Tiempo Climate Newswatch

January 2007

January 31 2007: Worldwatch Institute - As oil giant ExxonMobil begins to engage environmental groups on the issue of climate change, Eye on Earth interviews Oystein Dahle, chairman of the board at the Worldwatch Institute and a former vice president of Esso Norway (2:51 minutes). - OneWorld

January 31 2007: Climate change to roast Sydney, say scientists - VietnamNews.Net

January 31 2007: Rate rises slow manufacturing - GROWTH in Australia's manufacturing industry slowed in January due to higher interest rates and the drought, an index show. - The Australian

January 31 2007: US senator stumbles into race storm - The Australian

January 31 2007: Flooding closes north Queensland roads - Police have warned motorists in north Queensland of traffic delays caused by flooding on the Bruce Highway, south of Townsville. - The Age

January 31 2007: Climate change a national issue: Iemma - The Age

January 31 2007: Manufacturing growth slows in Jan: PMI - Growth in Australia's manufacturing industry slowed in January due to weakening demand, supply shortages and the drought, new figures show. - The Age

January 31 2007: US Lawmakers Call For Long-Overdue Action On Global Warming - Terra Daily

January 31 2007: Washington DC (AFP) Jan 31, 2007 - US lawmakers called Tuesday for an end to American complacency over global warming as the new Democratic-controlled Congress weighed measures to reduce greenhouse gases. After years of relegating climate change to the bottom of the legislative agenda, Democrats who wrested control of the House and the Senate from the Republicans in November elections, have vowed to make it a priority. - Terra Daily

January 31 2007: Global Warming Rise Of Over 4C If Atmospheric Carbon Doubles - Terra Daily

January 31 2007: Paris, France (AFP) Jan 31, 2007 - Earth's surface temperature could rise by 4.5 C (8.1 F) if carbon dioxide levels double over pre-industrial levels, but higher warming cannot be ruled out, according to a draft report under debate by the UN's top climate experts here Tuesday. The draft -- being discussed line by line at the four-day meeting of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) -- grimly states that the evidence for man-made influence on the climate system is now stronger than ever. - Terra Daily

January 31 2007: Europe And Asia Must Up Response To Natural Disasters - Terra Daily

January 31 2007: Deepest Antarctica A Testbed For Global Warming - Terra Daily

January 31 2007: Concordia Base, Antarctica (AFP) Jan 31, 2007 - As top scientists meet in the comfort of Paris to hammer out a major report on climate change, a handful of their confreres hunkered down on a frozen plateau in the middle of Antarctica painstakingly gather warning signs of global warming. A century ago, Antarctica was deemed a forbidding frozen wilderness, a place irredeemably hostile to settlement or even human life itself. - Terra Daily

January 31 2007: Beijing (AFP) Jan 31, 2007 - China's biggest telecommunications firms have restored nearly all phone and Internet capacity that was affected by last month's cable-severing earthquake near Taiwan, state media reported Tuesday. China Telecom and China Netcom said major cables handling fiber-optic traffic, mostly between China and North America, had been "basically" fixed, the Beijing Youth Daily reported. - Terra Daily

January 31 2007: Paris (AFP) Jan 30, 2007 - Demands for a world summit on climate change gathered pace on Tuesday as scientists pored over a draft report that says by 2100 global warming will unleash bouts of extreme heat, dryness and rainfall and make typhoons and hurricanes more violent. The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) on Tuesday became the second UN organisation to urge new Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon to call a paramount meeting on global warming. - Terra Daily

January 31 2007: African Leaders Urge Rich Nations To Do More To Curb Global Warming - Terra Daily

January 31 2007: Addis Ababa (AFP) Jan 30, 2007 - African leaders urged richer nations to do more to curb global warming Tuesday, calling for greater compliance with international protocols such as the troubled Kyoto agreement. In a joint statement issued at the end of an African Union summit, they also said greater levels of coordination were needed on the continent which experts say will suffer the most catastrophic consequences of climate change. - Terra Daily

January 31 2007: SYDNEY HEAT DEATHS TO SOAR DUE TO CLIMATE CHANGE - Stuff

January 31 2007: Candidates warm to climate change issue - Sydney Morning Herald

January 31 2007: In a spin over climate change - Sydney Morning Herald

January 31 2007: Editorial: In a spin over climate change - Sydney Morning Herald

January 31 2007: 30 January 2007 | ERMA - Christchurch will be the venue for an ERMA New Zealand Authority hearing on a Crop and Food Research application to field test four genetically modified brassica species. - Scoop

January 31 2007: Energy Savings In Hot Water - Scoop

January 31 2007: Ranking Winter Storms - Scientists at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) have devised a new, easy-to-understand scale to categorize major snowstorms ... > - Science Daily

January 31 2007: EcoWellness: Pollution and the heart ... - Science Daily

January 31 2007: Study: Next decade [apos]crucial[apos] on warming - Science Daily (Climate)

January 31 2007: Climate changes would transform Europe - Science Daily (Climate)

January 31 2007: Storage Of Greenhouse Gasses In Siberian Peat Moor - Science Daily (Climate)

January 31 2007: (January 31, 2007) - -- Wet peat moorlands form a sustainable storage place for the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide but are also a source of the much stronger greenhouse gas methane. According to Dutch researcher Wiebe ... > - Science Daily (Climate)

January 31 2007: Enhanced, Drought-tolerant Maize To Give African Farmers Options, Even With Global Warming - Science Daily (Climate)

January 31 2007: (January 30, 2007) - -- A vital research program that has already had significant impact on the lives of African farmers will accelerate its work for their benefit through the development and deployment of better drought ... > - Science Daily (Climate)

January 31 2007: EU pressures oil companies to fight climate change - Scientific American

January 31 2007: Global Warning: As Paris Blooms in Winter, Scientists Debate Climate Change - Scientific American

January 31 2007: U.S. environment scientists urge tougher smog rules - Scientific American

January 31 2007: Bird ranges move, but is it climate change? - Scientific American

January 31 2007: Scientists Urge Tighter Smog Limits - Sci-Tech Today

January 31 2007: U.S. astronauts Michael Lopez-Alegria and Sunita Williams on Wednesday were expected to make the first of three spacewalks over a nine-day period outside the international space station. - Federal scientists want to tighten smog standards, a plan that would run head-on into President Bush's hopes of weaning Americans from gasoline by using more smog-producing ethanol. - Sci-Tech Today

January 31 2007: Reef may benefit from global warming - On Line Opinion

January 31 2007: Snow Complicates Life for Alaska's Moose - Newsday (AP update)

January 31 2007: Slow Going on Global Warming Report - Newsday (AP update)

January 31 2007: Undersea Volcano May Have Caused Quakes - Newsday (AP update)

January 31 2007: Some Cool to Hot Term, 'Carbon Neutral' - Newsday (AP update)

January 31 2007: Japanese Captivated by Aurora - Newsday (AP update)

January 31 2007: SOMALIA: Puntland leader's plea for environment - IRIN

January 31 2007: Government meddling claimed in climate change science - International Herald Tribune

January 31 2007: By CORNELIA DEAN - Experts tell a House panel that the Bush administration has delayed, altered or watered down their findings on global warming. - International Herald Tribune

January 31 2007: Authors say the paper is nearly certain to conclude that there is at least a 90 percent chance that human-caused emissions are the main cause of warming since 1950. - International Herald Tribune

January 31 2007: Paxman accuses BBC of hypocrisy over environment - Guardian Unlimited

January 31 2007: Rats on a road trip reveal pollution-heart disease risk - Rats that rode in a truck on the New York State Thruway between Rochester and Buffalo and were exposed to the same highway pollution that motorists encounter, showed a drop in heart rate and effects on the autonomic nervous system, according to a study published this month in the journal Inhalation Toxicology. - EurekAlert!

