Tiempo Climate Newswatch

February 2007

February 28 2007: Lava spews from Italian volcano - Lava has poured down a volcano's slopes and into the Mediterranean near Sicily as experts monitor its eruption activity. - The Age

February 28 2007: Drought to push egg prices up - The Age

February 28 2007: Get Free Daily Newsletters About Earth And More - Earth - Energy - Pollution - Climate - China - Terra Daily

February 28 2007: Los Angeles CA (SPX) Feb 28, 2007 - While Al Gore's film, An Inconvenient Truth, has generated greater awareness of global warming, most people remain unaware of the more rapid warming that has occurred within major cities. In fact, large cities can be more than 10 degrees hotter than their surroundings. These metropolitan hot spots, which scientists refer to as urban heat islands, can stress the animals and plants that make their home alongside humans. - Terra Daily

February 28 2007: Light pollution - Swiss Info

February 28 2007: Triplets to man who lost 3 daughters to tsunami - Sydney Morning Herald

February 28 2007: 28 February 2007 | University of Waikato - The University of Waikato's Centre for Biodiversity and Ecology Research has been awarded $1.12 million in funding from the Foundation for Science, Research and Technology to look at methods to restore the biodiversity of native forest fragments in rural ... - Scoop

February 28 2007: La Nina May Soon Arrive - Science Daily

February 28 2007: (February 28, 2007) - -- On the heels of El Nino, its opposite, La Nina may soon arrive. In a weekly update, scientists at the NOAA Climate Prediction Center noted that as the 2006-2007 El Nino faded, surface and subsurface ... > - Science Daily (Climate)

February 28 2007: Sex Reversal In Frogs ­An Effect Of Drugs In The Environment - Science Daily (Climate)

February 28 2007: Sex Reversal In Frogs [shy]An Effect Of Drugs In The Environment - Science Daily

February 28 2007: (February 28, 2007) - -- Most people remain unaware of the more rapid warming that has occurred within major cities. In fact, large cities can be more than 10 degrees hotter than their surroundings. These metropolitan hot ... > - Science Daily (Climate)

February 28 2007: Metro Boston's Flora And Fauna Reveal Global Warming's Effect - Science Daily (Climate)

February 28 2007: U.S. Needs To Plan For Climate Change-induced Summer Droughts - Science Daily (Climate)

February 28 2007: (March 1, 2007) - -- The western United States has experienced increasing drought conditions in recent years -- and conditions may worsen if global climate change models are accurate -- yet the country is doing little to ... > - Science Daily (Climate)

February 28 2007: London Acts Locally on Global Warming - Sci-Tech Today

February 28 2007: Twenty new species of sharks and rays have been discovered in Indonesia in a five-year survey of catches at local fish markets, Australian researchers said Wednesday. - The mayor of London on Tuesday announced the city's first comprehensive plan to cut carbon emissions, stressing that global warming must be tackled locally. - Sci-Tech Today

February 28 2007: International Polar Year Now Under Way - Measuring effects of climate change. - Sci-Tech Today

February 28 2007: Dell Responds to Demand for Linux - In response to customer interest expressed through the new IdeaStorm Web site, Dell said it plans to unveil a new line of certified, Linux-loaded desktop and laptop PCs. - Sci-Tech Today

February 28 2007: Tuesday, February 27, 2007 2:27 PM ET - Australia, one of the world's biggest per capita greenhouse gas emitters, has called the partnership a model for a past- - Reuters

February 28 2007: Merkel grabs climate change baton from Blair - Reuters

February 28 2007: Tuesday, February 27, 2007 11:52 PM ET - By Noah Barkin - Analysis. BERLIN (Reuters) - Angela Merkel has pushed global warming to the top of her international agenda in a bet that rising public... - Reuters

February 28 2007: Howard in trouble? Bennelong time coming - Once the storm dies down and the numbers are crunched in Bennelong, Maxine McKew is unlikely to win the seat. - On Line Opinion

February 28 2007: Experts Monitor Live Volcano Off Sicily - Newsday (AP update)

February 28 2007: Tsunami Victim Becomes Father of Triplets - Newsday (AP update)

February 28 2007: Colombia Drought Suffocates Tons of Fish - Newsday (AP update)

February 28 2007: Group: Global Warming Effects Hunting - Newsday (AP update)

February 28 2007: Atom-thick carbon transistor could succeed silicon - New Scientist

February 28 2007: New cyclone bears down on Southern Africa - Mail & Guardian Online

February 28 2007: Cyclone Gamede sweeps over Indian Ocean islands - Mail & Guardian Online

February 28 2007: New species, warm water and whales - Scientists research world sealed off for 12,000 years and find marine life transformed by rapid climate change. - Guardian Unlimited (Science)

February 28 2007: 'Green' governors, a warmer lake, and Al - This week's climate change media update notes states' efforts, Lake Superior's temperature, and the green hue of this year's Oscars. - Christian Science Monitor

February 28 2007: Eighteen Seconds to Fight Global Warming - GreenBiz

February 28 2007: * - There Goes El Nino, Here Comes La Nina - CBS

February 28 2007: Canberra storm fails to boost dam levels - Tuesday night's damaging hail storm that swept through Canberra's inner city seems to have done little to boost dam levels, but its effects could linger for some time. - ABC News Online

February 28 2007: Company disputes order to clean up pollution - A company that has been ordered to clean up chemical pollution from a 1970s industrial dump in southern Sydney says it has already met all its responsibilities. - ABC News Online

February 28 2007: Landcare unveils carbon trading market to help farmers - ABC News Online

February 28 2007: A climate change campaign being launched across Australia today aims to provide Australians with practical tips on combating global warming. - ABC News Online

February 28 2007: Troubled Murray facing uncertain future - While managing the drought continues to be one of the biggest issues facing the authority responsible for Australia's largest river system, the prospect of flooding rain is also looming as a potential problem for the troubled waterway. - ABC News Online

February 28 2007: Expert says global warming an urgent issue for Govt - ABC News Online

February 28 2007: Turnbull says Labor waging nuclear scare campaign - Federal Environment Minister Malcolm Turnbull has attacked what he calls Labor's scare campaign on nuclear reactors. - ABC News Online

February 28 2007: The federal Environment Minister, Malcolm Turnbull, says the Government's $10 billion Murray-Darling takeover can go ahead without Victoria. - ABC News Online

February 28 2007: Top 50 Things To Do To Stop Global Warming - OneWorld

February 28 2007: Pluto probe snaps close-ups of Jupiter and its moons - NASA's New Horizons spacecraft captures the best ever image of a volcanic plume rising from the moon Io and a swirling storm on Jupiter - New Scientist

February 28 2007: Blair backs EU renewable energy targets - Financial Times

February 28 2007: Fighting the floods - BBC (Sci/Tech)

February 28 2007: German scientists try to get to the bottom of climate change - BBC (World)

February 28 2007: Climate riddle - German scientists try to get to the bottom of climate change - BBC (Europe)

February 28 2007: Washington diary - Matt Frei wonders if America is warming to Al Gore at last - BBC

February 28 2007: Washington diary - Does Al Gore's Oscar mean Americans are warming to him? - BBC (World)

February 28 2007: More eurozone rate rises 'likely' - BBC (Europe)

February 28 2007: Spoof Solid Energy Environment Report - Scoop

February 28 2007: LAVA FEARS - Italy volcano threatens coastal region - CNN (Europe)

February 28 2007: Hail storm blankets Canberra - CNN

February 28 2007: Wed, 28 Feb 2007 13:00:00 EST - Volcano Blows as Space Probe Flies By - Discovery Online

February 28 2007: HK to Host Global Conference on Climate Change - An international conference on climate change will be held in Hong Kong from May 29 to 31, an event that is expected to bring together experts and government officials from 26 countries and regions. - China Internet information Centre

February 28 2007: Concrete balls deployed in volcano fight - CNN (Asia)

February 28 2007: Drought threatens 1.5M in China - CNN (Asia)

February 28 2007: Zambezi Still About Flood Level - The level of the Zambezi river has continued to drop throughout its length within central Mozambique but much of the lower stretches of the river are still above flood alert level, according to the Wednesday bulletin from the National Water Board (DNA). - All Africa News

