2009.  The bill would also authorize Taiwan's first CO2 ...</p><p>Wed, 22 Jul 09<br /><strong>IPCC Chief Raps G-8, Calls for Global Greenhouse Gas Emissions Cuts After 2015</strong><br />http://www.climateark.org/shared/reader/welcome.aspx?linkid=133277<br />ClimateWire: The chief of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change criticized the Group of Eight summit participants for ignoring the IPCC's scientific findings and the declaration that emerged from the 2007 U.N. climate conference in Bali, Indonesia, in which leaders agreed to work toward a new treaty limiting average global temperature increase to 2 degrees Celsius.  Though simultaneously praising the 2-degree commitment as &quot;clearly a big step forward&quot; in international talks, IPCC Chairman ...</p><p>Wed, 22 Jul 09<br /><strong>Senate agriculture panel begins to stake its claim in Climate Bill</strong><br />http://www.climateark.org/shared/reader/welcome.aspx?linkid=133275<br />ClimateWire: Members of the Senate Agriculture Committee will vet options this week for the sweeping energy and climate bill, which they are expected to play a significant role in shaping.  The panel will have a hearing Wednesday to explore the role for agriculture and forestry in climate change legislation. They are scheduled to hear from two major farm groups on opposing sides of the debate and question senior Obama administration officials: Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack, EPA Administrator ...</p><p>Wed, 22 Jul 09<br /><strong>Polluters must pay for clean-up: Advani to Hillary</strong><br />http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/News/PoliticsNation/Polluters-must-pay-for-clean-up-Advani-to-Hillary/articleshow/4801097.cms<br />Economic Times: US secretary of state Hillary Clinton&quot;s efforts to push India to accept a legally binding cap on greenhouse gas emissions received no support from the leader of Opposition L K Advani. During their 35-minute meeting, Mr Advani made it amply clear to Ms Clinton that there was no way India would accept a cap on emissions. The visiting secretary of state also met with UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi.  Reiterating the principle of &quot;polluters pay&quot;, Mr Advani said that the developed countries ...</p><p>Wed, 22 Jul 09<br /><strong>United Kingdom:  UK urged to help end food shortages</strong><br />http://www.google.com/hostednews/ukpress/article/ALeqM5hyI7NGvC5k9aXB3H5ysHbWbyPr1g<br />Press Association: The UK has a &quot;moral duty&quot; to produce more food such as fruit, vegetables and grains to prevent the world from going hungry, MPs have said.  With predictions that global food production will need to double by mid-century, the UK must help avert food shortages and the political instability they could lead to.  But boosting production needs to be sustainable in order to tackle climate change and conserve the natural world, the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs select committee ...</p><p>Wed, 22 Jul 09<br /><strong>India, US to hold talks on climate change</strong><br />http://www.thaindian.com/newsportal/india-news/india-us-to-hold-talks-on-climate-change_100220784.html<br />Asian News International: India`s Special Envoy on Climate Change Systems Shyam Saran and his US counterpart Todd Stern will hold talks on climate change today.  Stern, who was accompanying US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, is staying back here for talks. Clinton is on her way to Thailand to attend an ASEAN meeting.  The issue of climate change is said to have figured in the discussions Clinton had with Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh.  Clinton agreed with Indian concerns on climate change ...</p><p>Wed, 22 Jul 09<br /><strong>Japan hit by invasion of giant Nomura's jellyfish</strong><br />http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/5876499/Japan-hit-by-invasion-of-giant-Nomuras-jellyfish.html<br />Telegraph: The massive sea creatures, called Echizen kurage in Japanese, measure up to six feet (1.83 meters) in diameter and weigh more than 450 pounds (204 kilos).  For the past four summers, they have mysteriously materialised in the Yellow Sea off China and the Korean peninsula before drifting across into the Sea of Japan. They are expected to be at their most populous in the coming months.  &quot;The arrival is inevitable,' Professor Shinichi Ue, from Hiroshima University, told the Yomiuri ...</p><p>Wed, 22 Jul 09<br /><strong>Bangladesh:  Drought threat for Bangladesh as monsoon fails</strong><br />http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5iOEan4bw7oW-K_NxwhICGVsrJ_og<br />Agence France-Presse: A delay to Bangladesh's monsoon season is posing a severe risk of drought in the impoverished nation and threatening food supplies, officials warned Tuesday.  Monsoon rains normally sweep Bangladesh from June to September and the South Asian country gets more than 75 percent of its annual rainfall during this period but a lack of rain is hampering crop potential.  &quot;For weeks there have been no rains in the northern and central districts, the country's main food belt. Tens of ...</p><p>Wed, 22 Jul 09<br /><strong>Canada:  Climate change calls for land-use plan rethink</strong><br />http://www2.canada.com/victoriatimescolonist/news/comment/story.html?id=1dfd9e50-adf6-4242-8ee1-6de507943756<br />Times Colonist: The spectre of rising sea levels and ecological change from climate disruption show land-use plans for Vancouver Island and the B.C. coast will need to be revisited and recalibrated to account for rapid and unabated climate change.  As reported in the journal Science in March, sustained atmospheric warming projected for the coming centuries could ultimately produce a worldwide rise in sea level of 12 metres compared with today's levels.  In the shorter term, it is currently ...</p><p>Wed, 22 Jul 09<br /><strong>India:  NE faces worst-ever rainfall deficit in 30 years</strong><br />http://www.ptinews.com/news/185449_NE-faces-worst-ever-rainfall-deficit-in-30-years<br />Press Trust of India: North East India, which boasts of the world's wettest place, has witnessed the highest rainfall deficit in the last 30 years which meteorologists attribute to global warming.  Official records till July 20 say Manipur has been worst affected recording 67 per cent deficient rainfall, followed by Meghalaya (-55), Nagaland (-62), Assam (-34), Mizoram (-31), Tripura (-30) and Arunachal Pradesh (-29).  As a fall-out, summer temperatures have shot up by almost five degrees on an ...</p><p>Wed, 22 Jul 09<br /><strong>Canada:  Coal giant offers cash for biggest clean rival</strong><br />http://www.thestar.com/business/article/669198<br />Toronto Star: Canada's biggest generator of dirty power has launched a $1.5 billion hostile bid for the country's leading developer of clean power, including the two largest wind farms in Ontario.  Analysts say TransAlta Corp.'s proposed acquisition of Calgary-based Canadian Hydro Developers Inc. could be the first of many moves in an energy sector that sees big polluters trying to green up their assets, partly to limit their exposure to carbon-emission penalties once a national cap-and-trade system ...</p><p>Wed, 22 Jul 09<br /><strong>Australia:  Howard govt minister heads climate body</strong><br />http://news.smh.com.au/breaking-news-national/howard-govt-minister-heads-climate-body-20090721-drj7.html<br />AAP: Former Howard government minister Robert Hill has been appointed to chair a new body to promote energy efficiency and tackle climate change.  Prime Minister Kevin Rudd told reporters in Brisbane Professor Hill would chair the Brisbane-based Australian Carbon Trust.  &quot;This will complement the location of the National Climate Change Adaptation Research Facility at Griffith University, helping make Brisbane a hub of activity to tackle climate change in Australia,&quot; Mr Rudd ...</p><p>Wed, 22 Jul 09<br /><strong>Spaced Out Trees Reduce Urban Pollution</strong><br />http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/07/090720105127.htm<br />ScienceDaily: A new study published in the International Journal of Environment and Waste Management suggests that we can improve city environments by planting trees down the middle of streets provided they are not too close together.  Christof Gromke now of the WSL Institute for Snow and Avalanche Research SLF in Davos, Switzerland, and Bodo Ruck of the Institute for Hydromechanics at the University of Karlsruhe, Germany, have investigated the effects of trees on ventilation and pollution levels ...</p><p>Wed, 22 Jul 09<br /><strong>The Big Question: Is Britain going to be at the centre of the 'green car' revolution?</strong><br />http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/green-living/the-big-question-is-britain-going-to-be-at-the-centre--of-the-green-car-revolution-1754428.html<br />Independent (UK): Because Nissan has said that production of electric car batteries will begin at its Sunderland plant, with the creation of 350 jobs. Some £200m will be invested over the next five years. Through the Regional Development Agency, millions more of taxpayers' money will be spent on all manner of green infrastructure projects to boost the North East as a &quot;low-carbon economic area&quot;, including electricity charging points, a test track, an R&amp;D facility linked to local universities, and a ...</p><p>Tue, 21 Jul 09<br /><strong>'Weedy' Bird Species May Win as Temperatures Rise</strong><br />http://www.physorg.com/news167237672.html<br />Physorg: Climate change is altering North American winter bird communities in ways that models currently favored by ecologists fail to predict.  Based on patterns of animals found in different climate zones today, ecologists would expect that as habitats warm, numbers of species found there will increase, and that those species will be smaller in size and restricted to narrower geographic ranges. Ecologists at the University of California, San Diego have found that only one of those three ...</p><p>Tue, 21 Jul 09<br /><strong>Coal sales sink Rudd</strong><br />http://www.businessspectator.com.au/bs.nsf/Article/Sunk-by-his-coal-armada-pd20090720-U52U2?OpenDocument<br />Business Spectator: I thought it a tad ironic last week that, while the Prime Minister was using Al Gore and a new blog as props in his campaign for the August passage of the emissions trading scheme through the Senate, the miners of his home State were telling the world that they have chalked up 887.4 million tonnes of export coal sales in the past six years.  By comparison, Queensland`s power generators have consumed about 140 million tonnes of coal in the same period.  Even allowing for the ETS ...</p><p>Tue, 21 Jul 09<br /><strong>Australia needs many energy options: MP</strong><br />http://www.watoday.com.au/breaking-news-national/australia-needs-many-energy-options-mp-20090720-dqqx.html<br />Sydney Morning News: Australia needs a broad range of options to meet domestic and export demand for energy, federal Energy Minister Martin Ferguson says.  The options include coal, liquefied natural gas (LNG), alternate fuels, uranium, wind, solar and geothermal energy which all must be developed as quickly as possible, Mr Ferguson told the bi-annual QREX resources conference in Rockhampton on Monday.  He said an insatiable thirst for energy meant its security was one of the main issues confronting ...</p><p>Tue, 21 Jul 09<br /><strong>Co-operative gives £53000 to Canadian Cree for tar sands lawsuit</strong><br />http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2009/jul/20/canada-cree-tar-sands<br />Press Association: People in the UK are being urged to support a legal fight by a Canadian Cree community against &quot;tar sands&quot; &ndash; a form of fossil fuel which campaigners warn could help push the world into a climate disaster.  The Co-operative Financial Services is backing the Beaver Lake Cree Nation, who are fighting the extraction of tar sands from their ancestral lands in the boreal forest of Alberta because of the damage it is doing to their environment.  The Beaver Lake Cree claim the strip ...</p><p>Tue, 21 Jul 09<br /><strong>World starts to act on climate change</strong><br />http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20327174.500-world-starts-to-act-on-climate-change.html<br />New Scientist: IT'S like a giant game of Jenga. One by one, pieces of our green future are stacking up, some more precariously than others.  At last week's summit in L'Aquila, Italy, leaders of the G8 declared formally for the first time that the world should not allow global temperatures to rise by more than 2 °C above pre-industrial levels. The group also backed Mexico's plan for a green fund to help the poorest countries develop clean-technology economies.  Meanwhile, in London this week, ...</p><p>Tue, 21 Jul 09<br /><strong>Carbon market trading rose 61% last year: study</strong><br />http://www.marketwatch.com/story/carbon-market-trading-rose-61-last-year-study<br />MarketWatch: Trading in global carbon markets rose 61% last year, and European carbon trading during the first half of 2009 exceeded all of the activity during 2008, according to a report published Monday.  International Financial Services, London, or IFSL, said global markets trading in carbon dioxide emissions last year rose 61% from 2007 to 4.81 billion metric tons, as opposed to 71% growth between 2006 and 2007. And trading in the European Union's Emissions Trading System rose to 3.2 billion ...</p><p>Tue, 21 Jul 09<br /><strong>Most Australian Businesses Plan to Reduce Carbon Emissions</strong><br />http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601081&sid=ayeFjhRv9RDI<br />Bloomberg: Most Australian businesses plan to invest in technology that will reduce their carbon emissions as they prepare for the introduction of laws tackling climate change, a survey has found.  Some 74 percent of companies have taken steps or plan measures in the next three years to manage their carbon footprint and 62 percent have invested in cleaner technologies or intend to, the survey of 400 businesses by the Australian Industry Group and accounting firm KPMG found.  The government ...</p><p>Tue, 21 Jul 09<br /><strong>Chemicals That Eased One Woe Worsen Another</strong><br />http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/07/19/AR2009071901817.html<br />Washington Post: The chemicals, called hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs), were introduced widely in the 1990s to replace ozone-depleting gases used in air conditioners, refrigerators and insulating foam.  They worked: The earth's protective shield seems to be recovering.  But researchers say what's good for ozone is bad for climate change. In the atmosphere, these replacement chemicals act like &quot;super&quot; greenhouse gases, with a heat-trapping power that can be 4,470 times that of carbon ...</p><p>Tue, 21 Jul 09<br /><strong>House climate bill was flooded with last-minute changes</strong><br />http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-climate-fineprint20-2009jul20,0,5210778.story<br />LA Times: Less than 24 hours before the House approved its landmark energy and climate bill last month, Rep. Ed Perlmutter (D-Colo.) got several paragraphs added to the 1,200-page measure -- additions expected to be worth millions of dollars to companies that install solar panels.  About the same time, Rep. Melissa Bean (D-Ill.) took the lead in adding another little-noticed provision to the legislation -- a section designed to prevent regulatory action she said could shut down the ...</p><p>Tue, 21 Jul 09<br /><strong>Fish 'shrinking due to global warming'</strong><br />http://www.news.com.au/story/0,27574,25808233-23109,00.html<br />Agence France-Presse: FISH have lost half their average body mass and smaller species are making up a larger proportion of European fish stocks as a result of global warming, a study has found.  'It's huge,' said study author Martin Daufresne of the Cemagref Public Agricultural and Environmental Research Institute in Lyon, France.  'Size is a fundamental characteristic that is linked to a number of biological functions, such as fecundity -- the capacity to reproduce.'  Smaller fish tend to ...</p><p>Tue, 21 Jul 09<br /><strong>Carbon trading scheme 'target for scams'</strong><br />http://www.news.com.au/story/0,27574,25808250-29277,00.html<br />Agence France-Presse: AUSTRALIA'S proposed carbon trading scheme will be an easy target for organised crime groups, a legal expert warns.  The federal government's carbon pollution reduction scheme aims to reduce Australia's carbon emissions through a cap and trade system.  Under the proposed scheme, a company that pollutes less can sell credits to a company that needs to increase its emission allowance.  Simon Harrison, a climate change law expert with Australian firm Herbert Geer, says the ...</p><p>Tue, 21 Jul 09<br /><strong>Taxing carbon gases a vital 1st step</strong><br />http://www.azstarnet.com/allheadlines/301298<br />Arizona Daily Star: The Tucson community has a clear stake in the national climate-change legislation now working its way through Congress. Though the Waxman-Markey bill is imperfect in several ways, it does deserve enactment for many reasons important to our community.  Critics complain that the time frames for greenhouse-gas reductions in Waxman-Markey are too distant, that the emission reductions sought are inadequate, that the carbon-trading mechanisms are too unwieldy.   Yet despite its flaws, ...</p><p>Tue, 21 Jul 09<br /><strong>Coal on the slide as renewables top 11 per cent of US power mix</strong><br />http://www.businessgreen.com/business-green/news/2246344/renewables-top-per-cent-power<br />Business Green: The renewable energy revolution under way in the US appears to be gathering pace according to new figures from the Energy Information Administration suggesting that zero carbon energy sources are successfully replacing fossil fuel-based forms of energy production.  According to the Administration's July Electric Power Monthly report, green energy generation accounted for 11.1 per cent of total electricity production in the country between April 2008 and 2009.  Input from ...</p><p>Tue, 21 Jul 09<br /><strong>World's deserts getting greener despite global warming</strong><br />http://www.thaindian.com/newsportal/health/worlds-deserts-getting-greener-despite-global-warming_100220418.html<br />Asian News International: Contrary to the assumption that global warming would cause an expansion of the world`s deserts, some scientists are predicting that water and life may slowly reclaim these arid places.  According to a report by BBC News, the evidence is limited and definitive conclusions are impossible to reach, but recent satellite pictures of North Africa seem to show areas of the Sahara in retreat.  It could be that an increase in rainfall has caused this effect.  The Sahara is ...</p><p>Tue, 21 Jul 09<br /><strong>Tuvalu vows to go carbon neutral</strong><br />http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/8158604.stm<br />BBC,: The tiny Pacific island state of Tuvalu has said it wants all its energy to come from renewable sources by 2020.  Public Utilities Minister Kausea Natano said his nation of 12,000 people wanted to set an example to others.  Tuvalu is made up of a string of atolls with the highest point only 4.5m (15 ft) above sea level, making it extremely vulnerable to flooding.  The government hopes to use wind and solar power to generate electricity, instead of imported ...</p><p>Tue, 21 Jul 09<br /><strong>Uganda likely to lose all forest cover in 50 yrs</strong><br />http://www.stabroeknews.com/2009/news/world/07/20/uganda-likely-to-lose-all-forest-cover-in-50-yrs/<br />Stabroek News: Uganda will lose its entire forest cover in the next 50 years if the government does not embark on immediate efforts to halt rapid deforestation, a forestry expert warned yesterday.  Forests and tree planting can help mitigate the effects of global warming by increasing carbon storage and cutting greenhouse gas emissions, experts say. Tropical deforestation accounts for a fifth of emissions from human activities.  &quot;We have been observing using satellite imagery that over the last ...</p><p>Tue, 21 Jul 09<br /><strong>Carbon emissions trading system 'seriously flawed'</strong><br />http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2009/jul/20/carbon-emissions-trading-system-sandbag<br />Guardian: The system of trading carbon emissions at the heart of the ambitious low-carbon plan announced by the government last week is seriously flawed and close to becoming irrelevant, according to researchers behind a new analysis.  So-called &quot;hot air&quot; carbon credits &ndash; those which do not result in any actual emissions cuts &ndash; could be so numerous that companies covered by the EU Emissions Trading Scheme would not have to make any cuts to their own emissions until 2015, says the report from ...</p><p>Tue, 21 Jul 09<br /><strong>India Refuses to Bend to U.S. Pressure on Carbon Caps</strong><br />http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/search/%22climate+change%22+or+%22global+warming%22+or+%22renewable+energy%22/SIG=1248rjcv2/*http%3A//www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601130&sid=aZcBZXJ9RZ1Y<br />Bloomberg: India won't bend to demands from the Obama administration or threats from the U.S. Congress to adopt legally binding caps on its carbon emissions, the country's environment minister told visiting U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton yesterday.  &quot;There is simply no case for the pressure&quot; the U.S. is exerting, considering India produces among the lowest per capita emissions in the world, Minister Jairam Ramesh told Clinton during an unexpected discussion of climate negotiations during ...</p><p>Tue, 21 Jul 09<br /><strong>Canada:  Causes mysterious as most 'prairie pothole' lakes slowly dry up and blow away</strong><br />http://www.google.com/hostednews/canadianpress/article/ALeqM5gkVoAJrLh_t8TZDwhEsxefJZYSzA<br />Canadian Press: Every spring, wardens at Elk Island National Park just east of Edmonton patrol the shores of Astotin Lake to clean up debris exposed by receding water. The junk that shows up on the ever-lengthening beach provides a kind of index for just how long it has been since water levels were that low.  &quot;This year, I found a tire from a Model A car,&quot; says Clayton Szafron. &quot;It's kind of disconcerting.&quot;  Astotin isn't alone.  The verdant parkland between Edmonton and Saskatoon was once ...</p><p>Tue, 21 Jul 09<br /><strong>Scientists zoom in on carbon dioxide in NYC</strong><br />http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5gpwyloZ4bIWW042_T_rS41iEqrhAD99HKNUG0<br />Associated Press: Wade McGillis peered up at the structure propped like a high-tech stick figure -- minus the head -- on an elementary school roof. Then he examined the electronics attached to its spindly metal frame, looking out over the Harlem brownstones nearby and the skyscrapers farther away.  Within 15 minutes, a graph spiked in his office eight blocks away. The abrupt peak marked the carbon dioxide the Columbia University environmental engineering professor and three visitors had ...</p><p>Tue, 21 Jul 09<br /><strong>Should we deliberately move species?</strong><br />http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5h0efXlzJIIvo3PL-pNNEa8iItQNwD99HN6MO1<br />Associated Press: On naked patches of land in western Canada and United States, scientists are planting trees that don't belong there. It's a bold experiment to move trees threatened by global warming into places where they may thrive amid a changing climate.  Take the Western larch with its thick grooved bark and green needles. It grows in the valleys and lower mountain slopes in British Columbia's southern interior. Canadian foresters are testing how its seeds will fare when planted farther north -- ...</p><p>Tue, 21 Jul 09<br /><strong>India will not take on emission cut targets, Jairam tells Hillary</strong><br />http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/NEWS-India-India-will-not-take-on-emission-cut-targets-Jairam-tells-Hillary/articleshow/4796258.cms<br />Times of India: Environment minister Jairam Ramesh asserted on Sunday in the presence of visiting US secretary of state Hillary Clinton that India would never take legally binding commitments to cut down on emissions.  &quot;India's position is clear and categorical that we are simply not in a position to take any legally binding emissions reductions,&quot; Ramesh said at conference on climate change he addressed along with the visiting secretary of state to mark the opening of ITC's Green Centre building in ...</p><p>Tue, 21 Jul 09<br /><strong>Slow progress on Kyoto replacement - minister</strong><br />http://www.radionz.co.nz/news/stories/2009/07/20/1245bc3bac3e<br />Radio New Zealand: The minister in charge of international climate change negotiations, Tim Groser, is warning there is unlikely to be a treaty ready to replace the Kyoto Protocol this year.  The protocol ends in 2012 and a major climate meeting is planned in Copenhagen in December to decide what will take its place.  Mr Groser, who has been at a preliminary meeting in Greenland, says progress so far has been too slow to produce a ratifiable treaty from the Copenhagen meeting though points needing ...</p><p>Mon, 20 Jul 09<br /><strong>United States:  Organization formed to combat global warming</strong><br />http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/chi-ap-wi-greenhousegases,0,4137034.story<br />Associated Press: A new nonprofit organization in Wisconsin has been created to fight global warming.  Gov. Jim Doyle says the Wisconsin Climate Change Action Initiative will bring together leaders in business, government, advocacy organization and researchers to work on the issue.  Forming a nonprofit group like this was recommended by a Doyle task force that studied global warming.  Doyle says the group will work to increase voluntary conservancy practices that will save money and have a ...</p><p>Mon, 20 Jul 09<br /><strong>U.S., India discuss climate change</strong><br />http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/environment/2009-07-19-climate-india_N.htm?csp=34<br />Associated Press: India stood firm Sunday against Western demands to accept binding limits on carbon emissions even as U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton expressed optimism about an eventual climate change deal to India's benefit.  &quot;There is simply no case for the pressure that we -- who have among the lowest emissions per capita -- face to actually reduce emissions,&quot; India's minister of environment and forests, Jairam Ramesh, told Clinton and her visiting delegation in a ...</p><p>Mon, 20 Jul 09<br /><strong>India Rebuffs New Efforts for Binding Carbon Targets</strong><br />http://www.climateark.org/shared/reader/welcome.aspx?linkid=133159<br />New York Times: India served notice on Sunday that it remains opposed to legally binding targets to reduce emissions of carbon dioxide, digging in its heels against the United States as the Obama administration begins marshaling support for a new global agreement on climate change.  India voiced its rejection of the American position in an awkwardly public forum: during a visit by Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton to an energy-efficient office building in this city on the outskirts of New ...</p><p>Mon, 20 Jul 09<br /><strong>Facing climate-change annihilation, Island nation goes solar</strong><br />http://www.canada.com/technology/Facing+climate+change+annihilation+Island+nation+goes+solar/1806237/story.html<br />Canwest News Service: A tiny island nation in the Pacific Ocean - that could be wiped off the map because of global warming - is seeking to to set an example for the world by shedding its dependency on oil and becoming powered entirely by renewable energy sources.  Tuvalu is a Polynesian island nation located midway between Hawaii and Australia.  It is made up of four reef islands and five atolls, with the highest elevation a little over four metres above sea level. The doomed archipelago is the ...</p><p>Mon, 20 Jul 09<br /><strong>Clinton, India's Ramesh Clash on Climate Change</strong><br />http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/07/19/AR2009071900705.html?wprss=rss_world<br />Washington Post: But the clash between developed and developing countries over climate change intruded on the high-profile photo opportunity midway through Clinton's three-day tour of India. Indian Environmental Minister Jairam Ramesh complained about U.S. pressure to cut a worldwide deal and Clinton countered that the Obama administration's push for a binding agreement would not sacrifice India's economic growth.  As dozens of cameras recorded the scene, Ramesh declared that India would not commit to ...</p><p>Mon, 20 Jul 09<br /><strong>United States:  Digging for answers to climate change</strong><br />http://www.miamiherald.com/news/environment/story/1148111.html<br />Philadelphia Inquirer: Forty miles off the Jersey Shore, an international team of scientists is grappling with a worrisome phenomenon: The oceans are slowly rising.  The researchers are not studying the sea itself. Living for weeks at a time on this drilling platform, they are burrowing down into the past, pulling up cores of prehistoric sediment from nearly half a mile below the ocean floor.  By studying how the Earth responded when the sea rose and fell at various times millions of years ago, the ...</p><p>Mon, 20 Jul 09<br /><strong>Clinton Urges India Toward Clean Energy</strong><br />http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=106783647&ft=1&f=1025<br />National Public Radio: The Obama administration is trying to persuade India to help tackle climate change. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton urged development experts recently to help come up with ideas on projects that could encourage the Indians to turn to clean energy in a way that won't limit its economic growth.