http://www.DailyPlanetMedia.com/daily_news_archive.phpDailyPlanetMedia.com is a leader in breaking news and original journalism. http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=5280&mode=1 A comet?s death fall into the Sun has been pictured for the first time. Over the past 15 years more than 2000 Sun-grazing comets have been detected, but up until now none had been 'followed' into the Sun's atmosphere.Three NASA spa... 2012-01-28 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=5279&mode=1 The sun has bombarded Earth with radiation from the biggest solar storm in more than six years and the strongest for radiation since May 2005. The radiation in the form of protons came flying out of the sun at 93 million miles per hour. ... 2012-01-27 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=5278&mode=1 Pre-workout supplements are providing a big hit with maximum energy buzz for combat training.Products containing ingredients that are banned in competitive sports are in widespread use while there is definite "trend" towards young people using ?e... 2012-01-27 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=5277&mode=1 If you're in the business of growing dragon fruit, then the Chinese New Year is a good one.Not only is 2012 the year of the dragon, but demand for the tropical fruit always peaks during the New Year celebrations.Located just outside of Darwi... 2012-01-26 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=5276&mode=1 Genetically engineered microbes are being used to process brown seaweed into biofuel.The work by researchers including Dr Yasuo Yoshikuni from Seattle's Bio-Architecture Lab could see large underwater farms become a source of renewable energ... 2012-01-25 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=5275&mode=1 An increase in reports of caffeine poisoning in young people has led to calls for health warnings on energy drinks.But the industry says consumers need to take personal responsibility, saying energy drinks are already marked as containing caffein... 2012-01-24 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=5274&mode=1 There is now ample scientific evidence that capacities once thought to be unique to humans are shared by whales.Like humans, whales and dolphins are 'persons'. That is, they are self-aware beings with individual personalities and a rich... 2012-01-23 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=5273&mode=1 The missing energy discrepancy between atmospheric and ocean temperature measurements has been solved - and there is now irrefutable proof that planet Earth has accumulated life-changing heat during the last decade.The latest research by internat... 2012-01-22 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=5272&mode=1 The world's biggest astronomy project called ALMA, the most powerful millimetre/submillimetre-wavelength telescope ever built, has sent back stunning images of distant galaxies.The Atacama Large Millimetre/submillimetere Array (ALMA) is a jo... 2012-01-21 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=5271&mode=1 Human-made global warming caused by the excessive burning of fossil fuels has been singled out in the Global Risks 2012 report issued by the World Economic Forum.The risk in the year ahead is that the world?s nations will go on ignoring the very ... 2012-01-20 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=5270&mode=1 Global uncertainty on how to deal with the threats of nuclear weapons and climate change have forced the 'Doomsday clock' one minute closer to midnight."It is now five minutes to midnight", says Dr Allison Macfarlane, chair of the Bulle... 2012-01-20 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=5269&mode=1 There ?is very little dispute? among scientists that human beings are the main cause of climate change, according to fact-checking PolitiFact.According to PolitiFact is no justifiable claims that the scientific community that climate change is pr... 2012-01-19 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=5268&mode=1 The international community won?t be able to keep world temperatures rising by less than 2 percent.Higher 2020 emissions, resulting from insufficient early mitigation action, has slotted global temperatures to go beyond the tipping point of sever... 2012-01-18 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=5267&mode=1 Asteroid dust collected by a Japanese spacecraft has given scientists their first look into the skin of an asteroid.The Hayabusa craft was launched in 2003 and successfully re-entered Earth's atmosphere in June last year, burning up but drop... 2012-01-17 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=5266&mode=1 A massive meteor bombardment 3.9 billion years ago provided most of the gold and other precious metals found near the Earth's surface today, according to a new study.Research by scientists led Dr Matthias Willbold from the University of Bris... 2012-01-16 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=5265&mode=1 Science is on the brink of using synthetic biology to make designer organisms.But the dilemma being faced in 2012 is how much vigilance is needed to ensure the new technology is not misused."There are huge pressures to move away from our current ... 2012-01-15 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=5264&mode=1 2010 is a big year for nuclear fusion but experts fear that a lack of fuel could push the dream of cheap, safe, clean and limitless energy far into the future.As fossil fuels run dry and increasingly desperate attempts are made to control carbon ... 2012-01-14 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=5262&mode=1 Organic consumers and producers in the U.S. are facing betrayal. A self-appointed group of ?Organic Elites?, including Whole Foods Market, Organic Valley, and Stonyfield Farm, are surrendering to Monsanto.Top executives from all of these companie... 2012-01-13 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=5261&mode=1 Climate change experts studying hurricanes have documented a warming trend in ocean surface temperature and linked it to larger hurricanes. The increase has been 1 degree Fahrenheit, resulting in four percent more atmospheric water vapor and six ... 2012-01-12 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=5260&mode=1 Thought-controlled wheelchairs and nerve-controlled prosthetic arms are some of the latest innovations in bionics being discussed at a science conference in Washington.The wheelchair can be directed by brain signals detected using a cap fitted to... 2012-01-11 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=5259&mode=1 Australian can expected more super cyclones like Yasi that battered the continent?s north eastern coast.Professor Ross Garnaut asserts that weather events are likely to become much more severe unless global warming is slowed, and he says the odds... 2012-01-10 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=5258&mode=1 Researchers have discovered how cocaine corrupts the brain and becomes addictive. These findings - the first to connect activation of specific neurons to alterations in cocaine reward - may help researchers in developing new ways of treating thos... 2012-01-09 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=5257&mode=1 Humans are warming the world's oceans with carbon emissions that are endangering the oceans living reefs.A major new study by an international scientific team has fond that ocean acidification and global warming will combine with local impac... 2012-01-08 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=5256&mode=1 The reward center of the human brain may need a new name, say scientists who have shown it responds to good and bad experiences. This finding may helps to explain the "thrill" of thrill-seeking behavior or maybe just the thrill of surviving it, a... 2012-01-07 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=5255&mode=1 011 has been a big year for nuclear fusion but experts fear that a lack of fuel could push the dream of cheap, safe, clean and limitless energy far into the future.As fossil fuels run dry and increasingly desperate attempts are made to control ca... 2012-01-06 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=5254&mode=1 Butterflies and birds aren't moving in line with recent temperature increases in Europe, while cold-climate plants are being squeezed out by their warmer cousins, according to two new studies into climate change.A team led by Vincent Devicto... 2012-01-05 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=5253&mode=1 Scientists have discovered the most intense energy sources in the cosmos - a rare gamma-ray binary star system ? that opens a new window to an extreme energy.NASA's Fermi space telescope has found an intense binary star system consisting of ... 2012-01-04 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=5252&mode=1 Forces are at work shaping the environment in which cars compete. Adaptive evolution has brought the rapid appearance of a new generation of electric vehicles that will largely replace the current generation of internal combustion engine vehicles... 2012-01-03 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=5251&mode=1 Lizards hatching from warmer nests are better at learning new things than their counterparts from cooler nests, say Australian researchers.According to Professor Rick Shine from the University of Sydney it?s now known by research that nest temper... 2012-01-02 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=5250&mode=1 US scientists believe an iconic tortoise that has been presumed extinct in the Galapagos Islands for 150 years may still exist, based on DNA blood samples from the giant creatures' living children.The reptile in question is a majestic tortoi... 2012-01-01 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=5249&mode=1 For the first time human history dark matter has been tracked as a network of gigantic dense (white) and empty (dark) regions.The breakthrough observations show that the largest white regions are about the size of several Earth moons on the sky.U... 2011-12-30 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=5248&mode=1 Indonesian island of Lombok is yet to become Bali's nemesis as a tourist destination, but locals have found there are other ways to make a buck.Gold fever has gripped the Indonesian Island of Lombok .On the southwest peninsula of Sekotong, a... 2011-12-31 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=5247&mode=1 A new report outlines climate change projections for individual island states within the Pacific region.The three-year study by Australia's peak government science body, the CSIRO, and state bureaus of meteorology predicts increased air and ... 2011-12-27 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=5246&mode=1 Scientists have found a direct link between the number of "friends" a person has on Facebook and the size of certain brain regions, raising the possibility that using online social networks might change our brains.The four brain areas involved ar... 2011-12-26 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=5245&mode=1 Soil is the most complex biomaterial on the planet.In a handful of fertile soil there are more individual organisms than the total number of human beings that have ever lived on Earth.And the life in soil defines the soil and its function and pro... 2011-12-25 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=5244&mode=1 Ecologists have warned production of frankincense, one of the three gifts given to baby Jesus in the fable of the Wise Men in the Nativity story celebrated at Christmas, is in dramatic decline.A research team from the Netherlands and Ethiopia say... 2011-12-24 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=5242&mode=1 A huge treasure trove of artefacts including thousands of fragments of pottery provides the first evidence that the sea-faring Lapita people settled in mainland Papua New Guinea.The discovery, by a group of archaeologists from Australia and Papua... 2011-12-23 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=5241&mode=1 Australian scientists say the Snowy River's water boost has been a success, after this year's spring snow thaw was boosted by the first of years of planned environmental flows.Water to shift the blocked sediment went into the Snowy from... 2011-12-22 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=5240&mode=1 Heavier rainfall, more floods, stronger cyclones, landslides, more intense droughts and heatwaves are likely across the globe this century as the Earth's climate warms, UN scientists say.The UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC... 2011-12-21 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=5239&mode=1 Traces of DNA inside animal scats are helping scientists better understand the movement of feral camels and why reindeer numbers are on the decline.These were some of applications of a growing field known as DNA barcoding.Just as unique barcodes ... 2011-12-20 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=5238&mode=1 A scientist at climate change conference in Australia said tweaking development guidelines is the key to the region's preparedness for sea level rises.The National Climate Change Adaptation Research Facility hosted a workshop for researchers... 2011-12-19 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=5237&mode=1 The operator of Japan's Fukushima nuclear plant admit that at least 45 tonnes of highly radioactive water has leaked from the facility, possibly into the Pacific Ocean.A statement by the operator TEPCO said workers noticed a leak in a purifi... 2011-12-18 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=5236&mode=1 From renewable technologies and green vehicles to smart grids and climate-ready crops, wealthier countries are mainly developing intellectual property technologies that could help countries reduce carbon emissions - or adapt to climate change.Yet... 2011-12-17 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=5234&mode=1 Two of the largest black holes with masses 10 billion times that of the Sun have been discovered in the centre of two separate galaxies more than 300 million light years away.Both of these super massive black holes have masses of about 9.7 billio... 2011-12-16 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=5233&mode=1 The first-ever rocky planet with water that can support the same complex life forms as found on Earth has been discovered in the habitable zone of the Milky Way galaxy.NASA Kepler space telescope has confirmed the existence of the first Earth-lik... 2011-12-15 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=5232&mode=1 A huge treasure trove of artefacts including thousands of fragments of pottery provides the first evidence that the sea-faring Lapita people settled in mainland Papua New Guinea.The discovery, by a group of archaeologists from Australia and Papua... 2011-12-14 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=5231&mode=1 The Tasmanian Government is investigating how much the state could earn from storing carbon in its native forests.Australia?s Climate Change Minister says consultants CO-2 Australia will provide the first accurate snapshot of the amount of carbon... 2011-12-13 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=5230&mode=1 Australian scientists say the Snowy River's water boost has been a success, after this year's spring snow thaw was boosted by the first of years of planned environmental flows.Water to shift the blocked sediment went into the Snowy from... 2011-12-12 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=5229&mode=1 The United Nations' World Meteorological Organisation (WMO) released figures showing that 13 of the warmest years on record have occurred within the last decade and a half.The year 2011 caps a decade that ties the record as the hottest ever ... 2011-12-11 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=5228&mode=1 A new report outlines climate change projections for individual island states within the Pacific region.The three-year study by Australia's peak government science body, the CSIRO, and state bureaus of meteorology predicts increased air and ... 2011-12-10 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=5226&mode=1 In a handful of fertile soil there are more individual organisms than the total number of human beings that have ever lived on Earth.And the life in soil defines the soil and its function and properties.Fungi and other microbes can reorganise the... 2011-12-09 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=5225&mode=1 It grows at a phenomenal rate, can be harvested daily and can be turned into almost anything from fuel to food to medicine.It's algae, and a company which has invested in producing it from carbon emissions has been awarded a major industry p... 2011-12-08 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=5224&mode=1 A scientist at climate change conference in Australia said tweaking development guidelines is the key to the region's preparedness for sea level rises.The National Climate Change Adaptation Research Facility hosted a workshop for researchers... 2011-12-07 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=5223&mode=1 Traces of DNA inside animal scats are helping scientists better understand the movement of feral camels and why reindeer numbers are on the decline.These were some of applications of a growing field known as DNA barcoding.Just as unique barcodes ... 2011-12-06 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=5222&mode=1 Heavier rainfall, more floods, stronger cyclones, landslides, more intense droughts and heatwaves are likely across the globe this century as the Earth's climate warms, UN scientists say.The UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC... 2011-12-05 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=5221&mode=1 Scientists have for the first time teleported properties of one atom to another, a step towards making super-fast quantum computers.Far from being the teleportation of Star Trek in which Captain Kirk, Spock and Bones get beamed from the starship ... 2011-12-04 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=5220&mode=1 NASA's biggest robotic explorer ever built named Curiosity has begun its nine-month journey to Mars, where it will hunt for signs life once existed there.About a dozen Mars missions have been launched in the past three decades by global spac... 2011-12-03 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=5218&mode=1 British scientists believe microscopic worms may be the key to helping humans colonise other planets like Mars by giving clues on coping with long-term space living.A team of scientists led by Nathaniel Szewczyk from Notthingham University blaste... 2011-12-02 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=5217&mode=1 A burst of gamma-ray radiation from a distant galaxy, detected on 25 December last year, may have come from a comet crashing into a neutron star, claim astrophysicists.Gamma-ray bursts, or GRBs, are high-energy releases that often come from stars... 2011-12-01 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=5216&mode=1 Radioactive fallout from nuclear testing in the 1950s is helping Australian researchers track the impact of climate change in the Antarctica.The discovery, reported in an upcoming edition of Global Change Biology , coincides with celebrations tom... 2011-11-30 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=5215&mode=1 The North Pole waters will soon be ice-free - as early as 2013 - according to studies that showed that northern summer melts in the Arctic had reduced the ice cover to the lowest ever recorded in modern times.Professor Wieslaw Maslowski of the Na... 2011-11-28 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=5213&mode=1 A new study a team of researchers has found that sea level rise caused by warming oceans plays a significant role in pushing the poles around."As warming gets into the deep ocean, it pushes up the water above it", said Felix Landerer of Jet Propu... 2011-11-27 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=5212&mode=1 Many Asian nations are at prime risk from climate change caused by global warming and must invest more in urban and indoor farming to help feed the hundreds of millions of people in their growing cities.According to the World Meteorological Organ... 2011-11-26 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=5211&mode=1 Environmental groups calculate that the average small USA, European and Australian household throws out two extra large black bags of rubbish at Christmas, creating 14.4kg of waste and generating 26.4kg CO2.A medium household throws out five extr... 2011-11-25 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=5210&mode=1 Bird and tropical lizard species across the world are suffering greatly from significant changes to the Earth's climate.Latest research on the effects of a warming planet on birds across Europe and tropical lizards found in Latin America and... 2011-11-24 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=5209&mode=1 New sensor technology lifted into space by balloon will soon give climate scientists a more accurate reading of Earth's temperature shifts.New generation balloons are proving that rockets are no longer required to send scientific instruments... 2011-11-23 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=5208&mode=1 The North Pole waters will soon be ice-free - as early as 2013 - according to studies that showed that northern summer melts in the Arctic had reduced the ice cover to the lowest ever recorded in modern times.Professor Wieslaw Maslowski of the Na... 2011-11-22 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=5207&mode=1 Natural gas vehicles make up a small slice of the auto pie accounting for just under one percent of all vehicles, according to data published by the trade association NGV Global.Even some of the largest trucks on the road, such as long-haul UPS t... 2011-11-21 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=5206&mode=1 Global warming is sporing seeds, mites, lichens and mosses not previously seen before in icy Antarctica.Scientists report finding a host of tiny organisms from springtails to mosses as global warming shrinks the polar ice caps producing condition... 2011-11-20 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=5205&mode=1 Aircraft jet fleets will double in size by 2026.The European planemaker Airbus expects 28,534 passenger and freight aircraft would be flying within the next two decades - more than double the current total of 13,284.The biggest demand for aircraf... 2011-11-19 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=5203&mode=1 Oil industry experts have dismissed as falacy speculation that the world's oil supply had peaked.Human demand, not ecology, would determine the amount of oil supply, the experts said reinforcing the view that oil and carbon combustion would ... 2011-11-18 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=5202&mode=1 England has been warned that summer flooding - combined with the likelihood of severe heat waves - would be a regular new climate feature if human-made emissions aren't curbed by 60 per centre of the current output.Tens of thousands died acr... 2011-11-17 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=5201&mode=1 A team of United States and Australian scientists are gathering information on climate change by observing an unusual coral reef hundreds of meters below the surface of the Southern Ocean.The climate scientists are using a robot to record coral a... 2011-11-16 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=5200&mode=1 Great Britain is keeping its plan to plan to cut CO2 emissions from homes by 80% by the year 2050.The plane ensures that every house in the country becomes energy efficient, according to an action plan recommended to for Government action by the ... 2011-11-15 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=5199&mode=1 Wildfires have become a rash on the planet, according to Professor David Bowan of the University of Today.Professor Bowan said calculations from all known deforestation had shown that major wildfire outbreaks had mostly destroyed forests since th... 2011-11-14 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=5198&mode=1 New sensor technology lifted into space by balloon will soon give climate scientists a more accurate reading of Earth's temperature shifts.New generation balloons are proving that rockets are no longer required to send scientific instruments... 2011-11-13 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=5197&mode=1 Southern Australia's vast coastline is being subjected to more extreme weather attributed to climate change.A report funded by the Federal Government revealed that an increase in storms - generated by large waves far off the coastlines - are... 2011-11-12 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=5195&mode=1 Climate change could wipe out an ocean wilderness said to be the world's most diverse by the end of the century if nations do not drastically cut emissions, according to the environmental group WWF.Rising water temperatures, sea levels and a... 2011-11-11 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=5194&mode=1 The Earth's fast-changing climate has military generals, geographers and diplomats agreeing that the next major armed conflicts could be driven by climate change."It's not hard to imagine violent outbursts", stated Julianne Smith of the... 2011-11-10 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=5193&mode=1 Plug-in cars have barely made a dent in the global vehicle fleet, and automakers have yet to launch their first real entries into the race for a mainstream electric car.But when carmakers do start selling those models - next year and beyond - the... 2011-11-09 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=5192&mode=1 Science is on he brink of using synthetic biology to make designer organisms.But the dilemma being faced is how much vigilance is needed to ensure the new technology is not misused."There are huge pressures to move away from our current reliance ... 2011-11-08 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=5191&mode=1 Ocean dead zones devoid of most marine life for up to 2,000 years are a likely result of global warming, according to Denmark scientists who used computer modeling to simulate long-term climate change.The calculations showed a worst-case scenario... 2011-11-07 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=5190&mode=1 International stations at the Antarctic continent are carring out more research into the effects of melting of Antarctic ice.Science is still undecided why ice-shelf melting is accelerating on the peninsula and in other parts of west Antarctica, ... 2011-11-06 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=5189&mode=1 The Australian Fisheries Management Authority has agreed to change the Bass Strait scallop harvest strategy after a run of poor seasons.The industry anticipated bumper seasons for the past two winters, but fishermen reported mass deaths of scallo... 2011-11-05 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=5188&mode=1 Humans are undeniably complex with biological functions that are regulated and resilient, owing to complicated webs of interactions. Unlike other species, however, humans seem to be endowed with willpower and intellect, and capable of modifying t... 2011-11-03 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=5187&mode=1 Scientists have found a direct link between the number of "friends" a person has on Facebook and the size of certain brain regions, raising the possibility that using online social networks might change our brains.The four brain areas involved ar... 2011-11-02 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=5186&mode=1 India has rapidly become the world's dumping ground for waste including hazardous material like old electronic gadgets or 'e-waste'. A large force of both formal and informal workers is involved in the acquiring, processing, and ma... 2011-11-01 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=5185&mode=1 As impacts of climate change become more apparent many predictions of scientists are proving to have underplayed the reality that is proving to be far worse than most expected.Worldwide flooding and prolonged droughts are the real time evidence t... 2011-10-31 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=5184&mode=1 Weather Services International (WSI) says the world should be prepared for more more intense hurricanes and storms in 2012.The forecasts are well above the long-term average calculated between 1950 and 2010.WSI reports that "The Gulf and Caribbea... 2011-10-30 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=5181&mode=1 The biggest known fossil spider has been found in China, a new study says.Measuring nearly 1 inch (2.5 centimeters) in length, the 165-million-year-old fossil was uncovered in 2005 by farmers in Inner Mongolia  in a region teeming with fossi... 2011-10-28 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=5180&mode=1 The hot summers will become a mainstay if greenhouse gas levels continue to rise, according to the report to be published later this month in the journal Climate Change.A future dramatic shift in seasonal temperatures could have severe consequenc... 2011-10-27 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=5179&mode=1 Research has shown a direct correlation between chocolate consumption and reduction in cardiometabolic disorders.Highest levels of chocolate consumption resulted in a 37 percent reduction in cardiovascular disease.And dark chocolate can help redu... 2011-10-26 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=5178&mode=1 Earth has delivered its seven billionth human baby.The United Nations registered seven billionth child on October 31.Concerns over humanity's environmental impact and fears that the species won?t be able feed itself in 100 years' time h... 2011-10-25 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=5177&mode=1 In 2010 the first diving expedition to the springs at the bottom of the Dead Sea revealed a hot spot for life in the lake, which lies on the border of Israel and Jordan .The team found several craters on the lake's bottom that were covered w... 2011-10-24 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=5176&mode=1 Britain's chief scientific adviser John Beddington says moves to abandon nuclear power after Japan's Fukushima crisis, saying it remains vital to combat global warming.Beddington called for greater global efforts to cut carbon emissions... 2011-10-23 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=5175&mode=1 A train carrying nuclear waste left the Netherlands for a recycling plant in France.This was  the second such shipment that has sparked protests from anti-nuclear activists.Environmental organisations called for activists to protest the ship... 2011-10-22 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=5173&mode=1 Extreme weather will be able to be better predicted after NASA launches its 1.5 billion dollar National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System.to measure both short and long term changes in weather and climate,.The launch is sc... 2011-10-21 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=5172&mode=1 Negotiators from around the world have met Panama hoping to find common ground on how to tackle climate change.The Kyoto Protocol's obligations for wealthy nations to cut carbon emissions run out at the end of 2012, leading the European Unio... 2011-10-20 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=5171&mode=1 European Union wants a greener, fairer farm policy across Europe.To achieve this the EU wants a radically overhaul its Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) by capping subsidies and tying them to environmental concerns."The CAP must be redefined", EU ... 2011-10-19 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=5170&mode=1 Expectations are low that UN talks on climate in South Africa this month will broker any world climate agreement.Negotiators have shifted their goal from striking a historic deal to ensuring that the global system survives.Participants have long ... 2011-10-18 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=5169&mode=1 Little penguins on Granite Island off South Australia are in decline.And conservationists anticipate that a new census of the penguins in Australia's Victor Harbour to show the population is on the brink of being wiped out.About 60 volunteer... 2011-10-17 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=5168&mode=1 Thailand?s monsoon floods have killed more than 200 people.Bangkok will be at risk of flooding for another month as excess water moves down the swollen Chao Phraya River.It?s the worst flooding in decades, which has affected 58 of the country... 2011-10-16 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=5167&mode=1 Traffic emissions are suspected responsible for lower than average birth weights among babies born in some Perth suburbs.A Western Australia study, based on the records of 3,000 mothers, measured carbon monoxide levels around their homes in a ran... 2011-10-15 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=5165&mode=1 New Zealand fears a prolonged drought could lead to crop failures and food shortages. The country?s officials have warned that some South Pacific islands are facing crop failures and Tokelau has followed Tuvalu in declaring a state of emergency b... 2011-10-14 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=5164&mode=1 Japan will dispatch its whaling fleet to the Southern Ocean again this year.The government said it would also send an observation ship to monitor the activities of the Sea Shepherd group.The Sea Shepherd conservation group successfully obstructed... 2011-10-13 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=5163&mode=1 Scientists for the first time have used gene therapy to successfully destroy cancer tumors in patients with advanced disease - a goal that has taken 20 years to achieve.Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania engineered patients' own p... 2011-10-12 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=5162&mode=1 Australia's chief scientist has criticized media coverage of the climate change debate and has urged the science community to do more to argue its case.Professor Ian Chubb has also described personal attacks on climate scientists as deplorab... 2011-10-11 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=5161&mode=1 It?s been 20 years since the signing of an historic agreement that prevented mining in Antarctica.The next Antarctic Treaty Consultative Meeting is in Hobart, Australia, l in 2012.The world gathering is seen as an opportunity for all parties to s... 2011-10-10 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=5160&mode=1 The world's biggest astronomy project called ALMA - the most powerful millimetre/submillimetre-wavelength telescope ever built - has sent back stunning images of distant galaxies.The Atacama Large Millimetre/submillimetere Array (ALMA) is a ... 2011-10-09 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=5159&mode=1 Biofuels have become top priorities for the U.S. military to save money as liquid petroleum fuels account for three-quarters of America?s $15 billion energy bill.The Defense Department will be spending $2.25 billion to harness clean energy techno... 2011-10-08 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=5157&mode=1 Soon technology will be able to commercially make use of cellulosic biomass, or wood chips, switchgrass and the nonedible parts of crops.Such technology could reduce the every country's reliance on oil imports for gasoline in favor of a clea... 2011-10-07 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=5156&mode=1 Human use of Earth's natural resources is making the air, freshwaters and soils more acidic.According to new research by the U.S. Geological Survey and the University of Virginia. the mining and burning of coal, the mining and smelting of me... 2011-10-06 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=5155&mode=1 The island nation of Tuvalu wants the United Nations to act immediately to keep their state above water.    The U.N. General Assembly has heard petitions from the leaders of island nations where the impact of climate change is alre... 2011-10-05 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=5154&mode=1 Climate researchers have detailed a map of the global distribution of gases and particles that affect Earth's climate.The map shows "plumes" of the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide over the Arctic and "plumes" of oxygen coming out of the Southe... 2011-10-04 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=5153&mode=1 Massive monsoon rains in Pakistan is a direct effect of climate change.So far this years unprecedented floods have affected eight million people, claiming 350 lives and damaging 1.3 million homes.Over the past month, the country's southern r... 2011-10-03 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=5152&mode=1 Google has gone from the Internet cloud to harnessing unlimited electricity power from the Sun.According to Google one third of all Americans can save money by going solar.The software giant has gone on a spending spree to get homeowners hooked u... 2011-10-02 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=5151&mode=1 Mexico's environment secretary says the country has reduced the average annual loss of forests and jungles.Juan Elvira says deforestation in Mexico has averaged 383,000 acres (152,000 hectares) a year over the most recent five years. That is... 2011-10-01 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=5149&mode=1 Efforts to save the Philippine crocodile, a "critically endangered" reptile, could go in vain as bureaucrats oppose their release into the wild, a top Philippine environment official stated.A 24-year-old captive breeding programme in the country ... 2011-09-30 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=5148&mode=1 The mystery of Earth's missing heat may have been solved: it could lurk deep in oceans, temporarily masking the climate-warming effects of greenhouse gas emissions, researchers reported on Sunday.Climate scientists have long wondered where t... 2011-09-29 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=5147&mode=1 The sea floor around the West Antarctica peninsula could become invaded by a voracious king crab, which is on the march thanks to global warming, biologists reported.The worrisome intruder is a bright-red deep-sea predator that previously had bee... 2011-09-28 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=5146&mode=1 Envisioning a worst-case scenario in which climate change spirals out of control, researchers in the United Kingdom are planning to test a hose-and-balloon device that spews particles into the atmosphere in an attempt to bring global temperatures... 2011-09-27 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=5145&mode=1 A massive meteor bombardment 3.9 billion years ago provided most of the gold and other precious metals found near the Earth's surface today, according to a new study.The research by scientists led Dr Matthias Willbold from the University of ... 2011-09-26 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=5144&mode=1 Production and trafficking of controlled substances consumes not just money, but energy, water, and forests as well.It?s not just that banned recreational drug markets have sparked legal battles, burgeoning industries, turf wars, and societal woe... 2011-09-25 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=5143&mode=1 Google the technology giant has revealed that its servers use less energy for a month, per user, than a light bulb that burns for three hours.But, put together, the company's data centers continually use about 260 million watts, or about 25 ... 2011-09-24 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=5141&mode=1 Large herds of wild cattle in eastern Cambodia mean the area could be one of the best places in Asia for a recovery in tiger populations, conservation group World Wildlife Fund said on Monday.There may be no more than five tigers living in the wi... 2011-09-23 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=5140&mode=1 Microbes living in human feces have ravaged coral populations in the Caribbean and Florida Keys for more than a decade.This shows the disadvantage of making the seas warm and nutrient rich.Elkhorn coral was once the most common in the Caribbean, ... 2011-09-22 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=5139&mode=1 A nearby star is pummeling a companion planet with a barrage of X-rays 100,000 times more intense than the Earth receives from the sun.New data from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Tel... 2011-09-21 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=5138&mode=1 Natural gas vehicles make up a small slice of the auto pie accounting for just under one percent of all vehicles, according to 2010 data published by the trade association NGV Global.But in some parts of the world they're gaining popularity.... 2011-09-20 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=5137&mode=1 Astronomers agree that a newly discovered a planet could be the mostly likely to sustain life.The surface of this so-called 'Goldilocks' planet is no too hot or too cold. It's in just the right temperature zone to let water flow fr... 2011-09-19 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=5136&mode=1 British American Tobacco has told an Australian Senate hearing that it could seek billions of dollars in compensation if the Government's proposed plain packaging laws go ahead.The company says the plain packaging laws could have unintended ... 2011-09-18 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=5135&mode=1 Aid agencies in southern Pakistan say the severe flooding affected more than five million people including more than two million children.And aid workers explain a lack of clean drinking water and toilet facilities is putting the children's ... 2011-09-17 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=5133&mode=1 In future years many millions more people are likely to be flooded every year, according to the Geneva-based ISDR. Those to be hardest hit will be in the mega-deltas of Asia and Africa and the small island states, struck by the double threat of f... 2011-09-16 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=5132&mode=1 A special tiger protection force has been set up in India to to curb the depletion of the country's endangered tiger population.Most tigers that have disappear in India - and other countries - are killed either by poachers supplying body par... 2011-09-15 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=5131&mode=1 Environmentalists warn that the popularity of eating raw fish as Japanese cuisine sushi had put unprecedented strain on the tuna and the rising demand could eventual result in the species becoming extinction.Now Blue Fin tuna are being hunted to ... 