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TRADING NATURAL RESCOURCES

2010-07-29

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...

AUS DITCHES CARBON PRICE

2010-07-28

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...

CARBON CAPTURE NOT WORKING

2010-07-27

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...

REDUCING EARTHQUAKE RISKS

2010-07-26

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...

AUSTRALIA BANS LASERS

2010-07-25

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...

ASTEROID DUST MYSTERY UNVEILED

2010-07-24

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...

CLIMATE CHANGE FIGHT LOST

2010-07-23

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...

UK TO CUT EMISSIONS

2010-07-22

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...

COUNTING THE WHALES

2010-07-21

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...

RENEWABLE AUSTRALIA REALITY

2010-07-20

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...

RICH REWARDS FOR TREE DONORS

2010-07-19

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...

AUSTRALIA FACES WATER CRISIS

2010-07-19

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...

EARTH'S HABITATS DAMAGED

2010-07-18

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...

RECESSION STALLS CLIMATE CHANGE

2010-07-17

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...

CALL FOR CARBON TAX

2010-07-16

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...

AUS ELECTION CLIMATE ISSUE

2010-07-15

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...

GILLARD TAKES AUSTRALIA TO THE POLLS WITH CLIMATE CHANGE A MAJOR ISSUE

2010-07-14

AUS TOXIC WASTES TO DENMARK

2010-07-13

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...

AUSTRALIA ON CARBON CONSENSUS

2010-07-12

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. ...

PLANET SET FOR HOTTEST YEAR

2010-07-11

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 ...

FORMULA ONE CUTS EMISSIONS

2010-07-10

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. ...

TURTLES BURNED ALIVE

2010-07-09

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...

COSTS CUTTING EMISSIONS

2010-07-08

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,...

WHALES DOING THEIR BIT

2010-07-07

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...

VEGETATION ON THE MOVE

2010-07-06

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...

RARE FINLESS PORPOISES ON BRINK OF EXTINCTION

2010-07-05

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...

OUTBACK CUTS CO2

2010-07-04

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...

ONE DROUGHT AFFECTS WORLD

2010-07-03

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...

OIL SPILL KILL ZONES

2010-07-02

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...

FORUMULA ONE CUTS EMISSIONS

2010-07-01

GROUPS DUCKING CLIMATE

2010-06-30

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...

HUMPBACKS ON KILL LIST

2010-06-29

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 ...

ANOTHER 300 PLANETS FOUND

2010-06-28

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...

METHANE OCEAN KILL ZONES

2010-06-27

OCEANS CHOKING ON CO2

2010-06-26

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...

MORE ELECTRIC CARS

2010-06-25

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...

COSTNER'S BIG OIL FIGHT

2010-06-24

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 ...

DRAMATIC OCEAN CHANGE

2010-06-23

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...

DOUBLE EFFECT ON CLIMATE

2010-06-22

ASTEROID DUST MYSTERY UNVEILED

2010-06-21

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...

SUNLIGHT SLIPS WATER FUEL

2010-06-20

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 ...

MORE AMERICAN SUPPORT ACTION ON CLIMATE CHANGE

2010-06-19

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...

NASA ARCTIC MISSION

2010-06-18

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...

GORE TOUR HITS MANILA

2010-06-17

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 ...

MORE CORAL BLEACHING

2010-06-16

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...

16 AUS TORNADOES YEARLY

2010-06-15

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,...

OIL DRILLING SCREW DOWN

2010-06-14

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...

AUSTRALIA NEEDS POWER SHIFT

2010-06-13

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...

IS MILK THE VILLIAN?

2010-06-12

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...

COUNTRY SIZE GOLIATH BACTERIA

2010-06-11

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 ...

OYSTERS PINE ON PLASTIC

2010-06-10

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...

PET RATS WARNING

2010-06-09

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...

AVATAR SOUGHT FOR OIL FIX

2010-06-08

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...

MALDIVES ALREADY SWAMPED

2010-06-07

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...

CO2 EFFECT ON CORAL

2010-06-06

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 ...

OIL WOES CONTINUE

2010-06-05

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 ...

MERKEL WANTS MORE AMBITION

2010-06-04

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...

GRIP ON CLIMATE DEAL

2010-06-03

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 ...

BIG MACS ENERGY COSTS

2010-06-02

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...

AFRICA WANTS PROMISES KEPT

2010-06-01

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 ...

MORATORIUM ON INDON DEFORSTION

2010-05-31

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...

RISE OF SLIME

2010-05-30

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 ...

ACADEMY CLEAR ON CLIMATE

2010-05-29

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 ...

WARMER EVEREST AFFECTING CLIMBING

2010-05-28

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...

OLDEST PAINTING SHOW EXTINCT BIRDS

2010-05-27

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...

INTEREST GROUPS HARMING PLANET

2010-05-26

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...

FARMERS PROTEST COAL MINING

2010-05-25

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...

QUEENSLAND FARMERS PROTEST COAL MINING

2010-05-24

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...

KANGAROO ISLAND WHALE CONCERN

2010-05-23

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...

HEAVY OIL ON LOUISIANA

2010-05-22

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...

OIL SLICK HEADS TO CUBA

2010-05-21

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...

RED GUM TREES SAVED

2010-05-20

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...

EU LOANS WON'T FIX CLIMATE

2010-05-19

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...

THE RISING OF MASDAR

2010-05-18

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 ...

TOP TEN WORST POLLUTERS

2010-05-17

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...

AUSTRALIANS STILL SUPPORT ETS

2010-05-16

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...

PROBLEM BIGGER THAN OZONE HOLE

2010-05-15

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...

CHINA'S DIFFERENTIATED RESPONSIBILITY

2010-05-14

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...

OIL SPILL BLAME GAME

2010-05-13

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...

SPILL STOPS DRILL PUSH

2010-05-12

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...

VOLCANIC ASH GREEN LINING

2010-05-11

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...

ETS A $20 MILLION WASTE

2010-05-10

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...

ELECTRIC BATTERY TEAM SOLUTIONS

2010-05-09

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...

CLIMATE CHANGE FUNDS SHORT

2010-05-08

BIGGER ICELAND ERUPTION COMING

2010-05-07

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...

EU LOANS NOT ENOUGH TO FAST TRACK CLIMATE CHANGE FUNDS

2010-05-06

CALL FOR CLIMATE TREATY 2010

2010-05-05

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 ...

OCEANS SHOW CLIMATE CHANGE

2010-05-04

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 ...

FUTURE AUCKLAND VOLCANO DESTRUCTION

2010-05-03

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&...

MICROBES CONTROL ALL OCEANS

2010-05-02

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 ...

EARTH DAY GETS STRONGER

2010-05-01

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...

SAFETY CHECKS ON 50,000 HOMES

2010-04-30

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...

DIRECTION OF WILDERNESS SOCIETY

2010-04-29

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 ...

ASTEROID SAMPLES TO EARTH

2010-04-28

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...

VOLCANIC ASH GREEN LINING

2010-04-27

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...

NO CLIMATE FAST TRACK

2010-04-26

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...

$20 MILLION WASTED

2010-04-25

EARCH DAY GOING STRONG

2010-04-24

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...

AUSTRALIA ENDS FOIL SCHEME

2010-04-23

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...

NEED TO REVAMP AGRICULTURE

2010-04-22

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...

REEF TANKERS STOPPED

2010-04-21

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...

ERUPTING TO TIPPING POINT

2010-04-20

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...

MICROBES DOMINATING OCEANS

2010-04-19

IRELAND DREAMS GREENER WORLD

2010-04-18

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 ...

CHINA LEADS CLEAN TECH

2010-04-17

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...

WEATHER SATELLITES UPGRADE

2010-04-16

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...

ANARCTIC WINDS OF CHANGE

2010-04-15

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...

SCIENTISS WITHHOLD CLIMATE DATA

2010-04-14

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...

DRILLING OIL A CLIMATE TRADE

2010-04-13

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 ...

OIL DRILLING OFF AMERICA DESPITE SPILL CONCERNS

2010-04-12

THE WATER VAPOUR EFFECT

2010-04-11

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...

BAY ISLAND DISAPPERS

2010-04-10

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...

WIND PUSH FOR GRIDS

2010-04-09

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 ...

IPCC TO CHANGE

2010-04-08

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...

SUFERS STOP SHIP SCUTTLE

2010-04-07

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...

UN REJECTS IVORY SALES

2010-04-06

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...

EL NINO ADDS HOT WIND

2010-04-05

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...

WHALE SUSHI GOOD CLOSURE

2010-04-04

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...

FREE PERMITS FOR COAL

2010-04-03

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...

BUTTERFLY EFFECT OF WARMING

2010-04-02

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...

TECH GIANTS EYE CHINA

2010-04-01

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...

HOW TO CUT EMISSIONS 25%

2010-03-31

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'...

PLASTICS FROM VEGITABLES

2010-03-30

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...

JAPAN WINS TUNA LOBBY

2010-03-29

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...

ARCTIC LEAKING METHANE GAS

2010-03-28

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...

NUCLEAR DUMPS UNDER SCRUTINY

2010-03-27

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...

RUDDS BACKS OFF ETS POLL

2010-03-26

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...

CARBON TAX FOR THE POOR

2010-03-25

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 ...

CARBON LAWS ONLY WAY

2010-03-24

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...

HUMANS CAUSING WARMING

2010-03-23

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&#...

CLIMATE PROPERGANDA ARENA

2010-03-22

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...

CHINA LEADS ON GREEN

2010-03-21

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...

CHINA SLAMS CLIMATE SCEPTICS

2010-03-20

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...

BIRDS FACING EXTINCTION

2010-03-19

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...

CLIMATE CHANGE EXAGGERATED

2010-03-18

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...

TWIN QUAKES SHAKE CHILE

2010-03-17

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�...

BIOFUELS ADD TO HUNGER

2010-03-16

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...

LOANS CLIMATE BATTLEGROUND

2010-03-15

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...

FASTER GLOBAL WARMING

2010-03-14

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...

SILENCE OF THE WHALES

2010-03-13

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...

CHINA'S NEW GREEN LIFESTYLE

2010-03-12

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...

OIL TO RUN DRY 2040

2010-03-11

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...

NEW DATA PROVES WARMING

2010-03-10

EYES ON CHINA GRIDS

2010-03-09

EUROPE SHUNS HYBRIDS

2010-03-08

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...

ASTEROID KILL DINOSAURS

2010-03-07

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...

CHINA GREEN AHEAD

2010-03-06

CARBON RULES THE WAY

2010-03-05

MASSIVE ICEBERG FOULING OCEAN

2010-03-04

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...

MOON TRIGGERED EARTHQUAKES

2010-03-03

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...

EPA SLOWS CO2 LIMIT

2010-03-02

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...

CHINA LEADS WITH WIND

2010-03-01

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 ...

SCIETISTS ANSWER SCEPTICS

2010-02-28

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...

JAPAN SCALES BACK WHALING

2010-02-27

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...

NEW CLIMATE DEAL MAYBE

2010-02-26

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...

9 BILLION NEED FEEDING

2010-02-25

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...

DENIALISTS CYBER BULLIES

2010-02-24

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...

EUROPE HOOKED TO RUSSIAN GAS

2010-02-23

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....

ITALY DELAYS SOLAR INCENTIVES

2010-02-22

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...

HAIR SHOWS EARLY HUMANS

2010-02-21

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...

MELTING ARCTIC EARLY COLD

2010-02-20

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...

SNOWSTORMS FORCAST WITH WARMING

2010-02-19

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...

DEMAND FOR TIGER PARTS

2010-02-18

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 ...

IPCC HEAD FEELS HEAT

2010-02-17

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...

WORLD SCIENCE REBUKES SKEPTICS

2010-02-17

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...

NUCLEAR RENAISSANCE NOT CERTAIN

2010-02-16

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...

NEW WAY TO FIND PLANETS

2010-02-15

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...

MOSSES CONTAIN METHANE GAS

2010-02-14

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 ...

USA FORESTS GROWING FASTER

2010-02-13

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...

CHIEF SCIENTIST WON'T YIELD

2010-02-12

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...

ARTIC MELTING DAMAGE REPORT

2010-02-11

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...

IPCC HEAD RAISED EYEBROWS

2010-02-10

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...

FINED FOR CLIMBING CITY ICON

2010-02-09

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...

RAMMING RAISES WHALING TENSION

2010-02-09

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...

ADVANCED TELESCOPE TRACKS SOLAR

2010-02-08

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...

AURA TO BUILD FIRST ADVANCED TELESCOPE

2010-02-07

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...

CALIFORNIA SOLAR CASH

2010-02-06

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 ...

DON'T BLAME CARES SAYS LUTZ

2010-02-05

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...

DECEMBER 2009 HOTTEST

2010-02-04

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...

EARTH LESS CO2 SENSITIVE

2010-02-03

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...

HOTTER IN STH HEMISPHERE

2010-02-02

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...

DIGGING UP INDON PAST

2010-02-01

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...

MELTING ARCTIC COOLS SEAS

2010-02-01

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 ...

IPCC ADMITS WRONG FORCAST

2010-01-31

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...

SMART BIRDS WHEAT HAZARD

2010-01-30

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...

UK WIND FARM ZONES

2010-01-30

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. ...

REACHING BOUNDARIES OF SPACE

2010-01-29

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...

SUPER EARTH TOO HOT

2010-01-28

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. ...

STING OF HUMAN BEHAVIOR

2010-01-27

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...

SMART BIRDS DESTOY WHEATBELT

2010-01-26

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...

WAYS TO COOL A PLANET

2010-01-25

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...

DIG REVEALS INDONESIA PAST

2010-01-24

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...

WIND FARMS COST SLASHED

2010-01-23

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...

YELLOW RIVER OIL SPILL

2010-01-22

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...

EDINSON'S MASTER PLAN

2010-01-21

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. ...

COKE GOES HFC FREE

2010-01-20

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...

BEEF INDUSTRY CALLS FOUL

2010-01-19

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. ...

GREENEST AND TALLEST

2010-01-18

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...

WIND FARMS COST SLASHED

2010-01-17

BRITAIN GETS SPACE AGENCY

2010-01-16

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...

MISSILE VIEWED AS UFO

2010-01-15

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...

VANISHING EXTROPLENT PLANET X

2010-01-15

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...

YELLOW RIVER OIL SPILL

2010-01-15

NEW YORKERS OPPOSE DRILLING

2010-01-14

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...

BROWN MOOTS NEW ACCORD

2010-01-13

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...

ARCTIC PIPELINE CLEARANCE

2010-01-12

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...

FRENCH REFORM CARBON TAXATION

2010-01-11

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...

INDONESIA LOOKS TO VOLCANOES

2010-01-10

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...

ASTEROID HEADING FOR EARTH

2010-01-09

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...

CLIMATE CHANGE FRONT LINE

2010-01-08

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...

SPAIN SHUTS WIND TURBINES

2010-01-07

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...

HOTTEST DECADE EVER RECORDED

2010-01-06

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...

EU CARBON MARKET HIT

2010-01-05

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...

DESERT LESSONS

2010-01-04

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...

BRITAIN TARGETS CITY BUILDINGS

2010-01-03

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...

CHEAP FLIGHT SOON OVER

2010-01-02

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...

SOUTH AUSTRALIA TAX BREAK

2010-01-01

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...

U.S. AIRLINES PROTEST LAW

2009-12-31

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...

TREES MATTER FOR CLIMATE

2009-12-30

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...

REDD SCHEME APPROVAL

2009-12-29

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...

CAP & TRADE CLOSER

2009-12-28

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...

SEA LEVELS WILL RISE

2009-12-27

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...

$2B SOLAR TAKE OFF

2009-12-26

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...

AUSSIE HYBRID X'MAS

2009-12-25

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...

ROTTEN ICE MELTING ARCTIC

2009-12-24

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 ...

CLIMATE ON HOLD UNTIL 2010

2009-12-23

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 ...

END TO AUSSIE SNOW

2009-12-22

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...

CHINA'S BIG ENERGY SWITCH

2009-12-21

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...

EMAIL LEAK "ASSASSINATION"

2009-12-20

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...

UN REBUKES CLIMATE SKEPTICS

2009-12-19

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 ...

DEMANDS ON NASA DATA

2009-12-18

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 ...

ICEBERG DRIFTING TO AUSTRALIA

2009-12-17

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...

POLAR BEARS GO CANNICAL

2009-12-16

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...

WARMEST DECADE ON RECORD

2009-12-15

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...

"GLOBAL WARMING" TOP WORD

2009-12-14

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...

FUTURE BUZZ IS ELECTRIC

2009-12-13

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...

CARBON CLOUND OVER AUS

2009-12-12

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...

GREAT LAKES WIND FARMS

2009-12-11

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...

UK WATER AT RISK

2009-12-10

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...

LA WANTS ELECTRIC CARS

2009-12-09

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...

U.S. LIFTS ETHANOL LIMITS

2009-12-08

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...

UN HIT OUT AT SKEPTICS

2009-12-07

SUPPORT FOR DANISH SOLUTION

2009-12-06

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...

BIGGEST TIDAL TURBINE

2009-12-05

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...

TIPPING POINT CLIMATE BOMBS

2009-12-04

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 ...

HEALTH LINKED TO CLIMATE

2009-12-03

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...

ANIMALS WIPED OUT

2009-12-02

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...

AUSTRALIA'S SPRUIKING SOLAR

2009-12-01

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...

CHINA WANTS CONCRETE ACTION

2009-11-30

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 ...

CARBON MARKET RAPID EXPANSION

2009-11-29

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...

AUSTRALIA SET FOR CARBON TRADE SCHEME

2009-11-28

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...

LOSE BILLIONS TONES OF MELTING ICE

2009-11-27

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...

GILLNETS BANNED IN PACIFIC

2009-11-26

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...

NEXT YEAR'S CLEAN CARS

2009-11-25

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 ...

Earth's oceans never too hot

2009-11-23

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...

A CALL FOR COURAGE ON CLIMATE

2009-11-24

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...

GORE REBUKES WARMING SKEPTICISM

2009-11-22

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...

40 PERCENT EMISSIONS BLOWOUT

2009-11-21

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...

SECRET DEAL TO STOP PACT

2009-11-20

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...

RICH COUNTRIES CLIMATE HEDGING

2009-11-19

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 ...

CLIMATE CHANGE A BELIEF

2009-11-19

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...

DEVELOPING NATIONS ON TARGET

2009-11-18

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...

LAND OWNERS HORRIFIED AT OIL SPILL

2009-11-17

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...

RAPID RISE IN SEA LEVELS

2009-11-17

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...

FISHERMAN BANKRUPT OVER OIL LEAK

2009-11-16

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...

FORTY LEADERS TO ATTEND SUMMIT

2009-11-16

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...

EAST TIMOR WANTS COMPENSATION

2009-11-15

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...

DINOSAURS ROAMED NEW ZEALAND

2009-11-15

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...

130 KM ANTARCTIC FISH NET

2009-11-14

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...

COPENHAGEN NO DEAL STALEMATE

2009-11-13

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...

MORE SPECIES THREATENED

2009-11-12

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...

OBAMA URGES QUICK GREEN SHIFT

2009-11-12

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 ...

FREEZING THE WORLD'S CORAL

2009-11-11

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...

OIL SPILL A HIGH RISK

2009-11-10

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...

HIGH COSTS OF NUCLEAR FUEL

2009-11-09

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...

CLEAN COAL NOT VIABLE UNTIL 2030

2009-11-08

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...

OBAMA PUSHS FOR CLEAN ENERGY

2009-11-08

ELECTRIC CARS NO LONGER SEEN AS CLEAN

2009-11-07

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...

HOTTEST AUGUST ON RECORD

2009-11-07

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...

SEVERE CLIMATE CHANGE ACROSS ASIA

2009-11-06

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...

MINI E'S DRIVERS SEARCH FOR COOL SPEED

2009-11-06

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...

WARMEST ON RECORD

2009-11-05

"FREEZE" WOULD SAVE CORALS

2009-11-05

CARBON TRADING NEXT BUBBLE?

2009-11-04

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 ...

HUNT FOR CHEAPER FUEL CELL

2009-11-04

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...

WORLD CORALS IMMINENT COLLAPSE

2009-11-03

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 ...

VIRTUAL MEETINGS CUTTING EMISSIONS

2009-11-03

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...

SCREAMING NEW HYDROGEN CARS

2009-11-02

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...

RISING SEAS MOVING POLES

2009-11-02

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...

TIMOR SEA OIL LEAK CONTINUES

2009-11-01

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...

SOLAR DAYS NOT SHINNING BRIGHT

2009-11-01

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...

ASIA TO BE CLEAN CARS HUB

2009-10-31

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 ...

CLIMATE ACTION TRIGGER POINT

2009-10-31

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...

EARTH IS ALL ALONE

2009-10-30

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....

NO URGENCY FOR CLIMATE PACT

2009-10-30

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...

ROBOT FISH TRACK POLLUTION

2009-10-29

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...

BIZ SUPPORTS CARBON TRADE

2009-10-28

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...

PROTEST AGAINST COAL PLANT

2009-10-28

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...

CHINA CLEANS UP SEA

2009-10-27

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...

SOOT CLOUDS HIMALAYAN GLACIERS

2009-10-27

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...

WATCHDOG'S CARBON BLUEPRINT

2009-10-26

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 ...

CARBON TRADING THE NEXT BUBBLE

2009-10-26

GHOST FOREST IN LONDON

2009-10-25

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...