</p><p>Mon, 20 Jul 09<br /><strong>Clinton upbeat on climate change talks with India</strong><br />http://www.reuters.com/article/environmentNews/idUSTRE56H0ST20090719?feedType=RSS&feedName=environmentNews<br />Reuters: An Indian official on Sunday complained about U.S. pressure on India to curb its greenhouse gas emissions, but U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton emerged from their talks upbeat about a solution.  &quot;There is simply no case for the pressure that we, who have among the lowest emissions per capita, face to actually reduce emissions,&quot; Jairam Ramesh, India's minister of state for environment, told Clinton in their talks.  &quot;And as if this pressure was not enough, we also face the ...</p><p>Mon, 20 Jul 09<br /><strong>India takes firm line with Clinton on climate change</strong><br />http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20090719/wl_sthasia_afp/indiausdiplomacy<br />Agence France-Presse: India stood firm Sunday with US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton over carbon emission cuts, but she insisted their differences could be bridged before a high-stakes climate change summit in December.  Meeting Clinton in New Delhi, Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh sharply criticised developed countries like the United States for pressuring developing nations to accept binding targets on emissions reductions as part of any new global climate treaty.  &quot;There is simply no case ...</p><p>Mon, 20 Jul 09<br /><strong>Clinton: US, India to join hands on climate change</strong><br />http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/07/19/AR2009071900383.html<br />Associated Press: India and the United States can jointly devise a breakthrough plan for fighting climate change that will generate massive new investments and millions of jobs, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said Sunday.  She also assured India that while the U.S. wants it to do more to fight climate change, Washington will never impose conditions that would limit India's economic growth.  Clinton, who arrived in India late Friday, said that devising a comprehensive and strategic ...</p><p>Mon, 20 Jul 09<br /><strong>You call that a clunker?</strong><br />http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/07/17/AR2009071703868.html<br />Washington Post: Washington's wordsmiths are at it again. A new federal program seems to have changed the very definition of the word &quot;clunker.&quot;  A vote, a stroke of the pen, a desire to get Americans buying cars and a mandate to shrink greenhouse gas emissions have turned a fleet of old Audis, BMWs, Acuras and other luxury cars into clunkers overnight.  The Consumer Assistance to Recycle and Save Act of 2009 -- also known as &quot;Cash for Clunkers&quot; -- will offer vouchers of up to $4,500 for car ...</p><p>Mon, 20 Jul 09<br /><strong>Arctic Mystery: Identifying the Great Blob of Alaska</strong><br />http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1911517,00.html<br />Tiime Magazine: But what was it? An oil slick? Some sort of immense, amorphous organism adrift in some of the planet's most remote waters? Maybe a worrisome sign of global climate change? Or, as folks wondered who followed from faraway via the internet, was it something insidious and, perhaps, even carnivorous like the man-eating jello from the old Steve McQueen movie that inspired the Alaska phenomenon's nickname? (Read Richard Corliss' review of The Thing, a sci-fi film set in the Arctic.)  The ...</p><p>Mon, 20 Jul 09<br /><strong>India:  Carbon count of burnt buses</strong><br />http://www.telegraphindia.com/1090719/jsp/calcutta/story_11253121.jsp<br />Telegraph (India): Calcutta is the bus-burning capital of the world. This mode of &quot;protest&quot; not only inconveniences millions and destroys public property worth crores but also affects the city's climate.  &quot;On an average, eight to 10 public vehicles are burnt in the city every year, unheard of even in cities like Karachi, Dhaka and Manila. The environmental cost of burning vehicles is huge,&quot; says environment expert S.M. Ghosh.  Joyashree Roy, a climate expert and economics teacher from Jadavpur ...</p><p>Mon, 20 Jul 09<br /><strong>United Kingdom:  Wind power plans 'flawed,' say critics</strong><br />http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/energy/windpower/5857561/Wind-power-plans-flawed-say-critics.html<br />Telegraph: Critics say the Government's Renewable Energy Strategy fundamentally underestimates how many wind turbines will be needed to meet its ambitious targets for a reduction in the use of fossil fuels.  Ed Miliband, the Energy Secretary, last week announced that planning rules would be relaxed to make it easier for an extra 3,500 onshore turbines to be built as part of a £100 billion plan to generate more energy from wind power by 2020.  Ministers want to increase the amount of power ...</p><p>Mon, 20 Jul 09<br /><strong>Canadians want to tackle climate change regionally</strong><br />http://www.sacbee.com/702/story/2037919.html<br />McClatchy Newspapers: The debate over climate change is very different north of the border especially among conservatives.  Gary Lunn, a Cabinet minister for Conservative Prime Minister Stephen Harper, urged lawmakers from the Pacific Northwest and western Canada to work toward one regional system of regulating greenhouse gases last week. But he said whatever system is developed must allow the two countries to use the bounty of fossil fuels.  &quot;We have to be up-front about how dependent we are on ...</p><p>Mon, 20 Jul 09<br /><strong>Salt marshes losing diversity</strong><br />http://www.projo.com/outdoors/environmentaljournal/environmental_journal_19_07-19-09_EMF37U4_v6.37dd4d1.html<br />Study: Salt marshes losing diversity: A new study by researchers at Brown University finds that climate change is reducing the diversity of plants in New England salt marshes by causing a decline in small, flowering plants and allowing the spread of salt marsh grasses such as Spartina patens.  The study, called &quot;Experimental warming causes rapid loss of plant diversity in New England salt marshes,&quot; was published in the latest edition of the journal Ecology Letters and has been widely distributed on academic Web ...</p><p>Mon, 20 Jul 09<br /><strong>India, US must work together on climate change: Hillary</strong><br />http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/NEWS-India-Hillary-Clinton-heads-for-New-Delhi/articleshow/4794678.cms<br />Times of India: US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Sunday said that strategic partnership is required between India and US on issues like climate change. ( Watch )  Addressing a joint press conference, Hillary Clinton said that she expects Pakistan to take strong action against terrorism.  After winning over Mumbai with her charm, Clinton arrived in New Delhi on Sunday afternoon for talks with Indian government leaders to launch what she called a third phase in the India-US strategic ...</p><p>Mon, 20 Jul 09<br /><strong>United Kingdom:  Green dream runs low on power</strong><br />http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2009/jul/19/wind-power-isle-wight<br />Guardian: It was barely 18 months ago that council leaders on the Isle of Wight announced they had drawn up plans to become the world's first &quot;eco-island&quot;, to be powered entirely by renewable energy.  The small island would become self-sufficient and even an exporter of low-carbon power, local politicians boasted. They pointed out that it was already home to Vestas Blades, the UK subsidiary of the largest wind turbine manufacturer in the world.  But Vestas's totemic manufacturing plant at ...</p><p>Mon, 20 Jul 09<br /><strong>Himalayan glaciers have shrunk by 38% in 40 years</strong><br />http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/NEWS-India-Himalayan-glaciers-have-shrunk-by-38-in-40-years/articleshow/4793466.cms<br />Times of India: Himalayan glaciers are going through a phase of retreat, with some glaciers in specific basins having shrunk by up to an alarming 38% in 40 years while at the same time satellite mapping has not shown any accleration of the process even as the rate of Gangotri's shrinkage has slowed.  The overall process of shrinking is leading glaciers to fragment and, therefore, paradoxically enough, the total number of glaciers in the Himalayas is increasing. These were some of the conclusions ISRO ...</p><p>Mon, 20 Jul 09<br /><strong>United States:  Will global warming bill kill coal?</strong><br />http://wvgazette.com/News/200907170709<br />Charleston Gazette: Organizers of a series of West Virginia rallies against the global warming bill working its way through Congress argue one of their goals is to &quot;save coal.&quot;  But will the Obama administration-supported &quot;cap-and-trade&quot; legislation really kill the coal industry?  Experts disagree, and no one really knows how big a hit coal might take.  Coal could be saved if scientists and engineers perfect and utilities widely deploy equipment to capture power plant greenhouse emissions and ...</p><p>Mon, 20 Jul 09<br /><strong>Australia:  Rudd's 'clean coal': a folly of the highest order</strong><br />http://www.greenleft.org.au/2009/803/41311<br />Green Left Weekly: There they all were at the recent G8/G20 summit in L'Aquila, Italy, nodding their approval as Kevin Rudd once again announced his global carbon capture and storage institute. But in truth, the L'Aquila photo-op only highlighted the chasm between the emission cuts demanded by the climate science and the steps political leaders are willing to take.  We're all tempted to grasp at straws and, as straws go, &quot;clean coal&quot; is a doozy. After all, which world leader wouldn't seize on a promise ...</p><p>Mon, 20 Jul 09<br /><strong>India:  Supreme court releases $2.3 bln for forests</strong><br />http://in.reuters.com/article/topNews/idINIndia-41151020090719<br />Reuters: The Supreme court has released $2.3 billion of frozen funds to be used to boost forest density and wildlife habitats, the Ministry of Environment and Forests said.  The money would help improve tree cover on 6 million hectares (60,000 sq km) of degraded forest land, Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh has told local media.  &quot;This money has been released by the Supreme Court,&quot; said Kalpana Palkhiwala, a spokeswoman for the Ministry of Environment and Forests.  The decision ...</p><p>Mon, 20 Jul 09<br /><strong>Climate change: Hillary shares green thoughts with India Text</strong><br />http://www.hindu.com/thehindu/holnus/000200907191424.htm<br />Indo-Asian News Service: Secretary of State Hillary Clinton Sunday began the Delhi leg of her five-day India visit with a conference on climate change and green technologies - a subject close to her heart and an emerging theme in burgeoning India-US ties.  Dressed in a turquoise blue business suit, a beaming Ms. Clinton landed at the ITC Green Building in Gurgaon, a township adjoining Delhi, soon after arrriving in the capital on a two-day visit that will focus on expanding the scope of strategic dialogue ...</p><p>Mon, 20 Jul 09<br /><strong>India:  Clinton seeks to narrow gap on climate change</strong><br />http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5jztMdtFbIEAEvR3EvUx9Yc1oUZEg<br />Agence France-Presse: US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton arrived in the Indian capital Sunday hoping to narrow a wide gap with her hosts on fighting climate change ahead of a high-stakes conference later in the year.  On the second leg of her first visit to India since becoming chief US diplomat in January, Clinton will also hold talks with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Foreign Minister S.M. Krishna on a range of issues from regional security and counter-terrorism, to trade and arms ...</p><p>Mon, 20 Jul 09<br /><strong>India Sets Goal to Harness Renewable Energy</strong><br />http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/07/18/AR2009071802010.html?wprss=rss_world<br />Washington Post: In the new India, villagers in far-flung areas might have cellphones but live in darkness because they have no access to electricity. The cellphone network towers in the villages run on diesel-powered, smoke-spewing, portable generators.  Indians say this is a clear example of how the country's woefully inadequate power supply lags behind an expanding consumer market.  About 56 percent of India's 1.1 billion people do not have access to electricity. And as coal deposits dip and ...</p><p>Sat, 18 Jul 09<br /><strong>Temperate forests store more carbon than tropical forests, finds study</strong><br />http://news.mongabay.com/2009/0717-forest_carbon.html<br />Mongabay: Temperate forests trump rainforests when it comes to storing carbon, reports a new assessment of global forest carbon stocks published July 14th in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS). The findings have important implications for efforts to mitigate climate change by protecting forests.  Sampling and reviewing published data from nearly 100 forest sites around the world, Heather Keith, Brendan G. Mackey, and David B. Lindenmayer of Australian National University ...</p><p>Sat, 18 Jul 09<br /><strong>India and Climate Change</strong><br />http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124787011359360457.html<br />Wall Street Journal: As the world community gears up for another round of climate-change talks -- and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton arrives in Delhi on Sunday for meetings with Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh -- a central issue will be how to bring developing countries into a climate-change pact.  Developing countries such as India do not want to pledge to reduce their emissions until industrial countries have first demonstrated not just pledges but actual emissions cuts. Industrial countries, ...</p><p>Sat, 18 Jul 09<br /><strong>Sarkozy, UN chief talk climate change in New York</strong><br />http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5husxLK8Ef3Aw0vKt-513cpL0hswg<br />Agence France-Presse: French President Nicolas Sarkozy met with UN chief Ban Ki-moon for a working lunch Friday, ahead of a concert here this weekend honoring South Africa's Nelson Mandela at which the French first lady will perform.  During the working lunch at the French consulate in New York at 2:30 pm (1830 GMT), Ban and Sarkozy discussed a variety of key international issues, with a specific focus on climate change.  Sarkozy called for new action on environmental issues, which were a major part ...</p><p>Sat, 18 Jul 09<br /><strong>Coal carbon capture gets U.S. boost</strong><br />http://www.redorbit.com/news/science/1722627/coal_carbon_capture_gets_us_boost/index.html?source=r_science<br />United Press International: The United States and China are racing to see who can make dirty coal cleaner by trapping emissions and pumping them deep underground, sources said.  The technology, called carbon capture storage, got a boost last month when President Barack Obama announced a $1 billion revamp of a near-zero-emissions coal-fired power plant in Illinois called FutureGen. China's project is named GreenGen.  The first country to prove that carbon capture works would be in the enviable position of ...</p><p>Sat, 18 Jul 09<br /><strong>Government rejects oil drilling deal in Alaska refuge</strong><br />http://www.reuters.com/article/environmentNews/idUSTRE56G6R120090717?feedType=RSS&feedName=environmentNews<br />Reuters: The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has rejected a controversial land trade that would have allowed oil and gas drilling in part of a national wildlife refuge in Alaska.  The service said it had made a preliminary decision to reject a Bush administration proposal in the works since 2004 to trade out land in the Yukon Flats National Wildlife Refuge so that it could be explored for oil.  Opposition from residents of Native American villages near the proposed drill sites, new ...</p><p>Sat, 18 Jul 09<br /><strong>UK Low Carbon Transition Plan Puts Government In Charge of Renewables</strong><br />http://www.reuters.com/article/gwmCarbonEmissions/idUS276585079820090716<br />Reuters: The government announced Wednesday it will intervene directly to accelerate the rollout of renewable and low-carbon technologies as part of its wide-ranging Low Carbon Transition Plan.  Presenting the new strategy to the House of Commons, energy and climate change Secretary Ed Miliband said that he would exercise powers in the Energy Act that allow the government to take direct control over the grid access regime that manages how renewables projects are connected to the grid from ...</p><p>Sat, 18 Jul 09<br /><strong>US Secretary of State Clinton arrives in India</strong><br />http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20090717/pl_afp/indiausdiplomacyarrive<br />Agence France-Presse: US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton arrived in India Friday for a three-day visit aimed at deepening strategic ties with a country viewed as a global player on trade, arms control and climate change.  Her first stop in Mumbai includes meetings with key business leaders, educational professionals and a women's group and will see her pay tribute to the 166 people who died in last year's Islamist militant strikes on the city.  On Sunday she moves to the capital New Delhi for talks ...</p><p>Sat, 18 Jul 09<br /><strong>Clinton in India to strengthen links with 'global player'</strong><br />http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20090717/pl_afp/indiausdiplomacy<br />Agence France-Presse: US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton arrived in India Friday hoping to deepen strategic ties with an emerging player on the world stage in security, trade, arms control and climate change.  Her first stop in the country's financial and entertainment capital Mumbai, includes meetings with key business leaders, educational professionals and a women's group, as well as leading Bollywood actor Aamir Khan.  In her maiden trip to the South Asian nation as Washington's chief diplomat, ...</p><p>Sat, 18 Jul 09<br /><strong>United States:  Mystery methane belched out by megacities</strong><br />http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn17479-mystery-methane-belched-out-by-megacities.html?DCMP=OTC-rss&nsref=climate-change<br />New Scientist: The Los Angeles metropolitan area belches far more methane into its air than scientists had previously realised. If other megacities are equally profligate, urban methane emissions may represent a surprisingly important source of this potent greenhouse gas.  Atmospheric researchers have long had good estimates of global methane emissions, but less is known about exactly where these emissions come from, particularly in urban areas.  To fill this void, a research team led by Paul ...</p><p>Sat, 18 Jul 09<br /><strong>Hot climates may create sluggish economies</strong><br />http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=106697286<br />National Public Radio: New research suggests that higher temperatures can have a damaging effect on the economies of poor countries. The study, by economists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, found that in years with higher temperatures, poor countries experienced significantly slower economic growth.  The research adds to an economic puzzle that dates back hundreds of years: Why do the poorer economies of the world tend to be in hot places, while the more successful economies are found in cooler ...</p><p>Sat, 18 Jul 09<br /><strong>Pond scum finally gets some respect - as oil resource</strong><br />http://www.startribune.com/business/50985187.html?elr=KArksLckD8EQDUoaEyqyP4O:DW3ckUiD3aPc:_Yyc:aUUsI<br />Star Tribune: There were chuckles a few years ago when University of Minnesota researcher Roger Ruan set up a tiny still in his biofuels lab to experiment with oily strains of algae.  This week, ExxonMobil and a partner, Synthetic Genomics, announced they would invest $600 million to develop bio-based diesel fuel from algae, which can be fertilized with carbon dioxide from power plants.  Ruan has a similar experiment going at a pilot plant next to a Metropolitan Council sewage treatment plant ...</p><p>Sat, 18 Jul 09<br /><strong>Some see Exxon investments into alt energy signaling 'paradigm shift' for Big Oil</strong><br />http://www.climateark.org/shared/reader/welcome.aspx?linkid=133055<br />Greenwire: Is Big Oil warming at last to the notion of an alternative-energy future?  So say some analysts who are pondering Exxon Mobil Corp.'s recent moves. Breaking from years of steadfast commitment to fossil fuels, the behemoth has announced big investments in electric cars, unconventional natural gas and algae-based biofuels (Greenwire, July 14).  &quot;I think they see changes to the energy system coming over the next decades,&quot; said Michael Webber, an energy expert and engineering ...</p><p>Sat, 18 Jul 09<br /><strong>Obama admin scraps logging plan in Oregon carbon sinks</strong><br />http://www.climateark.org/shared/reader/welcome.aspx?linkid=133054<br />ClimateWire: The Interior Department is dropping controversial plans to dramatically increase logging in western Oregon's forests, some of the nation's densest carbon stores.  The move scraps a Bush-era decision to rezone 2.6 million acres of Bureau of Land Management forests, which would have tripled current logging production and opened old-growth forests to clear-cutting. The attempt prompted a lawsuit by 13 environmental groups after the rule was finalized late last year.  Interior ...</p><p>Sat, 18 Jul 09<br /><strong>Ocean current switch due to warming could be slower than feared</strong><br />http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5gsWQZj8wMAtHElZeloaOzmJvBspA<br />Agence France-Presse: The nightmare global warming scenario which provided the plot for a Hollywood blockbuster -- the Atlantic Ocean current that keeps Europe warm shuts down and triggers rapid climate change -- has long worried scientists.  But a study published Thursday in the journal Science found it may not occur as quickly as previously feared.  There is evidence that this current has shut down with some regularity in the past -- and sometimes quite rapidly -- in response to large influxes of ...</p><p>Sat, 18 Jul 09<br /><strong>Clouds, seas to be targeted by U.N. climate report</strong><br />http://www.reuters.com/article/environmentNews/idUSTRE56G4KA20090717?feedType=RSS&feedName=environmentNews<br />Reuters: Cloud formation, sea level rises and extreme weather events are among areas set to get more attention in the next U.N. report on global warming due in 2014, the head of the Nobel Peace Prize winning panel said on Friday.  Rajendra Pachauri also said the panel did not plan to issue more frequent reports as suggested by some governments, reckoning that several years were needed to come up with robust findings. The last series of reports was in 2007.  &quot;We would certainly have much ...</p><p>Sat, 18 Jul 09<br /><strong>Real-time 'CO2 intensity' site makes the case for midnight dishwashing</strong><br />http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2009/jul/17/realtime-carbon-counter<br />Guardian: Today sees the launch of Realtime Carbon, a neat website that could change the way we think about the environmental impact of electricity. The purpose of the site is to report the carbon footprint of a unit of power as it changes over time.  It may sound geeky but it's hugely significant. Over the course of 24 hours, demand for electricity fluctuates widely. Demand is lowest in the small hours &ndash; hence energy tariffs such as Economy 7 &ndash; and highest in the daytime and early evening, when ...</p><p>Sat, 18 Jul 09<br /><strong>Organic Farming Could be Answer to Food Insecurity</strong><br />http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=47704<br />Inter Press Service: Commercial farmers sometimes fail at organic farming because they switch over too quickly, ditching all chemicals, which is as traumatic for the soil as &quot;a drug addict going cold turkey&quot;.  This is how Cornelius Oosthuizen, the head of the South African Biofarm Institute's management team, explains why there are relatively few organic farming success stories in South Africa. The South African Biofarm Institute promotes sustainable and profitable biological and organic ...</p><p>Sat, 18 Jul 09<br /><strong>'Ind can do more on climate change if funds given'</strong><br />http://www.ptinews.com/news/179979_-Ind-can-do-more-on-climate-change-if-funds-given-<br />Press Trust of India: Noting that India has prepared an action plan and set up eight missions to fight climate change, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today said the country is willing to do more if there are &quot;credible arrangements&quot; to provide more financial support and technology from developed nations.  Making a statement in Parliament, he said the problem of climate change cannot be addressed by &quot;perpetuating the poverty&quot; of developing countries.  &quot;As a responsible member of the international ...</p><p>Sat, 18 Jul 09<br /><strong>Shipping emissions plan 'stalls'</strong><br />http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8156696.stm<br />BBC: Plans to reduce rising emissions from global shipping have faltered at a key international meeting.  The International Maritime Organization delayed a decision to raise the cost of ships' fuel and use the money to help poor nations tackle climate change.  Delegates from developing countries complained that rich nations had reneged on other promises.  Environmental groups criticised the lack of progress, saying that the world could not afford to wait any longer.  When ...</p><p>Sat, 18 Jul 09<br /><strong>New pact to let European public track pollutants</strong><br />http://www.reuters.com/article/environmentNews/idUSTRE56G59A20090717?feedType=RSS&feedName=environmentNews<br />Reuters: European citizens will be able to find out what dangerous substances are emitted in their neighborhoods under an environmental treaty to go into effect in 17 countries in October, the United Nations said on Friday.  Participating states will have to issue public inventories of major pollutants that their industries, traffic, agriculture and enterprises spew into the air, soil and water, including greenhouse gas emissions that contribute to climate change.  Some 86 categories of ...</p><p>Sat, 18 Jul 09<br /><strong>G8 outcome falls short of needs - IPCC chief</strong><br />http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20090717/sc_afp/unclimateipccg8<br />Agence France-Presse: The head of the UN's panel of climate-change experts said on Friday he was encouraged by climate pledges at last week's G8 summit but warned commitments still fell short of what was required by science.  Rajendra Pachauri, chairman of the Nobel-winning Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), told AFP the outcome of the L'Aquila talks was &quot;a bit of a dichotomy.&quot;  &quot;On the one hand, the G8 leaders have agreed to this so-called aspirational goal of reducing (greenhouse-gas) ...</p><p>Sat, 18 Jul 09<br /><strong>Interior plans offshore drilling despite questions</strong><br />http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090717/ap_on_re_us/us_offshore_drilling<br />Associated Press: The Obama administration is moving ahead with an oil lease sale in the Gulf of Mexico next month despite legal questions about whether the proposal and other offshore drilling plans initially drawn up under President George W. Bush went through a full environmental review.  The decision comes four months after the U.S. Court of Appeals in Washington blocked lease sales in Alaska, saying the Bush administration didn't properly study the environmental consequences. The Alaska drilling ...</p><p>Sat, 18 Jul 09<br /><strong>Accident summary of doomed CO2 satellite released</strong><br />http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2009/07/17/accident_summary_of_doomed_co2_satellite_released/?rss_id=Boston.com+--+Latest+news<br />Associated Press: A NASA panel investigating the loss of a climate satellite earlier this year says a hardware problem prevented it from reaching orbit.  A summary of the findings was released Friday. NASA says the actual accident report will not be made public because it contains sensitive information.  The Orbiting Carbon Observatory splashed into the ocean near Antarctica in February after launching from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California aboard a Taurus rocket.  Accident ...</p><p>Sat, 18 Jul 09<br /><strong>Paint The Town White</strong><br />http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=106733879&ft=1&f=1025<br />National Public Radio: Light-colored clothing is cooler in the sun, and the same goes for cities. Hashem Akbari has studied the advantages -- in reduced energy use and lower carbon dioxide emissions -- of switching dark-colored roofing and pavement materials for lighter, more reflective alternatives.</p><p>Sat, 18 Jul 09<br /><strong>Don't blow our £100 billion on wind power</strong><br />http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/guest_contributors/article6717079.ece<br />Times (UK): Climate change is an existential threat. It presents huge challenges to governments and, inevitably, we will have to pay a significant price to keep the temperature from rising by more than two degrees. Politicians across the world increasingly understand this. This is in itself a big step forward in the build-up to the Copenhagen Conference later this year.  But it is one thing to understand that there is a problem and another to find a way to address it. So far very little has been ...</p><p>Sat, 18 Jul 09<br /><strong>Utilities scramble to meet power needs of electric cars</strong><br />http://www.time.com/time/business/article/0,8599,1910444,00.html<br />Time Magazine: &quot;They all want to know, 'What's that? Where can I get one?' &quot; says Kaufmann, a home contractor and self-taught electric vehicle, or EV, enthusiast.  By some accounts, the next 10 years will see as many as 1.6 million electric or plug-in hybrid vehicles zipping around the state, in what is shaping up to be the nation's e-car proving ground. But in the 1990s a similar optimism hit here too, only to fizzle as gas prices plummeted and gas-guzzling SUVs took over the auto market with a ...