2011-09-14 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=5130&mode=1 Indonesia is planting billions of trees to produce oxygen and offset CO2 emissions.Where forests have been devastated over the past four decades, Indonesia has pledged to plant more than 70 million trees in a response to international criticism o... 2011-09-13 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=5129&mode=1 The behavior of ice sheets on the two polar caps will be the subject of a special investigation the outcome of which will most likely be presented to the United Nations in 2013.Exactly why the last Arctic summer ice thawed to the smallest size si... 2011-09-12 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=5128&mode=1 The so called high-tech kites that have been pulling commercial merchant ship may be reducing the work of its engines but there's little evidence of of slashing fuel consumption and cutting greenhouse gas emissions.In Hamburg Beluga Shipping... 2011-09-11 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=5127&mode=1 Earth was thrown into a cold spell that drove mammoths and other animal species into extinction when a cosmic impact event occurred on the planet 13, 000 years ago.A scientific discovery showed that a cluster of comets had an explosive impact on ... 2011-09-10 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=5125&mode=1 Climate data shows that as global temperatures have risen in the last 50 years there has been an advance of an earlier spring. And while summers have remained relatively stable winter temperatures have had extreme variations from year to year.Ear... 2011-09-09 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=5124&mode=1 Bird and tropical lizard species across the world are suffering greatly from significant changes to the Earth's climate.Latest research on the effects of a warming planet on birds across Europe and tropical lizards found in Latin America and... 2011-09-08 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=5123&mode=1 Renewable energy such as solar and wind power could produce 40 percent of the world's electricity by 2050, the International Scientific Congress on Climate Change has been told in Copenhagen.Subsidies would lead to cheaper electricity when w... 2011-09-07 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=5122&mode=1 Volkswagen claims it will be another 25 years - if ever - before electric cars make up a significant portion of the world's auto market.Volkswagen Group of America CEO Stefan Jacoby has outlined the German automaker's view that fossil f... 2011-09-06 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=5121&mode=1 Money can buy love but not happiness. Neither, it turns out, does social status, youth or beauty. Years of research into the living experience shows that happiness is linked to the Sun.By most standard measures poor people should be less happy th... 2011-09-04 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=5120&mode=1 Pluto will remain classified as a dwarf planet despite new evidence that its more Earth-like with dust rings. Rings have become a key feature of the planets of the outer solar system. As well as the spectacular ringed world of Saturn, faint rings... 2011-09-03 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=5118&mode=1 Scientists have used gene therapy to successfully destroy cancer tumours in patients with advanced disease - a goal that has taken 20 years to achieve.Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania engineered patients' own pathogen-fighting T... 2011-09-02 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=5117&mode=1 Towns along Western Australia's coastline are among the most susceptible to climate change in the world with the areas of Mandurah, Busselton, Rockingham and Bunbury under particular threat of flooding and coastal erosion, a new Climate Comm... 2011-09-01 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=5116&mode=1 Dr. Margaret McCartney, a general practitioner living in Scotland, claims the common health advice that people should drink six to eight cups of water each day is "thoroughly debunked nonsense".  She argues that it is propagated by bottled w... 2011-08-30 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=5115&mode=1 Twenty bright yellow electric tricycles went on show in the streets of Mandaluyong City in Metro Manila marking a first step towards a sustainable, energy-efficient transport model for the Philippines.The 20 e-trikes are part of a project to intr... 2011-08-27 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=5114&mode=1 Melting glaciers point to harsh change of climate in the coming years, according to Lonnie Thompson, a scientist from the Byrd Polar Research Center in Ohio who has led 57 field expeditions and published more than 200 articles.Despite various tem... 2011-08-26 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=5113&mode=1 The drought hit Horn of Africa is facing its worst drought in 60 years.The United Nations refugee agency said today it urgently needs 45,000 more tents as more Somalis continue to arrive in Kenya after fleeing drought, famine and conflict in thei... 2011-08-25 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=5112&mode=1 Federal environmental regulators have reached a $1.3 millon settlement with the owners and a former operator of a Danvers ink and paint factory.Most of the recovery will go to reimburse the US Environmental Protection Agency?s $2.7 million in cos... 2011-08-24 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=5110&mode=1 A nationwide network of electric vehicle charging stations fertilized with economic stimulus funds is growing across USA.More than 1,800 electric vehicle chargers have been installed across the country to date under the Obama administration'... 2011-08-23 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=5109&mode=1 The Sun is not a major factor in controlling temperature on the planet Earth, and never was, according to climate expert Dr. John Zebelean. The atmosphere of Earth is the major factor of temperature control. Without the atmosphere there would be ... 2011-08-22 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=5108&mode=1 Many more birds are being killed by malaria and evidence points to climate change driving an increase in the disease, according to scientists. Monitoring programs say about 30 species of birds have malaria.Researchers link the problem to a rapid ... 2011-08-21 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=5107&mode=1 An apparent shortage of krill has plunged penguin populations have plunged by as much as 50 percent during the past three decades in the West Antarctic Peninsula and Scotia Sea.Krill are tiny, shrimplike animals that live in enormous numbers and ... 2011-08-20 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=5105&mode=1 Melting glaciers point to harsh change of climate in the coming years, according to Lonnie Thompson, a scientist from the Byrd Polar Research Center in Ohio who has led 57 field expeditions and published more than 200 articles.Despite various tem... 2011-08-19 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=5104&mode=1 Record loss of the ozone layer has been observed over the Arctic.Over recent months, the World Meteorological Organization has been observing a lowering of the atmosphere layer that shields life from the sun's harmful rays."Depletion of the ... 2011-08-18 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=5103&mode=1 The world has gotten stormier over the past two decades.And the reason remains a mystery, according to a new study.In the past 20 years, winds have picked up around 5 percent on average.Extremely strong winds caused by storms have increased even ... 2011-08-17 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=5102&mode=1 China will maintain its five-year plan for the rapid building of a massive Asia-wide transportation network. Despite safety setbacks, the super fast construction of highways and rails has been given a top national priority with the stated objecti... 2011-08-16 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=5101&mode=1 A green energy production plan in the Canadian province of Ontario has brought in commitments worth US$21 billion in private-sector investment since 2009.The plant is the most comprehensive subsidy scheme for clean energy production in North Amer... 2011-08-15 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=5100&mode=1 A collision with a companion moon billions of years ago caused the dark side of Earth's moon to bulge and form into massive highlands.The far side of the moon - with mountain ranges topping 3,000 metres and deep craters ? is very different t... 2011-08-14 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=5099&mode=1 At any time in the world today about 1.5 billion people lack access to electricity.And indoor air pollution from biomass smoke is killing 1.5 million people a year, more than malaria or tuberculosis..Off-grid renewable energy technologies - solar... 2011-08-13 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=5097&mode=1 Volkswagen America claims it will be another 30 years before electric cars make up a significant portion of the world's auto market.Volkswagen Group of America CEO Stefan Jacoby outlined the German automaker's view that fossil fuels and... 2011-08-12 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=5096&mode=1 Some 100, 000 commercial ships making regular passages across the oceans emit about half as much climate pollution as the world's 600 million cars.Every year commercial ships emit one million kilograms of particle pollution into the air, acc... 2011-08-11 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=5095&mode=1 American regulators want Exxon Mobil to retool its preliminary plan to clean up oil spilled into the Yellowstone River in Montana from a ruptured pipe at the start of July.Handling of the spill has cooled relations between the oil giant and Monta... 2011-08-10 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=5094&mode=1 Oceans that have been removing up to a third of human made hydrocarbon emissions over the last 250 years are fast maxing out their carbon sinking capacity, according to researchers who have spent the last two years investigating the world's ... 2011-08-09 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=5093&mode=1 The Hubble Space Telescope has opened new windows into deep space and enabled astronomers to travel visually to near the beginning of time.Orbiting Earth every 97 minutes for the past 19 years, the observatory also has beamed down thousands of st... 2011-08-08 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=5092&mode=1 Astronomers have discovered the first Trojan asteroid sharing Earth's orbit around the Sun and scientists and NASA is examining a proposal to send astronauts to it.The asteroid known as 2010 TK7 is big enough for such a NASA space mission bu... 2011-08-07 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=5090&mode=1 More than a , year after one of the worst-ever ocean oil spills BP says Gulf oil spill should not be paid any more claims for future losses because the areas affected by the spill have recovered and the economy is improving. The British oil comp... 2011-08-06 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=5089&mode=1 Kelp and other seaweed are likely to be abundant biofuels of the future. Researchers envision fast-growing cultivated kelp forests growing downward into the water, anchored on webs of rope, or porous sheets of material that roll with the waves. ... 2011-08-05 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=5088&mode=1 Japanese automaker Nissan is testing a super-green way to recharge its Leaf electric vehicle using solar power, part of a broader drive to improve electricity storage systems. Nissan's Leaf went on sale late last year, but the automaker is ... 2011-08-04 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=5087&mode=1 Insects have fast become a leading threat to the America's forests.  Over the past decade drought and a warming climate has resulted in a threefold increase in forestland mortality from mostly attacks from bark beetles, engraver beetle... 2011-08-03 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=5085&mode=1 The northern summer is melting the Arctic sea ice faster than ever before. 2007 saw Arctic sea ice shrink to a record low level but this year it's on track to be even worse. Marine scientists agree that it's the fastest warming region... 2011-08-02 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=5084&mode=1 Australia remains resolved to charge its 500 worst polluters 23 Australian dollars for every ton of carbon dioxide they emit. With the CO2 charge comes the federal government's promise to compensate households hit with higher power bills un... 2011-08-01 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=5083&mode=1 Mystery surrounds a reported emporer penguin that apparently lost its way and got washed on New Zealand. The penguin, thought to be about 10 months old, was spotted on Monday by Christine Wilson, who was out walking her dog at Peka Peka beach on... 2011-06-29 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=5082&mode=1 The hole in the ozone layer over Antarctica is a significant driver of climate change and rain increases in the southern hemisphere over the past 50 years. The findings by a team at Columbia University's School of Engineering and Applied Sc... 2011-06-28 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=5081&mode=1 While the Dead Sea is dropping nearly 4 feet a year part of the lake is overflowing. And, without intervention within five to 10 years the water will flood hotel lobbies. According to Alon Tal, one of the researchers for the Israel government c... 2011-06-27 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=5080&mode=1 A study has found that the differences planting more tress will make to global temperatures is minimal. According to Vivek Arora, a research scientist with the Canadian Centre for Climate Modelling and Analysis at Environment Canada said while m... 2011-06-26 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=5079&mode=1 China is fast becoming the world's clean energy superpower. China has massive investments in renewable energy, enforceable carbon reduction targets, and it's agreed to set up a carbon emissions trading scheme while building a whole new... 2011-06-25 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=5075&mode=1 A Brazilian woman recognized as the oldest person in the world has died at the age of 114. Maria Gomes Valentim was certified in May as the world's oldest person, edging past US woman Besse Cooper, who is 48 days younger, according to Guinn... 2011-06-24 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=5074&mode=1 Marine life is facing mass extinction that can only be stopped by immediate action. According to a report by the International Program on the State of the Oceans that analyzed data from reef ecologists, toxicologists and fisheries human-made pol... 2011-06-23 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=5073&mode=1 A huge solar flare threatened satellite communications and power on Earth. A NASA space observatory observed the unusual solar occurrence. The potent blast from the Sun unleashed a firestorm of radiation on a level rarely witnessed and led to m... 2011-06-22 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=5072&mode=1 Dowstream Mississippi floodwaters have carried forward an array of farm chemicals and waste that is expected to result in the largest dead zone ever in the Gulf of Mexico. Dead zones have been occurring in the gulf since the 1970s, and studies s... 2011-06-21 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=5071&mode=1 The hot summers will become a mainstay if greenhouse gas levels continue to rise, according to the report to be published later this month in the journal Climate Change. A future dramatic shift in seasonal temperatures could have severe conseque... 2011-06-20 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=5070&mode=1 A leech with a single jaw, gigantic teeth ranks as one of the top 10 new species discovered on Earth. Appropriately given the name Tyrannobdella rex, the leech was found attached to the nasal passage of a little girl in Peru. The annual lis... 2011-06-19 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=5069&mode=1 Military establishments worldwide are viewing renewable energy as being valuable for efficiency-increasing strategies. The latest Pike Research report said increased access to renewable energy was driving planning for the military around the wor... 2011-06-18 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=5067&mode=1 Japanese authorities have admitted for the first time that the situation at the Fukushima nuclear plant may have gone beyond a meltdown. An official report to the UN's nuclear watchdog states that nuclear fuel in three reactors at Fukushima... 2011-06-17 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=5066&mode=1 Extra hot summers will become common within the next 20 years if greenhouse gas levels continue to rise. And, according to a new report by Stanford University researchers the tropics and the Northern Hemisphere will be hardest hit with an irreve... 2011-06-16 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=5065&mode=1 Workers employed in nuclear power plants had not been properly trained in emergency guidelines intended to protect the public in the event of a severe accident or disaster. The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission said inspections conducted after ... 2011-06-15 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=5064&mode=1 Two Chinese energy firms signed deals totalling 2.8 billion euros aimed at boosting Greece's use of solar power, a Chinese trade association announced Monday. "The cooperation in solar energy in Greece has a brilliant future, because Greece... 2011-06-14 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=5063&mode=1 Mars Exploration Rover Spirit has been officially lost in space. In a press release issued last night, NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, the rover's birthplace, announced that scientists will cease trying to communicate with Spirit, wh... 2011-06-13 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=5062&mode=1 The burning question facing historians is why were pollution particulates so prevalent in Egyptian society? While ancient Egypt was a preindustrial society, its people did engage in cooking, metal working and mining, all activities that can gene... 2011-06-12 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=5061&mode=1 Nearly 50 whales have been seriously hit by ships traveling off the California coastline over the last decade. And the number of serious injuries to whales is probably much higher because many of the accidents go unreported. Now a coalition of... 2011-06-11 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=5059&mode=1 Nitric Oxide, a gas that occurs naturally in the body, may do more than any prescription drug to prevent heart attack and stroke. Nitric Oxide is essential for healthy circulation. It helps dilate blood vessels, prevent blood clots and regulate ... 2011-06-10 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=5058&mode=1 A group of researchers that agrees Earth is facing a mass extinction caused mainly by human population assert that the current estimates are overblown. "We need to go back to revisit ... how those numbers are derived," Fangliang He, of Sun Yat-s... 2011-06-09 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=5057&mode=1 Nitric Oxide, a gas that occurs naturally in the body, may do more than any prescription drug to prevent heart attack and stroke. Nitric Oxide is essential for healthy circulation. It helps dilate blood vessels, prevent blood clots and regulate ... 2011-06-08 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=5056&mode=1 Sea level will likely be a foot higher along New Jersey in 2050, and at the end of the century "Atlantic City's going to see three feet," geology professor Ken Miller of Rutgers University said at today's conference on climate change an... 2011-06-07 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=5055&mode=1 Dark energy is real and causing energy, matter and space to expand in the universe. That's the definitive conclusion of a new study published in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. The scientific material has been put to... 2011-06-06 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=5054&mode=1 Some say it's an imaginative mind. Others make claim to a higher consciousness. But what separates the human species from other mammals is humanity's innate need to communicate, which can be observed from the first moments of life. Th... 2011-06-05 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=5053&mode=1 Sea level will likely be a foot higher along New Jersey in 2050, and at the end of the century "Atlantic City's going to see three feet," geology professor Ken Miller of Rutgers University said at today's conference on climate change an... 2011-06-04 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=5050&mode=1 Maps show the greatest area of warming temperatures are at the north and south poles. However, equally important are the effects of climate change in the tropical regions of the world. And as temperatures rise here, poorly adaptable species may... 2011-06-03 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=5049&mode=1 Breastfeeding, the act of feeding an infant directly from the human breast, is known to be good for children. In the past, studies have shown inconsistent results as to whether or not breastfeeding really improves childhood wellbeing in areas s... 2011-06-02 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=5048&mode=1 Shell has selected three wells for drilling off the Northwestern coast of Alaska in 2012 and up to three more in 2013. It has submitted an exploration plan for Alaska's Chukchi Sea in an attempt to tap vast oil and gas resources in Arctic w... 2011-06-01 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=5047&mode=1 The U.S. Senate has defeated a bid to expand and hasten offshore oil drilling in the face of $4-a-gallon gasoline prices. Five Republicans joined 52 Democrats or independents in rejecting a bill written by Senate GOP leader Mitch McConnell to sp... 2011-05-31 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=5046&mode=1 Protein flaws called "dehydrons" have been attributed to the cause of first life on Earth. This scientific assertion follows a comparison of proteins across 36 modern species making them more adhesive and more likely to end up working together, ... 2011-05-30 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=5045&mode=1 USA has experienced its deadliest single tornado on record. The Mississippi is flooding at record levels. Texas, Oklahoma and Kansas are experiencing a drought of epic proportions. And in the southern continent of Australia the east coast has be... 2011-05-29 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=5044&mode=1 Maps show the greatest area of warming temperatures are at the north and south poles. However, equally important are the effects of climate change in the tropical regions of the world. And as temperatures rise here, poorly adaptable species may... 2011-05-28 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=5043&mode=1 Breastfeeding, the act of feeding an infant directly from the human breast, is known to be good for children. In the past, studies have shown inconsistent results as to whether or not breastfeeding really improves childhood wellbeing in areas s... 2011-05-27 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=5041&mode=1 Shell has selected three wells for drilling off the Northwestern coast of Alaska in 2012 and up to three more in 2013. It has submitted an exploration plan for Alaska's Chukchi Sea in an attempt to tap vast oil and gas resources in Arctic w... 2011-05-26 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=5040&mode=1 The U.S. Senate has defeated a bid to expand and hasten offshore oil drilling in the face of $4-a-gallon gasoline prices. Five Republicans joined 52 Democrats or independents in rejecting a bill written by Senate GOP leader Mitch McConnell to sp... 2011-05-25 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=5039&mode=1 Protein flaws called "dehydrons" have been attributed to the cause of first life on Earth. This scientific assertion follows a comparison of proteins across 36 modern species making them more adhesive and more likely to end up working together, ... 2011-05-24 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=5038&mode=1 USA has experienced its deadliest single tornado on record. The Mississippi is flooding at record levels. Texas, Oklahoma and Kansas are experiencing a drought of epic proportions. And in the southern continent of Australia the east coast has be... 2011-05-23 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=5037&mode=1 The Antarctic ice sheet holds enough fresh water to raise ocean levels 61 metres and even if a small part of it were to melt into the ocean it could put major coastal cities under water. The ongoing research is part of an effort that found lakes... 2011-05-22 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=5036&mode=1 In 1996, NASA scientists presented research indicating a 4 billion-year-old meteorite found in Antarctica carried evidence of fossilized microbial life from Mars. Since then there has been more indications that life on Earth has come from elsewh... 2011-05-21 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=5034&mode=1 A warming trend in ocean surface temperature has been linked bigger hurricanes. Some climate scientists believe hurricanes in the North Atlantic loom more dangerous than ever. "Since about 1970, there has been a warming of the global oceans i... 2011-05-20 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=5032&mode=1 Scientists predict a heightened earthquake risk in the western Mediterranean Sea. Instruments on satellites orbiting Earth show that the increased pressure between the European and African continents has resulted in subduction zones form where t... 2011-05-19 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=5031&mode=1 U.S. space shuttle Endeavour is setting up a revolutionary physics experiment to the International Space Station on the next-to-last flight in NASA's shuttle program. This is Spacecraft Endeavour's 25th and final voyage. NASA plans on... 2011-05-18 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=5030&mode=1 Weeks of heavy rains and runoff from an unusually snowy winter caused the Mississippi River to flood 3 million acres of farmland in Mississippi, Tennessee and Arkansas in similar way to the historic floods in 1927 and 1937. It could take three w... 2011-05-17 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=5029&mode=1 The worst floods to hit the central United States in more than 80 years have swallowed homes, farms and roadways and has swollen the Mississippi River to six times its normal width. Thousands of people have been evacuated in the U.S. city of Mem... 2011-05-16 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=5028&mode=1 Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has taken a personal interest in assisting Kazakhstan with a tiger reintroduction program. Putin said Russia was ready to share its tiger "families" with Kazakhstan and Iran to help restore the tiger populat... 2011-05-15 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=5027&mode=1 The Hamaoka nuclear plant located near a tectonic fault line south-west of Tokyo will close down its two running reactors. Prime minister Naoto Kan on Friday called for the closure of the plant following warnings from seismologists that a major ... 2011-05-14 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=5025&mode=1 Weather Services International (WSI) predicts there will be four more intense hurricanes and 15 major storms in the Atlantic region during the remainder of 2011. The forecasts are well above the long-term average calculated between 1950 and 2010... 2011-05-13 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=5024&mode=1 Fiji is planning to build its first geothermal power station, which if successful, will not help drive the island's economic growth but could be model for other countries with similar natural energy resources. Geothermal Electric will comme... 2011-05-12 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=5023&mode=1 An unprecedented wildfire situation in Texas set more than 1.5 million acres ablaze and forced hundreds of people to flee their homes. Resources across Texas were spread while battling numerous wildfires spawned by historic drought and critical ... 2011-05-11 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=5022&mode=1 Swiss adventurers are ready to fly their solar-powered plane for an international flight. The Solar Impulse team says the flights to Belgium and France are a big challenge because the plane will need to navigate across international air traffic ... 2011-05-10 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=5021&mode=1 The mystery of how Earth managed to keep hold of its organic matter - after it was hit by a Mars-sized object 4.4 billion years ago - has finally been solved. The impact was so massive that scientists believe Earth melted and some of the molten ... 2011-05-09 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=5020&mode=1 World governments have committed to shifting industry, housing and transport towards a low carbon future over the next decades. Low-carbon technology, green infrastructures, investment in renewable energy and sustainable agriculture are viewed a... 2011-05-08 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=5019&mode=1 Two electric vehicles have traveled farther south than any EVs have gone before - all the way to a research base at McMurdo Station in Antarctica. If these E-Ride Industries EXV2s can prove they are tough enough to take the harsh conditions in A... 2011-05-07 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=5017&mode=1 Japan's leaking reactor at Fukushima will reduce radiation leaks within three months for "cold shutdown" within six to nine months. Japan's embattled Tokyo Electric Power Co (TEPCO) said the first step would be cooling the reactors and... 2011-05-06 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=5016&mode=1 Babies who are exposed before birth to ethylbenzene, a toxic component in crude oil, may have a higher risk of developing congenital heart disease, say US researchers. Another chemical used as an industrial metal degreasing agent, trichloroethyl... 2011-05-05 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=5015&mode=1 The hope of modern human genetics is to identify the genetic component of common diseases affecting mankind such as hypertension, heart disease, strokes, the dementias and autoimmune diseases. Mapping of the human genome over the last decade has... 2011-05-04 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=5014&mode=1 A replica of Captain Cook's ship the Endeavour has arrived in Brisbane for the first stop of its maiden Australian circumnavigation. The 40-metre-long ship set sail from Sydney 12 days ago but needed modern technology to keep its appointmen... 2011-05-03 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=5012&mode=1 Thousands of hectares of farmland have been irradiated while hundreds of thousands of people in Japan have been evacuated from homes near Fukushima. Fishermen aren't going back to sea because of radioactive pollution leaked into the ocean f... 2011-05-02 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=5011&mode=1 2011 is designated by the United Nations as the International Year of Forests. "Trees and forests touch people's lives every day," said Jay Farrell, USA executive director of the National Association of State Foresters. "Whether it's ... 2011-05-01 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=5010&mode=1 BP PLC pledged $500 million for its part in the Gulf oil spill - with $50 million a year paid out over 10 years to help scientists study the impact and forge a better understanding of how to deal with future spills. The first $50 million was ha... 2011-04-30 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=5008&mode=1 Millions of people living along the Mekong River may have lifeline cut off. A crisis is looming over the construction of a dam, the first of 11 proposed in the waterway's lower basin in Laos. Conservationists warn that the dam could signif... 2011-04-29 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=5007&mode=1 Earth Day may still have its detractors, but organizers estimate that more than a billion people observes Earth Day during April. "This is really about moving people beyond environmental education and getting everybody to commit to at least one ... 2011-04-28 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=5006&mode=1 Plastic bags are an environmental problem for many countries. The entire world is struggling with how to combat pollution from plastic, given its long life. But in Bangalore, India, plastic has found to be a fantastic material making roads last l... 2011-04-27 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=5005&mode=1 Popular French TV personality Nicolas Hulot will run for the French presidency next year against incumbent Nicolas Sarkozy if he seeks re-election. Hulot, a prominent campaigner for environmental causes, said: I feel my responsibility now is to ... 2011-04-26 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=5004&mode=1 An apparent shortage of krill has plunged penguin populations have plunged by as much as 50 percent during the past three decades in the West Antarctic Peninsula and Scotia Sea. Krill are tiny, shrimplike animals that live in enormous numbers an... 2011-04-25 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=5003&mode=1 For more than 30 years, Lonnie Thompson, a scientist from the Byrd Polar Research Center in Ohio, has led 57 field expeditions, published more than 200 articles and visited 16 countries all for the cause of recording climate change. Melting glac... 2011-04-24 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=5002&mode=1 Southern Europe would be more affected than northern Europe by impending climate change with evidence pointing to hotter weather and longer drought leading to water shortages, according to a leading climate scientist. Europe should take action o... 2011-04-23 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=5001&mode=1 Record loss of the ozone has been observed over the Arctic. Over recent months, the World Meteorological Organization has been observing a lowering of the atmosphere layer that shields life from the sun's harmful rays. Depletion of the ozo... 2011-04-22 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=5000&mode=1 The world has gotten stormier over the past two decades. In the past 20 years, winds have picked up around 5 per cent on average. Extremely strong winds caused by storms have increased even faster, jumping 10 per cent over 20 years, according t... 2011-04-21 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4998&mode=1 The 2011 Atlantic hurricane season will be above average in activity and there is a more than 70 percent chance of at least one major hurricane hitting the U.S. coastline, Colorado State University forecasters predicted. This forecast from the r... 2011-04-20 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4996&mode=1 Climate change experts studying hurricanes have documented a warming trend in ocean surface temperature and linked it to larger hurricanes. The increase has been 1 degree Fahrenheit, resulting in four percent more atmospheric water vapor and si... 2011-04-19 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4995&mode=1 The world's fastest growing cities will be hardest hit by the effects of climate change. "Climate change is a deeply local issue and poses profound threats to the growing cities of the world," study author Patricia Romero Lankao, a sociolog... 2011-04-18 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4994&mode=1 Scientists will soon be able to drill through the planet's thick crust and into Earth's hot mantle enabling the gathering of samples for the first time. The importance of the mantle samples rivals the recovery of moon rocks. Drilling... 2011-04-17 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4993&mode=1 Idaho legislators have declared the state's wolves a "disaster emergency" that?s akin to a flood or wildfire and gives the governor broad powers to eliminate them. The bill, approved by a 64-5 vote, now heads to the Senate, where a dozen me... 2011-04-16 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4991&mode=1 U.S. researchers have found people's climate beliefs change depending upon the weather of the day. When people think the day's temperature is hotter than usual they are more likely to believe in and feel concerned about global warming.... 2011-04-15 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4990&mode=1 The Fukushima fission nuclear plant was stricken by an earthquake and tsunami on March 11. Following the fallout Dr Masashi Goto, a nuclear engineer who supplied two of the reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi power plant, has resigned from his jo... 2011-04-14 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4989&mode=1 A powerful aftershock has rocked Japan as workers pumped nitrogen into a damaged reactor while engineers were concerned a build-up of hydrogen might react with oxygen to cause an explosion. The 7.1-magnitude aftershock is the biggest to hit Japa... 2011-04-13 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4988&mode=1 Mongolia in central China is going nuclear with its first atomic plant to be operational by 2020. The nuclear reactor will tap into greater China's rich uranium resources, undeterred by the recent nuclear crisis in Japan, a senior official ... 2011-04-12 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4987&mode=1 Noisy protesters took to the head office of the Tokyo Electric Power Co. in Japan's capital on Sunday voicing their demands to close the atomic power plants in the country. About 1200 demonstrators marched through the streets of Tokyo calli... 2011-04-11 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4986&mode=1 More thorough sea level monitoring is needed to protect one trillion dollars worth of the world's infrastructure threatened by climate change, according to an Australian leading ocean scientist . In the book Understanding Sea-level Rise and... 2011-04-10 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4985&mode=1 The great apes - the closest genetic relatives to humans - have lost so much of their natural habitat that they now facing extinction this century. The great apes thrive in wild forest and jungle. But when their habitat is torn down for agricult... 2011-04-09 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4983&mode=1 China has announced a goal for achieving 235 million kilowatts of power generation from clean energy forms in the next five years. As part of a nation-wide drive to trim the country's heavy reliance on fossil fuels for the next five years C... 2011-04-08 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4982&mode=1 A major breakthrough has unveiled a new understanding into the human body's immune response system. The research by scientists at Melbourne's Walter and Eliza Hall Institute is likely to have important implications. It has long been k... 2011-04-07 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4981&mode=1 Droughts similar to last year's and another in 2005 could be more frequent in the Amazon region, the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has warmed. The severity of last year's drought was seen in records of low wa... 2011-04-06 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4980&mode=1 All republicans on the House Energy and Commerce Committee have rejected the science of climate change and have declined to vote in favor of a series of amendments acknowledging the scientific consensus surround climate change. Republicans, who ... 2011-04-05 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4979&mode=1 Direct experience of extreme weather events increases concern about climate change and a growing willingness to engage in energy-saving behaviour. Members of the British public are more prepared to take personal action and reduce their energy us... 2011-04-04 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4978&mode=1 Earthquakes across the Asia Pacific and a sovereign debt crisis in Europe are testing the global financial system's resilience. Australia's Reserve Bank claims that natural disasters will inevitably mean a price hike for insurance prem... 2011-04-03 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4977&mode=1 Australia's climate adviser Ross Garnaut said the government's decision to put a price on carbon would test the country's democracy. Professor Garnaut has released the seventh of eight updates to his 2008 report on climate change.... 2011-04-02 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4975&mode=1 The chances of wars over fresh water are rising as the global population grows against a backdrop of climate change. Until now disputes over water have typically led to co-operation between affected parties but higher demand and lower supplies c... 2011-04-01 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4974&mode=1 Japan's nuclear emergency has shaken investor confidence in the world's uranium industry. But uranium producers say the big questions over safety won't halt the march towards nuclear power. The industry has suffered big stock los... 2011-03-31 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4973&mode=1 Stocks of the "nuke pills" containing Potassium Iodide has risen from US$10 to US $200 a pack in the United States. Distributors of the pills have run out of stock, with one manufacturer reporting that they sold some 250,000 individual packets i... 2011-03-30 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4972&mode=1 Direct experience of extreme weather events increases concern about climate change and a growing willingness to engage in energy-saving behaviour. Members of the British public are more prepared to take personal action and reduce their energy us... 2011-03-29 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4971&mode=1 In 2004 a massive quake rocked the Indian Ocean, generating a tsunami that killed hundreds of thousands across Asia. This was rapidly followed by particularly strong quakes in China, Peru, Italy, Haiti, Samoa, Chile, Pakistan, New Zealand and now... 2011-03-28 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4970&mode=1 All republicans on the House Energy and Commerce Committee have rejected the science of climate change and have declined to vote in favor of a series of amendments acknowledging the scientific consensus surround climate change. Republicans, who ... 2011-03-27 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4969&mode=1 The Japanese government will scrap its Fukushima nuclear power plant. Japan's chief cabinet secretary Yukio Edano signaled that a decision had already been made for scrapping the plant:" Looking at the plant from an objective point of view,... 