January 31 2007: Sustainable Dev. - - Scientists in search of new consensus on climate change - EurActiv

January 31 2007: Environment - - EurActiv

January 31 2007: U.S. Congress Warming to Climate Debate - Environmental News Service

January 31 2007: WASHINGTON, DC - , January 30, 2007 (ENS) - Climate change took center stage at two Congressional hearings today, with a Senate committee providing a forum for senators to outline their positions on how the nation should tackle global warming and a House panel examining new allegations the Bush administration has censored climate scientists. - Environmental News Service

January 31 2007: EPA Staff Recommends Tighter Ozone Pollution Standards - Environmental News Service

January 31 2007: Shrinking Glaciers Thawed Faster in 2005 - Environmental News Service

January 31 2007: ZURICH, Switzerland - , January 29, 2007 (ENS) - Mountain glaciers around the world are melting more and more quickly, according to new data issued today that confirms the trend in accelerated ice loss over the past 25 years. Thinning of the ice on the majority of the world's glaciated mountain ranges averaged two-thirds of a meter (26 inches). - Environmental News Service

January 31 2007: The United States is to send a mission to China and India to market technologies that reduce greenhouse gas emissions in the world's two most populous nations, the US Commerce Department said Monday. The "clean-energy technologies trade mission" in April will be lead by US Commerce Assistant Secretary David Bohigian and involve a broad range of technologies such as renewable energy, energy efficiency and "clean" coal. - Terra Daily

January 31 2007: Washington DC (AFP) Jan 29, 2007 - The United States is to send a mission to China and India to market technologies that reduce greenhouse gas emissions in the world's two most populous nations, the US Commerce Department said Monday. The "clean-energy technologies trade mission" in April will be lead by US Commerce Assistant Secretary David Bohigian and involve a broad range of technologies such as renewable energy, energy efficiency and "clean" coal. - Terra Daily

January 31 2007: EcoWellness: Pollution and the heart - Earth Times

January 31 2007: Electric Utilities Hesitant to Reveal Climate Change Data - GreenBiz

January 31 2007: Alaska's Urban Moose Adjust To Heavy Snow - CBS

January 31 2007: Katie: Chills About Climate Change - CBS

January 31 2007: Couric & Co.: - Katie: Climate Change Chills - CBS

January 31 2007: Bush administration accused of pressuring scientists to downplay global warming - ABC News Online

January 31 2007: Sydney given 'doomsday' climate change warning - The CSIRO has issued Sydney with a dire warning about the impact of climate change on its future. - ABC News Online

January 31 2007: Major parties must address climate change causes: Brown - The Australian Greens say it is farcical for the Federal Government and the Opposition to express concern about water shortages while supporting policies that promote climate change. - ABC News Online

January 31 2007: Minister rejects Australia-only carbon trading scheme - ABC News Online

January 31 2007: The Tasmanian Conservation Trust says the state's climate change strategy must include targets to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. - ABC News Online

January 31 2007: Greens criticise 'self-serving' climate change report - The Australian Greens have labelled a report on climate change commissioned by the Energy Supply Association as self-serving. - ABC News Online

January 31 2007: Conservation groups are critical of the Tasmanian Government's plan to address climate change. - ABC News Online

January 31 2007: The Queensland Conservation Council is hoping to set a legal precedent to reduce the impact of coal mining on climate change. - ABC News Online

January 31 2007: Greenhouse gas cuts will cost $40b: report - ABC News Online

January 31 2007: Greenhouse gas cuts will cost $40b: report - The Energy Supply Association of Australia will today release a report showing a cut in greenhouse gas emissions by 30 per cent in the next 25 years would see power become twice as expensive. - ABC News Online

January 31 2007: Climate change report prompts calls for global summit - A draft report has fuelled demands by scientists for a world summit on climate change. - ABC News Online

January 31 2007: Business Council for Sustainable Energy supports case for renewable energy - ABC News Online

January 31 2007: Weather experts meet in Paris to discuss climate change - ABC News Online

January 31 2007: Australia ignoring solar power, says pioneer - ABC News Online

January 31 2007: State video shows Castro looking healthier - (Anita Snow) - Washington Times

January 31 2007: The new rules are part of the bloc's efforts to meet commitments under the - Protocol to lower emissions of the gases scientists blame for warming the... - Reuters

January 31 2007: Wednesday, January 31, 2007 7:16 AM ET - By Jeff Mason. BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The European Commission has proposed forcing oil companies to cut greenhouse gas emissions from drilling, refining,... - Reuters

January 31 2007: Correa supporters storm Ecuador’s congress - Financial Times

January 31 2007: Bush ‘distorted’ climate change reports - The Bush administration has routinely suppressed or ­distorted communication of climate change science to the public, a climate specialist at Nasa’s Goddard Institute said. - Financial Times

January 31 2007: German VAT effect fizzles but ECB stays on alert - Eurozone inflation in January was in line with the European Central Bank’s target, defying expectations it would be affected by a three percentage point rise in German value added tax. - Financial Times

January 31 2007: German VAT effect fizzles but ECB stays on alert - Eurozone inflation in January was in line with target - Financial Times

January 31 2007: Climate change and the soaring temperatures it is expected to bring to Sydney will cause a considerable rise in heat-related deaths among the elderly, according to a new report. - Financial Times

January 31 2007: Sydney climate change warning - BBC (Sci/Tech)

January 31 2007: Climate change warning for Sydney - BBC

January 31 2007: UK sees second warmest January - January is on course to be the second warmest the UK has seen since 1914, the Met Office says. - BBC

January 31 2007: US climate scientists pressured on climate change - New Scientist

January 31 2007: Melting of mountain glaciers is accelerating - New Scientist

January 31 2007: Corn Plants Reveal CO2 Emissions - North American corn crops map the history of greenhouse gas emissions. - Discovery Online

January 31 2007: Drought Continues in Hainan Province - China Internet information Centre

January 31 2007: EU court to hear farmer's pollution case - Ireland On-Line

January 31 2007: Status Quo Continued [analysis] - "After a cloudy sky, the great social storm that broke over Guinea, menacing the established regime, did not succeed in sweeping away the General-President. ... A great disillusionment, at the end of the day: the Conte page has not been turned and the recent popular demonstrations riots have not sounded the sunset of the Conte era." - Le Pays, Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso - All Africa News

January 31 2007: The Zambian government is coming under mounting criticism from local civic organisations for its apparent inability to assess recent flood damage across the country, making a coordinated response to the crisis impossible. - All Africa News

January 29 2007: Worldwide Glacier Melting Underlined in Newly Released Data - UNEP

January 29 2007: Zurich/Nairobi, 30 January 2007 - – Mountain glaciers around the world continue to melt, with new, still tentative figures for 2005 indicating a further average thickness reduction for a set of reference glaciers of 0.6 metre water equivalent (w.e.). On average, one metre water equivalent corresponds to 1.1 metre ice thickness. - UNEP

January 29 2007: World scientists discuss global warming - The Age

January 29 2007: Warm weather stops Pyrenean sled race - An annual dog sled race across the Pyrenees mountains spanning Spain, France and Andorra has been cancelled due to a lack of snow. - The Age

January 29 2007: Global warming threatens Indonesia lands - The Age

January 29 2007: Ice cores reveal climate change - The Age

January 29 2007: Munich Re Says Insurers Face Up To 7-Billion-Euro Bill From Winter Storm - Terra Daily

January 29 2007: Frankfurt (AFP) Jan 26, 2007 - The deadly winter storm that lashed much of northern Europe last week will cost the insurance industry between five and seven billion euros, Germany's Munich Re said Friday. The company, the world's second-largest reinsurer, said in a statement that it alone would face a pre-tax burden of up to 600 million euros (775 million dollars). It said Germany faced the biggest damage claims but that European neighbors had also been hit hard. - Terra Daily

January 29 2007: Paris (AFP) Jan 28, 2007 - Hundreds of the world's top climate scientists muster in Paris on Monday to frame a report expected to issue the bleakest assessment yet about global warming and its effects on the weather system. On Friday, they will issue the first update in six years of the scientific evidence for global warming. The 2001 report of the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) was in many ways a shocker. - Terra Daily

January 29 2007: Angolans Face Killer Floods As Death Toll Tops 80 - Terra Daily

January 29 2007: Luanda (AFP) Jan 26, 2007 - Relief and repair workers struggled Friday to deal with havoc wreaked by torrential rain and flash floods in Angola, where the death toll around the seaside capital Luanda rose to 81. "During search operations 10 more bodies were found in Luanda. The toll is now 81," fire service spokesman Faustino Sebastiao told AFP, adding that 18 people were known to be missing. Fifty-nine of the deaths were in Cacuaco, one of the worst-hit areas just north of the capital, a local official said over radio. - Terra Daily

January 29 2007: Turnbull calms the storm - Sydney Morning Herald

January 29 2007: Letters: Arresting climate change goes against the American way - Sydney Morning Herald

January 29 2007: Angola cholera cases rise sharply after floods - Scientific American

January 29 2007: World leaders urged to act on global warming study - Scientific American

January 29 2007: Preliminary tests show bird flu killed 31 chickens at a farm in western Japan, a local government official said Sunday, the latest in a string of recent outbreaks. - Scientists from around the world gathered Monday in Paris to finalize a long-awaited, authoritative report on climate change, expected to give a grim warning of temperatures worldwide. - Sci-Tech Today

January 29 2007: Scientists Meet on Global Warming - Sci-Tech Today

January 29 2007: Heavy Mich. Snow Blamed for Big Pileup - Newsday (AP update)

January 29 2007: Global Warming May Affect Indonesia Isles - Newsday (AP update)

January 29 2007: People in Nice in southeastern France enjoying unusually warm weather on the beach recently. - Profound climate changes in store, experts say - International Herald Tribune

January 29 2007: Speed of melting glaciers' destruction revealed - Guardian Unlimited (Science)

January 29 2007: AFRICA is being torn apart. And as Ethiopia's rift valley grows slowly wider, an international team of scientists is taking a unique opportunity to plot the progress of continents on the move. - Natural Environment Research Council - EurekAlert!