</p><p>Sat, 18 Jul 09<br /><strong>United States:  'Dead zones' threaten oceans</strong><br />http://www.ajc.com/opinion/dead-zones-threaten-93382.html<br />Atlantic Journal Constitution: When you look in the waters of coastal Georgia and you see an ocean seemingly teeming with life, it is difficult to comprehend that large sections of the world's oceans are considered &quot;dead zones.' These are areas of the oceans where low levels of dissolved oxygen have either killed or driven off most of the fish and shellfish sought by commercial and recreational fishermen.  Oxygen-deprived areas of ocean have spread exponentially since the 1960s, affecting a total area of more than ...</p><p>Sat, 18 Jul 09<br /><strong>U.S. should pay for carbon content of imported goods: Locke</strong><br />http://www.reuters.com/article/environmentNews/idUSTRE56G1A320090717?feedType=RSS&feedName=environmentNews<br />Reuters: To address the serious threat of global warming, Americans should be required to &quot;pay&quot; for the carbon content of goods they consume from countries around the world, a top U.S. official said on Friday.  &quot;It's important that those who consume the products being made all around the world to the benefit of America -- and it's our own consumption activity that's causing the emission of greenhouse gases, then quite frankly Americans need to pay for that,&quot; Commerce Secretary Gary Locke told ...</p><p>Sat, 18 Jul 09<br /><strong>Radar beams could protect bats from wind turbines</strong><br />http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2009/jul/17/radar-bat-wind-turbine<br />Guardian: Radar beams that irritate bats could be used to prevent the animals from being diced by the spinning blades of wind turbines, according to a study of how the animals react to radar signals. The researchers discovered that a stationary beam reduced bat activity near the turbines by almost 40%.  Bat and bird populations can be significantly effected by collisions with turbines. A six-week study at two wind farms in the US recorded more than 4,500 bat deaths and the Peñascal wind farm in ...</p><p>Sat, 18 Jul 09<br /><strong>United Kingdom:  Consumer revolt halves plastic bag use</strong><br />http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2009/jul/17/plastic-bag-revolt-halves-use<br />Guardian: It began in 2007 with a few traders in the small town of Modbury in Devon refusing to give out plastic bags. But yesterday their small green revolution reached a national milestone: British shoppers have nearly halved the number of single-use bags they get through.  Figures from Wrap, the government's waste and resources programme, show that whereas 870m single-use plastic bags were handed out in the UK in May 2006, the figure for May 2009 was down to 450m &ndash; a 48% reduction, and 4,740 ...</p><p>Sat, 18 Jul 09<br /><strong>U.S. and China Agree to Study Ways to Make Buildings More Energy-Efficient</strong><br />http://www.climateark.org/shared/reader/welcome.aspx?linkid=132875<br />New York Times: Ending his first official visit to China, the United States energy secretary, Steven Chu, said the two nations had agreed to plan joint studies on ways to improve the energy efficiency of buildings, a major issue in addressing China's contribution to climate change.  Mr. Chu said that the United States and China had drafted a memorandum of understanding for creating a team of experts that would study ways to provide heat, air-conditioning and light for buildings while minimizing their ...</p><p>Sat, 18 Jul 09<br /><strong>U.S., China Cooperating On Climate Change</strong><br />http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=106722329&ft=1&f=1025<br />National Public Radio: President Obama sent two of his Cabinet secretaries to China this week to deal with the question of global warming.  Both of them are of Chinese descent. That sent a ripple of interest through China's officialdom.  The cabinet secretaries' mission was to make a case that China and the United States -- the world's largest emitters of carbon -- must cooperate for any deal to be struck at the United Nations climate change talks in Copenhagen this December.  One of the first ...</p><p>Sat, 18 Jul 09<br /><strong>Industry group urges Chinese government to limit use of Shell's clean coal technology</strong><br />http://www.businessgreen.com/business-green/news/2246265/china-group-urges-government<br />Business Green: A petroleum industry body in China has asked the federal government to limit purchases of Royal Dutch Shell's coal gasification technology, arguing that the oil giant's system is &quot;still immature&quot;.  The China Petroleum and Chemical Industry Association (CPCIA) claims that out of 23 projects in China using Shell's coal gasification technology, all have experienced problems and only half are in operation.  Shell has rejected much of the criticism, arguing that the company's ...</p><p>Sat, 18 Jul 09<br /><strong>Prius takes a ride to the US aboard solar-powered container ship</strong><br />http://www.businessgreen.com/business-green/news/2246269/prius-takes-ride-aboard-solar<br />Business Green: As the manufacturer of the world's most famous hybrid car, it seems only fitting that Toyota has now begun shipping its Prius cars to the US using a container ship that could also qualify as a hybrid.  The Auriga Leader, the world's first freighter to be partly powered using solar energy, has made its maiden voyage to the US from Japan, arriving at California's Port of Long Beach earlier this month with a consignment of Prius cars and other Toyota vehicles.  Launched in December, ...</p><p>Sat, 18 Jul 09<br /><strong>United Kingdom:  Supermarkets fall just short of plastic bag target</strong><br />http://www.businessgreen.com/business-green/news/2246250/supermarkets-fall-short-plastic<br />Business Green: The UK's leading supermarkets today received a pat on the back from the government, despite the release of new figures showing that they have narrowly missed a voluntary target to halve plastic bag use.  According to the new data from the government-backed Waste and Resources Action Programme (WRAP), seven of the UK's largest supermarkets - Asda, the Co-operative, including Somerfield, Sainsbury's, Tesco and Waitrose - distributed 372m plastic carrier bags in May this year, a reduction ...</p><p>Wed, 15 Jul 09<br /><strong>Australia government approves new uranium mine</strong><br />http://www.reuters.com/article/environmentNews/idUSTRE56D1K520090714?feedType=RSS&feedName=environmentNews<br />Reuters: Australia's government approved on Tuesday the development of a new uranium mine in South Australia state with strict environmental conditions.  Environment Minister Peter Garrett said he had approved the Four Mile uranium mine, owned by Quasar Resources Pty Ltd, which aims to be the third largest in Australia in production terms and lift exports by $157 million a year.  &quot;Following this thorough assessment and careful consideration, I am certain this operation poses no credible ...</p><p>Wed, 15 Jul 09<br /><strong>Planning backlog threatens renewables targets</strong><br />http://www.businessgreen.com/business-green/news/2245991/slow-uk-progress-ill-wind<br />Business Green: On-going delays caused by the planning system mean that England's regions will miss 2010 targets for generating electricity from renewable sources, according to the latest report by the British Wind Energy Association (BWEA).  Under the UK's domestic target to reach 10 per cent of electricity generation from renewables by 2010, England was split into nine regions with separate targets. But according to the BWEA's figures on average across the nine regions only 50 per cent of the ...</p><p>Wed, 15 Jul 09<br /><strong>Japan's schools to tap solar power under $980m subsidy plan</strong><br />http://www.businessgreen.com/business-green/news/2245993/japan-schools-solar-powered<br />Business Green: Japan has announced it will to convert its 32,000 public elementary and middle schools to run on solar power by 2020 as part of its effort to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.  The government last week agreed to provide between $650m and $980m in subsidies for the project so that municipalities would only need to pay 2.5 per cent of the cost.  The schools are expected to be fitted with 20kW rooftop solar systems, which the Education Ministry estimates will adequately power ...</p><p>Wed, 15 Jul 09<br /><strong>Exxon makes first big investment in biofuels</strong><br />http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090714/ap_on_bi_ge/us_exxon_mobil_biofuels<br />Associated Press: Exxon Mobil Corp. said Tuesday it will make its first major investment in greenhouse-gas reducing biofuels in a $600 million partnership with biotech company Synthetic Genomics Inc. to develop transportation fuels from algae.  Despite record-breaking profits in recent years, the oil and gas giant has been criticized by environmental groups, members of Congress and even shareholders for not spending enough to explore alternative energy options.  One of the company's requirements ...</p><p>Wed, 15 Jul 09<br /><strong>Suntech announces 1.8GW of new Chinese solar projects</strong><br />http://www.businessgreen.com/business-green/news/2245997/suntech-projects-provide-8gw<br />Business Green: Suntech Power Holdings, one of the world's largest photovoltaic module makers, yesterday announced plans for four new on-grid photovoltaic solar projects in China with a compbined capacity of 1.8GW.  The New York Stock Exchange-listed company said it had signed solar plant construction deals with the governments of Shaanxi province and Shizuishan city in Ningxia Autonomous Region.  The Shaanxi facility will have an installed capacity of 300MW, while the other three developments ...</p><p>Wed, 15 Jul 09<br /><strong>EU approves state aid for British CO2 scheme</strong><br />http://www.reuters.com/article/environmentNews/idUSTRE56D1Q720090714?feedType=RSS&feedName=environmentNews<br />Reuters: The European Commission approved on Tuesday state aid involved in a British scheme for trading carbon dioxide emissions, part of the country's effort to fight global warming.  Under the Carbon Reduction Commitment scheme, which applies to non-energy intensive sectors, emission allowances would be sold by auction while participants' environmental performance would be ranked in a league table.  The auction revenue would be paid back to participants as a subsidy, with companies ...</p><p>Wed, 15 Jul 09<br /><strong>Debate on Clean Energy Leads to Regional Divide</strong><br />http://www.climateark.org/shared/reader/welcome.aspx?linkid=132750<br />New York Times: While most lawmakers accept that more renewable energy is needed on the nation's grid, the debate over the giant climate-change and energy bill now before Congress is exposing a fundamental rift. For many players, the energy not only has to be clean and free of carbon-dioxide emissions, it also has to be generated nearby.  The division has set off a fight between Eastern and Midwestern politicians and grid officials over parts of the bill dealing with transmission lines and solar and ...</p><p>Tue, 14 Jul 09<br /><strong>World Waiting for U.S. Congress to Pass Climate Bill</strong><br />http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=climate-bill-congress-copenhagen-summit<br />Scientific American: Pressure is mounting on President Obama and Capitol Hill Democrats to show significant progress on global warming legislation in time for a major U.N. climate summit in December.  &quot;The Danes, the Chinese, the Europeans, the Australians, the Japanese--everybody is almost singularly focused on what is the United States going to bring to the table,&quot; said Jake Schmidt, international policy director at the Natural Resources Defense Council.  Obama and congressional leaders say their ...</p><p>Tue, 14 Jul 09<br /><strong>G8 Failure to Launch on Climate</strong><br />http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=47640<br />Inter Press Service: The G8's failure to make meaningful commitments on climate last week pushes the world ever closer to global climate catastrophe, experts warn. Without commitments to take action, there is little comfort in G8 countries' agreement to keep overall global warming below 2.0 degrees Celsius.  &quot;If they took the 2.0-degree commitment seriously, it would imply a vigourous and immediate carbon emission reduction programme,&quot; said Michael Oppenheimer, a professor of Geosciences and International ...</p><p>Tue, 14 Jul 09<br /><strong>Mystery mechanism drove global warming 55 million years ago</strong><br />http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20090713/sc_afp/sciencepalaeontologyextinction<br />Agence France-Presse: A runaway spurt of global warming 55 million years ago turned Earth into a hothouse but how this happened remains worryingly unclear, scientists said on Monday.  Previous research into this period, called the Palaeocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum, or PETM, estimates the planet's surface temperature blasted upwards by between five and nine degrees Celsius (nine and 16.2 degrees Fahrenheit) in just a few thousand years.  The Arctic Ocean warmed to 23 C (73 F), or about the temperature ...</p><p>Tue, 14 Jul 09<br /><strong>EPA writing rules for hardrock mine cleanups</strong><br />http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090713/ap_on_bi_ge/us_hardrock_mining_epa<br />Associated Press: The Environmental Protection Agency, complying with a court order, will develop a rule to guarantee companies that mine everything from copper to uranium will pay for needed environmental cleanup, not taxpayers.  The announcement on Monday comes in the wake of a federal judge's order in February requiring the EPA to close loopholes that allow some companies to get out of paying for such costly cleanups when they file bankruptcy.  The agency said it will develop similar financial ...</p><p>Tue, 14 Jul 09<br /><strong>Brazil sees possible UN climate deal in December</strong><br />http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20090713/sc_afp/climateenvironmentbrazilun<br />Agence France-Presse: A possible deal on battling global climate change could be reached at a UN summit to be held in Denmark in December, Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva said Monday.  &quot;I think we'll reach an agreement at the Copenhagen meeting in December,&quot; he said in his weekly radio program.  He said there had been progress towards that goal, with &quot;rich countries now ready to discuss things they wouldn't discuss before,&quot; notably with the United States under President Barack Obama ...</p><p>Tue, 14 Jul 09<br /><strong>Kenya:  Going Green With Redd</strong><br />http://allafrica.com/stories/200907131624.html<br />East African: To combat the effects of climate change by reducing carbon emissions, the United Nations Collaborative Programme on Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation or simply REDD, has come up with a programme to compensate countries geared towards the process.  REDD is expected to spur a massive flow of funds to tropical countries, help preserve rainforests and deliver economic benefits to impoverished rural communities.  It is is already in place in Kenya and ...</p><p>Tue, 14 Jul 09<br /><strong>Honda To Increase Hybrid Rollouts Next Year</strong><br />http://www.redorbit.com/news/science/1719683/honda_to_increase_hybrid_rollouts_next_year/index.html?source=r_science<br />redOrbit: In an effort to create a more nimble company that reacts more quickly to changing customer needs, Honda Motors' new CEO said on Monday he would speed up the rollout of the No.2 automaker's hybrid cars, Reuters reported.  Takanobu Ito said during his first public appearance after taking office last month that Honda would launch the planned CR-Z hybrid sports car next February and a gasoline-electric Fit subcompact by the end of 2010.  Ito noted the growing importance buyers place ...</p><p>Tue, 14 Jul 09<br /><strong>EU: Grasslands, wetlands, butterflies at risk</strong><br />http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090713/ap_on_re_eu/eu_eu_biodiversity<br />Associated Press: A European Union report says grasslands, wetlands and butterflies are threatened in Europe.  The report says the increasing use of land for farming -- along with climate change, tourism and poor land management -- are to blame for the loss of biodiversity across the 27-nation bloc. The study, released Monday, assessed 216 habitats and 1,182 species.  The report compiled national statistics from across the EU. It concluded 65 percent of habitats and 52 percent of species are ...</p><p>Tue, 14 Jul 09<br /><strong>Global climate deal still possible: Brazil's Lula</strong><br />http://www.reuters.com/article/environmentNews/idUSTRE56C44620090713?feedType=RSS&feedName=environmentNews<br />Reuters: Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva said on Monday that a global climate deal could still be ready by a December summit in Copenhagen despite differences that resurfaced last week between rich and poor countries.  The Group of Eight leading industrial countries agreed on Wednesday at its annual summit to support a goal of cutting global emissions by 50 percent by 2050 and of reducing emissions in wealthy countries by 80 percent.  Developing countries like China, India ...</p><p>Tue, 14 Jul 09<br /><strong>Gore backs Australia on climate change</strong><br />http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5hrJkRy43ENF2az0r__ZeTlGbganw<br />Agence France-Presse: High-profile climate change campaigner Al Gore on Monday backed Australia's environmental policies and said this year's devastating brushfires were a savage reminder of the need to act.  The former US presidential candidate, in Melbourne to launch the Safe Climate Australia think-tank, said Prime Minister Kevin Rudd had shown the environment was a top priority.  &quot;In my country we have a new president and in only 30 days after taking office (he) was able to pass in the US Congress ...</p><p>Tue, 14 Jul 09<br /><strong>Developing Nations insist they remain open to carbon target talks</strong><br />http://www.businessgreen.com/business-green/news/2245969/developing-nations-insist<br />Business Green: International negotiators and climate change campaigners have joined forces to insist a meaningful deal to curb carbon emissions can still be achieved at UN talks in Copenhagen next year, despite the failure of leaders at last week's G8 summit to meet demands from developing economies for short-term emissions targets.  A flurry of statements released on Friday to coincide with the last day of the G8 summit in L'Aquila, Italy, revealed that despite widespread discontent at the group of ...</p><p>Tue, 14 Jul 09<br /><strong>United Kingdom:  Government to launch Clean Energy Cash Back scheme</strong><br />http://www.businessgreen.com/business-green/news/2245958/government-launch-clean-energy<br />Business Green: Climate change minister Joan Ruddock has confirmed that the government will include plans for a feed in tariff as part of its renewable energy strategy this week, but will rebrand the incentive as a Clean Energy Cash Back scheme in an attempt to make it easier for householders and business to understand.  Speaking at an event in Westminster earlier today organised by solar energy firm Solarcentury, Ruddock said that the new incentive scheme, which would allow generators of low carbon ...</p><p>Tue, 14 Jul 09<br /><strong>England seen missing 2010 renewable energy target</strong><br />http://www.reuters.com/article/environmentNews/idUSTRE56C28W20090713?feedType=RSS&feedName=environmentNews<br />Reuters: England is set to miss its target to generate 10 percent of its power from renewable sources, such as wind, the British Wind Energy Association (BWEA) said on Monday.  BWEA said that on average across England only 50 percent of the renewable electricity generation would be met, with some regions such as the South West failing to reach even a third.  &quot;In England we need to think carefully on how to use the lessons learned from 2010, as we attempt to reach the binding EU wide 2020 ...</p><p>Tue, 14 Jul 09<br /><strong>Indonesia issues world's first rules on forestry credit revenue-sharing</strong><br />http://www.businessgreen.com/business-green/news/2245944/indonesia-issues-world-first<br />Business Green: Indonesia has become the first country to release rules governing revenue-sharing for forest carbon projects under the UN-led Reduced Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation (REDD) mechanism.  Under the new rules, between 10 and 50 per cent of all carbon credit earnings generated from forest protection projects would go to the government, with the allocation divided between national, municipal and provincial jurisdictions.  Meanwhile, between 20 and 70 per cent of the ...</p><p>Tue, 14 Jul 09<br /><strong>Al Gore Warns Australia to Expect More Severe Bushfire</strong><br />http://www.voanews.com/english/2009-07-13-voa8.cfm<br />Voice of America: Former U.S. Vice President Al Gore (file)Former U.S. Vice President Al Gore is in Australia launching a new environmental pressure group made up of scientists and civic and business leaders. Safe Climate Australia demands emergency action to address warming temperatures and has plans to help a coal-hungry country move to a zero-carbon economy.  Al Gore told an audience in Melbourne that the planet has a &quot;fever&quot; caused by climate change.  The Nobel Prize winner and former U.S. ...</p><p>Tue, 14 Jul 09<br /><strong>Obama team sees jobs growth in health, environment</strong><br />http://www.reuters.com/article/environmentNews/idUSTRE56C1TG20090713?feedType=RSS&feedName=environmentNews<br />Reuters: Jobs in the healthcare and environmental sectors are growing at a faster rate than those of the U.S. economy as a whole, President Barack Obama's Council of Economic Advisers will say a report to be released on Monday.  The report, which looks at how the U.S. labor market is expected to develop in the next few years, says a rebound in employment in construction and some manufacturing sectors is expected as stimulus spending approved early this year invests in projects around the ...</p><p>Tue, 14 Jul 09<br /><strong>Water wars turn deadly as wells run dry</strong><br />http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/jul/12/india-water-supply-bhopal<br />Guardian: It was a little after 8pm when the water started flowing through the pipe running beneath the dirt streets of Bhopal's Sanjay Nagar slum. After days without a drop of water, the Malviya family were the first to reach the hole they had drilled in the pipe, filling what containers they had as quickly as they could. Within minutes, three of them were dead, hacked to death by angry neighbours who accused them of stealing water.  In Bhopal, and across much of northern India, a late monsoon ...</p><p>Tue, 14 Jul 09<br /><strong>Indonesia reveals REDD revenue shares</strong><br />http://www.carbonpositive.net/viewarticle.aspx?articleID=1602<br />Carbon Positive: Indonesia has released rules governing revenue sharing for carbon market payments in the preservation of its forests. Under the rules, up to 50 per cent of all carbon credit revenues envisaged would go to various levels of government and as little as 20 per cent given to forest communities.  Reduced Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation (REDD) is an international system being set up to enable developing countries and their forest communities to be paid to preserve their forests ...</p><p>Tue, 14 Jul 09<br /><strong>Fuel bills set to soar to pay for green energy plan</strong><br />http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/green-living/fuel-bills--set-to-soar-to-pay-for-green-energy-plan-1743355.html<br />Independent (UK): Hundreds of thousands of new &quot;green&quot; jobs and a rise in household energy bills will be prefigured in the Government's plans to turn Britain into a low-carbon economy.  As many as 400,000 new employment opportunities are expected in a massive expansion of renewable energy; as Britain strives to meet two demanding climate change targets: cutting the UK's carbon emissions by 34 per cent on 1990 levels by 2020 (Britain's own pledge), and deriving 15 per cent of all energy from renewable ...</p><p>Tue, 14 Jul 09<br /><strong>Climate Bill Splits Industry Coalition</strong><br />http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124744273187130105.html<br />Wall Street Journal: As Congress writes legislation to fight climate change, a prominent coalition in the debate is divided over the fine print.  The U.S. Climate Action Partnership, a broad group of businesses and environmental organizations, was instrumental in building support for capping U.S. emissions of greenhouse gases. Legislation to accomplish that goal recently passed the House and is now before the Senate.  But as lawmakers add provisions to win over colleagues, some USCAP members are ...</p><p>Tue, 14 Jul 09<br /><strong>Gore says Aust could boost global climate deal</strong><br />http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/07/12/2623577.htm<br />Australian Broadcasting Corporation: Climate change campaigner Al Gore says he is still optimistic an agreement to reduce carbon emissions can be finalised at global climate talks later this year in Denmark.  At the G8 leaders meeting in Italy, Prime Minister Kevin Rudd told his Danish counterpart that he fears the talks are not on track for a deal.  Speaking at a conference in Melbourne, Mr Gore said he was confident that a substantial agreement can be reached.  &quot;I choose to be very optimistic,&quot; he ...</p><p>Mon, 13 Jul 09<br /><strong>UK to set out route map for cutting emissions</strong><br />http://www.reuters.com/article/environmentNews/idUSTRE56B1HZ20090712?feedType=RSS&feedName=environmentNews<br />Reuters: The British government will set out a route map on Wednesday showing how it plans to meet its 2020 target of cutting greenhouse gas emissions by 34 percent compared to 1990 levels, a minister said on Sunday.  The government will publish &quot;The UK Low Carbon Transition Plan&quot; and a Renewable Energy Strategy setting out how Britain plans to meet a European Union target of getting 15 percent of its energy from renewable sources by 2020.  &quot;What we're trying to set out on Wednesday ... ...</p><p>Mon, 13 Jul 09<br /><strong>U.S. officials to prod China on climate change</strong><br />http://www.reuters.com/article/environmentNews/idUSTRE56B12X20090712?feedType=RSS&feedName=environmentNews<br />Reuters: U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu and Commerce Secretary Gary Locke visit their ancestral homeland this week to press China to join with the United States in stepped-up efforts to fight global warming.  The two Chinese-American cabinet officials arrive in Beijing on Tuesday for talks with senior Chinese leaders and to highlight how working together to cut greenhouse gas emissions would benefit both countries and the entire planet.  The trip helps set the stage for a visit by ...</p><p>Mon, 13 Jul 09<br /><strong>The planet's future: Climate change 'will cause civilisation to collapse'</strong><br />http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/climate-change/the-planets-future-climate-change-will-cause-civilisation-to-collapse-1742759.html<br />Independent: The report praises the web, which it singles out as 'the most powerful force for globalisation, democratisation, economic growth, and education in history'  An effort on the scale of the Apollo mission that sent men to the Moon is needed if humanity is to have a fighting chance of surviving the ravages of climate change. The stakes are high, as, without sustainable growth, &quot;billions of people will be condemned to poverty and much of civilisation will collapse&quot;.  This is the stark ...</p><p>Mon, 13 Jul 09<br /><strong>Australia:  Feuding climate camps seek Gore blessing</strong><br />http://www.theage.com.au/environment/feuding-climate-camps-seek-gore-blessing-20090711-dgrn.html<br />Age: WHEN climate change guru Al Gore arrives in Melbourne today, he will find a conservation movement in vitriolic disagreement with itself.  A split has developed between the country's pre-eminent environmental organisation, the Australian Conservation Foundation (ACF), and a bloc of other green lobbyists over the foundation's public support for the Rudd Government's carbon trading scheme.  Both sides will be looking to Mr Gore for any sign that he endorses their ...</p><p>Mon, 13 Jul 09<br /><strong>Australia:  PM undermines hopes for global climate deal</strong><br />http://www.smh.com.au/environment/global-warming/pm-undermines-hopes-for-global-climate-deal-20090710-dg7r.html<br />Sydney Morning Herald: THE Prime Minister, Kevin Rudd, has been overheard pouring cold water on world leaders' chances of hammering out critical climate change limits at Copenhagen - just hours after the US President, Barack Obama, called for global optimism.  Mr Rudd's comments were picked up by Australian TV microphones that had been allowed in briefly to make a video of talks with the Danish Prime Minister, Lars Lokke Rasmussen, who is to host the Copenhagen summit in December.  This is the meeting ...</p><p>Mon, 13 Jul 09<br /><strong>Australia:  Gore addresses young activists at climate conference</strong><br />http://www.smh.com.au/environment/global-warming/gore-addresses-young-activists-at-climate-conference-20090712-dgwg.html<br />AAP: More than 1000 people aged 15 to 25 have converged on Sydney to learn political strategies for combating climate change, using lessons from US President Barack Obama's election campaign.  In yesterday's opening session of the Power Shift 2009 conference at the University of Western Sydney's Parramatta campus, attendees heard speeches from US climate crusader Al Gore, via video link from Melbourne, actor Brooke Satchwell and NSW Premier Nathan Rees.  &quot;Australia can generate ...