2011-03-26 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4967&mode=1 A group of US and Australian scientists have found out how certain cancers appear to be developing a resistance to some chemotherapy drugs, and the discovery will help doctors figure out which patients are unlikely to respond to certain types of ... 2011-03-25 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4966&mode=1 Australias beekeepers have swarmed on Federal Parliament to raise alarms about a threat they're causing. The Asian honey bee has expanding their foothold in northern Australia and beekeepers are calling them "the flying cane toad". Bee... 2011-03-24 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4965&mode=1 Dogs have been dying from liver failure caused by a toxin found in some desert plants. The plants were eaten by the camels, which later became pet meat. But the camel industry in Australia asserts that the toxin is not widespread and food author... 2011-03-23 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4964&mode=1 Neil Cavuto - who made the famous prediction of the earthquake would strike the U.S. mainland four days before it actually hit in 1989 - now predicts a major seismic event will occur in California sometime before this Sunday (26 March). Experts ... 2011-03-22 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4963&mode=1 Australia won't sway from its ban its ban on selling uranium to New Delhi, India, which would proliferate the sale of yellow cake and spur the building of nuclear reactors throughout greater Asia. India made it clear to Australia that the f... 2011-03-21 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4962&mode=1 The nuclear industry is mobilizing it considerable resources in an effort to convince the world that nuclear energy is a necessary part of solving the world's energy needs in the face of climate change. But in reality, any investment in nu... 2011-03-20 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4961&mode=1 Anxiety disorders are the most common psychological illnesses and the general medical view is that it's linked to a part of the brain known as the amygdala. Now new research has pinpointed the exact neural circuit within the amygdala that&#... 2011-03-19 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4959&mode=1 It's officials. America's top space priority is to find life on Mars. The National Research Council in the United States has released a report on what planetary exploration is possible over the next decade. Given that NASA is short of... 2011-03-18 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4958&mode=1 Australia's chief climate advisor Ross Garnaut says the scientific case for climate change has got stronger. Garnaut has released the fifth of eight updates to his 2008 report on climate change - specifically tackling climate science in reg... 2011-03-17 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4957&mode=1 While the upside of the recent Australian floods has seen Lake Eyre in the South Australian desert full with water a dispute has enveloped over who has the right to sail on it. All boating activities in the National Park have been suspended unti... 2011-03-16 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4956&mode=1 The Obama Administration is looking at tripling the $18.5 billion appropriated for new nuclear reactors to $54.5 billion in America's 2012 Budget. The alternative is that those billions be shifted to develop a sustainable green powered Amer... 2011-03-15 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4955&mode=1 Australians are confused over a new carbon tax plan. Acting Prime Minister, Wayne Swan, has sought to reassure voters about a carbon price, reminding them that big polluters, not households, will be paying directly. Climate Change Minister, Gre... 2011-03-14 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4954&mode=1 Human activities are causing extinction levels comparable to the asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs. The current human caused extinction rates have been compared to life on Earth hurtling towards extinction levels comparable to those followin... 2011-03-13 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4953&mode=1 Compelling evidence of life away from Earth has been documented by a NASA scientist who has examined fossilized alien bacteria found in meteorites on Earth. This is not the first to claim discovery of microscopic life from other worlds. In 1996... 2011-03-12 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4951&mode=1 The Antarctic ice sheet holds enough fresh water to raise ocean levels 61 metres and even if a small part of it were to melt into the ocean it could put major coastal cities under water. The ongoing research is part of an effort that found lakes... 2011-03-11 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4950&mode=1 Physicists have built the world's first device that can cancel out a laser beam has been built. The anti-laser device, created by a team from Yale University, is capable of absorbing an incoming laser beam entirely. But this is not intende... 2011-03-10 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4949&mode=1 Australian can expected more super cyclones like Yasi that battered the continent's north eastern coast. Professor Ross Garnaut asserts that weather events are likely to become much more severe unless global warming is slowed, and he says t... 2011-03-09 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4948&mode=1 Humans are warming the world's oceans with carbon emissions that are endangering the oceans living reefs. A major new study by an international scientific team has fond that ocean acidification and global warming will combine with local imp... 2011-03-08 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4946&mode=1 The reward center of the human brain may need a new name, say scientists who have shown it responds to good and bad experiences. This finding may helps to explain the "thrill" of thrill-seeking behavior or maybe just the thrill of surviving it,... 2011-03-07 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4945&mode=1 2010 was a big year for nuclear fusion but experts fear that a lack of fuel could push the dream of cheap, safe, clean and limitless energy far into the future. As fossil fuels run dry and increasingly desperate attempts are made to control carb... 2011-03-06 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4944&mode=1 Researchers have discovered how cocaine corrupts the brain and becomes addictive. These findings - the first to connect activation of specific neurons to alterations in cocaine reward - may help researchers in developing new ways of treating th... 2011-03-05 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4943&mode=1 A former highly decorated military officer Col. John Alexander claims conclusive evidence of UFOs have been accept by the USA Government at top secret official levels. Alexander says the information has been known for decades with top officials ... 2011-03-04 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4941&mode=1 Celebrating one of America's fastest growing business sectors, the "Renewable Future" contest encourages production of clean energy TV commercials. Benefits of renewable energy include economic growth, jobs and lower energy costs. Consisten... 2011-03-03 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4940&mode=1 The Arab summit scheduled in Baghdad next month is moving towards drafting a flexible strategy based on pan-Arab freedoms. Arab parliamentarians have called for the adoption of the values of good governance, justice, equality and all public free... 2011-03-02 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4939&mode=1 The American Wind Energy Association (AWEA) latest report indicates that wind power is now largely cost competitive with natural gas. Experts have suggested that natural gas, with its apparently smaller climate impact and widespread availabilit... 2011-03-01 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4938&mode=1 A detailed record of 2500 years of European climate has uncovered several links between changing climate and the rise and fall of the Roman Empire and other civilisations. From AD 250 to 550, the climate flipped, from one decade to the next, bet... 2011-02-28 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4937&mode=1 New evidence indicates that governments are covering up the greatest food shortage in modern history. For the past two years global agricultural markets have faced a supply and demand imbalance, caused by a substantial drop in output resulting f... 2011-02-27 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4936&mode=1 Melting permafrost over the next 20 years will see the Arctic shift from being a carbon sink to a carbon source. If global warming continues at a moderate pace - as is likely - a third of Earth's permafrost will be gone by 2200, and world l... 2011-02-26 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4934&mode=1 Wolverines may not enough to survive climate change in the United States. New research concludes that unless the wolverine is able to very rapidly adapt to summertime temperatures far above anything it currently experiences, and to a spring with... 2011-02-25 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4933&mode=1 Hedge-fund billionaire Peer Thiel asserts that the USA needs innovation to overcome the herd mentality that's responsible for the boom and bust cycles endemic with the American money system. Thiel was known in Silicon Valley circles as the ... 2011-02-24 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4932&mode=1 Scientists have been warning for two decades about the prospects of more extreme weather events due to climate change. And now the former Australian of the Year Tim Flannery has been appointed chief of a new independent Climate Commission. The ... 2011-02-23 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4931&mode=1 North Korea is showing signs of being conciliatory in inter-Korean talks in an apparent eagerness to turn the tide from sanctions put in place as it faces acute food shortages. However it will be uphill battle for Pyongyang to "switch gears," be... 2011-02-22 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4929&mode=1 Nearly half a million pollution permits were stolen from a Czech carbon bank - a reality that puts the spotlight on an emerging black market for the right to pollute. Its also has the potential to shut down much of the European carbon trading sc... 2011-02-21 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4927&mode=1 Prince Charles has accused climate change sceptics of "playing a reckless game of roulette" with the world's future. In a speech to Euro MPs and business leaders in Brussels, he lashed out at those urging caution in response to apocalyptic ... 2011-02-20 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4926&mode=1 Australia's summer of natural disasters isn't a one hundred year phenomena. The entire southern continent and neighboring New Zealand's north and south islands faces a future of more frequent extreme weather events, according to cl... 2011-02-19 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4924&mode=1 Sri Lanka's monsoon rains that spread to villages and towns left at least 14 people dead and more than one million with flooded homes. The number of people in state-run shelters rose to 236,000, the Disaster Management Centre (DMC) in Colom... 2011-02-18 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4923&mode=1 Months of heavy rain and flooding in Australia have taken its toll on the rich rainforest area of Eungella in northern Queensland. Adding to the new year's heavy flooding last March cyclone Ului ripped the tops of trees in the Eungella Nati... 2011-02-17 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4922&mode=1 A study linking childhood vaccination to autism has been cited as an elaborate fraud. The British Medical Journal claims that the study was based not on bad science but fraudulent material. The British Medical Journal's investigation has c... 2011-02-16 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4921&mode=1 Human age can be estimated from blood with reasonable accuracy using a simple robust and sensitive test assay. The method relies on a trademark characteristic of T cells, the cells in our blood that defend us against invading bacteria, viruses a... 2011-02-15 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4920&mode=1 Greece plans to build a 12 kilometers fence along part of its border with Turkey to try and stop the inflow of illegal immigrants. Around 90 per cent of illegal immigrants into the European Union arrived through Greece. According to the Greek Go... 2011-02-14 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4919&mode=1 Australia will see a higher incidence of extreme weather events like the flooding in Queensland, according to Professor Peter Grace from the Queensland University of Technology. Scientists state that 2010 was Queensland's wettest year since... 2011-02-13 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4918&mode=1 America will embark on new clean energy that is intended to spur the economy by providing more employment. President Barack Obama first outlined the plan in his State of the Union address o boost development of clean energy technologies. Now th... 2011-02-12 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4916&mode=1 Last year tied with 2005 as the warmest year on record for global surface temperature. The Earth in 2010 experienced temperatures higher than the 20th century average for the 34th year in a row, according to the U.S, National Oceanic and Atmosph... 2011-02-11 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4915&mode=1 The world will see a higher incidence of extreme weather events like the flooding in Australia. The Australian northeastern state of Queensland's has had its wettest year since 1900 and the World Meteorological Organisation cited the Queens... 2011-02-10 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4914&mode=1 Researchers have long known that people are colonized with billions of microbes, both inside and on the body. And studies have shown that these colonies are unique to the individual and even their location on the body. But now it's known t... 2011-02-09 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4913&mode=1 The United Nations warns that the world faces "food price shock." Corn and soybean prices jumped and now sit at 30-month highs. Inventories are very tight. Corn is up 94% since June! All countries are now worried about a repeat of 2008, when foo... 2011-02-08 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4912&mode=1 A facial tumor disease has wiped out some 80 per cent of Tasmanian Devils since 1996. But an ambitious program to save Tasmanian Devils from extinction achieved a major milestone when the first 30 animals were released in a holding area at the A... 2011-02-07 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4911&mode=1 India had its hottest year on record in 2010. The country's weather records began in 1901. Last year a study from India's environment ministry said that annual greenhouse gas emissions had increased by 58 percent from 1994-2007, drive... 2011-02-06 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4910&mode=1 This year the projected melting of Arctic ice is expected to surpass 2007's summer sea ice minimum. Pleasure yachts will be able sail through the large cracks in polar ice floes, according to climatologists. "Where Arctic ice used to be 3-... 2011-02-05 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4908&mode=1 Extreme weather conditions of cyclone, flooding and exteme heat has affected the Australian continent. Many climate scientists attribute this to warming seas and higher volumes of liquidity in the atmosphere resulting from humans burning excessi... 2011-02-04 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4907&mode=1 NASA has officially declared that the Atlantis will be the third and last shuttle scheduled to fly this year before the fleet's retirement. "It gives a positive direction to the entire workforce that we intend to fly this flight to the Inte... 2011-02-03 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4906&mode=1 Would-be smokers be warned: The first few puffs on a cigarette can cause genetic damage linked to cancer. U.S. scientistic researchers assert that he effect of the first few puffs is so fast that "it's equivalent to injecting the substance ... 2011-02-02 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4905&mode=1 Britain has revealed its plan to cut emissions by 60 per cent within 20 years. The decisive action against severe climate change implosion would result in many thousands of new wind turbines installed and millions of electric cars on the roads. ... 2011-02-01 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4904&mode=1 A walk in the morning sunshine helps refocus the mind and revive the spirit, according to new studies that are quantifying the restorative powers of nature. A study that questioned 1,273 city dwellers of Helsinki and Tampere, aged 15 to 75, foun... 2011-01-31 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4903&mode=1 Scott S. Reuben, a prominent Massachusetts anesthesiologist, allegedly fabricated 21 medical studies that claimed to show benefits from painkilling drugs. Health specialist Dr Mercola writes: "I've been exposing the conflicts of interest a... 2011-01-30 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4902&mode=1 A new NASA craft has set sail, literally, to test a new renewable space propulsion technology. The satellite, NanoSail-D, opened its reflective sail for the first on-orbit deployment of a solar sail in the history of the US space program. The c... 2011-01-29 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4901&mode=1 Cloning technology will be used in an attempt to bring the long-extinct mammoth known as the pachyderm back to life. Japanese researchers will try to revive the species by obtaining tissue from the carcass of a mammoth preserved in a Russian res... 2011-01-28 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4899&mode=1 The executive in charge of developing Mercedes-Benz and Smart electric vehicles has dismissed battery swap recharging as unworkable. "I have no confidence in that model," Daimler AG future mobility boss Prof. Dr. Herbert Kohler told Detroit Auto... 2011-01-27 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4898&mode=1 The electric supercar is now selling worldwide. Owning one is expensive but it won't cost a single visit to the petrol station. The Tesla Roadster is a low-slung, electrically powered two-seat sports car that can be recharged from a househo... 2011-01-26 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4897&mode=1 Earth has been warming by approximately 0.36F per decade since the late 1970s. "If the warming trend continues, as is expected, if greenhouse gases continue to increase, the 2010 record will not stand for long," warned climate scientist James Ha... 2011-01-25 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4896&mode=1 Over the next five years Taiwan will deploy energy conservation and carbon reduction measures to reduce greenhouse gases blamed for global warming. The government plans to sink $20 billion more dollars of its currency into technological research... 2011-01-24 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4895&mode=1 United Arab Emirates has the world's tallest building. Now this man-made island will soon be linking cities by rail over the desert. Already investing heavily in airlines and airports, as well as roads and public infrastructure, to attract ... 2011-01-23 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4894&mode=1 Greenhouse gas emissions in 2010 reached the dangerous level of 390 ppm. This accurate recording was taken at the climate specific atmospheric observatory 11,000 feet high on Mauna Loa, an extinct volcano in Hawaii. The December 2010 reading sho... 2011-01-22 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4892&mode=1 Rescuers are still searching through layers of mud for survivors and bodies after heavy rains caused landslides and torrents to slice through three towns near Rio de Janeiro, killing at least 500 people. Freakish storms earlier this week in the ... 2011-01-21 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4891&mode=1 One of the worst floods in living memory has swamped communities forcing many homes to be evacuated in Brazil and Australia. Floods and landslides devastated mountain towns near Rio de Janeiro as torrential rains swept south-eastern Brazil. Man... 2011-01-20 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4890&mode=1 USA non-hydropower renewable energy sources are even placed with nuclear power and growing faster, while the output of the country's aging nuclear power plants is dropping off. The U.S Energy Information Administration reported that during ... 2011-01-19 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4889&mode=1 A plant with 30 underwater turbines is likely for New York's East River. A milestone was reached with the plan for renewable tidal power getting close to the get-go stage for the first-ever a tidal power plant licensed to transmit energy on... 2011-01-18 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4888&mode=1 Nearly 40 Australian and international scientists are on the Aurora Australis icebreaker all this month deploying  underwater cameras, moorings and sensors at the Mertz Glacier in eastern Antarctica. The expedition comes 100 years after exp... 2011-01-17 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4887&mode=1 Australia had one of its wettest years in 2010. Last year the southern continent had 11 months of above-average rainfall soaking the east of the country because of the La Nina weather system. The Bureau of Meteorology's annual climate stat... 2011-01-16 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4886&mode=1 WWF has warned that Australia's devastating floods are flushing toxic, pesticide-laden sediment into the Great Barrier Reef. The continuing floods are threatening fragile corals and marine life in the world's largest living organism. ... 2011-01-15 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4884&mode=1 Electric cars got a huge promotional boost in America this week when the Chevrolet Volt plug-in  was named North American Car of the Year. The Volt is centerpiece of General Motors' comeback. Already the winner of the 2011 Green Car o... 2011-01-14 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4883&mode=1 The new year began with most of northern Europe in feet high snow while in the Australia the state of Queensland experienced a flood of "biblical proportion" covering an area as big as France and Germany combined. Thousands of homes and business... 2011-01-13 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4882&mode=1 The Zayed Future Energy Prize worth $2.2 million is equivalent of a Nobel Prize for clean, sustainable energy.  The prize recognizes individuals, non-profits, and companies that are doing the most to commercialize and distribute renewable ... 2011-01-12 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4881&mode=1 Australia recorded its third wettest year on record in 2010, with 11 months of above-average rainfall soaking the east of the country because of the La Nina weather system. The Bureau of Meteorology's annual climate statement said the seque... 2011-01-11 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4880&mode=1 Someone drowns every day in Australia because of an ocean rip current. Surf experts say rips are a danger to inexperienced beach-goers and those who do not know how they work. But they say if people are aware of how to spot a rip and what to do... 2011-01-10 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4879&mode=1 The Obama administration has announced it will regulate greenhouse gas emissions from power plants and oil refineries after failing to get climate change legislation through Congress. The regulations will come into effect in the U.S. in 2012. T... 2011-01-09 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4878&mode=1 A spluttering U.S. economy and an expected new credit crunch in 2011 has dimmed the outlook for solar and wind power projects. Renewable-energy funds suffered record outflows in 2010 reversing their direction from 2009. Investors enthusiasm for... 2011-01-08 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4875&mode=1 Pressure from corporate polluters may be causing the Obama Administration to keep from changing the protection status of polar bears. "A change from threatened to endangered status "would have profound consequences," said Richard Ranger, senior ... 2011-01-07 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4874&mode=1 An international team of scientists are digging deep beneath the Dead Sea to collect a accurate record of climate change that will stretch back half a million years. The study aims to get a complete record in unprecedented resolution - at one y... 2011-01-06 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4873&mode=1 The hip college town of Austin is vying to become the epicenter of a potentially giant market for carbon-free electricity generated by the hot Texas sun. The rest of Texas may follow, if the state legislature passes incentives that will change t... 2011-01-05 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4871&mode=1 An emergency centre has been set up in the New Zealand city of Christchurch after a series of violent aftershocks rattled the city on Sunday, cutting electricity supplies, damaging buildings and forcing evacuations. The biggest aftershock was 4.... 2011-01-04 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4870&mode=1 Should an electric car make the same noise of a combustion engine or should it sound like a space ship? Figures compiled by the U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration show pedestrians and cyclists are twice as likely to be hit by a ... 2011-01-03 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4869&mode=1 Formula One is speeding towards a greener future. FIA has announced that from 2013 engines would be reduced from the current 2.4-liter V8s to four-cylinder 1.6-liter turbocharged units with a rev limit of 12,000rpm and linked to hybrid kinetic e... 2011-01-02 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4868&mode=1 Britain wants to introduce new laws that could see airports heavily fined for disrupting passengers' travel in the wake of the pre-Christmas big chill snow chaos that hit London Heathrow. Regulators would be given new powers to fine airport... 2011-01-01 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4867&mode=1 Euope has recorded the coldest Xmas for 50 years. Climate scientists blame the dramatic retreat of the Arctic sea ice over the past 30 years for the big chill that closed Paris and London airports during the tradition festive season. Scientists... 2010-12-31 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4866&mode=1 This year, the United Nations-led climate talks in Cancun ended in applause and a big sigh of relief with the Mexican President Felipe Calderon declaring: "Confidence is back and hope has returned." He said that agreement has restored faith in t... 2010-12-30 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4865&mode=1 U.S. auto and engine makers sued the Environmental Protection Agency for allowing higher blends of ethanol for newer cars. Automakers sayi it could confuse consumers at fuel pumps and lead to engine damage in older vehicles. The suit, the secon... 2010-12-29 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4864&mode=1 Special energy zones on public lands in six of America's western states will produce electricity from solar power. This follows new Federal regulations to make the U.S. electric grid more accessible to electricity generated by renewable ene... 2010-12-28 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4851&mode=1 A new type of electronic solar cells that harvests power from heat could double the output of conventional panels. This new breed of nanoscale light-sensitive antennas heralds a novel form of renewable energy that avoids many of the problems tha... 2010-12-27 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4850&mode=1 The worst early-winter weather for years has severely disrupted air travel, railways and roads across northern Europe. Freezing conditions have severely disrupted Eurostar trains. And rail routes out of Britain were no better. The unexpected co... 2010-12-26 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4849&mode=1 The United States has gone for the green fix to bridge its trade gap with China. This follows Commerce Secretary Gary Locke warning that the United States would if congress failed to pass a new green energy policy. "The longer we wait, the more... 2010-12-25 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4848&mode=1 A day before Christmas and Europe remained gripped by a big freeze that left travellers stranded at airports around the continent. Britain's largest airport, Heathrow, struggled to cope with snow and ice. Hundreds of thousands of travellers... 2010-12-24 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4845&mode=1 Activists are planning to push for a regulatory investigation of the dominant position global seed leader Monsanto holds in the genetically modified seed sector in South Africa. This follows the derailment of DuPont's intended acquisition o... 2010-12-23 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4844&mode=1 As Americans warm to EVs local towns are making applications for grants to install the first public charging stations in MetroWest. Hopkinton is among Massachusetts communities moving forward with requests for the equipment, with Sudbury and Nat... 2010-12-22 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4843&mode=1 Industry groups failed to block the Environmental Protection Agency from imposing greenhouse gas regulations early next year. The U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia said opponents of EPA's planned regulations did not... 2010-12-21 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4842&mode=1 Finland will to produce renewable biomass energy from Indonesian forests next year in a scheme that indicates more countries are looking to do bilateral deals. Australia will increase its spending on climate change financing by giving Indonesia ... 2010-12-20 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4841&mode=1 European coal-mining countries have scored a major victory over over environmentalists by securing an extension of coal subsidies until 2018. The European Commission, the EU's executive, had proposed in July that the coal mining industry sh... 2010-12-19 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4840&mode=1 The creation of a North Sea electricity supergrid has moved a step closer to reality with 10 European countries signing for the the project. The Scottish Government says it will have a "key role" to play in the process, with the UK, Germany and ... 2010-12-18 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4837&mode=1 Astrobiology research has changed the fundamental knowledge about what comprises all known life on Earth. Researchers conducting tests in the harsh environment of Mono Lake in California have discovered the first known microorganism on Earth abl... 2010-12-17 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4836&mode=1 The discovery of a new planet orbiting a star beyond the solar system has raised hopes that life may one day be found elsewhere in the universe. Scientists at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena said a fifth planet had been found c... 2010-12-16 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4835&mode=1 A NASA spacecraft has found seven possible cave entrances on Mars, triggering interest in hunting for other caverns that might be hiding life on the Red Planet, the US space agency said. While the possible caves discovered are too high in altitu... 2010-12-15 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4834&mode=1 A new generation of ultra-powerful radio telescopes designed to peer into the origins of the universe could also be used to look for any radio or TV emissions by extraterrestrial civilizations. Television and radio broadcasts are in the 50-400 m... 2010-12-14 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4833&mode=1 Voyager 1 outer space probe went out on a never ending journey of discovery more 30 years ago. Its mission is to go where human kind has never been and to find out more about the solar systems. Now NASA says the spacecraft has starting sending ... 2010-12-13 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4832&mode=1 Space shuttle Discovery will not now lift off on its final STS-133 mission to the International Space Station until 3 February at the earliest. The venerable vehicle was grounded on November 5 when NASA discovered cracks in two of 108 U-shaped a... 2010-12-12 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4831&mode=1 The Pope's chief astronomer has been advised that t other intelligent beings are likely to found soon in outer space. A five-day conference that attracted 30 astronomers, physicists and biologists led by Jesuit priest Father Jose Gabriel Fu... 2010-12-11 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4830&mode=1 Britain has revealed its plan to cut emissions by 60 per cent within 20 years. The decisive action against severe climate change implosion would result in many thousands of new wind turbines installed and millions of electric cars on the roads. ... 2010-12-10 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4826&mode=1 A UK medical study has found that advanced low wavelength light technology using red laser therapy assists recovery from coronary artery disease, diabetes and hypertension. The medical study published in the PMA (Post-graduate Medical Journey) i... 2010-12-09 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4825&mode=1 A high-speed rail projects across America will be built with $8 billion in federal stimulus money. The Obama administration's aim is to put the U.S. on a path to having its own fast, effective, and energy efficient intercity transportation... 2010-12-08 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4824&mode=1 Sydney Theatre Company has been declared a Sun star. An array of 1,906 solar panels on the roof of The Wharf on Sydney Harbour have been switched on by the company's artistic directors, actress Cate Blanchett and her husband Andrew Upton, o... 2010-12-07 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4823&mode=1 Former supermodel and Oxfam Global Ambassador Helena Christensen went to Nepal recently to raise awareness through her photography of the effects of climate change. Christensen visited homes in Nawalparasi district where erratic weather conditio... 2010-12-06 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4822&mode=1 A United Nations panel overseeing trade in carbon offsets under the Kyoto Protocol has agreed to issue 20 million tonnes of offsets, the information company Point Carbon reported. The panel, known as the executive board, oversees a $20 billion t... 2010-12-05 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4821&mode=1 An analysis of Japan's Hayabusa spacecraft retrieved earlier this year has shown that the dust's composition is extra-terrestrial containing a mineral not found on Earth's surface. Further studies will what materials existed when ... 2010-12-04 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4818&mode=1 Representatives from all the world's countries are in Cancun, Mexico for the United Nations conference on climate change. The vast majority of scientists agree on the main climate change issues and that global warming is occurring and large... 2010-12-03 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4817&mode=1 The planet's level of atmospheric pollution is rising sharply after a dip in emissions due to the global financial crisis. Latest tracking of worldwide emissions show the greenhouse gases that are warming the planet are back up and 2010 is ... 2010-12-02 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4816&mode=1 The eruption of Eyjafjoell earlier this year disgorged a cloud of ash that affected more than 100,000 flights and eight million passengers. Scientists stepped up their watch in mid-2009, when a GPS station on the south side of the volcano sudden... 2010-12-01 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4815&mode=1 The U.S. and China have launched a joint clean energy initiative that includes the manufacturing of electric vehicles In one of the largest research collaborations between two countries in the world, the scheme aims to enable joint research and ... 2010-11-30 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4814&mode=1 China and the United States are the world's biggest emitters of the greenhouse gases that are stoking global warming ? and both countries will be targeted when all the world?s countries come together for a climate summit in Cancun, Mexico, o... 2010-11-29 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4813&mode=1 Climate statesman Al Gore has described the likelihood of impending climate change as a global threat. Gore told a leadership summit in India: "There was severe drought in Russia and extreme flooding in Pakistan. What more evidence is required ... 2010-11-28 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4812&mode=1 Droughts, temperature changes and altered animal behavior are just some of the ways climate change is affecting native Americans on reservations in the West, putting tribal environments, identity and cultural traditions at risk. Fresh streams th... 2010-11-27 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4809&mode=1 While the low carbon energy market is growing fastest in China regionally the leader is the European Union. The European Union has an early lead in the clean energy market, although other economies are catching up fast. China and the United Sta... 2010-11-26 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4808&mode=1 One of the world's biggest manufacturers of wind turbines is Germany's Siemens hs signed a 1 billion euro )$1.36 billion) co-operation agreement with Russian wind power companies earlier this year. The wind power projects are likely to... 2010-11-25 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4807&mode=1 An ancient eruption of a super-massive black hole in the Milky Way may have inflated two huge bubbles of gamma rays, which were just now discovered and are considered a new type of astronomical object. "It shows, once again, that the universe is... 2010-11-24 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4806&mode=1 One of the world's biggest manufacturers of wind turbines is Germany's Siemens hs signed a 1 billion euro ($1.36 billion) co-operation agreement with Russian wind power companies earlier this year. The wind power projects are likely to... 2010-11-23 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4805&mode=1 The January earthquake in Haiti failed to release all the tension in a notorious seismic fault, leaving its capital exposed to the risk of another seismic disaster, according to U.S. scientists. The magnitude 7.0 event, which killed a quarter of... 2010-11-22 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4804&mode=1 Ahead of the Cancun climate change conference some 50 countries represented in India held discussions to decide on the best mechanism to ensure that existing technologies that help people in adapting to impacts of climate change are shared with c... 2010-11-21 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4803&mode=1 Canada will spend $20 million on tidal energy projects in the Bay of Fundy, a move that will help the nation become a "clean energy superpower," Defence Minister Peter MacKay said Sunday. Mr. MacKay said the money will be used by the Fundy Ocean... 2010-11-20 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4801&mode=1 Whales are showing signs of acute sun damage that researchers believe is due to rising levels of ultra violet radiation. The research by British and Mexican researchers and published today in Proceedings of the Royal Society B suggests that cont... 2010-11-19 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4799&mode=1 USA and China have agreed to a new deal that will bind world government's to hydrocarbon emissions cuts. However, the deal to reduce global warmiong won't be signed off until after the climate summit is convened in Cancun on 29 Novembe... 2010-11-18 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4798&mode=1 In a decisive rebuke of energy interests who had tried to block California's landmark AB 32 emissions law from taking effect next year, voters voted green and defeated Proposition 23 at the polls yesterday by a count of 61.4 per cent to 38.6... 2010-11-17 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4797&mode=1 The World Bank has announced the formation of the Global Partnership for Ecosystems and Ecosystem Services Valuation and Wealth Accounting. The new initiative intends to "give developing countries the tools they need to integrate the economic be... 2010-11-16 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4796&mode=1 The World Bank has announced the formation of the Global Partnership for Ecosystems and Ecosystem Services Valuation and Wealth Accounting. The new initiative intends to "give developing countries the tools they need to integrate the economic be... 2010-11-15 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4795&mode=1 Former UK Prime Minister Tony Blair sees a big future for Congenra, a solar co-generation that producers both power and heat. The Congenra system has five times more energy production than photovoltaic technologies. The generator at the Sonoma ... 2010-11-14 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4794&mode=1 The world is going to be a much more crowded place by 2100. Demographic changes in the growing population on Earth will affect climate-warming emissions. Slowing down population growth could have a profound effect on the level of carbon dioxide... 2010-11-13 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4792&mode=1 Scientists have revealed that as the ice-capped Arctic Ocean warms, ship traffic will increase at the top of the world. And if the sea ice continues to decline, a new route connecting international trading partners may emerge - but not without s... 2010-11-12 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4791&mode=1 Robert Shapiro, chair and cofounder of the U.S. Climate Task Force and former Undersecretary of Commerce for Economic Affairs says cap and trade is a dead policy walking, and ?those who care deeply about climate change will find that a carbon tax... 2010-11-11 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4790&mode=1 Repercussions of record Republican gains in the USA congress elections has diminished the Obama governments resolve for mounting comprehensive legislation to tackle climate change. And it's also put the European Union at odds with the USA. ... 