January 29 2007: MIT: Nanoengineered concrete could cut CO2 emissions - While government leaders argue about the practicality of reducing world emissions of carbon dioxide, researchers are seeking ways to make it happen. One group of engineers at MIT is focusing its work on the nanostructure of concrete, the world's most widely used material. The production of cement, the primary component of concrete, accounts for 5 to 10 percent of the world's total carbon dioxide emissions; the process is an important contributor to global warming. - EurekAlert!

January 29 2007: Climate Change Front and Center at World Economic Forum - Environmental News Service

January 29 2007: DAVOS, Switzerland - , January 29, 2007 (ENS) - U.S. Senator John McCain told the closing session of the World Economic Forum Sunday that he expects the U.S. Congress to take action on climate change very soon, and predicted that the Bush administration will follow suit. "I admit that it is very late, and it may not be enough," said McCain. - Environmental News Service

January 29 2007: read more - LCG, January 26, 2007--The California Public Utilities Commission (PUC) yesterday voted unanimously to adopt an interim Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Emissions Performance Standard in order to reduce emissions believed to cause global warming. The new standard is designed to block California utilities from importing power from coal-fired power plants located out-of-state. - EnergyOnline Daily News

January 29 2007: Sculptures that are here today and melted tomorrow - When snow and art mix, the result is fantastic - from castles, fairy-tale creatures, people, and animals to trains and playgrounds. - Christian Science Monitor

January 29 2007: On global warming, what US can learn from Europe - Christian Science Monitor

January 29 2007: The Evolution of Global Carbon Trading Announced at World Economic Forum - GreenBiz

January 29 2007: Scientists meet over future of global warming - ABC News Online

January 29 2007: Scientists gather to report on global warming - ABC News Online

January 29 2007: New data shows the melting of mountain glaciers worldwide is accelerating, a clear sign that climate change is also picking up, the UN environmental agency and scientists say. - ABC News Online

January 29 2007: Glaciers melting at increasing speed: UN - New data shows the melting of mountain glaciers worldwide is accelerating, a clear sign that climate change is also picking up, the UN environmental agency and scientists say. - ABC News Online

January 29 2007: Scientist says desalination plant risky for environment - ABC News Online

January 29 2007: Indonesian flood victims to receive EU aid - Washington Times

January 29 2007: Survey shows 13 pct of Americans never heard of global warming - Reuters

January 29 2007: Monday, January 29, 2007 6:17 AM ET - OSLO (Reuters) - Thirteen percent of Americans have never heard of global warming even though their country is the world's top source of greenhouse gases,... - Reuters

January 29 2007: Indonesia to invite finance ministers to UN environment talks - Reuters

January 29 2007: Monday, January 29, 2007 6:37 AM ET - About 100 environment ministers are expected to attend the talks, which are likely to launch formal negotiations about extending the UN's - Reuters

January 29 2007: UN chief seeks climate change summit - Financial Times

January 29 2007: Mountain glaciers around the world are melting at an unprecedented rate, according to new scientific data that will reinforce pressure on governments to take stronger action on global warming. - Financial Times

January 29 2007: Glaciers melting at unprecedented speed - Financial Times

January 29 2007: The BBC - Half of the world's energy needs in 2050 could be met by renewables and improved efficiency, says a new report commissioned by Greenpeace and Europe's Renewable Energy Council. - OneWorld

January 29 2007: Melting of glaciers 'speeds up' - BBC

January 29 2007: 'Major melt' for Alpine glaciers - BBC (Sci/Tech)

January 29 2007: Science in the snow - CNN

January 29 2007: Major climate change report looks set to alarm - New Scientist

January 29 2007: Climate Change Panel Convenes - Discovery Online

January 29 2007: The early news from the annual global warming meeting is stark. - Discovery Online

January 29 2007: First Sandstorm of the Year Scours NW China - China Internet information Centre

January 29 2007: Beijingers will be warned of "haze" in daily forecasts so they can avoid air pollution. From February 1 the city will report on humidity when it's at or below 80 percent. Shi Hannan, head of Beijing Municipal Environmental Bureau, said the 2007 target was 245 "blue sky"days. - China Internet information Centre

January 29 2007: 'Haze Warnings' for Beijing Residents - China Internet information Centre

January 29 2007: Report: Industrial China to Pay Ecological Price - China may succeed in transforming from an agricultural economy into an industrial one by 2015, but it still faces a gargantuan task to fully protect its environment, according to a report by China's top scientific institutions. - China Internet information Centre

January 29 2007: Indonesia Could Lose 2,000 Islands Due to Global Warming - ABC News

January 29 2007: Drought Drives Australians To Recycle Sewage Water - ABC News

January 28 2007: Learn to like recycled water - Beattie - CHRONIC drought and climate change will force all states to embrace recycled drinking water, Queensland Premier Peter Beattie said. - The Australian

January 28 2007: Militiamen storm oil city - The Australian

January 28 2007: Militiamen storm Nigerian oil city - The Age

January 28 2007: Cheap money threatens to stall growth - A flood of cheap money is putting pressure on the world's financial system, threatening to burst its banks and wash away five years of strong economic growth. - The Age

January 28 2007: Mud Volcano In Java May Continue To Erupt For Months And Possibly Years - Terra Daily

January 28 2007: Stern favours world carbon tax - OneWorld

January 28 2007: The Telegraph - Sir Nicholas Stern has spoken out in favour of a global carbon tax, warning that global warming represents "the biggest market failure the world has ever seen". - OneWorld

January 28 2007: 'Brainwashing' over climate change - Scoop

January 28 2007: Calif. Agency Sues over Air Pollution - Sci-Tech Today

January 28 2007: 3 Killed in Avalanches in French Alps - Newsday (AP update)

January 28 2007: Flash floods in Angola claim 71 lives - Mail & Guardian Online

January 28 2007: Blair raises hopes of global climate deal - Hopes for breakthrough on post-Kyoto climate change accord. - Guardian Unlimited

January 28 2007: Gaza street battles eclipse talks - Christian Science Monitor

January 28 2007: 'Special interests' destroying China’s environment - The political will exists to combat China’s pollution, but collusion between business and local governments remains a major obstacle. Jianqiang Liu asks: who is really harming the country’s interests? - OneWorld

January 28 2007: China admits moving slowly on climate - A Chinese Government report says the country has failed to make progress on protecting the environment over the last three years, as compared with other nations. - ABC News Online

January 28 2007: Incoming federal environment minister Malcolm Turnbull says drinking recycled waste water should not be ruled out as a permanent water supply for the big cities. - ABC News Online

January 28 2007: Incoming environment minister Malcolm Turnbull has called on the states and territories to urgently sign up to the Federal Government's $10 billion water plan during a whistlestop tour of New South Wales. - ABC News Online

January 28 2007: The New South Wales Department of Primary Industries has dismissed a report by the Total Environment Centre calling for tougher penalties on companies that do not conduct sustainable mining practices. - ABC News Online

January 28 2007: Thursday, January 25, 2007 12:45 AM ET - By Laura MacInnis. DAVOS, Switzerland (Reuters) - Developing countries stand to suffer the worst effects of global warming, and should not have to pay for a... - Reuters