SKIES CLEARED TO SLASH EMISSIONS

2009-10-25

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...

FIVE YEARS TO SAVE EARTH

2009-10-24

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 ...

OBAMA NEEDED FOR TREATY

2009-10-24

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 ...

TROPICAL ZONES HOT SEPTEMBER

2009-10-23

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...

LA NINA KEEPS EARTH COOLER

2009-10-23

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...

NO TRIAL ON GLOBAL WARMING

2009-10-22

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...

GLOBAL WAR TO POLICE CONTENT

2009-10-22

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...

CLIMATE CHANGE TREATY DAUDLES

2009-10-21

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...

MERCEDES SALOON NOT SO COOL

2009-10-21

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...

EURO BUILDINGS GREEN RENOVATIONS

2009-10-20

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...

SOROS SPENDS GREEN BILLION

2009-10-20

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 ...

GOOGLE'S CLIMATE SIMULATOR

2009-10-19

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...

CARBON CREDITS SAVING REDWOOD

2009-10-19

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 ...

WARMING ENDS COOL PERIOD

2009-10-18

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...

AUSTRALIA GOES NATIONAL CARBON TRADING

2009-10-18

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 ...

BLACKLASH ON BIOFUELS

2009-10-17

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...

SAN FRAN CLEANS CO2

2009-10-17

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...

JET FLIES ON NATURAL GAS

2009-10-16

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...

SKY EYES PINPOINT CHANGE

2009-10-16

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...

NO MONEY NO DEAL

2009-10-15

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...

ENERGY IN THE WIND

2009-10-15

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...

AFRICA FACES WATER CRISIS

2009-10-14

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 ...

CALIFORNIA SOLAR WARS

2009-10-14

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 ...

CLIMATE NEGOTIATORS SEEK CLARITY

2009-10-13

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...

KOALAS FACE EXTINCTION

2009-10-13

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, ...

4C RISE BY 2060

2009-10-12

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...

ASIA TO BE HURT BY CLIMATE

2009-10-12

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...

WEALTHY WORLD CLIMATE CLUB

2009-10-11

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...

MAXICO LEADS CLEAN ENERGY

2009-10-11

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...

$100 BILLION CLIMATE FIX

2009-10-10

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 ...

WALL ST. WANTS CARBON TRADE

2009-10-10

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...

1000 MILLION STARVING PEOPLE

2009-10-09

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...

SENATE LOCKS CLIMATE BILL

2009-10-09

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...

SMALL ISLANDS FACING THE END

2009-10-08

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...

POLAR GLACIERS RAPID MELTING

2009-10-08

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...

SHIPPING WANTS OWN ETS

2009-10-07

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...

OTHER PLANET LIFE NOT IN SIGHT

2009-10-07

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...

OZONE HOLE CLOSED BY 2100

2009-10-06

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...

BUMPS ON SATURN'S RINGS

2009-10-06

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...

RESEARCHES LOOK AT OIL SPILL

2009-10-05

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...

CHINA GETS COOL ON EMISSIONS

2009-10-05

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...

CASH FOR FORESTS DEAL KEY

2009-10-04

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...

OBAMA'S MAN FROSTY IN EU

2009-10-04

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...

MICRODES CLEAN ANTARCTIC

2009-10-03

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...

BLACK CARBON WARMING EARTH

2009-10-03

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...

SIGNS OF SEVERE CLIMATE AHEAD

2009-10-02

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...

COURT TORPEDOES CARBON TRADING

2009-10-02

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...

LOWER FUEL DEMAND HAS FERRARI SPINING

2009-10-01

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...

HYBRID FEVER HAS FERRARI SPINNING

2009-10-01

RENAULT JUMPS STARTS ELECTIC REVOLUTION

2009-09-30

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...

GREEN JOBS "ALIENATE" WORKERS

2009-09-29

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...

SUPER LASER SHOWS EARTH'S CONDITION

2009-09-28

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...

LOW CARBON REVENUES TO GENERATE $2 TRILLION

2009-09-28

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...

MINI T REX ONCE DOMINATED

2009-09-27

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...

MINIMUM PRICE NEEDED FOR CARBON

2009-09-27

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...

OIL SLICK KILLS BIRDS

2009-09-26

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...

CO2 LINK TO ICE CAP ORIGIN

2009-09-26

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 ...

SPINELESS WORLD CLIMATE TREATY

2009-09-25

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 ...

GREEN EMPIRE STATE BULDING

2009-09-24

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...

ACCELERATING WILDFIRES IN USA

2009-09-24

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...

POWER PLANT WARMING ICON

2009-09-23

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...

ELECTRIC CARS POWER BOOST

2009-09-23

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...

COMPETITION HOLDS BACK CARBON SWITCH

2009-09-22

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&...

CHINA TO CATCH MORE WIND

2009-09-22

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...

DNA TRACE ROCKS HUMAN HISTORY

2009-09-21

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...

ILLEGAL FISHING TREATY SIGNED

2009-09-21

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...

AUSTRALIA'S HOT SUMMER AHEAD

2009-09-20

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...

NEW BUSHFIRE WARMING SYSTEM

2009-09-20

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...

RISING EMISSIONS ARCTIC IMPACT

2009-09-19

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...

GREENLAND ICE CAP MELTDOWN

2009-09-19

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...

FRANCE SHUNS CARBON TRADE

2009-09-18

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...

NO RAIN ON WORLD'S ROOF

2009-09-18

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...

WARMER SEAS MELTING GLACIERS

2009-09-17

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...

WIDESPREAD MELTING OF ANTARCTICA

2009-09-17

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 ...

WARMING VISIBLE AT ICE POLES

2009-09-16

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...

LOBBY SEEKS OIL SOURCING

2009-09-15

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...

MAKING MANURE HEATING PLANET

2009-09-15

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...

EMISSIONS LAWS NOVEMBER DEADLINE

2009-09-14

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...

CLIMATE MECHANISMS SOUGHT

2009-09-14

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...

ASIAN FORESTS NEED PROTECTION

2009-09-13

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...

MORE SPECIES UNDER THREAT

2009-09-13

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...

LOW CARBON SPOILER CAMPAIGN

2009-09-12

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...

OCEAN WARMING DAMAGING CORAL

2009-09-12

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...

MORE GLOBAL HEAT WAVES

2009-09-11

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...

FIVE SEASONS FOR AUSTRALIA

2009-09-11

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...

ONE MILE BORE CLIMATE EXPOSURE

2009-09-10

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...

SUPPORT FOR GEO-ENGINEERING

2009-09-10

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...

NEW RIG TO FIX WORST OIL SPILL

2009-09-09

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...

TOXIC SHIPMENT BACK TO SENDER

2009-09-09

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...

CO2 RELATED TO HUMAN ACTIVITY

2009-09-08

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 -...

U.S. HOLDS ONTO CO2 AUCTIONS

2009-09-08

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...

RICH COUNTRIES MUST LEAD

2009-09-07

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...

HAPPY GAS DAMAGING OZONE

2009-09-07

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 ...

HOT AUSSIE SUMMER AHEAD

2009-09-06

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...

PROTEST CAMP AGAINST COAL

2009-09-06

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...

ATHENS FIRE LOSES MOUNT

2009-09-05

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...

AIR POLLUTION APPENDICITIS

2009-09-05

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...

HIGH STAKES AS OIL SPENDS

2009-09-04

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...

SUMMER MELT OF ARCTIC RIDGE

2009-09-04

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...

MARKET FORCES MUST ADAPT

2009-09-03

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...

METHANE RAIN ON TITAN

2009-09-02

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...

EMISSIONS BILL CUTS REFINING

2009-09-02

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...

USA MUCH HOTTER THAN 1970

2009-09-01

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...

CHINA CRITICES CLIMATE INACTION

2009-09-01

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...

INSTANT DNA SCANNING

2009-08-31

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 ...

3D MAP CLOSER TO EARTH

2009-08-31

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...

HEAR AND NOW WARMING

2009-08-30

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...

FED CHAIRMAN STAYS UPBEAT

2009-08-29

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...

KENYA LIONS FAST DECLINE

2009-08-29

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'...

2010 WILL BE HOTTEST

2009-08-28

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, ...

HONDA'S ELECTRIC MINICAR

2009-08-28

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...

AMAZON TREES CRITICAL FOR CLIMATE

2009-08-27

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...

CARBON TAX A COOL SOLUTION

2009-08-27

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...

HUNT FOR FRIENDLY PLANETS

2009-08-26

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...

RED PLANET LESSONS FOR EARTH

2009-08-26

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...

SALMON DISAPPEAR IN RIVER

2009-08-25

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...

FOSSIL REVEALS WINGED REPTILES

2009-08-25

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...

HOT SPOTS EXPOSED ON-LINE

2009-08-24

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...

CLUNKERS POPULARITY SPURS ECONOMY

2009-08-24

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...

SEA SLUGS POISON NZ DOGS

2009-08-23

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...

BEIJING AIR QUALITY IMPROVES

2009-08-23

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 ...

BIRDS ARE GETTING SMALLER

2009-08-22

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...

OBAMA WANTS TECH TO CLEAN COAL

2009-08-21

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...

INDONESIA AHEAD WITH FOREST TRADING

2009-08-21

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 ...

OCEAN CURRENT BRINGS RECORD WARMING

2009-08-20

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...

ORGANISMS TURN CO2 INTO FUEL

2009-08-20

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 ...

GREENHOUSE EFFECT FOUND 150 YEARS AGO

2009-08-19

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...

WHOLE NEW LOOK AT EARTH

2009-08-19

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...

CALIFORNIA MANDATES SMART WATER

2009-08-18

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...

SCHWARZENEGGER FEELS THE HEAT

2009-08-18

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...

WORLD STOCKS FLOWING GREEN

2009-08-17

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...

THAILAND TAX FRIENDLY ECO-CARS

2009-08-17

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...

SHARK TEETH CLIMATE SECRET

2009-08-16

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...

JELLYFISH KEEPING PLANET COOL

2009-08-16

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 ...

CHINA TO DETAIL ENERGY SHIFT

2009-08-15

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...

PACIFIC LEADERS' OCEAN CONCERN

2009-08-15

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...

CLIMATE TREATY IMPASSE

2009-08-14

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...

RECYLING TRENDY IN TOUGH TIMES

2009-08-13

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...

WORLD TO RELY ON OIL

2009-08-12

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...

EUROPE ENERGY FROM AFRICAN SUN

2009-08-11

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...

BRAZIL RULES ON CARBON CREDITS

2009-08-11

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 ...

USA EMISSIONS FAR AHEAD

2009-08-10

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...

CHINA AGGRESSIVE ON EMISSIONS

2009-08-10

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...

AMERICAN INDIANS AUSTRALIA LINKED

2009-08-09

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...

CASH FOR GAS GUZZLERS

2009-08-08

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...

RESEARCH SHOWS WARMING HAPPENING

2009-08-07

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...

CLIMATE MAKING SMALLER ANIMALS

2009-08-07

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 ...

RUSSIA PLANS LUNAR MINES

2009-08-06

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...

CLEANEST VEHICLES ON EARTH

2009-08-06

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...

NEW LAWS FOR ORGANIC FOOD

2009-08-05

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...

SAT TECH SLOWS AIR DECENT

2009-08-05

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...

MONSANTO COMING WITH WHEAT

2009-08-04

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...

INVESTORS HEAD FOR SOLAR

2009-08-04

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...

BRITAINS LOW CARBON REVOLUTION

2009-08-03

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...

SLICK SMEARS NIGA DELTA

2009-08-03

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...

USA CAN'T WIN CARBON WAR

2009-08-02

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...

WEB OF WOODEN DEBT

2009-08-02

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...

GATES MOVES ON HURRICANES

2009-08-01

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...

NUCLEAR FUSION SUN LASERS

2009-08-01

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...

JUNE SETS NEW HOTTEST RECORD

2009-07-31

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...

UN OUTLINES CLIMATE ACTION

2009-07-31

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...

AFRICA, ASIA TOP DEFORESTATION

2009-07-30

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...

TURKEY'S GOLD STANDARD WIND

2009-07-30

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 ...

BRITISH LAB MAKES HUMAN SPERM

2009-07-29

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. "...

SUPERCOMPUTER READS CO2

2009-07-29

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...

UN SETS CLIMATE ACTION PLAN

2009-07-28

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...

ENERGY BLOWS ON NY

2009-07-28

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...

U.S.A. $3B ENERGY BOOST

2009-07-27

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...

HAS CO2 ALREADY TIPPED?

2009-07-27

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...

CLEAN COAL HOPES IN ILLINOIS

2009-07-26

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 ...

EUROPE TO HARNESS AFRICA SUN

2009-07-25

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...

MENTAL SICKNESS GENETIC FAULTS

2009-07-25

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...

RIGHTS AND CLIMATE FIT UNEASY

2009-07-24

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 ...

CAP 'N TRADE TO ROCK STOCK

2009-07-24

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...

U.S. SENATE CLIMATE STALMATE

2009-07-23

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...

FROG SPECIES FAST DISAPPEARING

2009-07-23

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...

HIGH HOPES AGING DRUG

2009-07-22

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...

INDIA TO REVIVE EXTINCT CHEETAHS

2009-07-22

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...

PACIFIC OCEAN TO GET WARMER

2009-07-21

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...

RIVALRY PATCHED FOR CLIMATE

2009-07-21

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...

BRITAIN BRACES FOR 40C HEAT

2009-07-20

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...

OPPOSITION TO BOTTLED WATER

2009-07-20

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...

ACTOR TAKES HEAT ON MEAT

2009-07-19

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...

POOR COUNTRIES WANT MORE

2009-07-19

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...

FAULTY RODS CLOSE NUKE PLANT

2009-07-18

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 ...

GORE ASSURES CLIMATE PACT

2009-07-18

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...

SYDNEY CLIMATE TURNING TROPICAL

2009-07-17

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...

BILL STYMIES OBAMA'S PUSH

2009-07-17

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...

WHITE HOUSE TRADES NUKE POWER

2009-07-16

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 ...

WIND ENERGY BLOWING ON NY

2009-07-16

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...

SOLAR STOCKS TO RISE

2009-07-15

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...

LOCKED METHANE A MAIN CONCERN

2009-07-15

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 ...

CAL GOV HOLDS GREEN PLAN

2009-07-14

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...

MEMBRANE TECH FOR ENERGY

2009-07-14

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...

ARCTIC STORING MORE CARBON

2009-07-13

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...

EXXONMOBIL STILL FUNDING SKEPTICS

2009-07-13

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...

TOBACCO GIANTS NEXT TARGET

2009-07-11

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...

"SUPER COW" IS COMING

2009-07-12

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 ...

EARTH'S MOST HAPPY NATIONS

2009-07-10

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�...

ASIA TO SEE LONG ECLIPSE

2009-07-10

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...

MIRRORING THE US CARBON CAPS

2009-07-09

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...

MISSILES TRADE FOR IRAN NUKES

2009-07-09

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 ...

AQUARIUS PROBES OCEAN SALT

2009-07-08

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...

DOMINATING OCEAN JELLYFISH

2009-07-08

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...

ANOTHER HOT SUMMER BLEACHING

2009-07-07

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...

JOSTLING FOR CARBON MARKET

2009-07-07

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...

ASIA PROTESTS SOFT PROTECTIONISM

2009-07-06

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...

CLIMATE NEEDS $3 TRILLION STIMULUS

2009-07-06

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 ...

DATA SHOWS SEAS WILL RISE

2009-07-05

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...

GM CHARGES UP THE VOLT

2009-07-05

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...

DIGITAL VIEW OF SOUTHERN SPACE

2009-07-04

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...

CONSUMERS ENERGY PAYOUTS

2009-07-04

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...

OBAMA PITCHES CLIMATE TREATY

2009-07-03

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...

EUROPEAN ALPS IN DECLINE

2009-07-02

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 ...

AQUARIUS PROBES OCEAN SALT

2009-07-01

DOMINATING OCEAN JELLYFISH

2009-07-01

AMAZON FOREST BLOODSHED

2009-06-30

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...

MEGA AFRICA SOLAR STATION

2009-06-30

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 ...

CALIFORNIA COUNTS GREEN COSTS

2009-06-29

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...

CO2 CORRELATION PROVEN

2009-06-29

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...

CLIMATE THREATENS ASIAN CITIES

2009-06-28

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 ...

HOTTEST DAY NOW EARLIER

2009-06-28

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 ...

HOLDING CASH TO SAVE ENERGY

2009-06-27

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 ...

TIME'S UP FOR CLEAN COAL

2009-06-27

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...

SUPER SOLAR STORMS 2012

2009-06-26

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...

SILK ROAD UNDER WATER

2009-06-26

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...

HUNTERS TURNING SEALS HYDRIDS

2009-06-25

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 ...

PREDICTIONS FOR CLIMATE WARS

2009-06-25

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...

BURMA POPPIES FUELING HEROIN

2009-06-24

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...

EVs COMING MUCH CHEAPER

2009-06-24

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...

CAL GOVERNOR TURNS TO FUSION

2009-06-23

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...

$50M ON GEOTHERMAL SYSTEMS

2009-06-23

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...

NASA PREPARES LUNAR COLONY

2009-06-22

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...

US GREEN JOBS RISE

2009-06-22

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 ...

MORE DEAN OCEANS FORECASTS

2009-06-21

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...

ICE STATIONS PROBE ANTARCTIC

2009-06-21

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...

TRAVELLERS CONFUSED OVER OFFSETTING

2009-06-20

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...

EU ORDERS FLIGHT EMISSIONS CUTS

2009-06-20

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...

BIG BIZ CHASE EMISSIONS CASH

2009-06-19

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...

USA CHASES FAST CLIMATE FIX

2009-06-19

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 ...

SCIENCE AND MEDIA MUST UNITE

2009-06-18

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...

RISE OF THE CARBON ECONOMY

2009-06-18

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...

OCEAN'S AMAZON WIPE OUT

2009-06-17

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...

UK GREEN JOBS BLOOMING

2009-06-17

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,...

STRANDED PENQUINS FIGHT FOR LIFE

2009-06-16

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 ...

WARMING 2C THE SAFETY MAX

2009-06-15

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...

PACT FOR CORAL TRIANGLE

2009-06-15

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...

JET CONTRAILS STAY TOPSIDE

2009-06-14

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 ...

BIGGER STORMS WARNING SIGNS

2009-06-13

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...

FREE STEEL HALTS INVESTORS

2009-06-12

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...

GLOBAL WARMING SET TO JUMP

2009-06-12

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...

PLANET HAS NASTY RASH

2009-06-11

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...

JETS PASS CLIMATE CHECK

2009-06-11

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...

CLIMATE IMPACTS TEST EU

2009-06-10

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...

GE CLEANS UP HUDSON RIVER

2009-06-10

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...

US EYES CHINA EMISSIONS DEAL

2009-06-09

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...

CANCER DECIMATES DEVILS

2009-06-09

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 ...

SENSORS PUT LIGHT ON CLIMATE

2009-06-09

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...

OBAMA SWEETENS EMISSIONS CUTS

2009-06-08

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...

SIX YEARS TO FIX CLIMATE

2009-06-07

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...

NORWAY'S HYDROGEN HIGHWAY

2009-06-06

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...

BATTERY LEAD FADING OUT

2009-06-05

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...

CLIMATE BIGGEST HEALTH THREAT

2009-06-04

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...

GREEN EXCHANGE COMING

2009-06-03

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...

DRILLING FOR CLIMATE PATTERNS

2009-06-02

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...

COSTS STALL CARBON CAPTURE

2009-06-01

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....

URGENT PLEA TO RESCUE OCEANS

2009-05-31

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...

GREEN LONDON BEFORE OLYMPICS

2009-05-30

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...

ORANGUTANS TO LOSE FOREST HOME

2009-05-29

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...

GLACIERS GONE THIS CENTURY

2009-05-28

Most glaciers are melting so fast that many will disappear by the middle of the century, according to the World Glacier Monitoring Service.Glacier melt rates for 2007 fell substantially from record levels the previous year, but the loss of ice wa...

EPA WANTS WARMING DECLARATION

2009-05-27

The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has urged US President Barack Obama to take action against global warming as it?s a threat to public health and welfare.The EPA has sent a report to the Whitehouse urging a declaration for action again...

METHANE GAS TIME BOMB

2009-05-26

A Russian scientist who has spent the last 15 years tracking the release of methane from Siberia has raised the prospect of runway global warming caused by melting permafrost. Igor Semiletov headed a team that sailed along the northern coast of ...

LAWYERS ISSUE NANOTECH WARMINGS

2009-05-25

Lawyers are warning employers to carefully consider the implications of nanotechnology. In the next decade, as more products use nanotechnology, the industry is forecast to grow from $US32 billion to more than $US2.5 trillion a year. Employers ...

CLIMATE TREATY AT CRITAL STAGE

2009-05-25

Unless the United States passes legislation to slash greenhouse gases within the next five months the world climate treaty will fall short of its primary purpose to protect the planet from severe climate change caused by human-made atmospheric po...

UK LOOKS AT SCRAPPING OLD CARS

2009-05-24

Britain is considering the the value of a car scrappage scheme to boost the recession-hit vehicle industry and lower carbon combustion fumes.. Under the proposed scheme cars that are more than nine years old could be scrapped in return for a 2,0...