</p><p>Mon, 13 Jul 09<br /><strong>United States:  Report predicts even hotter Southeast in decades to come</strong><br />http://www.macon.com/198/story/775423.html<br />Macon: Due to global warming, the Southeast is likely to see twice as many days a year with temperatures hitting the 90 degree mark or hotter, according to a federal report released last month. The report also predicts that the hottest days will be more than 10 degrees hotter.  The report by the U.S. Global Change Research Program synthesizes the results of research assembled by 13 federal departments and agencies including NASA, the departments of defense and energy, the Environmental ...</p><p>Mon, 13 Jul 09<br /><strong>Wind power stalls</strong><br />http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/la-ed-wind12-2009jul12,0,2399474.story<br />LA Times: Ayear ago the Oracle of Oil, T. Boone Pickens, reinvented himself as the Wizard of Wind, launching a $58-million ad campaign to boost alternative energy and vowing to spend $10 billion to build the world's largest wind farm in the Texas Panhandle. It was a startling move from a staunch conservative who had made a fortune in the Texas oil fields, raising hopes that both ends of the political spectrum were coming around to the same point of view about weaning the country from its reliance on ...</p><p>Mon, 13 Jul 09<br /><strong>United States:  Millions in restoration has done little to stem damage</strong><br />http://www.houmatoday.com/article/20090712/ARTICLES/907119940/1211/NEWS01?Title=Millions-in-restoration-has-done-little-to-stem-damage<br />Houma Today: Experts got a bird's-eye view of the state's barrier islands earlier this month and were saddened to learn that erosion continues to outpace the millions of dollars worth of work being done to save them.  The islands, called the state's first line of defense because they slow waves and storm surge, once formed a large unbroken arc in the Gulf of Mexico. Erosion and storms, however, created smaller islands with names such as Timbalier, Last and Elmers islands.  Tens of millions of ...</p><p>Mon, 13 Jul 09<br /><strong>G8 Failure Means Climate Genocide For Developing World</strong><br />http://www.countercurrents.org/polya110709.htm<br />Counter Currents: The G8 First World countries meeting at L'Aquila, Italy (Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Russia, UK and the US) were occasionally joined at the summit by leaders or representatives from the G5 group of emerging economies (Brazil, China, India, Mexico and South Africa) .  The leaders of the G8 leading industrial countries have agreed to try to limit global warming to just 2C (3.6F) above pre-industrial levels by 2050; that G8 nations are to cut carbon emissions by 80% by 2050; ...</p><p>Mon, 13 Jul 09<br /><strong>Australia, US 'must work for Copenhagen'</strong><br />http://au.news.yahoo.com/a/-/latest/5719800/gore-backs-rudd-on-emissions-trading/<br />AAP: Australia and the United States need to take a leadership role if UN climate change talks in Copenhagen this year are to succeed, prominent environmental advocate and former US vice-president Al Gore says.  Mr Gore is optimistic a new global agreement to replace the Kyoto Protocol can be signed off at the Copenhagen talks in December, but acknowledged a successful outcome would be difficult.  &quot;One of the barriers in the Kyoto process was that the United States and Australia ...</p><p>Mon, 13 Jul 09<br /><strong>Big Oil/Lundberg Survey Scare Tactics Against Climate Legislation</strong><br />http://www.culturechange.org/cms/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=481&Itemid=65<br />Culture Change: Lundberg Survey is regularly quoted across the U.S. on gasoline prices and related oil industry developments, even though the firm has dwindled from the 1970s and '80s when it was more widely known and called &quot;the Bible of the oil industry.&quot; It changed from an independent family business to a 100% tool for Big Oil, decrying &quot;burdensome environmental regulations&quot; while the corporation's head says global warming is &quot;political hot air.&quot; So how can Lundberg Survey's new study on climate ...</p><p>Mon, 13 Jul 09<br /><strong>Gore tells PM to lead climate change</strong><br />http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,25770379-5013404,00.html<br />Australian: AL Gore has challenged the Rudd government to show leadership by rolling out its carbon pollution reduction scheme before the global climate talks in Copenhagen in December.  Speaking in Melbourne yesterday, where he spent time training 300 climate change disciples from the Asia-Pacific region, Mr Gore said it was important for the US and Australia to enact emissions trading laws before, rather than after, the Copenhagen conference.  &quot;I don't want to interfere with Australian ...</p><p>Sun, 12 Jul 09<br /><strong>From Climate Science To Climate Justice: Climate Change A Symptom Of Man's Inhumanity To Man</strong><br />http://www.huffingtonpost.com/sanjay-khanna/from-climate-science-to-c_b_229780.html<br />Huffington Post: G-8 leaders agreed yesterday to the &quot;'aspirational' goal of preventing global temperatures from rising more than 3.6 degrees Fahrenheit,&quot; according to the New York Times.  Which reinforces the fact that we persist in speaking about climate change as if it were just a technical problem related to CO2 emissions and temperature rises.  Not only is that dry, it's true only to a point.  The salient (and problematic) underlying reality is that climate change is the culmination of ...</p><p>Sun, 12 Jul 09<br /><strong>Indian scholar: Climate change declaration at G8 important step forward</strong><br />http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2009-07/11/content_11692271.htm<br />Xinhua: The declaration on climate change made by the world's largest economies in L'Aquila, Italy on Friday is an important step toward achieving global consensus on reducing greenhouse gas emission and halting global warming, a senior Indian scholar said on Saturday.  Ajay Singh, a professor and political analyst of a reputed Indian university, told Xinhua the declaration also paved the way for success at the Copenhagen Climate Summit to be held in December.  The participants at the G8 ...</p><p>Sun, 12 Jul 09<br /><strong>United States:  Clean-coal project gains government support</strong><br />http://www.reuters.com/article/GCA-GreenBusiness/idUSTRE56A15820090711<br />Reuters: The Taylorville Energy Center, a proposed clean-coal project to be built in Illinois, expects to obtain a federal loan guarantee of nearly $2.6 billion after being selected by the U.S. Department of Energy for final term-sheet negotiations, the developers said on Friday.  Taylorville, a hybrid integrated gasification combined cycle (IGCC) plant, will produce 525 to 550 megawatts of electricity along with substitute natural gas.  The plant will also capture and store at least 50 ...</p><p>Sun, 12 Jul 09<br /><strong>Drought on way to being costliest ever</strong><br />http://www.mysanantonio.com/news/local_news/Drought_on_way_to_being_costliest_ever.html<br />San Antonio Express-News: Area farmers and ranchers don't need a color-coded map or a gloomy weather report to know they're at ground zero of what is becoming one of Texas' worst droughts ever.  They see it daily in parched fields too dry for seeds to sprout; in stock tanks that carried water during the legendary drought of the 1950s but now are cracked and dry; in prickly pear cactus so thin that they don't provide much moisture when their needles are burned off for skinny cows to enjoy.  Even some of ...</p><p>Sun, 12 Jul 09<br /><strong>Wind projects at a standstill</strong><br />http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/07/11/AR2009071100148.html<br />Washington Post: The Obama administration has made offshore wind energy a priority and an important part of its plans to create jobs and combat climate change, but even such favorable political breezes have not been strong enough to propel the nation's first projects.  The economy has intervened, and an unfamiliar federal approval process could hold up leading projects.  Just last month, Interior Secretary Ken Salazar distributed leases to explore five possible wind farm sites off Delaware and ...</p><p>Sun, 12 Jul 09<br /><strong>Australia:  Reducing carbon could be a dirty job, but this farmer will do it</strong><br />http://www.theage.com.au/environment/global-warming/reducing-carbon-could-be-a-dirty-job-but-this-farmer-will-do-it-20090710-dg49.html<br />Age: SINCE abandoning chemical fertiliser for a natural formula, Darryn Smith has felt his soil soften, seen worms return and watched the veterinary bill for his 180 cattle fall dramatically.  In his words, the ground at his Western District farm has gone &quot;from dead to being alive&quot;.  What he cannot see, but knows is happening beneath his toes, is a slow rise is the amount of carbon stored in his soil. And along with a growing number of farmers, he would like to be compensated for ...</p><p>Sun, 12 Jul 09<br /><strong>Vietnam:  Climate change may displace millions in Mekong Delta: report</strong><br />http://www.thanhniennews.com/features/?catid=10&newsid=50644<br />Thanh Nien: A report jointly written by experts from the United Nations, CARE International, and the Earth Institute of Columbia University estimates more than 14 million residents in the Cuu Long River Delta could lose their rice fields if sea levels were to rise by two meters.  In Vietnam, the Cuu Long, as the Mekong River is known, flows through the southwestern region before it joins the sea.  The impact of flooding is a major contributing factor to migration and displacement in the ...</p><p>Sun, 12 Jul 09<br /><strong>Study urged on water demands of next-generation biofuel feedstocks</strong><br />http://www.climateark.org/shared/reader/welcome.aspx?linkid=132589<br />New York Times: Extensive studies are needed to understand the water needs of biofuel production from cellulosic feedstocks or other next-generation sources, federal auditors said in a preliminary report released yesterday.  The effects of corn-based ethanol production on water quantity and quality are well understood, the Government Accountability Office report (pdf) says, but less is known about next-generation feedstocks that have not been grown on a commercial scale.  &quot;There is little ...</p><p>Sun, 12 Jul 09<br /><strong>Climate plan's backers have tougher audience in Senate</strong><br />http://www.miamiherald.com/news/environment/v-fullstory/story/1136423.html<br />Miami Herald: Senate supporters of a bill that for the first time would put limits on U.S. greenhouse gas emissions have launched an intense one-on-one effort to sound out their colleagues' views in hopes of winning their support.  It's by no means clear that they will succeed, however.  A climate and energy bill squeaked through the House of Representatives in June. But in the Senate, the odds are against it because Senate rules generally require a 60-vote majority to move legislation to a ...</p><p>Sun, 12 Jul 09<br /><strong>Environmentalists angry at perceived failure</strong><br />http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/world/2009/0711/1224250465047.html<br />Irish Times: WHAT BARACK Obama hailed as a &quot;historic consensus&quot; on climate change at this week`s G8 summit in Italy has been greeted with widespread disappointment, and even outrage, by environment and development campaigners.  Greenpeace activists on inflatable boats yesterday painted a coal ship in Civitavecchia, near Rome, with the message &quot;G8: FAILED&quot; at the end of a week of protests in Italy and elsewhere calling on world leaders to set a more ambitious agenda.  More than 100 activists ...</p><p>Sun, 12 Jul 09<br /><strong>Small islands want deeper emissions cuts</strong><br />http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5g-TRYdE8WW_lEcytKccyGuKkqFsA<br />Agence France-Presse: Greenhouse gas-cutting targets set by 16 leading nations in Italy this week will not protect island states from climate change, the chair of an alliance of small island nations said Friday.  &quot;The world has an obligation to ensure that ?no island is left behind,?&quot; said Grenada's UN ambassador Dessima Williams, head of The Alliance of Small Island States (AOSIS).  &quot;It is a cruel irony that without adequate global commitments, the countries contributing least to global warming will ...</p><p>Sun, 12 Jul 09<br /><strong>United Kingdom:  Household energy bills 'to rise by up to £230 'to pay for green revolution'</strong><br />http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/earthnews/5799911/Household-energy-bills-to-rise-by-up-to-230-o-pay-for-green-revolution.html<br />Telegraph: The Renewable Energy Strategy will state that more than £100 billion needs to be invested in infrastructure, including 7,000 wind turbines, by 2020.  It is estimated in the strategy that energy bills will have to rise by about 20 per cent to cover the cost.  The average household pays about £1,150 a year for electricity and gas, so the cost of converting to renewable energy and modernising the power supply could add about £230 to bills.  The Government is legally tied to ...</p><p>Sun, 12 Jul 09<br /><strong>Disillusioned Environmentalists Turn on Obama as Compromiser</strong><br />http://www.climateark.org/shared/reader/welcome.aspx?linkid=132566<br />New York Times: For environmental activists like Jessica Miller, 31, the passage of a major climate bill by the House last month should have been cause for euphoria. Instead she felt cheated.  Ms. Miller, an activist with Greenpeace, had worked hard on her own time to elect Barack Obama because he directly and urgently addressed the issue nearest her heart: climate change.  But over the last few months, as the ambitious climate legislation was watered down in the House without criticism from the ...</p><p>Sun, 12 Jul 09<br /><strong>India, China have to resist pressure on climate change: PM</strong><br />http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/News/PoliticsNation/India-China-have-to-resist-pressure-on-climate-change-PM/articleshow/4765728.cms<br />Indo-Asian News Service: India and China need to resist pressure from industrialised countries on the issue of climate change, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said on Saturday.  The developed countries are by far the biggest polluters of the environment since the start of the Industrial Age. Now some of them are asking India, China and other emerging economies to commit themselves to reducing greenhouse gas emissions to curb climate change.  Both countries are unwilling, saying this would hamper their ...</p><p>Sun, 12 Jul 09<br /><strong>Boxer faces 'challenge of a lifetime' on climate change bill</strong><br />http://news.yahoo.com/s/mcclatchy/20090711/pl_mcclatchy/3269899_1<br />McClatchy Newspapers: If the Senate doesn't pass a bill to cut global warming, Democratic Sen. Barbara Boxer says, there will be dire results: droughts, floods, fires, loss of species, damage to agriculture, worsening air pollution and more.  She says there's a huge upside, however, if the Senate does act: millions of clean-energy jobs, reduced reliance on foreign oil and less pollution for the nation's children.  Boxer is engaged in her biggest sales job ever. The stakes couldn't be higher as she ...</p><p>Sun, 12 Jul 09<br /><strong>India doing a great deal on climate change: Manmohan</strong><br />http://www.hindu.com/2009/07/11/stories/2009071159941000.htm<br />Hindu: U.S. President Barack Obama with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh during a round table meeting at the G8 summit in L`Aquila, Italy, on Friday.  L`Aquila, Italy: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh told the leaders of the major economies at their summit here that India was doing a great deal to combat climate change with an ambitious National Action Plan and will work with other countries for the successful conclusion of the negotiations at Copenhagen.  In his intervention at the Major ...</p><p>Sun, 12 Jul 09<br /><strong>Down Under Dinosaur Burrow Discovery Provides Climate Change Clues</strong><br />http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/07/090710205357.htm<br />ScienceDaily: On the heels of his discovery in Montana of the first trace fossil of a dinosaur burrow, Emory University paleontologist Anthony Martin has found evidence of more dinosaur burrows -- this time on the other side of the world, in Victoria, Australia. The find, to be published this month in Cretaceous Research, suggests that burrowing behaviors were shared by dinosaurs of different species, in different hemispheres, and spanned millions of years during the Cretaceous Period, when some dinosaurs ...</p><p>Sun, 12 Jul 09<br /><strong>Vestas wins 75 MW wind turbine orders in China</strong><br />http://asia.news.yahoo.com/rtrs/20090710/tbs-vestas-china-21231dd.html<br />Reuters: Danish wind turbine maker Vestas &lt;VWS.CO&gt; said on Friday it had won two new orders from China for wind turbines with a total capacity of 75 megawatts.  The first order is for 13 units for a project in Shandong province and the second for 25 units for a wind development in Guangdong province, Vestas Wind Systems A/S said in a statement.  &quot;The above orders do not affect Vestas Group's expectations for 2009,&quot; the company said. It did not disclose the value of the orders.  The ...</p><p>Sat, 11 Jul 09<br /><strong>Seals Quickly Respond to Gain And Loss Of Habitat Under Climate Change</strong><br />http://www.redorbit.com/news/science/1718881/seals_quickly_respond_to_gain_and_loss_of_habitat_under/index.html?source=r_science<br />redOrbit: Southern Elephant seals responded rapidly to climate and habitat change and established a new breeding site thousands of kilometers from existing breeding grounds, according to new research.  An international research team, including post-doctorate Dr Mark de Bruyn and collaborators from the US, South Africa and Italy, led by Professor Rus Hoelzel from the School of Biological and Biomedical Sciences, Durham University, found that when the Antarctic ice sheets of the Ross Sea Embayment ...</p><p>Sat, 11 Jul 09<br /><strong>China to establish giant oil palm plantation in DR Congo</strong><br />http://news.mongabay.com/2009/0710-drc_china_palm_oil.html<br />Mongabay: ZTE Agribusiness Company Ltd, a Chinese firm, plans to establish a one million hectare oil palm plantation in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DR Congo) for biofuel production, reports China state media.  Zhang Peng, ZTE's regional manager, told Xinhua that the plantation could yield up to 5 million tons of palm oil per year, 90 percent of which could be converted to biodiesel. He claimed that the plantation would employ &quot;thousands&quot; of local Congolese workers.  Xinhua didn't ...</p><p>Sat, 11 Jul 09<br /><strong>IEA Says Recession May Not Affect Spending on Renewable Energy</strong><br />http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/search/%22climate+change%22+or+%22global+warming%22+or+%22renewable+energy%22/SIG=124uee5v8/*http%3A//www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601130&sid=aG.zxflCjCjE<br />Bloomberg: The global financial crisis may not affect investment in renewable energy projects this year as countries strive to cut emissions of pollutants and reach a new climate-change agreement, the International Energy Agency said.  &quot;Global investments in renewables won't be severely affected,&quot; Francois Nguyen, senior policy adviser, electricity markets at IEA, said at a conference in Singapore today, citing preliminary findings from a report. &quot;Over the long run, there's significant potential ...</p><p>Sat, 11 Jul 09<br /><strong>Big REDD</strong><br />http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/features/2009/0907.butler.html<br />Washington Monthly: Until forty years ago, the Surui people spent their days roaming the Brazilian Amazon with bows and arrows, hunting monkeys and wild pigs. Their only contact with the outside world was with the rubber tappers who occasionally ventured through their territory. Then, beginning in the late 1960s, the Brazilian government laid a 2,000-mile highway through the heart of the jungle. Lured by the promise of cheap, fertile land, thousands of poor farmers boarded buses, rickety pickups, and ...</p><p>Sat, 11 Jul 09<br /><strong>Obama administration makes $3B available for renewable energy</strong><br />http://www.usatoday.com/money/industries/energy/environment/2009-07-09-renewable-energy-funds_N.htm<br />Reuters: The Obama administration Thursday unveiled guidelines that will allow companies to apply for some $3 billion in government funds to boost development of renewable energy projects around the country and create jobs.  The funding will help meet the White House's goal to double U.S. renewable energy production over the next three years and also provide companies with easier financing than many can obtain in the private sector where credit remains tight.  The money, from the economic ...</p><p>Sat, 11 Jul 09<br /><strong>Olives and peaches blossom in Britain as farmers adapt to climate change</strong><br />http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/agriculture/crops/5785670/Olives-and-peaches-blossom-in-Britain-as-farmers-adapt-to-climate-change.html<br />Telegraph: From a distance it may look like any other farm clinging to the curves of the River Otter in Devon, but Mark Diacono's 18-acre smallholding may just hold the key to the future of food in this country.  As spring turned to summer, buds became flowers and flowers became fruit, this little corner of England proved that our changing climate holds some genuinely exciting opportunities for those willing to experiment. &quot;There is nothing like eating one of our peaches,&quot; says Diacono ...</p><p>Sat, 11 Jul 09<br /><strong>Climate bill a Senate struggle</strong><br />http://www.denverpost.com/news/ci_12805220<br />Denver Post: The global-warming bill that barely passed the House last month has found less hospitable terrain in the Senate.  Democrats are 15 votes from the 60 they'll need to end debate, and Thursday, Sen. Barbara Boxer, D-Calif., chairwoman of the Senate environment committee, said she was giving up on getting a bill out of committee this summer, a setback in what had been a breakneck schedule to pass a bill this year.  Although Boxer vowed to stay &quot;until Christmas&quot; to get the job done, ...</p><p>Sat, 11 Jul 09<br /><strong>Politics may make future of solar energy small</strong><br />http://in.reuters.com/article/rbssTechMediaTelecomNews/idINN0947053620090709<br />Reuters: The future of solar energy may be small -- small scale, that is.  The climate change and energy policy bill winding its way through the U.S. Congress shows a new federal eagerness to build a renewable energy future, but what specifically to build where is still up for debate.  Massive solar arrays of mirrors and photovoltaic panels harnessing desert sun on otherwise-worthless land are the cliches of clean energy, but environmentalists and homeowners suing to preserve species and ...</p><p>Sat, 11 Jul 09<br /><strong>'Solar energy zone' concept laudable but flawed, critics say</strong><br />http://www.climateark.org/shared/reader/welcome.aspx?linkid=132517<br />Greenwire: A new federal program to identify lands that are best suited for solar-power projects is being hailed by environmentalists and industry observers as an unprecedented effort to ensure renewable energy projects are developed in a way that protects unspoiled landscapes and wildlife habitat.  But Interior Secretary Ken Salazar's directive establishing more than 675,000 acres of &quot;solar energy study areas&quot; in six Western states has sparked questions as to why the government is not taking as ...</p><p>Sat, 11 Jul 09<br /><strong>China says setting mid-term goal "top priority" on climate</strong><br />http://www.nasdaq.com/aspx/stock-market-news-story.aspx?storyid=200907091530dowjonesdjonline000834&title=g8chinasetting-mid-term-goal-%22top-priorityon-climate<br />Dow Jones: The Chinese government believes there's no way to talk about long-term goals on global climate change without setting meaningful mid-term targets for emission reduction, Su Wei, a senior official in charge of China's climate policy, said Thursday.  Setting a mid-term goal is the &quot;top priority&quot; for the world's rich and developing nations, said Su, director-general of the Office of National Leading Group on Climate Change at the National Development and Reform Commission.  Su made ...</p><p>Sat, 11 Jul 09<br /><strong>Nations Agree To Curb Emissions</strong><br />http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/07/09/AR2009070902149.html?wprss=rss_world<br />Washington Post: Leaders of the world's major economies on Thursday formally embraced limiting the rise in the Earth's average temperatures but declined to set numerical targets for reducing the greenhouse gas emissions that cause global warming.  The declaration by the Major Economies Forum on Energy and Climate, a group of 17 countries that account for nearly four-fifths of the world's greenhouse-gas production, reflects a tension between developed and developing countries that is hampering efforts ...</p><p>Sat, 11 Jul 09<br /><strong>Canada's shameful inaction on climate change</strong><br />http://www.thestar.com/comment/article/663693<br />Toronto Star: Each day that Canada does not act with vigilance on the global climate crisis, permafrost melts in the Inuit village of Salluit, 10 kilometres inland from Hudson Strait in Nunavik, northern Quebec. Mudslides have forced the relocation of homes in the community of 1,100 and foundations are cracking on the houses that remain. Just a few years ago, the fire station was moved because its cement floor had collapsed.  Each day that Canada delays taking concrete action on climate change, more ...</p><p>Sat, 11 Jul 09<br /><strong>Climate Talks End With Meager Promises</strong><br />http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=106425707&ft=1&f=1025<br />National Public Radio: International climate talks held in Italy this week ended with little progress. The rich industrial nations wouldn't promise to cut back their emissions in the near term. And China, India and the rest of the developing world wouldn't commit to cutting their emissions, ever.  All nations of the world need to act to reduce the risk of a climate catastrophe. But so far, there's much more posturing than action.  Underlying The Deadlock  China argues that the United States and ...</p><p>Sat, 11 Jul 09<br /><strong>Greening the Internet: How much CO2 does this article produce?</strong><br />http://www.cnn.com/2009/TECH/science/07/10/green.internet.CO2/index.html?eref=rss_latest<br />CNN: Twenty milligrams; that's the average amount of carbon emissions generated from the time it took you to read the first two words of this article.  How green is your website? Calculating all the factors involved in a website can be tricky.  Now, depending on how quickly you read, around 80, perhaps even 100 milligrams of C02 have been released. And in the several minutes it will take you to get to the end of this story, the number of milligrams of greenhouse gas emitted could be ...</p><p>Sat, 11 Jul 09<br /><strong>Eastern Aral Sea has shrunk by 80% since 2006: ESA</strong><br />http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20090710/sc_afp/environmentdisasteraral<br />Agence France-Presse: The eastern lobe of the disaster-struck Aral Sea seems to have shrunk by four-fifths in just three years, the European Space Agency (ESA) said on Friday.  It released an overlay of photographs taken by one of its Earth observation satellites, Envisat, on July 1 2006 and July 6 2009.  Once the world's fourth-largest inland body of water but now a byword for ecological calamity, the Aral Sea has been retreating over the last half-century after rivers that fed it were diverted for ...</p><p>Sat, 11 Jul 09<br /><strong>Indian monsoon among risks from rapid climate change</strong><br />http://in.reuters.com/article/environmentNews/idINTRE5691YG20090710<br />Reuters: Rising seas, a rapid weakening of the Indian monsoon and spiraling costs of adapting to a warmer, drier world are just some of the looming risks from rapid climate change, a report for the Australian government says.  The report, &quot;Climate change 2009, faster change and more serious risks,&quot; examines the rapid progress of climate change science in recent years and the growing threats that face billions of people around the planet.  Rising temperatures, drought and long-term drying ...</p><p>Sat, 11 Jul 09<br /><strong>Cleaner buses in developing world may be key in climate fight</strong><br />http://www.climateark.org/shared/reader/welcome.aspx?linkid=132479<br />New York Times: Like most thoroughfares in booming cities of the developing world, Bogotá's Seventh Avenue resembles a noisy, exhaust-coated parking lot &ndash; a gluey tangle of cars and the rickety, smoke-puffing private minibuses that have long provided transportation for the masses.  But a few blocks away, sleek red vehicles full of commuters speed down the four center lanes of Avenida de las Américas. The long, segmented, low-emission buses are part of a novel public transportation system called bus ...</p><p>Fri, 10 Jul 09<br /><strong>Indonesia:  Credit Suisse, UBS, BNP Paribas to help finance cutting of rainforests for palm oil, say NGOs</strong><br />http://news.mongabay.com/2009/0709-banks.html<br />Mongabay: Swiss banks, Credit Suisse and UBS, together with the French BNP Paribas, are helping Singapore-listed Golden Agri-Resources raise up to 280 million Swiss francs ($258 million) to finance conversion of large areas of rainforest in New Guinea and Borneo for oil palm plantations, reports the Bruno Manser Fund (BMF), a group that campaigns on behalf of forest people in Southeast Asia.  The deal would finance expansion of plantations operated by Sinar Mas, a subsidiary of Golden ...</p><p>Fri, 10 Jul 09<br /><strong>Obama vows US will lead the way on climate change</strong><br />http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-obama-climate10-2009jul10,0,4042682.story<br />LA Times: President Obama praised efforts by industrialized and developing nations to set guidelines in the battle to control climate change and said today that the United States will increase its role in that fight.  