2010-11-10 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4789&mode=1 Changing climate conditions and the massive invasions of exotic species introduced by human migration and the global economy are two of the biggest factors driving native species and habitats toward extinction. The latest study into people beli... 2010-11-09 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4788&mode=1 The billions in federal stimulus dollars spent on expanding "green energy" industries and creating "green jobs" have provided a lifeline for U.S. wind and solar companies. However, renewable-energy executives are worried that the future will not... 2010-11-08 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4787&mode=1 The one thing that went right for Delhi during the Games was air quality. Atmospheric pollution has actually subsided in the last decade despite the city's growth. But with many more people able to afford cars, air quality is again under th... 2010-11-07 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4786&mode=1 China will ramp up its production of electric cars to one million vehicles a year by 2020. Private investors have already spent US$1.3 billion on China's EV industry, and the Chinese government will add another US$15 billion over the next 1... 2010-11-06 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4784&mode=1 Heavily populated countries are facing extreme droughts in the next 30 years unless greenhouse gas emissions are reduced. That's the prediction of a new climate study which found that warming temperatures associated with climate change will... 2010-11-05 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4783&mode=1 A massive asteroid exploded on the Queensland-South Australia border more than 300 million years ago. The asteroid produced a shock zone at least 80km wide. University of Queensland geothermal energy researcher Dr Tongu Uysal discovered the ast... 2010-11-04 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4782&mode=1 The annual solar conference and expo took place held in Los Angeles earlier this month had over 1,000 exhibitors and more than 30,000 attendees from China; India, South Korea, Japan, Spain and Germany. The message of the expo was that solar is p... 2010-11-03 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4781&mode=1 China's head of the National Energy Bureau Zhang Guobao has responded to the United State's probe into Chinese clean energy policies under the U.S. trade law. Zhang, who also the deputy director of China National Development and Reform... 2010-11-02 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4780&mode=1 Already vulnerable to hurricanes and offshore oil spills, the U.S. Gulf will have to pay for 350 billion dollars worth of damage unless the likelihood of climate change is countered, according to joint research by insurance groups. Swiss Re and ... 2010-11-01 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4779&mode=1 China has become a the new world leader in clean energy efforts - outstripping the U.S. and Japan. The Vivid Economics report shows that China is second only to Britain in the value of its incentives to cut pollution from electricity generation.... 2010-10-31 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4778&mode=1 Inspired by the Apollo space success, the Apollo Program in 10 U.S. states promotes and unites public and private investments in energy efficiency and clean power. The Apollo Alliance was formed in the aftermath of the 11 September attacks on Ne... 2010-10-30 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4777&mode=1 Underwater gliders equipped with sensors and cameras mounted on seals are being used by Australian marine scientists to probe deep into our oceans. The launch of the new $22 million deep-ocean survey is part of the Integrated Marine Observing Sy... 2010-10-29 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4775&mode=1 The Royal Society has published a short but comprehensive guide to the science of climate change to enable the general public get a simplified view of the core issues related to climate change. The document called Climate Change: A Summary of th... 2010-10-28 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4774&mode=1 A new business mantra is humming around the world delivering the message that the planet's natural environment is crucial for the health of global businesses. And according to Richard Burrett, who co-chairs the United Nations Environment Pr... 2010-10-27 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4773&mode=1 One in five of the world's 380,000 plant species is threatened with extinction and human activity is doing most of the damage, according to a global study published on Wednesday. Scientists from Britain's Botanic Gardens at Kew, London... 2010-10-26 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4771&mode=1 Greenland and other Arctic Council nations have been told to get busy and safeguard their Arctic region. The Arctic Council is largely made up of nations with coastal regions surrounding the north pole, such as Russia, Norway and Greenland. The... 2010-10-25 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4770&mode=1 Clean energy funds are making investment decisions ahead of United Nations talks for a new global climate pact. Investors say the ongoing climate talks are too drawn out and uncertain, according renewable energy investment fund Novusmodus. Novu... 2010-10-24 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4769&mode=1 The United Arab Emirates, Denmark, the USA and Canada are ranked in the top 10 most unsustainable countries on the planet. The study, commissioned by WWF, measured the amount of natural resources needed to sustain a person's lifestyle, incl... 2010-10-23 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4768&mode=1 Google and some of its close associates will spend US$5 billion on underwater transmission cables betting that offshore wind farms will be able to power the East Coast of America. The project, the Atlantic Wind Connection, will run electrical li... 2010-10-22 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4767&mode=1 NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE, is turning its camera eye on asteroids and comets within Earth?s solar system as part of its new NEOWISE Post-Cryogenic Mission. The mission allows the space telescope to continue scanni... 2010-10-21 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4766&mode=1 Chances are that the laws of physics are not the same in all directions. New research suggests the laws of physics aren't the same in all parts of the Universe. Scientists have detected a spatial variation in the fine structure constant, w... 2010-10-20 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4765&mode=1 Climatologists have studying for decades the gases and particles that have potential to alter Earth's climate. They have discovered and described certain airborne chemicals that can trap incoming sunlight and warm the climate, while others c... 2010-10-19 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4764&mode=1 Everything within the universe could end within the Earth's lifespan - that's in 3.7 billion years time. But science won't be able to know when the end will happen, according team of physicists led by Raphael Bousso from the Unive... 2010-10-18 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4760&mode=1 A small, innocuous algae plant holds the key to learning how ocean temperatures have changed over time in the Arctic and sub-Arctic - a critical region of rapid climate change. The marine organism on Canada's East Coast contains what a team... 2010-10-17 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4759&mode=1 With America reluctant to lead on climate change action China has opened a UN conference on climate change with a call on the richer nations to take responsibility and reduced emissions to agreed targets. During a six-day Chinese meeting in the ... 2010-10-16 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4758&mode=1 The twin issue of ethics and legalities has risen up over intellectual property rights to food ? specifically new patent applications that cover the enhancement of meat, including pork, with omega-3 fatty acids. New patent applications have touc... 2010-10-15 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4757&mode=1 Thousands of beached walruses lounging on the shores of Alaska's Point Lay are, according to biologists, a sure sign of climate change. They say that ice is melting early, leaving the walruses with nowhere to rest. Some say it's a snap... 2010-10-14 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4756&mode=1 The parasite that causes the most lethal strain of malaria among humans crossed the species barrier from gorillas. Scientists report that plasmodium falciparum is the deadliest of the five known strains of malaria parasites, causing several hund... 2010-10-13 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4754&mode=1 Media mogul and CNN founder Ted Turner has lamented the United States lack of leadership in clean energy and climate change. Turner said climate change is the most complicated issue humanity has ever faced. "It is easy to be a naysayer, and the... 2010-10-12 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4753&mode=1 A research team says the remains of the remains of a so-called "hobbit" found on the Indonesian island of Flores were almost certainly those of a deformed human and not a member of a new species. The researchers based in Perth, Sydney and Melbou... 2010-10-11 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4752&mode=1 China's power capacity is set to double in the next decade to 1,600 gigawatts and the People's Party plan is to spend billions of dollars of investment in cleaner technologies. The China Beijing Environmental Exchange (CBEEX) could be... 2010-10-10 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4751&mode=1 Space scientists have hailed the discovery of planet Gliese in a relatively nearby sector of the Milky Way Galaxy as a major breakthrough in proving that Earth is not alone in supporting complex life forms. U.S. astronomers who found the Earth-l... 2010-10-09 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4750&mode=1 Seven former USA airmen have set out in detail what they claim is credible proof of a series of alien visits to Earth to inspect nuclear weapons. The group of six former US Air Force officers and one former enlisted man has gone public with thei... 2010-10-08 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4749&mode=1 The Carbon Disclosure Project recently released its 2010 reports on companies in the Global 500. The highest scorer was News Corporation, the parent company of Fox News and the Wall Street Journal. The reports chronicle companies' efforts to... 2010-10-07 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4748&mode=1 The Australian National University Professor Patrick De Deckker expects another major dust storm to develop on the Australian continent. "You had major floods in Central Australia and I think in the near future, when the material that covers the... 2010-10-07 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4747&mode=1 Australian climate change activists paralysed the world's largest coal exporting port for five hours by breaking into the site and chaining themselves to machinery, officials said. Police arrested more than 40 environmental activists who br... 2010-10-06 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4746&mode=1 California is showing the way for how to reduce human-made hydrocarbon emissions. The California State government has been given a mandate to reduce emissions to 1990 levels by 2020. The state has announced tough new rules that will mean that a ... 2010-10-05 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4745&mode=1 California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger is holding firm on his landmark climate change law despite being accused by a sector of the oil industry of being "hell bent on becoming a real life Terminator" to the refining industry. Proposition 23 a... 2010-10-04 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4744&mode=1 BP's broken well in the Gulf of Mexico has been officially declarded ?dead? and will never be operative. The declaration by US officials comes five months after the deadly oil rig explosion set off the biggest environmental disasters of all... 2010-10-03 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4743&mode=1 One of the more prominent Australian voices warning of the dangers posed by climate change says there's a reason to hope. The former Australian of the Year professor Tim Flannery says there are signs that the world is taking steps to deal w... 2010-10-02 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4742&mode=1 Scientists are pointing a giant laser at the sky from the icy continent of Antarctica to measure the warming trend of climate change. The laser is being used to measure climate change in the atmosphere above Davis Station in Antarctica by scanni... 2010-10-01 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4741&mode=1 More women than men believe that climate change is real and happening. An associate professor of sociology at Michigan State University has found there's a gender gap in those who believe in the science of climate change. Aaron McCright in... 2010-09-30 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4740&mode=1 International laws will play a major role in determining whether geoengineers will be allowed to reflect sunlight from Earth. While geoengineering would undoubtedly cool the climate some countries might not agree on how much to reflect? Resear... 2010-09-29 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4739&mode=1 The world's largest solar power plant has been given the go-ahead and, when complete, will result in a dramatic expansion in solar energy generation in the United States and around the world. The proposed $6 billion-plus Blythe, California ... 2010-09-28 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4738&mode=1 2010 is on track to be the hottest on record with the August temperatures recording its third warmest month. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration announced that the first eight months of 2010 tied the same period in 1998 for the w... 2010-09-27 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4737&mode=1 California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger is holding firm on his landmark climate change law despite being accused by a sector of the oil industry of being "hell bent on becoming a real life Terminator" to the refining industry. Proposition 23 a... 2010-09-26 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4736&mode=1 A cash for carbon campaign launched by USA aviation interests and a call by one of the world?s biggest mining corporates for a carbon tax is as a double whammy game changer for action to tackle the threat of climate change. Leading world economi... 2010-09-25 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4733&mode=1 A nanotechnology process producing high quality building material as wood-replacement products from used tyres. British-based Dena's Technologies Group Chairman Dr Brian Sulaiman told Daily Planet Media in Bangkok that the material had been... 2010-09-24 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4732&mode=1 Japanese officials say more than 230,000 people listed as being over the age of 100 cannot be found. Famed for the longevity of its people, Japan has been forced to do some national soul-searching, after several citizens, recognised as being ove... 2010-09-23 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4731&mode=1 Leakage in the geological storage of CO2 - either underground or below the ocean floor - has stalled the implementation carbon sequestration or carbon capture for power plants fueled by coal and oil. Despite governments committing billions of do... 2010-09-22 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4730&mode=1 Human activities such as over-fishing, the acidification of the oceans and the introduction of imported species are resetting the rules of evolution. "The change in the balance of groups is not random. It's not that some groups have good lu... 2010-09-21 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4729&mode=1 Global temperatures in 2010 will most likely be at the highest level in recent history, according to data received from the climate satellite sensors of the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies. Earth's most powerful climate feedback is... 2010-09-20 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4727&mode=1 Oil has stopped gushing from the BP drill well at the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico. Now marine experts are asking where did all the oil go? What's known is that chemical dispersants were used to break the oil into smaller droplets. However,... 2010-09-19 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4726&mode=1 Two asteroids have passed close to Earth, US space agency NASA reported. Both came within the Moon's orbit last Thursday. One of them, estimated at six to 14 metres in size, passed by just 79,000 kilometres away. The other asteroid is beli... 2010-09-18 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4725&mode=1 Oil-eating microbes are providing an effective and environmentally safe means of breaking down oil spills and removing harmful contaminates in soil. Scientists are close to understanding exactly how the microbes process the oil into food, lookin... 2010-09-17 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4724&mode=1 Peru's Amazon River is at its lowest level in 40 years. Now below the minimum set in 2005, a huge dry spell is damaging vast swaths of South American rainforest that is shaping into the worst drought in decades. Scientists in Peru and Braz... 2010-09-16 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4723&mode=1 The United States stands committed to cutting greenhouse gas emissions by 2020 despite the Senate failing to pass legislation. "I am in no sense writing off legislation over time. And I'm quite sure the president isn't," U.S. climate e... 2010-09-15 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4722&mode=1 High temperatures, low humidity and uncertainty over the future of forest laws are fuelling a boost in forest fires over much of Brazil. Overnight on August 30, satellite data collected by the National Institute of Space Researches  showed ... 2010-09-14 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4721&mode=1 Mammal species in northern Australia are in rapid decline and many are at risk of becoming extinct within the next decade. At least a dozen species are listed as critical or endangered and another dozen are thought to be vulnerable, according to... 2010-09-13 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4719&mode=1 Humanity has already exhausted its ecological budget for the year, according to data from Global Footprint Network, a California-based environmental research organization. Global Footprint Network calculates nature's supply in the form of b... 2010-09-12 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4718&mode=1 Climate analysts will know much more about the Sun's effect on climate when NASA sends an unmanned spacecraft into the star's outer atmosphere before 2018. The solar probe will slice through Sun's atmosphere and - before the tempe... 2010-09-11 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4717&mode=1 Fluctuations in the price of oil will determine the viability of Australia's fledging biofuels industry. The newly elected Federal Labor Government is face up to the reality that almost every country in Europe subsidizes biofuels and, in B... 2010-09-10 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4716&mode=1 Oil giant BP says the Gulf of Mexico oil spill has so far cost the British company over $US8 billion. The figure includes the cost of the spill response, containment, relief well drilling, static kill and cementing, grants to the Gulf states, cl... 2010-09-09 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4715&mode=1 China is innovating beyond the solar sector - 70% of new energy venture capital deals between 2006 and 2009 were outside of solar power. Some analysts estimate has China on track to build at least 20 nuclear power plants of 2 GigaWatts each for... 2010-09-09 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4713&mode=1 Japan's mandatory emissions trading scheme set to start in April 2013 will cover large CO2 emitting companies. A draft of the government's proposals has gone to an expert committee at the Environment Ministry, which aims to finalize it... 2010-09-08 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4712&mode=1 Climate scientists are investigating changes in atmospheric currents linked to devastating floods in Pakistan and wildfires in Russia. Ghassem Asrar, director of the World Climate Research Programme, said changes, known as blocking episodes, can... 2010-09-07 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4711&mode=1 A huge wind project has been announced for southeastern Australia. Approval has been given for a major wind farm near Nimmitabel on the Monaro and the Government has also signed an investigation licence agreement, to allow a Perth company to beg... 2010-09-06 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4710&mode=1 Bolivian president Evo Morales is under fire for suggesting that eating hormone-injected chicken could provoke male "deviance". Bolivia's opposition and homosexual groups have criticised comments made by Mr Morales that said chicken produce... 2010-09-05 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4709&mode=1 The best places have been mapped out across Australia's southern coast for generating wave energy - from Geraldton in Western Australia to King Island in Tasmania. A new CSIRO energy atlas shows that if just 10 per cent of the energy genera... 2010-09-04 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4708&mode=1 U.S. regulators are moving to reduce the amount of dust floating in rural air. The Environmental Protection Agency is looking to tighten standards for the amount of harmful particles in the air, facing opposition from U.S. farming groups who cal... 2010-09-03 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4706&mode=1 China recorded its worst ever traffic jam that stretched across 100 kilometres of a major highway leading to Beijing. China's jam is a mirror of the country's soaring economic development, writes Anna Crombie in the Weekend Daily Planet... 2010-09-02 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4705&mode=1 Cars in the United Sates will be graded A to D according to their energy efficiency. The labeling program - as proposed by Obama administration - will be applied to mileage and emissions of gases that cause global warming. The new car labels th... 2010-09-02 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4704&mode=1 A new report to the United Nations recommends a major shake-up of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). The UN's climate panel has been under scrutiny after it asserted that climate change was already imploding on the planet... 2010-09-01 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4703&mode=1 Research has shown that only a few species of fish have been able to adapt to extreme climate change on the planet. Apparently fish evolve faster than animals. University of British Columbia evolutionary geneticist warns that any evolutionary j... 2010-08-31 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4701&mode=1 Scientists using Google Maps have discovered a new crater like structure in the Bayuda Desert of Sudan. If confirmed, it will be the second such discovery using the popular online mapping tool and could spawn a new generation of home-based amate... 2010-08-30 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4700&mode=1 Germany is examining a new tax on coal used in power generation. The tax is expected to offset tax breaks for large corporate energy consumers. The German government hopes to save 1 billion euros next year and 1.5 billion in 2012 by reducing ta... 2010-08-29 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4699&mode=1 A carbon accounting technique aimed at saving tropical forests could be the catalyst for a potential multi-billion dollar market for forest carbon offsets. REDD aims to give developing countries funds to preserve remaining tracts of forest that ... 2010-08-28 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4698&mode=1 Researchers from Queensland's James Cook University say they have discovered one of the world's rarest coral species. The giant Pacific Elkhorn has antler-like branches and is about five metres wide and two metres high. It was recentl... 2010-08-27 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4697&mode=1 An iceberg four times the size of Manhattan broke off Greenland's Petermann Glacier. The ice island is now drifting south through the Nares Strait between Greenland and Canada. Experts aren't sure whether it will make it all the way t... 2010-08-26 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4696&mode=1 The churning of the Earth's molten interior may play an unsuspected role in sea level change over the past two to 20 million years, says an Australian expert. The finding suggests we are a long way from understanding how sea levels change i... 2010-08-25 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4695&mode=1 Southeastern Australia has become a climate change hotspot with well-documented changes in the physical marine environment. Scientists say fish on Australia's east coast are moving further south in line with an increase in ocean water tempe... 2010-08-24 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4694&mode=1 Russia has heated up to the scientific evidence for climate change and is now talking up the prospect of going to war against global warming. "Everyone is talking about climate change now," President Dmitri A. Medvedev told the Russian Security ... 2010-08-23 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4693&mode=1 Climate change skeptics are taking a New Zealand government climate agency to court over the validity of its evidence on global warming. The New Zealand Climate Science Coalition has accused the National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Resear... 2010-08-22 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4692&mode=1 Arctic Polar bears are under threat from the twin challenges of climate change and chemicals that are not breaking down in the region's cold waters. Scientists believe the pollutants, locked in the polar ice for decades, could be released i... 2010-08-21 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4691&mode=1 Australian scientists in southern Tasmania have developed technology to help improve the monitoring of an important species of penguin in Antarctica. Over 20 years scientists have studied the breeding habits of Adelie penguins on Bechervaise Isl... 2010-08-20 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4690&mode=1 Tropical forests are facing a wipeout of plants and animals, according to a new report from the Carnegie Institution on the effects of climate change and deforestation. The latest study found that the combined impact of climate change and spread... 2010-08-19 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4689&mode=1 Pacific Island nations used the 16-nation Pacific Islands Forum to demand more action on climate change. Premier of Niue, Toke Talagi expressed frustration that little of the promised aid to help his country cope with climate change has material... 2010-08-18 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4688&mode=1 An ice island measuring 260 square kilometres that has broken off from one of Greenland's two main glaciers - the biggest such event in the Arctic in nearly 50 years - is another warning of impending climate change. The new ice island,... 2010-08-17 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4687&mode=1 Concerns regarding the severe environmental effects of dispersants follows reports that the U.S. Coast Guard granted BP?s requests to use chemicals 74 times over 54 days. The chemical dispersants were used on the surface and deep underwater at t... 2010-08-16 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4686&mode=1 The U.S. negotiator for UN climate talks tasked with curbing the threat of global warming says the world response is going backwards. Record global temperatures, forest fires in Russia, lethal floods in Pakistan "are all consistent with the kind... 2010-08-15 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4685&mode=1 Britain's Prime Minister and wartime hero Winston Churchill ordered a 50-year cover-up of an encounter between a RAF pilot and a UFO. A classified file, published by the British National Archives, refers to a 1999 letter stating that a Roya... 2010-08-14 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4684&mode=1 As global temperatures rise tropical Asian countries face a far greater flood risk especially in the heavy populated cities. That?s because temperatures rise of Earth oceans get warmer. And climate scientologist say that when water heats up it ex... 2010-08-13 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4683&mode=1 Scientists are confident they are getting close to finding the elusive dark matter that makes up most of the universe. Their search has now gone underground to where cosmic rays striking the Earth are completely masked so that dark matter can be... 2010-08-12 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4682&mode=1 Amazon land that makes up the world's largest forest will be exposed to more farmer's fires. The forest land stores vast amount of carbon it stores and provides valuable natural habitats, however the biodiversity is already under threa... 2010-08-11 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4681&mode=1 The world's biggest atom smasher has scaled up in power even faster than hoped for and may soon unlock some of the universe's deepest secrets, scientists at a top physics conference said. After a shaky start and a 14-month delay, exper... 2010-08-10 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4680&mode=1 Britain's independent environmental watchdog and advisory body is to be scrapped along with a number of green bodies being abolished to reduce the country's deficit. Reacting to the news, Friends of the Earth's executive director ... 2010-08-09 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4679&mode=1 It took 9 days, 8,000 workers and hundreds of fishing boats to clean up the oil spill off the major northern Chinese port after a pipeline blast leaked 1,500 metric tons of heavy crude into the sea. The oil spill has been all removed and the sli... 2010-08-08 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4678&mode=1 China will support project developers that earn carbon offsets under a lucrative Kyoto Protocol scheme. Chinese project developers rejected key grounds for a review of Kyoto's clean development mechanism (CDM), and the China CDM Fund suppor... 2010-08-07 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4677&mode=1 USA lawmakers have reined in Big Oil and have held BP responsible for the worst offshore oil disaster in U.S. history. The House of Representatives has approved the toughest reforms ever to deep ocean offshore energy drilling. Democrats pushed ... 2010-08-06 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4676&mode=1 The world's biggest atom smasher has scaled up in power even faster than hoped for and may soon unlock some of the universe's deepest secrets, according to a report in the Weekend Daily Planet global newspaper on a top physics conferenc... 2010-08-06 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4675&mode=1 Roger Stroud, a self-described Australian inventor, is pioneering a way to convert waste from power stations into fuel on a massive scale. He argues that his project will make a meaningful difference. Stroud is the man spearheading the Algae.te... 2010-08-05 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4674&mode=1 Australia researchers are getting more information out of seismic waves to accurately map earthquakes and predict areas at highest risk. National University seismologist David Robinson says the research is helping scientists better understand ea... 2010-08-04 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4673&mode=1 Australia researchers are getting more information out of seismic waves to accurately map earthquakes and predict areas at highest risk. National University seismologist David Robinson says the research is helping scientists better understand ea... 2010-08-03 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4672&mode=1 Indonesia is seeking compensation for an oil spill in the Timor Sea that began last year and continued for 74 days. One legal adviser working with the Indonesian fishing families asserts that the compensation bill could run into the billions. ... 2010-08-02 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4671&mode=1 The Gulf of Mexico oil clean-up will have more long-term damage than the oil spill that gushed for almost three months. The undersea leak pilled 90 million gallons of oil released into the ocean for 85 days and there uncertainties remain that th... 2010-08-01 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4670&mode=1 The Gulf of Mexico  oil clean-up will have more long-term damage than the oil spill that gushed for almost three months. The undersea leak pilled 90 million gallons of oil released into the ocean for 85 days and there uncertainties remain t... 2010-07-31 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4669&mode=1 A rare type of finless porpoises living in the freshwater of China?s Yangtze River is genetically unique. But scientists warn that greater efforts must be made to prevent these animals, numbering fewer than 1000, from following another Yangtze c... 2010-07-30 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4668&mode=1 The World Trade Organisation wants countries to work together more closely in trade in natural resources. Natural resources is often seen as exempt from many international commerce rules. Governments must cooperate more intensively to deal with... 2010-07-29 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4667&mode=1 Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard has delayed introducing a price for carbon pollution - angering environmentalists, scientists and business ahead of her bid to secure re-election. The delay, until 2012 at least, will strain the ruling Lab... 2010-07-28 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4666&mode=1 Many question remain unanswered as to whether carbon capture, storage and sequestration (CCS), will work to lower global warming. Professor Gary Shaffer from the Danish Centre for Earth System Science examined a range of CCS methods to determine... 2010-07-27 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4665&mode=1 Australia researchers are getting more information out of seismic waves to accurately map earthquakes and predict areas at highest risk. Australian National University seismologist David Robinson says the research is helping scientists better un... 2010-07-26 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4664&mode=1 The Australian Government already restricts the importation of handheld lasers, including laser pointers, but there has been a marked increase in the detection of laser pointers through mail and air cargo coming into Australia. For about $200 a... 2010-07-25 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4663&mode=1 The first samples that was captured form an asteroid and brought to Earth could provide answers to stopping them hitting the planet and avoiding a catastrophe. NASA's Dr Michael Zolensky said the findings of the Japanese led mission could p... 2010-07-24 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4662&mode=1 Scientists have declared the fight against climate change has been lost and that more severe global warming is inevitable. That's the consensus of the first international conference on adapting to climate change opens on Australia's Go... 2010-07-23 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4661&mode=1 Britain will crank up measures to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and introduce new policies to reduce emissions 34 percent by 2020. The government?s Committee on Climate Change said that a step change in the pace of underlying emissions reducti... 2010-07-22 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4660&mode=1 Marine experts from around the world have gathered on North Stradbroke Island off the east coast of Australia to monitor migrating whales . During daylight hours - and until the end of July - researchers are clustering at Point Lookout on French... 2010-07-21 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4659&mode=1 Australia's energy grid could run entirely on renewables energy from wind and solar power within 10 years, according to the Zero Carbon Australia report. The report outlines a 10-year road map which the authors say is affordable and achieva... 2010-07-20 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4658&mode=1 The Weekend Daily Planet global newspaper is giving away precious sapphire stone and silver jewellery to tree donors aiding the Earth?s natural habitats, writes Lester Andrews. All the precious jewellery items of this exclusive collection ha... 2010-07-19 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4657&mode=1 Within the next 40 years an extra 1.5 trillion litres of water will be needed to cope with a population in Australia of up to 45 million. A new study says future cities will have to be re-plumbed and waterless washing machines are likely to be e... 2010-07-19 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4656&mode=1 A third of the Earth's habitats have been damaged by humans and despite growing awareness it continues on a large scale. According to a United Nations report puts a price on biodiversity loss in the natural world. Achim Steiner is the head... 2010-07-18 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4655&mode=1 The global recession has stalled action against the likely implosions of human-made climate change. The UK Committee on Climate Change (CCC) calls for a "step change" in power generation, insulation and transport. Continuing to rely on "light t... 2010-07-17 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4654&mode=1 Australia's Greens leader Bob Brown has told new Prime Minster Julia Gillard that if Labor is re-elected his party would help the Government pass a carbon tax through the Senate within three months of polling day. The Greens would support p... 2010-07-16 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4653&mode=1 Three year's ago the Australian Labor Party won the election from the Liberal conservative coalition with climate change as the imperative election issues. Now Prime Minister Julia Gillard - who toppled the former Labor leader Kevin Rudd in... 2010-07-15 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4652&mode=1 Three year's ago the Australian Labor Party won the election from the Liberal conservative coalition with climate change as the imperative election issues. Now Prime Minister Julia Gillard - who toppled the former Labor leader Kevin Rudd in... 2010-07-14 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4651&mode=1 Denmark has agreed to accept thousands of tonnes of toxic waste from Australia. Orica's hexachlorobenzene (HCB) waste will be moved from Botany in Sydney for incineration. HCBs are persistent organic pollutants (POPs), which are very toxic... 2010-07-13 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4650&mode=1 Australia's new Prime Minister Julia Gillard is certain that any emissions trading scheme won't be happening until after 2013 and she won't bring in a price on carbon until there is a "deep and lasting community consensus" on it. ... 2010-07-12 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4649&mode=1 This week China issued another heatwave alert following soaring temperatures and UK weather expert warn British residents to be prepared for exceptional hot weather for the remaining summer months. Last year was the second warmest on record and ... 2010-07-11 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4648&mode=1 The Formula One super cars are on track to cut engine emissions by 15% in three years. Formula One, with its high-consuming cars, glossy advertising and expensive globetrotting teams, has sometimes been accused of "greenwashing" its own image. ... 2010-07-10 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4647&mode=1 Rare turtles protected under the Endangered Species Act are being inadvertently burned to death after large patches of the Gulf oil spill on the ocean surface have been set ablaze. Environmental groups have filed suit against BP Plc seeking to h... 2010-07-09 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4646&mode=1 EU Commission study shows costs of meeting EU 2020 climate targets had fallen to 48 billion euros a year from 70 billion estimated two years ago due to the economic crisis that has cut emissions, mainly from the use of fossil fuels. And in 2007,... 2010-07-08 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4645&mode=1 Big whales are lowering the amount of carbon in the atmosphere. That?s the result of latest research that goes against the general understanding that methane and manure are a big contributor to global warming. According to a study whale excreme... 2010-07-07 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4644&mode=1 Vegetation around the world is on the move, and climate change is the culprit, according to a new analysis of global vegetation shifts led by a University of California, Berkeley, ecologist in collaboration with researchers from the U.S. Departme... 2010-07-06 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4643&mode=1 A rare type of finless porpoises living in the freshwater of China's Yangtze River is genetically unique. But scientists warn that greater efforts must be made to prevent these animals, numbering fewer than 1000, from following another Yang... 2010-07-05 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4642&mode=1 Outback Australia's vast outback could play an effective role in the nation's fight against climate change. A new study has found the area from the central west of NSW all the way up to Cape York, and then across the top end and down t... 2010-07-04 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4641&mode=1 An international study has shown that droughts in the Sahel region on the southern Sahara rim can be affected by cyclical changes in atmospheric pressure and sea surface temperature in the North Atlantic Ocean. Researchers from Columbia Univers... 2010-07-03 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4640&mode=1 It's impossible not to avoid the live video broadcast of the coal-gray oil gushing from BP's well in the Gulf of Mexico. According to an Associated Press Poll 88% of the public have viewed it. The problem hasn't has been fixed and... 2010-07-02 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4639&mode=1 The Formula One super cars are on track to cut engine emissions by 15% in three years. Formula One, with its high-consuming cars, glossy advertising and expensive globetrotting teams, has sometimes been accused of "greenwashing" its own image. ... 