AUSTRALIA PONDERS BICYCLE REGO

2009-05-23

More Australians want cyclists to pay a registration fee to ride their bikes on the streets.While cyclists say it's ridiculous to tax transport that costs less to fund than other modes and contributes virtually nothing to carbon emissions, a grow...

INDIA?S TINY CAR BUSTS RECESSION

2009-05-22

An Indian company claims that the world's cheapest new car - the Tata Nano ? is a recession buster costing less than $3000.There are, however, concerns that the bargain price of 100, 000 rupees will be an expensive item for India's climate alread...

RECESSION CHOKING SOLAR SWITCH

2009-05-21

The global recession is choking demand for solar panels.USA's major solar company SunPower Corp reported an unexpected quarterly net loss and the slashed its outlook for 2009.The solar industry was unscathed by the economic downturn until late la...

BILL CLINTON URGES CLIMATE ACTION

2009-05-20

Former US President Bill Clinton has called on world governments to combat climate change and increase energy efficiency.The world can tackle global warming now, or face a huge bill later, Clinton told a climate change summit in the South Korean ...

$ MILLIONS SPENT TO CLEAN COAL

2009-05-19

A research effort involving 16 countries and 50 companies has commenced in an attempt to finally prove that clean coal technology is possible and can deliver big cuts in greenhouse emissions.The outcome of the US$60 million research is likely to ...

BEES IN DECLINE NEED HELP

2009-05-18

Scientists have expressed alarm at the rapid decline of bees in Europe that pollinate numerous crops, and experts warn that a drop in the bee population could harm agriculture.European lawmakers claim that honey bees, whose numbers are falling, m...

EMERGENCY PLAN TO CURB EMISSIONS

2009-05-17

An emergency plan using the latest technology has become a serious option to save the world from severe climate change.The alternative ?Plan B?, as it is now known, will be put forward for consideration to the United Nations if the failure to cur...

GREEN EVOLUTION OR REVOLUTION

2009-05-16

A rising tide of green investors is seeking companies that are perceived to be helping the fight against climate change, according to the front page report in the Weekend Daily Planet global newspaper."It doesn't matter if investors believe in cl...

SHIPPING A MAIN PLANET POLLUTER

2009-05-15

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, accordin...

UK PONDERS CAR SCRAPPAGE SCHEME

2009-05-14

Britain is pondering the value of a car scrappage scheme to boost the recession-hit vehicle industry.Under the proposed scheme cars that are more than nine years old could be scrapped in return for a 2,000 pounds discount on a new car.The aim of ...

BIG BANG COLLIDER'S BIGGER BILL

2009-05-14

The giant particle collider built to simulate the "Big Bang" beginning of the universe has hiked up whopping repair bill of US$29 million.The project involves half the planet's particle physicists, drawn from 80 countries.Some 800 American resear...

LARGE CITIES MEET ON CLIMATE

2009-05-13

Korea will host the next Large Cities Climate Summit in Seoul that will be attended by delegates from 80 city representatives May 18 - 21.Participants will share policies and experiences under the theme, Cities? Achievements and Challenges in the...

BATTERY TECH KEY TO ELECTRIC CARS

2009-05-11

Lack of progress in the development of new tech auto batteries is stalling the arrival of new generation electric plug-in cars and trucks.While green electric vehicles have been in the planning stages for decades there has been little progr...

FISH GO TO POLES AS SEAS WARM

2009-05-11

A changing climate is causing key fish species to migrate towards the poles resulting in the future depletion of many commercial fisheries.According to a report from he School of Environmental Sciences at the University of East Anglia the turnove...

CLIMATE CHANGING FASTER

2009-05-10

Climate is changing three to 10 times faster than at the end of the last ice age, according to a report in California Agriculture.The report by researchers at the University of California paints a dire picture of climate change on food production...

NY CITY A RISING SEAS RISK

2009-05-09

New York City is at risk to damage from hurricanes and storm surges due to latest predictions that global warming could lift sea levels twice as fast as global rates. The new study predicts a slowdown in Atlantic Ocean currents that will cause a...

CLIMATE NOW A RIGHTS ISSUE

2009-05-09

Economic rights has become a main issue of climate talks for a framework for a World Climate Treaty scheduled to be finalized in Copenhagen in December. Saudi Arabia, the world's biggest oil exporter, wants economic protection from any internati...

BID TO STOP ANTARCTIC TOURISM

2009-05-08

US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton wants tighter controls on Antarctic tourism to stop damage to the southern continent?s fragile environment. New regulations to be considered include placing limits on the size of commercial ships allowed to ...

HYDROGEN FUEL CELLS TESTED

2009-05-08

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) known as "eyes in the sky" are testing a hydrogen-powered fuel cell design, which can travel farther and carry heavier payloads than earlier battery-powered designs. Ion Tiger UAV employs stealthy characteristics ...

CARBON NEUTRAL IS MALIVES AIM

2009-05-07

The Maldives Islands' climate advisors expect sea levels to rise one meter by 2100 - faster than the predictions of Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.And in an effort to prevent the archipelago nation from being flooded by seawater, Maldi...

EARTH'S FORESTS DECLINE 20%

2009-05-07

One fourth of the world's rainforest have been lost over the last 150 years and during the next half century it's been estimated that another 25 percent will have vanished."About 25 percent of the known living species of mammals are considered to...

FULL MOONS HEAT EARTH

2009-05-06

A full moon has a direct impact on daily temperatures and weather patterns.According to latest scientific research the moon can raise temperatures around the world by about 0.5F degrees apparently due to the added light hitting the Earth surface....

GREY WOLF HUNTED AGAIN

2009-05-05

Environmental groups have decried the decision to take the grey wolf off the US list of endangered species - opening the door for it to be hunted again in most states.The grey wolf (canis lupus) was placed on the endangered list in 1974 after the...

AUSTRALIA HARD HIT BY CLIMATE

2009-05-04

Australians have transformed much of world's driest inhabited continent into a living paradise but that?s now history as the present has become bitter and the future a worry.Drought, fires, killer heat waves, wildlife extinction and mosquito-born...

ASIA MEETS ON WATER CRISIS

2009-05-03

The United Nations claims that by 2050, three out of four people in the world could be affected by water scarcity.But despite the UN warning five of Asia'sleaders, meeting in Kazakhstan, could not find any solutions to one of the world's driest a...

RISING HOPES FOR PLANETS WITH LIFE

2009-05-02

A new precision spectrograph is being built to zoom in on undiscovered Earth-like planets that are orbiting billions of other stars.A poster of the New Earths Facility Spectrograph went on show at the European Week of Astronomy and Space Science ...

MALDIVES TO BE CARBON NEUTRAL

2009-05-01

The Maldives Islands? climate advisors expect sea levels to rise one meter by 2100 - faster than the predictions of Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.In an effort to prevent the archipelago nation from being flooded by seawater Maldives P...

HUNTERS BAG POLAR BEARS

2009-04-30

Rich hunters are paying $35, 000 to bag Polar Bears..Hunters are legally allowed to take their freshly skinned Polar Bear hides back to their own country, so long as they have the completed paperwork. The bears are tracked down through the ice an...

DID CLIMATE KILL DINOSAURS?

2009-04-29

A team of palaeontologists has discovered a mass grave of young dinosaurs that may have died of a sudden severe climate change.The Chinese-American team of palaeontologists is likening the find to the discovery of the Roman city of Pompeii becaus...

SEVEN YEARS TO REVERSE WARMING

2009-04-28

The world has seven years to reverse human-made greenhouse gas emissions to avert a climatic catastrophe for humanity presenting US President Barack Obama with the biggest political challenge of all time to prevent the planet's heat from rising m...

LIVESTOCK IN TOP 3 EMISSIONS

2009-04-27

A UN report on livestock and the environment concludes that the livestock sector is one of the top three most significant contributors to environmental pollution.And raising animals for food is a major cause of land degradation, air pollution, wa...

MARS HAS GLOBAL WARMING

2009-04-26

Human probes to the red planet suggest that the global warming being experienced on Earth extends to Mars with polar ice caps on both planets shrinking."One explanation could be that Mars is just coming out of an ice age," NASA scientist William ...

AUS BULDINGS PRONE TO WILDFIRES

2009-04-25

Australians living in the southern state of Victoria preparing to rebuild the 2,029 homes destroyed by bushfires won't have much protection from the new national bushfire building standard, according to the nation's highly respected scientific au...

NEW AIR ROUTES CUT FUEL

2009-04-24

Commercial air routes into and out of Europe will be straightened to cut fuel costs and carbon dioxide emissions.European lawmakers have approved a plan to cut the wastage of millions of tonnes of fuel caused when aircraft zig-zag between nationa...

TREATY OF GREEN TRADE WARS

2009-04-23

If the climate summit in Copenhagen this December doesn't set a tough world climate treaty to substantially cut back industry emissions then green trade wars are likely to follow.Already US Energy Secretary Stephen Chu has asserted that the Obama...

GREECE FACES SEVERE SUMMER

2009-04-22

Greece has recorded two of the its hottest years on record over the past two years and the popular Mediterranean haven of island resorts is facing up to weather predictions for another dry summer of severe high temperatures.Greece's average rainf...

NEW AIR ROUTES CUT FUEL

2009-04-21

INDUSTRY SPEEDS CLIMATE CHANGE

2009-04-19

The Industrial Revolution has released over 350 billion tons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere and the Arctic is now the fastest warming area on the planet.These are some of the findings of a team of scientists at Stanford University who pred...

EMISSIONS BILL BEFORE CONGRESS

2009-04-18

Draft legislation now before the US Congress if passed will curb pollution from emissions that are contributing to global warming.The legislation is designed to create millions of clean energy jobs, put America on the path to energy independence ...

USA EPA CONFIRMS SERIOUS WARMING

2009-04-17

The USA Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has issued a statement that confirms greenhouse gas pollution is a serious problem now and for future generations.The EPA determined greenhouse gas emissions endangered the public's health and welfare...

MORE ACCURATE CLIMATE ANALYSIS

2009-04-16

International scientists now have a more precise definition of saltwater that will improve the accuracy of climate change analysis and weather predictions.The new findings have major implications for climate change predictions that rely on ocean ...

MELTING PERMAFROST CONCERNS

2009-04-15

A Russian scientist who has spent the last 15 years tracking the release of methane from Siberia has raised the prospect of runway global warming caused by melting permafrost.Igor Semiletov headed a team that sailed along the northern coast of Si...

FIRST SOLAR CITY IN USA

2009-04-14

The first solar powered city in USA will be built in Florida.Real estate developer Florida Power & Light is association with the realty group Kitson & Partners will build the world's largest photovoltaic solar plant in the Sunshine State....

MEXICO SHUTS WATER PIPELINE

2009-04-13

Mexico City has shut down its main pipeline that supplies fresh water to five million residents as a result of reserves falling to record low levels.Many residents across the city spent the last hours before their taps ran dry filling bathtubs an...

CANADIAN CARIBOU BECOMING EXTINCT

2009-04-12

A Canadian government report asserts that the country's caribou herds could die off in the next century.According to the 300-page report, Canada's estimated 36,000 woodland caribou population is shrinking the most in areas of oil and gas developm...

CHANGE COMING 10 TIMES FASTER

2009-04-11

Climate change is coming three to 10 times faster than at the end of the last ice age, according to a report in California Agriculture.The report by researchers at the University of California paints a dire picture of climate change on food produ...

BONN CLIMATE TALKS FIZZLE

2009-04-10

After 10 days of high expectations in Bonn, Germany, delegates from more 170 nations failed to come up with a target for greenhouse gas emissions and made no progress for any measures to reverse accelerating climate change.The United Nations-led ...

SATELLITES TRACKING WILDFIRES

2009-04-09

Scientists are using thermal satellite imaging to help map global wildfires to determine which areas are most affected by climate change.Although fires are a major by-product of climate change wildfire outbreaks are often missing from global warm...

AMERICAN ICON TURNING GREEN

2009-04-08

One of America's icons - the New York's Empire State Building - is to become a model "green" project that will save millions of dollars yearly on energy.Completed in 1931, the Art Deco building named by the American Society of Civil Engineers as ...

CLIMATE TALKS HINGE ON BONN

2009-04-07

The first round in negotiations to strike a deal on a framework to fight climate change takes place in Bonn this week where 175 nations meet.This is the first of several UN meetings to bring about a World Climate Treaty in Copenhagen in December....

OBAMA: ACT NOW ON WARMING

2009-04-06

US President Barack Obama has urged countries worldwide to take urgent action to combat global warming."We all know that time is running out," Obama said in the French city of Strasbourg. "America must do more, Europe must do more."But while Obam...

OBAMA'S GREEN PEACE OFFERING

2009-04-05

US President Barack Obama has handed China and India a green olive climate peace branch saying that developing nations should not be coerced into sacrificing development for the worldwide fight against climate change.During his meeting with India...

ANTARCTIC ICE SHELF GON

2009-04-04

A report by British and US researchers has revealed that the Wordie Ice Shelf had vanished along with 3,200 square kilometers of the massive Larsen Ice Shelf.Climate change is to blame, according to the report that confined the rapid retrea...

CLIMATE PROTEST BY SPIDERMAN

2009-04-03

A French urban climber called Spiderman has scaled the outside of the Lloyd's Building in central London in a protest against climate change.The French urban climber known as Spiderman has been led away by authorities after he single-handedly sca...

MEXICO TAKES TO SOLAR FUTURE

2009-04-02

Mexico intends expanding wind power and using Germany's Q-Cells technology for building a solar cell factory in the capital cityPresident Felipe Calderon said Mexico had plans to have one quarter of its total energy supplied by renewable energy s...

EMISSIONS LEGISLATION TO CONGRESS

2009-04-01

Draft legislation before the US Congress will curb pollution from emissions that are contributing to global warming.The legislation will create millions of clean energy jobs, put America on the path to energy independence and cut global warming p...

GREEN AGENDA LINKED TO RECESSION

2009-03-31

World leaders have been urged to use the recession to drive a new, environmentally friendly economy.While the heads of the world's largest economies descend on London this week Sir Nicholas Stern - the man whose 2006 report in Britain prompted a ...

FREEZING WATER STOPS FLOODS

2009-03-30

The National Guard has rescued hundreds of residents stranded after the flooding Red River damaged hundreds of homes, state government officials told Daily Planet Media.National Guard troops and volunteers have reinforced sandbagged barriers arou...

ONE BILLION SWITCH OFF LIGHTS

2009-03-29

More than a billion people participated in Earth Hour 2009 when lights went off around the world including landmarks like the Sydney Opera House and the Eiffel Tower in Paris.Earth House in Asia resulted in the dimming of buildings in China, Sin...

LIGHTS OUT FOR EARTH HOUR

2009-03-28

As lights went out in various Australian landmarks across the country to mark the third annual Earth Hour there were great expectations that the climate change campaign, which began in Australia two years ago, will reach global proportions this w...

RECORD FLOODING OF RED RIVER VALLEY

2009-03-28

Record flooding of the Red River valley has left 30,000 homeless in the US's northern plains.Hospitals and homes were evacuated yesterday as melting snow overflowed the Red River, which was expected to rise to a 112-year record of 13 metres over ...

NEW ROUTES CUT FUEL EMISSIONS

2009-03-27

FRENCH PAY NUKE COMPENSATION

2009-03-26

After long denial of official links between nuclear tests and serious health problems to workers, France has now agreed to an initial compensation package of $19 million.But the French Government's decision to compensate people made sick by durin...

PYRAMIDS GO DARK FOR EARTH

2009-03-25

Five thousand years after their completion Egypt's Great Pyramids will join some 2,400 cities and towns in 82 countries turn off their lights for Earth Hour on Saturday at 2030 hrs.Earth Hour is a global WWF climate change initiative that involve...

CLIMATE CHANGE ACCELERATING

2009-03-24

RECESSION HOLDING BACK EMISSIONS

2009-03-23

Greenhouse gas emissions could remain at the same level for the next three years due to the slowdown of industrial output resulting from the global recession, according to climate change authority Professor Ross Garnaut.Professor Garnaut told the...

WORLD'S POOREST EXPOSED

2009-03-22

New research measuring the economic impact of climate change shows that the world's poorest economies are most negatively affected as temperatures rise.Researchers examined data from every country in the world over the past half-century. Specific...

NY CITY OPEN TO CLIMATE CHANGE RISK

2009-03-21

New York City is at risk to damage from hurricanes and storm surges due to latest predictions that global warming could lift sea levels twice as fast as global rates.The new study predicts a slowdown in Atlantic Ocean currents that will cause a m...

CLIMATE SHIFTS FLUXES AND CHANGE

2009-03-20

A new study has stirred the pot of the climate change community.Using a math application known as synchronized chaos and applying it to the climate data taken over the last century, scientists are discovering that air and ocean systems are conver...

NASA CHIEF HEADS CLIMATE PROTEST

2009-03-19

The director of a NASA space laboratory will lead thousands of climate-change campaigners through Coventry today week in an extraordinary intervention in British politics.James Hansen plans to use Thursday's Climate Change Day of Action to put pr...

MAJOR FOREST LOSS RECORDED

2009-03-18

One fourth of the world's rainforests have been lost over the last 150 years - and over the next half century it's been estimated that another 25 percent will have vanished."About 25 percent of the known living species of mammals are considered t...

CHINA SAYS BUYER SHOULD PAY

2009-03-17

China is sending a clear message that the buyer and not the seller of energy consumer products should pay for any resultant emissions.While China is committed to becoming a low-carbon society it doesn't want to be held responsible for emissions f...

ASIA PUSHES TEMPERATURE TARGET

2009-03-16

Asian countries - lead by China and India - will be pushing for a target temperature rise of below two degrees centigrade at the climate conference in Copenhagen this December.Such a position will require considerable mitigation actions and techn...

CALIFORNIA DESPERATE FOR WATER

2009-03-15

California is headed towards its worst water crisis, according to Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger who wants the US to take a leading role in the finalization of a world climate treaty being prepared for Copenhagen this December.California is despe...

GORE CERTAIN OF CLIMATE TREATY

2009-03-14

A world climate treaty will be signed in Copenhagen this December because solutions to climate change are linked to the global economic meltdown, according to climate statesman Al Gore.Some 200 nations will be gathering at the end of the year to ...

US CONGRESS D DAY FOR CLIMATE

2009-03-13

The US congress is under pressure to pass legislation to reduce carbon emissions to pave the way for the signing of a world climate treaty in Copenhagen this December.The issue will soon come to a head when the Democrat's Senate Majority Leader H...

RENEWABLE ENERGY NEEDS FINANCING

2009-03-12

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 wind...

RISING OCEANS UNDERSTATED

2009-03-11

The world's top climate change scientists meeting in Denmark assert world sea levels could rise by twice as much as previously predicted due to global warming, according to climate change scientists meeting in Denmark.Satellite studies of Greenla...

RISING CO2 AFFECTING OCEANS

2009-03-10

Higher levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere are harming ocean-based animal life due to increased water acidity.Researcher from the Antarctic Climate and Ecosystems Cooperative Research Centre heas established a link between CO2 forming acid...

SHIPPING A MAJOR PLANET POLLUTER

2009-03-09

WARMER PLANET IMPACTS ON BIRDS

2009-03-08

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 the ...

POLLUTION FEES FACE OPPOSITION

2009-03-07

US President Barack Obama is facing strong opposition from Congress and environmentalists over his proposal to raise taxes on high earners and greenhouse gas polluters to reduce the emissions blamed for global warming while raising a projected $6...

ARCTIC ICE GONE BY 2013

2009-03-06

All Arctic ice may have melted over the next five years, according to the director the Center for Northern Studies at Laval University in Quebec.Warwick Vincent prediction is that the year 2013 is looming as the time for the final meltdown of the...

MISSION TO FIND PLANETS WITH LIFE

2009-03-05

A mission to discover earth-like planets orbiting sun-like stars begins tomorrow (Saturday) morning.The launch of the Kepler satellite will prove if there is life in what's known a habitable sector of the Milky Way Galaxy. If the mission shows th...

SNOWSTORMS WON'T END DROUGHT

2009-03-04

California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger's decision to declare a statewide drought emergency won't be overturned by recent snowstorms.Despite the weekend's snow deluge snowpack in the Sierra Nevada mountain range is 84 percent of normal in the n...

ACTIVISTS FOCUS ON LEBANON SNOW

2009-03-03

Among other impacts of climate change confirmed by scientific data is the loss in snow cover due to a rise global temperature.And According to a statement sent to Daily Planet Media by the League of Independent Activists (IndyACT), which has esta...

BRITAINS FEEL CLIMATE UPHEAVAL

2009-03-02

Much of Britain's wildlife is suffering at the hands of unusual weather, according to the National Trust.A month-by-month diary compiled by wardens and conservationists on its hundreds of gardens, estates and properties in England and Wales showe...

PUSH FOR CARBON TREES REGULATIONS

2009-03-01

Indonesia is preparing a set of regulations for carbon emissions reduction from reforestation that will be discussed before the world climate treaty scheduled is decided at the gathering of nations at Copenhagen in December.Environmentalist group...

10 MONTHS TO ACT ON WARMING

2009-02-28

The world either takes action in Copenhagen this December to curb emissions or accept the consequences of severe global warming and climate change, according to the environmental head of the European Union."It is now 12 years since Kyoto was crea...

OBAMA'S NEW ENERGY PROGRAM

2009-02-28

President Barack Obama has delivered to Congress a $3.6 trillion spending plan that would in part finance new investments for energy independence.The budget includes a cap-and-trade system to curb U.S. greenhouse gas emissions by 14 percent by 20...

