Tiempo Climate Newswatch

October 2008

October 31 2008: Disease hits freezing quake zone - DISEASE began to spread among earthquake survivors in southwest Pakistan today as the UN expressed fears for tens of thousands of children and women still desperately waiting for relief supplies. - The Australian

October 31 2008: Poised for the storm - The Australian

October 31 2008: Study Helps Clarify Role Of Soil Microbes In Global Warming - Terra Daily

October 31 2008: Athens GA (SPX) Oct 31, 2008 - Current models of global climate change predict warmer temperatures will increase the rate that bacteria and other microbes decompose soil organic matter, a scenario that pumps even more heat-trapping carbon into the atmosphere. But a new study led by a University of Georgia researcher shows that while the rate of decomposition increases for a brief period in response to warmer temperature ... - Terra Daily

October 31 2008: Global Warming Is Killing Frogs And Salamanders In Yellowstone Park - Terra Daily

October 31 2008: Stanford CA (SPX) Oct 31, 2008 - Frogs and salamanders, those amphibious bellwethers of environmental danger, are being killed in Yellowstone National Park. The predator, Stanford researchers say, is global warming. Biology graduate student Sarah McMenamin spent three summers in a remote area of the park searching for frogs and salamanders in ponds that had been surveyed 15 years ago. Almost everywhere she looked, she ... - Terra Daily

October 31 2008: Kan Bangla, Pakistan (AFP) Oct 30, 2008 - The death toll from a powerful earthquake in southwest Pakistan could climb above 300, officials said Thursday, as rescuers struggled to deliver aid to desperate survivors. Multiple aftershocks continued to rock impoverished Baluchistan province, creating fresh fears among survivors who prepared to spend a second night in the open in sub-zero temperatures as the cold winter set in. ... - Terra Daily

October 31 2008: London (AFP) Oct 30, 2008 - Britain's de-facto academy of sciences said Thursday it is launching a major study into geo-engineering, the term covering a variety of weird and wonderful ideas for the fight against climate change. Many geo-engineering schemes -- some of the best known invite ocean fertilisation or attempting to alter atmospheric components in near space-- have been widely dismissed as wacky or dangerous. ... - Terra Daily

October 31 2008: Canada to seek continent-wide approach to climate change - Terra Daily

October 31 2008: A Glacier's Life - Terra Daily

October 31 2008: Halloween Storms Of 2003 Still The Scariest - Terra Daily

October 31 2008: Pollution laws to tighten on developers - Sydney Morning Herald

October 31 2008: 'Living Fossil' Tree Contains Genetic Imprints Of Rain Forests Under Climate Change - A "living fossil" tree species is helping a researcher understand how tropical forests responded to past climate change and how they may react to global warming in the ... > - Science Daily

October 31 2008: Evidence Of Tsunamis On Indian Ocean Shores Long Before 2004 - Science Daily

October 31 2008: October 31, 2008 - - A quarter-million people were killed when a tsunami inundated Indian Ocean coastlines the day after Christmas in 2004. Now scientists have found evidence that the event was not a first-time ... > - Science Daily

October 31 2008: Evidence Of Tsunamis On Indian Ocean Shores Long Before 2004 - A quarter-million people were killed when a tsunami inundated Indian Ocean coastlines the day after Christmas in 2004. Now scientists have found evidence that the event was not a first-time ... > - Science Daily

October 31 2008: Probing Antarctic Glaciers For Clues To Past And Future Sea Level - Science Daily

October 31 2008: October 30, 2008 - - Scientists believe the barely observed Aurora Subglacial Basin, which lies in East Antarctica, could represent the weak underbelly of the East Antarctic Ice Sheet, the largest remaining body of ice ... > - Science Daily

October 31 2008: - Scientists believe the barely observed Aurora Subglacial Basin, which lies in East Antarctica, could represent the weak underbelly of the East Antarctic Ice Sheet, the largest remaining body of ice ... > - Science Daily

October 31 2008: Catching Earthquake Details With Ordinary Laptop Computers - Science Daily

October 31 2008: Morocco invests US$3.2 billion in renewable energy - Morocco is investing US$3.2 billion in clean energy development, including a renewable energy 'knowledge campus' in Oujda. - SciDev.Net

October 31 2008: From climate change to herbicide pollution, it's not easy being an amphibian - Scientific American

October 31 2008: World without Frogs: Combined Threats May Croak Amphibians - From climate change to herbicide pollution, it's not easy being an amphibian - Scientific American

October 31 2008: Warmer Antarctica Shows Climate Changing on Every Continent - It's official: The South Pole is also succumbing to human-induced climate change - Scientific American