2010-07-01 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4638&mode=1 The leader of the WWF Global Climate Initiative has expressed disappointment over the outcome of the G20 and G8 meetings in Toronto. Kim Carstensen says the meetings were dominated by fears the world's economies might backslide into recessi... 2010-06-30 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4637&mode=1 The International Whaling Commission remains deeply divided as 88 nations debated a request by Greenland to add nine humpbacks to its quota for subsistence whaling. Commissioner is Ole Samsing said "the humpback has been hunted for a very, very ... 2010-06-29 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4635&mode=1 NASA has announced finding more than 300 potential planets circling stars beyond our solar system. The planets are roughly the size of Earth or slightly larger. The discovery's come from the Kepler orbiting telescope, launched in March last... 2010-06-28 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4634&mode=1 It's impossible not to avoid the live video broadcast of the coal-gray oil gushing from BP's well in the Gulf of Mexico. According to an Associated Press Poll 88% of the public have viewed it. The problem hasn't has been fixed and... 2010-06-27 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4633&mode=1 The world's oceans are choking on rising greenhouse gases that are destroying marine ecosystems. Rising CO2 is breaking down the food chain causing irreversible changes that have not occurred for several million years. A new study conclude... 2010-06-26 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4632&mode=1 Concerns over oil supply will lead to a rise in sales of electric vehicles this year. More than 98 percent of sales are expected to be of hybrid electric cars, which are part petrol, part battery, rather than plug-in cars, which are wholly batte... 2010-06-25 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4631&mode=1 Hollywood star Kevin Costner has been the go ahead to use an invention the actor says will fix the massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. "My dream, this machine, was designed to give us a fighting chance to fight back the oil that's got ... 2010-06-24 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4630&mode=1 Australian scientists are warning that rising concentrations of greenhouse gases are dramatically changing the way oceans function. Oceans cover more than 70 per cent of the Earth's surface and a new study says they are changing dramaticall... 2010-06-23 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4629&mode=1 An international study has shown that droughts in the Sahel region on the southern Sahara rim can be affected by cyclical changes in atmospheric pressure and sea surface temperature in the North Atlantic Ocean. Researchers from Columbia Univers... 2010-06-22 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4628&mode=1 The first dust samples captured from an asteroid and brought to Earth could provide answers to stopping them hitting the planet and avoiding a catastrophe. NASA's Dr Michael Zolensky said the findings of the Japanese led mission could prove... 2010-06-21 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4627&mode=1 Australian scientists are half way towards commercially extracting oxygen from water using only a simple chemical and sunlight. Researchers at the Australian National University say it's a significant step towards making the other element ... 2010-06-20 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4626&mode=1 A new poll of 1,024  adults by the Yale University's Climate Change Communication shows Americans strongly favor moving forward with renewable energy technologies, drastically cutting carbon dioxide emissions, and regulating CO2 as a po... 2010-06-19 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4625&mode=1 NASA's first oceanographic field campaign went to sea this month for a close look at how changing conditions in the Arctic are affecting the ocean's chemistry and ecosystems. The Impacts of Climate on Ecosystems and Chemistry of the Ar... 2010-06-18 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4624&mode=1 World climate statesman Al Gore pulled a bigger crowd to the Manila capital in the Philippines than any rock band or motivational speaker. The moment former United States Vice President and 2007 Nobel Peace Prize winner Al Gore stepped on stage ... 2010-06-17 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4623&mode=1 A new study shows more marine species are dying as the world's tropical oceans undergo greater bleaching becomes with survey reports indicating that u to half of Australia's coral reefs over the next 40 years. 2009 was second warmest y... 2010-06-16 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4622&mode=1 While Australia has nothing to match America's Tornado Alley it still averages 16 tornadoes every year. Some places like Lennox Head - on the New South Wales far-north coast - are more tornado-prone than others, according to Barry Hanstrum,... 2010-06-15 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4621&mode=1 Australia is examining rules and regulations for deep offshore oil drilling to screw down safety precautions against oil rig blowouts and other equipment failures. US President Barack Obama is seeking an international "blanket of support" for ro... 2010-06-14 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4620&mode=1 Sustainable energy in Australia needs a fast switch to renewable power plants. This is achievable according to the campaign group Beyond Zero Emissions that that the technology is already available to make the change. But leading scientists wor... 2010-06-13 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4619&mode=1 Studies have shown that cows on a diet of fresh grass produce milk with five times as much of an unsaturated fat called conjugated linoleic acid (CLA) than cows fed processed grains. Further studies in animals have suggested that CLAs can protec... 2010-06-12 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4618&mode=1 A thick mat of microbes, known as Goliath bacteria, has grown to the size of a country has been found in the waters off South America. The find is among the most recent discoveries by the decade-long global Census of Marine Life, which involves ... 2010-06-11 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4617&mode=1 Oyster growers in South Australia are saving both time and money by using recyclable material on their leases. Many of them have replaced the traditional treated pine posts with a recyclable plastic post to stop them being eaten away by marine p... 2010-06-10 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4616&mode=1 A disease associated with squalor could be on the increase in suburban homes because more people are keeping rodents as pets, warns an Australian microbiologist. Known as rat bite fever, the disease can result after a bite, scratch or exposure t... 2010-06-09 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4615&mode=1 Avatar director and deep sea explorer James Cameron has taken part in a brainstorming session with scientists, academics and Washington officials to find a solution to fix  the six-week-old oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. The U.S. governme... 2010-06-08 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4614&mode=1 President Mohamed Nasheed of the Maldives said there was now visible evidence of the devastating effect that changes in sea levels are having on the islands. The islands are unlikely to last out the next century or two as they are on average jus... 2010-06-07 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4613&mode=1 A group of scientists in Australia - conducting a world first experiment on a living coral reef - are pumping carbon dioxide into the ocean to see how the ecosystem copes. Studies have shown that carbon emissions can cause reefs to decline ... 2010-06-06 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4612&mode=1 Concerns are mounting that that the blown-out wellhead at the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico will continue to spew oil into the ocean until August. More oil is leaking into the Gulf of Mexico than at any other time in human history. At least 20 ... 2010-06-05 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4611&mode=1 German Chancellor Angela Merkel has urged world leaders to show more ambition in their efforts to cut greenhouse gases. She told the international climate change conference in Germany that governments and scientists believe global temperatures m... 2010-06-04 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4610&mode=1 The United States position has again shaped the outcome of the latest global climate change negotiations in Bonn, Germany, and the world can expect a 'tough ride' ahead towards Cancun in December. Before talks began on 31 May at Hotel ... 2010-06-03 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4609&mode=1 While Americans consume around 550 million Big Macs every year per capita no country eats more Mac hamburgers than Australians. The energy costs of producing over half a billion Big Macs are not, however, picked up by customers but by society as... 2010-06-02 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4608&mode=1 African leaders set their sights on battling climate change on Tuesday on the final day of a summit hosted by President Nicolas Sarkozy to renew France's ties on the continent. Sarkozy set the tone for the talks with the 38 African leaders ... 2010-06-01 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4601&mode=1 Indonesia has placed a moratorium on deforestation. Forestation is a large source of income for Indonesia, which also contributes heavily to global warming. Indonesian president Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono said the moratorium for two years would s... 2010-05-31 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4600&mode=1 Scientists have warned of mass extinctions and the 'rise of slime', following threats to marine ecosystems from overfishing and human-made pollution. They say climate change must be urgently addressed to halt downward trends. Scripps ... 2010-05-30 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4599&mode=1 The United States National Academy of Sciences has published its clearest ever report on the science of climate change concluding: "Climate change is occurring, is caused largely by human activities, and poses significant risks for a broad range ... 2010-05-29 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4598&mode=1 Mount Everest has become more dangerous for climbers due to climate change. A Nepalese Sherpa made this assertion in Kathmandu after breaking his own record by making a 20th ascent of the world's highest peak. Apa Sherpa, who dedicated his... 2010-05-28 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4597&mode=1 Scientists say an Aboriginal rock art depiction of an extinct giant bird, found in Arnhem Land, could be Australia's oldest painting. The red ochre painting, which depicts two emu-like birds with their necks outstretched, could date back to... 2010-05-27 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4596&mode=1 Over 200 prominent scientists have signed an open letter saying they are deeply disturbed by the recent escalation in attacks on climate scientists. The letter states that political action has been derailed. Published in the journal Science the... 2010-05-26 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4595&mode=1 An anti-coal seam gas lobby group says its members will only block companies from exploring land in southern Queensland if the Australian State Government does not address its concerns. Several hundred farmers held a rally at Cecil Plains yester... 2010-05-25 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4594&mode=1 An anti-coal seam gas lobby group says its members will only block companies from exploring land in southern Queensland if the State Government does not address its concerns. Several hundred farmers held a rally at Cecil Plains yesterday to rais... 2010-05-24 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4593&mode=1 A marine expert says allowing oil exploration in waters near Kangaroo Island would put at risk the only known feeding area for a rare beaked whale species. Dr Mike Bossley says two drilling leases made available this week by the Federal Governme... 2010-05-23 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4592&mode=1 Heavy oil washed up from the Deepwater Horizon spill in the Gulf of Mexico has hit parts of the Louisiana coastline. The state's governor reported that a thick layer of oil had coated vegetation in the fragile wetlands of the Mississippi ri... 2010-05-22 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4591&mode=1 Oil blobs from the Gulf of Mexico massive this week entered the powerful Loop Current curling around the Florida Peninsula, Miami and Cuba. The Obama administration is grappling with a widening environmental and economic disaster for which it h... 2010-05-21 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4590&mode=1 The logging industry is withdrawing its logging of Riverina Murray red gum forests in southwest New South Wales to the delight of 11 environment groups. The Wilderness Society's Felicity Wade says it is an historic decision, which she belie... 2010-05-20 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4589&mode=1 The European Union will spend another $2.7 billion in making loans available for nations to combat climate change. New countries to be offered the loans include Iraq, Libya, Iceland and Cambodia. However, the anti-poverty group Oxfam Internation... 2010-05-19 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4588&mode=1 On top of the wind tower, a beacon signals the city's actual energy use - red for too much or blue for just right. It stands 45meters high and visible for miles around. And when Masdar city in Abu Dhabi is completed within the next 10 years ... 2010-05-18 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4587&mode=1 Australian is ranked mong the world's 10 worst countries for environmental impact, according to research that found the richer a country, the greater its environmental footprint. A collaboration study of the National University of Singapore... 2010-05-17 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4586&mode=1 Support for Australia's Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has plunged to record lows following his decision to axe the emissions trading scheme (ETS) . The findings contained in the latest Herald/Nielsen poll show that 58 per cent of voters still s... 2010-05-16 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4585&mode=1 The discovery of ozone hole over Antarctica led to the Montreal Protocol that fixed the problem. But while this happened relatively easily it?s the exact opposite in terms of trying to come up with some kind of international treaty to stop greenh... 2010-05-15 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4584&mode=1 China has reiterated its support for the principle of "common but differentiated responsibility" on climate change. Senior official Xie Zhenhua, vice minister of the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) told the International Cooper... 2010-05-14 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4583&mode=1 BP CEO Tony Hayward has downplayed BP's role on the rig explosion in the Gulf of Mexico that is spilling oil on USA shores. "The way the industry works is that the operators are in essence the architects. They design the well. And the drill... 2010-05-13 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4582&mode=1 White House adviser Carol Browner said the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico has increased the chances of climate change legislation passing this year to more than 50 percent, according to CBS News. "This accident, this tragedy, is actually height... 2010-05-12 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4581&mode=1 Most of Europe's skies have reopened for flights after a volcano in Iceland grounded planes for six days, but the jet paralyzing ash did have a green lining. Aircraft add to global warming through emissions of carbon, other chemicals and th... 2010-05-11 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4580&mode=1 Australia's emissions trading scheme that would provide free carbon permits for heavy industry emitters has been described as a $20 billion waste of money. That's the opinion of an independent review of the scheme carried out by the Me... 2010-05-10 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4579&mode=1 The United States and Japan's leading electric vehicle makers will team up to find solutions for better battery charging. General Electric Co and Nissan Motor Co announced a three-year agreement to collectively research development of charg... 2010-05-09 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4578&mode=1 The European Union will spend another $2.7 billion in making loans available for nations to combat climate change. New countries to be offered the loans include Iraq, Libya, Iceland and Cambodia. However, the anti-poverty group Oxfam Internation... 2010-05-08 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4577&mode=1 Geological experts warn that the eruption of Iceland?s Eyjafjallajokull volcano is a precursor to a much bigger explosion ? and it?s only a matter of time before the nearby Katla erupts. According to renowned geologist and writer Simon Wincheste... 2010-05-07 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4576&mode=1 The European Union will spend another $2.7 billion in making loans available for nations to combat climate change. New countries to be offered the loans include Iraq, Libya, Iceland and Cambodia. However, the anti-poverty group Oxfam Internation... 2010-05-06 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4575&mode=1 India, China, Brazil and South Africa Monday have called on the world to finalize a legally binding treaty on reduction of carbon emission by 2011. A statement by the countries said "the world could not wait indefinitely" for a binding treating ... 2010-05-05 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4574&mode=1 Scientists have discovered an unexpected deep ocean current in the Southern Ocean that indicates climate change implosion resulting from a warming planet. Ocean currents that form the Great Ocean Conveyor Belt help regulate the earth's ... 2010-05-04 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4573&mode=1 A volcano eruption will at some time in fture destroy Auckland city. And, according to Auckland University geologist Phil Shane, there could be "an eruption in our lifetime". Auckland is built on a "volcanic field", Dr Shane said. New Zealand&... 2010-05-03 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4572&mode=1 An ocean census has shown that marine microbes constitute between 50 to 90 per cent of all ocean biomass, and this newly discovered world of diverse marine microbe life that could help scientists understand more about key environmental processes ... 2010-05-02 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4571&mode=1 Earth Day turned 40 on 21 April. The environmental celebration that once seemed focused on planting trees is now immersed in politics and climate change. A recent New York Times poll that reached more than 800 tea party supporters found that 51... 2010-05-01 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4570&mode=1 The Australian government will abandon its $2.5 billion home insulation scheme intended to stimulate the economy, save electricity and cut back carbon emissions. The government?s decisions follows advice from bureaucrat Allan Hawke, who was comm... 2010-04-30 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4569&mode=1 Australia's richest and most powerful environment groups, The Wilderness Society, has been forced into Tasmania's Supreme Court following legal moves to have the group's directors ruled invalid. The society came under notice when ... 2010-04-29 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4568&mode=1 A Japanese spacecraft - the first to make contact with an asteroid and return to Earth - will land on the Woomera test range in outback South Australia in June this year. The spacecraft is carrying samples from an asteroid collected in 2005. Dr... 2010-04-28 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4566&mode=1 Europe's skies reopened for flights after an ash cloud grounded planes for six days, stranding passengers and costing the airline industry $250 million a day. But while ash can scour and even paralyze jet engines the grounding did have a g... 2010-04-27 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4565&mode=1 The European Union will add another $2.7 billion in loans available to assist nationals combat climate change. New countries to be offered the loans include Iraq, Libya, Iceland and Cambodia. However, the anti-poverty group Oxfam International s... 2010-04-26 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4564&mode=1 Australia's emissions trading scheme that would provide free carbon permits for heavy industry emitters has been described as a $20 billion waste of money. That's the opinion of an independent review of the scheme carried out by the Me... 2010-04-25 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4563&mode=1 Earth Day turned 40 last Wednesday (21 April). This environmental celebration that once seemed focused on planting trees is now immersed in politics and climate change. A recent New York Times poll that reached more than 800 tea party supporte... 2010-04-24 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4562&mode=1 The Australian government will abandon its $2.5 billion home insulation scheme intended to stimulate the economy, save electricity and cut back carbon emissions. The government's decisions follows advice from bureaucrat Allan Hawke, who was... 2010-04-23 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4561&mode=1 The green revolution that spurred agricultural production in Latin America and Asia from the 1950s won't be able to keep pace with the world's rapid population growth. Proving food for billions of more peoople in the climate change dec... 2010-04-22 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4560&mode=1 Vessels passing through Australia's Great Barrier Reef will from now on be more closely monitored, following the arrest and prosecution of the captain of the coal carrier Shen Neng 1 that ran aground on a shoal near Gladstone. A massive cle... 2010-04-21 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4559&mode=1 The World Health Organisation has warned Europeans to stay indoors if ash from Iceland's volcano starts falling from the sky. But the main concern is that if Eyjafjallajokull volcano continues to erupt then the sulfur will mix with the wate... 2010-04-20 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4558&mode=1 An ocean census has shown that marine microbes constitute between 50 to 90 per cent of all ocean biomass, and this newly discovered world of diverse marine microbe life that could help scientists understand more about key environmental processes ... 2010-04-19 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4557&mode=1 Ireland dares to dream of a low carbon green world. And to make its dream come true it will shift from being 90 per cent dependent on imported fossil fuel to becoming a major user of renewable energy. Being located on the western edge of Europe ... 2010-04-18 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4556&mode=1 China is now the leading investor in renewable energy technologies, according the Pew Charitable Trusts. China invested $34.6bn in clean energy last year , almost double the US, followed by  by Spain and Brazil. Globally, investment has mor... 2010-04-17 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4555&mode=1 The worlds weather satellites will get a scope upgrade with the MTG project being built to provide  the biggest and the most complex space platform. The system will comprise six satellites, with the first spacecraft likely to be ready for l... 2010-04-16 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4554&mode=1 The winds that circle Antarctica are a key link to the rate of climate change. A wind report that relates to climate change in the South Pole region was based on seven years of data. CSIRO Marine and Atmospheric Research scientist Dr Steve Rint... 2010-04-15 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4553&mode=1 Scientists are deliberately withholding information from global warming sceptics but there is no evidence that any climate data had been manipulated to assist the case for human-made global warming. In the first official report into the theft of... 2010-04-14 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4551&mode=1 President Barack Obama is trading oil and gas drilling off the U.S. coast for new proposals to fight climate change. The deal was done to reduce the dependency on foreign oil stocks as well as looking after the interests of America's big ... 2010-04-13 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4549&mode=1 President Barack Obama is trading oil and gas drilling off the U.S. coast for new proposals to fight climate change. The deal was done to reduce the dependency on foreign oil stocks as well as looking after the interests of America's big oi... 2010-04-12 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4548&mode=1 Increasing atmospheric water vapour caused by global warming is a primary reason why the world's climate is showing signs of changing. Scientists say that rising temperatures that result from human-made greenhouse gases are increasing humid... 2010-04-11 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4547&mode=1 An island in the Bay of Bengal, claimed for years by both India and Bangladesh, has disappeared beneath rising seas. Scientists in Calcutta say satellite images show the island is now fully under water, apparently due to global warming. It is k... 2010-04-10 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4546&mode=1 Denmark and Spain are producing more than half of their power from the new modern wind farms that are spreading fast across Europe. Billions of euros have been spent over the past decade harnessing wind to reduce the reliance on climate-warming ... 2010-04-09 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4545&mode=1 The  impending overhaul of  Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) will reshape its organisational structure and operations within the the United Nations. This overhaul has the support of  hundreds of scientists who have... 2010-04-08 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4544&mode=1 The hulk of the navy ship HMAS Adelaide - due to be scuttled off Australia?s the New South Wales central coast - has been put on hold following health protests over the official plan to sink the Adelaide to create an artificial reef and dive site... 2010-04-07 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4543&mode=1 The UN's wildlife trade organisation has rejected requests from Tanzania and Zambia to sell ivory. Conservation and animal welfare groups successfully asserted that the  one-off ivory sales ensure that there is an ongoing market into w... 2010-04-06 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4542&mode=1 The latest debate on climate science has turned to the El Nino weather phenomena. But many climate scientists say that such a direct focus - like the solar effect - is false, misleading and that the data has been manipulated by climate... 2010-04-05 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4541&mode=1 A California restaurant that is facing criminal charges for serving endangered whale meat as sushi has announced it will close permanently as a "self-imposed punishment". The Hump restaurant in Santa Monica and chef Kiyoshiro Yamamoto face charg... 2010-04-04 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4540&mode=1 U.S. power generating companies will be granted free pollution permits as part of a compromise climate change bill being thrashed out in the Senate. The deal will effectively give the coal industry $10 billion in pollution rights to develop "cle... 2010-04-03 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4539&mode=1 Australian scientists say they have uncovered a "causal link" between the early emergence of a common butterfly and human-induced global warming. Dr Michael Kearney of the University of Melbourne and his colleagues report their study on the butt... 2010-04-02 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4537&mode=1 Technology giants Google, Cisco and Microsoft are investing in smart grids and intelligent power-distribution systems designed to be more responsive and interactive than today's traditional power grids that generate electricity. And China p... 2010-04-01 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4536&mode=1 Australia can reduce its  by 25 per cent by 2020 through measures which would cost households less than $4 a week. A report  by ClimateWorks Australia shows how carbon reductions can be five times greater than the Rudd government'... 2010-03-31 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4535&mode=1 An Australian academic says the possibility of making plastic from vegetable oils is becoming a reality. Researcher Dr Hao Wang of the University of Southern Queensland in Toowoomba has been working with an American team of researchers to create... 2010-03-30 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4534&mode=1 While some of the world's tuna populations have declined by up to 80 per cent Japan has sunk a United Nations proposal to ban the export on Atlantic bluefin tuna. Conservationists were pushing for a ban on cross border trade in endangered A... 2010-03-29 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4533&mode=1 Scientists studying remote Arctic seas north of Siberia have found high levels of the methane gas bubbling up from the seabed. The increase in methane is seen as a sign of climate change, although it's not certain how long it's been b... 2010-03-28 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4532&mode=1 The Obama administration that views nuclear power as a key part of its policy to meet America's energy needs with more fuels that do not add to global warming plans to scrap a long-delayed permanent dump site for nuclear waste. The issue at... 2010-03-27 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4530&mode=1 Australia is likely to have an early election. But won't because of the Senate's deadlockof the governemt's  emissions trading sheme (ETS). Instead the Rudd Government will follow the script of the Obama adminion and focus on... 2010-03-26 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4529&mode=1 France will use its full influence to persuade the Group of 20 countries to impose a tax rather than cap and trade emission schemes to raise billions of dollars to help developing nations fight climate change. President Nicolas Sarkozy told ... 2010-03-25 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4528&mode=1 A cap-and-trade system or a carbon tax are the only policy frameworks that could achieve energy reform through cleaner energy, greater security, job creation, and the lowest cost. That's the view of  Exelon Corp Chairman John Rowe arti... 2010-03-24 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4526&mode=1 Dr Megan Clark, chief executive of the Australian scientific research organisation CSIRO, asserts there is no doubt whatsoever of the link between humans and climate change. The evidence of global warming is unquestionable and in Australia it&#... 2010-03-23 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4525&mode=1 Big business in the USA has been given the go ahead to blitz the media and attack politicians who support action against climate change. This follows the ruling of the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that corporations have the same right as individuals... 2010-03-22 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4524&mode=1 The U.S. is lagging behind China in leading the world in the development of green technology. The Chinese government had aggressively encouraged green projects and new technologies through funding and regulation, while the U.S. industry is hopin... 2010-03-21 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4523&mode=1 China's most powerful economic ministry  asserts global warming is real and  sceptics who deny that humans are causing climate change are extreme and out of step with correct understanding. During the National People's Congre... 2010-03-20 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4522&mode=1 Climate change is pushing some bird species "towards extinction," US Interior Secretary Ken Salazar warned after  a new report showed the threats facing North American birds. "For well over a century, migratory birds have faced stresses," S... 2010-03-19 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4521&mode=1 Americans are less concerned about the threat of climate change than they were two years ago and almost half say the seriousness of global warming is overblown, according to the latest Gallup Poll. Thirty-two per cent of people questioned said t... 2010-03-18 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4520&mode=1 Less than a week after an earthquake and tsunami rocked Chile the country suffered another separate quake. Damage from all disasters is still being determined with reports that the Government had dramatically scaled down the death toll. Chile�... 2010-03-17 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4519&mode=1 Biofuels have been linked to growing world hunger, according to EU reports. The reports also show that he European Union's promotion of plant-based biofuels will raise EU farm incomes and agricultural commodity prices. The EU has a legal t... 2010-03-16 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4518&mode=1 World Bank loans have become a financial battleground as the global debate heats up over who should play for clean energy. The United States and Britain have threatened to withhold support for a $3.75 billion loan from the World Bank for a major... 2010-03-15 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4517&mode=1 A prominent group of international scientists have released new facts and figures that shores up the evidence that humans are responsible for climate warming over the past 100 years. A statement paper by the researchers updates the information o... 2010-03-14 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4516&mode=1 The latest international conference on whaling in Florida was closed to the media and those attending were cautioned by the International Whaling Commission against speaking out. However, Patrick Ramage from the International Fund for Animal Wel... 2010-03-13 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4515&mode=1 China will embark on a lifestyle change designed to reduce energy demands, expand forested land and reduce environmental pollution. China's Premier Wen Jiabao told 3000 delegates at the opening session of the National People's Congress... 2010-03-12 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4514&mode=1 Commercial oil production will dry up by 2040, according Terry Tamminen the green energy adviser to California's Governor Arnold Schwarznegger. Tamminen - who heads the Environmental Protection Agency in California - is pushing hard to redu... 2010-03-11 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4513&mode=1 A prominent group of international scientists have released new facts and figures that shores up the evidence that humans are responsible for climate warming over the past 100 years. A statement paper by the researchers updates the information o... 2010-03-10 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4512&mode=1 Technology giants Google, Cisco and Microsoft are investing in smart grids and intelligent power-distribution systems designed to be more responsive and interactive than today's traditional power grids. And China plans to invest $7.3 billio... 2010-03-09 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4511&mode=1 European automakers that gathered for the auto show in Geneva said they were sticking to conventional cars with carbon combustion engines as the best way to meet Europe's 130g/km CO2 emissions target by 2015. "I think the opportunity for hy... 2010-03-08 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4510&mode=1 Sixty five million years ago all dinosaurs were wiped out in one mass extinction event. That's the conclusive finding of new scientific research which shows proof of a massive asteroid impact being responsible for the end of the dinosaurs a... 2010-03-07 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4509&mode=1 The U.S. is lagging behind China in leading the world in the development of green technology. The Chinese government had aggressively encouraged green projects and new technologies through funding and regulation, while the U.S. industry is hopin... 2010-03-06 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4508&mode=1 A cap-and-trade system or a carbon tax are the only policy frameworks that could achieve energy reform through cleaner energy, greater security, job creation, and the lowest cost. That's the view of  Exelon Corp Chairman John Rowe arti... 2010-03-05 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4507&mode=1 A giant iceberg that is drifting towards Western Australia is threating to foul the ocean seawater.Scientists are surprised at the  capacity of the iceberg to travel so far north of the South Pole and stay largely intact.Australian Antarctic... 2010-03-04 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4506&mode=1 The gravitational force of two full moons helped trigger the earthquakes that devastated  Chile and Haiti.Both earthquakes occurred during  lunar full moons when the gravitation pull of the moon on the planet's surface is strongest... 2010-03-03 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4504&mode=1 The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has pulled back on enforcing a phase-in of new limits on carbon dioxide from coal and other heavy industry plants .This follows the Obama administration decision stop pushing the EPA to begin regulating ga... 2010-03-02 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4503&mode=1 China has installed more new wind turbines than either Europe or the United States last year doubling its wind capacity in 2009.China has been criticized in many countries for its cautious stance at unsuccessful UN climate talks in Copenhagen in ... 2010-03-01 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4502&mode=1 Top scientists are joining the fray to counter skeptics and denialists who claims that climate science is a dead issue.The world's leading scientists are preparing a vigorous defence on the climate science related to human-made greenhouse ga... 2010-02-28 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4501&mode=1 Japanese media is reporting that the country's fisheries minister is considering scaling back its so-called research whaling in the Antarctic.In exchange the Japanese want a resumption of commercial whaling in their own waters.Japan's A... 2010-02-27 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4500&mode=1 Germany has added momentum for a new climate treaty this year after announcing it will host an extra session of UN climate talks in April.Danish Climate and Energy Minister Lykke Friis, who presides over the UN negotiations, said that 11 represen... 2010-02-26 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4499&mode=1 A new report by Australian researchers claims far more needs to be done if we are to feed the estimated 9 billion people who will be living on the planet by 2050.The report, by Professor Mark Tester and Professor Peter Langridge of the Australian... 2010-02-25 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4498&mode=1 Australian climate scientists who speak out on climate change are being subjected to an abusive email campaign.According to Professor Clive Hamilton, a Greens candidate, the attacks are arranged by "denialist organisations" aimed at driving clima... 2010-02-24 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4496&mode=1 Europe will remain dependent on "hydrocarbons" as a primary energy source for at least the next 20 years, according to Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin.His comments came as Moscow prepares to build the biggest post-Soviet gas link to Europe.... 2010-02-23 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4495&mode=1 Italy has postponed a much-awaited presentation of a new incentive plan for the booming solar energy sector.Italian media reports indicate that the new incentive scheme presentation could be postponed until after the regional elections, which are... 2010-02-22 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4494&mode=1 New research has provided credible evidence of an Asian invasion of the Americas that's spreading rapidly through Canada and onto Greenland.Evidence coming from a clump of hair found buried deep in the ice of Greenland has provided a snapsho... 2010-02-21 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4493&mode=1 Cold temperatures recently experienced in the northern hemisphere are a direct result of global warming, according to Marine biologist Ben Rose and dive instructor Christina Zenato of UNEXSO.Zenato who had done much research on the affects of the... 2010-02-20 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4492&mode=1 Climate science predicts that massive snowstorms as recently seen in North America and China will become more common as the planet continues to warm.  According to U.S. Meteorologist Jeff Masters the 2009 U.S. Climate Impacts Report found th... 2010-02-19 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4491&mode=1 Chinese people around the world this week celebrated the beginning the Year of the Tiger while conservationists expressed concern that the year ahead could be a bad one for endangered tigers.The concern is that during the Year of the Tiger there ... 2010-02-18 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4490&mode=1 The head of the UN climate change panel, Rajendra Pachauri, already under attack for failing to respond to skeptics attacks on climate change science, is facing more pressure after publishing a raunchy novel that was promoting by BP - one of Indi... 2010-02-17 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4489&mode=1 The United Nations is calling on the world's leading scientists and climate research groups to mount a response to counter a worldwide campaign by skeptics who oppose attempts to reduce human-made hydrocarbon emissions and prevent the advent... 