CAP AND TRADE MANDATORY BY 2012

2009-02-27

The United States will have a mandatory cap and trade system to reduce carbon emissions in place by 2012.US President Barack Obama has informed Congress that not only will cap and trade happen it will result in a $646 billion windfall during the ...

NORTH AND SOUTH ICECAP MELTDOWN

2009-02-26

Both the North and South Pole icecaps are melting much faster than expected and are fueling climate change, according to a major scientific survey by the International Polar Year.The survey carried out in 2007 and 2008 found an unprecedented rate...

OBAMA CALLS FOR EMISSIONS TRADING

2009-02-25

Declaring that the country that harnesses the power of clean, renewable energy will lead the 21st century, US President Barack Obama has called for legislation to put a market-based cap on US carbon polluting emissions."To truly transform our eco...

SATELLITE WARMING PROBE CRASHES

2009-02-25

The first NASA satellite designed to monitor global warming by measuring CO2 levels in the atmosphere has vanished after crashing into the sea near Antarctica just minutes after blast-off.After launching from the Vandenberg Air Force Base in Cali...

AUSTRALIA CALLS IN NZ FIREFIGHTERS

2009-02-25

New Zealand firefighters are flying into the bushfire zone of the southern Australian state of Victoria ahead of extreme weather conditions forecast for Friday.Victoria's temperatures soared to a record peak of 46C earlier this month igniting tre...

2008 NINTH WARMEST ON RECORD

2009-02-24

2008 was the ninth warmest year since continuous instrumental records were started in 1880, according to climatologists at the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) in New York City.The ten warmest years on record have all occurred betw...

GLACIER MELTDOWNS SPUR TREATY

2009-02-23

Melting glaciers and the shrinking of Arctic ice are two main concerns bringing the world together for a united climate treaty.As the UN sponsored climate approaches for the December gathering in Copenhagen, delegates are examining figures from t...

CSIRO WARNS OF MORE CYCLONES

2009-02-23

Scientists from Australia's Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO) assert that climate change is making southern Australia drier and more prone to bushfires, and that northern Australia is likely to experience strong...

BUSHFIRE ALERT IN AUSTRALIA

2009-02-22

Bushfire concerns are rising again in the Australian southeastern state of Victoria where extreme conditions are expected to return tomorrow with hot temperatures and northerly winds forecast.A number of fires are continuing to burn in various ar...

HILLARY CLINTON'S CLIMATE AGENDA

2009-02-21

US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has come to Beijing with a climate change agenda that not only relates to matters concerning the state of the planet's atmospheric environment, but is looking at using it to facilitate a global agreement for ...

ZERO-EMISSION ANTARCTICA STATION

2009-02-20

The world's first zero-emission polar research station has opened in Antarctica.Scientists told Daily Planet Media that the station showed that alternative energy like wind and solar power is viable even in the coldest climates.The steel-encased ...

CLIMATE TO CHANGE FISH STOCKS

2009-02-19

Climate change will cause key species of fish to migrate towards the poles depleting many commercial fisheries, according to report from he School of Environmental Sciences at the University of East Anglia, eastern England.The report claimed the ...

UN IPCC UNDERESTIMATED WARMING

2009-02-18

The international panel of scientists had seriously underestimated the reality of global warming when it published its finding for the United Nations a year ago, according to Professor Chris Field a leading member of the UN IPCC.Professor Field a...

CAMELS HERDS RUNNING OUT OF TIME

2009-02-17

India's famed camel trade faces new challenges as modern transportation and the loss of grazing land has lead to shrinking herds. Forests and grasslands are being converted to other uses, or are being damaged by climate change and this makes it d...

RESEARCH CONFIRMS ANTARCTICA WARMING

2009-02-16

Over the past 50 years much of Antarctica has been warming at a rate comparable to the rest of the world, according to researcher Eric Steig from the University of Washington.According to Steig latest satellite data had shown that that Antarctica...

AIR N.Z. TO USE MORE PLANT FUEL

2009-02-15

Air New Zealand intends using one million barrels of biofuel a year by 2013, following the success of flight fuel by Jatropha.Jatropha is a plant that grows up to three meters and produces inedible fruits, which contain oil that can be converted ...

HEAT'S ON CALIFORNIA WATER WOES

2009-02-14

California is headed toward one of the worst water crises in its history, according to the state?s Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger.Schwarzenegger asserts that his state requires a complete upgrade to water infrastructure through increasing water s...

FIRES RELEASE 105 TONNES C02

2009-02-13

The worst bushfires in Australia have released up to 105 tonnes of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere - almost equal to the nation's industrial emission for an entire year, according to Professor Mark Adams of the University of Sydney. ...

COLDEST DAYS GETTING WARMER

2009-02-12

Earth's coldest days of the year are getting warmer and winter temperatures are rising at a much faster pace than summer temperatures. Outside of the tropics, summer temperatures have risen over the last 50 years compared with winters, which have...

GLACIERS MELTING WITH ARCTIC

2009-02-11

Reports that many of Earth's glaciers were melting so fast that many will have vanished by 2050 - along with the Arctic ice sheets - has spured governments into committing to a world climate treaty.The UN sponsored climate treaty is schedule for ...

AUSTRALIA FIRE TOLL AT 181 DEAD

2009-02-10

Wild bushfires have left at least 181 people dead and destroyed over 3,000 square kilometers of tree-land and 900 homes leaving thousands of Australians homeless as the battle to contain fires in the eastern and northern parts of southeast Victor...

EMERGENCY SUMMIT ON WARMING

2009-02-10

A summit of world climate experts will take place in Copenhagen next month in a last ditch attempt to convince governments and global leaders to show unity and sign the global climate treaty scheduled for finalization this December.The summit fol...

AUSTRALIA BUSHFIRES STILL RAGING

2009-02-09

Twenty-eight fires are still burning in southern Australia as the death toll from the weekend blazes has risen to 156 with 750 homes confirmed destroyed.Premier of the State of Victoria, John Brumby, warned that the bushfire emergency is not over...

SPACE DATA CONFIRMS ANTARCTICA MELT

2009-02-09

US researchers using data supplied from orbiting satellites have confined that Antarctica is melting in accordance to the general global warming trend.Scientists already knew that the massive ice sheets of western Antarctica were melting, but the...

2009-02-08

At least 108 people have perished in the horrific bushfires across the southern Australian state of Victoria. The death toll that is expected to rise has aleady surpassed the number of people who died from the 1983 Ash Wednesday wildfires. 750 h...

WARMING EARTH IGNITING BUSHFIRES

2009-02-08

Australia's Greens leader Bob Brown claims that the bushfires still raging across Victoria and New South Wales this weekend would be more frequent if climate change continues.Senator Brown said the "dreadful inferno" was a terrible reminder of wh...

COSTLY BIG BANG COLLIDER

2009-02-07

The giant particle collider built to simulate the "Big Bang" has hiked up a costly bill of US$29 million.The massive collider - the largest and most complex machine ever made - has run out of funding after breaking down in its first test intended...

MORE EXTREME HEAT IN AUSTRALIA

2009-02-07

More extreme heat with searing temperatures of up to 46C degrees have been forecast for three southeastern states of Australia.Residents of Victoria, New South Wales and South Australia have been warned to stay indoors.Authorities told Daily Plan...

AUSTRALIA FACING FIERCE HOT DAY

2009-02-17

Southeast Australia is facing the severest heat in history with temperatures predicted to soar as high as 45C degrees in Melbourne capital city.Victoria state Premier John Brumby said today's heat conditions are as bad a day as you can imagine an...

KEPLER HUNTS FOR ALIEN EARTHS

2009-02-06

NASA will launch its super Kepler space telescope next month to hunt down planets that can support life like Earth.Such an alien planet supporting life forms would need to be orbiting just the right distance to a parent star. Should Kepler find t...

MORE CLIMATE CHANGE HEATWAVES

2009-02-05

Head of Australia's Climate Centre, David Jones, has warned people will need to adapt to the soaring summer heatwaves that have scorched much southeastern Australia.Jones said the severe heatwaves were the result of climate change. "As the climat...

HEAT AND SNOW GO TOGETHER

2009-02-05

As London recovers from paralyzing snow, the Director General of the British Chambers of Commerce, David Frost, warned Londoners that snow and global warming were two sides of the climate change coin.He said there had been complacency in readines...

EXPLODING COMETS COOLED EARTH

2009-02-04

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 recent scientific discovery showed that a cluster of comets had an explosive imp...

MORGUE CAN'T COPE WITH HEATWAVE

2009-02-04

A temporary morgue has been established in South Australia to cope with the state's severe heatwave conditions.The main morgue is almost full because of a number of possible heat-related deaths and because relatives of the deceased are delaying f...

UNDERWATER WITH GOOGLE EARTH

2009-02-03

Google Earth is now showing 70 per cent of Earth's surface that is underwater.The new version provides quality images of the underwater sections of Earth, including undersea mountains, shipwrecks and the deepest part of the planet.Google uses dat...

HEAVY SNOW BLANKETS LONDON

2009-02-03

After an extremely wet and sodden summer England is having its coldest winter for 13 years with London experiencing the biggest snowfall for decades.London and southeast England recorded 30cm of snow overnight closing both Gatwick and London City...

$71B YEARLY TO CURB EMISSIONS

2009-02-02

The world will need need $71.1 billion per year to remove the threat of climate change by 2030, according the estimates from the European Union.The EU costs are contained in its plan to stem severe climate change by investing billions of dollars ...

19 DIE FROM AUSTRALIA HEATWAVE

2009-02-02

Australia is scorched - and 19 people have died - as a record-breaking heatwave baked much of southern Australian continent.In Melbourne trains stopped after electricity blackouts left 400,000 homes across the Victorian state without power.Temper...

SEASONS CHANGING WITH WARMING

2009-02-01

Earth's average global temperature has just increased 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 likely to...

RECORD HEATWAVE SIZZLES MELBOURNE

2009-01-31

The city of Melbourne has recorded its hottest ever three-day heatwave after the temperature hit 43.8C, the third day above 43 C, as an extreme heatwave continues to back southern Australia.Weather officials say if the high temperatures continue ...

NEW GLOBAL WARMING EVIDENCE

2009-01-30

World climate statesman Al Gore has cited new scientific evidence that the average global surface temperature could rise by up to another 11 degrees Fahrenheit by the end of the century if carbon emissions continue unchecked.Gore informed the US ...

TEMPERATURES SOAR IN AUSTRALIA

2009-01-30

Australia's Climate Change Federal Minister Penny Wong has declared the searing heatwave that's gripping southeast Australia to be the effect of global warming."All of this is consistent with climate change, and all of this is consistent with wha...

CALL FOR ACTION TO STOP RISING SEA

2009-01-29

Australia's most pre-eminent climate change scientists have reiterated the need for drastic action to stop a catastrophic rise in sea levels caused by global warmingGiving evidence to a federal parliamentary committee investigating the impacts of...

SOUTH AUSTRALIA NEAR RECORD HEAT

2009-01-29

South Australia's capital city Adelaide is sweltering in soaring temperatures that threaten to break the nation's city record of 46.2C registered in Perth in 1991.The heatwave in southern Australia sent Adelaide's temperature to 44C nearing the r...

GREEN TECH FOR TOUGH TIMES

2009-01-29

The global downturn can be reversed by green technologies.A climate change business forum was in Bangkok was told that new green technologies could reduce energy in buildings energy by 30 percent.Angela Cropper, deputy executive director of the U...

USA APPOINTS CLIMATE ENVOY

2009-01-28

The new USA Obama administration has appointed an envoy on climate change empowered to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in a move seen as a rapid response to worldwide criticism that the US lacked the resolve to deal with the imploding issue of cl...

GREEN TECH FOR TOUGH TIMES

2009-01-28

The global downturn can be reversed using green technologies that could reduce energy in buildigns by 30 percent, a climate change business forum was told in Bangkok.Angela Cropper, deputy executive director of the U.N. Environment Program (UNEP)...

EU PRESENTS GREENHOUSE GASES LEVY

2009-01-27

The European Union wants a levy on greenhouse gases to combat human-made global warming.Rich nations could raise $200 billion through a greenhouse gases levy, according to a EU proposal that will be submitted to the climate change summit in Copen...

MELBOURNE BRACES FOR RECORD HEAT

2009-01-27

The southern Australian capital of Melbourne is set for a record breaking four consecutive days of 40C degrees or more.Melbourne has not had three days in a row above 40C since 1959, but temperatures are expected to reach 41 C today and then drop...

DEAD OCEAN ZONES LIKELY

2009-01-26

Dead ocean 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...

CHINA PROJECT LIFTS SOLAR SHARES

2009-01-25

The news that China will build a solar power plant that?s likely to become the largest photovoltaic solar project in the world has helped lift solar power shares worldwide.The project utilizes thin-film and traditional silicon-based technologies ...

GALES BATTER FRANCE, SPAIN

2009-01-24

Gale force winds of up to 173 kilometers an hour have battered southwest France and northern Spain for the second day cutting electricity supplies to more than 1 million French homes and closing the airports at Bordeaux, Biarritz, Pau and Toulous...

WHILE ASIA CHILLS SYDNEY SIZZLES

2009-01-24

While Asia is experiencing an exceptionally cold winter Australia's biggest city is sizzling.Today more than a dozen Sydneysiders were treated for heat stress the harbour city temperatures rose above 40 degrees in the afternoon.The Rural Fire Ser...

SPACE EYES ON GREENHOUSE GASES

2009-01-24

Climate scientists will be able to get a much clearer picture of the atmospheric buildup of greenhouse gasses, following the launching of the first satellite to measure the gases attributed to global warming and climate change.A rocket carrying t...

JAPAN GETS MORE GEOTHERMAL POWER

2009-01-23

Japan will build more geothermal power plants this year that emit far less carbon dioxide than their fossil fuel and nuclear counterparts.The government has offered support for Mitsubishi Materials Corp, Electric Power Development Co, or J-Power,...

GLACIERS ALL GONE THIS CENTURY

2009-01-22

Most of the planet's glaciers are melting so fast that many will disappear by the middle of the century, according to the World Glacier Monitoring Service.Glacier melt rates for 2007 fell substantially from record levels the previous year, but th...

NEW CLEAN ENERGY FUND

2009-01-21

The US congress is set to approve the new Obama green economic fund that will inject $150 billion over 10 years on clean energy initiatives to fund non-food biofuels for plug-in electric vehicles and hybrids.The fund will also be used to develop ...

ANTARCTICA ICE SHELVES MELTDOWN

2009-01-20

Ice shelves totaling about 25,000 sq km have been lost through the recent meltdown of the Antarctica continent.A GPS monitoring station on a long metal pole is tracking Antarctica ice movements via satellite.Scientific surveys show that one huge ...

SUPER GREENHOUSE NF3 RISING

2009-01-19

The super gas nitrogen trifluoride (NF3) that's used in high-tech manufacturing has 17,000 times the warming potential of CO2 and latest research indicates that the amount of NF3 now present in the atmosphere is four times the expected level and ...

CARBON MARKET FEELS THE CRUNCH

2009-01-18

The financial lending crisis is depressing the world's fledging multi billion-dollar carbon market. While European carbon offset reached $32 billion during the past year the market has been hit by lower oil prices and the declining...

AUSTRALIAN SCORCHER SET NEW RECORD

2009-01-17

Australia's fierce summer has seen the west coast city Perth set new record high temperature of 42C degrees. The Western Australia capital has also recorded the hottest start to January. The mean temperature from the start of Janua...

SEA LEVELS UNEVEN BY ICE MELTING

2009-01-17

Global warming will result in sea levels rising least where thawing ice pours into the sea and most further away from the point of melt, according to David Vaughan stationed in Antarctic Peninsula of the British Antarctic Survey. Melti...

FIJI URGES AID AS FLOOD TOLL RISES

2009-01-16

Fiji has urged Australia and New Zealand to make more emergency funds available to offset some of the damage caused by massive flooding that has been partly attributed to climate change. Some of the worst flooding on record has caused $...

USA TO LEAD CLIMATE CHANGE FIGHT

2009-01-15

? The world is in need of an urgent, coordinated response to climate change, according to the United States Secretary of State-designate Hillary Clinton. Clinton said President-elect Obama's view is that America must be a leader in...

LARGE CITIES CLIMATE SUMMIT

2009-01-14

Korea will host the next Large Cities Climate Summit in Seoul that will be attended by delegates from 80 cities May 18 - 21.Participants will share policies and experiences under the theme, Cities? Achievements and Challenges in the Fight against...

PRAVDA ICE AGE REPORT DEBUNKED

2009-01-13

A sensational report by the Russian Pravda media that Earth is "on the brink of entering another Ice Age" that will last for the next 100,000 years has been debunked by two of the world's most prominent climate scientists.The Pravda report source...

BEIJING REMOVES POLLUTING CARS

2009-01-12

Beijing city administrators are in the process of taking 350,000 vehicles off inner city streets. The China capital has prohibited cars from the roads on one out of five weekdays as part of ongoing measures to take 10 percent of the ci...

BRITAINS FEELS CLIMATE UPHEAVAL

2009-01-11

Much of Britain's wildlife, from butterflies to bats suffered severely under unusual weather conditions during 2008. According to the National Trust hundreds of diaries kept by hundreds of gardens and estates in England showed that w...

EXTREME START TO NEW YEAR

2009-01-10

The year's first fortnight has already seen the extreme weather as predicted by climate models, according to climate scientists. While in the southern hemisphere Australia is in the grip of a harsh heatwave European temperatures ha...

EARTHQUAKE SHAKES LOS ANGELES

2009-01-09

Los Angeles city buildings were shaken by a medium 5.0-magnitude earthquake that rocked southern California.The United States Geological Survey reported taht the quake - centered near San Bernadino 88 km east of Los Angeles - was felt across the ...

BARACK'S GREEN TEAM ON THE JOB

2009-01-08

USA President-elect Barack Obama's green team is preparing a comprehensive report to end the confusion of using science to suit politics or ideology to give climate scientists an objective influence of Whitehouse decision-making.Climate change an...

NEW WAY TO MAKE CLEAN STEEL

2009-01-07

Canadian engineers have found a new and simple way to curb CO2 emissions from steel production.Mourad Kharoune at the Ecole de Technlogie Sup?rieure in Montreal has detailed a way to sequester CO2 using steel slags that are complex mixtures of ca...

DECLARATION OF MARINE MONUMENTS

2009-01-06

The world's largest marine protection area - spanning 505,000 square kilometers - has been declared in the Pacific Ocean.The total area comprises the largest areas of ocean or ocean seabed set aside as marine protected areas in the world.The mari...

MINUTE SOOT BOTHERS BRITAIN

2009-01-06

Britain has been told to stop stalling on taking measures to reduce soot or face stiff penalties from the European Union.The EU passed clean air legislation in 1999 to reduce minute soot levels known as PM10, but the Campaign for Clean Air (CCA) ...

FOCUS ON WESTERN AUSTRALIA CORAL

2009-01-05

Australian scientists will now focus on coastal reefs in Western Australia following a research report that showed the Great Barrier Reef on the northeastern coast had suffered the biggest drop in coral growth in over 400 years.The latest study s...

MET FORECASTS 2009 WARMEST YEAR

2009-01-04

2009 will in the top-five warmest years on record, according the climate scientists at the British Met Office.More recently the hottest year on record was 14.52C in 2005, which was much higher than the average temperature of 14C during 1961-1990....

GREAT BARRIER REEF IN DECLINE

2009-01-03

The famous Great Barrier Reef off the Australian Queensland State is suffering a decline in growth unprecedented over 400 years.Researchers from he Australian Institute of Marine show the reef's coral growth has fallen to the slowest rate in more...

SOLAR LEADS NEW GREEN PUSH

2009-01-02

Two leading US solar companies will build new manufacturing plants.Hemlock Semiconductor will spend up to $3 billion to expand production of polysilicon - the crucial material used to make solar cells and semiconductors. A new facility will be in...

EARTH'S WARMING TREND CONTINUES

2009-01-02

Worldwide the year of 2008 was 0.31C degrees higher in temperature than the 30-year average to 1990, of 14C.Although the official figures have not been declared Earth's temperatures recorded through the past year - supplied to Daily Planet Media ...

METHANE TIME BOMB TICKING

2009-01-01

A Russian scientist who has spent the last 15 years tracking the release of methane from Siberia has raised the prospect of runway global warming caused by melting permafrost.Igor Semiletov headed a team that sailed along the northern coast of Si...

ZIFs SNATCH CO2 FROM COAL

2008-12-31

Carbon capture and sequestration has been mooted as the qualitative solution for the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide that is produced from burning coal and oil. But apart from finding safe empty spaces in the planet's crust - and overcoming the ris...

BATTERY RACE FOR ELECTRIC CARS

2008-12-30

The race is on for the cleanest and cheapest super charged lithium-ion battery, following the decision by Japan's Nissan Motor Co and NEC Corp to invest more than US$1 billion to manufacture long lasting batteries that are seen as a vital compone...

NO MORE SKINNING SEALS ALIVE

2008-12-30

Canada has introduced new regulations for seal hunting that environmentalists say is a "cynical" and "cosmetic" attempt to head off an impending ban on Canadian seal products by the European Union.The new rules are to ensure that that seals are d...