October 31 2008: Hotel Case Study: Peer Pressure's Impact on the Environment - Scientific American

October 31 2008: EPA issues new rules to control factory farm pollution of waterways. - Newsday (AP update)

October 31 2008: Climate change helps short-lived creatures - New Scientist

October 31 2008: Cyclone orphans forced to work - IRIN

October 31 2008: Fiendishly good food for Halloween - Hosting a Halloween party tonight? Cook up a storm with these great recipes from - Guardian Unlimited

October 31 2008: Science academy to launch a feasibility study to establish which techniques might best tackle climate change - Guardian Unlimited (Science)

October 31 2008: Royal Society to research potential of geoengineering to limit global warming - Guardian Unlimited (Science)

October 31 2008: Biggest economies caught in storm - Guardian Unlimited

October 31 2008: October 31, 2008 - The ethanol maker, which suffered staggering losses after making the wrong bets on corn prices, tells its creditors it plans to file for bankruptcy. - Greentech Media

October 31 2008: October 31, 2008 - U.S. ELECTION SERIES, PART 1: Both presidential candidates say they support solar power, but Barack Obama's energy plan includes more initiatives specifically targeted at advancing the solar agenda. - Greentech Media

October 31 2008: Biofuel Roundup: Harvesting Olive Pits - Greentech Media

October 31 2008: October 31, 2008 - An Indian company plans a huge jatropha farm for biodiesel, while Spanish researchers say they can turn olive pits into ethanol, while Tennessee will soon produce ethanol from switchgrass. - Greentech Media

October 31 2008: Wind power: key to preventing dangerous climate change - OneWorld

October 31 2008: Report: Zero Carbon Global Economy Possible by 2090 - GreenBiz

October 31 2008: Carbon Management - Financial Times

October 31 2008: It's relative: Contrasting hurricane theories heat up - In a paper published in the journal Science today, Gabriel A. Vecchi, Kyle L. Swanson and Brian J. Soden teamed up to study hurricane data observed over 50 years. The study explores the relationship between sea surface temperatures and seasonal hurricane activity, and show how differing interpretations of the record can imply vastly different futures for Atlantic hurricane activity due to global warming. - EurekAlert!

October 31 2008: Environment - - EurActiv

October 31 2008: Dip in oil and carbon prices to hamper clean tech drive? - EurActiv

October 31 2008: Satellites helping aid workers in Honduras - Humanitarian aid workers responding to devastating flooding in Honduras have received assistance from space, with satellite images of affected areas provided rapidly following activation of the International Charter on Space and Major Disasters. - EurekAlert!

October 31 2008: Florida's Tri-Rail Trains to Run On Biodiesel Fuel - Environmental News Service

October 31 2008: , October 29, 2008 (ENS) - The world's largest food relief organization, the United Nations' World Food Programme, has a new system of buying food that better supports the productivity of small farmers, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said today in Manila. In the past, the WFP has purchased food on the international markets, said Ban. But under the new system, WFP will enter into multi-year contracts with small farmers to supply the required foods. - Environmental News Service

October 31 2008: Commission to allow EU biofuels to stay - Terra Daily

October 31 2008: Climate Change Bill gets seal of approval - The UK will become the first country in the world to make emissions reduction targets legally binding after MPs voted in favour of passing the Climate Change Bill. - EDIE

October 31 2008: Vietnam flood dead toll rise; Hanoi inundated - VietnamNews.Net

October 31 2008: Six Picks: Recommendations from the Monitor staff - A well-sourced website for the undecided voter, Snow Patrol's latest anthemic album, Kit Kittredge's sweet charm out on DVD, and more. - Christian Science Monitor

October 31 2008: Tibet[acute]s snowstorm kills 7 - CCTV

October 31 2008: Death toll rises to 7 in worst Tibet snowstorm on record - CCTV

October 31 2008: Six dead in worst Tibet snowstorm on record, 1,700 others stranded - CCTV

October 31 2008: French minister praises China[acute]s efforts in tackling climate change - CCTV

October 31 2008: Guangdong faces warming threat - China Climate Change Info-Net

October 31 2008: Opening Remarks at the Press Conference for the White Paper on China¡¯s Policies and Actions on Addressing Climate Change - China Climate Change Info-Net

October 31 2008: Vietnam floods kill 19 - Floods have killed at least 19 people in central Vietnam, emergency services said Friday, as heavy rains also lashed the capital Hanoi and left many streets under one meter (three... - VietnamNews.Net

October 31 2008: Editorial Comment: Ring-fencing the most vulnerable - As financial woes spread, nations outside safety nets such as the eurozone want to get inside, while those inside will want to avoid sharing the cost - Financial Times