2010-02-17 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4487&mode=1 A Canadian think tank has disputed reports that that a nuclear renaissance is in full swing.In a report based on a 3-1/2 year study of the nuclear industry, the Waterloo, Ontario-based Center for International Governance Innovation said new react... 2010-02-16 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4486&mode=1 So far more than a thousand planets that orbit stars other than the Sun have been spotted since 1995. None have been a rocky, watery world like Earth. But the quest to find another world that sustains life has been boosted by a new technique to h... 2010-02-15 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4485&mode=1 Thawing of vast stretches of Canadian permafrost are widely seen as a "ticking time bomb" of climate change because of its expected liberation of billions of tonnes of pent-up methane and carbon dioxide.But there are reasons to suggest that that ... 2010-02-14 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4484&mode=1 Speed is not a word typically associated with trees as they can take centuries to grow. But the forests in the Eastern United States are growing faster than they have in the past 225 years.For more than 20 years forest ecologist Geoffrey Parker h... 2010-02-13 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4483&mode=1 Confidence in climate science based on the greenhouse effect remains unshaken despite allegations about the withholding of research data, according to Professor John Beddington Britain's chief government scientist.Prof Beddington said even i... 2010-02-12 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4482&mode=1 An authorative report estimates that the Arctic meltdown will cost up to US$24 trillion by 2050.The costing is based on expected damage to global agriculture, real estate and insurance caused by rising sea levels, floods and heat waves."The Arcti... 2010-02-11 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4481&mode=1 The head of the UN climate change panel, Rajendra Pachauri, under fire over errors in a key IPCC climate change 2007 report has been criticized for accepting help in promoting his new book from BP and the head of India's biggest gas producer... 2010-02-10 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4480&mode=1 Four of the five Greenpeace activists who climbed the Sydney Opera House in a protest about climate change have been fined $750. In December Matthew Kirwood, Adrian Wedd, Erica Lattughi, Emma Briggs and Sheena Beaton climbed to the top of the mai... 2010-02-09 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4479&mode=1 Frosty relations between Australian and Japan worsened after the conservation group Sea Shepherd protested its ship Bob Barker had been intentionally rammed by a Japanese whaling vessel off Antarctica.The ramming is alleged to have taken place ab... 2010-02-09 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4476&mode=1 The National Science Foundation has awarded a $298 million cooperative support agreement to The Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy (AURA) will build the world's first 4-meter Advanced Technology Solar Telescope (ATST).This... 2010-02-08 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4475&mode=1 The National Science Foundation has awarded a $298 million cooperative support agreement to study solar effect on Earth life cycles.The Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy (AURA) will build the world's first 4-meter Advance... 2010-02-07 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4474&mode=1 California is wooing consumers to go solar with cash incentives to boost the solar water heater market and make the heating systems green.The California Public Utilities Commission said it has established an incentive to promote the installation ... 2010-02-06 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4473&mode=1 Senior General Motors executive Bob Lutz has slammed scientists and environmentalists, saying global warming has little to do with humans and more to do with solar flares and sunspots.The man who proudly claims to be a progenitor of the Chevrolet... 2010-02-05 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4472&mode=1 The global ocean surface temperature was the second warmest on record for December, according to scientists at NOAA's (U.S.) National Climatic Data Center.    Based on records going back to 1880, the monthly NCDC also reported... 2010-02-04 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4471&mode=1 Why hasn't the Earth warmed as fast as some scientific forecasts?Based on the amount of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases released into the atmosphere since the industrial era in the late 1800s, the Earth's temperature should ha... 2010-02-03 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4469&mode=1 Countries in the Southern Hemisphere have just experienced the hottest 12 months since record-keeping for worldwide temperature statistics began in 1880.And, according to NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies the entire globe had the se... 2010-02-02 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4468&mode=1 Archaeologists in Indonesia have uncovered a 1,000-year-old temple that could shed light on the country's past.Intricately carved statues found and reliefs are some of the best preserved in Indonesia.The dig is being conducted under tight se... 2010-02-01 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4467&mode=1 The cold temperatures experienced since the start of the year that follow record-breaking summer heat is a direct result of global warming, according to Marine biologist Ben Rose and dive instructor Christina Zenato of UNEXSO.Zenato who had done ... 2010-02-01 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4466&mode=1 The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has apologized Wednesday for a 2007 report that claimed the Himalayan glaciers would melt by 2035.The IPCC was responding to a controversy related to a paragraph in a 2007 statement that stated: "Glac... 2010-01-31 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4465&mode=1 After battling years of severe weather that has been linked to climate change farmers in parts of the Australian Wheatbelt are facing a destructive bird menace.Western Long-billed Corellas are spreading in massive numbers, at an alarming rate and... 2010-01-30 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4463&mode=1 Nine new offshore wind farm zone licences will be established within U.K. waters. A consortium including Npower and Norway's Statkraft have won the licence for the biggest zone, in Dogger Bank, which could produce nine gigawatts of energy. ... 2010-01-30 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4462&mode=1 There's no clear boundary between Earth's atmosphere and space. "As we go up and up and up and up, through the atmosphere, it just becomes less and less dense," explains Kevin Pimbblet, lecturer in astrophysics at the University of Que... 2010-01-29 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4461&mode=1 A planet twice the size of Earth has been discovered 42 light years away half covered with water. The latest "super Earth" radius nearly 2.7 times larger than Earth, according to researchers form the Harvard-Smithsonian Centre for Astrophysics. ... 2010-01-28 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4460&mode=1 An expert on jellyfish says changing human behaviour, rather than Irukandji jellyfish numbers, are to blame for an increase in stings this monsson wet season in northern Australia. At least 10 people have been treated at Broome Hospital's e... 2010-01-27 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4459&mode=1 After battling years of severe weather that has been linked to climate change farmers in parts of the Australian Wheatbelt are facing a destructive bird menace. Western Long-billed Corellas are spreading in massive numbers, at an alarming rate a... 2010-01-26 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4458&mode=1 The term geo-engineering is the direct technological interventions to reshape the planet. Today researchers are pondering ways to use geo-engineering to counter the effects of global warming and three European institutions released reports on th... 2010-01-25 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4457&mode=1 Archaeologists in Indonesia have uncovered a 1,000-year-old temple that could shed light on the country's past. The intricately carved statues and reliefs are some of the best preserved in Indonesia, but the dig is being conducted under tig... 2010-01-24 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4453&mode=1 New technology and careful choice of sites could slash the projected cost of Britain's ambitious offshore wind farm project by 40 per cent. The Carbon Trust that advises the British Government said capital investment required for Round 3 of... 2010-01-23 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4449&mode=1 A massive oil spill into the Yellow River in central China is threatening the drinking water of hundreds of towns and cities. About 150,000 litres of diesel oil spilled out of a ruptured pipeline and into two tributaries of the Yellow River. Th... 2010-01-22 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4446&mode=1 Edison International is spending billions to install more  renewable power in southern California and across America. The Edison master plan is to have carbon-free, wind energy to millions of homes and businesses across the United States. ... 2010-01-21 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4445&mode=1 Coca-Cola Co will replace hydro fluorocarbon - known as HFC - in its new vending machines and coolers by 2015. By doing so coke is raising the bar for climate friendly refrigeration in the food and beverage industry. The move to greener equipme... 2010-01-20 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4444&mode=1 The beef industry worldwide will challenge environmental regulators that insist greenhouse gas emissions from cattle farms are endangering human health. Late last year the U.S., Environmental Protection Agency targeted six heat-trapping gases. ... 2010-01-19 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4443&mode=1 Taipei 101 will spend about two million US dollars over the next year to meet 100 criteria for a prestigious environmental certificate as the worlds highest and greenest building. The office-commercial tower that reigned for five years as the wo... 2010-01-18 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4442&mode=1 New technology and careful choice of sites could slash the projected  cost of   Britain's ambitious offshore wind farm project by 40 per cent. The Carbon Trust that advises the British Government  said capital investment... 2010-01-17 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4441&mode=1 Britain is to set up a dedicated agency to direct its space policy. The new organisation is expected to have a budget and will represent the UK in all its dealings with international partners. Britain spends about $500 million each year on spac... 2010-01-16 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4440&mode=1 Russia's latest nuclear-capable missile that failed test launch was mistaken as a UF0 leaving a plume of white light that appeared over Norway. The pre-dawn morning launch coincided with the appearance of an extraordinary light over norther... 2010-01-15 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4439&mode=1 A planet orbiting another star could be the mysterious and legendry Planet X that rumored to be heading Earth's way. The planet orbits to its parent star  - some 1.6 million miles away -  compared with 93 million miles distance fr... 2010-01-15 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4438&mode=1 A massive oil spill into the Yellow River in central China is threatening the drinking water of hundreds of towns and cities. About 150,000 litres of diesel oil spilled out of a ruptured pipeline and into two tributaries of the Yellow River. Th... 2010-01-15 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4437&mode=1 New Yorkers are upset over an environment report that has warned against drilling for shale base in the city's watershed which could threaten the drinking water for nine million people. The EPA report has put up another barrier for energy c... 2010-01-14 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4436&mode=1 A worldwide agreement to combat human-made climate change might still happen despite the negative fall out of a failed Copenhagen conference, according to British Prime Minister Gordon Brown. "I've got an idea about how we can actually move... 2010-01-13 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4435&mode=1 A US$15.4 billion pipeline is likely to be built in Canada's Arctic. However a report by the government's Joint Reviw Panel had listed 176 recommendations aimed at securing socioeconomic benefits and minimizing environmental damage. A... 2010-01-12 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4434&mode=1 France' has announced a new way to tax carbon pollution. The reformed carbon tax bill will be proposed to parliament in February and could come into force in April. The French government wants to salvage a carbon tax, scrapped on constitut... 2010-01-11 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4433&mode=1 Indonesia is looking at cutting of more forest while it hopes to tap alternative sources of energy to meet rising power demand and cut consumption of expensive crude oil as its own reserves dwindle. Indonesia will allow some infrastructure proje... 2010-01-10 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4432&mode=1 Asteroid Apophis - now being tracked by Russia - is on a pathway that will come close to becoming an Earth bound meteor on 13 April  2029 and again in 2036. Russia is taking measures to stop the meteor event by preparing a strategy to laun... 2010-01-09 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4431&mode=1 Palmer Station on the Antarctic Peninsula is on the front lines of climate change. It's the base of the Palmer Long-Term Ecological Research Project. Long term measurements here tell the story of the Marr glacier behind the station that ha... 2010-01-08 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4430&mode=1 Spain closed down some of its wind turbines when a spate of wet and windy weather caused a surge in green electricity generation at a time of low demand. Thousands of the country's wind turbines recently supplied a new record of 54.1 per ce... 2010-01-07 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4429&mode=1 The Australian continent and most of the world experienced its hottest decade since records began in 1910. The Australian e Bureau of Meteorology asserts that the unusually 10 years of unusual consistently hot is clear evidence of climate change... 2010-01-06 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4423&mode=1 European Union carbon emissions market is likely to drop following the non-binding outcome from a U.N. climate summit in Copenhagen. "There is some lack of direction and that will take demand out of the carbon emissions market, " an emissions tr... 2010-01-05 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4422&mode=1 The Desert Knowledge Cooperative Research Centre in Alice Springs says city dwellers have a lot to learn from central Australian residents about coping with climate change. The centre has combined with the CSIRO to put out a new book with tips o... 2010-01-04 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4421&mode=1 Britain aims to cut CO2 emissions by 80 percent from 1990 levels by 2050 by targeting commercial, industrial and public buildings that account for 18 percent of the country's emissions. Improving the energy efficiency of Britain's buil... 2010-01-03 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4420&mode=1 The era of cheap flights is coming to an end as world governments prepare to take action to curbs emissions from cars, trucks, ships and jet planes. World leaders who gathered for the Copenhagen climate summit generally agreed that green taxes w... 2010-01-02 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4419&mode=1 A new renewable energy tax rebate has been announced in South Australian to boost investment in clean industry. From next July, investors will get payroll tax rebates of up to $5 million for large solar energy projects and up to $1 million for w... 2010-01-01 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4418&mode=1 U.S. airlines have objected to new European Union regulations that cap allowable jetliner emissions and force carriers to pay up for exceeding limits. The British government is the first to start implementing early stages of the EU scheme, which... 2009-12-31 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4417&mode=1 The Copenhagen Accord may go down in history as a toothless Viking but the one issue has become crystal clear - trees matter a lot if Earth's climate is to remain friendly for humans and other animal species. The facts are that the decimati... 2009-12-30 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4416&mode=1 The REDD scheme for reducing emissions from deforestation and degradation has been accepted by many nations as it puts a price on preserving and rehabilitating forests. It also gives the UN backed system a way to pay poorer nations for saving or... 2009-12-29 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4415&mode=1 World leaders have agreed that greenhouse gases pose a serious threat to unfriendly climate change but can't agree on the best way to fix the problem. There are two ways of reducing greenhouse gas pollution: make those who make the pollutio... 2009-12-28 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4414&mode=1 The last interglacial period - when temperatures polar temperatures were three to five degrees warmer than they are today ? the level of warming led to sea levels rising by six to nine metres. Such a level of sea rises would inundate the land of... 2009-12-27 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4413&mode=1 America's solar industry is seeking a $2 billion investment but big banks are shying away from alternative energy projects. Recent efforts by solar firms to raise capital there do not bode well. Chinese company Trony Solar Holdings Co Ltd s... 2009-12-26 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4412&mode=1 Australia have gone wild with their Christmas presents buying up the new hybrid  Toyota Camry well before the car goes into production. Already demand for the locally-made hybrid Camry has outstripped  supply with Toyota revising upwar... 2009-12-25 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4411&mode=1 Polar ice is definitely melting faster than previously believed.Dr. David Barber, director of Winnipeg's Centre for Earth Observation Science, in his latest report predicts the Arctic will probably be free of summer ice and navigable within ... 2009-12-24 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4410&mode=1 A non-binding commitment by country leaders to restrict temperature rises to 2C degrees was the compromise agreement struck at the climate summit in Copenhagen.The Copenhagen Accord agreed by 194 nations is more a statement of intent rather than ... 2009-12-23 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4406&mode=1 Australians have been warned that next tipping point of climate change could bring an end to the Australian ski-fields. Snow cover has already reduced by a third in some areas and the end-of-season melt is happening two weeks earlier than it did... 2009-12-22 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4405&mode=1 China's renewable energy strategy envisions clean non-fossil fuel energy making up one-third of its energy consumption by 2050. Coal-dependent China intends cutting the amount of carbon dioxide produced for each yuan of national income by 4... 2009-12-21 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4404&mode=1 A colleague of the UK professor at the centre of the climate e-mails row says "skeptics" have embarked on a "tabloid-style character assassination". Professor Andrew Watson rallied to the defense of climate scientist Phil Jones, whose e-mail exc... 2009-12-20 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4403&mode=1 The UN's official panel on climate change has hit back at skeptics' claims that the case for human influence on global warming has been exaggerated. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) said it was "firmly" standing by ... 2009-12-19 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4402&mode=1 A U.S. scholar is threatening to sue NASA to compel the release of climate change data, saying he suspects the agency has manipulated research just like a university research center in Britain is accused of doing. The Washington Times reported ... 2009-12-18 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4401&mode=1 A giant iceberg is drifting towards Western Australia, impressing scientists with its capacity to travel so far north and stay largely intact. Australian Antarctic Division glaciologist Neal Young says the iceberg, named B17B, is 1,700 kilometre... 2009-12-17 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4400&mode=1 Grim evidence of the effects of climate change has emerging in Canada's far north with scientists reporting more cases of cannibalism among Polar Bears. Scientists said there have been at least eight cases of polar bears eating cubs this ye... 2009-12-16 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4399&mode=1 The first decade of this new 21st century has been the warmest on record and 2009 is likely to be one of the warmest years, according to the World Meteorological Organisation. In some areas -- parts of Africa and Central Asia -- this will probab... 2009-12-15 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4395&mode=1 According to the Global Language Monitor "global warming" is the word of the decade, as the term weighed heavily over both international political discourse and helped popularize the green movement. The list of the Top 25 words contains a number... 2009-12-14 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4394&mode=1 Whether it's the space age buzz of future transport pods or the belief that cool cars can save humanity from a hot planet the one thing certain is that the future-tech for moving people is electric. Proton has partnered up with Detroit Elec... 2009-12-13 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4393&mode=1 A climate and sustainability specialist says business in Australia now feels that policy on climate change is under a carbon cloud. Andrew Petersen at Price Waterhouse Coopers contends: "Investment is at risk. Policy certainty or framework to be... 2009-12-12 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4392&mode=1 Wind farms on the Great Lakes in the USA will generate 120 to 500 megawatts of power to boost the amount of electricity that comes renewable sources by 2015. That's the plan the New York State has put up to developers wanting to switch to a... 2009-12-11 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4391&mode=1 A major British report concludes that water and sewage infrastructure are at risk from climate change. Following publication of the report a plea has been made to four million customers to join the fight against climate change. Advice would be g... 2009-12-10 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4390&mode=1 Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa has pledged to make Los Angeles and the Southern California region the electric vehicle capital of the world. "Make no mistake about it - the electric vehicle is coming and Los Angeles will be ready for its... 2009-12-09 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4389&mode=1 The U.S. ethanol industry has been given the go ahead to sell billions more gallons of the fuel every year. Approval for higher ethanol blends in gasoline will mandated by the government despite protests from the auto industry that a higher etha... 2009-12-08 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4388&mode=1 The UN's official panel on climate change has hit back at skeptics' claims that the case for human influence on global warming has been exaggerated. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) said it was "firmly" standing by ... 2009-12-07 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4386&mode=1 Copenhagen climate change summit host Denmark has had a mixed response from it call on world leaders to halve greenhouse gas emissions by 2050 from 1990 levels. According to a statement by the host country rich countries should agree to 80 perce... 2009-12-06 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4385&mode=1 The world's biggest tidal turbine off Orkney Islands near the Scottish mainland will generate ocean energy for half a million homes by 2020. The Atlantis operating company was investing US$25 million to build and test the turbine, which has... 2009-12-05 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4384&mode=1 More than half the CO2 humans generate is absorbed, by forests and oceans. Earth's plant life is so far keeping pace with emissions despite tropical deforestation. But oceans are showing signs of fatigue, according to a study released last ... 2009-12-04 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4383&mode=1 A worldwide survey by health authorities shows that as Earth's temperature rise due to global warming human health problems will become more frequent. The dangers range from the spread of tropical diseases to life-threatening temperatures t... 2009-12-03 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4382&mode=1 A leading ecologist says most of the ground animals in the Gulf of Carpentaria in the far north of Australia's Queensland state have disappeared after widespread flooding in the region earlier in the year. Noel Preece recently carried out a... 2009-12-02 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4381&mode=1 The mid-west Western Australian Shire of Perenjori is spruiking its appeal as a potential site for the state's first solar generation power station. The Government's energy retailer Synergy has called for expressions of interest in sol... 2009-12-01 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4380&mode=1 China's top climate envoy has taken aim at developed nations for slacking in their efforts to cut emissions. "So far we have not seen concrete actions and substantive commitments by the developed countries," Xie Zhenhua, deputy head of the ... 2009-11-30 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4378&mode=1 Crude oil or gold have often been used to hedge against inflation, as most investors believe they can offer some protection against rising consumer prices. But it's carbon market that is expanding on a rapid basis, asserts Andrew Ager, head... 2009-11-29 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4377&mode=1 Australia is a week away from having a definitive carbon trade scheme. The ruling Labor government will use the last four parliamentary sitting days of the year to help generate momentum for global climate talks next month in Copenhagen, which i... 2009-11-28 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4376&mode=1 A new study has shown that the east Antarctic ice sheet has lost billions of tones of ice in the past three years. Researchers from the University of Texas have been studying the ocean-ice sheet interaction in Antarctica for the past seven years... 2009-11-27 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4372&mode=1 Fishing boats in the South Pacific waters from February 2010 will  be banned from using gillnets. The ban on deep-sea nets that are more than 100 kilometres long when cut lose can drift for years continuing to catch fish and marine life ind... 2009-11-26 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4371&mode=1 Daily Planet Media takes a look at the top four most fuel efficient and stylish cars for 2010. #1 Toyota Prius 2010 Toyota's Prius will continue to appeal with its great fuel efficiency. The popular hybrid has 51 MPG fuel economy and more ... 2009-11-25 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4370&mode=1 The scalding-hot sea that supposedly covered the early Earth may in fact never have existed, according to a new study by Stanford University researchers who analyzed isotope ratios in 3.4 billion-year-old ocean floor rocks. Their findings sugge... 2009-11-23 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4369&mode=1 Australia's Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has called for world leaders to show courage at the climate change talks in Copenhagen in three weeks. Rudd is urging global leaders to produce an agreement with specific targets and commitments on tech... 2009-11-24 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4368&mode=1 Former U.S. Vice President Al Gore compared climate change skeptics to people who believe the world is flat, or those who doubt that NASA's Apollo mission actually landed on the moon. "The United Nations organized, along with the scientific... 2009-11-22 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4367&mode=1 The International Energy Agency world outlook report asserts that rising demand for energy worldwide would result in a 40 percent increase in energy demand in 2030. And future energy demand will stay focused on oil, gas and coal, which are major... 2009-11-21 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4366&mode=1 USA and China have struck a secret deal to veto any move for a climate treaty in Copenhagen that has binding hydrocarbon emission cutbacks. While telling journalists following talks his with Chinese President Hu Jintao that the two countries had... 2009-11-20 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4364&mode=1 European leaders received unexpected opposition from green groups that oppose rich countries will have to subsidizing poor nations to combat the effects of global warming. Environmental groups say the European Union deal that offers billions of ... 2009-11-19 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4363&mode=1 In the United Kingdom a person can take her or his employer to court on the grounds of being discriminated against because of views held on climate change. UK's Justice Michael Burton ruled that a belief in human made climate change is capa... 2009-11-19 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4362&mode=1 A new research paper commissioned by the German Government has found that countries including China, India, Brazil and Mexico are on track to cut their emissions by 25 per cent by 2020. It's the first major assessment that quantifies the pr... 2009-11-18 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4361&mode=1 Australia's indigenous traditional land owners in the Northern are horrified by oil and gas spills off the north-west Australian coastline. Oil has also been leaking from the Montara site, which is about 50 kilometres from the offshorse Eas... 2009-11-17 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4360&mode=1 Sea levels along Western Australia's coast are rising at a rate double that of the world average. Global sea levels rise at an average of just more than 3 millimetres a year. Latest figures from the National Tidal Centre show sea levels ha... 2009-11-17 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4359&mode=1 Indonesian fishermen are going bankrupt due to the Timor Sea oil spill ruining fish stocks. David Jones, who worked as an environmental lawyer for 10 years before moving to Kupang in West Timor, has started taking statements from local fishermen... 2009-11-16 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4358&mode=1 At least 40 world leaders are likely to be at Copenhagen summit next month to add support for a UN brokered climate treaty. World leaders are under pressure to be present for the Copenhagen meeting on December 7-18, asserted Yvo de Boer, head of... 2009-11-16 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4357&mode=1 East Timor is demanding compensation from the Australian Government for environmental damage caused by an oil spill from a rig in the Timor Sea. East Timorese President Jose Ramos-Horta said the spill is the responsibility of the Australian Gove... 2009-11-15 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4356&mode=1 Scientists have discovered 70-million-year-old dinosaur footprints in six locations. They are spread over 10 kilometers and in one area there are up to 20 footprints. They are the first dinosaurs footprints found in the country although bones, m... 2009-11-15 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4355&mode=1 A destructive 130-kilometre long gillnet has been found deep in the ocean off Antarctica, bulging with 29 tones of Antarctic toothfish and a significant by catch of skates. Australian authorities found the illegal net in the Southern Ocean, in a... 2009-11-14 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4354&mode=1 No deal will be done for nations to commit to greenhouse gas emissions cuts at the climate change summit in Copenhagen next month. World leaders have privately agreed that time has run out for any binding agreement at Copenhagen, and that any gl... 2009-11-13 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4353&mode=1 A new annual report on the state of the world's plants and animals shows a third of all species catalogued are now threatened with extinction. This year, the International Union for the Conservation of Nature's (IUCN) Red List includes... 2009-11-12 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4352&mode=1 U.S. President Barack Obama has urged speed to shift America's energy priorities cleaner and greener. "It is a transformation that will be made as swiftly and as carefully as possible, to ensure that we are doing what it takes to grow this ... 2009-11-12 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4351&mode=1 Prospects for saving the world's coral reefs now appear so bleak there are plans to freeze samples to preserve them for the future. Describing it as a last-ditch attempt, a team of scientists from the UK is collecting reef samples that will... 2009-11-11 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4350&mode=1 The oil leak off the northwest coast of Australia put birds and marine species at high risk. Oil and gas leaked into the Timor Sea from the Montara well beneath the West Atlas oil rig for three months. Dr James Watson from the University of Que... 2009-11-10 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4349&mode=1 The high costs of a new nuclear fuel recycling system would be too expensive to compete in the rapidly emerging clean tech energy market. The system being developed by GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy requires fast reactors that are very costly and the... 2009-11-09 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4345&mode=1 Clean coal power stations won't be viable until the carbon price reaches a minimum of $60 a tonne. The Australian government doesn't expect that before 2030 clean coal power stations will be viable. Australia is the world's large... 2009-11-08 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4344&mode=1 U.S. President Barack Obama has urged speed to shift America's energy priorities cleaner and greener. "It is a transformation that will be made as swiftly and as carefully as possible, to ensure that we are doing what it takes to grow this ... 2009-11-08 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4343&mode=1 It was only a matter of time before the car manufacturers that rely on carbon combustion engines pointed out the obvious, that electric cars are powered by electricity generated by burning coal and other fossil fuels. The auto makers are now vig... 2009-11-07 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4342&mode=1 The U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration reports the surface temperature of the ocean during August was the warmest ever on record. Ocean surface temperatures averaged 62.5 degrees Fahrenheit during the summer of 2009, one degree... 2009-11-07 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4341&mode=1 Global warming and climate change have already brought severe and unusual flooding across greater Asia and - in some areas - unprecedented drought, heavy snowing and rising sea levels. Evidence of climate change implosions on the Asian region we... 2009-11-06 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4340&mode=1 An electric version of the popular Mini car is making a powerful pitch for those drivers wanting minimum emissions and maximum performance. Some 600 minis are currently undergoing trials in California, New York, the UK and Germany, and is the la... 2009-11-06 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4337&mode=1 The U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration reports the surface temperature of the ocean during August was the warmest ever on record. Ocean surface temperatures averaged 62.5 degrees Fahrenheit during the summer of 2009, one degree... 2009-11-05 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4336&mode=1 Prospects for saving the world's coral reefs now appear so bleak there are plans to freeze samples to preserve them for the future. Describing it as a last-ditch attempt, a team of scientists from the UK is collecting reef samples that will... 2009-11-05 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4335&mode=1 The creation of markets dealing in emissions permits to slash the output of greenhouse gases will lead to a complicated, freewheeling secondary derivative market that will create a massive carbon price bubble. Lehman Brothers, the finance house ... 2009-11-04 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4334&mode=1 Fuel cells are regarded as being too expensive - but the UK Carbon Trust is hopeful that a new $13m competition will provide the necessary incentive to break down the cots for the mass market. The three best new ideas submitted to the compe... 2009-11-04 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4333&mode=1 A major review of Earth's coral reefs concludes  that 20% of the world's corals are already lost, 24% under imminent risk of collapse, and 26% in grave danger of irreparable damage. The status review of the world's corals is ... 2009-11-03 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4332&mode=1 Information technologies can reduce emissions by at least 15 per cent, according to Ban Ki-Moon, United Nations Secretary-General. Ban told a telecoms industry event in Geneva that "this means they can be significant ... in our fight against cli... 2009-11-03 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4331&mode=1 Mazda - the first car maker to lease a hydrogen car - is trialing its new vehicle technology in Tokyo. Mazda claims the hydrogen solution, which uses a traditional internal combustion engine, is a more practical alternative than the fu... 2009-11-02 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4330&mode=1 A new study a team of researchers has found that sea level rise caused by warming oceans plays a significant role in pushing the poles around. "As warming gets into the deep ocean, it pushes up the water above it," said Felix Landerer of Jet Pro... 2009-11-02 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4329&mode=1 An oil rig has been leaking oil into the Timor Sea for more nearly months and a fourth attempt to intercept the leak has been delayed numerous times. Australia's opposition spokesman for environment Greg Hunt wants the Federal Government to... 2009-11-01 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4328&mode=1 The outlook for European solar equipment outlook beyond 2009 remains uncertain due to tight credit and oversupply. But in the short term Europe's solar companies are expected to recovery for the final year's quarter with capacity adjus... 2009-11-01 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4327&mode=1 Southeast Asia wants o become a global hub for the production and sale of environmentally friendly cars. Thailand's trade ministry officials from members of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) have assigned regional industry ... 2009-10-31 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4326&mode=1 Thousands of activists in 170 countries around the world have staged a weekend of protests calling for urgent action on climate change. Speaking at a rally in Sydney, environmental scientist Professor Ann Henderson-Sellers said the problems faci... 2009-10-31 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4325&mode=1 For a distance that covers at least 100,000 light years there's no planet like Earth capable of supporting intelligent life. That's the conclusion drawn from the latest batch of exoplanets found in a comprehesive sweep of outer space.... 2009-10-30 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4324&mode=1 The world lacks a sense of urgency over the importance of the UN climate change talks in Copenhagen in preventing a "human emergency" affecting hundreds of millions of people. The United Nations summit for a global pact is less than two months a... 2009-10-30 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4323&mode=1 Prototype robot fish modeled after carp with powerful sensors to detect chemicals and other ocean pollution will be released off northern Spain in 2011. But mimicking such a successful design comes at a cost of $29,000 per robot. The roughly se... 2009-10-29 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4319&mode=1 Business is starting to get behind the U.S. climate bill that links clean energy with caps on greenhouse gas emissions. Twenty-eight companies paid for advertising in support of the clean energy legislation. "Legislation is our best opportunity... 2009-10-28 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4318&mode=1 Climate change protesters attempted to close down one of Britain's biggest coal fueled power stations. Activists swarmed onto the giant 2,000 megawatt plant at Ratcliffe-on-Soar near Nottingham last Saturday in what they are called The Grea... 2009-10-28 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4317&mode=1 China is ready to act on reports that its ocean environment is being severely polluted by an increasing run-off of contaminants into the sea. China's State Oceanic Administration contends that the country must face the challenges of stoppi... 2009-10-27 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4316&mode=1 Glaciers in the Himalayas and the Tibetan plateau that feed the river systems for half of world's population are melting faster because of the effects of clouds of soot from diesel fumes. Glaciers in this region feed most of the major river... 2009-10-27 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4315&mode=1 Britain has embarked on an ambitious plan for transition to a low-carbon economy.The UK is committed to reduce carbon emissions to 34 per cent below their 1990 level by 2020.And the government's official climate change watchdog in its first ... 