SATELLITE DATA SHOWS UNEVEN CLIMATE

2008-12-29

Earth's climate has been changing unevenly over the past 30 years in correlation with global warming.John Christy of the University of Alabama-Huntsville who studied the latest satellite data said that along with a slight warming of the atmospher...

NEW REPORT ON CLIMATE CHANGE

2008-12-28

Abrupt and severe climate changes could occur within "decades", according to the latest US Government report.Melting of polar ice had outrun projections and the long drought in the US west could be the beginning of permanent drying for the region...

EU PUSHES FOR 20-20-20 DEAL

2008-12-27

The EU 's climate-energy package - the so-called 20-20-20 green deal - is being pushed as the essential core for the new world climate treaty.The proposed deal decreases greenhouse gas emission by 20 percent by 2020, makes 20 percent energy savin...

NASA PREDICTS STORMY YEAR AHEAD

2008-12-26

The more frequent occurrence of extremely high clouds in Earth's tropics has led NASA to forecast increasing severe storms and rainfall for the year ahead.A five-year study by scientists at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California...

XMAS FEASTS WARM THE PLANET

2008-12-25

Wasted Xmas food that end up in garbage bins have been identified as an environmental hazard adding to the problem of global warming and climate change.Jon Dee, the chairman of Do Something, says gases from leftover food rotting in landfill are 2...

HOT SUMMER WILL BLEACH FAMOUS REEF

2008-12-24

Weather forecasts that the South Pacific is heading for an extremely hot summer is causing concern that the famous Great Barrier Reef off Australia's north eastern coast will undergo more damaging coral bleaching.Australian and American forecasti...

MORE ACCURATE CLIMATE FORCASTS

2008-12-23

Climate science now has a more precise definition of saltwater that will improve the accuracy of climate change and weather predictions.The new findings have major implications for climate change forcasts that rely on ocean current and temperatur...

BATTERY TECH KEY TO PLUG-INS

2008-12-22

Lack of progress in the development of new technology auto batteries is stalling the arrival of new generation electric plug-in cars and trucks.While green electric vehicles have been in the planning stages for decades there has been little progr...

RISING SEA TURNS ON BANGLADESH

2008-12-21

Climate change is imploding on Bangladesh with rising sea levels adding salt to vital agricultural land reducing the quality and quantity of the crops produced.Asian-based land use and crop scientists interviewed by Daily Planet Media estimate th...

ICE FREE NORTH POLE WITHIN SIX YEARS

2008-12-20

Countries in and near the Arctic region predict that the North Pole will have an ice-free summer within six years.Latest information of declining ice in Earth's far north was presented at the International Arctic Change conference in Quebec City ...

NASA ORBITAL EYE TO READ CO2

2008-12-19

The debate over the planet's climate is about to get some clarity early next year when NASA launches the Orbital Carbon Observatory.The observatory in space will be able to closely monitor just how much carbon dioxide is in the air and how it is ...

WARM START TO 21st CENTURY

2008-12-18

The first decade of the 21st century will go down as the warmest in known history due to the impact of human-made climate change.According to the UK Met the temperature records examined so far this century have shown that global warming had pushe...

RISING METHANE ADDS MORE WARMING

2008-12-17

An international study has warned that rising methane levels are likely to accelerate global warming. Samples taken from 12 stations across a global network showed a trend upwards in methane levels.Chief research scientist of the Marine and Atmos...

THE NEW WHITEHOUSE GREEN TEAM

2008-12-16

US President-elect Barack Obama's new energy secretary and environmental chief - Nobel Prize-winning physicist Steven Chu - will charter a tough agenda to generate 2.5 million new jobs through "green" and new technologies to make America more ene...

TIBER RIVER HOLDS BACK FLOOD

2008-12-15

Rome's River Tiber is holding its banks sparing the city's centre from flooding near the Vatican.The famous river hasn't breached its large stone embankment that snakes through the city's centre.Weather forecasters expect more rain despite the we...

RUSSIA TO GO ALONE ON EMISSIONS

2008-12-15

The climate treaty being scheduled for finalization in Copenhagen next year is being undermined by Russia's declaration that it won't sign if it's against Moscow's interests.The sticking point is binding emission cuts, which have been ruled out b...

HEAVY RAINS FLOOD ROME

2008-12-14

Italy's army is helping Rome's residents prepare for more flooding after two weeks of heavy rain.The city has been declared a state of emergency with dozens of people stranded in their homes and cars waiting to be rescued. Emergency services have...

CORALS HOLD KEY TO CLIMATE CHANGE

2008-12-14

Deep sea coral to be gathered from the Southern Ocean hold the key what's causing global warming and climate changes.Researchers from the United States and Australia will leave Hobart this week and use an unmanned robot the size of a small car to...

GORE CALLS FOR GREEN NEW DEAL

2008-12-13

Climate statesman Al Gore has called for a "Green New Deal" while asserting that recession was no reason for inaction.Gore's call for immediate action to reduce carbon emissions on the last day of a climate meeting in Poznan, Poland, included a p...

JELLYFISH SWARMS RUINING BEACHES

2008-12-13

A combination of climate change, ocean pollution and overfishing has resulted in more and lager swarms of stinging jellyfish that are endangering swimmers at the holiday beaches of Hawaii, the Gulf of Mexico, the Mediterranean and Australia.A US ...

CALIFORNIA GREEN OR BUST

2008-12-12

California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger has spruced up his state's green agenda announcing a plan " that provides a road map for the rest of the nation to follow."The plan approved by the California Air Resources cuts carbon emissions and provi...

CHINA GETS SERIOUSLY GREEN

2008-12-12

China has put back a massive water transfer project to address issues of pollution and economic strain in the Yangtze River.The decision to postpone completion of the South-North Water Diversion scheme is a strong indication that China's green po...

CORAL REEFS IN SEVERE DECLINE

2008-12-11

A fifth of the planet's coral reefs have been lost and much more could be wiped out within 40 years, according to the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN).The latest IUCN report - compiled by 15 countries over 20 years - cl...

UNUSUAL TIDES SWAMP PAPUA

2008-12-10

People living on low lying islands off Papua New Guinea north-east coast are at risk after huge waves washed away their coastal village homes.The east coast of the PNG mainland and the west coast of New Ireland province reported severe flooding f...

CLIMATE PACT PUT ON HOLD

2008-12-09

California's Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger's passionate plea for governments to embrace green regulations to fight climate change - and lift economies out of a collective recession drift - is unlikely to sway the 187-nations attending the climat...

BUSINESS DEMANDS CLIMATE ACTION

2008-12-08

Global business leaders have joined forces to call on governments around the world to bring in tougher carbon emissions reduction targets.Newspaper advertisements booked by 140 international business leaders have been taken out to coincide with t...

SEXY EXPENSIVE NUCLEAR POWER

2008-12-07

Rising costs, skills shortages and waste disposal problems hasn't stopped nuclear power being perceived as a sexy industry, Britain's chairwoman of the Atomic Energy Authority Lady Barbara Judge told a conference of Nuclear Industries Association...

SKIERS PETITION UN FOR SNOW

2008-12-06

Skiers delivered a petition to the United Nations at the climate meeting in Poland urging world leaders to curb global warming.Along with snowboarders prominent skiers slid down a ramp covered by a tonne of snow trucked in by the WWF, and handed ...

HSBC CUTS BACK PALM OIL LOANS

2008-12-05

Showing its newly adopted green principles, the HSBC banking group is withdrawing its support to forestry schemes in Malaysia and Indonesia that clear pristine forests to harvest palm oil.The bank has signaled that by the end of next year it will...

HUMANS DRIVING GLOBAL WARMING

2008-12-04

The Human factor and not the sun has been the prime driver of recent global warming, according to atmospheric scientist Marvin Geller of Stony Brook University in New York.Scientific evidence was conclusive that humans are making the earth hotter...

RUSSIAN TEMPERATURES INVESTIGATED

2008-12-03

Climate change skeptics have latched onto an anomaly in the official October temperature readings supplied from Russian Eurasia to NOAA and the GISS. Currently under investigation is whether the official October data was sourced from the Russian ...

ANOTHER UNUSALLY WARM NOVEMBER

2008-12-02

Earth's land surface was unusually warmer than normal last month (November) with some exceptions that pointed to a destabilizing stage of early imploding climate change.The temperature pattern over land during November showed that Eurasia - the p...

NEW STANDARD FOR C02 TRADING

2008-12-01

A new standard for carbon trading that links forestry and agriculture projects is set to target a market worth hundreds of million dollars to counter severe climate change. The system will make credits from carbon stored in forests interchangeabl...

CHILE GLACIER WATER CRISIS

2008-12-01

Chile's official water authority has warned that the Echaurren glacier near Santiago that supplies the capital with 70 per cent of its water needs could disappear within 50 years.Chile's glaciers are receding up to 12 meters per year, according t...

NEXT GENERATION PUSH ON CLIMATE

2008-11-30

What does Nike Inc, Starbucks Corp and investor coalition Ceres have in common? They are all founding members of a new coalition representing the next generation and calling for strong US climate legislation.Grouped together as Business for Innov...

HELPING BEES TO MAKE FOOD

2008-11-30

European scientists have expressed alarm at the rapid decline of bees that pollinate numerous crops, and experts warn that a drop in the bee population could harm agriculture.Lawmakers claim that honey bees, whose numbers are falling, must be giv...

NAVY KEEPS SONAR SURVELLANCE

2008-11-29

The US Supreme Court has ruled that the US Navy can continue to use long-range sonar off the Californian coast, despite claims it is harmful to whales and other marine life.The navy uses long-range sonar during exercises to look for hostile subma...

CHINA MOVES ON FAIR FUEL PRICES

2008-11-28

China's leaders are poised to use the opportunity presented by falling global crude prices to push through reform of domestic oil pricing and introduce a fuel tax.The country's top energy officials are discussing technical details of the reform f...

WOOD CHIP BIOFUELS GO-AHEAD

2008-11-28

USA and Brazil will join forces to produce viable cellulose-derived biofuels that use inedible plant matter rather than crops as their feedstock. "Second generation" or cellulosic ethanol, which is not yet produced on a commercial scal...

OCEAN HOLDS HUGE CO2 SINK

2008-11-27

Latest research indicates that the Southern Ocean can weather the effects of climate change better than previously believed possible, following new knowledge that the deep sea has a huge capacity to store large amount of the world's CO2 emissions...

SOLAR BARON'S OPEL DREAM

2008-11-27

Despite critics' assertions that he's flying carbon balloons, SolarWorld Chief Executive Frank Asbeck says he's serious about wanting to buy the German plants that manufacture General Motors' Opel car. Asbeck plans to turn Opel into...

GREENHOUSE GASES RECORD RISE

2008-11-26

Climate scientists warn that the record levels of greenhouse gases registered in the atmosphere would heighten the likely event of climate change and cause more extreme weather and rising sea levels. The gases responsible for risi...

EU SOFTENS ON CAR EMISSIONS

2008-11-25

The European Union has softened its stance on car emissions curbs - failing to agree on legislation that might affect the car industry already hard hit by global financial turmoil.While the European Parliament's legislature's environment committe...

SOLAR PANEL GRAVES POWER TOWN

2008-11-25

Solar panels have been placed on top of graves in a town outside Barcelona - turning the cemetery into a supply hub for renewable energy.Santa Coloma de Gramenet has little sun-drenched open land and consequently the graveyard was chosen for the ...

LA AUTO SHOW GOES GREEN

2008-11-24

Los Angeles auto show turned into a green fest that put a smile on the face of California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger.With the framework of a proposed bailout of the big three automakers still to be determined, the car industry headed into the...

MORE SIGNS OF CLIMATE CHANGE

2008-11-23

Scientists have warned that glaciers in the Himalayas are at risk of disappearing by the year 2035. Latest research by the Indian Meteorological Department indicates that the glacial ice is melting much faster than before. The res...

OCTOBER SECOND HOTTEST MONTH

2008-11-22

st1\:*{behavior:url(#ieooui) } Temperatures on Earth last month were the second hottest since records began in 1880. On the planet's land surfaces last October was the warmest on record. So far this year, 2008 is the ninth-warme...

INDONESIA TO PLANT MILLION TREES

2008-11-21

Indonesia - plagued by years of deforestation - intends planting 100 million trees across its archipelago. Indonesia's vast forest area of more than 225 million acres includes the richest forests in Borneo, which is the shared by Indone...

OBAMA'S NEW CLIMATE STRATEGY

2008-11-20

A new world climate treaty is now back on track, following President-elect Barack Obama's unequivocal message to international negotiators that the US will greatly reduce its greenhouse gas emissions by the 2050.Although Obama fell short on commi...

EMISSIONS WELL SHORT OF TARGETS

2008-11-19

The United Nations climate change agency says countries are failing to meet targets for reducing greenhouse gas emissions.The agency advised that emissions by industrialized nations rose by more than 2 per cent in the first six years of this deca...

HOW FORESTS REGULATE CLIMATE

2008-11-18

A new scientific study released by a team at the University of New Hampshire shows that forests may influence the Earth's climate in important ways that have not previously been recognized.When sunlight reaches the Earth's surface it can either b...

HUMIDITY HEATING THE PLANET

2008-11-17

Greenhouse gases will significantly heat the planet in the coming decades, according to the latest comprehensive research undertaken by the Texas A & M University.Scientists Zhibo Zhan and Ping Yang along with Professor Andrew Dessle...

WORLD'S LARGEST CORAL CONSERVATION

2008-11-16

Marine scientists have stated developing the world's largest coral reef conservation program off Australia's northern Queensland coast.The Coral Triangle Initiative will develop strategies for fisheries management along with measures to...

OCEANS CLOSE TO TOXIC ACIDITY

2008-11-16

The tipping point for toxic acidification of oceans is much closer than previously speculated, according to scientists from Australia's University of New South Wales (UNSW) and the scientific organization CSIRO. Concerns that t...

EYES ON CHILE'S SHRINKING GLACIERS

2008-11-15

Chile's official water authority has warned that the Echaurren glacier near Santiago that supplies the capital with 70 per cent of its water needs could disappear within 50 years. Chile's glaciers are receding up to 12 meters per ye...

PNG CARBON TRADING TENSIONS

2008-11-15

Money incentives for increasing forest carbon stocks as well as avoiding deforestation is causing friction between the Papua New Guinea landowners and the government.Under the deals being brokered PNG will receive money for not cutting do...

STH POLE EXPLORER'S OBAMA MESSAGE

2008-11-14

Intrepid explorer Todd Carmichael - on a mission to become the first American to reach the South Pole - has sent an urgent message to president-elect Barack Obama stating that climate change had already imploded on Antarctica. "Last...

EARTH TEMPERATURE TO RISE 2.8C

2008-11-13

Earth's average temperature is set to rise by 2.8C even if CO2 emissions are cut by half, according to scientists involved with the framework of the Kyoto Protocol. Japan's former Environment Minister Hiroshi Oki, who chaired the meetin...

TOO HOT FOR DESERT TRAVELERS

2008-11-12

As a sign of what's in store for humanity when temperatures rise by an expected 2C-4C degrees this century, authorities in outback Australia have decided to close the Simpson Desert during the hot summer months.The conservation park and regional ...

MALDIVES LEADER LOOKS FOR NEW LAND

2008-11-12

President-elect of the Maldives Mohamed Nasheed wants to invest funds to to buy a new homeland as rising sea levels threaten to submerge the island archipelago. Most of the landmass of the Maldive Islands stands little more than a meter ...

OBAMA SHOWS HIS GREEN SLEEVE

2008-11-11

President-elect Barack Obama is revealing his green sleeve indicating that he'll reverse President's Bush's executive orders on oil drilling.As Obama prepared for handover talks at the White House his transition chief John Podesta signaled that O...

G20 PUTS GROWTH AHEAD OF CLIMATE

2008-11-10

Climate change was put on the backburner when the top finance ministers of the world's influential G20 grouping met in Sao Paulo over the weekend to discuss reforms to remedy the financial crisis.The group agreed on co-coordinating their efforts ...

MILITARY LEADERS DISCUSS CLIMATE

2008-11-09

A high profile gathering of military leaders and climate experts from around the world have met in Paris for a workshop on "The Importance of Military Organizations in Protecting the Climate."As well as providing a forum for leadership on climate...

NEW TECH STALLS ON CLIMATE FIX

2008-11-08

China has again called on developed countries to do more to tackle the twin problem of global warming and climate change. China's Premier Wen Jiabao said western countries couldn't go on living the way they are if the world's environment is goin...

OZONE HOLE GROWS WITH EMISSIONS

2008-11-07

The Antarctic ozone hole grew to the size of North America in September, the fifth largest recorded in nearly 30 years, according to the United States National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). NOAA confirmed that the ozone hole flu...

CHINA PLAN FOR CLIMATE FINANCE

2008-11-07

China wants developed countries to spend at least 0.7 percent of their gross domestic product (GDP) on helping developing nations address climate change. Economic analysis suggests that this is the amount of capital finance necessary to tackle t...

MEKONG RIVER ARSENIC HOTSPOTS

2008-11-06

The United Nations estimates that 1.7 million people living along the Mekong River are at risk of arsenic poisoning originating from drinking water supplies. Arsenic is difficult to detect in water supplies, as it has no taste or smell, and the ...

SYDNEY BEACHES UNDER THREAT

2008-11-05

Unusually high temperatures recorded across tropical northern Australia have been attributed to global warming. Average daily temperatures were 1.75 degrees above the mean for October. But while the Top End of the southern continent recorded the...

SUN POWERS UP CELL PHONES

2008-11-04

Mobile phones and personal organizers that rely on electricity or batteries will soon be sold with solar power charger. The U.S. company Solio has launched a new device that can convert one hour of sunshine into an hour of playback on an iPod or...

FLOODS DULUGE HANOI CITY

2008-11-04

More flash floods are expected in Vietnam with the capital Hanoi deluged by meter-high water after the heaviest rains this century. Many residents in Hanoi abandoned their cars as flooding rains halted Hanoi traffic with landslides eroding many ...

NEW YORK WANTS CLAR WINDS POWER

2008-11-03

Across the New York state wind power is providing jobs and cutting back emissions. The state has a 450 wind turbines and plans to install another 900 more despite claims by some residents that wind power companies aren?t clean enough having acce...

CLIMATE CHANCE AFFECTING YELLOWSTONE PARK

2008-11-02

st1\:*{behavior:url(#ieooui) } Global warming is dramatically affecting the flora and forna at the popular Yellowstone National Park in USA. According to the latest research from the National Academy of Sciences global warming o...

BACK TO DRINKING TAP WATER

2008-11-01

Consumers are going back to drinking tap water in response to climate change and cost issues. Environmental groups such as WWF claim that bottled water wastes resources and is no safer than tap water while selling for up to a thousand times the ...

A GREENER USA WHOEVER WINS

2008-10-31

st1\:*{behavior:url(#ieooui) } Whoever becomes the next US president will be committed to the shifting consumers off fossil fuel into new renewable energy. The volatility of the price of oil and the financial system crisis has ma...

CHINA WARNS OF CLIMATE DISASTER

2008-10-30

st1\:*{behavior:url(#ieooui) } China has warned that global warming will have massive adverse effects and has made dire predictions of an impending climate change disaster. Releasing a major policy document on climate China cited...

FLAT PANEL TV'S ADDING HEAT

2008-10-29

Nitrogen trifluoride used to make liquid crystal flat panel displays for televisions have been blamed for contributing to global warming. Recent research by NASA and the US Scripps Institution of Oceanography has discovered that that n...

PRINCE ON CLIMATE CAMPAIGN

2008-10-28

st1\:*{behavior:url(#ieooui) } Prince Charles - the future King of England - received a warm reception in Tokyo where he delivered a stern message on the need to curb global warming. Traveling half way around the world the crown ...

AUSTRALIA READY FOR EXTREME SUMMER

2008-10-27

Australia is bracing for an extreme summer of bushfires as a result of a record drought that has gripped much of the southern continent. The driest spring on record combined with the weather bureau forecast of a long, hot summer has provided the...

CREDIT CRUNCH SLOWS CLIMATE ACTION

2008-10-26

The global credit crisis combined with the uncertainty of a world recession has jeopardized the United Nations efforts to fight climate change and reduce world poverty, according to U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon. Ban told U.N. agency chiefs...

ROME CRACKS EU UNITY

2008-10-25

Italy's demands for a dilution of climate change action, and fears that the United States is still months away from meaningful dialogue on global warming concerns, are dampening down international support for a new climate pact...

POTENT GREENHOUSE GAS RISING

2008-10-24

The potent greenhouse gas nitrogen trifluoride - that warms the atmosphere 17,000 times more than carbon dioxide - has been found to be much more prevalent than in all previous estimates by scientists.Latest research has shown that about 5,400 me...

BRITAIN GOES FOR 80% CUTS

2008-10-23

Britain has taken the lead in cutting greenhouse gas emissions raising its target from a 60 per cent cut to 80 per cent by the year 2050.Energy and Climate Minister Ed Miliband said the global financial crisis should not be used as a justificatio...

EXTREME HEAT IN JAVA CITIES

2008-10-22

Indonesia's ancient capital Yogyakarta recorded its highest October temperature of 33.6C as a result of massive deforestation that is contributing to global warming.The Meteorology and Geophysics Agency's (BMG) Yogyakarta office advised Daily Pla...