January 28 2007: Cops raid Paloma over gas leak death - Police raid Paloma Industries and its parent company, Paloma, on suspicion of negligence in the 2005 death of a Tokyo student and injury of his brother due to carbon monoxide leaking from a gas-powered water heater. - The Japan Times

January 28 2007: Ministers inject fresh life into Doha talks - The Doha round of trade talks has juddered back to life, with leading countries expressing enthusiasm for clinching a deal during a Davos forum dominated by climate change. - Financial Times

January 28 2007: China admits to climate failings - A Chinese government report says the country has not made any progress on cleaning up its environment. - BBC (Asia/Pacific)

January 28 2007: Climate Change Experiment: the results are in - The BBC's Climate Change experiment has been successful and the results have been revealed in a television programme and on their website. You can check out the results for yourself. - OneWorld

January 27 2007: Sharing low-tech know-how across borders and organisations is essential for an independent and self-sufficient form of sustainable development. And now it's happening with this new online 'toolkit'. - OneWorld

January 27 2007: India committed to reducing carbon emissions: minister - VietnamNews.Net

January 27 2007: Towns hit by wild weather - TWO drought-stricken Queensland towns have been hit by storms, leaving one drenched but the other merely ravaged without much-needed rain. - The Australian

January 27 2007: Cyclone Serena slams Maria and her knockers - Sydney Morning Herald

January 27 2007: Antarctic ozone hole [#x2013] smaller this year - Scoop

January 27 2007: Engineers Devise New Process To Improve Energy Efficiency Of Ethanol Production - Science Daily

January 27 2007: Fruit Flies And Global Warming: Some Like It Hot - Science Daily

January 27 2007: (January 27, 2007) - -- Researchers working in Australia have discovered ways in which fruit flies might react to the extreme temperatures and fluctuations in global warming. Short-term exposure to high heat stress ("heat ... > - Science Daily (Climate)

January 27 2007: Global warming to speed up - Scientific American

January 27 2007: Warming makes predicting Alpine avalanches harder - Scientific American

January 27 2007: Calif. Agency Sues over Air Pollution - Sci-Tech Today

January 27 2007: Washington Wakes Up to Global Warming - Newsday (AP update)

January 27 2007: Conflict, climate to dominate AU summit - African leaders gather next week to debate the conflicts holding back development on the world's poorest continent, as well as the threat of global warming. Africa has been cursed by more conflicts than any other part of the world, and two of the bloodiest battlegrounds of recent years -- the Sudanese region of Darfur and Somalia -- will top the agenda. - Mail & Guardian Online

January 27 2007: 'Climate change deal near' - Tony Blair said today that the world could be on the verge of a major breakthrough on long-term climate change goals. - Guardian Unlimited

January 27 2007: Storm grows over Napoli's threat to world heritage coast - Guardian Unlimited

January 27 2007: US offers global warming strategy - Guardian Unlimited

January 27 2007: Mayors Seek $4 Billion Grant to Fight Global Warming - Environmental News Service

January 27 2007: Climate change report a 'wake-up call' for Howard - The federal Opposition says new research on climate change commissioned by the world's governments should be a massive wake-up call for Prime Minister John Howard. - ABC News Online

January 27 2007: Ord scheme may pose solution for drought - ABC News Online

January 27 2007: Cost of 1607 flood repeat '£13bn' - BBC (Sci/Tech)

January 27 2007: Blair sees hope of climate deal - Tony Blair tells the World Economic Forum a breakthrough on climate change may be near. - BBC

January 27 2007: Rainy Season Brings Mixed Blessings - This year's rainy season has brought some mixed blessings to farmers and aid agencies operating in Southern Africa, which experienced a spell of drought and famine last year. - All Africa News

January 27 2007: Floods Cut Off 43,000 in Tete Province - All Africa News

January 27 2007: Companies Accused of Dumping Toxic Waste - THE National Environment Management Authority (NEMA) is holding two companies responsible for dumping toxic waste near Kampala's largest slum. - All Africa News

January 27 2007: Atiku Pursues Bid for Presidency; Yar'Adua Storms Lagos - All Africa News

January 26 2007: Storm tears roofs off homes - The Australian

January 26 2007: Experts disagree on global warming pace - The Age

January 26 2007: Storm causes severe damage in Qld - A fierce storm with high winds has swept through Queensland's south-west, uprooting trees and ripping the roofs off homes and buildings. - The Age

January 26 2007: Three Bitten As Australia Drought Brings Out Snakes - Terra Daily

January 26 2007: Sydney (AFP) Jan 25, 2007 - At least five people including a child have been bitten by deadly snakes this week as a relentless drought draws thousands of slithering menaces out of the Australian bush, officials said Thursday. Three people have died of snake bites since the beginning of the year in Australia, home to all 10 of the most deadly snake species, but the latest victims all survived. - Terra Daily

January 26 2007: Two people froze to death in Moscow Thursday as snow storms, icy winds and transport troubles signalled the long-awaited arrival of winter, ending an exceptionally mild stretch of weather in Russia. "Full-fledged winter has arrived in the European part of Russia," Roman Vilfand, director of the state Meteorological Centre, said. The two deaths in the Russian capital were from hypothermia, while eight others were hospitalised over the past 24 hours, Russian news agencies reported, citing the health services. - Terra Daily

January 26 2007: Moscow (AFP) Jan 25, 2007 - Two people froze to death in Moscow Thursday as snow storms, icy winds and transport troubles signalled the long-awaited arrival of winter, ending an exceptionally mild stretch of weather in Russia. "Full-fledged winter has arrived in the European part of Russia," Roman Vilfand, director of the state Meteorological Centre, said. The two deaths in the Russian capital were from hypothermia, while eight others were hospitalised over the past 24 hours, Russian news agencies reported, citing the health services. - Terra Daily

January 26 2007: Drought Makes Climate Change Hot Election Issue In Australia - Terra Daily

January 26 2007: Sydney (AFP) Jan 25, 2007 - Australia's conservative leader signalled his acceptance Thursday that climate change will be a hot election issue this year, unveiling a multi-billion-dollar water rescue package for the world's driest inhabited continent. John Howard, previously criticised as a climate-change sceptic over his refusal to sign the Kyoto Protocol on global warming, described himself in a major address to the National Press Club as a "climate-change realist". - Terra Daily

January 26 2007: Climate Change Public Concern Is Rising Fast - Terra Daily

January 26 2007: Paris (AFP) Jan 25, 2007 - Thirty years ago, global warming was an issue restricted to a handful of climatologists who, clamouring in the wilderness, warned that uncontrolled burning of fossil fuels would damage Earth's climate. Today, opinion polls in many countries say climate change is now a concern that citizens often place just after unemployment, terrorism or a similarly key issue of prosperity or survival. - Terra Daily

January 26 2007: Arctic Region As Global Warming Barometer - Terra Daily

January 26 2007: Tromsoe, Norway (AFP) Jan 25, 2007 - The Arctic Ocean's pack ice is expected to disappear entirely in the coming decades and will bring unforeseeable changes to the region, international experts meeting this week in Norway said. For many participants at the Arctic Frontiers conference held in the northern Norwegian town of Tromsoe, 2,000 kilometres (1,200 miles) south of the North Pole, the pace of global warming is staggering. - Terra Daily

January 26 2007: Greenbelt MD (SPX) Jan 26, 2007 - When a small pebble drops into a serene pool of water, it causes a ripple in the water in every direction, even disturbing distant still waters. NASA researchers have found a similar process at work in the atmosphere: tiny particles in the air called aerosols can cause a rippling effect on the climate thousands of miles away from their source region. The researchers found that dust particles from the desert regions in northern Africa can produce climate changes as far away as the northern Pacific Ocean. Large quantities of dust from North Africa are injected into the atmosphere by dust storms and rising air. - Terra Daily

January 26 2007: Nestlé boss Peter Brabeck-Letmathe admits that climate change is a fact of life, but says that markets forces could be used to attenuate some of its impact. - Swiss Info

January 26 2007: Spectacular comet on way out - Stuff

January 26 2007: Righteous carbon crusaders let down by V8 - Sydney Morning Herald

January 26 2007: Killer storm: snow causes 50-car pile-up in US - Sydney Morning Herald

January 26 2007: Worldwide Solution to Global Warming - Scoop

January 26 2007: Carbon Monoxide Protects Mice From Multiple Sclerosis - Science Daily