February 28 2007: Flood On the Buzi River - While the Mozambican government has downgraded the alert in the flooded Zambezi Valley from red to orange, new flooding has occurred further south, on the Buzi river in the central province of Sofala. - All Africa News

February 28 2007: Almost 100,000 Children Displaced - Around 80,000 children in the southern African country of Mozambique have now been displaced by flooding after Friday's cyclone added to the misery of almost a month of floods that destroyed the homes of at least 160,000 people, the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) said today, adding that the next week will be critical in avoiding outbreaks of disease. - All Africa News

February 28 2007: Concrete Balls to Plug Volcano - ABC News

February 27 2007: Climate Change Comes To D.C. - OneWorld

February 27 2007: Heavy rain causes flash flooding - The Australian

February 27 2007: Hailstorm closes schools, businesses - The Australian

February 27 2007: UN considers summit on climate change - UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon is considering calling a summit on climate change, possibly in June but may have to settle for a ministerial meeting. - The Age

February 27 2007: Hail damage delays US shuttle launch - Damage to the space shuttle Atlantis in a ferocious hail storm means NASA will not be able to launch the next shuttle mission in March. - The Age

February 27 2007: Severe storm shuts down Canberra - Schools, universities and government departments have been forced to shut after a severe electrical and hail storm battered northern Canberra overnight. - The Age

February 27 2007: Greenhouse sceptics to congregate - The Age

February 27 2007: Nairobi (AFP) Feb 09, 2007 - A key UN environment meeting Friday agreed to launch partnerships between governments and industries to slash mercury emissions, officials said. Environmentalists have been pushing for a legal framework to cap emissions, but governments attending the UN Environment Programme's 24th governing council settled for partnerships, they said. - Terra Daily

February 27 2007: Beijing (AFP) Feb 26, 2007 - A severe drought in southwestern China is threatening the water supplies of one million people and crippling navigation on the depleted Yangtze River, state media reported on Monday. Authorities in Chongqing municipality have sent water trucks into the most parched areas to provide water for residents and livestock hit by weeks without rain, Xinhua news agency said. - Terra Daily

February 27 2007: Efforts To Plug Indonesian Mud Volcano Resume - Terra Daily

February 27 2007: Jakarta (AFP) Feb 26, 2007 - Engineers dropped chains of concrete balls into a "volcano" oozing hot mud in Indonesia's East Java province Monday as they resumed a bid to stem the flow which has submerged entire villages. "We have been able to insert four chains of concrete balls today, before changing smoke from the hot mud forced the operations to be halted," Rudi Novrianto, a spokesman for the audacious bid to plug the crater, told AFP. - Terra Daily

February 27 2007: Banning New Coal Power Plants Will Slow Warming - Terra Daily

February 27 2007: Washington (AFP) Feb 27, 2007 - A moratorium on coal-fired power plants is key to cutting carbon dioxide emissions that promote global warming, NASA's top climatologist said Monday. "There should be a moratorium on building any more coal-fired power plants until the technology to capture and sequester the (carbon dioxide emissions) is available," said James Hansen, director of the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies. - Terra Daily

February 27 2007: Get Free Daily Newsletters About Earth And More - Earth - Energy - Pollution - Climate - China - Terra Daily

February 27 2007: Bright nights - How light pollution affects people and nature. - Swiss Info

February 27 2007: POTTER SMOKES UP A STORM - Stuff

February 27 2007: Australia have lots of warming up to do - Sydney Morning Herald

February 27 2007: Celestial Whirligig: Unique Observations Of Comet McNaught Reveal Sprinkling Nucleus - Science Daily

February 27 2007: An Ancient Greenhouse Window Into The Future - A University of Queensland researcher is going back 50 million years to get a glimpse of what a future greenhouse climate might be like. Dr. Patrick Moss, a lecturer in physical geography with the School of Geography, Planning and Architecture, is working on a research project that is unearthing ... > - Science Daily

February 27 2007: Asia's air-conditioning damages the ozone layer - An explosion in demand for air-conditioning units in Asia could be slowing the healing of the ozone layer, reports - SciDev.Net

February 27 2007: Global warming hits world's largest tiger reserve - Scientific American

February 27 2007: One of the world's top scientists on global warming called for the U.S. to stop building coal-fired power plants and eventually bulldoze older generators that don't capture greenhouse gases. - Sci-Tech Today

February 27 2007: Top Scientist Seeks Halt on Coal Plants - Hail from a passing thunderstorm dinged a section of space shuttle Atlantis' external fuel tank, and NASA managers were not if the damage was severe enough to postpone next month's launch. - Sci-Tech Today

February 27 2007: Millions of people with chest pain enter emergency room limbo, spending up to 24 hours waiting for tests to tell if a heart attack really is brewing or if it's something less dire. - More than 50,000 scientists from 63 nations turned their attention to the world's poles to measure the effects of climate change, using icebreakers, satellites and submarines. - Sci-Tech Today

February 27 2007: Measuring effects of climate change. - Sci-Tech Today

February 27 2007: Comet Probe Makes Key Mars Flyby - Sci-Tech Today

February 27 2007: In response to customer interest expressed through the new IdeaStorm Web site, Dell said it plans to unveil a new line of certified, Linux-loaded desktop and laptop PCs. - Sci-Tech Today

February 27 2007: + Energy Services Inc., a carbon advisory group in Portland, Oregon, with six employees.... - Reuters

February 27 2007: Tuesday, February 27, 2007 1:49 AM ET - The EU set up the market so that member countries could meet their greenhouse emissions reductions goals set by the international - Reuters

February 27 2007: + Energy Services Inc., a carbon advisory group with six employees that has helped companies... - Reuters

February 27 2007: UN chief Ban considers summit on climate change - Reuters

February 27 2007: Stern urges China, US to talk on warming - Reuters

February 27 2007: The United States rejected the - Protocol -- the only global action plan to combat global warming -- saying it would be economic suicide.... - Reuters

February 27 2007: action plan to cut carbon... - Reuters

February 27 2007: From Ice Age to Global Warming in 30 years - On Line Opinion

February 27 2007: Crises and large scale challenges - like global warming, peak oil and so on - create fear in many but inspire others to act. - On Line Opinion

February 27 2007: ROME - At least 300,000 Italians living near the Vesuvius volcano would be killed the next time it erupted if they were not evacuated beforehand, according to the first three-dimensional computer simulation. But, in a surprise, up to 200,000 others living in the north-northwestern areas of the high-risk[hellip] - New Zealand Herald

February 27 2007: EU Faces New Fights Over the Environment - Newsday (AP update)

February 27 2007: Scientists Wary of Lake Superior Warming - Newsday (AP update)

February 27 2007: New cyclone bears down on Southern Africa - Another cyclone was making its way towards Southern Africa on Tuesday, threatening further destruction in the flood-ravaged region, while the cash-strapped United Nations World Food Programme announced it was cutting food rations to half a million Zambians. - Mail & Guardian Online

February 27 2007: Mozambique starts mopping up after cyclone - Mail & Guardian Online

February 27 2007: New alarms are rung on perils of global warming - International Herald Tribune

February 27 2007: Environment - - EurActiv

February 27 2007: Backstory: A very thin blue line - Police and fire agencies in Gulf Coast towns still struggle after hurricane Katrina. But officers persevere - with devotion and donated equipment. - Christian Science Monitor

February 27 2007: So all may drink wisely from the Colorado - The seven states that tap the waters of this river basin need to prepare for an extended drought. - Christian Science Monitor

February 27 2007: Bye-bye, incandescent bulb? - Global warming concerns are pushing bulbmakers and environmentalists to talk about phasing out the common light bulb. - Christian Science Monitor

February 27 2007: Western Governors Form Climate Change Alliance - GreenBiz

February 27 2007: Global Warming, Hitler, & WWII Rationing - Scoop

February 27 2007: NASA Postpones Launch After Hailstorm - CBS

February 27 2007: Massive cane toad found on Darwin golf course - Monsoon rains in Darwin in the Northern Territory have flushed out a cane toad the size of a dinner plate. - ABC News Online

February 27 2007: Opinions on coal attributed to climate change - The Hunter Valley Research Foundation says Upper Hunter residents' mixed views about the local coal industry can be attributed to the ongoing climate change debate. - ABC News Online