ECO-NOMICS TO FIX THE PLANET

2008-10-21

Eco-nomics - the valuing of natural capital - has become the new mantra to ward off implosions of severe climate change.By protecting nature from the rising emissions caused by human populations eco-nomics provides an alternative method for evalu...

SOLAR PROJECTS BEING SQUEEZED

2008-10-20

New bank credit limits in a tightening financial system have reduced access to capital slowing down solar projects on roofs of warehouses, offices and commercial space for the next four years.The tax credits, high costs of traditional fuel, and a...

LONDON CABS GOING ELECTRIC

2008-10-20

The UK Government has discussed switching London's black cabs to electric power with Chinese carmaker Geely Automobile.Geely's chairman Li Shufu first discussed electric taxis with London mayor Boris Johnson at the Beijing Olympic Games last Augu...

HIDDEN ALPS OF ANTARCTICA

2008-10-19

Six countries will take part in an expedition that seeks to explain how the Antarctic continental ice cap is melting slower than the Arctic North Pole.In what has been described as one of the most ambitious explorations of the Antarctic continent...

EU HOLDS ONTO EMISSIONS CURBS

2008-10-18

British Prime Minister Gordon Brown expects Europe to remain united on taking action to curb carbon emissions.Brown told reporters in Brussels that all 27 counties in the EU would sign a concrete agreement to reduce greenhouse gas emissions befor...

SNOWY MOUNTAINS VULNERABLE

2008-10-18

Big changes are forecast for Australia's famed Snowy Mountains as climate change takes hold.A New South Wales state government forum on climate change has told business leaders and community representatives to be prepared for the effects of globa...

DOMINO EFFECT OF ARCTIC ICE MELT

2008-10-17

The Arctic region has a hot fever with temperatures running at record levels. Not only is the Arctic ice cap melting faster than ever known in human history, but the surrounding seas have become saltier and the survival of polar beers and reindee...

EU PRESSED ON CLIMATE ACTION

2008-10-16

The world financial turmoil should not affect the EU's decision to reduce gas emissions 20% by 2020 and 50% by 2050, according to the world's biggest environmental network, the International Union for Conservation of Nature.Other environmental gr...

ASIAN GIANTS AT CARBON PEAK

2008-10-15

China will remain the world's biggest carbon emitter for the foreseeable future after the United States while India is poised to overtake Russia to become the third largest emitter.The Global Carbon Project (GCP) reported that China had overtaken...

SEABIRDS DECLINE AS OCEANS WARM

2008-10-14

Two major research reports show that in both the Coral Sea and the South Pacific Ocean seabirds have been declined by between 6 and 7 per cent every year from 1992 to present time.Even though favorable conditions should have returned since ...

HISTORIC AUSTRALIA DROUGHT WORSENS

2008-10-13

Australia is in the grips of an unprecedented drought with rainfall over the past three years the lowest on record in several states.The Bureau of Meteorology reported to Daily Planet Media that the southern part of the continent had never before...

MORE TREES THE BEST OPTION

2008-10-12

Planting trees is the best and most viable mechanism for offsetting anthropogenic (human-made) carbon dioxide emissions.Long after their biological activities cease trees continue to retain the carbon they sequestered during their lifetimes withi...

SUPERCOMPUTER TO EXAMINE CLIMATE

2008-10-11

NASA scientists will use a supercomputer for a better understanding of Earth's climate, the planet's relationship with the sun and the evolution of the universe's structure. It will also play an essential role in developing methods to analyz...

WANTED: SHEEP WITH LESS GAS

2008-10-10

The search is on to find a way to breed cattle and sheep that produce less methane gas.The average sheep produces 20 litres of methane gas per day and climate scientists claim that sheep flocks and cattle herds produce significant greenhouse gas ...

NEW FOCUS ON ENERGY ALTERNATIVES

2008-10-10

Regardless of who becomes the next president of the US an expected focus on energy alternatives to fossil fuels will take the heat off concerns over a pending world economic recession.Concerns related to declining stocks of fossil fuels and conti...

PUSHING SPECIES TO THE BRINK

2008-10-09

Thirty-five percent of the world's birds, 52 percent of amphibians and 71 percent of warm-water reef-building corals are threatened by likely climate change, according to a report prepared by the International Union for the Conservation of Nature...

SUMMERS CHANGING IN BRITAIN

2008-10-08

Great Britain has gone through another wet summer that several weather forecasters attribute to the implosion of climate change.The heavy rains in Britain over the past two summers were predicted by computer models that analyzed the effect of glo...

SALMON STRUGGLE IN CHANGING WORLD

2008-10-07

Scientists predict that the salmon, rock lobster and abalone industries in the southern equatorial oceans will be among the hardest hit by imploding climate change.A report from Australia's CSIRO has detailed the devastating effects it believes c...

LAND MAMMALS FACE MASS EXINCTION

2008-10-07

Climate change is imploding on amphibians and plant life to the extent that almost 25 percent of the world's land mammal species are at risk of extinction.The latest report of the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) revealed...

RISING SEAS THREATEN ASIAN HUBS

2008-10-06

Bangkok, Shanghai, Ho Chi Min and Singapore - major city hubs of Asia - face a higher risk of rising sea levels due to global warming melting the polar ice caps.Shanghai is particularly vulnerable, as its rapid building of high-rise structures ha...

CARMAKERS PRESS EU ON EMISSIONS

2008-10-05

Carmakers have seized on the U.S. financial crisis to press EU countries to soften their proposed curb on vehicle exhaust emissions.US car sales and leases have dropped over recent months and European auto manufactures are lobbying governments to...

U.S. SOLAR GETS 8 YEARS PUSH

2008-10-04

While details of the approved U.S. $700 billion bailout aren't known what has been confirmed are tax credits for the solar, wind and biodiesel industries.The framework of the financial rescue provides for an eight-year extension for investment ta...

CLIMATE HITS THE U.S. HUSTINGS

2008-10-03

Finally, climate change has hit the hustings in the US presidential elections. But not from the two candidates seeking to lead the world's only remaining super power and second biggest emitter of toxic emissions next to China.Instead it was left ...

NEW GOOGLE GREEN TECH PROJECT

2008-10-02

Web search giant Google is funding new green technology to curb the burning of fossil fuels in US power plants and reduce the use of oil petroleum in cars by 40 percent. The Google project is part of its philanthropic arm Google.org that involves...

EAT KANGAROO TO CURB EMISSIONS

2008-10-02

Australia's kangaroo industry is ready to harvest the nation's famous native animal to support the fight against climate change.The Australian Government's advisor on global warming and climate change, Professor Ross Garnaut, suggested that...

TWO YEARS TO CUT EMISSIONS

2008-10-01

The highly respected UK weather authority has issued a chilling warming to the world...cut greenhouse gas emissions within two years or Earth's temperatures will rise by more than 2C.A blanket cut of all world emissions by 3% a year from 2010 was...

CLIMATE BEFORE LIFESTYLE

2008-10-01

The deterioration of Earth's environment warrants a climate priority over human lifestyle and medical longevity, the European Association of Centres of Medical Ethics (EACME) has been informed.Dr Richard Nicholson told bioethicists at the annual ...

DEAD ZONES EXPANDING GLOBALLY

2008-09-30

Oxygen-starved water known as dead zones have become a threat to global coastal ecosystems with scientists reporting low oxygen zones growing at a rate of 5 percent a year.Dead zones have risen to more than 140 from almost none in the late 1970s....

EUROPEAN WARMING GETS CRITICAL

2008-09-29

European mountains, Mediterranean islands and the Arctic were most at risk from global warming.The latest report from the European Environment Agency shows Europe had warned 1.0C above pre-industrial levels with the agency forecasting Northern Eu...

GOV. WANTS EMISSIONS TERMINATED

2008-09-28

Climate emissions "terminator" and California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger has called a meeting of friendly countries to work out ways of cutting back greenhouse gas emissions.The governor invited China, India, Australia, Canada and Mexico as w...

PROBE INTO ABRUPT CLIMATE CHANGE

2008-09-27

Leading US scientists have been briefed by the Federal Government to probe into the consequences of any sudden climate change.Scientists from six major laboratories - going under the name IMPACTS - will investigate the magnitudes and probabilitie...

CLIMATE FUNDS ATTRACT $6 BILLION

2008-09-27

Developed countries have pledged over six billion dollars for the Climate Investment Funds to develop clean energy and fight climate change.The World Bank advised that by early next year details would be provided as to how funds donors' money wou...

U.S. GREENHOUSE GAS MARKET OPENS

2008-09-26

The first cap-and-trade greenhouse gas market has opened in the U.S. with concerns that money collected for emissions permits isn't diverted into state budgets.Ten states signed onto the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative to cut back on CO2 emiss...

CLIMATE SOLUTIONS BOOST JOBS

2008-09-26

Solutions to overcome climate change will result in more jobs, according to a report from the United Nations and the international labour movement.The Green Jobs Report urges countries to invest money in reducing emissions and find solutions to c...

GORE URGES PASSIVE RESISTANCE

2008-09-25

Climate activist Al Gore has encouraged young people to take passive action to stop the construction of dirty emission coal plants."If you're a young person looking at the future of this planet and looking at what is being done right now, and not...

CLINTON WARNS: DON'T BE DISTRACTED

2008-09-25

Former U.S. President Bill Clinton has cited global warming and clean energy options as the big issues facing humanity today.Clinton said the past month's calamities, natural and man-made, from Haiti to Wall Street should not distract from the pr...

GORE CALLS FOR FOREST TREATY

2008-09-25

Former Vice President Al Gore and Kenyan environmentalist Wangari Maathai want the protection of tropical forests to head a list of priorities for the new global warming treaty to be determined next year by the United Nations.Both Nobel Peace Pri...

STORMS PUMP UP CHEMICAL EQUATOR

2008-09-24

Powerful storms pump polluted air from the planet's surface high into the atmosphere and influence climate change.Scientists have discovered the existence of a "chemical equator" that divides the polluted air of the Northern Hemisphere from the l...

METHANE RISING AS ARCTIC ICE MELTS

2008-09-24

A dangerous effect of the Arctic summer ice melting is a rise in methane from the Greenland permafrost and the frozen seabed gas storage area off the northern coast of Siberia.Huge quantities of methane exist in the Arctic region and it's not kno...

ELECTROSMOG GROUNDS BEES, BIRDS

2008-09-23

Mobile phones, WiFi systems and electric power lines created zones of "electrosmog" that disrupt nature causing bees and birds to lose their navigational abilities while in flight.Dr Ulrich Warnke has reported to a conference of Radiation Researc...

INDIAN FLOODS KILL 2400

2008-09-23

India's two years of severe monsoon rains - that many weather forecasters attribute to climate change - has brought this year's toll from floods in eastern India to more than 2400.More than 20 million people have been affected by the savage flood...

CALL FOR CLEAN COAL RETHINK

2008-09-22

Greenpeace has called for a rethink on clean coal technology.Clean coal was an unproven and costly technology that will take years to perfect along with the associated risk that captured gases could escape into the environment, said Greenpeace sp...

U.S. BIZ LACKS CLIMATE CULTURE

2008-09-22

While both presidential candidates favour regulations on greenhouse gasses, the majority of U.S. companies lagged well behind European business in climate culture and support for binding CO2 emissions caps.The latest survey of the Carbon Di...

SHARES SYSTEM SAVING FISHERIES

2008-09-21

Climate change and pollution threaten a compounded collapse in the global fisheries, according to Canadian research data at the Dalhousie University in Halifax.Demand for fish - that provides protein for 2.6 billion people worldwide - has exceede...

LIVE EARTH HAS SOLAR FOCUS

2008-09-20

Top international entertainers will join the best of Bollywood for the next Live Earth event in Mumbai on 7 December that will focus on lighting homes with solar energy.Jon Bon Jovi will head the international performers with Bollywood?s supersta...

JAPAN WON'T FORCE EMISSION CUTS

2008-09-19

Japan has signaled that it prefers a voluntary - rather than mandatory - carbon trading system to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.Japanese industry is concerned that a binding target on emissions for big business would hurt growth and add to comp...

NORWAY GIVES US$1B FOR AMAZON

2008-09-19

Norway has pledged to donate US$1 billion to reduce deforestation in Brazil. Norwegian Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg told Daily Planet Media that the money would be donated on the understanding that Brazil shows that deforestation is being redu...

CREDIT CRUNCH DAMPENS RENEWABLES

2008-09-18

A world credit crunch is likely to see the renewable energy short of $30 billion, investors warned at a renewable energy finance conference in London.Solar and wind projects require about 85 billion euros annually by 2020 to meet the EU's target ...

ARCTIC STAYS ICED THIS SUMMER

2008-09-17

The North Pole ice cap won't melt to seawater this summer. But the meltdown will be the second highest to last year's record.This year's rapid Arctic melting is significant in that it happened in a cooler period than last year when the skies were...

DAWN OF THE ELECTIC CAR ERA

2008-09-17

The future for cars is plug-in electric power. That's the conclusion of the Argonne National Laboratory, a U.S. government-funded research center which hosted a conference on lithium battery technology.By 2020 everyone will want an electric car, ...

CHINA PLANS HOW TO GROW CLEAN

2008-09-16

Sixteen of the world's 20 most polluted cities are in China. Now the Chinese government has embarked on a comprehensive plan to find the best and fastest way to clean up the mess left behind after the country's gross domestic product hit 11.4 per...

CARBON DROPS TO 23 EUROS

2008-09-16

European carbon futures prices dropped from the standard 30 euros to 23 euros in the wake of Lehman Brothers shutting down its carbon desk after the bank went into bankruptcy protection.While the U.S. investment bank filed for bankruptcy Merrill ...

RUSSIA PUSHES ARCTIC CLAIM

2008-09-14

A severe financial storm on the U.S. horizon - and the aftermath of confrontation in the Georgia state - has spurred Russia into pushing its claim for Arctic mining rights.Russia's Security Council is preparing to take on the might of the U.S., C...

INVESTIGATION INTO EMISSIONS SCHEME

2008-09-15

An investigation is underway into the European emissions trading scheme that has allocated hundreds of carbon permits to multinational companies.The permits - intended to account for thousands of tonnes of CO2 produced over five year periods - ca...

SATELLITE TO SENSOR CLIMATE CHANGE

2008-09-14

A satellite with advanced sensors and mapping instruments that's able to predict climate change will soon be orbiting Earth.Know as the gravity field and steady state ocean circulation explorer, the satellite will accurately monitor Earth's gravi...

JURY RULES THREAT JUSTIFIES DAMAGE

2008-09-14

A British jury has ruled that the threat of climate change is so great that campaigners are justified in causing damage.Under Britain's Criminal Damage Act (1971) "lawful excuse" allows damage to be caused to property to prevent even greater dama...

IKE TO COST USA $100 BILLION

2008-09-13

Hurricane Ike's economic impact would cost the USA around $100 billion, according to the Texas Department of Emergency Management.Oil companies had abandoned 13 refineries that represented a fifth of the total US refinery capacity.Texas Senator K...

45M TREES FOR SPANISH DESERTS

2008-09-13

The Spanish Government will plant 45 million trees over the next four years to counter desertification caused by global warming.The massive tree-planting project is intended to reduce the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere, the symptomatic trigger o...

HURRICANE IKE THREATENS HOUSTON

2008-09-12

Hurricane Ike has tripled its size in the Gulf of Mexico as it heads to Texas posing a threat to 5.6 million people living in Houston.President George Bush has declared an emergency for Texas, his home state, and 1,350 buses are evacuating ...

NZ FAST TRACKS CO2 TRADING

2008-09-12

New Zealand has fast tracked climate change legislation to cap and trade carbon emissions.Trading of carbon credits will begin next year in what will be the first national cap-and-trade scheme outside of Europe.The cap and trade system is designe...

CLIMATE CHANGE MAKING BIGGER WAVES

2008-09-11

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 - ar...

TEXAS EVACUATES FOR IKE STORM

2008-09-11

Evacuations were ordered along The Texas coast as weather forecasters warned that Category 4 Hurricane Ike would hit the coast by Saturday.President George Bush has declared an emergency in the state. The northern Gulf Coast is where the National...

TWO QUAKES ROCK ASIA

2008-09-11

Two separate earthquakes occurring at the same time have rocked Japan and Indonesia.The Japanese quake struck off Hokkaido - the main northern island. Japan's Meteorological Agency immediately issued a mild warning of tsunami seismic waves.The In...

FIRST TEST FOR CLEAN COAL

2008-09-10

The world's first power plant free of CO2 emissions has begun generating "clean energy" in Germany.The Swedish energy provider Vattenfall switched on the plant at Spremberg, Germany yesterday.The plant is operated from a lignite coal-powered 30 M...

JAPAN'S NEW SOLAR SHIP

2008-09-09

TWO Japanese companies will build the first ship to have propulsion engines partially powered by solar energy.Solar panels have already been installed on large vessels for power in crew quarters, but Japan's biggest shipping line Nippo...

LONGEST DROUGHT AFFECTS AUSTRALIA

2008-09-08

The long Australian drought has severely impacted on the food bowl of Murray-Darling river system with water inflows over the past two years at an all-time low. Slowly rising temperatures, attributed to global warming, are prolonging ...

CHEVY VOLT READY THIS YEAR

2008-09-07

General Motors Corp will have the electric powered Chevy Volt on the road by the end of the year. The Volt is the centerpiece of GM's strategy to counter a car sales slump due to higher gasoline prices and emission pollutio...

SPAINISH GLACIERS GONE BY 2050

2008-09-06

The 21 remaining glaciers in the Pyrenees Mountains in Europe will melt by the year 2050, according to the latest study by EU scientists.Historical readings taken from ice cores indicate that the glaciers in Spain were formed during a 'mini ice a...

CAROLINA READY FOR HANNA STORM

2008-09-06

The US Carolina coast has battered down in expactation of tropical storm Hanna's that is carrying high winds and potentially devastating rains.Satellite images show that Hanna is moving north sustaining winds of 70 mph with higher gusts.Hanna spe...

HANNA FLOODS DEVASTATE HAITI

2008-09-06

Hundreds of bodies have been found in the city Gonaives in the wake of Hanna, a severe tropical storm Hanna that has devastated much of Haiti.Gonaives is Haiti's third biggest city. Police there reported that 495 bodies had been found and many mi...

HURRICANES GETTING MORE INTENSE

2008-09-05

Hurricanes in the Atlantic Ocean have become stronger over the past 25 years, according to scientists from Florida State University and the University of Wisconsin-Madison.The latest studies reveal that an increase in ocean temperature results in...

TRIO OF ATLANTIC SUPER STORMS

2008-09-05

A flurry of extreme storms in the Atlantic is a clear sign that this year's six-month hurricane season will be ferocious but not as severe as in 2005 when 28 tropical storms, including Katrina, barreled across the Atlantic and Caribbean.Tropical ...

SEVERE ATLANTIC STORMS

2008-09-04

Hurricane Ike has grown to a severe Category 4 storm feeding off the warm Atlantic waters. But it's too early to determine what, if any, land areas might be affected.Satellite images show Ike swirling in the Atlantic sustaining winds of 215 kph.I...

PACIFIC OCEAN GETS MORE PROTECTION

2008-09-04

Much of Pacific Ocean will be declared natural monuments under a plan that involves the USA Interior, Defense and Commerce departments.White House insiders told Daily Planet Media that the plan would be an "environmental legacy" for President Geo...

LAWS TIGHTENED ON ARCTIC TRANSITS

2008-09-03

Canada will toughen shipping transit laws in the Canadian Arctic archipelago, following the rapid melting of northern sea ice due to global warming.The Ottawa administration lead by Prime Minister Stephen Harper said it was concerned that ships m...

WARM SEAS BUILDING HURRICANES

2008-09-03

Intense storm and hurricane activity over the past month has been attributed to warmer than usual sea surface temperatures and near-record low sea level pressures in the tropical Atlantic.The Colorado State University research team reported that ...

THREE ALTANTIC SUPER STORMS

2008-09-03

Three tropical superstores have broken out in the Atlantic Ocean and are expected to hit land between Florida and \North Carolina sometime Friday.Weather forecasters said Hanna was moving southeast in the Bahamas ad could soon develop into a Cate...

NORTHERN HEMISPHERE HEATING FAST

2008-09-03

Earth's northern temperatures were hotter than at any time in 1500 years, according the largest climate data that accessed climate change on decadal and centennial scales.According to Michael Mann, Director of the Environmental Systems Institute ...

QUAKE KILLS 38 IN CHINA

2008-09-02

Another earthquake in south-west China - measuring 6.8 - has killed 38 and injured more than 650 people.Early reports indicated that the quake had destroyed more than a quarter of a million homes and injured nearly 650 people. Aftersh...

NEW ORLEANS LEVEES HOLD

2008-09-02

While Category 2 Hurricane Gustav barreled its way through the US Gulf Coast just west of New Orleans the storm was much weaker than most forecasters predicted.The Army Corps of Engineers reports that the New Orleans city levees had not been brea...

NEW ORLEANS SPARED OF FULL FORCE

2008-09-01

New Orleans was spared the full force of Hurricane Gustav, which weakened to a category two hurricane before making landfall.However, Mayor Nagin said the city resembled a "ghost town" after the biggest evacuation in US history left only 10,000 r...

MELTING ICE CAPS DESTROYING CORAL

2008-09-01

Melting ice caps had meant that the world's oceans were becoming uninhabitable for reefs, a leading researcher has told an international river symposium in Australia.Citing rising CO2 Professor Ove Hoegh-Guldberg said coral reefs would be unsusta...