January 26 2007: Magnetic, Luminescent Nanoparticles Set New Standard - Researchers at UC Davis have created a new type of nanoparticles that could be used in tests for environmental pollution or contamination of food products, and for medical ... > - Science Daily

January 26 2007: (January 26, 2007) - -- Researchers at UC Davis have created a new type of nanoparticles that could be used in tests for environmental pollution or contamination of food products, and for medical ... > - Science Daily (Climate)

January 26 2007: Study Explores Effect Of Genetically Modified Crops On Developing Countries - Science Daily

January 26 2007: Traffic pollution can stunt lung development: study - Scientific American

January 26 2007: Genes play bigger role than environment in anorexia: specialist - Scientific American

January 26 2007: Calif. Agency Sues over Air Pollution - Sci-Tech Today

January 26 2007: 10 Arrested in China Pollution Protest - Newsday (AP update)

January 26 2007: Anchorage Is Getting Socked With Snow - Newsday (AP update)

January 26 2007: Carbon monoxide may protect against MS symptoms - New Scientist

January 26 2007: Problems ahead for biofuels, warns report - Biofuels produced from "energy crops" such as sugarcane, corn and soybean oil could create help developing nations to alleviate poverty and slow climate change - but could cause more problems than they solve, warns a report published today. - OneWorld

January 26 2007: Fruit flies and global warming -- Some like it hot - EurekAlert!

January 26 2007: February Geology and GSA Today media highlights - Topics include: a new technique for analyzing the relationship between climate and hurricane activity; discovery of fossilized embryos in advanced stages of development from South China; revised dispersal and extinction dating of the late Neogene "terror bird;" new data illustrating real-time changes beneath a large Antarctic glacier; evidence that mid-latitude North America's prevailing winds once blew from east to west, and recent formation of a mud volcano in an area of active petroleum exploration. - EurekAlert!

January 26 2007: Carnegie Mellon engineers devise new process to improve energy efficiency of ethanol production - EurekAlert!

January 26 2007: U.S. Senators Tackle Economic Impacts of Warming Bill - Environmental News Service

January 26 2007: WASHINGTON, DC - , January 26, 2007 (ENS) – A global warming bill drafted to attract broad bipartisan support would have little impact on the U.S. economy but would do little to curb the nation's greenhouse gas emissions, experts told the Senate Energy Committee Wednesday. - Environmental News Service

January 26 2007: Michigan Signs Onto Midwest Greenhouse Gas Registry - Environmental News Service

January 26 2007: WASHINGTON, DC - , January 23, 2007 (ENS) - In his State of the Union speech to a joint session of Congress tonight, President George W. Bush made it clear he is concerned about disruptions to the American energy supply. The President emphasized energy conservation and alternative fuels as well as more domestic oil production and a doubling of the Strategic Petroleum Reserve. - Environmental News Service

January 26 2007: Giant Earthquake Jolts Japan, But Tsunami Warnings Cancelled - Environmental News Service

January 26 2007: UK Tests Six Ways to Reduce Flooding, Coastal Erosion - Environmental News Service

January 26 2007: 2007 El Nino Pushing Superheated Globe to New Record - Environmental News Service

January 26 2007: ExxonMobil Accused of Using Big Tobacco Tactics on Global Warming - Environmental News Service

January 26 2007: LCG, January 26, 2007--The California Public Utilities Commission (PUC) yesterday voted unanimously to adopt an interim Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Emissions Performance Standard in order to reduce emissions believed to cause global warming. The new standard is designed to block California utilities from importing power from coal-fired power plants located out-of-state. - EnergyOnline Daily News

January 26 2007: India prepares for a greenhouse future - The impacts of climate change on India's water, food production and forests are the subject of a major UK-Indian collaborative research study, announced at an international sustainability summit in Delhi this week. - EDIE

January 26 2007: Wessex Water Awards COD Contract to Hach Lange - The COD (chemical oxygen demand) test is one of the most important analyses conducted by the wastewater sector. It is a measure of organic pollution, and is the most frequently mentioned parameter in European environmental legislation. - EDIE

January 26 2007: Nuclear risk up in a warming world - EDIE

January 26 2007: Snow Causes 50-Car Pileup In Pennsylvania - CBS

January 26 2007: * - Snow Causes 50-Car Pileup In Pennsylvania - CBS

January 26 2007: PM shrugs off Flannery's climate change criticism - ABC News Online

January 26 2007: Floods expected to boost bird breeding - A leading ecologist expects flooding in South Australia's north to lead to an increase in the number of waterbirds there. - ABC News Online

January 26 2007: Govts urged to play bigger role in climate change battle - Canberra's Anglican bishop says the honouring of environmentalist Tim Flannery as Australian of the Year highlights the importance of climate change. - ABC News Online

January 26 2007: Flannery criticises Govt's late response to climate change - ABC News Online

January 26 2007: Eurozone money supply in record growth - Financial Times

January 26 2007: EU stumbles on low-carbon road - BBC (Sci/Tech)

January 26 2007: Insurers 'face £2bn storm payout' - BBC (Europe)

January 26 2007: Click Here - Copyright Environment News Service (ENS) 2006. All Rights Reserved. - Environmental News Service

January 26 2007: Is 'Carbon Neutral' Good Enough? - OneWorld

January 26 2007: QuietRevolution: an elegant vertical axis turbine - This turbine is claimed to be very quiet, usable around buildings, easily integrated into towers and the general urban environment. - OneWorld

January 26 2007: Climate change, Middle East dominate agenda - CNN (Europe)

January 26 2007: Drumlin formed in a blink of geological time - The whale-shaped hills were thought to be slowly built up – the findings could have implications for the computer models used to predict glacier flow - New Scientist

January 26 2007: Maximum Fine for Chemical Plant Pollution - China Internet information Centre

January 26 2007: Steady rainfall is hindering mopping-up operations after widespread flooding in southern Africa, while relief organisations prepared for cholera outbreaks and damage assessments could not be completed because roads have become impassable. - All Africa News

January 25 2007: Steiner Announces Finalists for 2007 Environment & Development Awards - UNEP

January 25 2007: World Economic Forum, Davos, Switzerland - 25 January 2007: - Achim Steiner, Executive Director of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), today announced the 10 finalists for one of five Supporting Entrepreneurs for Environment and Development (Seed) Awards. - UNEP

January 25 2007: Bleak Outlook for Environment in Kathmandu Valley - UNEP

January 25 2007: Wall St hammered - WALL Street shares took a pounding today as a jump in bond yields stoked fears that the low interest rate environment fuelling economic and profit growth may be in jeopardy. - The Australian

January 25 2007: Snowstorms Kill Four Bring Traffic Chaos To Europe - Terra Daily

January 25 2007: Paris (AFP) Jan 24, 2007 - Snowstorms swept across western and central Europe for a second day on Wednesday, killing four people, stranding thousands of air travellers and leaving hundreds of drivers trapped on freezing, logjammed roads. A 72-year-old woman died in the southern Spanish city of Seville when a tree branch fell on her head in high winds, while three people died in German road accidents, including a bus driver, who had a head-on collision with a lorry. - Terra Daily

January 25 2007: Durham UK (SPX) Jan 25, 2007 - The first scientific report into the causes and impact of Lusi, the Indonesian mud volcano, reveals that the 2006 eruption will continue to erupt and spew out between 7,000 and 150,000 cubic metres of mud a day for months, if not years to come, leaving at least 10 km2 around the volcano vent uninhabitable for years and over 11,000 people permanently displaced. - Terra Daily

January 25 2007: Bush Refuses To Yield On Global Warming - Terra Daily

January 25 2007: Washington (AFP) Jan 25, 2007 - President George W. Bush refused to back down on his position on tackling global warming as he unveiled a new energy initiative this week that failed to convince environmentalists. Bush briefly discussed global warming during his annual State of the Union address to Congress Tuesday, proposing a plan to slash America's dependence on foreign oil by using new technologies. - Terra Daily

January 25 2007: Paris (AFP) Jan 24, 2007 - Small, brown-haired and soft-voiced, Pascale Braconnot cuts an unlikely figure as Master of Planet Earth. But with a few deft movements of her fingers, Braconnot can conjure up our planet and spin it until the end of the century. At her command, oceans rise. Tropical Africa becomes stricken by drought. - Terra Daily

January 25 2007: Jerry Collins to undergo shoulder surgery - All Blacks flanker Jerry Collins needs shoulder surgery but is expected to be fit to play for the Hurricanes on schedule in round eight of the Super 14. - Stuff