February 27 2007: Greens want energy conservation incentives - ABC News Online

February 27 2007: Relief Aid Delivery for Mozambique Flood Victims - A leading development charity says it is delivering relief aid to more than 20,000 people living in one of the worst affected areas of Mozambique where floods have displaced 170,000 people and killed at least 45. - OneWorld

February 27 2007: Why a singsong could be a climate change solution - OneWorld

February 27 2007: Damage from hailstorm delays shuttle launch - New Scientist

February 27 2007: Eurozone money supply hits 17-year high - Financial Times

February 27 2007: Nasa delays space shuttle launch - Nasa says that it will delay the launch of space shuttle Atlantis after a hailstorm damaged the fuel tank. - BBC (Americas)

February 27 2007: Winter 'second warmest ever' - BBC (Sci/Tech)

February 27 2007: Concrete balls deployed in volcano fight - CNN

February 27 2007: Drought threatens 1.5M in China - CNN

February 27 2007: A plan to plug an oozing Indonesian mud volcano with concrete goes awry. - Discovery Online

February 27 2007: : your space for doing something practical about global warming - OneWorld

February 27 2007: China Sets Renewable Energy Target - China Internet information Centre

February 27 2007: SEPA: Pollution Control Requires Accountability - China Internet information Centre

February 27 2007: Severe drought has been debilitating for the Yangtze River, China's longest waterway, over the last two weeks, leaving 1.5 million people in Chongqing Municipality with water shortages, local water authorities said on Monday. - China Internet information Centre

February 27 2007: Citizens Dying Young And Poor - UN Report - The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) says poverty, health, environment, crime and illiteracy is chopping the life expectancy "to slightly over 40 years" in some parts of the country. - All Africa News

February 27 2007: Snow Day For Seniors - ABC News

February 27 2007: Freak Hailstorm Delays Space Shuttle Launch - ABC News

February 26 2007: Faulty fire sprinkler floods building - The Australian

February 26 2007: Iemma promises energy efficiency rebates - The Age

February 26 2007: Warming Climate And Cod Collapse Have Combined To Cause Rapid North Atlantic Ecosystem - Terra Daily

February 26 2007: Nine Dead As Winter Storms Sweep Eastern States - Terra Daily

February 26 2007: Deadly Rain And Flooding In Bolivia Trigger Disease Surge - Terra Daily

February 26 2007: La Paz (AFP) Feb 23, 2007 - Floods and torrential rain that have killed 35 people and devastated large parts of Bolivia are causing a sharp rise in various diseases, including malaria and dengue, officials said on Friday. To date, 1,660 cases of dengue, 1,452 of malaria and 22 of leptospirosis have been recorded, according to a government report that also mentioned an undetermined number of cases of respiratory illnesses and diarrhea. - Terra Daily

February 26 2007: Cyclone Leaves Dead And Across Slew Of Indian Ocean Islands - Terra Daily

February 26 2007: Saint-Denis-De-La-Reunion (AFP) Feb 25, 2007 - Two people were killed on Mauritius and nine hurt in the French Indian Ocean department of Reunion when a tropical cyclone brushed the island at the weekend, officials said Sunday. The victims had ignored official bans on going out while Cyclone Gamede was in the vicinity. - Terra Daily

February 26 2007: Bid To Plug Indonesian Mud Volcano Delayed - Terra Daily

February 26 2007: Beefier Building Codes Helped Some Florida Homes Survive Tornados - Terra Daily

February 26 2007: Lubbock TX (SPX) Feb 26, 2007 - Wind-mitigating building codes implemented in Florida following Hurricane Andrew helped some houses resist a string of deadly tornadoes that hit the state earlier this month, says a wind researcher who surveyed the damage. - Terra Daily

February 26 2007: Get Free Daily Newsletters About Earth And More - Earth - Energy - Pollution - Climate - China - Terra Daily

February 26 2007: Paris (AFP) Feb 23, 2007 - As consumers wake up to global warming and globalisation, ethical issues are gaining ground and spinning more and more hard cash in the competitive world of international textiles. Organic cottons along with fabrics spun from bamboo, soybean protein fibre, seaweed and ramie -- an ages old fibre crop used in mummy cloths in ancient Egypt -- took centre-stage at a major textile trade fair held in Paris this week, Texworld. - Terra Daily

February 26 2007: Storm are too young to carry baggage, says Johns - Sydney Morning Herald

February 26 2007: Wind, solar power find favour in poll - Sydney Morning Herald

February 26 2007: Non-GMO Solution To Seafood Allergies - Science Daily

February 26 2007: New Hydrogen Fuel System Promises A New Generation Of Renewable Energy - Science Daily

February 26 2007: An Ancient Greenhouse Window Into The Future - Science Daily (Climate)

February 26 2007: (February 26, 2007) - -- A University of Queensland researcher is going back 50 million years to get a glimpse of what a future greenhouse climate might be like. Dr. Patrick Moss, a lecturer in physical geography with the ... > - Science Daily (Climate)

February 26 2007: Lakes Beneath Antarctic Ice Sheets Found To Initiate And Sustain Flow Of Ice To Ocean - Science Daily

February 26 2007: States beat Washington to renewable energy - Scientific American

February 26 2007: Comet Probe Makes Key Mars Flyby - Sci-Tech Today

February 26 2007: Tests Find Salmonella in Peanut Butter - A European spacecraft executed a close flyby of Mars on Sunday, a crucial maneuver in its meandering, 10-year voyage through the solar system to make the first soft landing on a comet. - Sci-Tech Today

February 26 2007: Warming May Harm Tuscan Wines - Sci-Tech Today

February 26 2007: Dell Taps Linux for Desktops, Notebooks - In response to customer interest expressed through the new IdeaStorm Web site, Dell said it plans to unveil a new line of certified, Linux-loaded desktop and laptop PCs. - Sci-Tech Today

February 26 2007: Action Initiative comes on the heels of an agreement in the East called the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative.... - Reuters

February 26 2007: Protocol on global warming allows rich countries that face caps on their greenhouse gas emissions from 2008-12 to meet these... - Reuters

February 26 2007: Merrill buys stake in Russia carbon project developer - Reuters

February 26 2007: Sunday, February 25, 2007 9:32 PM ET - Carbon trading under the - Reuters

February 26 2007: NEW YORK (Reuters) - Five western US states will adopt a market-based program within 18 months to reduce output of gases linked to global warming,... - Reuters

February 26 2007: Change released a report in Paris saying that global warming was "unequivocal" and... - Reuters

February 26 2007: Relocalisation - acting locally on global issues - Crises and large scale challenges - like global warming, peak oil and so on - create fear in many but inspire others to act. - On Line Opinion

February 26 2007: Yangtze Drought Cuts Into Water for 1M - Newsday (AP update)

February 26 2007: Earthquake Shakes Rural California Area - Newsday (AP update)

February 26 2007: Ark. Town Copes With Tornado Damage - Newsday (AP update)

February 26 2007: Tough GM salmon lose their nerve in the 'wild' - Some aggressive genetically modified fish appear to undergo a personality change when they leave laboratory conditions for a more natural environment - New Scientist

February 26 2007: Cyclone Favio leaves trail of destruction - Mail & Guardian Online

February 26 2007: INDIAN OCEAN: - Bracing for yet another cyclone - IRIN

February 26 2007: Scientists research world sealed off for 12,000 years - Marine life transformed by rapid climate change - Guardian Unlimited (Science)

February 26 2007: Trade & Industry - - Are EU GMO rules starving the poor? - EurActiv

February 26 2007: When no snow falls at ski resorts, they make some - When you go skiing, that may not be real snow you're flying down. Here's why. - Christian Science Monitor

February 26 2007: Wall Street adds climate change to bottom line - The environmentally tinged takeover of TXU Corp. illustrates global warming's increased financial relevance. - Christian Science Monitor

February 26 2007: New Search For Global Warming At Poles - CBS

February 26 2007: Gore's Greenhouse Triumph - CBS

February 26 2007: Arkansas Tornado Devastates Community - CBS

February 26 2007: Northeast Sighs With Relief Despite Storm - CBS

February 26 2007: Snow Moves Across U.S. - CBS

February 26 2007: Tornados Rip Through South - CBS

February 26 2007: Another Snow Go - CBS

February 26 2007: Govt cautious on industry call for carbon trading scheme - ABC News Online