Speaking from Italy, where officials from 17 nations met and set the new targets, Obama warned that further steps would be needed and cautioned against those who would dismiss today's announced agreement, which fell short of what some environmentalists had hoped for but was a ...</p><p>Fri, 10 Jul 09<br /><strong>G8 summit: UN accuses G8 of doing too little to tackle climate change</strong><br />http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/environment/climatechange/5789565/G8-summit-UN-accuses-G8-of-doing-too-little-to-tackle-climate-change.html<br />Telegraph: Ban Ki-moon, the UN secretary-general said leaders at the G8 summit in Italy had not gone far enough in their pledges to limit rises in the world's temperature.  His harsh words came as leaders claimed to have struck a &quot;historic&quot; deal with emerging economies on limiting global warming.  The eight rich countries and the Major Economies Forum, a group of 17 other economies including China and India, have now agreed that average global temperatures should not be allowed to rise more ...</p><p>Fri, 10 Jul 09<br /><strong>Obama hails 'historic consensus' on climate change</strong><br />http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20090709/pl_afp/g8economy<br />Agence France-Presse: US President Barack Obama hailed an &quot;historic consensus&quot; on battling climate change Thursday, saying rich nations had a duty to lead the fight as they won backing from emerging powers.  At expanded sessions at the G8 club of developed nations' annual summit in Italy, an agreement was also reached that countries should resist calls for protectionism to cushion the impact of the economic crisis.  Brazil, China, Egypt, India, Mexico and South Africa all joined the G8 on its second ...</p><p>Fri, 10 Jul 09<br /><strong>G-8 as climate change forum: baby steps</strong><br />http://www.csmonitor.com/2009/0709/p06s22-wogn.html<br />Christian Science Monitor: The Group of 8 summit in Italy, which turned largely into a climate change conference in the past 48 hours &ndash; agreed to limit global warming to an average of 2 degrees Celsius (3.5 degrees F).  While that is seen as a significant step forward, there was no agreement yet on specific short-term moves to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions by 2050 &ndash; something insiders considered politically unrealistic ahead of the meeting.  The G-8 &quot;was a giant leap for the US, and one small step for ...</p><p>Fri, 10 Jul 09<br /><strong>World powers accept warming limit</strong><br />http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/8142825.stm<br />BBC: &quot;We recognise the scientific view that the increase in global average temperature above pre-industrial levels ought not to exceed 2C,&quot; it said.  It added that the economies would work towards a global goal for substantially reducing emissions by 2050 between now and December, when the UN holds talks in Copenhagen on a successor to the Kyoto treaty.  President Obama, who chaired the meeting, said the countries had had a candid and open discussion about the growing threat of ...</p><p>Fri, 10 Jul 09<br /><strong>Sen Reid Extends Deadline For Climate</strong><br />http://www.nasdaq.com/aspx/stock-market-news-story.aspx?storyid=200907091447dowjonesdjonline000809<br />Dow Jones: The U.S. Senate is delaying action on climate-change legislation as lawmakers work to sort out differences.  On Thursday, U.S. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., extended until Sept. 28 a deadline for Senate committees to wrap up work on climate-change legislation. Previously, he had wanted the relevant committees to finish work by Sept. 18.  &quot;There were a number of committees who indicated they need a little more time, &quot; Reid said. &quot;We're online to go ahead and get this ...</p><p>Fri, 10 Jul 09<br /><strong>Fuel rods to be checked at German nuclear plant</strong><br />http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20090709/sc_afp/germanypoliticsenergynuclearaccident<br />Agence France-Presse: Suspected faulty fuel rods at an ageing German nuclear power station prompted its Swedish operator to announce further checks on Thursday only days after a short circuit forced an emergency shutdown.  All 80,000 rods at the Kruemmel plant will be examined from Friday because &quot;it looks as if one or several of the rods in the reactor is defective,&quot; said Ernst Michael Zuefle, head of operator Vattenfall's nuclear arm.  Kruemmel, one of the oldest of Germany's 17 nuclear power ...</p><p>Fri, 10 Jul 09<br /><strong>'Historic consensus' at G8 on climate change</strong><br />http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20090709/sc_afp/g8summitclimatewarmingusobama<br />Agence France-Presse: US President Barack Obama hailed Thursday what he said was an &quot;historic consensus&quot; on battling climate change between the leaders of the world's 17 leading economic powers.  &quot;We also agree that developed countries, like my own, have a historic responsibility to take the lead. We have the much larger carbon footprint per capita,&quot; Obama said at an expanded G8 summit in Italy.  &quot;And I know that in the past the United States has sometimes fallen short of meeting our responsibilities, ...</p><p>Fri, 10 Jul 09<br /><strong>Obama science adviser insists talks with China will not bypass UN process</strong><br />http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2009/jul/09/john-holdren<br />Guardian: Bilateral talks between the US and China will not replace the need for a global climate deal at Copenhagen, according Barack Obama's most senior science adviser. John Holdren also said that, though there was much legislative work still to do in Congress, he was confident the US would be in a position to sign up to a successor to the Kyoto Protocol by the end of the year and would do it within the United Nations framework.  &quot;There are a lot of conversations going on with China and those ...</p><p>Fri, 10 Jul 09<br /><strong>Obama: Leaders will work together on climate</strong><br />http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/europe/07/09/g8.summit/index.html?eref=rss_latest<br />CNN: Leaders of both industrialized powers and emerging economies have agreed to work together on setting a goal to limit global warming to levels recommended by scientists, U.S. President Barack Obama said at the G-8 summit.  G-8 leaders wait for an aide to remove toe markers as they pose for a family photo in L'Aquila, Italy, on July 8.  The G-8 countries -- comprising the United States, Britain, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Canada and Russia -- agreed to a target of reducing ...</p><p>Fri, 10 Jul 09<br /><strong>Senate panel delays action on climate change bill</strong><br />http://www.reuters.com/article/environmentNews/idUSTRE56857620090709?feedType=RSS&feedName=environmentNews<br />Reuters: President Barack Obama's push for quick action by Congress on climate change legislation suffered a setback on Thursday when the U.S. Senate committee leading the drive delayed work on the bill until September.  Senate Environment and Public Works Committee Chairman Barbara Boxer said her self-imposed deadline of early August for finishing writing a bill to combat global warming has been put off until after Congress returns from a recess that ends in early September.  &quot;We'll do ...</p><p>Fri, 10 Jul 09<br /><strong>G8 action without China and India would be pointless</strong><br />http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/cif-green/2009/jul/09/copenhagen-g8<br />Guardian: With barely five months until make-or-break climate talks in Copenhagen, where the world will attempt to agree a new treaty on climate change, how significant are the G8 announcements?  Headline writers have drooled over the &quot;historic&quot; agreement to limit the global temperature rise to 2C, to cut world emissions 50% by 2050, and for the G8 to reduce its own pollution 80% by that date.  The numbers may sound reassuringly low, large and colossal, respectively, but there is ...</p><p>Fri, 10 Jul 09<br /><strong>UPS promises deep aviation emission cuts</strong><br />http://www.businessgreen.com/business-green/news/2245794/ups-promises-deep-aviation<br />Business Green: Delivery giant UPS has this week committed to cut carbon emissions from its airline by an additional 20 per cent by 2020 in a move designed to reduce emissions from its fleet by a total of 42 per cent based on 1990 levels.  The company said that it was aiming to meet the new target through increased investment in more fuel efficient aircraft, the adoption of fuel saving operational procedures such as improved flight paths, and the introduction of biofuels.  Bob Stoffel, UPS ...</p><p>Fri, 10 Jul 09<br /><strong>The Climate Change Showdown: Dealmaking Begins Anew with Bill in US Senate</strong><br />http://www.businessgreen.com/business-green/analysis/2245795/climate-change-showdown<br />Business Green: If you thought automakers and banks were the only companies getting a blank check from the government - think again.  As part of sweeping climate change legislation under consideration in Congress, energy companies and utilities will receive hundreds of billions of dollars from the government to help them comply with a new program to regulate greenhouse gases. Which companies will cash in and how much money will get back to consumers hit with higher energy prices are shaping a summer ...</p><p>Fri, 10 Jul 09<br /><strong>Why not split harmful carbon dioxide into harmless carbon and oxygen?</strong><br />http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=splitting-carbon-dioxide<br />Scientific American: Why not split harmful carbon dioxide into harmless carbon and oxygen?  James E. Miller, a chemical engineer at Sandia National Laboratories, breaks it down  Instead of sequestering carbon dioxide to reduce its effects on global climate, why don't we split it into harmless carbon and oxygen?  --J. Henderson, Devon, Pa.  James E. Miller,&ensp;a chemical engineer at Sandia National Laboratories, breaks it down:  Splitting carbon dioxide (CO2) into carbon and oxygen ...</p><p>Fri, 10 Jul 09<br /><strong>Arctic Climate Under Greenhouse Conditions In The Late Cretaceous</strong><br />http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/07/090709095422.htm<br />ScienceDaily: New evidence for ice-free summers with intermittent winter sea ice in the Arctic Ocean during the Late Cretaceous -- a period of greenhouse conditions - gives a glimpse of how the Arctic is likely to respond to future global warming.  Records of past environmental change in the Arctic should help predict its future behaviour. The Late Cretaceous, the period between 100 and 65 million years ago leading up to the extinction of the dinosaurs, is crucial in this regard because levels of ...</p><p>Fri, 10 Jul 09<br /><strong>Utah coal plant scuttled, 100th in U.S. since 2002</strong><br />http://www.reuters.com/article/environmentNews/idUSTRE5684UN20090709?feedType=RSS&feedName=environmentNews<br />Reuters: The Intermountain Power Agency said on Thursday it will not continue efforts to seek an air permit for a third 900-megawatt coal-fired power unit at its plant in Utah.  The Sierra Club said the once-proposed Unit 3 at the Intermountain power station 120 miles southwest of Salt Lake City is the 100th coal-fired power plant to be scuttled since 2002.  IPA spokesman John Ward said allowing an application for an air permit to expire was a formality as plans for the plant have not ...</p><p>Fri, 10 Jul 09<br /><strong>Major economies to agree 2 degrees climate goal: Merkel</strong><br />http://www.reuters.com/article/environmentNews/idUSTRE5684JF20090709?feedType=RSS&feedName=environmentNews<br />Reuters: German Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Thursday the world's major economies would reach a deal to limit global warming to no more than 2 degrees Celsius.  &quot;We will today agree on a joint document of the big economies -- the Major Economies Forum (MEF),&quot; Merkel told reporters.  Merkel also said she expected industrialized countries to set mid-term climate change goals by the end of the year.  She added she did not expect a breakthrough on climate change at the meeting of ...</p><p>Fri, 10 Jul 09<br /><strong>Climate targets around the world</strong><br />http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/8142342.stm<br />BBC: Climate change is high on the agenda at the G8 summit in L'Aquila. Leaders of the major industrial countries are discussing targets for reducing global warming with counterparts from developing countries. Here are the promises that countries and supra-national bodies have already made.  G8  The G8 leaders said on Wednesday that rich nations should cut emissions by 80% by 2050, while the world overall should reduce them 50% by 2050.  They said they had agreed to try to limit ...</p><p>Fri, 10 Jul 09<br /><strong>Tomorrow, do something unreasonable</strong><br />http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/guest_contributors/article6669891.ece<br />Times (UK): We live at a critical moment in history. Our actions over the next 30 years will define whether humans are a successful or unsuccessful species, and we will be ill judged by the future if we don't take bold steps now.  By 2050 we must have cut carbon emissions by 80 per cent. This will need a social and technological change within the lifetime of today's children equivalent to the leap from the beginning to the middle of the Industrial Revolution.  Yet most of the world has not ...</p><p>Fri, 10 Jul 09<br /><strong>White-coated warriors take our breath away</strong><br />http://www.smh.com.au/environment/global-warming/whitecoated-warriors-take-our-breath-away-20090708-ddb3.html?page=-1<br />Sydney Morning Herald: The climate debate, like the planet, is warming. As climate concern moves in from fringe to orthodoxy, the sceptical rump amps it up. And although debate ought to be a good thing, the result in this case is confusion and a potentially dangerous paralysis, largely because each side, while claiming deep science, is wrapped and possibly driven by emotion and belief.  Emotion is reasonable. After all, the future of civilisation could be at stake. Possibly even the species, or the planet ...</p><p>Fri, 10 Jul 09<br /><strong>United States:  Plug is pulled on Delta coal plant</strong><br />http://www.sltrib.com/news/ci_12784755<br />Salt Lake Tribune: Plans for a third coal-fired power plant at Delta are dead.  The Intermountain Power Agency said Wednesday it will let the air-quality permit for a coal-fired Unit 3 expire. Instead, the company will focus on other options for the central Utah site, said IPA spokesman John Ward.  &quot;The understanding within IPA is that if there were ever an attempt to start another third coal-fired power unit at that location, they would have to start over,&quot; he said. &quot;This particular permit ...</p><p>Fri, 10 Jul 09<br /><strong>United Kingdom:  North Sea 'crunch' on way, energy chief warns</strong><br />http://www.pressandjournal.co.uk/Article.aspx/1299944?UserKey=<br />Press and Journal: Britain faces an &quot;energy crunch&quot; if steps are not taken to help its offshore sector, an industry leader warned yesterday.  Oil and Gas UK (OGUK) chief executive Malcolm Webb was speaking after figures revealed falling investment and rising costs in the industry.  He said billions of barrels of oil and the gas equivalent could be left unrecovered in the North Sea if the UK Government did not act, increasing the country`s dependence on imports.  He repeated his organisation`s ...</p><p>Fri, 10 Jul 09<br /><strong>UN chief rebukes G8 over climate failures</strong><br />http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090709/ap_on_re_eu/g8_summit_climate<br />Associated Press: The U.N. chief sharply rebuked the Group of Eight leaders on Thursday for failing to make more commitments to reducing climate change in the near term, saying they must do so if the heavily polluting developing world is to follow suit.  U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon also said the industrialized nations must come forward with financing for poorer countries to change their carbon-heavy growth patterns and adapt to the effects of global warming.  &quot;The policies that they have ...</p><p>Fri, 10 Jul 09<br /><strong>G-8 Failure Reflects US Failure on Climate Change</strong><br />http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dr-james-hansen/g-8-failure-reflects-us-f_b_228597.html<br />Huffington Post: It didn't take long for the counterfeit climate bill known as Waxman-Markey to push back against President Obama's agenda. As the president was arriving in Italy for his first Group of Eight summit, the New York Times was reporting that efforts to close ranks on global warming between the G-8 and the emerging economies had already tanked:  The world's major industrial nations and emerging powers failed to agree Wednesday on significant cuts in heat-trapping gases by 2050, unraveling an ...</p><p>Fri, 10 Jul 09<br /><strong>Key climate meeting looms at G8</strong><br />http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/8141715.stm<br />BBC: Heads of the G8 leading industrial countries are set to meet emerging nation leaders to try to push through a new deal on limiting global warming.  US President Barack Obama will chair the key session at the G8 summit in the Italian city of L'Aquila.  On Wednesday, the G8 said it had agreed new targets for limiting global warming and carbon emissions.  But correspondents say emerging nations appear reluctant to sign up and tough negotiations lie ahead.   The second ...</p><p>Fri, 10 Jul 09<br /><strong>United States:  Greenpeace activists scale Mount Rushmore in global warming protest</strong><br />http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2009/jul/09/mount-rushmore-greenpeace<br />Guardian: Environmentalists yesterday scaled Mount Rushmore and unfurled a banner along President Abraham Lincoln's face challenging America's leaders to stop global warming.  Eleven people were charged with trespassing and the misdemeanour crime of climbing on Mount Rushmore National Monument, US attorney Marty Jackley said. They pleaded not guilty to all charges.  The environmental group Greenpeace said in a statement that three of its members hung the banner on Mount Rushmore while ...</p><p>Fri, 10 Jul 09<br /><strong>Unlocking progress on climate change</strong><br />http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cifamerica/2009/jul/09/obama-us-copenhagen-climate-change<br />Guardian: The landslide election of progressives to the White House and Congress last November has ushered in a new energy era in American politics. President Obama set the stage for this shift last year when he tied energy policy to economics on the campaign trail, promising to move away from fossil-fuel reliance towards clean sources of energy to promote economic growth and job creation.  After less than six months in office, President Obama has already begun to make good on these promises. A ...</p><p>Fri, 10 Jul 09<br /><strong>Obama broadens push for climate change pact</strong><br />http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090709/ap_on_go_pr_wh/obama<br />Associated Press: Rallying rich and developing nations alike, President Barack Obama wants the world's top polluters to keep driving toward a deal to halt global warming.  Nearing six months on the job, Obama has some momentum: a new agreement among developed and emerging nations to cap rising global temperatures, plus good will from his peers for repositioning the U.S. as an aggressive player in the debate.  Yet when Obama helps lead a gathering of the world's major economies here Thursday, he ...</p><p>Fri, 10 Jul 09<br /><strong>G8 agrees to "historic" climate deal</strong><br />http://www.businessgreen.com/business-green/news/2245736/g8-agrees-historic-climate-deal<br />Business Green: Climate change negotiations at the world leaders' summit in Italy move into a crucial phase today as the G8 group of industrialised nations attempt to secure support from developing economies for new global emissions targets designed to limit temperature rises to no more than two degrees above pre-industrial levels.  As widely anticipated, the members of the G8 yesterday agreed for the first time to cut carbon emissions by 80 per cent by 2050 as part of efforts to cut global emissions ...</p><p>Fri, 10 Jul 09<br /><strong>Japan:  Tokyo subway flooring converts commuter footfalls into electricity</strong><br />http://www.businessgreen.com/business-green/news/2245739/tokyo-subway-flooring-converts<br />Business Green: Heavy foot traffic at busy subway stations could soon be widely used to power station lighting and other electrical equipment thanks to technology currently being trialled in Tokyo.  In a small-scale experiment at Tokyo Station, one of the city's busiest subway stops, so-called hatsudenyuka floors were installed at station gates, hallways and staircases.  The technology features elements capable of generating piezoelectricity, which are embedded in 0.4mm flooring tiles and ...</p><p>Fri, 10 Jul 09<br /><strong>Greens demand clean energy commitment for Australian desalination plant</strong><br />http://www.businessgreen.com/business-green/news/2245745/australian-desalination-plant<br />Business Green: Australian green groups have stepped up calls for a $780m desalination facility planned for Western Australia state to be powered using renewable energy.  The project, to be located in Binningup, south of the state capital Perth, received federal government approval last month. It must comply with strict regulations to preserve the surrounding habitat and preserve wildlife in the area. However, green groups are now calling for the project to be extended to include renewable energy ...</p><p>Fri, 10 Jul 09<br /><strong>Studies Foresee Dilemma Over Forest Carbon Storage</strong><br />http://www.usnews.com/articles/science/2009/07/08/studies-foresee-dilemma-over-forest-carbon-storage.html<br />Associated Press: Scientists conclude in two government-funded studies that forests in the Pacific Northwest have a huge potential to store more carbon to combat global warming, but not if they are heavily thinned to prevent wildfire.  That poses a dilemma to the U.S. Forest Service, which has historically focused on balancing timber production against maintaining fish and wildlife habitat, but is increasingly trying to thin out young trees and brush to control wildfires that regularly cost $1 billion a ...</p><p>Thu, 9 Jul 09<br /><strong>Warming arctic could teem with life by 2030</strong><br />http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn17436-warming-arctic-could-teem-with-life-by-2030.html?DCMP=OTC-rss&nsref=climate-change<br />New Scientist: &quot;Teeming with life&quot; may not be the description that springs to mind when thinking of the Arctic Ocean, but that could soon change as global warming removes the region's icy lid.  A study of what the Arctic looked like just before dinosaurs were wiped off the planet has provided a glimpse of what could be to come within decades.  Alan Kemp of the UK National Oceanography Centre in Southampton and colleagues used powerful microscopes to inspect cores of mud extracted from the ...</p><p>Thu, 9 Jul 09<br /><strong>Lousy Economy Could Swing Climate Change Vote</strong><br />http://news.yahoo.com/s/cq/20090708/pl_cq_politics/politics3160692<br />CQPolitics.com: Though Republicans portray climate change legislation as an energy tax that would cost families thousands of dollars a year, the worsening budget woes in dozens of states are increasing chances the Senate will enact a bill this year.  The White House is hoping billions of dollars worth of emissions allowances that would be issued as part of a cap-and-trade system will provide an economic lure for undecided senators to support the bill.  The climate change bill (HR 2454) the House ...</p><p>Thu, 9 Jul 09<br /><strong>Environmentalists Sue Over Energy Transmission Across Federal Lands</strong><br />http://greeninc.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/07/08/environmentalists-sue-over-energy-transmission-across-federal-lands/<br />New York Times: The sun rises over Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument in southern Utah. Environmentalists are seeking to block transmission lines from this and other public lands.  A coalition of environmental groups is suing federal agencies in an effort to change the location of corridors to transmit energy across Western lands.  The environmental groups -- including the Sierra Club, the Natural Resources Defense Council and the Wilderness Society, as well as several Western ...</p><p>Thu, 9 Jul 09<br /><strong>Obama meets with world leaders on economy, climate</strong><br />http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090708/ap_on_re_eu/obama<br />Various: President Barack Obama joined fellow world leaders in Italy Wednesday for talks on threats to global security and stability at a summit where climate change, a continuing global economic crisis, nuclear proliferation and world hunger took top billing.  The G-8 meetings may lack the intrigue of Obama's sit-downs earlier in the week with Russia's top leaders, or the emotion of the reception the first black American president surely will get in Ghana Saturday. But they didn't lack for ...</p><p>Thu, 9 Jul 09<br /><strong>G8 Risks Derailing Global Progress on Poverty</strong><br />http://news.yahoo.com/s/oneworld/20090708/wl_oneworld/world3651641247074014<br />OneWorld US: Unless immediate action is taken, climate change could reverse 50 years of progress in the fight against global poverty, warns a humanitarian group calling on G8 leaders to prioritize climate change at their first in a series of meetings today.  Changing temperatures worldwide are destroying harvests, causing widespread hunger, forcing people to flee their homes, driving the spread of disease, drying up crucial water supplies, and spurring a rise in disasters, says Oxfam International ...</p><p>Thu, 9 Jul 09<br /><strong>Obama administration agrees on greenhouse gas cuts</strong><br />http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090708/ap_on_re_us/obama_climate<br />Associated Press: The Obama administration says it agrees that industrialized nations should sharply reduce their greenhouse gas emissions over the next four decades.  White House officials said Wednesday that the administration supports a goal of an 80 percent greenhouse gas reduction from industrialized nations by 2050. It would be part of a worldwide goal of a 50 percent cut in all such gases, believed to cause global warming.  White House economics adviser Mike Froman said the non-binding ...</p><p>Thu, 9 Jul 09<br /><strong>U.S. Senate bill gives CFTC carbon market oversight</strong><br />http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090708/pl_nm/us_senate_cftc_carbon<br />Reuters: A U.S. Senate bill introduced on Tuesday would give the Commodity Futures Trading Commission full authority over markets that buy and sell pollution permits issued to companies as part of a climate change plan to cut greenhouse gas emissions.  Such markets will be critical to the success of a U.S. cap-and-trade system that allows companies to trade carbon allowances, which are permits to emit one metric ton of carbon dioxide that is a cause of global warming.  Under the climate ...</p><p>Thu, 9 Jul 09<br /><strong>G-8 leaders agree on climate target</strong><br />http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090708/ap_on_re_us/g8_summit<br />Associated Press: President Barack Obama joined other world leaders on Wednesday in backing new targets for battling global warming, a move the Bush White House had resisted.  White House officials confirmed that Obama agreed to language supporting a goal of keeping the world's average temperature from rising more than 2 degrees Celsius (3.6 degrees Fahrenheit).  The agreement by the Group of Eight industrialized nations, meeting in Italy, marks a significant step in efforts to limit greenhouse ...</p><p>Thu, 9 Jul 09<br /><strong>G8 agrees to limit temperature rise: Swedish PM</strong><br />http://www.reuters.com/article/environmentNews/idUSL824730820090708?feedType=RSS&feedName=environmentNews<br />Reuters: The Group of Eight major economies has agreed to limit the rise in global temperatures to no more than 2 degrees Celsius (3.6 Fahrenheit), Swedish Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt said on Wednesday.  &quot;The big achievement from this G8 so far is that the U.S. has come forward and met us on the 2 degrees goal. This is in the final text,&quot; he told Reuters.  The European Union has previously adopted the goal, which it says will require deep cuts in greenhouse gas ...</p><p>Thu, 9 Jul 09<br /><strong>Failure to support greener palm oil may lead industry to abandon environmental measures</strong><br />http://news.mongabay.com/2009/0708-palm_oil.html<br />Mongabay: Consumer apathy towards eco-certified palm oil have undermined efforts to improve the environmental performance of the industry, a top industry official told Reuters.  Speaking with Reuters in an interview Tuesday, Malaysian Palm Oil Council Chief Executive Yusof Basiron said buyers have shown little interest in paying an eight percent premium for palm oil certified for being produced at a lower cost to the environment.  &quot;We have been led down the path of false hope in selling ...</p><p>Thu, 9 Jul 09<br /><strong>Climate denial 'astroturfers' should stop hiding behind pseudonyms online</strong><br />http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/georgemonbiot/2009/jul/08/climate-denial-astroturfers-pseudonyms<br />Guardian: When the Guardian launched its Comment is free threads, it was one of the most exciting developments in journalism I had ever witnessed. Suddenly, everyone could play. Columnists and leader writers were no longer the voice of God: they could be immediately challenged, corrected, held to account. People with something to say could say it, expertise from every field and every part of the world was harnessed.  