 Biofuels A Dead End Greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide (CO2) resulting from the burning of fossil combustibles are said by a vast body of scientists to provoke global warming and consequently climate change. (04-19-2008) |
 Gorillas Endangered By Mining In The Congo Within the Dem. Rep. of Congo as a whole, the U.N. Environment Program has reported that the number of eastern lowland gorillas in eight Dem. Rep. of Congo national parks has declined by 90% over the past 5 years, and only 3,000 now remain. (04-16-2008) |
 Guyanese Rainforest Saved In Groundbreaking Deal The agreement will secure the future of one million acres of pristine rainforest in Guyana, the first move of its kind, and will open the way for financial markets to play a key role in safeguarding the fate of forests. (03-27-2008) |
 Huge Antarctic Ice Shelf Collapses A chunk of Antarctic ice about seven times the size of Manhattan suddenly collapsed, putting an even greater portion of glacial ice at risk. This is the result of global warming, said a British Antarctic Survey scientist. (03-25-2008) |
 Americans Protest New Nuclear Plans Residents and environmental activists are in a bitter dispute with large U.S. energy corporations and the federal government over the safety of nuclear power, as more than a dozen corporations plan to, or have filed, paperwork to open new nuclear power plants, primarily in the U.S. South. (01-15-2008) |
| Arctic Sea Ice Melting Extraordinarily Fast Revised estimates suggest that summer sea ice in the Arctic may disappear as early as the summer of 2012, twenty-eight years sooner than was projected recently. What happens in the Arctic has implications for the rest of the world. Faster melting there means eventual sea level rise and more immediate changes in winter weather because of less sea ice. (12-11-2007) |
 Guns Beating Green Despite all the government incentives, the really big money is turning away from clean energy technologies and banking instead on gadgets promising to seal wealthy countries and individuals into high-tech fortresses. Key growth areas in venture capitalism are private security firms selling surveillance gear and privatized emergency response. Put simply, in the world of venture capitalism, there has been a race going on between greens on the one hand and guns and garrisons on the other (11-30-2007) |
 Climate Action This Decade Or Else Unless the international community agrees to cut carbon emissions by half over the next generation, climate change is likely to cause large-scale human and economic setbacks and irreversible ecological catastrophes, according to a new United Nations report. (11-27-2007) |
 Urgent Action Needed On Global Warming Climate change is severe and so sweeping that only urgent, global action can head it off, according to a United Nations scientific panel report on global warming written by Nobel Prize winning scientists. (11-17-2007) |
 Net Metering Spreads in the United States Laws permitting individuals and businesses who produce more electricity than they use to sell it back to the electrical utilities are spreading in the United States. Such laws are critical to the economics of transition to renewable energy, since investments are necessary to produce solar or wind energy. (10-23-2007) |
 German Team Wins Solar Decathalon The students from the Technical University of Darmstadt prevailed over competition from the U.S., Canada, and Spain. The competition demanded that houses of 600-800 square feet be powered entirely by the sun, among other restrictions. The houses were constructed on the Mall in Washington, D.C., and can be toured virtually online. (10-23-2007) |
| Researchers to track movement of Arctic ice island An ice island the size of a small city is adrift in the Arctic after breaking free from one of Canada's largest ice shelves, scientists said today.