PROTECTION FUND FOR AMAZON

2008-09-01

Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has called on rich developed nations to invest in a special fund set up to protect the Amazon rainforest.Mr Lula said Brazil had a responsibility to preserve the Amazon and that protecting the rainfor...

HURICANE THREATENS NEW ORLEANS

2008-08-31

More than a million people have lost their homes and troops deployed to rescue thousands stranded by floods in northern Indian Bihar.Rescue teams are heading to remote villages after emergency aid drops.Weather forecasts predict more torrential r...

THE RISE OF SARAH PALIN

2008-08-31

Sarah Palin, the surprise running mate choice of US Senator John McCain is under pressure to support environment before drilling as the Republican ticket prepares to push climate change as a central issue in the race for the White House."Governor...

EASTERN EUROPE TURNS TO WIND

2008-08-30

Several East European countries are switching to wind harnessing parks to generate renewable power to offset rising greenhouse gases.The biggest wind farm in Europe will be built in Romania for a cost of $1.62 million after the government had exa...

ICE FREE ARCTIC NOW LIKELY

2008-08-29

The North Pole is undergoing its second biggest summer meltdown since satellite began recording images of the Arctic 30 years ago.Another major summer meltdown of the Arctic ice cap has heightened speculation that the North Pole will be ice free ...

SOUTH ASIA FLOODS KILL 1000

2008-08-28

Floods in south Asia this monsoon season have killed more than 1,000 people mostly in India's states of Bihar and Uttar Pradesh as well as Nepal and Bangladesh.Indian authorities issued a warning of more floods in eastern India with heavy rainfal...

INCENTIVES TO HALT DEFORESTATION

2008-08-28

After agreeing to what forests in the world had been decimated - and that poor countries should be compensated for halting deforestation - a package of solutions to reduce human-made emissions will put together and presented at the next round of ...

SMART TAX FOR CLIMATE FIX

2008-08-27

Smart tax breaks, financial incentives and better market mechanisms would benefit both the environment and economy, according to a UN study report released to delegates at the climate meeting of governments in Ghana.The report said governments sh...

CONGRESS REVOKES AMAZON LAWS

2008-08-27

Peru's Congress has revoked controversial laws that would have opened up Amazon tribal land to development.Indigenous leaders complained they had never been consulted on the laws intended to benefit the free trade agreement Peru has signed with t...

SUPPORT FOR UN FOREST SCHEME

2008-08-26

The likelihood that the United Nations will soon finalize a scheme to slow deforestation in the African and Amazon regions had increased following overwhelming approval from delegates attending the UN's latest climate meeting."We're getting beyon...

CLIMATE CHANGE IMPLOSIONS

2008-08-26

Military strategists have briefed USA and the United Kingdom of the consequences of imploding climate change that could result in worldwide famines, floods and conflicts over resources.Military analyst Dr Gwynne Dyer, author of the book Climate W...

HYDROGEN CARS CHEERED IN USA

2008-08-25

Zero emission hydrogen fuel cell technology took a giant step forward when nine different types of hydrogen cars finished a 13 days road trip across United States last weekend.California Fuel Cell Partnership Executive Director Catherine Dunwoody...

SOLAR PLANE SETS NEW RECORD

2008-08-25

A solar powered plane has set a new world endurance record for a flight by an unmanned aircraft.British-built Zephyr-6 stayed in the air for more than three days flying through the night on batteries it had recharged in sunlight.The Zephyr flew n...

YEAR OF THE SAVAGE MOONSOON

2008-08-24

Extreme floods and typhoons across greater Asia over the last three months have severely affected tens of millions of people from the Indian subcontinent, Southeast Asia and Far East China, Korea and Japan.Since June the Asian southwest monsoon h...

CANADA PACT SHOWS WAY AHEAD

2008-08-23

The Canadian government has delivered a working model for how the entire far north Arctic region can be sustained.The model comes in the form of a pact between the Canadian government and Inuit native groups which shelters the habitat of polar be...

UNCERTAIN TIMES FOR CARBON FUNDS

2008-08-23

Concerns over the makeup of the climate agreement to succeed the Kyoto Protocol - and the likelihood of a worsening worldwide credit crunch - is slowing the development of carbon funds to offset greenhouse gas emissions.Kyoto will expire after 20...

GIANT GREENLAND GLACIER CRACKS

2008-08-22

A huge chunk of Greenland's largest glacier has broken away as a result of global warming, according to US researchers who had monitored the event from NASA satellite images.The giant Petermann Glacier measuring 29 square km broke away from north...

FLIGHT OFFSETTING CONFUSION

2008-08-22

MEKONG STAYS AT RECORD HIGH

2008-08-21

The long stretch of the Mekong River waterway from northern Thailand to central Cambodia remains higher than in 2000 when the worst floods in four decades struck southern Vietnam, according to The Mekong River Commission.The Vietnamese government...

OCEANS TURNING ACIDIC

2008-08-21

Rising acidification of the world's oceans - caused by imploding climate change - will significantly reduce the successful fertilization of many species this century, according to a report by Swedish and Australian scientists.Species facing extin...

RIVERS ON THE BRINK OF COLLAPSE

2008-08-20

All the world's major rivers are so severely polluted that they had now reached "the brink of collapse", according to the International Union for Conservation of Nature (UCN).China's longest river, the Yangtze is polluted with untreated waste, ag...

WINDMILLS TO TOWER NEW YORK

2008-08-20

Billionaire mayor Michael Bloomberg will push his bold new plan for a greener New York that includes placing giant wind generators on top of the city's skyscrapers, rooftop solar panels and geothermal power.Associates of the outspoken mayor, who ...

BIRDS TELL THE CLIMATE STORY

2008-08-19

Migratory birds, described as the climate change "canary in the mine", have lost half of their numbers in Australia.The Australian Government's hearing on coastal climate change has been told that migratory birds frequently seen in the 80's are n...

HOTTER PLANET FEEDING WILDFIRES

2008-08-19

The number and intensity of wildfires in California over recent summers is part of a trend toward more fires burning larger areas in the Western United States.That's the view of Dr Amanda Staudt, climate scientist for the National Wildlife Federa...

MEKONG FLOODING KILLS 200

2008-08-18

Almost 200 people died - and thousands evacuated from their homes - in what Vietnamese authorities described as the worst Mekong River flooding in living history.Today severe flooding imploded on Thailand, Cambodia and Laos as well as Myanmar, wh...

HUMAN POLLUTION DESTROYING OCEANS

2008-08-18

Human exploitation of the deep seas - combined with an accumulation and rapid build-up of severe pollution - had started a time bomb for irreversible ocean destruction, according to a United Nations report.Damage to the oceans was "rapidly passin...

DIGITAL MAP PINPOINTS OIL

2008-08-17

The world's first digital map of Earth's geology will be used to pinpoint sites for oil and gas exploration.The map covers about 70 percent of the globe including most of the mineral-rich developing nations, such as Sierra Leone and Afghanistan.A...

CHARLES' ATTACK ON CORPORATE FARMING

2008-08-16

Prince Charles' outburst against genetically modified crops was a deliberate attempt to spark public debate on corporate farming and modern industrial agriculture reliant on the use of fossil fuels, UK royal insiders told Daily Planet Media.The p...

MEKONG FLOODS THREATEN ASIA

2008-08-16

The Mekong River that runs from China through Southeast Asia has reached its highest level in 100 years as a result of successive months of unusually heavy rain.Officials in Cambodia's capital, Phnom Penh, have warned residents living near the Me...

STORM BLOWS AWAY BEIJING SMOG

2008-08-15

Picture book clear blue skies had the Olympic organizers smiling today as they declared victory over the city's smog.The ideal conditions heralded in the first day of Olympic athletics at Beijing's Bird's Nest stadium.Authorities took extraordina...

NORTH CALIFORNIA WILDFIRES CRISIS

2008-08-15

Vast tracts of North California is ablaze with hundreds of lightning-sparked fires breaking out costing the state $13 million a day. Fire budgets have been strained across America's west with more fires raging out of control, due largely t...

PRINCE CHARLES CONDEMNS GM CROPS

2008-08-14

Britain's Prince Charles has described plans to spread genetically modified (GM) crops as "an absolute disaster".Commenting on plans to allow 50 British farms to plant GM crops the crown prince to the United Kingdom throne said the introduction o...

BLUE SKIES OVER BIEJING

2008-08-14

The sun has broken through the haze in Beijing for the first time since the Olympics began.Controversy has swirled around the issue of Beijing's air quality throughout the build-up to the Games, but the International Olympic Committee (IOC) has i...

THOUSANDS KILLED BY SMOG

2008-08-14

An estimated 64,000 people die from causes attributed to particle air pollution each year in the United States, according to the US Natural Resources Defence Council.And almost half of Europe's population may have been exposed to airborne concent...

50C SCORCHING DAYS AHEAD

2008-08-13

Computer projections indicate that temperatures would rise later this century to 50 degrees Celsius in parts of Australia, India, the Middle East, North Africa, the Sahel and across subtropical South America.Scientists at Royal Netherlands Meteor...

HEAT'S ON FOR ARCTIC OIL

2008-08-12

As governments prepare strategies for claiming mining and drilling rights to the ice shrinking Arctic region the US Coast Guard cutter has begun its mission to map the ocean floor north of Alaska and seek information on oil and natural gas reserv...

WESTERN ALLIANCE TO CAP AND TRADE

2008-08-12

A coalition of US states and Canadian provinces will form an alliance for the world's biggest cap and trade system in 2012 to offset global warming carbon emissions.Called the Western Climate Initiative (WCI) the system will be phased in stages s...

EUROPE GEARS UP FOR CLIMATE ACTION

2008-08-11

Climate change is said to be already happening - and many of the world's most respected scientists are convinced beyond reasonable doubt that human-made global warming represents one of the greatest environmental, social and economic threats faci...

TEN ATLANTIC HURRICANES PREDICTED

2008-08-10

Weather forecasters predict up to 10 hurricanes will form across the Atlantic later this year.The US Government's National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has revised its predictions up from 12 to 16 storms with six to 9 developing ...

CONCERN FOR GREAT BARRIER REEF

2008-08-10

Australia's Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has linked the survival of the Great Barrier Reef to the Federal Government's fledging emissions trading scheme.During a reef cruise off Port Douglas, north of Cairns in the state of Queensland, marine scient...

MERCEDES SCHEME FOR GREEN CARS

2008-08-09

German vehicle maker Mercedes wants cars to be included in carbon reduction schemes to bring down vehicle emissions.Mercedes told an Australian Senate revue that making cars accountable for mitigating carbon emissions would enhance bargaining pow...

FIRE SMOKE THREATENS SE ASIA

2008-08-09

Singapore and Malaysia have protested to Indonesia over the haze health risk that threatens to sweep across South-Eastern Asia due to the fierce forest fires burning on the main Sumatra Island.Chocking smoke has delayed flights in and out of Suma...

KIND WEATHER FOR OLYMPICS OPENING

2008-08-08

Despite a day of white haze and widespread concern that rain would dampen the spirits of 91,000 people attending the weather stayed kind for the opening ceremony.Websites reported that Olympic organizers were prepared for the likelihood that the ...

WHITE HAZE COUNTDOWN TO OLYMPICS

2008-08-08

While stubborn white haze refused this morning to lift from the China capital city of Beijing athletes and officials from 200 countries prepared to take part in the opening ceremony of the 2008 Olympics tonight at the Bird's Nest stadium.The coun...

GETTING WIND FROM CLIMATE CHANGE

2008-08-07

Al Gore's challenge to the US to produce all of its electricity from renewable sources within 10 years will become a key topic of the climate change debate that is certain to be a hot - if not the hottest issue - for next year's presidential elec...

THICK HAZE THE DAY BEFORE OLYMPICS

2008-08-07

Beijing is covered in a thick white haze a day before start of the Olympic Games.But while the haze is causing the Olympic organizers some trepidation the athletes who will take part in tomorrow's opening ceremony said it's the heat and the humid...

BATTLE LINES FOR ARCTIC OIL

2008-08-06

The organization that specializes on international boundaries has released a map that defines all the disputed boundaries in the Arctic region in an attempt to pacify aggressive country claims for rights to oil and gas resources.Canada, Russia, t...

HAZE HOVERING OVER BEIJING

2008-08-06

Haze continues to hover over Beijing just two days before the start of the Olympic Games. However, Olympic organizers remain confident there will be clear blue skies for the opening ceremony.Cloudy skies were forecast for the remainder of today. ...

SCIENTISTS DOUBT COOK ON CLIMATE

2008-08-05

Climate science researchers studying satellite imaging doubt whether logbooks by Captain James Cook's Endeavour will be of much value in understanding the dynamics of modern climate change.Cook's records from his voyages in the 17th century are v...

OIL SUPPLIES NOW MATCHING DEMAND

2008-08-05

Oil fell to a three-month low in New York and London overnight heightening speculation that supplies were closing in on matching demand for crude.New York stock brokers told Daily Planet Media that specific news of a tropical storm missing oil in...

WHITE HAZE HANGS OVER BEIJING

2008-08-04

A thick white haze hangs over Beijing just four days before the Olympic games opening ceremony on August 8.Organizing authorities told Daily Planet Media that the haze was temporary and further measures being taken to remove cars from the city's ...

NO RECOVERY FOR ARCTIC MELTDOWN

2008-08-04

The Arctic sea ice is unlikely to recover from last year's record low, according to latest figures from the US National Snow and Ice Data Centre.This year's Arctic melt is already showing sea ice to be well below average as the summer meltdown pe...

CLIMATE CHANGE HAPPENS SWIFTLY

2008-08-03

Evidence of a fast cooling of Earth's climate almost 13 thousand years ago has added more evidence to the scientific viewpoint that the planet is likely to have a swift and severe climate change if the composition of the atmosphere is rapidly alt...

BLUE SKY DAY IN BEIJING

2008-08-03

Beijing Olympic Games officials are confident that the next seven days will be clear skies and provide a picture perfect setting of the opening ceremony on 8 August.Hundreds of thousands of cars have been ordered off the roads to cut down tailgat...

CANADA CLOSES ARCTIC PARK

2008-08-02

Record high temperatures and extreme flooding on a Canadian Arctic island has resulted in the partial closing closure of the Auyuittuq National Park.The ice cap on the 19, 000 square kilometers park is undergoing unusual melting and erosion, attr...

CLEAR SKIES OVER BEIJING

2008-08-02

Another day of clear skies over Beijing has given Olympic Games officials some confidence that air pollution won't spoil the world's premier athletic event and grand opening.Meteorologists said recent rain had washed away the city's smog - allevi...

USA STATES FORCE EPA INTO COURT

2008-08-01

New York City and California are suing the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in order to curb global warming carbon emissions from ocean ships and aircraft.The states - supported by environmental groups - are filing for a court order to prote...

NEW SOLUTION FOR CARBON HEAT

2008-08-01

Scientists have invented a new material that converts the heat wasted from combustion engines in vehicles, power stations and heat pumps.

The thermoelectric new material turns heat into energy without any carbon emissions. <...

CAR MAKERS HUNT FOR PLATINUM

2008-07-31

Hydrogen fuel cells that provide carbon emissions free fuel are dependent on just a few mines that provide 80 percent of the world's platinum reserves.Existing supplies of platinum would meet only 20 per cent of the platinum required if cars powe...

DARK CLOUD OVER EMISSIONS DEAL

2008-07-31

Chances of a world deal to cut emissions enough to curb any severe implosion of global warming climate change has widened considerably following the failure of world trade talks in Geneva.The World Trade Organization's gathering of nations was ab...

ANOTHER CRACK IN ARCTIC SHELF

2008-07-30

A huge chunk of the Canadian ice shelf has broken off which climate experts say is a result of a warming planet.The 20 square kilometers ice fracture - the biggest since the nearby Ayles ice shelf split in 2005 - broke off from the shelf on Ward ...

AUSTRALIANS WANT EMISSIONS ACTION

2008-07-29

Two public polls released this week show that 8 out of 10 Australians support the government's decision to introduce the world's biggest carbon trading schemes in 2010.The Labor Party won power with a strong anti-emissions policy and set up the f...

JAPAN TO START CARBON TRADING

2008-07-29

Japan will start a national carbon trading scheme in October to lower greenhouse gases and cut emissions by 60-80 percent by 2050.Japan will spend $30 billion over the next five years on innovative technology to reduce long-term global emissions....

PAST EARTH HAD NO POLAR ICE

2008-07-29

Latest climate research indicates that greenhouse gases 40 million years - when Earth was much hotter - were similar to some levels being forecast for the end of this century, according to Dr Catherine Burgess of the Cardiff University's School o...

AFRICA SUN TO POWER EUROPE

2008-07-28

A cool plan for Europe using solar power from the fierce Sahara sun has been boosted with the support of British Prime Minister Gordon Brown.EU scientists are working 24/7 to complete a report on the viability of channeling solar energy from Afri...

USA GREENHOUSE DANGERS REVEALED

2008-07-27

The disclosure of an Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) report has provided more evidence of the Bush Administration covering up sensitive information that human-made greenhouse emissions were not only causing global warming but endangering pe...

CLEAN ENERGY FOR CITY HEAT

2008-07-26

More than half the world's population lives in cities. Urban dwellers are the primary cause of global warming. And the war against climate change will be won or lost in finding fast solutions to the main problem of too much city heat.In most citi...

LONDON'S FIRST SUSTAINABLE NIGHTCLUB

2008-07-26

A North London nightspot has laid claim to being the world's first sustainable club.The Surya venue in King's Cross encourages clubbers to think, dance and express their ecological significance.The dancers do in fact reduce the venue's electricit...

INFLATION HEADS EMISSIONS CONCERNS

2008-07-25

Private enterprise and not central banks would lead the world with cap and trading to reduce the human-made greenhouse gas emissions that are warming the planet, Bank of Thailand Governor, Tarisa Watanagase told Daily Planet Media.She said centra...

OBAMA TO FIGHT GLOBAL WARMING

2008-07-25

Europe and the United States will form the core alliance in the fight to prevent severe climate change resulting from human-made greenhouse gas emissions.That was the clear message from US presidential candidate Barack Obama talking publicly for ...

ENHANCING THE LOW CARBON LIFESTYLE

2008-07-25

The USA celebrates Sustainable Day tomorrow.And at noon in the City of Menomonie Mayor Dennis Kropp will sign the Climate Agreement for living sustainably to benefit the planet and future generations.26 July has been marked as the day when people...

CRUDE PRICES SPUR ARCTIC OIL RUSH

2008-07-24

The fast melting Arctic region will become a "hot spot" for the next rush for Earth's remaining oil and gas reserves, following a report from the US Geological Survey.The US government-led study group estimates that the Arctic offshore holds at l...

NZ WIND FARM GOES TO COURT

2008-07-24

Leading international climate scientists will give opposing evidence to a court hearing that will judge whether the effects of human-made global warming justify the building of a wind farm in New Zealand.Auckland's Roch Sullivan, who opposes wind...

SOUTH AFRICA HIT BY CLIMATE CHANGE

2008-07-23

South Africa's Western Cape had already experienced climate change due to global warming, a conference for journalists has been informed."We will be experiencing a change in the way we live," said South Africa's Environment Minister Marthinus van...

CHANNEL 4 UNBENDED BY VERDICT

2008-07-23

Channel 4 won't stop selling a DVD that attacks the science of climate change - despite being told by the country's media regulator that the documentary had broken strict broadcasting rules on impartiality.The program has its own dedicated websit...

OIL PRICES FORCE NEW AVIATION ORDER

2008-07-22

The chief executive of Qantas, Geoff Dixon says the aviation industry is heading into a new world order fueled by high oil prices and environmental concerns.Mr Dixon said many airlines would be forced to close and major new global airlines will e...

WORLD TO MOVE FROM FOSSIL FUELS

2008-07-22

The head of Europe's biggest power producer has forcaste the world will move away from fossil fuels to renewable energy.Chief Executive of E.ON Wulf Bernotat said there were three reasons why the world will soon switch to renewable energy.(1) Ren...

WATCHDOG CENSURES TV PROGRAMME

2008-07-22

UK Channel 4 misrepresented some of the world's leading climate scientists in the documentary The Great Global Warming Swindle.The programme - promoted as "a definitive response" to Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth - was first broadcast in March l...

BREAKTHROUGH IN SOLAR TECHNOLOGY

2008-07-22

US scientists have devised a new solar power device that promises to make a clean, renewable energy source more affordable.Researchers are enthused by the development of a new type of "solar concentrator" that may provide a better way to extract ...

NEW GREEN DEAL FOR CLIMATE CRUNCH

2008-07-21

A new economic order based on incentives for renewable energy and carbon offset trading has been proposed by the New Economics Foundation, a visionary group of British economists The foundation has released a report that tackles the twin problem ...

USA PEOPLE HAVE LOW LIFE EXPECTANCY

2008-07-21

Americans live shorter lives than most people in other developed countries and the US is now ranked 42nd in terms of life expectancy.The American Human Development Report in its latest report on human population stated that the world's leading ec...

LAST GREAT GLOBAL LAND GRAB

2008-07-20

The next two decades could see the remaining forests on Earth threatened by the "last great global land grab", according to two reports from the Rights and Resources Initiative.The reports said demand for land to grow food, biofuels and wood prod...