The early discussions were invigorating, fascinating, thrilling. They forced me ...</p><p>Thu, 9 Jul 09<br /><strong>G8 leaders agree to limit temperature rise: source</strong><br />http://www.reuters.com/article/environmentNews/idUSTRE56756O20090708?feedType=RSS&feedName=environmentNews<br />Reuters: The Group of Eight major economies have agreed that a rise in global temperatures should not exceed 2 degrees Celsius (3.6 Fahrenheit), a European source said on Wednesday following G8 climate talks.  &quot;The top line that has been agreed is 2 degrees. It will be in the final G8 draft,&quot; the source said, declining to be named. Environmental experts have said that if such a target is taken seriously it will force deep cuts in greenhouse gas emissions.</p><p>Thu, 9 Jul 09<br /><strong>Copenhagen climate deal depends on U.S.: analyst</strong><br />http://www.reuters.com/article/environmentNews/idUSTRE56752520090708?feedType=RSS&feedName=environmentNews<br />Reuters: The emergence of a global deal to cut greenhouse gas emissions in Copenhagen in December hinges on the United States passing its own climate bill before then, analysts at Point Carbon said on Wednesday. &quot;The probability that an international agreement with quantative targets will be signed in Copenhagen in December is at least 50 percent,&quot; the research group said in a report.  That possibility would increase significantly if the U.S. Senate passes its own bill before December aimed at ...</p><p>Thu, 9 Jul 09<br /><strong>Italian Power Plants Occupied by Greenpeace Activists</strong><br />http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601130&sid=apxbBCOhddoU<br />Bloomberg: Greenpeace activists occupied four Italian coal-fired power plants, demanding action from world leaders to stave off climate change on the opening day of a Group of Eight summit being hosted by Italy.  At least 100 demonstrators took part in the protest at Enel SpA-owned generators in Brindisi, Marghera and Porto Tolle and at a fourth power station in Vado Ligure owned by Tirreno Power. G8 leaders must stop putting the interests of polluting industries such as coal ahead of the ...</p><p>Thu, 9 Jul 09<br /><strong>United States:  Legislature backs off ban on wind power</strong><br />http://www.newsobserver.com/news/story/1599118.html<br />News and Observer: State lawmakers held off voting Tuesday on a proposal to ban wind power development in the mountains of Western North Carolina.  The delay was met with relief by wind power advocates who harbor dreams of windmills in the Appalachian Mountains, home to some of the best wind energy resources in the nation.  The chief sponsor of the proposal, Sen. Charles Albertson, said the proposed ban generated opposition from supporters of wind power, a clean form of energy that doesn't generate ...</p><p>Thu, 9 Jul 09<br /><strong>G8 working on goal of limiting temperature rise</strong><br />http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090708/ap_on_re_eu/g8_summit_climate<br />Associated Press: The Group of Eight industrialized economies and other nations were working Wednesday to commit to a goal of keeping the world's average temperature from rising more than 2 degrees Celsius (3.6 degrees Fahrenheit) in a bid to contain global warming.  The White House declined to comment on whether it would sign off on a statement referring to the temperature threshold. If the deal went through, it would mark a significant step forward since the G-8 has previously refused to adopt that ...</p><p>Thu, 9 Jul 09<br /><strong>Senate begins push for climate change bill</strong><br />http://www.reuters.com/article/environmentNews/idUSTRE56671G20090708?feedType=RSS&feedName=environmentNews<br />Reuters: Democrats in the Senate on Tuesday began a drive to advance climate change legislation, a top Obama administration priority, amid warnings that a bill recently passed by the House of Representatives to reduce carbon emissions would have to be changed.  Among changes that could be sought to win broader Senate support for the bill are less ambitious carbon emission reduction goals, the inclusion of nuclear power as an alternative energy source, and tougher regulation of the pollution ...</p><p>Thu, 9 Jul 09<br /><strong>Activists hijack Italian power stations</strong><br />http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2009/jul/08/greenpeace-g8-protest-coal-italy<br />Guardian: Four coal-fired power stations in several parts of Italy were today occupied by Greenpeace activists as G8 leaders met in L'Aquila to discuss issues including action on climate change. More than 100 Greenpeace activists from 18 countries took part in the protests, which hope to draw attention to the group's campaign for action by world leaders on cutting greenhouse gas emissions.  One of the targets was Italy's biggest coal-burning power station at Brindisi in south-eastern Italy where ...</p><p>Thu, 9 Jul 09<br /><strong>G-8 protesters scale smokestacks in Italy</strong><br />http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090708/ap_on_re_eu/g8_summit_protests<br />Associated Press: Environmentalists broke into power stations across Italy and shed their clothes in downtown Rome on Wednesday as world leaders discussed a new deal to combat global warming.  Dozens of activists from 18 countries scaled smokestacks and occupied four coal-fired Italian power plants, hanging banners that called on the Group of Eight summit in central Italy to take the lead in fighting climate change, Greenpeace said.  Italian energy giant Enel, which owns three of the plants, said ...</p><p>Thu, 9 Jul 09<br /><strong>United Kingdom:  Zipcar launches London electric car club</strong><br />http://www.businessgreen.com/business-green/news/2245593/zipcar-launches-london-electric<br />Business Green: Members of the Zipcar car club will from this week be able to pick up electric and plug-in electric hybrid vehicles from its new Electric Vehicle Pod in central London following the official launch of the company's partnership with Westminster Council.  The all-electric Citro&euml;n c1 and a plug-in hybrid Toyota Prius will be stationed at a dedicated &quot;EV Pod&quot; recharging bay in Spencer Street behind Westminster City Hall, allowing members of the car club to undertake zero-carbon ...</p><p>Wed, 8 Jul 09<br /><strong>G8 struggles to persuade China, India on climate</strong><br />http://www.reuters.com/article/environmentNews/idUSTRE5653PW20090707?feedType=RSS&feedName=environmentNews<br />Reuters: Major economies tried on Tuesday to break the deadlock between rich and poor nations over 2050 goals for cuts in greenhouse gas emissions at a last-minute meeting before an expanded G8 summit in Italy.  Ministers or senior officials from the 17-member Major Economies Forum (MEF) met in Rome to try to agree a declaration for leaders that could be a building block for a new U.N. climate pact due to be agreed in Copenhagen in December.  &quot;We want to prepare in the best way possible ...</p><p>Wed, 8 Jul 09<br /><strong>Gore says climate deal needs more public pressure</strong><br />http://www.boston.com/news/world/europe/articles/2009/07/07/gore_says_climate_deal_needs_more_public_pressure/<br />Reuters: Public awareness about the &quot;catastrophe&quot; of climate change is not high enough to pressure politicians into taking action, former Vice President Al Gore said on Tuesday.  Gore, who shared a Nobel Prize in 2007 for his environmental campaigning, said politicians will only do more once the people who elect them force the issue.  Voters need to tell leaders they must act on the environmental concerns if countries are to strike a new deal on global warming at U.N. climate talks in ...</p><p>Wed, 8 Jul 09<br /><strong>World's first fuel cell aircraft takes off in Germany</strong><br />http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20090707/bs_afp/germanytechnologyaviationclimatewarming<br />Agence France-Presse: The world's first piloted aircraft capable of taking to the air using only power from fuel cells took off in Germany Tuesday, producing zero carbon dioxide emissions, its makers said.  &quot;We have improved the performance capabilities and efficiency of the fuel cell to such an extent that a piloted aircraft is now able to take off using it,&quot; said Johann-Dietrich Woerner from the German Aerospace Center (DLR).  &quot;This enables us to demonstrate the true potential of this technology, ...</p><p>Wed, 8 Jul 09<br /><strong>New Princeton Method Could Help Allocate Carbon Emissions Responsibility Among Nations</strong><br />http://www.redorbit.com/news/science/1716765/new_princeton_method_could_help_allocate_carbon_emissions_responsibility_among/index.html?source=r_science<br />redOrbit: Just months before world leaders are scheduled to meet to devise a new international treaty on climate change, a research team led by Princeton University scientists has developed a new way of dividing responsibility for carbon emissions among countries.  The approach is so fair, according to its creators, that they are hoping it will win the support of both developed and developing nations, whose leaders have been at odds for years over perceived inequalities in previous ...</p><p>Wed, 8 Jul 09<br /><strong>A daily dollar could prevent climate change: EPA</strong><br />http://www.reuters.com/article/environmentNews/idUSTRE56655H20090707?feedType=RSS&feedName=environmentNews<br />Reuters: The average American family would pay at most $1 a day more to fight climate change, the head of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency told a Senate committee on Tuesday.  EPA head Lisa Jackson said carbon-cutting legislation would, on average, amount to a 50-cent per day cost per household in 2020 and edge up for wealthier families, people who drive long distances and those living in states dependent on coal for electricity.  But even a doubling of the national average would ...</p><p>Wed, 8 Jul 09<br /><strong>Italy:  Milan fair to put world biggest solar plant on roof</strong><br />http://www.reuters.com/article/environmentNews/idUSTRE5665HP20090707?feedType=RSS&feedName=environmentNews<br />Reuters: The Milan trade fair said on Tuesday it is commissioning the world's biggest rooftop photovoltaic power installation covering some 270,000 square meters.  &quot;We have had seven offers from general contractors to build the plant and we'll very soon trim that down to five. The winning bid will be the one that offers us the highest rental,&quot; said Ferruccio Ferranti, CEO of Sviluppo Sistema Fiera, a unit of the Milan fair group.  Under the deal, the winning bidder will build the plant at ...</p><p>Wed, 8 Jul 09<br /><strong>G8 could create 1 million more renewable jobs by switching to clean energy: Greenpeace</strong><br />http://www.greenpeace.org/international/press/releases/g8-could-create-1-million-more<br />Greenpeace: One million more jobs would be created in renewables in G8 countries by 2020 if the leaders of the world's wealthiest countries, gathering in L'Aquila, agreed to switch from coal and other climate-destroying conventional energy sources to renewables in order to help slash carbon emissions and avert a climate catastrophe.  By committing to cut greenhouse gas emissions by 40% by 2020 (based on 1990 levels) the leaders of the world's eight wealthiest industrialised countries could spark ...</p><p>Tue, 7 Jul 09<br /><strong>76% of Blacks want delay on climate legislation until economy recovers</strong><br />http://www.louisianaweekly.com/news.php?viewStory=1535<br />Louisian Weekly: Seventy-six percent of African Amer_i_cans want Congress to make eco_nomic recovery, not climate change, its top priority, says a newly released nationwide poll of African-Americans conducted by the National Center for Public Policy Research.  The poll's release came as the U.S. House of Representatives was preparing for a June 26 vote on the Waxman-Markey cap-and-trade climate bill. The legislation, if adopted, is expected to reduce aggregate GDP by $7.4 trillion in an effort to ...</p><p>Tue, 7 Jul 09<br /><strong>Coral Reefs Exposed To Imminent Destruction From Climate Change</strong><br />http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/07/090706141006.htm<br />ScienceDaily: Coral reef survival is balancing on a knife edge as the combined effects of ocean acidification and ocean warming events threaten to push reefs to the brink of extinction this century, warned a meeting of leading scientists.  Organised by ZSL, the International Programme on the State of the Ocean (IPSO) and the Royal Society, the meeting identified the level of atmospheric CO2 predicted to result in the demise of coral reefs.  At anticipated rates of emission increase, it is ...</p><p>Tue, 7 Jul 09<br /><strong>Global warming will be top issue at summit in Italy</strong><br />http://news.yahoo.com/s/mcclatchy/20090706/sc_mcclatchy/3266575<br />McClatchy Newspapers: One question could dominate this week's gathering of the world's top economic powers in Italy : Will the United States and Europe act by themselves to cut emissions of the heat-trapping gases that are causing long-term global warming and will they be able to persuade fast-developing nations such as China and India to go along?  President Barack Obama will lead a gathering of nations called the Major Economies Forum , looking to forge a consensus for a global pact to stop global warming ...</p><p>Tue, 7 Jul 09<br /><strong>Binding limits for all on emissions, Canada urges</strong><br />http://www.reuters.com/article/environmentNews/idUSTRE5655D420090706?feedType=RSS&feedName=environmentNews<br />Reuters: China and other emerging economies must agree to binding limits on carbon emissions as part of any international climate agreement, the Canadian government said on Monday.  &quot;Our position has been, going back to last year, that all major emitting economies, developed and developing, need to agree to binding commitments in any eventual agreement,&quot; a government official said in a briefing ahead of the Group of Eight meetings in the central Italian town of L'Aquila this week.  The ...</p><p>Tue, 7 Jul 09<br /><strong>U.S. power plant emissions fall as regulation looms</strong><br />http://www.reuters.com/article/environmentNews/idUSTRE5655EL20090706?feedType=RSS&feedName=environmentNews<br />Reuters: U.S. power plant emissions of sulfur dioxide dropped sharply in the first half of the year as the electricity industry prepared for tighter regulation in 2010, Genscape said Monday.  Sulfur dioxide emissions were down 24 percent compared to the first half of 2008, much more than would be expected due to the recession and lower electricity demand, the power industry data provider said in its quarterly review of energy trends.  &quot;The industry is clearly going through a dress ...</p><p>Tue, 7 Jul 09<br /><strong>Brazil:  Recharge Your Batteries Here</strong><br />http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=47541<br />Inter Press Service: Brazil has long been committed to developing alternatives to fossil fuels to power its vehicle fleet, to the extent that 90 percent of new cars sold in the country are flex-fuel, running on ethanol or gasoline in any proportion. Now the government is embarking on another technological field: electric vehicles.  The first roadside electric vehicle charging station in South America, installed in the Barra de Tijuca neighbourhood of Rio de Janeiro, was hailed as the first step in that ...</p><p>Tue, 7 Jul 09<br /><strong>Big Western power generator plans Colo wind farm</strong><br />http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090706/ap_on_bi_ge/us_wind_power_colo<br />Associated Press: A major regional power supplier has reached a deal to buy electricity from a new wind farm in Colorado.  Tri-State Generation and Transmission Association formally signed a 20-year deal on Monday to buy power from a wind farm that Duke Energy will build near Burlington in eastern Colorado.  The farm's 34 turbines will produce 51 megawatts, enough for 12,000 to 14,000 households.  The wind farm is expected to be completed by the end of 2010. About 150 people will be needed ...</p><p>Tue, 7 Jul 09<br /><strong>Climate change: G8 summit boosts pressure for pact</strong><br />http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5jKVYnFtBAAg_ObuxfOEyCRXwpbng<br />Agence France-Presse: Leaders of the world's established and emerging economic powerhouses will be under pressure at this week's G8 summit to give a badly-needed jolt to the quest for a new global climate pact.  Negotiators struggling to seal an agreement in Denmark by year's end say the three-day summit, opening on Wednesday in L'Aquila, Italy, is a golden opportunity to haul the process out of a rut.  &quot;It's time to make a difference,&quot; Yvo de Boer, executive secretary of the UN's Framework Convention ...</p><p>Tue, 7 Jul 09<br /><strong>Europeans seek G8 pledge to halve greenhouse gas</strong><br />http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090706/wl_nm/us_g8_summit_environment<br />Reuters: Italy, France and Britain called on Monday for major developing economies like China and India to sign up for a goal of halving the world's greenhouse gas emissions by 2050 at this week's expanded G8 summit in Italy.  Italian Foreign Minister Franco Frattini said the &quot;extremely ambitious&quot; goal would be the focus of the second day of the summit on Thursday, when U.S. President Barack Obama will chair a meeting of the 17-member Major Economies Forum (MEF).  The MEF, which groups ...</p><p>Tue, 7 Jul 09<br /><strong>Reefs could perish by end of century, experts warn</strong><br />http://www.reuters.com/article/environmentNews/idUSTRE5654JY20090706?feedType=RSS&feedName=environmentNews<br />Reuters: Increasingly acidic oceans and warming water temperatures due to carbon dioxide emissions could kill off the world's ocean reefs by the end of this century, scientists warned on Monday.  The experts told a meeting in London the predicted pace of emissions means a level of 450 parts per million of carbon dioxide (CO2) in the atmosphere will be reached by 2050, putting corals on a path to extinction in the following decades.  The two dozen coral reef specialists and climate change ...</p><p>Tue, 7 Jul 09<br /><strong>Plants may help climate change modeling</strong><br />http://www.redorbit.com/news/science/1716097/plants_may_help_climate_change_modeling/index.html?source=r_science<br />United Press International: A Spanish-led study suggests the ability of plants to tell time through a circadian clock might produce information that can improve climate change models.  The researchers, led by the University of Castilla la Mancha, said they studied plants' circadian rhythm -- the roughly-24-hour cycle in the biochemical, physiological or behavioral processes of living organism -- from a molecular viewpoint and found an ecological implication -- it makes climate change scenarios and CO2 level ...</p><p>Tue, 7 Jul 09<br /><strong>Major nations should set clear 2050 CO2 cuts: UN</strong><br />http://www.reuters.com/article/environmentNews/idUSTRE5654TP20090706?feedType=RSS&feedName=environmentNews<br />Reuters: Major nations should set clear and ambitious goals for 2050 cuts in greenhouse gas emissions this week as a step toward a new U.N. climate pact, the U.N.'s top climate change official said on Monday.  &quot;These are the countries that can make the difference...it's certainly the time to make the difference,&quot; Yvo de Boer, head of the U.N. Climate Change Secretariat, told Reuters of a meeting of 17 major emitters during a July 8-10 Group of Eight summit.  He said the &quot;Major Economies ...</p><p>Tue, 7 Jul 09<br /><strong>Aspen - 'Genius' idea: Reduce your watts, save the planet</strong><br />http://www.vaildaily.com/article/20090706/NEWS/907069993/-1/RSS<br />Vail Daily: Everyone acquainted with environmentalism is all too familiar with the &quot;things you can do to save the world&quot; lists. Critics mock such tips as meaningless feel-good gestures; the converted often yearn for more substance.  Inventor and engineer Saul Griffith has helped invent an intriguing way to show people how their highly personal actions must play a role in tackling the immense challenges of climate change. He shared it with an audience at Paepcke Auditorium on Sunday as the six-day ...</p><p>Tue, 7 Jul 09<br /><strong>A Stormy Time for Indigenous Wisdom</strong><br />http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=47544<br />Inter Press Service: Indigenous peoples risk losing control over their traditional knowledge if the World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO) insists on strict standards for managing access to information.  Patents and other forms of restricting access to knowledge are very worrisome in a time of climate change, says a new report by the London-based International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED).  The study was presented at meetings of the WIPO - a United Nations agency - held ...</p><p>Tue, 7 Jul 09<br /><strong>United Kingdom:  MPs fight for honeybee funding</strong><br />http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2009/jul/06/honeybee-funding<br />Guardian: A group of MPs will on Wednesday join forces to fight for funding save the honeybee.  Led by the Conservative MP, John Penrose, the all-party parliamentary group on honeybees will hold its inaugural meeting amid fears that the £10m of funding announced this year for research into pollinators will fail to tackle the decline in our most important pollinator, the honeybee.  A third of the UK's honeybees were wiped out last year. Following a concerted campaign by British beekeepers, ...</p><p>Tue, 7 Jul 09<br /><strong>Plant shutdown reignites German nuclear spat</strong><br />http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090706/ap_on_re_eu/eu_germany_nuclear_power<br />Associated Press: Chancellor Angela Merkel's center-left rivals made it clear Monday they will make nuclear power a major issue in the September national election, following a weekend shutdown at a troubled German nuclear plant.  The plant at Kruemmel, near Hamburg, shut down automatically on Saturday following a short-circuit in a transformer. The plant had reopened only last month after a two-year closure that followed a fire in another transformer in 2007.  That offered the center-left Social ...</p><p>Tue, 7 Jul 09<br /><strong>United Kingdom:  Home energy saving pays its way</strong><br />http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8133393.stm<br />BBC: Despite almost universal awareness of the threat posed by climate change, households are still left feeling powerless to act, says Paul King. In this week's Green Room, he sets out his vision that he believes would kick-start a &quot;refurbishment revolution&quot;.  A searing summer heatwave might not seem the most obvious time to talk about how we keep our homes warm during the winter; but the two things are closely related.  Recent temperatures in the UK and elsewhere give an indication ...</p><p>Tue, 7 Jul 09<br /><strong>United Kingdom:  Environment Agency preps carbon police force</strong><br />http://www.businessgreen.com/business-green/news/2245471/environment-agency-preps-carbon<br />Business Green: The Environment Agency is to launch a dedicated unit of around 50 auditors and inspectors tasked with ensuring that the government's imminent Carbon Reduction Commitment (CRC) legislation is properly enforced.  According to reports in The Sunday Times, the new unit will be given wide ranging powers, including the right to search company premises, view energy meters and seize records.  Ed Mitchell, head of business performance and regulation at the Environment Agency, told the ...</p><p>Tue, 7 Jul 09<br /><strong>Tropical zone expanding due to climate change: study</strong><br />http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20090706/ts_afp/scienceclimatewarmingaustraliatropics<br />AFP: Climate change is rapidly expanding the size of the world's tropical zone, threatening to bring disease and drought to heavily populated areas, an Australian study has found.  Researchers at James Cook University concluded the tropics had widened by up to 500 kilometres (310 miles) in the past 25 years after examining 70 peer-reviewed scientific articles.  They looked at findings from long-term satellite measurements, weather balloon data, climate models and sea temperature ...</p><p>Tue, 7 Jul 09<br /><strong>DoE swoops in with flywheel funding for Beacon Power</strong><br />http://www.businessgreen.com/business-green/news/2245453/beacon-power-nets-doe-funding<br />Business Green: Flywheel energy storage specialist Beacon Power Corporation last week announced that it has been awarded $43m in loan guarantees by the Department of Energy to help complete a storage project in New York state.  Beacon Power's storage plant, which will have a 20MW capacity, is designed to solve the problem of energy regulation on electrical grids. Grids must maintain their frequency as close to 60Hz as possible, but variations in supply and demand mean that utilities have to vary their ...</p><p>Tue, 7 Jul 09<br /><strong>United States:  State stands to feel effects of climate change bill</strong><br />http://www.gulflive.com/news/mississippipress/news.ssf?/base/news/1246875310213090.xml<br />The Mississippi Press: Mississippi ranks among the least energy-efficient states.  Only 12 other states produce more heat-trapping car bon dioxide gas and other greenhouse gases per capita, according to numbers compiled by one environmental group.  There's little question, then, that landmark congressional legislation to address global warming concerns could have a disproportionate impact if it becomes law. The question is: How much impact?  Even bill supporters acknowledge that the legislation ...</p><p>Tue, 7 Jul 09<br /><strong>Blair and Obama call for G8 climate talk breakthrough</strong><br />http://www.businessgreen.com/business-green/news/2245463/blair-obama-call-g8-climate<br />Business Green: Tony Blair has today called on world leaders to accelerate the roll out of policies that promote energy efficiency and forest protection as the most effective means of delivering short and medium term cuts in carbon emissions.  Speaking at the launch of a new report from The Climate Group, the green lobby group backed by the former prime minister, Blair said that leaders gathering for the Major Economies Forum in Italy this week should commit to immediate action to improve energy ...</p><p>Tue, 7 Jul 09<br /><strong>Can G8 succeed where other climate talks failed?</strong><br />http://www.carbonpositive.net/viewarticle.aspx?articleID=1594<br />Carbon Positive: It's a big week in international climate negotiations with concurrent meetings of the G8 and Major Economies Forum (MEF) in Italy set to tackle &ndash; once again &ndash; the intractable issue of national commitments to lower greenhouse gas emissions. This would form the basis a collective global treaty of action to follow on from the Kyoto Protocol's first commitment period.  Commentators are describing the meetings as a critical juncture on the road to Copenhagen in December, the deadline set in ...</p><p>Tue, 7 Jul 09<br /><strong>G8 leaders to set emissions goals</strong><br />http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8135261.stm<br />BBC: Leaders of G8 nations are to set a target to cut greenhouse gases by 80% by 2050, the BBC understands.  They will also call for any human-induced temperature rise to be held below 2 degrees Celsius, says BBC environment analyst Roger Harrabin.  But environmental campaigners believe key commitments will be scaled back.  News of the G8 plans came as ex-Prime Minister Tony Blair urged rich nations to hit short-term climate targets by ramping up existing clean ...</p><p>Tue, 7 Jul 09<br /><strong>Climate change may be benefiting poison ivy, studies suggest</strong><br />http://www.projo.com/news/content/poison_ivy_07-06-09_10EPFEO_v33.3b3e70f.html<br />Providence Journal: At some point ---- in between the interminable nights spent scratching her welts and the days of dousing them with rubbing alcohol ---- Deborah Rosen walked into her Kingston backyard to investigate the poison ivy patch responsible for her misery.  She`d had a few minor outbreaks over the years. But this spring`s reaction was so severe she would eventually camp outside a closed clinic on a Saturday morning waiting for a doctor`s help.  What she found in her backyard surprised her ...</p><p>Mon, 6 Jul 09<br /><strong>Q and A on the Climate Bill</strong><br />http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/07/05/AR2009070502287.html<br />Washington Post: The climate bill approved by the House last month started out as an idea -- fight global warming -- and wound up looking like an unabridged dictionary. It runs to more than 1,400 pages, swollen with loopholes and giveaways meant to win over un-green industries and wary legislators.  Here are answers to some key questions about the bill.  How would it work?  The legislation sponsored by Reps. Henry A. Waxman (D-Calif.) and Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.) would set a limit on ...</p><p>Mon, 6 Jul 09<br /><strong>Uganda:  Oxfam to G-8: Climate change will spread hunger</strong><br />http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5iE9hAY8qTO_UJmYGNBmCpluj6IewD998JTOO0<br />Associated Press: Chronic hunger may be &quot;the defining human tragedy of this century,&quot; as climate change causes growing seasons to shift, crops to fail, and storms and droughts to ravage fields, an advocacy group said.  Oxfam International released a report Monday as leaders of the Group of Eight wealthiest nations prepare to meet in Italy this week, with an agenda to include both food security and climate change.  It says that as the weather changes, millions of people in areas suffering food ...</p><p>Mon, 6 Jul 09<br /><strong>Uganda:  Millions hungry as warming shifts seasons: Oxfam</strong><br />http://www.reuters.com/article/environmentNews/idUSTRE56500F20090706?feedType=RSS&feedName=environmentNews<br />Reuters: The rainmakers were convinced the god was angry.  