January 25 2007: Facing global warming, are people like frogs? - Stuff

January 25 2007: Media can help fight climate change in Africa - SciDev.Net

January 25 2007: Living in a haze: China's pollution woes - SciDev.Net

January 25 2007: Cheap, easy trick for rural Nepal against earthquakes - Nepalese engineers have unveiled a cheap and easy method to protect rural houses, in preparation for Nepal's expected earthquake. - SciDev.Net

January 25 2007: A highly contagious form of stomach flu sickened hundreds of passengers during a worldwide voyage on a famed cruise ship in what health officials called an unusually large outbreak. - The South Coast Air Quality Management District sued California public utility officials, claiming the liquefied natural gas that officials approved for use in the state could worsen air pollution. - Sci-Tech Today

January 25 2007: Calif. Agency Sues over Air Pollution - Sci-Tech Today

January 25 2007: New Culprit in Indonesia Mud Volcano - Sci-Tech Today

January 25 2007: Shipping Company Fined $1M for Pollution - Newsday (AP update)

January 25 2007: Atomic-scale 'drum skins' made from carbon atoms - New Scientist

January 25 2007: Flash floods in Angola claim 71 lives - Seventy-one people have died in flash floods following torrential rains across Angola, with almost all the fatalities reported in the seaside capital Luanda, the fire service said on Thursday. Luanda is home to about 4,5-million people and despite Angola's oil riches has a skeletal infrastructure, which has been further damaged by the downpours. - Mail & Guardian Online

January 25 2007: Floods kill at least 44 in Angola, Mozambique - Mail & Guardian Online

January 25 2007: ANGOLA-MOZAMBIQUE-ZAMBIA: Flooding causes chaos in the southern African region - IRIN

January 25 2007: By TIM JOHNSTON - An archaeological find absolved climate change in the killing of 90 percent of the continent's largest animals about 45,000 years ago. - International Herald Tribune

January 25 2007: January 25: - Scientists claim switch would trim greenhouse gas emissions and reduce road accidents. - Guardian Unlimited (Science)

January 25 2007: Study explores the effect of genetically modified crops on developing countries - How does the arrival of genetically modified crops affects farmers in developing countries? Glenn Davis Stone (Washington University) studied the Warangal District of Andhra Pradesh in India, a key cotton growing area notorious for suicides by cotton farmers. In 2003 to 2005, market share of "Bt cotton" seeds rose from 12 percent to 62 percent in Warangal. Bt cotton is genetically modified to produce its own insecticide and has been claimed by its manufacturer as the fastest-adopted agricultural technology in history. - EurekAlert!

January 25 2007: SAN FRANCISCO, California - , December 12, 2006 (ENS) - Planting forests in temperate regions such as the United States and Europe may not yield any benefit for the global climate, and may instead contribute to warming, according to a new study set for presentation Saturday at the American Geophysical Society annual meeting in San Francisco. - Environmental News Service

January 25 2007: WASHINGTON, DC - , December 11, 2006 (ENS) - Last week in a push lasting into the early hours of Saturday morning, the outgoing 109th Congress passed and sent to the President environmental measures dealing with fisheries, drilling in the Gulf of Mexico, tax credits for solar and wind energy, tsunami and drought warnings, and protection of wilderness lands in Nevada. - Environmental News Service

January 25 2007: Regional Nuclear War Could Devastate Global Environment - Environmental News Service

January 25 2007: Two Years After Tsunami Thousands Live in Barracks - Environmental News Service

January 25 2007: LONDON, UK - , December 8, 2006 (ENS) - At least 25,000 poor and landless families in Aceh, Indonesia have yet to be re-housed nearly two years after the Indian Ocean tsunami swept their homes away and destroyed their land, the international aid agency Oxfam said Thursday in new report on the progress of recovery from the disaster. - Environmental News Service

January 25 2007: GENEVA, Switzerland - , December 8, 2006 (ENS) - Prolonged flooding in the Horn of Africa has placed up to 1.8 million people at risk of infectious diseases such as cholera, measles, malaria as well as nutritional deficiencies, the World Health Organization said today. - Environmental News Service

January 25 2007: Active Atlantic Hurricane Season Forecast for 2007 - Environmental News Service

January 25 2007: FORT COLLINS, Colorado - , December 8, 2006 (ENS) - No hurricane touched the U.S. coastline in 2006, but that unusual respite is not likely to be repeated next year, according to the early season forecast issued today by Colorado State University's forecasting team. - Environmental News Service

January 25 2007: Marine Plants Die in Warmer Oceans, Speeding Climate Change - Environmental News Service

January 25 2007: GREENBELT, Maryland - , December 7, 2006 (ENS) - Global warming is reducing the numbers of microscopic plants in the world's oceans, a new study of satellite data reveals. Scientists say that means there are fewer plants to absorb the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide humans are pumping into the atmosphere, leading to a further increase in global warming. - Environmental News Service

January 25 2007: Climate Change Increases Food Security Concerns - Environmental News Service

January 25 2007: WASHINGTON, DC - , December 5, 2006, (ENS) – The developing world’s struggle for food security will increase unless new crop varieties are deployed to help poor farmers adapt to climate change, agricultural experts and climate scientists warned Monday. - Environmental News Service

January 25 2007: Industrial Countries' Greenhouse Gas Emissions Going Up - Environmental News Service

January 25 2007: Failure to Manage Global Warming Would Cripple World Economy - Environmental News Service

January 25 2007: Growth of Global Greenhouse Gas Emissions Accelerating - Environmental News Service

January 25 2007: British Travel Agents Launch Carbon Offset Scheme - Environmental News Service

January 25 2007: EU Parliamentary Panel Urges 2020 Carbon Dioxide Target - Environmental News Service

January 25 2007: Canada Backs Away From Kyoto Protocol Commitment - Environmental News Service

January 25 2007: Horn of Africa Suffers Floods After Parching Drought - Environmental News Service

January 25 2007: Growth of Atmospheric Methane Stablizes, May Slow Global Warming - Environmental News Service

January 25 2007: Climate Change Dislocates Migratory Animals, Birds - Environmental News Service

January 25 2007: INSIGHTS: Global Warming an All-Encompassing Threat - Environmental News Service

January 25 2007: Climate Change Pushing Bird Species Into Oblivion - Environmental News Service

January 25 2007: 25 Percent Renewable Energy by 2025 Possible for USA - Environmental News Service

January 25 2007: Environment Wins in Democratic Landslide - Environmental News Service

January 25 2007: Canadian Cities Petition U.S. to Cut Power Plant Pollution - Environmental News Service

January 25 2007: Govt rejects green group's call for mining crackdown - The New South Wales Department of Primary Industries has dismissed a report by the Total Environment Centre calling for tougher penalties on companies that do not conduct sustainable mining practices. - ABC News Online

January 25 2007: The New South Wales Department of Primary Industries (DPI) has dismissed a report by the Total Environment Centre (TEC) calling for tougher penalties on companies that do not conduct sustainable mining practices. - ABC News Online

January 25 2007: Flannery urges climate change action - The Australian of the Year, scientist Tim Flannery, says the Prime Minister's water plan means little unless governments take urgent action on the bigger issue of climate change. - ABC News Online

January 25 2007: The Australian of the Year, Tim Flannery, says he will use the opportunity to try to do something about global warming. - ABC News Online

January 25 2007: The Federal Member for Kalgoorlie, Barry Haase, says he has begun lobbying new Federal Environment Minister Malcolm Turnbull for a decision on whether the city of Kalgoorlie will be included in a solar power initiative. - ABC News Online

January 25 2007: U.S. delegate Harlan L. Watson and German delegate Karsten Sach chat prior to the start of the 5th informal meeting on further actions against climate change in Tokyo yesterday. (AP) - Washington Times

January 25 2007: By David R. Sands - It was overlooked by Beltway pundits and ignored in the Democratic rebuttal, but President Bush's brief State of the Union comments on "the serious challenge of global climate change" sparked sharp interest, comment and criticism around the globe. - Washington Times

January 25 2007: VIDEO: Lord Levene on climate change - Financial Times

January 25 2007: Europe has to storm cross-border financial barriers - Financial Times

January 25 2007: Maximum fine over China pollution - BBC (World)

January 25 2007: Maximum fine for China pollution - BBC (Sci/Tech)

January 25 2007: Dozens die in Angola flash floods - BBC (World)

January 25 2007: Hunting hurricanes in Senegal - BBC (Africa)

January 25 2007: Chinese village with a deadly story - China is the world's fourth largest economy, but with the boom have come problems, not least for the environment says Daniel Griffiths. - BBC (From Our Own Correspondent)

January 25 2007: Your snow pics - BBC

January 25 2007: DAVOS 2007 - Climate change, Middle East dominate agenda - CNN (Europe)

January 25 2007: Magnetic, luminescent nanoparticles set new standard - Researchers at UC Davis have created a new type of nanoparticles that could be used in tests for environmental pollution or contamination of food products, and for medical diagnostics. - EurekAlert!