2009-10-26 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4314&mode=1 The creation of markets dealing in emissions permits to slash the output of greenhouse gases will lead to a complicated, freewheeling secondary derivative market that will create a massive carbon price bubble.Lehman Brothers, the finance house th... 2009-10-26 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4313&mode=1 Computer images of a "ghost forest" art installation planned for Trafalgar Square show the vast scale of a project designed to highlight deforestation.The artist's impressions were released as nine of the tropical tree stumps set to form the... 2009-10-25 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4312&mode=1 Australian defence flight paths closed to civilian use since World War II will be opened up to commercial airlines to cut flying time and reduce emissions.Negotiations between the RAAF and other government bodies on air space utilization across t... 2009-10-25 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4311&mode=1 World leaders have been set a 2014 deadline to embrace a low-carbon economy or see the planet hit a "point of no return".The economic modelling, commissioned by WWF Australia, has found that an emissions trading scheme is not enough to drive the ... 2009-10-24 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4309&mode=1 Nobel Peace Prize winner President Barack Obama is under intense international pressure to get climate-change legislation passed by the Senate, as a key driver for the climate summit in Copenhagen this December.Analysts say Obama Peace Prize was ... 2009-10-24 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4308&mode=1 Earth's tropical zones sweated through their hottest September on record.Scientists at the University of Alabama-Huntsville (UAH) report that temperatures were over 1C degree above average. And for the planet as a whole, it was the second-wa... 2009-10-23 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4307&mode=1 La Nina is likely to hold back global warming for the next decade, but scientists warn that once the cool cycle passes temperatures will soar due to human-made hydrocarbon emissions.A new computer model developed by German researchers indicates t... 2009-10-23 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4304&mode=1 U.S. federal judge has baulked at putting global warming on trial in the case of a Utah college student charged with disrupting a federal oil and gas lease auction near several national parks. U.S. District Judge Dee Benson gave attorneys for Ti... 2009-10-22 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4303&mode=1 Massive changes in technology that has changed the way people obtain their news has stirred traditional media moguls into gearing up for a war against the open exchange of content on the Internet. Newspaper corporations fired off the first broad... 2009-10-22 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4302&mode=1 The deadlock on the amount of cash available to poorer nations and the size of rich nations' commitments to cut greenhouse gas emissions appears irresolvable with time running out for a worldwide agreement o action to stop severe climate cha... 2009-10-21 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4301&mode=1 Mercedses-benz got into hot water over advertisements for its new E class saloon series. The advertisements that stated "CO2 emissions for the range are down to 139g/km" were banned after the advertising watchdog ruled them to be misleading. Th... 2009-10-21 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4300&mode=1 Some 15 million European buildings should have eco-friendly renovations over the next decade to cut energy use. A EU report asserts that builders and architects  will need to be re-educated to take advantage of the mandatory goal of cutting... 2009-10-20 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4299&mode=1 The Hungarian-born billionaire George Soros says he will invest more than $1 billion in clean-energy technology as part of an effort to combat climate change. The investor, who now lives in the United States, has also announced he will form and ... 2009-10-20 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4298&mode=1 Google has launched a new climate change simulator that displays the dangerous effects of manmade climate change that have been predicted. Using Google Earth software, users can view the various scenarios put forth by the UN's Intergovernm... 2009-10-19 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4297&mode=1 In a sure sign of future cap and trade for carbon emissions is coming the largest private forest owner in California, Sierra Pacific Industries, wants to carbon trade to preserve redwoods. The deal being negotiated is that the forest could sell ... 2009-10-19 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4296&mode=1 Warming as a result of increased levels of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere has overwhelmed a millennia-long cycle of natural cooling in the Arctic, raising temperatures in the region to their highest for at least 2,000 years, according to a re... 2009-10-18 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4295&mode=1 Economist and carbon emission's advisor Ross Garnaut says an Australian national emissions trading scheme is the best way to combat global warming. Garnaut said national scheme would set limits in all states on the amount of greenhouse gas ... 2009-10-18 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4294&mode=1 The United Kingdom will slow down the growing of biofuels amid fears they raise food prices and harm the environment. According to transport secretary Ruth Kelly biofuels had potential to cut carbon emissions, but there were increasing questions... 2009-10-17 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4293&mode=1 Businesses in the San Francisco Bay Area that will have to pay fees for the amount of carbon dioxide they emit. The biggest payers will bet he power plants and oil refineries in the region. Many Bay Area firms have opposed the move, saying it m... 2009-10-17 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4292&mode=1 The first commercial jet powered by natural gas fuel flew from London to Qatar on Monday leading Airbus to predict that by 2030 up to 30 percent of jet fuel will be alternative. Shell developed and produced the 50-50 blend of synthetic Gas to Li... 2009-10-16 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4291&mode=1 Thinning polar ice, severe tropical flooding, Australian dust storms, sinking Asian deltas and seasonal fires. These are just some the startling images captured by Nasa's Earth Observatory satellites that indicate that the first tipping poi... 2009-10-16 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4287&mode=1 Climate change is happening faster than we believed only two years ago and continuing with business as usual could be catastrophic, according to the President of European Commission Jose Manuael Barroso. "I am now very concerned about the prospe... 2009-10-15 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4286&mode=1 Until the U.S. does something about improving its outmoded electricity grid, renewable energy will never reach its potential. There are signs that America is finally facing up to the twin crises of oil dependency and climate change, and many an... 2009-10-15 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4285&mode=1 A quarter of Africa's population experiences shortage of drinking water due to global warming, which is increasing at a higher rate now than in earlier decades, says noted environmentalist R.K. Pachauri. By 2020, between 75 million and 250 ... 2009-10-14 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4284&mode=1 California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger will terminate a bill requiring his state to get a third of its electricity from solar, wind and other renewable sources. Schwarzenegger, who won selection for Governor on the back of driving California ... 2009-10-14 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4283&mode=1 With the Copenhagen climate summit now just two months away, the latest version of the negotiating text - thrashed out by officials in Bangkok - shows just how far there is to go. In its 181 pages there were some 2,000 square brackets, represent... 2009-10-13 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4282&mode=1 Australia's two largest populations of koalas are so heavily inbred, they risk instant extinction. A recent study of koala populations on Kangaroo Island, off the coast of South Australia, and French Island, in Victoria's Westernport, ... 2009-10-13 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4281&mode=1 The average temperature of Earth is likely to rise by 4C in 2060. In some regions of Africa and the Arctic the warmer climate would list temperatures by as much as 10C. According to a research report of the Bureau of Meteorology in Great Brita... 2009-10-12 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4280&mode=1 East Asia and the Pacific, home to some of the world's fastest-growing economies, would be the hardest hit financially and geographically by expected implosions of severe climate change. The damage would be due to increased urbanization, es... 2009-10-12 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4279&mode=1 A global climate club had already created new business opportunities with more jobs and wealth from clean energy that  would prevent future trade wars. Head of the U.S. delegation at UN climate talks Jonathan Pershing said developing nation... 2009-10-11 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4278&mode=1 Mexico and Argentina are leading the world in being ready to compete in a clean energy future or play its part in a strong climate treaty, according to the international report by London-based consultants Vivid Economics. Among G20 nations, Aust... 2009-10-11 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4277&mode=1 The World Bank estimates that adjusting to the effects of climate change will cost developing nations 75-100 billion US dollars per year through the year 2050. A study by the bank has found that the largest costs to developing nations will come ... 2009-10-10 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4276&mode=1 Wall Street's support for a potentially lucrative market in carbon trading has strengthened prospects for a cap and trade bill being passed by the US Senate. There is also public support for growing the ailing U.S. manufacturing base with s... 2009-10-10 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4274&mode=1 The UN Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) estimates that the total number of undernourished people in the world would be more than 1000  million with the world's food insecurity already "unbearable". And Australia's scientif... 2009-10-09 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4273&mode=1 The U.S. Senate won't have time to pass its bill to curb global warming in time for the climate change summit in December. While the legislation - that environmental groups call the "greenwash" bill - aims at a 20 percent reduction in smoke... 2009-10-09 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4272&mode=1 Small island nations have warned that time is running out with rising seas threatening to sent them homeland into extinction.Spread across the Earth's oceans, the planet's tiniest members grouped together in the Alliance of Small Island... 2009-10-08 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4271&mode=1 Latest research into melting glaciers published in the journal Nature has revealed how a rise in sea levels has been underestimated by scientists.Scientists from the British Antarctic survey at Cambridge University used five years of images taken... 2009-10-08 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4270&mode=1 A model global trading scheme has been prepared by a most unlikely source - the world's shipping industry.Five shipping industry associations have released a study that puts forwarded the case for its own cap and trade scheme.The national sh... 2009-10-07 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4269&mode=1 Scientists searching for life beyond Earth have found more than 300 planets outside the solar system. But these sighted planet's are virtual gas balls or can't be proven to be solid. Now, a team of European astronomers has confirmed the... 2009-10-07 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4268&mode=1 The ozone hole over the Antarctic is shrinking and could close completely by the end of the century.In the early 1980s scientists discovered a hole in the ozone layer that would let unfiltered UV rays through to the earth with dangerous consequen... 2009-10-06 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4267&mode=1 NASA scientists were surprised to discover the extent of the bumps in the rings of Saturn during the planet's equinox.Scientists once thought the rings were almost completely flat, but new images reveal the heights of some newly discovered b... 2009-10-06 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4266&mode=1 A team of researchers are on a fact finding mission to find out more about the environmental impact of a large oil spill in the Timor Sea, off Western Australia's north coast.Thousands of tonnes of oil and gas have been pouring from the West... 2009-10-05 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4265&mode=1 Chinese government agencies are moving towards an emissions tax in preference to a cap-and-trade.But the tax won't become law until China launches a resources tax.Several government ministries, including the Tax Administration, the Finance M... 2009-10-05 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4264&mode=1 Developed countries must help protect forests in poorer countries while negotiating a world climate deal, according Dr Tom Lovejoy one of the world's leading biologists.Dr Lovejoy, the chief biodiversity advisor to the president of the Unite... 2009-10-04 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4263&mode=1 The EU has given a frosty reception to a top White House adviser who has been advising European countries to end fossil fuel subsidies.Michael Froman, deputy national security adviser and top G20 aide to President Barack Obama, said the United St... 2009-10-04 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4262&mode=1 Scientists think they have the answer to the enduring problem of how to clean up fuel spills in one of the world's most pristine places.The Australian Antarctic Division's Ian Snape estimates about 10,000 litres of diesel has been spilt... 2009-10-03 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4261&mode=1 Reducing black carbon emissions, mostly solid biomass fuel burning such as coal, would significantly cut back the human-made cause of global warming.Research by Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California San Diego asserts... 2009-10-03 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4260&mode=1 Australian coastal dwellers have been warned to expect more red dust storms to blow in from the continent's vast "outback".While Scientists haven't officially linked climate change to the unusual dust storms that blew across the Austral... 2009-10-02 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4259&mode=1 France's preference for a carbon tax has opened up a wide crack in the European Union's cap-and-trade scheme.And the successful legal victory by Poland and Estonia for more generous caps has effectively torpedoed any united EU trading c... 2009-10-02 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4254&mode=1 Every carmaker - from Porsche and Rolls-Royce to Hyundai and Honda - is rushing to reduce fuel consumption as buyers become more attuned to environmental issues. The world's most glamorous sports car maker, Ferrari, has allocated "more than... 2009-10-01 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4253&mode=1 Every carmaker - from Porsche and Rolls-Royce to Hyundai and Honda - is rushing to reduce fuel consumption as buyers become more attuned to environmental issues. The world's most glamorous sports car maker, Ferrari, has allocated "more than... 2009-10-01 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4252&mode=1 Thirty countries and cities have signed up to provide recharge points to back up the 100 percent electric Renault ZE car that depend on a network of recharging stations. The French car-maker Renault has effectively jump started a new era for ful... 2009-09-30 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4251&mode=1 One of Australia's leading union leaders has labeled the push for green jobs as alienating. According to Tony Maher National President of the Construction, Forestry, Mining and Energy Union the s the label of green jobs has severe limitatio... 2009-09-29 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4250&mode=1 Scientists in Antarctica have developed a new high-powered laser to find out what's changing in Earth's upper atmosphere. The laser details the condition of ozone layer and tracks any holes that may be occurring. According to scientis... 2009-09-28 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4249&mode=1 The four core investment pillars for clean energy will net more than two trillions dollars in revenue by 2020, According to the HSBC Global Research climate-related global revenues for the next ten years would be pulled by low-carbon energy prod... 2009-09-28 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4248&mode=1 Paleontologists have discovered a miniature prototype of Tyrannosaurus rex complete with the oversize head, sharp teeth and long legs. The scaled-down version T Rex, which was about nine feet long and weighed only 150 pounds, lived 125 million y... 2009-09-27 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4247&mode=1 Carbon trading needs a minimum price for emission pollution permits to stop current low trading prices scaring off investment in cutting emissions. Chairman of the UK Committee on Climate Change Lord Turner said prices were below the projected p... 2009-09-27 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4246&mode=1 Birds have died after coming into contact with a crude oil leak in the Timor Sea. The spill in the Montaro Basin, off Western Australia's Kimberley coast, has been flowing for more than three weeks and at least 1,200 tonnes of oil has spill... 2009-09-26 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4245&mode=1 A team of scientists studying rock samples in Africa has shown a strong link between falling carbon dioxide levels and the formation of Antarctic ice sheets 34 million years ago. The results are the first to make the link, underpinning computer ... 2009-09-26 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4244&mode=1 A world climate treaty scheduled for finalization in Copenhagen this December is barely alive with developed countries baulking at signing a binding pact following economic forecasts that gross domestic production (GNP) would drop by more than 3 ... 2009-09-25 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4240&mode=1 New York's Empire State Building will soon begin building retrofits to reduce energy costs. Spurred by steadily rising utility bills, the need to rein in costs in the recession, a host of government tax incentives and increasing awareness o... 2009-09-24 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4239&mode=1 Global warming has affected the biodiversity and health of western United States ecosystems with accelerating cycles of wildfires the most visible cause and concern. According to latest atmospheric scans, the result of increased fossil fuel burn... 2009-09-24 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4238&mode=1 A 99-year-old"dirty" coal-fired power plant next to the U.S. Congress has become the icon for climate change protests across  America. In what's becoming one of the"happening" site for climate change action, hundreds of activists regul... 2009-09-23 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4237&mode=1 Small and large automakers, including Toyota, Nissan and Ford Motor are racing to launch electric vehicles and plug-in hybrid versions in the United States. Most of these vehicles that are in the development pipeline use a rechargeable lithium-i... 2009-09-23 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4236&mode=1 Competing priorities such as U.S. healthcare and global recession threaten fast movement for low-carbon technology and decisive action resulting form the U.N. climate pact conference in Copenhagen this December. "If one wins and others lose, we&... 2009-09-22 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4235&mode=1 Wind energy accounts for less than one percent of China's total current electricity supply, however the country is quickly adding capacity, trailing only the United States, Germany and Spain in existing wind farms. A network of wind turbine... 2009-09-22 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4234&mode=1 The out-of-Africa theory of human evolution is reeling from a DNA trace probe that strongly suggests modern humans in Asia interbred with the archaic hominids known as Homo erectus. University of Arizona's Michael Hammer has released findin... 2009-09-21 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4233&mode=1 More than 90 countries have reached agreement on a treaty designed to stop illegal fishing. The agreement was brokered by the United Nations Food and Agricultural Organisation. It seeks to close ports to ships that fish without a license, use b... 2009-09-21 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4232&mode=1 Weather authorities warn extremely hot conditions in southern Australia last weekend may be a preview of a long hot summer ahead. The Bureau of Meteorology said indications were that the hotter than usual spring season was likely to be compounde... 2009-09-20 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4231&mode=1 Australia has a new national warning system ahead of this summer's bushfires. Worst days will be declared "catastrophic" or "code red". Residents in bushfire-prone areas will be warned of the danger by text messages or recorded messages on... 2009-09-20 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4230&mode=1 The Arctic would be cooling if not for greenhouse gas emissions that are overpowering natural climate patterns, according to new research. An international study, led by Northern Arizona University and the National Center for Atmospheric Researc... 2009-09-19 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4229&mode=1 Greenland's ice sheet is now shedding more ice than it's accumulating. The melting, recorded since 1979, puts the annual net loss of ice and water from the ice sheet at 300-400 gigatonnes that, if continued at this rate, will rise sea... 2009-09-19 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4228&mode=1 Declaring "the gravest challenge that we face is climate change," French President Nicolas Sarkozy launched plans for a new carbon tax to encourage industry and households to cut energy consumption. The tax has caused a political furor in France... 2009-09-18 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4227&mode=1 The "top of the world" climate change summit attended by Himalayan nations heard mounting concern over the impact of global warming on the region's water supplies and agriculture. Glaciers in the Himalayas - the highest in the world - are&n... 2009-09-18 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4224&mode=1 With less than 90 days until the United Nations climate change summit in Copenhagen a group of scientists on board a Greenpeace ship has issued its first report on the state of the Arctic melt. The group report states that the rapidly melting gl... 2009-09-17 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4223&mode=1 Glaciers in Antarctica are melting faster and across a much wider area than previously forecast. The expected meltdown threatens to raise sea levels worldwide and force millions of people to flee low-lying areas, scientists assert. Researchers ... 2009-09-17 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4222&mode=1 Those watching the ice melting at both poles are more worried than ever. A group of scientists known as International Polar Year say their latest findings indicate that some of the dire predictions for climate change have been understated. The... 2009-09-16 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4221&mode=1 Fuel companies are under pressure to disclose from where their fuel originates. A U.S. ethanol industry group is targeting public opinion that supports greater awareness about money spent on all oil imported. "Most Americans don't want the... 2009-09-15 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4220&mode=1 A new study has found that the production of manure is a major driver behind a rise in atmospheric nitrous oxide levels since the beginning of last century. The research, published in Nature Geoscience adds to the growing debate over how best to... 2009-09-15 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4219&mode=1 The United States and Australia are rushing to have carbon emissions trading systems passed as laws before the international talks on a climate pact take place on 7 December. Both countries have climate change laws waiting for Senate approval af... 2009-09-14 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4218&mode=1 Senior officials from United Nations member states have met in Geneva to work out a mechanism to fight impending climate change implosions. The five-day World Climate Conference looked at ways to help countries cope with the effects of climate c... 2009-09-14 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4217&mode=1 The key for Southeast Asia to survive severe implosions of climate change would be to protecting its remaining tropical forests which have fallen victim in recent years to widespread illegal logging and the expansion of palm oil plantations. Def... 2009-09-13 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4216&mode=1 The U.S. is cracking down on actions that threatened or endangered species - overturning a rule change made in the final weeks of the Bush presidency. Species protection produced a firestorm in both Congress and within the environmental and cons... 2009-09-13 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4215&mode=1 American oil, gas and coal industries have collectively increased a lobbying budget by 50%, having already spent $44.5m in the first three months of the year to cut off support for any U.S. plan to build a clean energy economy. The spoiler campa... 2009-09-12 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4214&mode=1 Ocean temperatures on Australia's Great Barrier Reef have stayed a degree above average through winter. The Australian Institute of Marine Science (AIMS) weather monitoring stations show water temperatures have begun to rise already without... 2009-09-12 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4213&mode=1 Climate change has already brought more frequent and severe heat waves and the result will be serious for vulnerable populations. "That means air pollution in urban areas could get worse, bringing increased risk of heart attacks, strokes and ast... 2009-09-11 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4212&mode=1 Southern coastal Australia now has five seasons - not four - due partly to climate change implosions. A leading Sydney scientist contends that the European four seasons are no longer appropriate and need to be rearranged. Dr Tim Entwisle, execu... 2009-09-11 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4209&mode=1 Greenland has become the front line in the battle against global warming and a new international research effort on the Greenland ice sheet has set a one mile record for single-season deep ice-core drilling that will help scientists better assess... 2009-09-10 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4208&mode=1 Great Britain's Royal Society is backing research into simulated volcanic eruptions that sprays millions of tons of dust into the air in an attempt to stave off severe climate change. The society wants a global programme of studies into geo... 2009-09-10 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4207&mode=1 An oil spill in the Timor Sea off the Western Australia's northern coast is one the nation's worst. The spill could take up to two month to cap and has caused a slick estimated to be 14 kilometers long and 30 meters wide. A massive le... 2009-09-09 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4206&mode=1 In what's becoming a far more common procedure, another  ship laden with containers - suspected of containing toxic waste illegally exported to Brazil - has been sent back to Britain. Brazilian health authorities said the shipment, sup... 2009-09-09 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4205&mode=1 Atmospheric concentration of carbon dioxide, the major greenhouse gas directly affected by human activities, has increased by 30% since the beginning of the pre-industrial era (1750) because of the combustion of fossil fuels and changes in land -... 2009-09-08 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4204&mode=1 America will continue its plan for auctioning all permits to emit greenhouse gases as the primary weapon to combat global warming. However deals with Congress will give free permits to a substantial portion to industry. The mid-session budget r... 2009-09-08 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4203&mode=1 Rich countries must be prepared to make deeper cuts in their emissions or the world climate treaty won't be able to stop severe climate change, according to the Europe's climate change envoy John Prescott. The former British Prime Mini... 2009-09-07 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4202&mode=1 Nitrous oxide - known as happy gas - is now the most abundant ozone-depleting substance in the atmosphere. A paper published in the journal Science reveals the increasing levels of the gas will cause more damage to the ozone layer than the more ... 2009-09-07 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4201&mode=1 Australians are on bushfire alert, following The Bureau of Meteorology (BOM) forecast of a warmer than usual spring ahead of another extremely hot summer. Even before spring officially started this week areas in the southeast of the country have... 2009-09-06 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4200&mode=1 Climate change protestors will set up camp outside Australia's oldest coal mine - the Metropolitan Colliery in Helensburgh - with the aim of stopping approved expansion. The approval of a $50 million extension will double the amount of coal... 2009-09-06 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4199&mode=1 Among the acres of forests in the outskirts of Athens reduced to cinders by the latest summer blazes some previously unknown expensive villas have appeared. According to Greenpeace Greece director Nikos Haralambides the Athens capital belongs to... 2009-09-05 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4198&mode=1 High levels of air pollution have been linked to the risk of appendicitis. Research presented at the annual scientific meeting of the American College of Gastroenterology in Orlando speculated that polluted air may have caused on onset appendici... 2009-09-05 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4197&mode=1 Environmental organizations and major corporations that support climate change legislation in the U.S. are being overwhelmed financially by fossil fuel interests. According to Bob Perkowitz, founder of the eco-America PR: "The enviros are gettin... 2009-09-04 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4196&mode=1 Two German ships have commenced the first journey across Russia's northern shore without support from icebreakers. For the first time the passage that is normally covered with ice that has melted due to rising temperatures. According to the... 2009-09-04 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4191&mode=1 International market forces adapting to global warming offered the best way to counter inevitable climate change implosions, according to Bjorn Lomborg, Danish author of "The Skeptical Environmentalist". He said adaptation would see farmers turn... 2009-09-03 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4190&mode=1 The planet Saturn's moon Titan behaves much like Earth - except for its temperature - that's nearly 300 degrees below zero Fahrenheit. Instead of water, a methane rain shapes the moon's gullies, streams and lakes. And when it soa... 2009-09-02 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4189&mode=1 U.S. cap-and-trade bill could reduce refining output by as much as 4.4 million barrels per day by 2030 to 12 million bpd, according to EnSys Energy. Investment in U.S. refineries could fall by as much as $90 billion by 2030, a decline of 88 perc... 2009-09-02 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4188&mode=1 Winter temperatures in northeastern America have increased by 4F degrees since 1970. In the Pacific Northwest, the depth of the Cascade Mountain snowpack on April 1 has declined by 25 per cent over the last half century. Spring runoff from the... 2009-09-01 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4187&mode=1 Little progress has been made so far on a new pact to combat global warming has been hindered by commercial and political interests, according to a senior China Governement development official. The vice-director of the National Development and... 2009-09-01 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4186&mode=1 DNA sequencing is becoming faster and cheaper and will soon become another household and office new tech appliance. Most current scanners use fluorescent chemical tags that attach to each of the four chemicals that make up a "letter" in the DNA ... 2009-08-31 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4185&mode=1 Planet researchers have created the first global three-dimensional map of electrical conductivity that shows how Earth works. Areas of high conductivity coincide with subduction zones--places where the tectonic plates are subducted beneath the E... 2009-08-31 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4184&mode=1 Harmful effects of global warming were being felt "here and now", a US government report on climate change has warned. "Climate change is happening now, it is not something that will happen decades or centuries in the future," said Jerry Mel... 2009-08-30 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4183&mode=1 Shrugging off economists concerns that America needed more new independent energy to overcome a prolonged recession, U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke declared that America was on a slow comeback climb to normal growth. "After contracti... 2009-08-29 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4182&mode=1 Kenya's lion population could disappear entirely within 20 years because of climate change, habitat destruction, disease and conflict with humans, according to the Kenya Wildlife Service. Lions are the major tourist attraction in Kenya'... 2009-08-29 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4181&mode=1 El Nino warming of Pacific Ocean has begun disrupting weather patterns across the world setting the scenario for a record heat in 2010. Meteorologists told Daily Planet Media that from now and throughout next year will be droughts in Australia, ... 2009-08-28 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4180&mode=1 Honda will build a new electric minicar to target the U.S. within the next six years riding off the expected high demand for low-carbon vehicles following the implementation of tougher environmental regulations. While Honda has announced it will... 2009-08-28 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4176&mode=1 The Amazon rainforest is known to ecologists as the world's lungs converting billions of tonnes of carbon dioxide into oxygen. This tropical forest trees play an important role in reducing the amount of global warming caused by carbon emiss... 2009-08-27 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4175&mode=1 The "Skeptical Environmentalist" author Bjorn Lomgorg advocagtes gradual cuts in carbon dioxide, rather than drastic reductions, as the best solution for a UN brokered world climate treaty due to finalized this December. Lomgorg, who heads the C... 2009-08-27 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4174&mode=1 Is there only one Earth-like planet in the universe? Or are there millions of other planets of a similar size, orbiting stars at just the right distance to make life-sustaining conditions possible? To answer these two most important questions of... 2009-08-26 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4173&mode=1 Geologists can read the surface of Mars like a history book. The canyons and crevices tell stories of ancient floods and windswept plains. Compared to Earth, Mars is surely a desolate place. A thin carbon dioxide atmosphere gently sweeps the col... 2009-08-26 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4172&mode=1 Canada's Fraser River has been closed to commercial and recreational sockeye fishing for the third straight year following the mysterious disappearance of millions of salmon from he world's most fertile spawning grounds. Up to 10.6 mil... 2009-08-25 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4171&mode=1 Brazilian paleontologists discovery of a rare fossil in China shows that the earliest known flying vertebrates had hair, claws and unsual wings. Researchers used a new technique involving ultra-violet rays to examine soft tissue on the wings and... 2009-08-25 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4170&mode=1 An environmental start-up capital firm aims to take advantage of coming U.S. cap-and-trade emissions system by helping companies and cities cut pollution. Hara, a 25-employee company that began in 2008, provides online software to help companies... 2009-08-24 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4169&mode=1 The success of the Cash for Clunkers program is a sure sign that the American economy is gearing up for a rebound, according to former Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan. Greenspan said American car drivers wouldn't trade in older cars... 2009-08-24 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4168&mode=1 Scientists in New Zealand believe they have discovered what has been killing dogs on a number of beaches around Auckland. Up to four dogs have died after a run on the beach, and many more have got sick. Scientists believe a highly toxic sea slug... 2009-08-23 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4167&mode=1 Experts agree that air quality has improved since the 2008 Olympic Games. Beijing is enjoying the best air quality this decade because of measures taken during last year's Olympic Games. Officials say there were 171 days of low pollution ... 2009-08-23 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4166&mode=1 Scientists have long known that birds of the same species are smaller closer to the equator and larger closer to the poles. And recent research suggests that the Australian bird species are getting smaller due to global warming. Evolutionary bi... 2009-08-22 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4160&mode=1 U.S. President Barack Obama has told insiders that he wanted to give his full support a global partnership to drive the development of technologies for clean coal. Obama told his advisors that whatever money was necessary should be spent on rese... 2009-08-21 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4159&mode=1 Indonesia has announced the world's first revenue sharing regulations for forest carbon projects. The profit-sharing rules are the world's first set of formal regulations for reducing emissions from deforestation and degradation known ... 2009-08-21 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4158&mode=1 Australia's southern island state of Tasmanian is experiencing its warmest water temperature on record. Scientists believe a rise in temperature of 1.5C degrees is the result of changing ocean currents. Oceanographer Katy Hill, of the Inte... 2009-08-20 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4157&mode=1 Engineered organisms fed with high concentrations of carbon dioxide and sunlight could be a valuable, new fuel for the 21st century. The fuel will be competitive with crude oil at US $50 a battle as it capitalizes on concentrates of sunlight in ... 2009-08-20 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4156&mode=1 This year marks the 150th anniversary of the publication of Darwin's On the Origin of Species. Another breakthrough occurred in science that year attracted much less attention than the theory of evolution at the time it has become one of the... 2009-08-19 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4155&mode=1 Earth now has a whole new planetary view following the development and material testing of NOAA's Science on a Sphere. The Science on a Sphere gained international recognition as the result of modern day demands to see Earth as it really is... 2009-08-19 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4154&mode=1 New California legislation makes smart irrigation controllers mandatory for new properties from 2012. This year marks the third year of drought for the most-populous state of California where lawmakers are urging residents to take shorter shower... 2009-08-18 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4153&mode=1 California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger is sticking to his guns for renewable more energy like solar and wind, emissions caps for cars and better city planning to cut driving needs. Californians overall are supportive of fighting climate chang... 2009-08-18 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4152&mode=1 Green stocks are the shinning stars of stocks worldwide. Global investment in clean energy and green technologies has leapt in the last three months due partly to stimulus spending. Clean energy stocks have outpacing the U.S. equities market du... 2009-08-17 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4151&mode=1 Thailand has added tax concessions to a long list of incentives to attract global carmakers to invest in the production of small passenger vehicles for its domestic and export markets. The state-run Board of Investment has already offered compan... 2009-08-17 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4149&mode=1 Tiger Sharks outlasted the dinosaurs and in their teeth may tell the history of Earth's climate. Cold-blooded sharks have the same body temperature as the water in which they live, and scientists are surmising whether it's possible to... 2009-08-16 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4148&mode=1 Much maligned jellyfish and other related creatures might be helping to reduce the effects of climate change by stirring up the oceans. The finding is the latest in a decades-old debate over whether swimming animals can contribute significantly ... 