Holding a sheep on its hind legs, a young man sank a spear into its neck. Those present drank its blood and splashed the rest around the local water catchment area in the hope of appeasing Ekipe, the rain god.  But rituals like this in Nassapir village, in northeastern Uganda's semi-arid and under-developed Karamoja region, no longer seem to pay off.  &quot;We don't know why the god is no longer answering our requests,&quot; said ...</p><p>Mon, 6 Jul 09<br /><strong>United Kingdom:  Report warns reliance on wind will drive power price volatility</strong><br />http://www.businessgreen.com/business-green/news/2245428/report-warns-reliance-wind<br />Business Green: The expansion in wind energy capacity across the British Isles will result in huge electricity price volatility unless major reforms are undertaken to grid management in the UK and Ireland.  That is the conclusion of a study released last week by research firm Pöyry Energy Consulting, which warns that significant investment in grid technologies will be required to ensure that the intermittent nature of wind energy does not undermine the reliability of electricity supplies.  The ...</p><p>Mon, 6 Jul 09<br /><strong>Wind-Turbine Orders Fell 50% in First Half of 2009, MAKE Says</strong><br />http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601130&sid=a9tVR_VgzLh0<br />Bloomberg: Wind turbine makers around the world reported 50 percent fewer orders in the first half of 2009 than a year earlier and the market won't improve until the last three months of the year, an industry consultant said.  Manufacturers have made &quot;widespread&quot; job cuts and prices for turbines in Europe and the U.S. have fallen 5 to 25 percent in the same period, according to a research-note excerpt posted today on the Web site of MAKE Consulting.  Wind turbine producers, including ...</p><p>Mon, 6 Jul 09<br /><strong>Cocoa Crops in Indonesia, Ecuador May Face Damage, Fortis Says</strong><br />http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601086&sid=asp9SkSbDW7U<br />Bloomberg: Cocoa crops in Indonesia and Ecuador may be hurt by an El Nino weather pattern predicted to begin as soon as coming weeks, BNP Paribas Fortis said.  El Nino typically has lowered cocoa production &quot;10 percent below trend,&quot; Fortis said in a daily report yesterday from London, citing company research over 50 years. El Nino weather that usually brings below-average rainfall in the second half probably will occur after more signs of the phenomenon emerged, Australia's Bureau of Meteorology ...</p><p>Mon, 6 Jul 09<br /><strong>Preparing for a Sea Change</strong><br />http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/07/03/AR2009070301125.html<br />Washington Post: Europe will be wrangled for the next six months by a lanky, no-nonsense Swede named Carl Bildt. His country chairs this semester's cascade of European Union summits, procedural debates and other gabfests. As Sweden's foreign minister, it is Bildt's job to make sense of it all -- a task akin to herding not cats but eels.  Well, he asked for it, didn't he? When he was Sweden's prime minister in the 1990s, the conservative politician relentlessly overhauled his country's socialist ...</p><p>Mon, 6 Jul 09<br /><strong>India says watered down climate text likely in Italy</strong><br />http://www.reuters.com/article/environmentNews/idUSTRE5640IS20090705?feedType=RSS&feedName=environmentNews<br />Reuters: A meeting of a 17-country group of the world's worst polluters in Italy this week will likely agree on a token joint declaration because President Obama will be chairing, Indian officials said on Sunday. The 17-member Major Economies Forum (MEF) is trying to agree on a climate plan on the sidelines of a G8 summit in Italy. A substantive pact would go a long way in defining a new U.N. climate treaty due to be agreed in Copenhagen in December.  The MEF members, who discussed a draft text ...</p><p>Mon, 6 Jul 09<br /><strong>Bugs! The critters eating America's forests</strong><br />http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/bugs-the-critters-eating-americas-forests-1732199.html<br />Independent (UK): America's 4 July bonfires served a dual purpose yesterday. They burned the wood of trees destroyed by a trio of bugs that are devastating parts of the nation's forests.  With 750 million acres of forests in the United States, the scale of the problem is massive. Since 1999, the country has lost, on average, 1 per cent of its tree cover per year. This means these small insects have killed about 10 per cent of all US forests in 10 years.  Two of the bugs, says the government, have ...</p><p>Sat, 4 Jul 09<br /><strong>Obama to seek climate deal in Moscow</strong><br />http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2009/jul/03/obama-russia-climate-change<br />Guardian: Barack Obama will move to seal a deal with Russia for joint action on climate change during his summit in Moscow next week, the Guardian has learned.  Obama arrives in Moscow on Monday at the start of a trip to Russia, Italy and Ghana that will focus heavily on energy and climate change. From Moscow, Obama travels on to Italy for a meeting of the G8 and a gathering of the major polluting countries.  Administration officials are still working out the broad outlines of an agreement ...</p><p>Sat, 4 Jul 09<br /><strong>Climate body to try to bridge differences before G8</strong><br />http://www.reuters.com/article/environmentNews/idUSTRE5623VZ20090703?feedType=RSS&feedName=environmentNews<br />Reuters: Officials from a 17-member body which account for the lions share of the world's carbon emissions will hold urgent talks next Tuesday to iron out differences on the eve of a July 8-10 summit of the G8.  Group of Eight diplomats and climate change officials told Reuters the meeting of the Major Economies Forum (MEF) was called to narrow the gap between rich countries and developing nations such as India over long-term targets on global warming and emissions.  Leaders of MEF ...</p><p>Sat, 4 Jul 09<br /><strong>Dueling Ads Highlight the Politics of Climate-Change Legislation</strong><br />http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/07/03/dueling-ads-highlight-the-politics-of-climate-change-legislation/<br />New York Times: Groups on both sides of the spectrum have begun hitting the airwaves with new advertisements on climate-change legislation, underscoring the political ramifications going forward of the House`s razor-thin passage of the major climate and energy bill just a week ago.  The latest, released on Thursday by the Environmental Defense Fund, defends a group of mostly Democratic House members who voted for the climate-change legislation, which passed the House 219-212. These ads are offering a ...</p><p>Sat, 4 Jul 09<br /><strong>EU seen meeting renewable fuel targets with blends</strong><br />http://www.reuters.com/article/environmentNews/idUSTRE5622SN20090703?feedType=RSS&feedName=environmentNews<br />Reuters: The European Union is likely to achieve its target of generating 10 percent of transport fuels from renewable sources by 2020 by blending biofuels with fossil fuels, a leading EU researcher said.  Most blending is likely to use first-generation biofuels produced with food crops, said Giovanni De Santi, director of the Energy Institute at the European Union Commission's Joint Research Center.  The EU plans to source 10 percent of transport fuels from renewable sources by 2020 to ...</p><p>Sat, 4 Jul 09<br /><strong>Plans for renewable energy bonds among 20 climate ideas to save the world</strong><br />http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2009/jul/03/manchester-report-climate-change<br />Guardian: The British public could invest their savings in the UK's renewable energy revolution and reap the financial rewards of helping to save the planet, under ambitious plans to be discussed this weekend.  The Public Interest Research Centre, a thinktank based in Wales, says the government could sell &quot;energy bonds&quot; to pay for the required investment. The scheme would be similar to war bonds, which galvanised financial support in Britain during the second world war.  The idea is one of ...</p><p>Sat, 4 Jul 09<br /><strong>Can The Mississippi Delta Survive Rising Seas?</strong><br />http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=106246280&ft=1&f=1025<br />National Public Radio: Reporting in Nature Geoscience, two coastal scientists write that rising sea levels, combined with slow Mississippi Delta growth, could drown the Louisiana coast by 2100. Delta expert Ivor van Heerden, who is not involved with the research, discusses the findings</p><p>Sat, 4 Jul 09<br /><strong>New standards on energy ban inefficient options</strong><br />http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,25725907-11949,00.html<br />Australian: INEFFICIENT hot water systems will be phased out and all appliances will be properly labelled under new national energy efficiency standards as part of a 10-year energy efficiency plan adopted by the Council of Australian Governments yesterday.  And state and territory leaders have also agreed to streamline and harmonise processes for building applications to reduce red tape and costs for developers.  While much of the focus at COAG was on indigenous affairs yesterday, the ...</p><p>Sat, 4 Jul 09<br /><strong>Canada:  Severe drought conditions in western Saskatchewan</strong><br />http://www.leaderpost.com/Severe%20drought%20conditions%20western%20Saskatchewan/1753750/story.html<br />Leader-Post: Drought conditions in western Saskatchewan have left producers thinking they won't see any fruits of their many efforts this year and at least one expert pointing to billions in costs to Canada's economy.  &quot;There's next to no crop at all,&quot; said Glen Harrison, reeve of the Rural Municipality of Kindersley. &quot;Our whole RM is affected. There's no bright spots in the whole municipality. I know every municipality bordering ours is in trouble.&quot;  Grant McLean, cropping management ...</p><p>Sat, 4 Jul 09<br /><strong>Ireland:  Mopping up after city's deluge will cost millions</strong><br />http://www.independent.ie/national-news/mopping-up-after-citys-deluge-will-cost-millions-1803885.html<br />Independent: MILLIONS of euro worth of damage was caused yesterday after Dublin was swamped by a record two weeks' worth of rain in one hour.  Residents were evacuated from their homes, patients in one of the capital's busiest hospitals had to be moved to other wards, a roof collapsed on a house in Monkstown, rail services were disrupted and roads were blocked as the city was swamped.  As a huge mopping up operation began, insurers were beginning to receive their first claims for flood ...</p><p>Sat, 4 Jul 09<br /><strong>United Kingdom:  Power station protesters guilty</strong><br />http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/west_yorkshire/8132672.stm<br />BBC: Twenty-two environmental campaigners have been found guilty of obstructing a train carrying coal to Drax Power Station in North Yorkshire.  Protesters boarded the train carrying coal into the station in June 2008 after it stopped for two men posing as railway staff, Leeds Crown Court heard.  The defendants, including three from West Yorkshire, were protesting against pollution at the station in Selby.  Judge James Spencer QC said they would not face a custodial ...</p><p>Sat, 4 Jul 09<br /><strong>NZ scientist warns of Antarctic ice melt, sea rise</strong><br />http://english.cctv.com/20090703/102259.shtml<br />Xinhua: A New Zealand scientist warned on Thursday of rising sea levels due to Antarctic ice melt.  A New Zealand scientist warned on Thursday of rising sea  levels due to Antarctic ice melt.?(File photo)  Tim Naish said new evidence showed that changes to Antarctica's most vulnerable element, the West Antarctic ice sheet, could raise global sea levels by up to 5 metres.  The Director of Victoria University's Antarctic Research Centre will present this new evidence at his ...</p><p>Sat, 4 Jul 09<br /><strong>China plans dramatic increase in solar capacity to 2GW by 2011</strong><br />http://www.businessgreen.com/business-green/news/2245349/china-plans-dramatic-increase<br />Business Green: China is set to raise its target for installed solar capacity to 2GW by 2011, a fifteen-fold increase on the 140MW goal it set only last year.  The state-run China Daily newspaper reported today that the National Energy Administration, the government office responsible for energy development plans, has decided to increase capacity over the next two years by providing increased subsidies for solar generators worth $0.16 (10p) per kWh.  Chinese solar panel makers, including Suntech ...</p><p>Sat, 4 Jul 09<br /><strong>World's largest cement firms slash production emissions by a third</strong><br />http://www.businessgreen.com/business-green/news/2245354/world-largest-cenment-firms<br />Business Green: Efforts by the world's leading cement companies knocked down carbon dioxide emissions from the industry's manufacturing process by 35 per cent even while production climbed by 53 per cent, according to the World Business Council for Sustainable Development's Cement Sustainability Initiative.  The council's Cement Sustainability Initiative released the findings in its report, Cement Industry Energy and CO2 Performance: &quot;Getting the Numbers Right&quot; on Tuesday. The report represents the ...</p><p>Sat, 4 Jul 09<br /><strong>United Kingdom:  Drax train activists found guilty of obstruction</strong><br />http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2009/jul/03/drax-coal-train-trial-guilty<br />Guardian: Link to this video  Climate change protesters who hijacked a power station coal train in a highly organised operation have been convicted by a jury in a unanimous verdict which came after less than two hours.  The 22 men and women, including a senior university lecturer, teachers and film-makers, were found guilty of obstructing the service carrying 42,000 tonnes of coal to Drax in North Yorkshire last June.  They were cleared of actually stopping the 21-hopper train, ...</p><p>Sat, 4 Jul 09<br /><strong>Green power takes root in the Chinese desert</strong><br />http://www.climateark.org/shared/reader/welcome.aspx?linkid=131837<br />New York Times: As the United States takes its first steps toward mandating that power companies generate more electricity from renewable sources, China already has a similar requirement and is investing billions to remake itself into a green energy superpower.  Through a combination of carrots and sticks, Beijing is starting to change how this country generates energy. Although coal remains the biggest energy source and is almost certain to stay that way, the rise of renewable energy, especially wind ...</p><p>Sat, 4 Jul 09<br /><strong>Climate declaration to get global boost</strong><br />http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124656785956688323.html<br />Wall Street Journal: The U.S., European Union and 12 of the world's largest nations plan to embrace &quot;an aspirational goal&quot; of reducing emissions of global-warming gases by 50% by 2050, according to a draft declaration by world leaders set for release next week in Italy.  The draft, seen by The Wall Street Journal, sets up a framework for detailed negotiations on the issue ahead of a United Nations climate conference in December. But it leaves key areas in the climate-change debate in dispute. The draft is ...</p><p>Sat, 4 Jul 09<br /><strong>Opposition wants climate change action from Ottawa</strong><br />http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5hL6VnoScI_gm_N9ptigug9CQ42ZQ<br />Agence France-Presse: The Liberal Party, Canada's main opposition group, warned the government Thursday against blocking an international deal to combat climate change, due to be negotiated in Copenhagen this December.  Liberal Party leader Michael Ignatieff accused Prime Minister Stephen Harper of &quot;jeopardizing international climate change efforts leading up to Copenhagen&quot; and hurting Canada's image abroad.  &quot;While climate change threatens us all, the Harper government's stubborn inaction is leading ...</p><p>Sat, 4 Jul 09<br /><strong>New Type Of El Nino Could Mean More Hurricanes Make Landfall</strong><br />http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/07/090702140835.htm<br />ScienceDaily: El Niño years typically result in fewer hurricanes forming in the Atlantic Ocean. But a new study suggests that the form of El Niño may be changing potentially causing not only a greater number of hurricanes than in average years, but also a greater chance of hurricanes making landfall, according to climatologists at the Georgia Institute of Technology. The study appears in the July 3, 2009, edition of the journal Science.  &quot;Normally, El Niño results in diminished hurricanes in the ...</p><p>Sat, 4 Jul 09<br /><strong>Pacific Northwest Forests Could Store More Carbon, Help Address Greenhouse Issues</strong><br />http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/07/090702132825.htm<br />ScienceDaily: The forests of the Pacific Northwest hold significant potential to increase carbon storage and help mitigate greenhouse gas emissions in coming years, a recent study concludes, if they are managed primarily for that purpose through timber harvest reductions and increased rotation ages.  In the complete absence of stand-replacing disturbances -- via fire or timber harvest -- forests of Oregon and Northern California could theoretically almost double their carbon storage.  Although ...</p><p>Sat, 4 Jul 09<br /><strong>Indian FM urges 'ambitious but fair' climate targets</strong><br />http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20090703/sc_afp/japanindiaclimatewarmingnkoreanuclear<br />Various: India's foreign minister on Friday called for an ambitious but fair greenhouse gas reduction target under a new climate treaty, saying any pact should not hinder the economic growth of developing countries.  &quot;We agreed that climate change is an important global challenge,&quot; Foreign Minister S.M. Krishna said in Tokyo after meeting his Japanese counterpart Hirofumi Nakasone during a four-day visit.  &quot;We hope that all countries will participate constructively,&quot; he told a joint news ...</p><p>Sat, 4 Jul 09<br /><strong>Analysis: Temporary carbon credits revived in US climate bill</strong><br />http://www.carbonpositive.net/viewarticle.aspx?articleID=1593<br />Carbon Positive: The US Congress has stepped on to uncertain ground over land-based carbon offsets in its landmark cap-and-trade bill, passed in the House of Representatives last week. Hasty eleventh-hour negotiations saw its proponents embrace temporary carbon offset credits for domestic forestry and agriculture. It's an approach that has proven unworkable internationally after the unhappy experience of temporary CERs in afforestation and reforestation in the UN Clean Development Mechanism ...</p><p>Fri, 3 Jul 09<br /><strong>Los Angeles will end use of coal-fired power</strong><br />http://www.reuters.com/article/environmentNews/idUSTRE56165X20090702?feedType=RSS&feedName=environmentNews<br />Reuters: Los Angeles will eliminate the use of electricity made from coal by 2020, replacing it with power from cleaner renewable energy sources, Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa said.  Consumers of the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power, the largest city-owned utility in the United States with 1.45 million electricity customers, will see higher power bills in the fight against climate change, he added in his inaugural speech for his second four-year term as mayor on ...</p><p>Fri, 3 Jul 09<br /><strong>Loss of world's seagrass beds seen accelerating</strong><br />http://www.reuters.com/article/environmentNews/idUSTRE56164S20090702?feedType=RSS&feedName=environmentNews<br />Reuters: The world's seagrass meadows, a critical habitat for marine life and profit-maker for the fishing industry, are in decline due to coastal development and the losses are accelerating, according to a new study.  Billed as the first comprehensive global assessment of seagrass losses, the study found 58 percent of seagrass meadows are declining and the rate of annual loss has accelerated from about 1 percent per year before 1940 to 7 percent per year since 1990.  Published this week ...</p><p>Fri, 3 Jul 09<br /><strong>EU: China, India must make emissions cuts</strong><br />http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5jQtHqEAgBtWoCdvEWsykmyTvY7DwD996CNB04<br />Associated Press: The chances of concluding a new global climate change pact remain dim unless China, India and Brazil make significant cuts in carbon dioxide emissions as well a senior Swedish climate change official said Thursday.  Lars-Erik Liljelund, special climate change adviser to the Swedish government, said cuts from richer countries in the 27-nation bloc or planned cuts in the United States will not be enough to meet aims to cut at least 25 percent of emission from 1990 levels.  &quot;The ...</p><p>Fri, 3 Jul 09<br /><strong>United Kingdom:  Global warming causes sheep to shrink</strong><br />http://news.mongabay.com/2009/0702-sheep.html<br />Mongabay: Climate change is shrinking Scotland's wild Soay sheep despite the evolutionary advantages of having a large body, report researchers writing in the journal Science.  Arpat Ozgul and colleagues tracked changes in body weight and behavior among female members of a population of Soay sheep on Hirta island since 1985 and found that on average, the sheep have been decreasing in size for the last 25 years. To determine the driver of smaller sheep, the researchers then plugged their data ...</p><p>Fri, 3 Jul 09<br /><strong>United Kingdom:  Baaad news? Global warming now shrinking sheep</strong><br />http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090702/ap_on_sc/us_sci_shrinking_sheep<br />Associated Press: Like the wool sweater that emerges from the dryer a size too small, global warming seems to be shrinking sheep.  On average, wild Soay sheep on Scotland's island Hirta are 5 percent smaller today than they were in 1985, according to a team of researchers led by Tim Coulson of Imperial College London.  &quot;The decrease in body size was due to a reduction in growth rates caused, in part, by the changing climate,&quot; Coulson said in an interview via e-mail.  Evolution favors the ...</p><p>Fri, 3 Jul 09<br /><strong>United Kingdom:  Climate change shrinks wild sheep: scientists</strong><br />http://www.spacedaily.com/2006/090702180028.7tlw7mtx.html<br />Agence France-Presse: Climate change has caused a flock of wild sheep on a remote northern Scottish island to become smaller, according to an unusual investigation published on Thursday.  The study explains a mystery that has bedevilled scientists for the past two years.  The wild Soay sheep live on Hirta, in the St. Kilda archipelago in the storm-battered Outer Hebrides, and have been closely studied for nearly a quarter of a century.  The law of evolutionary theory says the brown, thick-coated ...</p><p>Fri, 3 Jul 09<br /><strong>German study sees job boom from Sahara solar project</strong><br />http://www.reuters.com/article/environmentNews/idUSTRE56153V20090702?feedType=RSS&feedName=environmentNews<br />Reuters: A project linking solar power from the Sahara to energy users in Europe and North Africa could create 240,000 German jobs and generate 2 trillion euros ($2,822 billion) worth of power by 2050, a study published on Thursday found.  The report by Germany's Wuppertal Institute for Climate for Greenpeace and the Club of Rome also said more than 580,000 jobs in concentrated solar power (CSP) could be created worldwide by the middle of the century with the right political ...</p><p>Fri, 3 Jul 09<br /><strong>United Kingdom:  Dog owners warned of toxic algae in ponds due to heatwave</strong><br />http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/environment/5724758/Dog-owners-warned-of-toxic-algae-in-ponds-due-to-heatwave.html<br />Telegraph: In the West Midlands dead fish were found floating in a park due to oxygen depletion from the algae and the fountains in Trafalgar Square had to be closed because of the green slime. It has also caused trouble for gardeners and fishermen.  Vets have now raised concerns that dogs diving into lakes and ponds are at risk of being poisoned by ingesting a toxic blue green algae called Cyanobacteria.  Mark Johnston, of the British Small Animals Veterinary Association, warned pet owners ...</p><p>Fri, 3 Jul 09<br /><strong>Climate change is shrinking sheep</strong><br />http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8130907.stm<br />BBC: Climate change is causing a breed of wild sheep in Scotland to shrink, according to research.  Scientists say milder winters help smaller sheep to survive, resulting in this &quot;paradoxical decrease in size&quot;.  Classic evolutionary theory would predict that wild sheep gradually get bigger, as the stronger, larger animals survive into adulthood and reproduce.  Reporting in Science journal, the team says this shows the &quot;subtle interplay&quot; between evolution and the ...</p><p>Fri, 3 Jul 09<br /><strong>Spain backtracks on nuclear power phase-out</strong><br />http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20090702/sc_afp/spainnuclearenergyenvironmentpolitics<br />Agence France-Presse: Spain's government said Thursday it would allow the country's oldest nuclear reactor to operate beyond its intended 40-year lifespan, reversing a policy of gradually phasing out nuclear power.  Industry Minister Miguel Sebastian said the Garona plant in northern Spain, which had been designed to function only until 2011 and whose operating permit expires on Sunday, would now be allowed to operate until July 2013.  &quot;This was not an easy decision but it is a thought-out decision,&quot; ...</p><p>Fri, 3 Jul 09<br /><strong>EPA extends comment period on biofuel standard</strong><br />http://www.reuters.com/article/environmentNews/idUSTRE5614PS20090702?feedType=RSS&feedName=environmentNews<br />Reuters: The Environmental Protection Agency on Thursday said it was extending the comment period on a draft rule that aims to cut greenhouse gases emitted by biofuels.  The proposed changes to the 2007 U.S. Renewable Fuel Standard attempt to make production of corn-based ethanol more efficient and increase output of advanced biofuels.  The comment period on the rule, also known as RFS2, will now end on September 25 instead of July 27.  &quot;With the 60-day comment period extension, EPA ...</p><p>Fri, 3 Jul 09<br /><strong>Opportunity For Biopirates?</strong><br />http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=47505<br />Inter Press Service: Genetically modified (GM) crops that can withstand environmental stress may be one answer to climate change but a powerful lobby is building up against the patenting of technologies involved, especially when they are derivatives of traditional farmers' innovations.  &quot;Climate resistant traits that the agricultural biotechnology giants have been patenting have been evolved through centuries of farmers' breeding,&quot; says Vandana Shiva, the New Delhi-based, internationally acclaimed food ...</p><p>Fri, 3 Jul 09<br /><strong>REDD readiness plans for Panama, Guyana approved but rejected for Indonesia</strong><br />http://news.mongabay.com/2009/0702-fcpf.html<br />Mongabay: The World Bank's Forest Carbon Partnership Facility (FCPF) has approved REDD readiness plans (R-Plans) for Panama and Guyana, and rejected a plan for Indonesia, reports the U.N. and the Bank Information Center, an advocacy group.  Readiness plans are the first step toward a country qualifying for payments under the proposed Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and forest Degradation (REDD) mechanism, a climate change mitigation scheme that would pay tropical countries for conserving ...</p><p>Fri, 3 Jul 09<br /><strong>Time for action on climate change</strong><br />http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/belief/2009/jul/02/climate-change-christianity<br />Guardian: Two hundred children, a horde of farm animals and a bishop being followed by camera crews and journalists in an ark down the Thames might sound like a media circus. That, of course, is the point. In a loose recreation of the Noah story our ark will be a buzz with enthusiastic, young climate change activists fresh from delivering their own, homemade, ark to the prime minister. Accompanied by the music of a brass quintet, the temporary residents of the ark will join together in song as we sail ...</p><p>Fri, 3 Jul 09<br /><strong>Jury retires to consider verdict in Drax protester trial</strong><br />http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2009/jul/02/drax-protester-trial-jury-retires<br />Guardian: The jury considering the case of the hijacking of a coal train by climate campaigners retired today after a final statement from the 22 defendants which the judge &ndash; who has repeatedly ruled political evidence inadmissible &ndash; described as &quot;eloquent and sincere&quot;.  In their statement, the group appealed to the jury to &quot;to look beyond the confines of this court to the wider world, and to make a judgment based not just on law, but on justice.&quot;  They were contradicted immediately ...</p><p>Fri, 3 Jul 09<br /><strong>Australia:  A Tasmanian tragedy? : How the forestry industry has torn an island apart</strong><br />http://news.mongabay.com/2009/0702-hance_tasmania_forestry.html<br />Mongabay: This is by no means a new battle: in fact, Tasmanian industrial foresters and environmentalists have been fighting over the issue of clearcutting the island's forests for decades. The battle--some would probably prefer 'war'--is over nothing less than the future of Tasmania.  Some Tasmanians see the rich forests that surround them in terms of income, dollars and cents; they see money literally growing on trees, or more appropriately growing on monoculture plantations and government ...</p><p>Fri, 3 Jul 09<br /><strong>Scientists Study the Riches of the Mexican Pacific</strong><br />http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=47502<br />Inter Press Service: Mexico's Pacific coast, one of the world's richest seaboards in terms of biodiversity, has been the focus of very few scientific studies. A new observatory aims to fill that void.  