February 26 2007: Rio Tinto pushes Govt for carbon trading scheme - ABC News Online

February 26 2007: , former US Vice-President Al Gore's dire warning about the threat of climate change, has won the Oscar for best documentary. - ABC News Online

February 26 2007: The coal miners' union is backing Labor's $1.5 billion clean coal initiative as an important step in making coal companies contribute to greenhouse solutions. - ABC News Online

February 26 2007: Energy association calls for carbon emissions trading scheme - ABC News Online

February 26 2007: Snow: Iran anti-nuke efforts continuing - Washington Times

February 26 2007: Comet chaser Rosetta skims around Mars - New Scientist

February 26 2007: China and India face up to curbs on carbon - Despite pointing to the west’s worse record on emissions, the Asian powerhouses are growing conscious of the global warming in which their rapid development is playing a part. - Financial Times

February 26 2007: Bolivia city faces 'flood threat' - BBC (Americas)

February 26 2007: In pictures - Destruction caused by deadly Cyclone Favio in Mozambique - BBC (Africa)

February 26 2007: Caribbean hurricane fund set up - BBC (Americas)

February 26 2007: Going green? Try solar handbags, wind turbines - CNN

February 26 2007: Try solar handbags, wind turbines - Renewable energy at home is no longer a distant concept - CNN

February 26 2007: GOING GREEN? - Try solar handbags, wind turbines - CNN (Europe)

February 26 2007: Simon Tsuo: Solar pioneer - The scientist switched from infrared detectors to renewable energy - CNN

February 26 2007: 2006: the Warmest Year Since 1951 - China Internet information Centre

February 26 2007: Cyclone Victims Receive Assistance - The Mozambican government and the Islamic Community have raised 128 tonnes of foodstuffs to support the about 40,000 people victims of the 'Favio' tropical cyclone in the district of Vilankulo, in the southern Inhambane province, reports Monday's issue of the daily paper 'Noticias'. - All Africa News

February 26 2007: Winter Storm Puts JetBlue to the Test - ABC News

February 25 2007: Wreckage of Aussie's missing yacht found - Wreckage from a yacht being sailed by an Australian man and his NZ partner, missing since 2005, has been found on a small island in the Tonga group of islands. - The Age

February 25 2007: NZ election storm a nightmare: Brethren - The Age

February 25 2007: End is Nye for Bulls drought - Sydney Morning Herald

February 25 2007: Lyon laments flooding in watery baptism against Lions - Sydney Morning Herald

February 25 2007: Meridian has certified carbon neutral electricity - Scoop

February 25 2007: (February 25, 2007) - -- An 8.0 earthquake hit the east side of campus recently, but the only real casualty was a 110-foot bridge. M. Saiid Saiidi, a professor in the civil and environmental engineering department at the ... > - Science Daily (Climate)

February 25 2007: Insides Of Clouds May Be The Key To Climate Change - Science Daily (Climate)

February 25 2007: (February 25, 2007) - -- As climate change scientists develop ever more sophisticated climate models to project an expected path of temperature change, it is becoming increasingly important to include the effects of aerosols ... > - Science Daily (Climate)

February 25 2007: Warming May Harm Tuscan Wines - Sci-Tech Today

February 25 2007: Change Bill on March 12, setting a legal target of cutting carbon dioxide... - Reuters

February 25 2007: DARMSTADT - The European Space Agency's Rosetta probe swooped around the back of Mars today, completing a key manoeuvre in its 10-year mission to meet a distant comet. The pioneering space probe performed its "swing-by" of the red planet, performing the second of four so-called "gravitational assisted[hellip] - New Zealand Herald

February 25 2007: Britain's first entirely green housing estate, complete with wind turbines and rainwater harvesting[hellip] - New Zealand Herald

February 25 2007: Europe Comet Probe Makes Key Mars Flyby - Newsday (AP update)

February 25 2007: Ark. Tornado Injures 40, Damages Homes - Newsday (AP update)

February 25 2007: Cyclone 'destroyed most of Vilankulo' - Mail & Guardian Online

February 25 2007: Cyclone Gamede sweeps over Indian Ocean islands - One person was killed on Mauritius and nine hurt in the French Indian Ocean department of Réunion when a tropical cyclone brushed the island at the weekend. The victims had ignored official bans on going out while Cyclone Gamede was in the vicinity. In the south of Réunion, a 520m-long bridge was swept away. - Mail & Guardian Online

February 25 2007: Mozambique starts mopping up after cyclone - A huge clean-up operation was under way on Saturday in some of Mozambique's most popular resorts as the Southern African nation's fledgling tourist industry struggled to recover from a devastating cyclone, casualties of which appeared to be limited thanks to a warning system and evacuations, with initial reports of 10 dead. - Mail & Guardian Online

February 25 2007: Comet probe's Mars flyby is cheered - International Herald Tribune

February 25 2007: read more - LCG, February 23, 2007--Minnesota Governor Tim Pawlenty yesterday signed legislation intended to boost the use of renewable energy supplies in the state. Electric utilities, including municipal power entities, are to use renewable energy to supply 25% of retail electric sales to customers in Minnesota. - EnergyOnline Daily News

February 25 2007: Comic Con. returtns to New York - Tens of thousands of fans were kept in line by volunteers in storm trooper costumes at the second annual New York Comic Con. - Earth Times

February 25 2007: New search for global warming at poles - Christian Science Monitor

February 25 2007: East Coast Braces For Winter Storm - CBS

February 25 2007: CFMEU backs Labor's clean coal plan - The coal miners' union is backing Labor's $1.5 billion clean coal initiative as an important step in making coal companies contribute to greenhouse solutions. - ABC News Online

February 25 2007: Power industry calls for national carbon trading - ABC News Online

February 25 2007: Murray-Darling plan can go ahead without Vic: Turnbull - The federal Environment Minister, Malcolm Turnbull, says the Government's $10 billion Murray-Darling takeover can go ahead without Victoria. - ABC News Online

February 25 2007: Hope concrete balls will stop Indonesian mud flow eruptions - Indonesian engineers have lowered the first of a series of large concrete balls into a mud volcano to try to plug an eruption that has submerged villages and displaced thousands of people in East Java. - ABC News Online

February 25 2007: The Queensland Environment Minister has moved to calm tourism industry fears visitor numbers will be capped at popular Whitsunday national park beaches. - ABC News Online

February 25 2007: Big business has launched a new initiative to try to save the Great Barrier Reef from global warming. - ABC News Online

February 25 2007: By Brian Murphy - A suicide truck bomber sent a deadly storm of metal, stone and jagged plaster through worshippers leaving a Sunni mosque yesterday, killing at least 39 in a likely sign of escalating internal Sunni battles between insurgents and those who oppose them. - Washington Times

February 25 2007: Winter storm grips U.S. Midwest, East - Washington Times

February 25 2007: WASHINGTON, Feb 25 (Reuters) - As scientists warn that - change will lead to stronger storms, the World Bank is launching on Monday the first disaster... - Reuters

February 25 2007: Carbon Offset Companies Using Enron Style Accounting - When companies sell the public carbon offsets, carbon savings expected to be made in the future are counted as savings made in the present. This is known as ‘future value accounting’ and is the same technique used by Enron to inflate its profits with such disastrous consequences. - OneWorld

February 25 2007: Climate change: no policy - Scoop

February 25 2007: Image: Jacabamba glacier, Peru, in 1980. It's all vanished now. - OneWorld

February 25 2007: Political storm - BBC (Europe)

February 25 2007: Space probe performs Mars fly-by - Europe's unmanned Rosetta space probe flies within 250km of Mars on its 10-year journey to land on a comet. - BBC (Sci/Tech)

February 25 2007: This 'house' helps earthquake survivors, researchers say - BBC (World)

February 25 2007: Midwest gets 2 feet of snow - CNN

February 25 2007: Deadly storm heads for East Coast - CNN

February 25 2007: Deadly storm causes havoc in U.S. - CNN

February 25 2007: Country Assists Flood-stricken Mozambique - South African government will send immediate needs for humanitarian assistance to Mozambique following the Tropical Cyclone, Favio that struck southern parts of the country, the Department of Provincial and Local Government said on Saturday. - All Africa News