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 Bush Lies To World Leaders About Environmental Goals Less than a week after administration correspondence emerged demonstrating that the Bush administration has been attempting to undermine efforts by California and other states to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, Bush delivered a speech to representatives of several large countries claiming that he is doing the opposite. (09-28-2007) |
 Courts Uphold Tougher Emissions Standards A federal judge in Vermont gave the first legal endorsement yesterday to rules in California, being copied in 13 other states, that intend to reduce greenhouse gases emitted by automobiles and light trucks. (09-15-2007) |
 Two Hundred Added To Endangered Species List 16,306 species are now endangered, according to the International Union for Nature Conservation. The coral reefs have been added to their list for the first time. The director of the organization says that the drum beat of loss of biodiversity is getting stronger, and that it is necessary to address the crisis of extinction immediately. (09-12-2007) |
 Cellulosic Ethanol Could Help Limit Carbon Emissions The arguments in favor of cellulosic ethanol as a replacement for gasoline in cars and trucks are compelling. Cellulosic ethanol will reduce our dependence on imported oil, increase our energy security and reduce our trade deficit. Rural economies will benefit in the form of increased incomes and jobs. Growing energy crops and harvesting agricultural residuals are projected to increase the value of farm crops, potentially eliminating the need for some agricultural subsidies. Finally, cellulosic ethanol provides positive environmental benefits in the form of reductions in greenhouse gas emissions and air pollution. (08-28-2007) |
 World Faces New Threats of Water Scarcity The physical availability of water is being endangered by a rash of new threats, including climate change, increase in global population and the sudden growth of the water-hungry bioenergy sector. (08-16-2007) |
| Police Use Terror Laws Against Climate Protesters Armed police will use anti-terrorism powers to "deal robustly" with climate change protesters at Heathrow airport, as confrontations threaten to bring major delays. (08-11-2007) |
| Floating Ice Melting Quickly In The Arctic The area of floating ice in the Arctic has shrunk more this summer than in any other summer since satellite tracking began in 1979, and it has reached that record point a month before the annual ice pullback typically peaks, experts said yesterday. (08-11-2007) |
 Humans Drive River Dolphin To Extinction In the 1950s the Yangtze river had a population of thousands of freshwater dolphins, but their numbers declined dramatically when China industrialized and transformed the Yangtze into a crowded artery of mass shipping, fishing and power generation. (08-08-2007) |
| Ostrich Politicians Cave In To Industry On Fuel Mileage Increase House Democrats decided Wednesday not to try to raise fuel mileage standards for cars and trucks as part of the energy package lawmakers will vote on this week. Democrats announced they would withdraw an amendment designed to raise fuel mileage requirements to 35 miles per gallon by 2019. (08-02-2007) |
| Tropical Storms Double Due To Global Warming The number of tropical storms developing annually in the Atlantic Ocean more than doubled over the past century, with the increase taking place in two jumps. The increases coincided with rising sea surface temperature, largely the byproduct of human-induced climate warming, researchers concluded. (07-29-2007) |
| Unrest In China Due To Pollution The head of China's environmental agency has blamed the rising number of riots, demonstrations and petitions across the country on public anger at pollution. (07-06-2007) |
| Energy Waste At Home The Department of Energy estimates that in the average home, 40 percent of all electricity used to power home electronics is consumed while the products are turned off. Add that all up, and it equals the annual output of 17 power plants. Wasted power was costing me money and pumping unnecessary CO2 into the atmosphere. My PC alone was contributing 2,000 pounds of CO2 annually. The DVR. was adding another 543 pounds. But tweaking can pay off. Annually, my desktop PC is now using 73 percent less energy (06-13-2007) |
 Mermaid Joins Calls To Clean Up Oil One hundred miles east of the Ecuadorian capital, Quito, toxic waste dumped by Texaco - now part of the Chevron corporation - has seeped into the groundwater and, according to a growing body of medical evidence, caused medical problems including respiratory illnesses, skin infections, infertility and various cancers. (06-06-2007) |
| Bush Rejects Climate Action Proposal The United States has rejected a German proposal for deep long-term cuts in greenhouse gas emissions, setting the stage for a battle that will pit President Bush against his European allies at the next meeting of the G8 countries. (05-26-2007) |
| Great Lakes At Risk The appearance of viral hemorrhagic septicemia in the Great Lakes and now inland lakes should be a warning. Short-sighted and corrupt political leadership has ignored threats while pandering to developers for decades. (05-17-2007) |
| Green Media Sponsored By Polluters The new Yahoo! online education program is sponsored by Ford, which has maintained a pathetic fuel efficiency average across its fleet in recent years. This willingness to aid in Ford's greenwashing effort casts the supposedly educational mission of the new Yahoo! project in suspicious light. (05-15-2007) |
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