January 25 2007: Company Fined for Water Pollution - China Internet information Centre

January 25 2007: West sees population increase for first time since famine - Ireland On-Line

January 25 2007: Purple Haze: Dead Rockers Sell Souls, Bring in $$ - ABC News

January 24 2007: Climate change 'fanning conflict, terror' - The Australian

January 24 2007: Climate change 'may fan terrorism' - The Age

January 24 2007: The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), which meets here next week to issue its first overall report in six years, is the world's paramount scientific authority on global warming. Set up in 1988 by the UN's World Meteorological Organisation (WMO) and the UN Environment Programme (UNEP), the IPCC assesses and summarises the best available data on greenhouse gases and climate change. - Terra Daily

January 24 2007: Paris (AFP) Jan 23, 2007 - The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), which meets here next week to issue its first overall report in six years, is the world's paramount scientific authority on global warming. Set up in 1988 by the UN's World Meteorological Organisation (WMO) and the UN Environment Programme (UNEP), the IPCC assesses and summarises the best available data on greenhouse gases and climate change. - Terra Daily

January 24 2007: Snow Brings French And Swiss Traffic Chaos And Relief For Ski Resorts - Terra Daily

January 24 2007: Lyon, France (AFP) Jan 24, 2007 - Snow brought traffic chaos to much of eastern France and parts of Switzerland on Tuesday but offered a degree of hope to ski resorts who have been forced to close because of mild weather during much of the season so far. Between 1,500 and 2,000 motorists were stuck in their cars in eastern France and lorries, several of which had jackknifed on motorways in the region during the day, were banned from circulating. - Terra Daily

January 24 2007: Swansea, UK (SPX) Jan 24, 2007 - Scientists have discovered a warehouse-sized drumlin - a mound of sediment and rock - actively forming and growing under the ice sheet in Antarctica. Its discovery, and the rate at which it was formed, sheds new light on ice-sheet behaviour. This could have implications for predicting how ice sheets contribute to sea-level rise. The results are published this week in the journal Geology. - Terra Daily

January 24 2007: Sydney (AFP) Jan 23, 2007 - A team of British and Canadian adventurers has described the "surreal" experience of arriving at the most remote point in Antarctica -- only to find a bust of Russian revolutionary Vladimir Lenin. The team was the first to reach the Pole of Inaccessibility (POI), the point on the Antarctic continent that is farthest from all surrounding seas, on foot. But an expedition from the former Soviet Union, using huge mechanised snow vehicles, reached the pole in 1958 and set up a small camp there. - Terra Daily

January 24 2007: Indonesian Mud Volcano Caused By Drilling - Terra Daily

January 24 2007: Paris (AFP) Jan 23, 2007 - A mud volcano that has erupted in Indonesia, forcing the evacuation of thousands of villagers, was most probably caused by drilling for gas, according to the first published scientific study into the phenomenon. The eruption "appears to have been triggered by drilling of overpressured porous and permeable limestones at depth of around 2,830 metres (7,735 feet) below the surface," says the study, conducted by British experts and published in a US journal. - Terra Daily

January 24 2007: Davis (SPX) Jan 24, 2007 - The transition from an ice age to an ice-free planet 300 million years ago was highly unstable, marked by dips and rises in carbon dioxide, extreme swings in climate and drastic effects on tropical vegetation, according to a study published in the journal Science Jan. 5. - Terra Daily

January 24 2007: Bright comet visible with naked eye - Stuff

January 24 2007: New deals lower cost of carbon conscience - Sydney Morning Herald

January 24 2007: Clear South Is Skies Capture Comet McNaught Glory - Scoop

January 24 2007: Mud Volcano In Java May Continue To Erupt For Months And Possibly Years - Science Daily

January 24 2007: (January 24, 2007) - -- The first scientific report into the causes and impact of Lusi, the Indonesian mud volcano, reveals that the 2006 eruption will continue to erupt and spew out between 7,000 and 150,000 cubic metres ... > - Science Daily (Climate)

January 24 2007: Scientists Observe Drumlin Beneath Ice Sheet - Science Daily

January 24 2007: (January 24, 2007) - -- Scientists have discovered a warehouse-sized drumlin -- a mound of sediment and rock -- actively forming and growing under the ice sheet in Antarctica. Its discovery, and the rate at which it was ... > - Science Daily (Climate)

January 24 2007: -- From Poker Flat Research Range north of Fairbanks, four NASA rockets launched into an aurora display over northern Alaska, starting at 3:29 a.m. Alaska Standard Time. Scientists hope to learn more ... > - Science Daily (Climate)

January 24 2007: Media can help fight climate change in Africa - SciDev.Net

January 24 2007: Living in a haze: China's pollution woes - SciDev.Net

January 24 2007: Climate change seen fanning conflict and terrorism - Scientific American

January 24 2007: Genetically modified chickens lay drugs in eggs - Scientific American

January 24 2007: Work on Rome's Palatine Hill has turned up new discoveries, including what might be the grotto where ancient Romans believed a wolf nursed the city's legendary founders Romulus and Remus. - A mud volcano that inundated dozens of villages was probably triggered by commercial gas drilling, research published in a respected scientific journal shows. - Sci-Tech Today

January 24 2007: New Culprit in Indonesia Mud Volcano - Sci-Tech Today

January 24 2007: Drilling Said Caused Indonesia Mud Volcano - Newsday (AP update)

January 24 2007: It's a consensus: The end is near - Evangelical Christians and scientists call for action, saying climate change - OneWorld

January 24 2007: ANGOLA-MOZAMBIQUE-ZAMBIA: Flooding causes chaos in the southern African region - IRIN

January 24 2007: Indonesia's mudflows attributed to drilling - A mud volcano that has inundated dozens of villages was probably triggered by commercial gas drilling, research published in a respected geological journal said. - International Herald Tribune

January 24 2007: Corporations urged to adapt to challenges of climate change - International Herald Tribune

January 24 2007: Are you a carbon criminal? - Guardian Unlimited

January 24 2007: The spectre of a nuclear war 60 years ago created the "doomsday clock," the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists' cold war chronometer. Today the threat of nuclear conflict remains and a new doomsday force is moving the clock hands: global warming. - OneWorld

January 24 2007: Sustainable Dev. - - Climate change to dominate Davos - EurActiv

January 24 2007: Could corporate America take the lead on climate change? - EurActiv

January 24 2007: Embattled Bush Launches Greenhouse Gas Crusade - Terra Daily

January 24 2007: A Daily Snapshot Of Carbon Usage In Figures - Terra Daily

January 24 2007: Paris (AFP) Jan 23, 2007 - Greenhouse-gas pollution, the driver for dangerous global warming, is all around us -- and almost as invisible are the huge disparities in individual emissions around the world and carbon cost of the things we buy. For instance, the average American, whose lifestyle is based on profligate burning of oil, gas and coal, causes nearly 10 times more carbon pollution than the average Kenyan. - Terra Daily

January 24 2007: Eat To Live: Food or fuel in future? - Oxfam, an international famine relief charity, has predicted that global warming could put 30 million more people at risk of starvation. - Earth Times

January 24 2007: Wind Power Capacity in U.S. Jumped 27% in 2006 - GreenBiz

January 24 2007: * - Global Warming Tops World Economic Meeting - CBS

January 24 2007: Haase wants light shed on Solar Cities decision - The Federal Member for Kalgoorlie, Barry Haase, says he has begun lobbying new Federal Environment Minister Malcolm Turnbull for a decision on whether the city of Kalgoorlie will be included in a solar power initiative. - ABC News Online

January 24 2007: The National Farmers Federation (NFF) says the incoming Environment and Water Resources Minister needs to make some difficult decisions and show leadership on water. - ABC News Online