October 31 2008: Eurozone inflation tumbles to 3.2% - Financial Times

October 31 2008: IEA cites gains from energy efficiency - Financial Times

October 31 2008: 10 years on - How has Honduras fared since Hurricane Mitch? - BBC (Americas)

October 31 2008: Fiction to fact - Scientists consider radical ideas to fight climate change - BBC (Sci/Tech)

October 31 2008: Polar warming 'caused by humans' - BBC (Sci/Tech)

October 31 2008: Snow leopard wins top photo prize - BBC (Sci/Tech)

October 31 2008: 7 days quiz - Snow! When did London last get a dusting in October? - BBC

October 31 2008: Eurozone inflation falls to 3.2% - BBC (Europe)

October 31 2008: Floods from heavy rain in Vietnam's central provinces have killed at least 14 people in the past week, including four children, the government and state media said on Friday. Many roads in the... - VietnamNews.Net

October 31 2008: Storms cause Vietnam flooding - CNN

October 31 2008: Geologists blame drilling for Indonesian mud volcano - New Scientist

October 31 2008: Japanese quake was huge trampoline - Analysis of a big earthquake that hit Japan in June shows that it sent the ground speeding skywards - New Scientist

October 31 2008: Humans to blame for polar warming - New Scientist

October 31 2008: Global-warming methane spiked in 2007 - New Scientist

October 31 2008: Climate change seen helping short-lived creatures - Environmental News Network

October 31 2008: October 31, 2008 09:29 AM - - OSLO (Reuters) - Climate change is likely to disrupt food chains by favoring animals with short lifespans over often bigger rivals that are worse at tolerating temperature swings, scientists said on Thursday. - Environmental News Network

October 31 2008: A University of Manitoba scientist says he's figured out how to cut the amount of greenhouse gas belching from cows by as much as 200 litres a day - feed them grain instead of grass. For the past four years, Prof. Ermias Kebreab has been analyzing cow burps at the National Centre for Livestock and the Environment south of Winnipeg to measure the amount of methane dairy cows produce when they are fed different types of food. - Environmental News Network

October 31 2008: Less grass means less gas, cattle researcher says - A University of Manitoba scientist says he's figured out how to cut the amount of greenhouse gas belching from cows by as much as 200 litres a day - feed them grain instead of grass. For the past four years, Prof. Ermias Kebreab has been analyzing cow burps at the National Centre for Livestock and the Environment south of Winnipeg to measure the amount of methane dairy cows produce when they are fed different types of food. - Environmental News Network

October 31 2008: Office-Related Carbon Emissions Surge - Environmental News Network

October 31 2008: NEW YORK (Reuters) - New York's Attorney General launched an ethics code on Thursday that seeks to fight dirty business in the state's emerging wind power farm business. - Environmental News Network

October 31 2008: China hopes for step-by-step progress of low carbon economy - Environmental News Network

October 31 2008: October 30, 2008 09:19 AM - - Some amount of the element mercury, which scientists say is toxic to humans and animals, occurs naturally on earth[rsquo]s surface. Since the Industrial Revolution began in 1750, the rate at which mercury is deposited into the environment has tripled. - Environmental News Network

October 31 2008: Antarctica hit by climate change - Environmental News Network

October 31 2008: EU agency says French GMO maize ban unjustified - Environmental News Network

October 31 2008: It's Official: People Are Warming the Poles - Discovery Online

October 31 2008: Sheltered from the storm - Sydney Morning Herald

October 31 2008: Heavy snowstorms hit Tibet - CNN (Asia)

October 31 2008: 7 killed in Tibet's 'worst snowstorm' - CNN (Asia)

October 31 2008: Drought Down Under - A severe drought is hitting Australia's rural communities, as one farming family attests - CNN (Asia)

October 31 2008: Cold threatens Pakistan quake survivors - ... earthquake that destroyed thousands of homes and killed at least 215 people. The 6.4-magnitude pre-dawn quake on Wednesday flattened mud-brick houses and triggered landslides in the impoverished... - VietnamNews.Net

October 31 2008: Global warming behind hot NT weather - ABC News Online

October 31 2008: November 1, 2008 10:00:00 - The Bureau of Meteorology says high temperatures recorded across the Northern Territory this month may be indicative of global warming. - ABC News Online

October 31 2008: Turnbull 'rolled by climate change deniers' - ABC News Online

October 31 2008: October 31, 2008 14:13:00 - Penny Wong says Kyoto advocate Malcolm Turnbull has been rolled by Liberal Party climate change deniers. - ABC News Online

October 31 2008: Scientists claim proof humans to blame for polar warming - ABC News Online