February 25 2007: Global Warming Alarm: Doomsday for Australia? - ABC News

February 25 2007: Ground Zero for Global Warming - ABC News

February 25 2007: February's Fury: Wicked Weather Brings Snow, Tornadoes, Death - ABC News

February 25 2007: Huge Winter Snowstorm Heads East - ABC News

February 24 2007: Power returns to Sydney hospital, homes - ELECTRICITY has been returned to a Sydney hospital and to the majority of homes that were affected by severe thunderstorms. - The Australian

February 24 2007: Storms cut power to Sydney hospital - A SYDNEY hospital has been forced to use backup generators and more than 40,000 homes and businesses have been left without power after a severe thunderstorm swept through parts of NSW. - The Australian

February 24 2007: Floods batter bushfire-ravaged Vic town - The Age

February 24 2007: Temperatures have been three degrees Celsius higher than average over the past three months, in what has been the warmest winter since measurements began 140 years ago. - Swiss Info

February 24 2007: City council feels the heat to cut its carbon habit - Sydney Morning Herald

February 24 2007: The three amigos of climate change - Sydney Morning Herald

February 24 2007: Lizards adapt to 'noisy' environment ... - Science Daily

February 24 2007: In Presence Of Fragrant Cleaning Products, Air Purifiers That Emit Ozone Can Dirty The Air - Science Daily

February 24 2007: (February 24, 2007) - -- Indoor air purifiers that produce even small quantities of ozone may actually make the air dirtier when used at the same time as household cleaning products, scientists at UC Irvine have ... > - Science Daily (Climate)

February 24 2007: The murky waters of Indonesia's mud volcano - Indonesia's mud volcano has so far been both a defeat and an opportunity for scientific understanding, reports - SciDev.Net

February 24 2007: Warming May Harm Tuscan Wines - Sci-Tech Today

February 24 2007: Image: Does planting trees make you carbon neutral? (C) - OneWorld

February 24 2007: Britain's first zero-carbon estate to be built in London - New Zealand Herald

February 24 2007: Britain's first entirely green housing estate, complete with wind turbines and rainwater harvesting facilities, is to be built in London's Docklands. Residents in the zero-carbon development will be able to grow their own food in community greenhouses, power their televisions with tree branches[hellip] - New Zealand Herald

February 24 2007: Environment and global warming advances as major issue in latest political poll - Scoop

February 24 2007: Coastal Brits Fret About Climate Change - Newsday (AP update)

February 24 2007: Skier Killed in Austrian Avalanche - Newsday (AP update)

February 24 2007: Cyclone leaves trail of destruction - Mail & Guardian Online

February 24 2007: Cyclone 'destroyed most of Vilankulo' - At least three people were killed and dozens injured in the tourist resort of Vilankulo when a tropical cyclone slammed into Mozambique's southern coast this week, the National Emergency Operations Centre and the Red Cross said on Friday. "Most of the buildings have been destroyed," a Red Cross officer said. - Mail & Guardian Online

February 24 2007: The carbon neutral myth - Does offsetting your carbon sins have any benefit other than to salve a guilty conscience? asks Mark Lynas. - OneWorld

February 24 2007: Climate change’s right and wrong fixes - OneWorld

February 24 2007: 4 Dead As Winter Storms Plague Plains - Midwest Braces For Blizzard And An Expected 12 Inches Of Snow - CBS

February 24 2007: Fla. tornado victims to get $12.1M in aid - Washington Times

February 24 2007: Balls used to plug Java mud flow - Indonesian engineers begin lowering giant concrete balls into a mud volcano to try to plug an eruption. - BBC (Asia/Pacific)

February 24 2007: Bolivia head issues flood attack - BBC (Americas)

February 24 2007: Thousands hit by floods - BBC (Americas)

February 24 2007: SA offers Mozambique assistance - South Africa is to help Mozambique cope with the aftermath of a cyclone which hit the country on Thursday. - BBC (Africa)

February 24 2007: In pictures: Bolivian floods - BBC (Americas)

February 24 2007: Fast-moving snowstorm closes roads - CNN

February 24 2007: Birds of prey are a pollution magnet - New Scientist

February 24 2007: China Faces 'Higher Risk' of Floods and Drought - China Internet information Centre

February 24 2007: Cyclone Death Toll Rises to Ten - The known death toll from cyclone Favio, which struck the southern Mozambican province of Inhambane on Thursday, now stands at ten according to a report in Saturday's issue of the Maputo daily "Noticias". - All Africa News

February 24 2007: Some Fear Global Warming Means Near-Doomsday Down Under - ABC News

February 24 2007: Snow Blamed for 7 Deaths in Wisconsin - ABC News

February 23 2007: An Inconvenient Truth - the documentary about his slideshow on global warming. - The Australian

February 23 2007: Wildlife corridor planned for east coast - A 2,800km wildlife corridor will be established along most of the east coast of Australia, allowing plants and animals to move as climate changes. - The Age

February 23 2007: Mud from flash flooding coats Vic town - A small Gippsland town has been hit by flash flooding, damaging many homes with thick mud. - The Age

February 23 2007: Global Warming Is Real But Not A Priority - Terra Daily

February 23 2007: Eugene OR (SPX) Feb 23, 2007 - Most Americans believe global warming is real but a moderate and distant risk. While they strongly support policies like investing in renewable energy, higher fuel economy standards and international treaties, they strongly oppose carbon taxes on energy sources that put carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. - Terra Daily

February 23 2007: Get Free Daily Newsletters About Earth And More - Earth - Energy - Pollution - Climate - China - Terra Daily

February 23 2007: Bacteria Could Steady Buildings Against Earthquakes - Terra Daily

February 23 2007: Australia Declares El Nino Weather Pattern Over - Terra Daily

February 23 2007: Sydney (AFP) Feb 22, 2007 - Australian forecasters said Thursday that the El Nino weather pattern blamed for the worst drought in a century had ended, and expressed cautious optimism much-needed rain was on the way. The Bureau of Meteorology said there was no guarantee the drought was over but the end of the El Nino meant there was reason to be hopeful. "The 2006/07 El Nino has ended," the bureau said in a statement. - Terra Daily

February 23 2007: The Great Auckland Earthquake of 2007 - Scoop

February 23 2007: 2800km coastal route for wildlife to escape warming - Sydney Morning Herald

February 23 2007: Chain reaction to mud volcano menace - Sydney Morning Herald

February 23 2007: (February 23, 2007) - -- An 8.0 earthquake hit the east side of campus recently, but the only real casualty was a 110-foot bridge. M. Saiid Saiidi, a professor in the civil and environmental engineering department at the ... > - Science Daily (Climate)

February 23 2007: Warming Climate, Cod Collapse, Have Combined To Cause Rapid North Atlantic Ecosystem Changes - Science Daily

February 23 2007: Study To Forecast Side Effects Of Pollution Policy - Science Daily

February 23 2007: (February 23, 2007) - -- The University of Michigan is leading a four-university team in a large-scale project to develop software to help analysts craft greenhouse gas reduction policies in the transportation ... > - Science Daily (Climate)

February 23 2007: Scientists Warn Of Climate Change Risk To Marine Turtles - North American marine turtles are at risk if global warming occurs at predicted levels, according to scientists from the University of Exeter. An increase in temperatures of just one degree Celsius could completely eliminate the birth of male turtles from some beaches. A rise of three degrees ... > - Science Daily

February 23 2007: Yale Biologists 'Trick' Viruses Into Extinction - While human changes to the environment cause conservation biologists to worry about species extinction, Yale biologists are reversing the logic by trying to trap viruses in habitats that force their extinction, according to a report in Ecology ... > - Science Daily

February 23 2007: (February 23, 2007) - -- While human changes to the environment cause conservation biologists to worry about species extinction, Yale biologists are reversing the logic by trying to trap viruses in habitats that force their ... > - Science Daily (Climate)

February 23 2007: The murky waters of Indonesia's mud volcano - Indonesia's mud volcano has so far been both a defeat and an opportunity for scientific understanding, reports - SciDev.Net

February 23 2007: Mozambique cyclone kills four - Scientific American

February 23 2007: Warming May Harm Tuscan Wines - Sci-Tech Today

February 23 2007: Friday, February 23, 2007 - - Total Norge is evacuating nearly 300 workers from an accommodation rig in the North Sea after two of the unit's twelve anchor chains broke during a storm with winds reaching near hurricane strength. - Rigzone