2009-08-16 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4147&mode=1 China will detail its new energy plan to coincide with the Copenhagen climate summit in December. The plan, according to China's senior energy policy sources, will include wind, solar and nuclear. Later this year China will release a guide... 2009-08-15 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4146&mode=1 South Pacific leaders have raised the concern that millions of people will be affected by rising oceans if predictions of coastal inundation - caused by global warming - are correct. Pacific Island nations want to limit the increase in average g... 2009-08-15 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4145&mode=1 India and China won't accept any binding targets to reduce greenhouse gas emissions that would lower economic growth. The two Asian economic giants are among the world's biggest emitters alongside the United States and Russia. Both Ch... 2009-08-14 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4140&mode=1 Tough times have made Americans more open to using public transportation and reusing goods fashionable. As well, fewer houses are being built resulting in less sprawl and cleaner planning, asserts David Cassuto, professor of environmental law at... 2009-08-13 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4139&mode=1 The world will rely on oil, coal and gas as primary fossil fuels for the rest of this century - despite plans by governments to produce 80 percent of electricity from low carbon energy by 2080. Peter Odell, professor of international energy stud... 2009-08-12 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4138&mode=1 A massive 400-billion euro renewable energy project linking northern Africa and the European Union could spur political cooperation across the region. "It's a visionary project in many ways," asserted German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter St... 2009-08-11 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4137&mode=1 Brazil's securities regulator ruling that carbon credits be treated as investments separate from derivatives, since they are used mainly as instruments to trim greenhouse gas emissions, will have a major bearing on the fledging world carbon ... 2009-08-11 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4136&mode=1 Americans have the biggest annual "carbon footprint" at the equivalent of 29 tonnes of carbon dioxide per capita, ahead of Australians on 21 tonnes and Canadians on 20 tonnes. In the ranking of 73 nations the U.S. is by far the biggest greenhous... 2009-08-10 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4135&mode=1 U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu has defended China against criticism that Beijing is not serious about cutting emissions. Chu told reporters that China is working "very aggressively" on emissions cuts form a more stringent mileage standard on c... 2009-08-10 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4134&mode=1 Researchers have uncovered DNA evidence linking Indian tribes to Australian Aboriginal people, adding more evidence to the belief that humans arrived in Australia from Africa via a southern coastal route through India. The research, led by Dr Ra... 2009-08-09 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4133&mode=1 A "Cash for Clunkers" program giving consumers a $4,500 in credit to swap aging gas-guzzling cars for new, more fuel efficient models has been the most successful component of the American economic stimulus package. So popular has been the progr... 2009-08-08 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4132&mode=1 The global insurance industry is to review a global research program report that provides specific information on the climate change impacts that are already occurring. The mid-year report from U.S. Global Change Research Program (USGCRP) conclu... 2009-08-07 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4131&mode=1 As Earth's climate continues to warm, life might become the province of the small, a new study suggests. Climate change has already had documented effects on species living across the globe, from polar bears in the Arctic to coral reefs in ... 2009-08-07 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4126&mode=1 Russia wants to recapture its Soviet-era space-race glory and start mining the Moon for a rare energy resource that could meet Earth's power needs for more than a thousand years. Nikolai Sevastyanov, head of Russia's giant Energia Spac... 2009-08-06 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4125&mode=1 The designers of a hydrogen-powered car say it's 40 times cleaner than current environmental models and have promised to "open source" the design. Riversimple, a small UK-based business aiming to produce highly energy-efficient vehicles for... 2009-08-06 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4124&mode=1 Along with the deep recession in the U.S. farmers are worried about the future of organic farming that grew sharply during the boom times. The industry, which prides itself on delivering wholesome and safe products, is also concerned about new f... 2009-08-05 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4123&mode=1 An Alaska Airlines 737 aircraft has taken the first step in a project to dramatically cut emissions from air travel. Using a satellite guidance technology called Required Navigation Performance (RNP), the plane took a continuous-descent approach... 2009-08-05 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4122&mode=1 Monsanto is back into the wheat business - paying $45 million to acquire a specialist in wheat germplasm. Five years after shelving a controversial biotech wheat product Monsanto's will use WestBred LLCs germplasm to develop higher-yielding... 2009-08-04 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4121&mode=1 Investors will be looking for signs of a recovery in solar panel demand when manufacturers report earnings in the coming weeks. Solar panel prices, however, are still and earnings may not see a meaningful improvement until 2010. Demand for sola... 2009-08-04 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4120&mode=1 Britain has outlined an energy revolution aiming to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 34% within 11 years and set the nation on track for an 80% cut by 2050. The government also signaled a historic switch away from fossil fuels, which drove th... 2009-08-03 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4119&mode=1 Nine million barrels of oil have leaked into the land and rivers in southern Nigeria, according to an Amnesty report. Serious allegations have been published of human rights abuses caused by oil companies in the oil-producing region of the Niger... 2009-08-03 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4118&mode=1 The climate change bill that has passed through the U.S. House of Representatives and awaits Senate approval effectively forces developing countries to accept protectionism. And should this become law then the United States will begin the proce... 2009-08-02 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4117&mode=1 A syndicate of four leading Australian banks and more than 18,000 private investors in trees and their wooden products have been felled by the debt-ridden business Timbercorp. Timbercorp manages 120,000 hectares of forestry and horticultural ass... 2009-08-02 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4116&mode=1 Bill Gates has filed five patents related to hurricane control. Best known as the former chairman of Microsoft, billionaire Gates has reportedly filed several patents that could result in technology capable of stopping hurricanes that plague the... 2009-08-01 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4115&mode=1 The world's most powerful laser that can simulate the sun's energy force is ready for testing. Scientists are confident that the laser will be able to mimic the heat and pressure found at the centre of the sun. The National Ignition F... 2009-08-01 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4112&mode=1 June 2009 was the warmest month on record for Earth's oceans and the sixth-warmest on land, according to the US National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). Measurements collated by the NOAA's National Climatic Data Ce... 2009-07-31 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4111&mode=1 The United Nations has listed ways the world can join together for urgent action against climate change. "This document marks an important point on our road," said Yvo de Boer, head of the U.N. Climate Change Secretariat. "Time gets tighter but... 2009-07-31 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4110&mode=1 Africa's forests are disappearing faster than those in other parts of the world because of a lack of land ownership. The deforestation rate in Africa is four times the world's average. At the current rate, it will take Congo Basin c... 2009-07-30 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4109&mode=1 Turkey's largest and most expensive wind farm is ready to harness power. During the course of this year and into 2010 a further 29 wind turbines will be installed resulting in 54 wind turbines in total, which will be capable of generating ... 2009-07-30 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4108&mode=1 Scientists in England have created human sperm in a test tube by using embryonic stem cells. Scientists hope that by closely studying the development of sperm, they can see what goes wrong in infertile men and hopefully correct the problem. "... 2009-07-29 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4107&mode=1 The world's fastest supercomputer is simulating abrupt climate change and shedding light on an enigmatic period of natural global warming in Earth's relatively recent history. The work, led by scientists at the University of Wisconsin... 2009-07-29 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4106&mode=1 The United Nations has issued a statement for ways the world can join together for urgent action against climate change. "This document marks an important point on our road," said Yvo de Boer, head of the U.N. Climate Change Secretariat. "Wit... 2009-07-28 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4105&mode=1 New York power companies are looking at building a wind farm about 13 miles off the city's coast. "There clearly is growing interest in this proposal by many parties," stated Kevin Burke, chairman and CEO of Con Edison. "If the technical... 2009-07-28 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4104&mode=1 U.S. companies are eligible for $3 billion in government funds to boost development of renewable energy projects around the country. The funding is to meet the White House's goal to double US renewable energy production over the next three... 2009-07-27 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4102&mode=1 The current atmospheric carbon-dioxide concentration is running at 386 parts per million, and growing at a rate of 1.5 to 2.5 parts per million per year, according to the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Some climate watche... 2009-07-27 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4101&mode=1 A proposed clean-coal project to be built in Illinois - viewed as a model for USA and the world - expects to produce 525 to 550 megawatts of electricity. The Taylorville $3.5 billion hybrid integrated gasification cycle project received a huge ... 2009-07-26 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4100&mode=1 A consortium of 20 companies has agreed on proposals for a huge solar power project in North Africa. The project would eventually supply 15 per cent of Europe's energy needs. The idea of using solar power in deserts has been around for som... 2009-07-25 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4099&mode=1 Scientists have discovered a remarkable correlation between the genetic faults behind both schizophrenia and manic depression. The breakthrough is expected to open the way to new treatments for two of the most common mental illnesses that affec... 2009-07-25 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4098&mode=1 Climate change and human rights have evolved into important issues on their own terms. Both have become interrelated as world leaders edge towards the framework for a world climate pact in December. UN advisors on the climate change crisis now ... 2009-07-24 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4097&mode=1 History is being made as the climate bill snakes its way through the U.S. Congress. So far what has surfaced is that the new "cap and trade" bill legislation, designed to limit America's carbon emissions, will be the biggest thing to hit t... 2009-07-24 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4096&mode=1 The U.S. Senate scrutiny of the Obama climate bill is examining whether human-made global warming has become a fad religion. President Obama has been leading the charge for a worldwide agreement for a 80 percent reduction in greenhouse gas emis... 2009-07-23 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4095&mode=1 The world news is not good for birds, wildlife, plants, and amphibians as global warming turns up the heat on their fragile environments. Some insect species - that thrive in hotter temperatures and can negatively impact human health and the na... 2009-07-23 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4090&mode=1 US scientists are confident that a new drug called rapamycin can extend human life.Three studies have verified that the drug is capable of increasing the longevity of mice.The discovery could have major implications for society, particularly in t... 2009-07-22 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4089&mode=1 India hopes to import Cheetahs to bring back the world's fastest land animal after it became extinct 60 years ago.India's Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh has commissioned a study to determine whether it is possible to reintroduce the... 2009-07-22 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4088&mode=1 Meteorologists predict another drought-producing El Nino on the horizon will further warm the Pacific Ocean.The Bureau of Meteorology predicts that the predominantly dry conditions experienced in autumn would probably extend through winter, furth... 2009-07-21 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4087&mode=1 India and Pakistan have put aside their historic rivalry for a united stance on the contemporary issue of climate change.The two neighbours that have fought wars against each other in the past are concerned at US moves to impose trade penalties o... 2009-07-21 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4086&mode=1 Soaring temperature increases later this century have been forecast for the United Kingdom.Detailed government predictions on how climate change is likely to affect the UK show that London's hottest summer day that has averaged 30.7C in rece... 2009-07-20 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4085&mode=1 Australia has started a movement that could result in a worldwide backlash against the sale of bottled water.Bundanoon, a small town in New South Wales, became the first community in Australia to ban bottled water after New South Wales Premier Na... 2009-07-20 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4084&mode=1 New Zealand's acclaimed star actor Sam Neill, who lives in Sydney, has been urged to abandon his promotion of red meat and to take on a plant-based diet.Neill who supports the Australian Labor Party, Greenpeace, Oxfam, and the World Wildlife... 2009-07-19 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4083&mode=1 Developing nations and poorer countries say British Prime Minister Gordon Brown's proposal to create a $122 billion-a-year climate change fund isn't enough compensation to cover lost revenue from measures to cut climate-changing greenho... 2009-07-19 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4082&mode=1 Suspected faulty fuel rods at an ageing German nuclear power station prompted its Swedish operator to announce further checks only days after a short circuit forced an emergency shutdown.All 80,000 rods at the German Kruemmel nuclear power plant ... 2009-07-18 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4081&mode=1 Climate change statesman Al Gore remains optimistic an agreement to reduce carbon emissions can be reached in time for a global climate pact in Copenhagen.Speaking at a conference in Melbourne, Gore said he was confident a workable framework coul... 2009-07-18 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4080&mode=1 Australia's tropical zone is advancing south and - by the end of the century - Sydney's climate will be more like Brisbane.More than 70 scientific papers have documented the rapid advance of the tropical zone with data and evidence comp... 2009-07-17 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4079&mode=1 President Barack Obama's push for America to take up the leadership mantle on climate change action has suffered a major setback with the US Senate committee postponing a pivotal climate bill until September.Senate Environment and Public Wor... 2009-07-17 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4078&mode=1 The Obama administration has endorsed America's nuclear industry in a trade off to build forward momentum for the climate change legislation now before the Senate.The seal of approval for nuclear power came as a direct result of lobbying by ... 2009-07-16 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4077&mode=1 New York power companies are looking at building a wind farm about 13 miles off the city's coast."There clearly is growing interest in this proposal by many parties," stated Kevin Burke, chairman and CEO of Con Edison."If the technical, envi... 2009-07-16 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4076&mode=1 Financial players who abandoned solar energy projects last year during the throes of the banking crisis are beginning to return.Solar investors are confident that a solar boom of new deals will emerge by the end of the year.The 2008 collapse of t... 2009-07-15 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4075&mode=1 Carbon dioxide is not the only problem attributed to rising temperatures on Earth. A bigger problem looming is methane.The gas has been identified as a big contributor to global warming, and there is concern that stores of the gas trapped at the ... 2009-07-15 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4074&mode=1 California's GovernorArnold Schwarzenegger won't allow his cash-strapped state to pull the plug on a master plan to fast track renewable energy projects and the enforcement of laws to keep petrol-guzzling vehicles off the highways.The f... 2009-07-14 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4073&mode=1 Membrane technology will soon make a major contribution to food qualityMembrane use began with dairy producers looking to make the most of waste products like whey. Over the last 20 years there has been some major developments in specialized prot... 2009-07-14 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4072&mode=1 More than twice as much carbon is stored in the Arctic regions as previously estimated and more than double the amount in the Earth's atmosphere.The latest findings have heightening concerns that northern regions around the world contain sig... 2009-07-13 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4071&mode=1 ExxonMobil, the world's biggest oil company, continues to pay out several hundred thousand dollars a year to groups that question the cause and effects of global warming.According to Bob Ward, the policy director of The Grantham Research Ins... 2009-07-13 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4070&mode=1 The tobacco industry has long targeted young people as so-called "replacement smokers", according to the World Health Organisation.Nearly half of the world's smokers live in three countries - China, India and Indonesia - and many are picking... 2009-07-11 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4069&mode=1 The successful sequencing of the cow genome could lead to treatments for malaria and the development of a 'super cow' that thrives in harsh conditions.Australian Researchers involved in the $US52 million international collaboration say ... 2009-07-12 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4068&mode=1 The Happy Planet Index has announced the top ten happiest countries on Earth. In terms of living long, happy and meaningful lives Costa Rica has been judged where people could expected to live the longest, happiest and greenest life.Costa Rica�... 2009-07-10 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4067&mode=1 The next major solar eclipse will occur on July 22. It will track through parts of India, Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh, Tibet, China, and the southern Japanese islands.The July 22 eclipse will be the longest for 200 years. It will last more than 6.5... 2009-07-10 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4065&mode=1 Australia and Canada will adopt similar climate change regulations as the United States to reduce carbon emissions by mirroring cap and trade systems.Canada also support an America rule allowing oil sands producers and refiners an escape from "gr... 2009-07-09 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4064&mode=1 President Barack Obama has offered a trade deal to Russia... the US will scrap plans for a missile defence shield in Eastern Europe provided Russia assists in stopping Iran developing a nuclear bomb.Obama's military trading with Russia also ... 2009-07-09 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4063&mode=1 Over the last 50 years the subtropical Atlantic has been getting gradually saltier suggesting that global warming is changing precipitation patterns over our planet.Higher temperatures increase evaporation in subtropical zones. The moisture is th... 2009-07-08 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4062&mode=1 Giant jellyfish are taking over parts of the world's oceans due to overfishing and other human activities, researchers say.Nomura jellyfish are the biggest in the world and can grow as big as a sumo wrestler. They weigh up to 200 kilograms a... 2009-07-08 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4059&mode=1 Weather forecasts that Australia is heading for an extremely hot summer is causing concern that the Great Barrier Reef off the north eastern coast will undergo more coral bleaching.Australian and American forecasting models suggest a hot summer i... 2009-07-07 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4058&mode=1 Rich countries are likely to develop a carbon market they hope will lure in poor nations.Developing countries want industrialized countries to make deep cuts in greenhouse gas emissions in the international agreement. While industrialized countri... 2009-07-07 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4057&mode=1 China and India have protested against moves by the EU and the US climate policymakers to include taxing imports of products - such as steel and cement - that generate substantial carbon emissions."Soft green protectionism is protectionism and we... 2009-07-06 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4056&mode=1 Environmental campaigners, think-tanks and analysts have urged governments to spend more of an estimated $3 trillion global economic stimulus on efforts to cut carbon emissions and diversify energy supplies, to avoid worse, future crises.Pledged ... 2009-07-06 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4055&mode=1 Even if scientists could freeze-frame the atmospheric carbon dioxide as it is today, sea levels would still rise by 25 meters by 4000 AD.Eelco Rohling of the UK National Oceanography Centre at the University of Southampton reconstructed sea level... 2009-07-05 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4054&mode=1 GM will launch the rechargeable Chevy Volt plug-in by the end of 2010 and plans to have a total of 14 hybrid models in production by 2012.Although GM said it would be "a stretch for the industry" to meet the White House's stated goal of havi... 2009-07-05 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4053&mode=1 SkyMapper, the southern hemisphere's newest telescope, is now online and will spend the next five years conducting the first full digital survey of the southern skies.It can scan the sky faster and deeper than any other telescope, and scient... 2009-07-04 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4052&mode=1 Revenue from a fledging US system for capping carbon emissions would be used to soften the impact of higher energy prices on consumers.According to Joseph Aldy, special assistant to President Obama for energy and the environment the switch to a c... 2009-07-04 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4051&mode=1 US President Barack Obama has pitched a global climate treaty framework to cut greenhouse gas hydrocarbon emissions by 17 percent by 2020 and over 80 percent by 2050. The framework mirrors the approved US climate change bill that encourages the u... 2009-07-03 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4050&mode=1 The northern ranges of the European Alps are suffering more serious flooding while the parched southern mountains are much less seasonal snow.According to a report by the Convention on the Protection of the Alps precipitation in the southeast of ... 2009-07-02 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4049&mode=1 Over the last 50 years the subtropical Atlantic has been getting gradually saltier suggesting that global warming is changing precipitation patterns over our planet.Higher temperatures increase evaporation in subtropical zones. The moisture is th... 2009-07-01 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4048&mode=1 Giant jellyfish are taking over parts of the world's oceans due to overfishing and other human activities, researchers say.Nomura jellyfish are the biggest in the world and can grow as big as a sumo wrestler. They weigh up to 200 kilograms a... 2009-07-01 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4047&mode=1 Bloodshed in the Amazon forests has resulted from the Puru government's decision to allow open mines and drilling for oil in the rainforest region.Indigenous protesters and Peru's army were locked into two battles in the Amazon jungle t... 2009-06-30 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4046&mode=1 A consortium of around 20 companies, including Munich Re, Siemens, RWE and Deutsche Bank, plans to build a 400 billion euro ($555.3 billion) solar power project in Africa, a Munich Re executive told a German newspaper on Tuesday.The project, led ... 2009-06-30 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4045&mode=1 California faces a huge bill for its ambitious clean energy plan that will result in a 28 percent rise in electricity rates and $115 billion in construction.The cost of going green in a time of economic turmoil has come under the financial spotli... 2009-06-29 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4044&mode=1 A prominent group of leading international climate scientists has called on governments worldwide to agree - before the end of the year - on net limits for total CO2 emissions to avoid catastrophic climate change.The researchers sounded the alarm... 2009-06-29 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4041&mode=1 Climate change threatens many Asian' coastal cities and could erode access to clean water, according to an Asian Development Bank report funded by the British-government.The 250-page report said climate change is already affecting Southeast ... 2009-06-28 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4040&mode=1 Earth's average global temperature has increased slightly over the past 50 years, but the hottest day of the year has shifted earlier, according to scientists at the Havard University of California.While human-generated greenhouse gases are ... 2009-06-28 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4039&mode=1 US Industries that account for a third of energy demand are holding off on energy savings until the economy improves.Energy experts said government incentives to cut energy use are in place, but the economic climate needed to improve further ... 2009-06-27 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4038&mode=1 Governments are forging ahead with plans to turn coal into oil and gas and there have been several predictions - mostly from the mining industry - that several trials of geosequestration to clean coal by storing CO2 underground will prove success... 2009-06-27 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4037&mode=1 The next volatile peak in sunspots will occur in 2012 when magnetic energy will build up on the solar surface releasing massive bursts of solar heat, the Weekend Daily Planet newspaper reported on the front page today.Solar flares - vast waves of... 2009-06-26 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4036&mode=1 The Chinese gateway to the ancient Silk Road is being flooded as a result of the melting glaciers that sit above the Hexi corridor in Gansu province, once an important trading and military route into Central Asia.The glaciers meltdown are fuellin... 2009-06-26 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4035&mode=1 In the 19th century it took sealers 10 years to kill all the fur seals on Macquarie Island, which lies halfway between Australia and Antarctica.Almost 200 years later the rate at which the fur seals have returned has been so slow that scientists ... 2009-06-25 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4034&mode=1 The Earth's fast-changing climate has military generals, geographers and diplomats agreeing that the next major armed conflicts could be driven by climate change."It's not hard to imagine violent outbursts," stated Julianne Smith of the... 2009-06-25 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4033&mode=1 Heroin is making a comeback as the addicts hard drug of choice following a proliferation of large poppies plantations inside Burma.In Sydney, Dr Gordian Fulde at St Vincent's hospital said supply of heroin into Australia's most populate... 2009-06-24 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4032&mode=1 Plug-in cars have barely made a dent in the global vehicle fleet, and automakers have yet to launch their first real entries into the race for a mainstream electric car. But when carmakers do start selling those models - late next year and beyond... 2009-06-24 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4031&mode=1 California's Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger is backing a nuclear fusion experiment called LIFE that promises the clean solution to US energy needs.LIFE stands for Laser Inertial Confinement Fusion-fission Energy and uses 192 lasers to bombar... 2009-06-23 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4030&mode=1 The US will spend $50 million to encourage the installation of heating-and-cooling systems that rely on the Earth's temperature to warm and cool buildings.It's part of the "green energy" program that President Obama stated would increas... 2009-06-23 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4029&mode=1 Nearly four decades after astronauts planted their boots on the moon's surface - and later played lunar golf - the US is making plans for a human colony on the moon.The colonalization of Earth's nearest sphere began with the launching o... 2009-06-22 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4028&mode=1 US clean economy jobs have grown by a rate of 9.1 percent since 1998 and much faster than overall jobs during the past decade, according to the green monitoring group Pew Charitable Trusts latest report."We do believe our report points to trends ... 2009-06-22 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4027&mode=1 Ocean dead zones devoid of most marine life for up to 2,000 years are a likely result of global warming, according to Denmark scientists who used computer modeling to simulate long-term climate change.The calculations showed a worst-case scenario... 2009-06-21 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4026&mode=1 International stations at Antarctic continent will carry out further research into the effects of melting of Antarctic ice.Science is still undecided why ice-shelf melting is accelerating on the peninsula and in other parts of west Antarctica, ap... 2009-06-21 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4025&mode=1 Travel company Expedia Inc has published a survey that revealed ignorance among the general public towards carbon emission offsetting.One in ten in a survey of 2,000 British nationals believed offsetting meant walking to work instead of driving w... 2009-06-20 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4024&mode=1 The European Union has declared that aviation emissions will come under the bloc's emissions trading scheme from 2012.Aviation is responsible for about 2 percent of global greenhouse gas pollution and that share is expected to rise.IATA that... 2009-06-20 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4023&mode=1 Big business wants financial backing to reduce carbon emissions and fight climate change.Last month's meeting of more than 500 business leaders called for governments to set clear long-term climate policies when they meet in Copenhagen in De... 2009-06-19 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4022&mode=1 US Energy Secretary Steven Chu has restated the urgency of early action to prevent severe climate change.After describing the prospect of more severe hurricanes and rising sea levels in the Caribbean as "very, very scary" Chu has announced plans ... 2009-06-19 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4021&mode=1 Media and scientists must work together to overcome the threat of climate change, according to environmental science specialists attending a UNESCO environmental workshop in Manado, North Sulawesi.Scientists at the workshop urged the media to rep... 2009-06-18 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4020&mode=1 The prospect of a carbon trading scheme has spawned an entire industry of consultants, investment managers and trading offices, which are waiting for trading to begin.One of the earliest innovators in the field is the online trading platform Aust... 2009-06-18 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4019&mode=1 Climate change could wipe out an ocean wilderness said to be the world's most diverse by the end of the century if nations do not drastically cut emissions, according to the environmental group WWF.Rising water temperatures, sea levels and a... 2009-06-17 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4017&mode=1 The UK green job market is blooming.Green jobs are increasing despite the tough economic times and mounting redundancies in other sectors, environmental recruiters report.More job opportunities are mounting in renewable energy, energy efficiency,... 2009-06-17 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4015&mode=1 The yearly trek of the Magellans penguins has become more difficult due the surface of the Atlantic Ocean warming by one degree celsius.The Magellan penguin population is fragile, as their numbers have plummeted by about 20 percent, according to ... 2009-06-16 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4014&mode=1 Global carbon emissions can max up 2C before severe climate change implodes on the planet.That's the consensus of a group of 20 Nobel prize-winning scientists, economists and writers has declared.A 2C temperature rise would still have warmin... 2009-06-15 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4013&mode=1 Six Asia-Pacific nations have signed a pact to protect a vast area of ecologically rich coral reefs.Indonesia, Malaysia, East Timor, the Philippines, Papua New Guinea and the Solomon Islands countriessigned the protection pact for a large stretch... 2009-06-15 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4012&mode=1 Jet planes release exhaust just like cars on the road. But because jets fly at high altitudes, the cold temperature causes the exhaust to turn into water vapour and crystallize. These clusters of crystals that resemble thin clouds of white lines ... 2009-06-14 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4011&mode=1 Climatologists have warned that extreme weather experienced by the eastern coastal states is consistent with climate change modeling of weather patterns.Australia's southeast Queensland state has been hit by heavy storms, which have become a... 2009-06-13 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4010&mode=1 Green investors have warned the European Union not to exempt industries such as steel and cement from the cost of buying carbon permits.They say that the EU handing special industry windfall profits and stymie green investment.Windfalls are gener... 2009-06-12 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4009&mode=1 The most comprehensive end-to-end analysis of climate change impacts ever undertaken has predicted global warming could be twice as severe as previous estimates suggested.The new study was done using 400 applications of a computer model, which in... 2009-06-12 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4008&mode=1 Wildfires have become a rash on the planet, according to Professor David Bowan of the University of Today.Professor Bowan said calculations from all known deforestation had shown that major wildfire outbreaks had mostly destroyed forests since th... 2009-06-11 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4007&mode=1 It's become a matter of public record that when most of the world's aircraft were grounded in the aftermath of 9/11 there was a lowering of Earth's temperature.But that cooling, according to Flight International, had little to do w... 2009-06-11 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4006&mode=1 Floods, heatwaves and months of wildfires will test Europe's ability to counter climate change, according to the respected EU-backed ADAM report.The report specifically cites flooding of the Nile Delta and further desertification of north Af... 2009-06-10 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4005&mode=1 A six-year dredging project is underway to clean up America's iconic Hudson River.Under an agreement with the General Electric Company officials from the US environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and New York State the dredging will be a symb... 2009-06-10 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4004&mode=1 Top US officials are in China this week to boost cooperation on climate change. The delegation includes Department of State special envoy for climate change Todd Stern, White House science adviser John Holdren, and assistant energy secretary D... 2009-06-09 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4003&mode=1 The world's largest surviving marsupial carnivore, the Tasmanian Devil, has been listed as an endangered species due to a deadly facial tumor outbreak.Australian scientists estimate that between 20,000 and 75,000 probably remain in the wild ... 2009-06-09 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=4002&mode=1 New sensor technology lifted into space by balloon will soon give climate scientists a more accurate reading of Earth's temperature shifts.New generation balloons are proving that rockets are no longer required to send scientific instruments... 2009-06-09 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=3999&mode=1 As a climate change sweetener for business the Obama administration will offer 50 percent of gross emissions free permits in the first stage of the transition to a lower-carbon economy.Without the free permits the US Congress is unlikely to agree... 2009-06-08 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=3991&mode=1 Australia's chief scientist says the world has six years to reverse the trend of increasing carbon dioxide emissions to avoid damaging climate change.Professor Penny Sackett said evidence was clear that the planet is warming due to human activity... 2009-06-07 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=3990&mode=1 Norway has opened a 560 km "hydrogen highway" for hydrogen-powered cars on route between the capital city Oslo and coastal Stavanger.Hydrogen filling stations have been installed between on the scenic roadway to cater for cars with fuel cells tha... 2009-06-06 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=3989&mode=1 Lead metal is about to go the way of so many pop stars - out of the limelight. It's had a good long run as the material of choice for batteries, but new materials that allow for faster charging, lighter weight, and higher energy density are poise... 2009-06-05 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=3988&mode=1 The first major report investigating the effects of climate change on people's health has concluded that the increase in greenhouse gases is the biggest global threat to health in the 21st century.As the temperature increases, so will disease and... 2009-06-04 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=3987&mode=1 A US cap-and-trade carbon policy will result in a boom in "green" futures and options trade, according to CME the world's largest derivatives exchangeThe emerging US energy policy and energy legislation will support a tradable emissions and credi... 2009-06-03 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=3984&mode=1 New Zealand drilling technologists collecting Antarctic rock samples have to overcome unique challenges to understand more about climate change.The drill crews and scientists intend to drill 1000 meters into the Earth's crust from a moving ice pl... 2009-06-02 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=3983&mode=1 The Norwegian government has stopped the procurement process for contracts to construct the CO2 facilities until it all costs are clear.The decision means full-scale CO2 capture at Kaarstoe that is US $530 million will be held back beyond y 2012.... 2009-06-01 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=3982&mode=1 Climate change and overfishing were destroying the world's oceans, the World Ocean Conference in Indonesia was told.Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono told delegates in the city of Manado: "We must come to the rescue of the oceans.""We... 2009-05-31 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=3981&mode=1 Mayor Boris Johnson has a plan to make London "the cleanest, greenest city on earth" by the 2012 Olympics.Attending a summit of the world's 40 largest cities in Seoul Johnson outlined his green London while calling the demise of the combustion en... 2009-05-30 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=3980&mode=1 The habitat of rare orangutans is under threat by a huge logging operation planned for Sumatra Island in Indonesia.Conservation groups have voice outrage at the plan of one of Asia's biggest pulp producers to clear 50,000 hectares of prime forest... 2009-05-29 News http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/daily_news.php?id=3979&