CAR POOLS GAINING POPULARITY

2008-07-20

Car pooling has become increasingly popular in Europe, the UK and the United States where large-scale internet-booked car pools have been operating successfully for years.According to latest surveys in the US, many cities have designated car pool...

POPE BENEDICT'S CRUSADE FOR EARTH

2008-07-19

Pope Benedict has escalated his crusade for a healthy, holistic Earth telling crowds of followers in Sydney, Australia, that young people stood to inherit a planet whose resources had been scarred and squandered.The pope's crusade began last year...

AUSTRALIA'S "GREENHOUSE MAFIA"

2008-07-19

A speech writer for the former Australian conservative government has alleged that the new Labor government's Green Paper on climate change shows Australia's big polluters are influencing federal policy and operated as a "greenhouse mafia."Commen...

DANGEROUS METHANE ON HIGH RISE

2008-07-19

Global warming methane emissions - mainly from garbage landfill - are rising to dangerous levels.Climate scientists told Daily Planet Media that there is a growing concern that rising levels of methane could become a catalyst for melting of perma...

AL GORE'S 10-YEAR CLIMATE PLAN

2008-07-18

Former US Vice President Al Gore has called on the US to make a total switch from fossil fuel to renewable energy within 10 years.Gore said the 10-years target was achievable, likening it to the mission of landing man on the moon.The ambitious ta...

FOOD THE "FUNDAMENTAL" HUMAN RIGHT

2008-07-18

The Elders of Nelson Mandela's climate task force have declared that food - as a basic human right - was the primary catalyst for new wars.Already food riots have broken out in many of the world's poorest countries and the growing crisis has stym...

VOLCANOE CLUES TO CLIMATE CHANGE

2008-07-18

The discovery that the ocean starved of oxygen caused a mass extinction of marine species 93 million years ago may hold valuable information for solutions to modern global warming.Underwater volcanism in rocks dating to the period known as the "a...

EMISSIONS COSTS TO LIFT AIR FARES

2008-07-17

European will be paying more for flights under the new pending carbon trading system that forces carriers to cap carbon emissions, or pay a stiff penalty.The system - expected to be approved next month - will be in full operation by 2012.Airlines...

AUSSIE CARBON TRADING LEAKS

2008-07-17

Barely one day after being announced, Australia's fledging carbon trading scheme is leaking badly with some of the country's biggest polluting industries - such as electricity generators and aluminum producers - receiving free carbon permits.Most...

LOW OIL SUPPLIES A MISCONCEPTION

2008-07-16

Twice as much oil is in the ground as major producers claim, according to a former industry adviser who claims there is widespread misinformation on how proven reserves are calculated.Claims that the world has reached the point where oil producti...

AUSTRALIA'S MURRAY RIVER DRYING UP

2008-07-16

Australia's mighty Murray River could lose up to two-thirds of its water flow due to climate change and past development.Inflows into the twin Murray and Darling rivers dropped to record lows last month. And if the countywide drought continues, f...

RUSSIANS EVACUATE MELTING ICE STATION

2008-07-15

A team of Russian researchers has evacuated their research station on the North Pole as the Arctic ice is melting much faster than thought possible.Since September 20 Russian scientists have lived and worked on a drifting ice floe known as 'North...

REEFS VERGING ON EXTINCTION

2008-07-15

One third of the world's coral reef building species is threatened with extinction because of climate change.The study by a team of international scientists examined 700 species of coral and found that 231 are either vulnerable or facing extincti...

SCHWARZENEGGER ATTACKS BUSH

2008-07-14

Californian Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger has attacked the Bush administration for denying the existence of human-made global warming and casting the responsibilities for climate change action onto other countries.Smarting from the Federal Gover...

BRITAIN PUTS BRAKES ON BIOFUELS

2008-07-14

Britain has put the brakes on biofuels out of concerns that growing crops for fuel were exacerbating climate change and hiking up food prices.The British Government has adopted a report from Renewable Fuels Agency that calls for more cautious app...

ANTARCTIC ICE SHELF ABOUT TO BREAK

2008-07-13

Scientists are growing increasingly concerned for the future of the huge Wilkins ice shelf that joins on to the Antarctic coast.The latest satellite images suggest the ice shelf is disintegrating rapidly, and is now connected to the Antarctic mai...

BUSH PASSES ON EMISSIONS ACTION

2008-07-13

President George W. Bush won't be taking any regulatory action on greenhouse gas emissions this year.The decision follows a report from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) that the "the complexity and magnitude of the question" had cast dou...

EARTH'S AIR WARMING FASTER

2008-07-12

An expert committee on climate - attached to the Royal Society of New Zealand - has weighed into the controversy over climate change by publicly declaring that recent global warming has anthropogenic (human induced) causes.The society's science a...

USA SMOG LEVELS LINKED TO WARMING

2008-07-12

Global warming has been linked to higher levels of smog that could harm human health.A published draft report by the US Environmental Protection Agency states that climate change has the potential to produce significant increases in near-surface ...

SATELLITES MAP WIND ENERGY SITES

2008-07-11

NASA is using its global satellite network to map out sectors of the oceans that are suited for wind energy.The maps show where offshore farms can best convert wind energy to electricity.So far, examination of the maps shot from space reveal the ...

CLIMATE CHANGE BRINGS BIGGER TUNA

2008-07-11

Climate change resulting in warmer seas has had a positive spin-off for the tuna fishing industry.Fishing trawlers off the South Australia Great Australian Bight have reported bigger catch size, according to the chief executive of the Australian ...

CLEAN ENERGY ON A ROLL

2008-07-10

With crude oil prices likely to peak above $150 per barrel - and the world poised to adopt binding CO2 caps and an emissions trading scheme - the clean energy industry's future is looking bright.A Daily Planet Media survey of fossil fuels and alt...

NOWHERE NEAR FAR ENOUGH

2008-07-10

Leading climate scientists have condemned the G8 rich nations pledge to halve global emissions by 2050 as non-specific and meaningless.Criticism was directed at the failure of the G8 statement to mention a base by which any reduction in greenhous...

PUSH FOR 20% BY 2020 CUTS

2008-07-09

The European Union, Japan and Australia will lead the global fight against climate change and attempt to overcome a stalemate between developed and developing countries.While the three-day G8 summit held on the Japanese island of Hokkaido, Japan,...

CHINA PLANS CLIMATE RESPONSE

2008-07-09

China is making plans for tough emissions cuts but President Hu Jintao is adamant that the west, which has been "polluting the air for centuries" must act first to reduce emissions and exchange financial and technical support.While China is the w...

G8 STRIKES EMISSIONS DEAL

2008-07-08

A deal struck overnight between hosts Japan and the US has resulted in the group of rich developed nations agreeing to long-term climate change goals that will be ratified at the G8 summit being held on the Japanese island of Hokkaido.Summit orga...

REEFS FOR THE FUTURE

2008-07-08

The International Coral Reef Symposium - the world's largest scientific meeting on coral reefs - is now being held in the US focused on Earth's rising temperatures and severe weather events linked to climate change.Nearly 2,500 coral experts are ...

WARMING STRESSING CORAL ECOSYSTEMS

2008-07-08

Many of the world's coral reef ecosystems are imperiled by overfishing and pollution, as well as facing the threat of climate change, according to the latest report from National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) on the state of coral...

CLIMATE TRUMPED AT G8 SUMMIT

2008-07-07

Rising poverty, inflation and hiked oil prices have upstaged global warming and climate change on the first day of the summit for Group of Eight rich nations being held in luxury hotel in the northern Japanese island of Hokkaido.President George ...

SOLAR POWER FOR HYBRID CARS

2008-07-07

Toyota will become the world's first carmaker to use a solar power generation system for mass-produced vehicles.Rooftop solar panels will be fitted on all the high-end models of the popular Prius to run the air-conditioning.In 1997 Prius became t...

CLIMATE CHANGE EXPERIMENT IN CHINA

2008-07-07

An experiment on the effect of climate change on grazing land in China?s Tibetan Plateau has shown that 26-36 percent of plant species in the region will decline if global temperatures continue to rise.Chinese and US scientists conducted the expe...

CHINA CLOSES AIR POLLUTING FACTORIES

2008-07-06

China has ordered the closure of 40 factories in a city close to Beijing following concerns by athletes that heavily polluted air will affect their performance.Beijing city authorities told Daily Planet Media that car and factory emissions would ...

NEW FERRARI ENGINES TO CUT CO2

2008-07-06

Ferrari's next generation of sports car engines will reduce CO2 emissions by 40 per cent over the next four years.Company president Luca Cordero di Montezemolo said Ferrari intended to cut its vehicles' greenhouse gas emissions by nearly half and...

TREE PLANTING GREENWASHING STUNT

2008-07-06

Environmental groups have accused the Mexican Government of carrying out a greenwashing publicity stunt that involved planting eight million trees across the country.Greenpeace alleged that only 10 percent of the planted trees would survive.A muc...

USA FAR AWAY FROM G8 TARGET

2008-07-05

Core Europe countries and the United States remain far apart on how to reduce global warming carbon emissions, according to European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso.Hosing down expectations that the US would agree to a binding pact to cu...

RUSSIA FACES ECO CRISIS

2008-07-05

Russia is facing an eco crisis with parts of the country like to become uninhabitable within the next 30 years, President Dmitry Medvedev told law students in his home city of St Petersburg.The problem, according to Medvedev, stems from Russia's ...

G8 FAILS CLIMATE SCORECARD

2008-07-04

The powerul Group of 8 countries reputation for leadership against global warming has been tarnished by an environmental study published today that states the world's most developed nations had failed to fulfill their pledges to fight climate cha...

SUN RAYS NOT CAUSING WARMING

2008-07-04

Latest research has discredited the notion that cosmic rays are a major influence on the Earth's climate.The report presented to the European Geosciences Union gave convincing proof that cosmic ray flux does not affect cloud formation.Cosmic rays...

G8 GETS UPSTAGED ON EMISSIONS

2008-07-03

Next week's G8 leaders summit in Hokkaido, Japan, is being upstaged by the more inclusive Major Economies Meeting (MEM), as a forum for discussions on a new framework to curb the world's accelerating carbon emissions.US President George W. Bush e...

BOTTLE MANIA'S CARBON FOOTPRINT

2008-07-03

Some of the biggest companies in the world managed to build a bottled water empire in the United States leaving behind a massive environmental footprint left by the 50 billion bottles of water drunk each year.New York investigative journalist Eli...

US GETS SERIOUS ON GLOBAL WARMING

2008-07-02

It's taken two recurring severe floods in 15 years - destroying thousands of homes in the US Midwest - but the signs are now clear that the Whitehouse is getting serious about the clear and present dangers of global warming and the prospects of s...

TRIGGER SET FOR CLIMATE CHANGE

2008-07-02

Earth's ability to absorb carbon will decline as global warming increases, accelerating the rate of temperature change.And far greater emission cuts than currently planned worldwide will be required if the planet's temperatures are to be kept bel...

G8 SPENDS BIG ON COAL TECH

2008-07-01

The rich G8 countries will invest billions of dollars on CO2 capture and storage (CCS) to take the heat off the power industry that is heavily dependent on coal.A $10 billion dollar clean energy fund is set for approval at the next G8 meeting 7-9...

COUNTRIES SCRAMBLE MELTING ARCTIC

2008-07-01

The summer meltdown of the North Pole has intensified international interest in the Arctic region.Canada and other nations that border the Arctic - including Russia and the United States - are aggressively laying claims to vast tracts of the Arct...

BRITAIN EMBARKS ON GREEN REVOLUTION

2008-06-30

As the news spreads that human-made global warming will soon render the North Pole iceless during summer, the British Government has announced the biggest changes to power generation since the Industrial Revolution.Great Britain will spend $200 b...

ARCTIC ICE IN FAST MELTDOWN

2008-06-30

It's official. The North Pole has lost its thick old ice due to global warming and very soon all the young thin ice - that has formed the Arctic cap - will melt away.Satellite images shown to Daily Planet Media revealed a dramatic thinning of ice...

CLIMATE CHANGE SECURITY CONCERNS

2008-06-29

US intelligence agencies have issued a warning on the national security implications of global warming. Fallout from global climate change over the next 20 years will boost global instability and may place new burdens on U.S. military forces, ...

WORLD VERGING ON ENERGY SCRAMBLE

2008-06-29

Oil giant Shell has warned of a world energy scramble and a "dash for coal" in the coming decade, along with a sharp increase in CO2 emissions. Thirst for energy was likely to double in the first half of the century, but increased biofuels pro...

EARTH NEEDS A CARBON REVOLUTION

2008-06-28

What the Earth needs now is a "Carbon Revolution" of the same magnitude as the Industrial Revolution that changed the way people lived on the planet. That's the conclusion of a study carried out by the McKinsey Glob...

SKILLS WANTED FOR CARBON ECONOMY

2008-06-28

Carbon trading schemes will lead to a new "green collar" workforce, according to a report by Australia's chief scientific research body, the CSIRO. The report said that while measures to be taken to curb emissions will not affect jobs overall,...

US BAULKS ON G8 BINDING CUTS

2008-06-27

The US is baulking at agreeing to a binding global pact to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 50 percent by 2050.The "50 by 50" framework to avert serious climate change caused by human-made emissions will be discussed at the next G8 leader...

THE GREEN WAY AHEAD FOR CALIFORNIA

2008-06-27

California's bold plan to curb global warming is likely to become the blueprint for the US after next year's presidential election.The new measures and initiatives include implementing a cap-and-trade program on CO2 emissions that require buildin...

BRITAIN LEADS IN CARBON TRADING

2008-06-26

Britain has emerged as the world leader in carbon emissions trading spending billions of pounds to offset CO2 atmospheric pollution.Estimated value of carbon trading in the UK will be worth around US$800 billion by 2020.When, as expected, Japan a...

GREEN TECH EXCHANGE PUSHED GLOBAL

2008-06-26

A open framework for global exchange of green technology will come under the spotlight when the rich Group of Eight nations next meet.World Bank sources told Daily Planet Media that tariffs were hindering the spread of green tech with over 40 new...

BIOFUELS BLAMED FOR HIGH FOOD COSTS

2008-06-25

Fierce competition between biofuels for cars and food to eat is dragging more than 30 million people into poverty. Biofuels were heralded as a means to fight climate change and provide energy security, but there is now growing concerns that ...

CARBON COPS ARE COMING

2008-06-25

Britons fear that carbon cops will soon be coming to enforce new legislation being mooted to reduce human-made carbon emissions.A survey by Britain's Energy Saving Trust showed that 41 percent of Britons think the country will need its own Carbon...

ACCELERATING ARCTIC ICE MELTDOWN

2008-06-24

The Arctic sea ice meltdown - due to global warming - is accelerating much faster than the worst-case predictions. "What we've found is the oceans are in fact warming substantially faster than estimates," asserts John Church from Australia's l...

NEW SATELLITE CHECKS CLIMATE CHANGE

2008-06-23

Changes to Earth's climate caused from human-made global warning greenhouse gas emissions will be more accurately accessed, following the successful launch of a US-French satellite equipped with advanced technology.The satellite - programmed to m...

OIL CRUNCH PRESSURES ARCTIC DRILLING

2008-06-22

The oil-rich and ecologically fragile Arctic National Wildlife Refuge will be a prime drilling target if the US congress agrees to President's George Bush call to end the ban on offshore oil drilling that includes areas near the northern ice cap....

CHINA RACES TO TOP CO2 LEADER

2008-06-22

China's CO2 emissions raced 14 percent ahead of the total emitted by the United States last year, according to a report from the Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency. The Dutch report ranks India, with a population of more than one bill...

NUCLEAR OPTION FACES OPPOSITION

2008-06-21

Nuclear power is the most contentious option for widening a UN mechanism for rich nations to invest and get credits for cutting greenhouse gas emissions. "It's one of the issues that needs to be considered," Yvo de Boer, head of the U.N. Clima...

UN ACTION PLAN TO SAVE ASIAN FORESTS

2008-06-20

The UN has agreed on a plan of action to stop deforestations in greater Asia by the year 2020.As well as causing large-scale land degradation, the removal of forest trees is regarded by land-care experts as being a primary cause of global warming...

CRITICS CONDEMN CO2 GO SLOW

2008-06-20

Environmentalists have accused the United States, Canada and Australia of being deliberately slow in taking action in the fight against climate change. "The agenda has never been bigger, progress has never been slower," said Bill Hare of Green...

CLIMATE DEAL COMING SOON

2008-06-19

A new deal to prevent the implosion of severe climate changes is likely to be in place by December 2009 ahead of the termination of the non-binding Kyoto Protocol in 2012. Kyoto caps greenhouse gases of some 37 industrialized countries. In Bal...

CALL FOR ENERGY TECH REVOLUTION

2008-06-18

The International Energy Agency (IEA) has called for an energy technology revolution to reverse the dangerous build up of atmospheric CO2 that threatens to trigger severe climate change. The energy watchdog for industrialized nations warned th...

ETHIOPIA DROUGHT SPURED BY WARMING

2008-06-17

A devastating drought in Ethiopia blamed partly as a consequence of climate change has caused food shortages affecting 5 million people. An estimated 4.6 million people require immediate aid, United Nations Humanitarian Affairs sources told Da...

ACADEMIES DEMAND CO2 CAPTURE

2008-06-17

Science academies worldwide are collectively urging that power stations be fitted with carbon dioxide capturing technology to avoid "dangerous and irreversible" climate change. The academies have issued warning documents over rising CO2 as a p...

10 YEARS AND THEN IT GETS HOT

2008-06-16

While La Nina conditions have brought unseasonably cold weather to Europe Earth's temperatures are expected to rise quickly within 10 years, according to a new computer model developed by German researchers.Climate scientists have welcomed the fo...

HYDROGEN FORUM SEEKS BREAKTHROUGHS

2008-06-16

An international forum on hydrogen that begins in Australia today is expected to provide new breakthroughs in energy technology.The forum in Brisbane will be attended by car manufacturers and engineers, who have been examining ways of supplying e...

GREEN TECH EXCHANGE TO GO GLOBAL

2008-06-15

A framework for an open global exchange for green technology will come under the spotlight when the Group of Eight rich nations meet next month.Senior World Bank executives told Daily Planet Media that tariffs were hindering the spread of green t...

DISPOSABLE CHOPSTICKS GET CHOPPED

2008-06-15

Taiwan's hungry take away consumers are being encouraged to join an environmental push by declining disposable chopsticks when they take away meals from 10, 000 convenience storesUntil 1 July four convenience store chains will provide wooden sing...

CLIMATE IMPACT FASTER THAN EXPECTED

2008-06-14

A prominent group of Australians - including leading scientists and health experts - issued an urgent statement today claiming that global warming was happening much faster than expected and the chances of avoiding severe climate change were fast...

$BILLIONS TO TURN COAL TO OIL

2008-06-14

US, China, Australia and India are poised to spend billions of dollars to turn vast coal reserves into liquid oil.While environmentalists condemn the coal-to-liquid (CTL) process for creating excessive global warming greenhouse gases, more than 1...

US TURNAROUND ON EMISSIONS CAPS

2008-06-13

In an unexpected turnaround, the US will tell a July meeting of the Group of Eight rich nations that it will support big cuts in emissions of planet-warming gases by 2020.Contradicting chief climate negotiator Harlan Watson statement that it's "n...

HYDROGEN TEST CARS ON LA ROADS

2008-06-13

A major hydrogen refueling station will be established in Los Angeles that is likely to be the first of many.General Motors Corp is developing fuel cell-powered vehicles, which run on hydrogen and emit only water vapor, and GM is partnering with ...

CLIMATE CHANGE IMPACTS ON AFRICA

2008-06-12

Before and after satellite images show a dramatic change in Africa's landscape as a direct result of more recent climate change.The latest images shot from space show that the glaciers in the Rwenzori Mountains straddling Tanzania and Uganda have...

DOLPHINS "MASS SUICIDE" IN CORNWALL

2008-06-12

British pathologist Vic Simpson has diagnosed 26 deceased dolphins that died after beaching in Cornwall as "mass suicide".After examining some of the 26 dead mammals on behalf of the Zoological Society in London Simpson told Daily Planet Media th...

NEW GERMAN CAR TAX LINKED TO CO2

2008-06-12

Germany will have a new green car tax linked to CO2 emissions from 2010 - measure that is likely to be followed by other other European countries to curb global warming.The coalition parties headed by Chancellor Angela Merkel determined all new c...

GREAT LAKES LOSING WATER

2008-06-11

Global warming over the next century will lower the Great Lakes and expose toxic sediment that has been buried threatening water quality, a report from he Healing Our Waters-Great Lakes Coalition has revealed.Climate change would melt all the win...

WASHING WITHOUT WATER

2008-06-11

A washing machine that uses plastic chips instead of water will go on sale next year and is being touted as valuable possession in country's that have long dry seasons.The technology uses only one a cup of water for a washing load has been develo...

CHINA'S CARBON FOOTPRINT DOUBLES

2008-06-10

China's ecological footprint had doubled in size since the 1960's with the demand for resources twice as much as the country's ecosystems could sustainably supply, according to a report from WWF International.And the next 20 years would place eve...

USA LEADS CLIMATE LIVING INDEX

2008-06-10

The United States has taken the lead position as the largest consumer of natural resources on the planet, followed by the United Arab Emirates, Finland, Canada, Kuwait and Australia.The annual Climate Living Index, which measures humanity's deman...