February 23 2007: Environment advances as major issue in latest political poll - Scoop

February 23 2007: NOAA Gulfstream-IV Hurricane Surveillance Jet Takes on Pacific Winter Storms to Improve Model Forecasts; Hawaii Middle School Teacher Will be Member of Flight Crew - NOAA

February 23 2007: Warm Temperatures Bring Relief from Cold, Heighten Concerns for Flooding - NOAA

February 23 2007: Cyclone's might shakes Mozambique - Mail & Guardian Online

February 23 2007: Cyclone hits Mozambique - Mail & Guardian Online

February 23 2007: Cyclone Favio leaves trail of destruction - Emergency workers on Friday surveyed damage to areas of Mozambique left devastated by Cyclone Favio, which left at least three people dead, scores injured and flattened most of the worst-hit town. Red Cross spokesperson Tapiwa Gomo said he had received differing reports that three or four people had been killed in and around the town of Vilankulo. - Mail & Guardian Online

February 23 2007: Mozambique awaits intense cyclone's landfall - Mail & Guardian Online

February 23 2007: Mozambican disaster response teams on Friday began the job of assessing the damage caused by cyclone Favio, 24-hours after it tore through the central town of Vilankulo. - IRIN

February 23 2007: Slide Show: Bangkok winning its battle against pollution - International Herald Tribune

February 23 2007: Dangerous gases must be cut by 2020, panel finds - But the final part of a report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change concludes that cutting carbon dioxide emissions alone is not enough. - International Herald Tribune

February 23 2007: The celestial whirligig - Comet McNaught, the Great Comet of 2007, has been delighting those who have seen it with the unaided eye as a spectacular display in the evening sky. Pushing ESO's New Technology Telescope to its limits, a team of European astronomers have obtained the first, and possibly unique, detailed observations of this object. Their images show spectacular jets of gas from the comet spiralling several thousands of kilometres into space, while the spectra reveal the presence of sodium in its atmosphere, something seen very rarely. - EurekAlert!

February 23 2007: Minnesota Governor Authorizes 25x25 Renewable Energy Plan - EnergyOnline Daily News

February 23 2007: LCG, February 23, 2007--Minnesota Governor Tim Pawlenty yesterday signed legislation intended to boost the use of renewable energy supplies in the state. Electric utilities, including municipal power entities, are to use renewable energy to supply 25% of retail electric sales to customers in Minnesota. - EnergyOnline Daily News

February 23 2007: Minnesota Poised to Adopt 25x25 Renewable Energy Plan - EnergyOnline Daily News

February 23 2007: Atkins - Water & Environment - EDIE

February 23 2007: Indian study to gauge pollution impact on children - The Indian state of Maharashtra is setting up a study of the effects of air pollution on the respiratory health of children in its cities. - EDIE

February 23 2007: London fire brigade leads climate change fight - EDIE

February 23 2007: Pollution fine for Scottish Water - EDIE

February 23 2007: River pollution threatens Great Barrier Reef - EDIE

February 23 2007: Madagascar floods leave thousands homeless - EDIE

February 23 2007: Government pressed on energy efficiency - EDIE

February 23 2007: EU agrees tough greenhouse cuts - EDIE

February 23 2007: * - Global Warming: It's All In Your Head - CBS

February 23 2007: Looking for life on Jupiter's icy moon Europa - If life exists on other planets, it almost certainly will be found where there's water. While many scientists pin their hopes on Mars, UC Berkeley paleobiologist Jere Lipps yearns to probe Jupiter's moon Europa, because its jumbled ice cover reminds him of the Antarctic ice sheets that are home to abundant life on Earth. Lipps and three other scientists discussed the possibilities at the recent AAAS meeting. - EurekAlert!

February 23 2007: Minister plays down visitor cap fears - The Queensland Environment Minister has moved to calm tourism industry fears visitor numbers will be capped at popular Whitsunday national park beaches. - ABC News Online

February 23 2007: The traditional owners from McArthur River on the Gulf of Carpentaria have launched a Federal Court challenge to the former federal environment minister's approval of expansion plans for the local zinc mine. - ABC News Online

February 23 2007: Matsushita water heaters killed 48 over 20 years - Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. reveals that 48 people died in 27 cases of carbon monoxide poisoning involving the use of its gas water heaters between 1986 and 2006. - The Japan Times

February 23 2007: No redress for Nagoya flood, high court rules - The Japan Times

February 23 2007: Zimbabwe’s defiant dictator - As he turns 83, Robert Mugabe is still clinging to power as inflation races, starvation looms and the country he took over 27 years ago crumbles. - Financial Times

February 23 2007: Russia's hope - Putin puts faith in warmest city for Winter Olympic bid - BBC (World)

February 23 2007: Zimbabwe in storm flood warning - BBC (Africa)

February 23 2007: Poles 'vital for climate science' - Polar research is essential in understanding the risks of climate change, the UK's science minister declares. - BBC (Sci/Tech)

February 23 2007: Samarra's bombed out golden-domed shrine - A year after a bombing at Samarra's Shiite mosque ignited a firestorm of violence in Iraq, Time.com reports Shiite and Sunni factions have turned much of Iraq into a sectarian battlefield. The roots of the conflict run deep and the strife has moved beyond the realm of the extremists and permeates every area of Iraqi life. - CNN

February 23 2007: Concrete balls to plug mud volcano - CNN

February 23 2007: Concrete balls to calm mud volcano - CNN

February 23 2007: Erupting volcano crackles with low-energy lightning - New Scientist

February 23 2007: The Changing Climate on Climate Change - 'The message, it seems, has finally gotten through: global warming represents a serious threat to our planet,' says Joseph E. Stiglitz. 'What is at stake is in part a moral issue, a matter of global social justice.' - OneWorld

February 23 2007: Cement to Plug Indonesian Mud Volcano? - Discovery Online

February 23 2007: Global warming has affected the permanent snow on Mount Everest at the heart of the Himalayas, according to the results of a new study carried out by Chinese, French and American researchers and published in the European journal - China Internet information Centre

February 23 2007: Counting the Cost of Cyclone Favio - Mozambican disaster response teams on Friday began the job of assessing the damage caused by cyclone Favio, 24-hours after it tore through the central town of Vilankulo. - All Africa News

February 23 2007: Heavy Floods Displace Many - A double-edged humanitarian crisis in the form of massive floods engulfing settlements in Kabbe Constituency - swamping crop fields while marooning cattle coupled with the flooded crops at Sangwali threatens Caprivi's food security. - All Africa News

February 23 2007: Flood Victims Set Up Their Own Camps - The Mozambican government's relief agency, the National Disasters Management Institute (INGC), found last week that thousands of flood victims in the Zambezi valley, rather than simply wait for assistance, had set up accommodation centres on their own initiative. - All Africa News

February 23 2007: Appetite-Suppressing Plant Can Boost Economy - THE Hoodia gordonni, an indigenous plant found in certain areas of southern Africa, has the potential to boost Namibia's socio-economic growth, says Environment Minister Willem Konjore. - All Africa News

February 23 2007: EXCLUSIVE: Cheney on Global Warming - ABC News

February 22 2007: Film maker, Yahoo to fight global warming - The Australian

February 22 2007: Seal hunt activists go naked - NAKED animal rights activists braved frigid temperatures to protest Canada's annual seal hunt today, curling up in the snow outside Prime Minister Stephen Harper's office to make their point. - The Australian

February 22 2007: PM flags climate change fund in budget - Prime Minister John Howard has hinted this year's federal budget may include a multi-billion dollar investment in climate change measures. - The Age

February 22 2007: Get Free Daily Newsletters About Earth And More - Earth - Energy - Pollution - Climate - China - Terra Daily

February 22 2007: Indonesia Delays Start Of Plan To Plug Mud Volcano - Terra Daily

February 22 2007: University Park PA (SPX) Feb 22, 2007 - Modern human mothers are probably happy that they typically have one, maybe two babies at a time, but for early hominids, low birth numbers combined with competition often spelled extinction. "The lineages of primates have some traits that make it hard for them to respond to rapid perturbations in the environment," says Dr. Nina G. Jablonski, professor of anthropology and department head at Penn State. - Terra Daily