The coastline includes nature preserves and protected areas that are home to an unknown number of plant and animal species, many of them unique to Mexico.  The Jacques Cousteau Observatory will explore the physical, chemical, biological, climate and socioeconomic characteristics of the area, which will ...</p><p>Fri, 3 Jul 09<br /><strong>250,000 jobs and £70bn revenue - the forecast for a thriving UK renewables sector</strong><br />http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2009/jul/02/uk-renewables-potential-carbon-trust<br />Guardian: The UK could benefit from 250,000 jobs and up to £70bn in revenue from offshore wind and wave technologies by 2050, according to a study by the Carbon Trust. This potential will only be realised, however, if the government gives clear signals to industry, so that investors know where to put their money, rather than leaving new technologies to face the market alone.  The Carbon Trust, a government-backed agency that studies ways to promote low-carbon technologies, carried out economic ...</p><p>Fri, 3 Jul 09<br /><strong>EPA backtracks on Californian exhaust emissions waiver</strong><br />http://www.businessgreen.com/business-green/news/2245258/epa-backtracks-californian<br />Business Green: In an historic move, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has this week reversed a Bush-era decision by granting 14 states permission to impose stricter fuel emission criteria than federal standards allow.  The Agency has granted a waiver, originally requested by California, that would enable the states to impose stricter emission standards for automobiles than had been applied at federal level.  The decision brings to an end a long-running legal tussle between the states ...</p><p>Fri, 3 Jul 09<br /><strong>Papua New Guinea suspends carbon chief amid reports of dodgy deals</strong><br />http://www.businessgreen.com/business-green/news/2245262/papua-guinea-suspends-carbon<br />Business Green: Theo Yasause, Papua New Guinea's Office of Climate Change (OCC) director, was suspended earlier this week following reports that he issued unofficial carbon credits worth millions of dollars from 39 different forestry projects.  The OCC has been accused of hiring two international brokers to sell carbon credits without the consent of landowners. Moreover, Papua New Guinea does not currently have a legislative framework to issue carbon credits and ensure they are properly ...</p><p>Fri, 3 Jul 09<br /><strong>Australia to launch carbon labels in 2010</strong><br />http://www.businessgreen.com/business-green/news/2245276/australia-launch-carbon<br />Business Green: A carbon reduction labeling scheme will be launched in Australia next year, informing shoppers of the overall carbon footprint of products.  Australian environmental group Planet Ark has this week announced it is to partner with the UK government-backed Carbon Trust to set up its Carbon Reduction Label program Down Under.  Under the scheme, products on store shelves will display the amount of carbon dioxide emissions generated from their manufacture through to disposal. They also ...</p><p>Thu, 2 Jul 09<br /><strong>EPA to Let California Set Own Limits on Greenhouse Gas Emissions From Autos</strong><br />http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/06/30/AR2009063001527.html?wprss=rss_nation<br />Washington Post: The Environmental Protection Agency yesterday granted California's request to set its own limits on greenhouse gases from autos -- a long-sought victory with limited impact now that the federal government has pledged to impose national limits.  That decision grants California a waiver to impose a limit on the emissions from new cars, when no such rules now exist in federal law. The EPA reversed a decision by the Bush administration, which rejected California's waiver request in March ...</p><p>Thu, 2 Jul 09<br /><strong>With Something for Everyone, Climate Bill Passed</strong><br />http://www.climateark.org/shared/reader/welcome.aspx?linkid=131649<br />New York Times: As the most ambitious energy and climate-change legislation ever introduced in Congress made its way to a floor vote last Friday, it grew fat with compromises, carve-outs, concessions and out-and-out gifts intended to win the votes of wavering lawmakers and the support of powerful industries.  The deal making continued right up until the final minutes, with the bill's co-author Representative Henry A. Waxman, Democrat of California, doling out billions of dollars in promises on the ...</p><p>Thu, 2 Jul 09<br /><strong>E.P.A. Grants California the Right to Enforce Emissions</strong><br />http://www.climateark.org/shared/reader/welcome.aspx?linkid=131646<br />New York Times: The Environmental Protection Agency said Tuesday that it had granted California the right to enforce its first-in-the-nation standards controlling greenhouse-gas emissions from cars and light trucks.  The move reverses a 2008 ruling by the Bush administration and effectively ends a seesaw political battle between automakers and environmental regulators that began in Sacramento eight years ago when the California Legislature first took up the issue.  Lisa P. Jackson, the E.P.A. ...</p><p>Thu, 2 Jul 09<br /><strong>New EU President Sweden To Lead Fight Against Climate Change</strong><br />http://www.rferl.org/content/New_EU_President_Sweden_To_Lead_Fight_Against_Climate_Change/1766549.html<br />Radio Free Europe: Shifts in priorities are a recurrent feature in the way the EU's system of rotating presidencies functions. But Sweden, a country of under 10 million people, has a history of pursuing sweeping agendas despite its small size.  On the eve of the handover of the rotating EU Presidency from the Czech Republic overnight, Sweden signaled its intention to make fighting climate change the headline effort of its six-month term.  Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt also told journalists in ...</p><p>Thu, 2 Jul 09<br /><strong>Federal court upholds Calif. ship regulations</strong><br />http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090701/ap_on_bi_ge/us_ship_pollution<br />Associated Press: A federal court judge in Sacramento has upheld California regulations that require oceangoing ships using the state's ports to use cleaner fuel in order to reduce harmful emissions.  Judge Morrison England Jr. on Tuesday denied a motion by the Pacific Merchant Shipping Association to prevent the rules from going into effect. The association claimed they went against a federal law that limited California's control of the seas to just three nautical miles off its coast.  The rule ...</p><p>Thu, 2 Jul 09<br /><strong>Nigeria:  Amnesty attacks oil industry for decades of damage in Niger Delta</strong><br />http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2009/jun/30/oil-royaldutchshell<br />Guardian: Serious allegations of human rights abuses caused by oil companies in the Niger Delta, the oil-producing region in southern Nigeria, have been published today.  A 141-page report by Amnesty International quotes sources suggesting that in the last 50 years at least 9m barrels worth of oil have leaked into land and rivers in the region.  Royal Dutch Shell is singled out by Amnesty as the most powerful operator in the region. The report will make uncomfortable reading for the energy ...</p><p>Thu, 2 Jul 09<br /><strong>89 months and counting</strong><br />http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cif-green/2009/jul/01/environment-economy-89-months<br />Guardian: They're still out there, the deniers, but they become increasingly exotic. And excuses for inaction on global warming become stranger. One I found would have us believe that spending on wind farms was responsible globally for &quot;killing millions&quot; through the misallocation of resources. That came from a panellist at a public debate at one of the UK's leading scientific establishments. Oddly, he cited no learned journals to back the claim. The same voice went further. There are no limits on the ...</p><p>Thu, 2 Jul 09<br /><strong>G8 fails on climate goals. Again</strong><br />http://www.panda.org/what_we_do/footprint/climate_carbon_energy/climate_deal/news/?uNewsID=168922<br />WWF: G8 countries have so far failed to take sufficient action to protect the world against climate change. The latest G8 Climate Scorecards report shows that Germany, followed by the UK and France, is performing better than the rest of the rich nations' group. Italy and Japan are in a lower medium ranked group. Canada, the USA and Russia are lagging behind, despite the USA moving up one rank.  The report carried out by Ecofys for WWF and Allianz SE ranks the top eight industrialized ...</p><p>Thu, 2 Jul 09<br /><strong>Pollution is choking the beating heart of Bangalore</strong><br />http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/climate-change/grace-boyle-pollution-is-choking-the-beating-heart-of-bangalore-1726727.html<br />Independent (UK): &quot;I am not against development&quot;, said the filmmaker I met with today. &quot;Of course not.  &quot; But the question we must ask ourselves is, development for whom, and at whose cost?&quot;  Bangalore provides a good illustration of the complex outcomes of India's rampant and often uncharted growth. Back in the day, Bengaluru (its Indian name) was known as 'The Garden City'; an altitude of 3000 feet above sea level and numerous parks and lakes kept the climate cool and fresh while the rest of ...</p><p>Thu, 2 Jul 09<br /><strong>Sweden takes over EU helm, focus on economy, climate</strong><br />http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20090701/wl_afp/swedeneupresidency<br />Agence France-Presse: Sweden took over the six-month rotating presidency of the European Union on Wednesday, vowing to tackle climate change and combat soaring unemployment in Europe following the global economic crisis.  &quot;The financial crisis and climate change, with the preparation of the Copenhagen conference, will be our main priorities,&quot; Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt told reporters on the eve of the Swedish presidency.  Stockholm wants to get the EU to sign up to a new UN global warming treaty ...</p><p>Thu, 2 Jul 09<br /><strong>Government launches clean coal funding bill</strong><br />http://www.businessgreen.com/business-green/news/2245146/government-launches-clean-coal<br />Business Green: The government's plans for four carbon capture and storage (CCS) plants moved a step closer to reality this week with the launch of a new energy bill designed to introduce a funding mechanisms for the demonstration plants.  The bill, which was proposed for the next session of Parliament would give the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change the power to introduce a mechanism to fund the plants, each of which are expected to cost over £1bn.  The Department of Energy and ...</p><p>Thu, 2 Jul 09<br /><strong>Treasury faces legal action over 'dirty' banking investments</strong><br />http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2009/jul/01/rbs-bank-bailout<br />Guardian: The government is facing legal action after environmental groups accused it of spending billions on &quot;dirty and destructive projects&quot; through the recapitalisation of banks including the Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS).  &quot;RBS has the worst record by far of any UK bank when it comes to financing projects around the world which cause environmental damage [and] particularly bad human rights records,&quot; a claim by three campaign groups says.  The claim, the first to challenge the bank ...</p><p>Thu, 2 Jul 09<br /><strong>India 'working with Pakistan for common stance on climate change'</strong><br />http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2009%5C07%5C01%5Cstory_1-7-2009_pg7_34<br />Daily Times: India said on Tuesday it was working with Pakistan to evolve a common stance on the issue of climate change at international level.  Expressing concern at the US move to impose trade penalties on countries not accepting limits related to global warming, Indian Minister for Environment and Forests Jairam Ramesh said his country hadpolitical differences with Pakistan, but the two countries and other SAARC nations share the same concerns.  The minister said he was also not averse to ...</p><p>Thu, 2 Jul 09<br /><strong>Wind 'can revolutionise UK power'</strong><br />http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8127177.stm<br />BBC: Wind has the power to revolutionise the UK's electricity industry, according to a study published on Wednesday.  Research from analysts Poyry says that the UK can massively expand wind power by 2030 without suffering power cuts or a melt-down of the National Grid.  The cost of electricity would then be determined not by consumer demand, but by how hard the wind is blowing.  When it is windy power will be so cheap that other forms of generation will be unable to compete, the ...</p><p>Thu, 2 Jul 09<br /><strong>Canada to match U.S. climate change rules</strong><br />http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/industry-news/energy-and-resources/canada-to-match-us-climate-change-rules/article1202636/<br />Globe and Mail: Canada will adopt climate-change regulations comparable to those of the United States -- including new rules for oil sands producers and refiners -- to avoid punitive &quot;green' tariffs, Environment Minister Jim Prentice says.  In an interview Tuesday, Mr. Prentice said it is too early to predict whether the bill that narrowly passed the U.S. House of Representatives last Friday will be adopted in its current form by the Senate, where it faces a rougher ride.  But he said Canada ...</p><p>Thu, 2 Jul 09<br /><strong>Sweden pushes EU climate action</strong><br />http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/8127801.stm<br />BBC: Sweden has called on the European Union to take the lead in fighting climate change despite facing the worst economic downturn since the 1930s.  Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt said the EU should reach a common position ahead of a major international climate conference in Copenhagen in December.  Climate change is &quot;coming quicker and earlier than we thought&quot; and our way of living is &quot;not sustainable&quot;, he said.  Sweden has taken over the revolving presidency of the ...</p><p>Thu, 2 Jul 09<br /><strong>Greens denounce 'Knight of the Chainsaw'</strong><br />http://timesonline.typepad.com/times_tokyo_weblog/2009/07/greens-denounce-knight-of-the-chainsaw.html<br />Times (UK): Environmental groups are demanding that the Queen withdraw the award of a knighthood to a Malaysian tycoon accused of making his fortune from the illegal destruction of huge areas of tropical rainforest.  The announcement of the honour for Tiong Hiew King, billionaire chairman of the Rimbunan Hijau conglomerate, comes just six weeks after Prince Charles launched an internet initiative to preserve the world's dwindling rainforests and prevent &quot;catastrophic climate change&quot;.  To add ...</p><p>Wed, 1 Jul 09<br /><strong>30 percent energy savings possible in buildings</strong><br />http://www.chinapost.com.tw/business/asia/b-taiwan/2009/06/30/214246/p1/30%2Dpercent.htm<br />China Post: Power consumed by Taiwan's existing and new buildings could be reduced by 30 percent by implementing technologies currently available at very little cost, according to a new report released by the European Chamber of Commerce Taipei (ECCT).  The special report titled &quot;Energy Saving Measures for Taiwan's Built Environment: Technologies and strategies to improve the energy efficiency of Taiwan's existing and new buildings&quot; was released at the ECCT's Monthly Members' Luncheon ...</p><p>Wed, 1 Jul 09<br /><strong>Can we 'milk' oil from algae?</strong><br />http://www.thestar.com/sciencetech/article/658052<br />Toronto Star: Imagine a dairy cow so small that you cannot see it. Now imagine when you milk the cow you get oil, not that white stuff we drink. Now imagine there are trillions of these oil-secreting cows and they replicate every 24 hours or less.  As strange as it might sound, a scientist from the University of Manitoba believes it is possible to genetically manipulate microbes called diatoms so they produce oil in the same way cows produce milk. Such an approach, he contends, could lessen our ...</p><p>Wed, 1 Jul 09<br /><strong>Canada:  Ontario shelves costly nukes</strong><br />http://www.thestar.com/news/ontario/article/658622<br />Various: The province has abruptly pulled the plug on new nuclear reactors at Darlington, blaming a bid &quot;many billions&quot; too high from Atomic Energy of Canada Ltd. and putting pressure on Ottawa to bankroll any revived deal.  Energy Minister George Smitherman zapped his own much-touted $20 billion scheme to expand Darlington as aging nuclear plants are phased out elsewhere in the province.  In suspending a plan that dates to 2006, when Premier Dalton McGuinty said the reactors were ...</p><p>Wed, 1 Jul 09<br /><strong>Canada:  Oil sands to take hit from U.S. bill</strong><br />http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/industry-news/energy-and-resources/oil-sands-to-take-hit-from-us-bill/article1201222/<br />Globe and Mail: Alberta's oil sands producers and their U.S. refiners face sharply higher costs to reduce greenhouse gas emissions under legislation approved by the U.S. House of Representatives and championed by U.S. President Barack Obama.  The American Clean Energy and Security Act, if passed by the U.S. Senate, could also result in new tariffs on Canadian exporters of energy-intensive goods from cement to chemicals if Washington deems Ottawa's climate-change regulations to be lacking.  Under ...</p><p>Wed, 1 Jul 09<br /><strong>A devastating critique of EPA science? More like cherry picking and astrology</strong><br />http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2009/jun/30/network-climate-change<br />Real Climate: Some parts of the blogosphere, headed up by Competitive Enterprise Institute, an industry-funded lobby group (&quot;CO2: They call it pollution, we call it life!&quot;), are all a-twitter over an apparently &quot;suppressed&quot; document that supposedly undermines the EPA Endangerment finding about human emissions of carbon dioxide and a basket of other greenhouse gases. Well a draft of this &quot;suppressed&quot; document has been released and we can now all read this allegedly devastating critique of the EPA science. ...</p><p>Wed, 1 Jul 09<br /><strong>Canadian geothermal firm pumps up $100m IPO</strong><br />http://www.businessgreen.com/business-green/news/2245091/canadian-geothermal-firm-pumps<br />Business Green: Canadian geothermal firm Magma Energy last week announced that it is set to raise around C$100m after pricing its Initial Public Offering (IPO) of pricing of 66,667,000 common shares at C$1.50 per common share.  Initial indications are that the IPO, which is scheduled to close on July 7, is oversubscribed and the company said that it had granted its underwriters an over-allotment option, enabling the purchase of an additional 10,000,050 common shares at the C$1.50 price.  The ...</p><p>Wed, 1 Jul 09<br /><strong>Companies Seek To Turn CO2, Algae Into Fuel</strong><br />http://www.redorbit.com/news/science/1713523/companies_seek_to_turn_co2_algae_into_fuel/index.html?source=r_science<br />redOrbit: Dow Chemicals announced on Monday plans to join Algenol Biofuels in a project to use algae and carbon dioxide to produce ethanol fuel.  The location of the facility will Dow's Freeport, Texas site.  The collaborative project will use Algenol's technology that uses carbon dioxide and saltwater, supplied to algae in photobioreactors, to produce the biofuel.  If the process works, Algenol thinks that it might profitably marry a different type of plant, such as a coal burning ...</p><p>Wed, 1 Jul 09<br /><strong>Droughts and floods threaten China's economic growth, forecaster warns</strong><br />http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/jun/30/china-climate-change-warning<br />Guardian: China faces an increase in weather disasters which will threaten crops and economic growth, the country's most senior forecaster has warned.  He Lifu, of the National Meteorological Centre, told the China Daily newspaper that events such as droughts, floods and storms had become more frequent and severe since the 1990s and the trend was likely to continue.  &quot;Extreme weather will be more frequent in the future due to the instability of the atmosphere, and global warming might be ...</p><p>Wed, 1 Jul 09<br /><strong>EPA gives California emissions waiver</strong><br />http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-california-waiver30-2009jun30,0,1077405.story<br />LA Times: The Environmental Protection Agency will announce today that it is granting California's request to impose tough restrictions on greenhouse gas emissions from cars and trucks -- reversing the Bush administration's position and opening the way for the state to take the lead on global-warming policy.  California developed the standards in 2004 but was barred from implementing them.  EPA officials say granting California the waiver from federal standards gives the state wide ...</p><p>Wed, 1 Jul 09<br /><strong>Obama Toughens Rules for Some Lighting</strong><br />http://www.climateark.org/shared/reader/welcome.aspx?linkid=131559<br />New York Times: President Obama announced tougher energy efficiency requirements for certain types of fluorescent and incandescent lighting on Monday, the latest step in the administration's push to cut the country's energy use.  The new rule , scheduled to take effect in 2012, will cut the amount of electricity used by affected lamps by 15 to 25 percent and save $1 billion to $4 billion a year for consumers, the White House said.  &quot;Now I know light bulbs may not seem sexy,&quot; Mr. Obama said, &quot;but ...</p><p>Wed, 1 Jul 09<br /><strong>Seagrass losses reveal global coastal crisis</strong><br />http://www.reuters.com/article/environmentNews/idUSTRE55T18S20090630?feedType=RSS&feedName=environmentNews<br />Reuters: Mounting loss of seagrass in the world's oceans, vital for the survival of endangered marine life, commercial fisheries and the fight against climate change, reveals a major crisis in coastal ecosystems, a report says.  A global study of seagrass, which can absorb large amounts of planet-warming carbon dioxide, found that 29 percent of the world's known seagrass had disappeared since 1879 and the losses were accelerating.  Seagrasses are flowering plants found in shallow waters. ...</p><p>Wed, 1 Jul 09<br /><strong>Indonesia premier hopefuls accused on environment</strong><br />http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20090630/wl_asia_afp/indonesiapoliticsvoteenvironment<br />Agence France-Presse: Presidential hopefuls vying for Indonesia's top job next week are ignoring the environment, despite dire threats from global warming and deforestation, environmental group Greenpeace has said.  None of the three candidates has made the environment a priority in their campaigns or offered any detailed policies on issues such as deforestation or carbon emissions, Greenpeace climate campaigner Arif Fiyanto said.  &quot;Up to now we haven't seen anything concrete from the three pairs of ...</p><p>Wed, 1 Jul 09<br /><strong>Louisiana coast will be underwater by 2100</strong><br />http://www.businessgreen.com/business-green/news/2245045/louisiana-coast-underwater-2100<br />Business Green: Researchers have concluded that large parts of the Louisiana coastline will be underwater by the end of the century, due to a combination of rising sea levels and shifting sediment levels in the Mississippi delta caused by dam construction.  The study, published yesterday in the journal Nature Geoscience, finds that the amount of sediment in the Mississippi river delta that feeds into the Gulf of Mexico has dropped by half, due in part to the construction of dams in the area. The ...</p><p>Wed, 1 Jul 09<br /><strong>Chaos, arm-twisting gave Pelosi win</strong><br />http://news.yahoo.com/s/politico/20090630/pl_politico/24364<br />Politico: After lawmakers had devoured the last of the Kalua Pig at last Thursday night's White House Luau, Nancy Pelosi summoned her team back to the Capitol -- to ensure the climate change bill wasn't the next thing roasted on the spit.  Pelosi and her top lieutenants would spend the next four hours whipping, cajoling, begging and browbeating undecided Democrats -- and triple-checking their whip lists to decide who was a solid &quot;yes' and who was prevaricating on the cap-and-trade ...</p><p>Wed, 1 Jul 09<br /><strong>United Kingdom:  Have the climate change deniers abandoned us during the heatwave?</strong><br />http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/georgemonbiot/2009/jun/29/climate-change-scepticism-heatwave<br />Guardian: We're still waiting. During the cold weather last winter, Gerald Warner, Peter Mullen and a host of other climate change deniers lined up to suggest that there must be something wrong with global warming theory, because some snow had fallen in Britain. Clearly they possessed the mystical ability to divine a long-running global climate trend from a single regional weather event. This clairvoyance could be very useful to climate researchers, so I hoped they would continue to favour us with ...</p><p>Wed, 1 Jul 09<br /><strong>Global food supply far from secure: farming expert</strong><br />http://www.reuters.com/article/environmentNews/idUSTRE55T2B620090630?feedType=RSS&feedName=environmentNews<br />Reuters: Africa's farmers need help to access loans, fertilizer and export markets to avoid future food supply crises caused by climate change and commodities speculation, a top agricultural expert said on Tuesday.  Wheat, rice and maize prices have fallen sharply from their 2008 highs, when protests broke out across the developing world over unaffordable staple foods and countries imposed export bans to ensure their people had enough to eat.  Akinwumi Adesina of the Alliance for a Green ...</p><p>Wed, 1 Jul 09<br /><strong>A breath of fresh air for batteries</strong><br />http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2009/jun/24/air-fuelled-lithium-battery<br />Guardian: Is using air the answer to a longer-lasting lithium battery? It's a surprising question but one familiar to Professor Peter Bruce of the University of St Andrews.  A new &quot;air-fuelled&quot; rechargeable lithium battery being developed in his research laboratory promises up to 10 times today's energy storage capacity.  A normal lithium battery in your mobile or laptop consists of a graphite negative electrode, an organic electrolyte and lithium cobalt oxide as the positive electrode. ...</p><p>Wed, 1 Jul 09<br /><strong>Betraying the Planet</strong><br />http://www.climateark.org/shared/reader/welcome.aspx?linkid=131537<br />New York Times: So the House passed the Waxman-Markey climate-change bill. In political terms, it was a remarkable achievement.  But 212 representatives voted no. A handful of these no votes came from representatives who considered the bill too weak, but most rejected the bill because they rejected the whole notion that we have to do something about greenhouse gases.  And as I watched the deniers make their arguments, I couldn't help thinking that I was watching a form of treason &ndash; treason ...</p><p>Wed, 1 Jul 09<br /><strong>China unhappy with US climate bill</strong><br />http://en.ce.cn/National/Politics/200906/30/t20090630_19426372.shtml<br />China Daily: The United States set the bar too low and offered the world a poor example when it passed its climate change bill on Friday, according to a senior Chinese climate change official.  Li Gao, a division director with the Climate Change Department of the National Development and Reform Commission, said the US did not live up to international expectations when it approved the document.  Li said the bill's mid-term carbon emission target would probably be seized upon as the new ...</p><p>Wed, 1 Jul 09<br /><strong>Europe Feels the U.S. Sneeze</strong><br />http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=47430<br />Inter Press Service: Governments and interest groups around the world followed the U.S. House of Representatives' vote Friday on the first U.S. policy to limit the country's greenhouse gas emissions. They were especially interested in Europe, where a system similar to the bill's cap-and-trade scheme already exists and where EU countries agreed last December to tough emissions targets.  The reaction among European groups has been as mixed as it has been among their U.S. counterparts, with the notable ...</p><p>Wed, 1 Jul 09<br /><strong>Particulate Pollution Combined With Airborne Soot Adds To Global Warming</strong><br />http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/06/090629200808.htm<br />ScienceDaily: Particulate pollution thought to be holding climate change in check by reflecting sunlight instead enhances warming when combined with airborne soot, a new study has found.  Like a black car on a bright summer day, soot absorbs solar energy. Recent atmospheric models have ranked soot, also called black carbon, second only to carbon dioxide in potential for atmospheric warming. But particles, or aerosols, such as soot mix with other chemicals in the atmosphere, complicating estimates of ...</p><p>Wed, 1 Jul 09<br /><strong>NZ to consult on 2020 target</strong><br />http://www.carbonpositive.net/viewarticle.aspx?articleID=1590<br />Carbon Positive: The New Zealand government has announced a national consultation programme on the setting of a mid-term target to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.  Climate change minister Nick Smith says the Government will hold community and business forums in nine centres starting on July 6, before announcing New Zealand's 2020 greenhouse gas emissions target at a UN negotiating session in Bonn in August.  New Zealand is among the last rich nations to commit to any sort of 2020 greenhouse ...</p>
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