January 24 2007: Cabinet reshuffle shows environment high on public agenda - ABC News Online

January 24 2007: carbon countdown - OneWorld

January 24 2007: Tokyo climate change meeting eyes post- - Reuters

January 24 2007: Tuesday, January 23, 2007 9:02 PM ET - Protocol obliges 35 developed nations to cut emissions of greenhouse gases to 5 percent below 1990 levels by 2008-12. But the nations signed up to... - Reuters

January 24 2007: protocol on climate change, clearly did not... - Reuters

January 24 2007: The world's leading climate sceptics claim that climate change goes in 1,500 year cycles which may have more to do with cosmic rays than fossil fuel emissions. - OneWorld

January 24 2007: Incentives ‘needed to fight climate change’ - Financial Times

January 24 2007: States should create a climate for change - Changes needed to tackle carbon dioxide emissions - Financial Times

January 24 2007: Carbon collision - The EU stumbles on the road to a lower carbon economy - BBC (Europe)

January 24 2007: Mudslides leave 16 dead in Peru - Floods and mudslides in central Peru leave at least 16 people dead and scores homeless, officials say. - BBC (Americas)

January 24 2007: Your pictures: Waking up to snow - BBC

January 24 2007: Warnings as heavy snow predicted - BBC

January 24 2007: De-frosting climate change issue - As Davos temperatures sink to sub-zero, talk turns to global warming - CNN

January 24 2007: Snow storms bring chaos to Europe - CNN

January 24 2007: Snow brings chaos to Europe - Three people have been killed as snow and ice caused travel chaos across Europe, halting trains and planes and cutting off electricity to thousands of homes. - CNN (Europe)

January 24 2007: Global warming key issue at Davos - CNN

January 24 2007: Indonesian mud volcano 'caused by gas drilling' - New Scientist

January 24 2007: Surprising downsides of car pollution - New Scientist

January 24 2007: 3) It's carbon judgment day - Guardian Unlimited

January 24 2007: West sees population increase for first time since famine - Ireland On-Line

January 24 2007: 'Bush's bravado has gone' - The state of the union address; environment secretary - Guardian Unlimited

January 24 2007: Southern Africa: - Flooding Causes Chaos in the Southern African Region - All Africa News

January 23 2007: Sustainable Development: Jubilee Wharf, UK - OneWorld

January 23 2007: Quake strikes deep under Pacific Ocean - A MAGNITUDE 6.2 earthquake struck deep below the Pacific Ocean today, off the islands of Vanuatu, the US Geological Survey said. - The Australian

January 23 2007: Bush to defend Iraq plan - US President George W. Bush will urge sceptical members of the US Congress to get behind his plan to increase US troops in Iraq in a State of the Union speech that seeks to address global climate change. - The Australian

January 23 2007: Women Struggle To Beat Ugandan Drought - Terra Daily

January 23 2007: Moroto (AFP) Uganda, Jan 21, 2007 - As day breaks over the bleak wilderness of northeastern Uganda, Maria Loumo begins her quest to feed her family, in the face of the third crippling drought in six years. "I get up early and then start looking for wild fruits and leaves. That is the only thing I can do to feed my family," said the mother of nine. The region of Karamoja, about 550 kilometres (330 miles) from the capital Kampala, is one of the remotest areas in Uganda and the least developed in the east African country. Now successive and relentless droughts have made life an even greater misery for its inhabitants, who are already beset by fighting between rival tribes. - Terra Daily

January 23 2007: Vancouver (AFP) Jan 21, 2007 - Canada will spend 30 million Canadian dollars (25.5 million US) to preserve the world's largest coastal temperate rainforest, home to aboriginal communities and tall trees, the federal government announced Sunday. "We know there is a strong link between a healthy ecosystem, a healthy society and Canada's economic prosperity," Environment Minister John Baird said in a statement. - Terra Daily

January 23 2007: Indonesian Mud Volcano Is Probably A Natural Event - Terra Daily

January 23 2007: Decomposition Of Plants Could Shed Light On Climate Change - Terra Daily

January 23 2007: Avoriaz Bears Witness To 40 Years Of Ups And Downs In Snow Industry - Terra Daily

January 23 2007: Avoriaz, France (AFP) Jan 21, 2007 - Perched high on a cliff face, at the heart of one of the biggest ski networks in the world, the resort of Avoriaz was 40 this weekend, a witness to the ups and downs of the snow industry in the French Alps. Avoriaz, which opened in 1967, was based on respect for nature. A founding principle was that there would be no cars beyond the entrance car park, and to this day people move around on foot, on ski or snowshoe, or in horse-drawn sleigh taxis. - Terra Daily

January 23 2007: Still chance to see the comet - Stuff

January 23 2007: NZ trio return for Hurricanes - Stuff

January 23 2007: Taipei (AFP) Jan 23, 2007 - Newly discovered earthquake damage to undersea cables and bad weather could delay the complete restoration of Asian Internet services until next month, telecom officials said last week. A spokesman for Taiwan's Chunghwa Telecom said engineers had found new damage to cables servicing China, putting back repairs by about a week. - Terra Daily

January 23 2007: Forest methane scientists hose down media reports - Scoop

January 23 2007: Active drumlin found under ice sheet ... - Science Daily

January 23 2007: Questioning The Safety Of Blower-equipped Carbon Canister Breathing Devices - Science Daily

January 23 2007: Aerosol Pollution Slows Down Winds And Reduces Rainfall - Science Daily

January 23 2007: (January 23, 2007) - -- From Poker Flat Research Range north of Fairbanks, four NASA rockets launched into an aurora display over northern Alaska, starting at 3:29 a.m. Alaska Standard Time. Scientists hope to learn more ... > - Science Daily (Climate)

January 23 2007: Sunscreens contain nano particles, carbon and titania nanotubes show promise and nano structures are the rage in engineering schools. While the proliferation of nano research may signal a mini ... > - Science Daily

January 23 2007: Bumblebee House Warming: It Takes A Village - Science Daily

January 23 2007: -- About 65 million years ago, a massive disruption led to worldwide extinction of dinosaurs. The impact of a giant asteroid created massive tsunamis and spewed forth a global cloud of carbon gases that ... > - Science Daily (Climate)

January 23 2007: Mad Cow Breakthrough? Genetically Modified Cattle Are Prion Free - Science Daily

January 23 2007: Image: The report shows how countries in Africa are adapting to climate change - OneWorld

January 23 2007: GM farming on the rise in developing nations - Planting of genetically modified crops in developing countries rose by 21 per cent in 2006, say researchers. - SciDev.Net

January 23 2007: Business smells whiff of money in climate change - Scientific American

January 23 2007: Nearly half of the world's waterbird species are in decline, mostly because of rapid economic development and the effects of climate change, according to a global survey released Tuesday. - Sci-Tech Today

January 23 2007: Weather patterns can often be a key factor in finding out when an epidemic is imminent because they determine the conditions for germs and their carriers to breed. - Human-caused global warming is here, visible in the air, water and melting ice, and is destined to get much worse in the future, an authoritative global scientific report will warn next week. - Sci-Tech Today

January 23 2007: Glaciers May Vanish from Alps by 2050 - Sci-Tech Today

January 23 2007: Experts: Alps Glaciers Will Melt by 2050 - Newsday (AP update)

January 23 2007: Floods kill at least 44 in Angola, Mozambique - Flooding has killed at least 44 people and forced thousands of others in Angola and Mozambique to flee their homes, officials in the Southern African nations said on Tuesday. Most of the deaths occurred in and around Angola's capital, Luanda, which was pelted by torrential rains last week. - Mail & Guardian Online

January 23 2007: January 22: - A study by the world's leading experts says global warming will happen faster and be more devastating than previously thought. - Guardian Unlimited (Science)

January 23 2007: Mud volcano in Java may continue to erupt for months and possibly years - The first scientific report into the causes and impact of Lusi, the Indonesian mud volcano, reveals that the 2006 eruption will continue to erupt and spew out between 7,000 and 150,000 cubic metres of mud a day for months, if not years to come, leaving at least 10 km2 around the volcano vent uninhabitable for years and over 11,000 people permanently displaced. - EurekAlert!

January 23 2007: Scientists observe drumlin beneath ice sheet - Scientists have discovered a warehouse-sized drumlin -- a mound of sediment and rock -- actively forming and growing und