February 22 2007: Davis CA (SPX) Feb 22, 2007 - Soil bacteria could be used to help steady buildings against earthquakes, according to researchers at UC Davis. The microbes can literally convert loose, sandy soil into rock. When a major earthquake strikes, deep, sandy soils can turn to liquid, with disastrous consequences for buildings sitting on them. Currently, civil engineers can inject chemicals into the soil to bind loose grains together. - Terra Daily

February 22 2007: East Falmouth MA (SPX) Feb 22, 2007 - The world's leading whale conservation charity today issued a stark warning about the "perfect storm" which could permanently damage the future survival of these mammals. In launching its '100 days to Save the Whale' campaign, WDCS, the Whale and Dolphin Conservation Society is highlighting the urgent need to protect whales from an industry which is increasingly aggressive in its approach to international conventions in pursuit of both the numbers and different species it kills. - Terra Daily

February 22 2007: Latu's Hurricanes lifeline brings rewards - Stuff

February 22 2007: Sandstorm Over The Mediterranean - Terra Daily

February 22 2007: Paris, France (ESA) Feb 22, 2007 - A strong wind blows sand and dust across the Mediterranean Sea from the Libyan Desert, located in the northeast section of the Sahara Desert, to Sicily and the southern tip of the Italian Peninsula on 10 February 2007 in this Envisat image. Sandstorms are usually the result of atmospheric convection currents, which form when warm, lighter air rises and cold, heavier air sinks. - Terra Daily

February 22 2007: Chilly tidings for creators of heart-warming tale - Sydney Morning Herald

February 22 2007: 23 February 2007 | Solid Energy NZ - A major new phase has started in one of the most important CO2 capture and storage projects internationally, in which New Zealand is investing. The Australian-based Cooperative Research Centre for Greenhouse Gas Technologies (CO2CRC) has begun drilling ... - Scoop

February 22 2007: Earthquakes a timely reminder - Scoop

February 22 2007: 22 February 2007 | Civil Defence Emergency Management - Last night’s swarm of earthquakes in Auckland are a timely reminder that New Zealanders need to be prepared for all types of disasters which could happen anywhere and anytime, says the Ministry of Civil Defence and Emergency Management. - Scoop

February 22 2007: U.S. lax in preparing for climate change - Science Daily (Climate)

February 22 2007: Bacteria Could Steady Buildings Against Earthquakes - Science Daily (Climate)

February 22 2007: (February 22, 2007) - -- Soil bacteria could be used to help steady buildings against earthquakes, according to researchers at UC Davis. The microbes can literally convert loose, sandy soil into ... > - Science Daily (Climate)

February 22 2007: Fire In The Ice: Gas Hydrate Project Could Unlock Vast Energy Resource In Alaska - Drilling is complete on an Alaskan North Slope well, cofunded by the Department of Energy, that could prove to be an important milestone in assessing America's largest potential fossil energy resource: gas hydrate. Gas hydrate is an ice-like solid that results from the trapping of methane ... > - Science Daily

February 22 2007: Environment And Exercise May Affect Research Results, Study Shows - Science Daily

February 22 2007: The process by which carbon nanotubes repair themselves has now been explained and modeled in detail. These tubes, sometimes only a nanometer or so in width but microns in length are among the ... > - Science Daily

February 22 2007: (February 22, 2007) - -- North American marine turtles are at risk if global warming occurs at predicted levels, according to scientists from the University of Exeter. An increase in temperatures of just one degree Celsius ... > - Science Daily (Climate)

February 22 2007: Researchers Examine Effects Of Global Warming On Antarctic - Science Daily

February 22 2007: Drugs prescribed to treat attention deficit hyperactivity disorder will include guides to alert patients and parents of the risks of mental and heart problems, including sudden death. - Imagine a world where Scandinavia produces wines to rival Italy's fabled Chianti region. It could come to just that by the end of the century if global warming continues unchecked. - Sci-Tech Today

February 22 2007: Warming May Harm Tuscan Wines - Sci-Tech Today

February 22 2007: BRUSSELS (Reuters) - European Union environment ministers intend to set an ambitious, legally binding target for reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 2020,... - Reuters

February 22 2007: LONDON (Reuters) - The British government will publish the draft of its - Change Bill on March 12, setting a legal target of cutting carbon dioxide... - Reuters

February 22 2007: Minn. Raises Bar on Renewable Energy Use - Newsday (AP update)

February 22 2007: Man Charged After Flood Unearths Tapes - Newsday (AP update)

February 22 2007: Cyclone Makes Landfall in Mozambique - Newsday (AP update)

February 22 2007: Norwegian Skier Dies in Utah Avalanche - Newsday (AP update)

February 22 2007: Experts: Warming May Harm Tuscan Wines - Newsday (AP update)

February 22 2007: Flood Unearths Old Pornography Tapes - Newsday (AP update)

February 22 2007: Smith's Messy Death Eclipses Wacky Life - Newsday (AP update)

February 22 2007: Colder temps, snow to hit LI - Newsday (AP update)

February 22 2007: Climate changes, Cod collapse have altered North Atlantic ecosystems - Climate change plays a role in ecosystem changes along the continental shelf waters of the Northwest Atlantic Ocean, reports a Cornell oceanographer in the Feb. 23 issue of Science. - EurekAlert!

February 22 2007: Mpumalanga keeps tabs on cyclone - Mail & Guardian Online

February 22 2007: Cyclone's might shakes Mozambique - Roofs were blown off, trees uprooted and power lines cut by the force of a tropical cyclone that slammed into coastal regions of already-beleaguered Mozambique on Thursday, officials said. There were no immediate reports of casualties after Cyclone Favio made landfall in the Southern African nation. - Mail & Guardian Online

February 22 2007: Mail & Guardian Online - that the storm had average wind speeds of about 176km/h, with gusts of up to 246km/h. - Mail & Guardian Online

February 22 2007: Favio makes landfall in Mozambique - Cyclone Favio, sweeping in after wreaking havoc in Madagascar, made landfall at Vilankulo in Mozambique on Thursday morning. Tshepho Ngobeni, marine forecaster at the South African weather service, told the - Mail & Guardian Online

February 22 2007: Cyclone hits coast of Mozambique - Mail & Guardian Online

February 22 2007: Disaster officials and aid agencies are closely monitoring Tropical Cyclone Favio, due to make landfall in flood-drenched Mozambique on Thursday, as it crosses the narrow sea channel from Madagascar. By 6pm local time on Wednesday afternoon, Favio was a very intense category-three storm with winds of about 185km/h. - Mail & Guardian Online

February 22 2007: Cyclone Favio leaves coastal town in ruins - IRIN

February 22 2007: Justice for a Lawless World? Rights and reconciliation in a new era of international law - When disaster strikes: the response to the South Asian earthquake - IRIN

February 22 2007: Meacher enters leadership race - Former environment minister to challenge Gordon Brown. - Guardian Unlimited

February 22 2007: Motorists stranded in Norway snow - Earth Times

February 22 2007: High price of paradise in Florida Keys - High property costs and a series of hurricanes contributed to a 4 percent population decline. - Christian Science Monitor

February 22 2007: How fast must we act on global warming? - Christian Science Monitor

February 22 2007: Global Warming: It's All In Your Head - CBS

February 22 2007: Global Warming: All In Your Head - CBS

February 22 2007: finds out exactly what it means to live a carbon neutral lifestyle. It's an idea that is catching on in Hollywood and even the beauty industry. - CBS

February 22 2007: Offset Pollution With Carbon Neutral Life - CBS

February 22 2007: * - Offset Pollution With Carbon Neutral Life - CBS

February 22 2007: Traditional owners take mine expansion plans to Federal Court - The traditional owners from McArthur River on the Gulf of Carpentaria have launched a Federal Court challenge to the former federal environment minister's approval of expansion plans for the local zinc mine. - ABC News Online

February 22 2007: Business urged to play bigger role in saving reef - Big business has launched a new initiative to try to save the Great Barrier Reef from global warming. - ABC News Online

February 22 2007: A Horsham councillor says banning plastic bags would be a good way for the city to contribute to the fight against climate change. - ABC News Online

February 22 2007: The federal Environment Minister, Malcolm Turnbull, says it would be a tragedy for Australia if Opposition Leader Kevin Rudd and the state governments played politics with the nation's water systems. - ABC News Online

February 22 2007: Tasmania's Premier, Paul Lennon, is standing by his Environment Minister in the wake of continued criticism of her handling of a pest eradication program on Macquarie Island. - ABC News Online

February 22 2007: Liane Katz - tests Utah's claim to having the greatest snow on earth. - Guardian Unlimited

February 22 2007: No redress for Nagoya flood, high court rules - The Nagoya High Court upholds the dismissal of a lawsuit filed by residents who sought compensation from the city of Nagoya for failing to prevent property damage caused by a massive flood in September 2000. - The Japan Times

February 22 2007: Bangladesh is more exposed than any other country to global warming. And a series of unusual events - from dying trees to freak weather - suggest its impact is already being felt. - Image: Flooding in Bangladesh is increasingly common - OneWorld

February 22 2007: At the mercy of climate change - Bangladesh is more exposed than any other country to global warming. And a series of unusual events - from dying trees to freak weather - suggest its impact is already being felt. - OneWorld

February 22 2007: Global warming must slow by 2020, warns UN - Financial Times

February 22 2007: Cyclone strikes Mozambique - BBC (World)

February 22 2007: Cyclone Favio strikes Mozambique - BBC

February 22 2007: In pictures: Mozambique floods - BBC (Africa)

February 22 2007: Thu, 22 Feb 2007 16:00:30 EST - Cement to Plug Indonesian Mud Volcano? - Discovery Online

February 22 2007: China Speeds Up 1st Survey on Soil Pollution - China Internet information Centre

February 22 2007: More Methane Pits to Be Built in Rural Areas - China Internet information Centre

February 22 2007: More Dams to Be Built On the Zambezi - Mozambique plans to build dams to avoid repeats of the flooding of the Zambezi River that has devastated the country in recent weeks. - All Africa News

February 22 2007: Cyclone Flavio Rips Through Country - Winds of around 200km/hr are causing widespread destruction across Mozambique, as Cyclone Flavio has hit the country after crossing the narrow sea channel from Madagascar. - All Africa News

February 22 2007: Fight Global Warming Down Under - ABC News

February 22 2007: Minnesota Renewable Energy Goal: 25% by 2025 - ABC News

February 22 2007: Mine Is Bigger - One of the new Airbus super jumbos has just been purchased by a mysterious head of state who is outfitting it with "a desert-like environment." It will cost $450 million. - ABC News

February 22 2007: Powerful Cyclone Makes Landfall in Mozambique - ABC News

February 22 2007: Diesel Ads Twist Take on Global Warming - ABC News

February 21 2007: Carbon credit exchange proposed for Qld - The Age

February 21 2007: PaperlinX sees better price environment - Australia's largest paper merchant PaperlinX says it expects a better pricing environment for its products this calendar year. - The Age

February 21 2007: Get Free Daily Newsletters About Earth And More - Earth - Energy - Pollution - Climate - China - Terra Daily

February 21 2007: Russia, Kyoto Protocol And Climate Change - Terra Daily

February 21 2007: Moscow (RIA Novosti) Feb 21, 2007 - Two years have passed since the Kyoto Protocol (KP) went into force. A total of 150 nations have ratified this extraordinary international document. It embodies humankind's pragmatism, and is aimed at reducing the negative anthropogenic influence on the biosphere and the climate. Preparations for its implementation will be completed this year, and monitoring of compliance with KP commitments will start in 2008. - Terra Daily

February 21 2007: The sophisticated way in which rats use their whiskers in their surrounding environments show significant parallels with how humans use their fingertips, according to new research carried out at the University of Sheffield. Rats are tactile animals that use their facial whiskers as their primary sense. These whiskers are swept back and forth, or `whisked´ many times each second. - Terra Daily

February 21 2007: Indonesia To Use Concrete Balls To Plug "Mud Volcano" - Terra Daily

February 21 2007: Jakarta (AFP) Feb 20, 2007 - Hundreds of concrete balls will be dropped into a "mud volcano" on Wednesday, although experts warned it is unlikely to stop a massive mud flow which has swallowed villages and left 15,000 people homeless. Officials said the concrete balls would be lowered by crane into the main source of the mud spill near Surabaya, in East Java. "Preparations are just about done," Rudi Novrianto, spokesman for the government team handling the crisis, told AFP Tuesday. - Terra Daily

February 21 2007: European Ministers Uphold Hungary's Right To Ban GMO Crop - Terra Daily

February 21 2007: Brussels (AFP) Feb 20, 2007 - European environment ministers on Tuesday upheld Hungary's right to ban a genetically modified product (GMOs), dealing a policy defeat to the EU's executive arm which wanted the measure to be lifted. A "qualified majority" of the 27 EU member states rejected the European Commission demand that a "safeguard clause" which Budapest invoked in 2005 to keep Monsanto GMO maize out of the country be lifted. The maize has been authorised for use in the EU since 1998. - Terra Daily

February 21 2007: Greenhouse now mainstream issue for business - Sydney Morning Herald

February 21 2007: Hauraki Gulf Earthquakes Shake Up Aucklanders - Scoop

February 21 2007: 22 February 2007 | GNS Science - Aucklanders were shaken by three tremors last night. The largest of these was a magnitude 4.5 earthquake that struck at 9pm, and was felt from Warkworth in the north right through to Waihi at the base of Coromandel Peninsula. - Scoop

February 21 2007: From Farm Waste To Fuel Tanks: Record-breaking Methane Storage System Derived From Corncobs - Using corncob waste as a starting material, researchers have created carbon briquettes with complex nanopores capable of storing natural gas at an unprecedented density of 180 times their own volume and at one seventh the pressure of conventional natural gas ... > - Science Daily

February 21 2007: Batten Down The Hatches Against HIV: Carbon Nanotubes Transport Gene Therapy Drug Into T-cells - Science Daily

February 21 2007: Glaciers Not On Simple, Upward Trend Of Melting - Two of Greenland's largest glaciers shrank dramatically and dumped twice as much ice into the sea during a period of less than a year between 2004 and 2005. And then, less than two years later, they returned to near their previous rates of discharge. Future warming may lead to rapid pulses of ... > - Science Daily

February 21 2007: Global Warming Scientist Encouraged - Sci-Tech Today

February 21 2007: Climate Change a 'Threat to Society' - Sci-Tech Today

February 21 2007: Experts: Warming May Change Tuscan Wines - Newsday (AP update)

February 21 2007: Cyclone threatens flooded Mozambique - Mail & Guardian Online

February 21 2007: Mozambique awaits intense cyclone's landfall - Disaster officials and aid agencies are closely monitoring Tropical Cyclone Favio, due to make landfall in flood-drenched Mozambique on Thursday, as it crosses the narrow sea channel from Madagascar. By 6pm local time on Wednesday afternoon, Favio was a very intense category-three storm with winds of about 185km/h. - Mail & Guardian Online

February 21 2007: Cyclone threatens flood-ravaged Mozambique - Mail & Guardian Online

February 21 2007: Disease, hunger risk in Mozambique floods - Mail & Guardian Online

February 21 2007: EU offers 30% cut in greenhouse gas - International Herald Tribune

February 21 2007: Environment - - EurActiv

February 21 2007: Climate Change - - EurActiv

February 21 2007: headlines of the week - Minnesota Poised to Adopt 25x25 Renewable Energy Plan - EnergyOnline Daily News

February 21 2007: Companies Lay Out Global Framework to Fight Climate Change - GreenBiz

February 21 2007: Johnson Controls Expands Renewable Energy Offerings - GreenBiz

February 21 2007: * - EU Seeks Ambitious Global Warming Goal - CBS

February 21 2007: El Nino declared over - ABC News Online

February 21 2007: Firm on track to drill 'hot rock' well - A Queensland company working to develop 'hot rock' geothermal resources in the Cooper Basin says it is confident it will be able to develop an emission-free, renewable energy source. - ABC News Online

February 21 2007: Beattie says Qld already in carbon trading scheme - ABC News Online

February 21 2007: Outback dust may slow climate change: scientists - Scientists believe dust from Australia's drought stricken regions may help to slow climate change. - ABC News Online

February 21 2007: Flegg proposes Bris