October 31 2008: October 31, 2008 13:00:00 - Scientists say they have been able to prove for the first time that human activity is contributing to the warming of both the Arctic and Antarctic. - ABC News Online

October 31 2008: October 31, 2008 07:37:00 - Federal Opposition environment spokesman Greg Hunt will arrive in SA today as part of his Murray tour. - ABC News Online

October 31 2008: Climate change fight as important as ever: Rudd - ABC News Online

October 31 2008: October 31, 2008 07:48:00 - Prime Minister Kevin Rudd says the threat of climate change remains as significant as it was before the financial crisis. - ABC News Online

October 31 2008: Kevin Rudd says the Government will look at a range of reduction targets and carbon prices before deciding on a final emissions trading policy. - ABC News Online

October 30 2008: Study shows polar heat rise - A STUDY confirms the human impact on climate change in the Arctic and Antarctic regions for the first time, scientists say. - The Australian

October 30 2008: China snowstorm kills seven - A SEVERE snowstorm in southwest China's Tibet region has killed seven people and stranded another 1300 in damaged buildings and villages, state media reported yesterday, citing local authorities. - The Australian

October 30 2008: Paris (AFP) Oct 29, 2008 - Reckless borrowing against Earth's exhausted bounty is driving the planet toward an ecological "credit crunch", the World Wildlife Fund warned on Wednesday. Growing demands on natural capital -- such as forests, water, soil, air and biodiversity - already outstrip the world's capacity to renew these resources by a third, according to the WWF's Living Planet Report. "If our demands on ... - Terra Daily

October 30 2008: New York NY (SPX) Oct 30, 2008 - An alarming new study to be published in November in the Annual Review of Environment and Resources finds that one-third of the world's marine fish catches are ground up and fed to farm-raised fish, pigs, and poultry, squandering a precious food resource for humans and disregarding the serious overfishing crisis in our oceans. Lead author Dr. Jacqueline Alder, senior author Dr. Daniel Paul ... - Terra Daily

October 30 2008: Tides of history: Tsunami hit Indian Ocean 600 years ago - Terra Daily

October 30 2008: Global Methane Levels On The Rise Again - Terra Daily

October 30 2008: Warsaw (AFP) Oct 29, 2008 - Global business leaders meeting Wednesday in Warsaw endorsed the United Nations' drive to clinch a new global framework to curb climate change at its December 2009 climate summit in Copenhagen. "Business is a solution to the climate change crisis," Lars G. Josefsson, president and CEO of European power giant Vattenfall, told reporters after roundtable talks of business leaders on climate cha ... - Terra Daily

October 30 2008: Wam, Pakistan (AFP) Oct 30, 2008 - Thousands of villagers in southwest Pakistan waited for aid in freezing conditions Thursday after a powerful earthquake that destroyed hundreds of homes and killed at least 170 people. The 6.4-magnitude pre-dawn quake on Wednesday flattened mud-brick houses and triggered landslides in the impoverished province of Baluchistan bordering Afghanistan, killing or injuring their occupants as they ... - Terra Daily

October 30 2008: China struggling to meet environment goals: official - Terra Daily

October 30 2008: California gets ready for earthquake drill - Terra Daily

October 30 2008: Los Angeles (UPI) Oct 29, 2008 - The U.S. Geological Survey says it's preparing for the largest earthquake drill in the nation's history - the Great Southern California ShakeOut. The 10 a.m. PST on Nov. 13 the drill will simulate what might occur during and after a magnitude 7.8 earthquake on the U.S. West Coast. The exercise is based on a USGS scenario created with emergency responders, power, water and transportatio ... - Terra Daily

October 30 2008: NASA-Enhanced Dust Storm Predictions To Aid Health Community - Terra Daily

October 30 2008: Drought aid down the drain - Sydney Morning Herald

October 30 2008: Editorial: A clearer picture on carbon trade - Sydney Morning Herald

October 30 2008: October 30, 2008 - - Olive stones can be turned into bioethanol, a renewable fuel that can be produced from plant matter and used as an alternative to petrol or diesel. This gives the olive processing industry an ... > - Science Daily

October 30 2008: Methane Gas Levels Begin To Increase Again - Science Daily

October 30 2008: Climate change seeps into the sea - The oceans have helped slow global warming by absorbing carbon dioxide but the effects of this acidification - 'the other carbon dioxide problem' - could be serious for life on Earth. - OneWorld

October 30 2008: Climate Change Seeps Into The Sea - Good news has turned out to be bad. The ocean has helped slow global warming by absorbing much of the excess heat and heat-trapping carbon dioxide that has been going into the atmosphere since the start of the Industrial ... > - Science Daily

October 30 2008: Global Warming Is Killing Frogs And Salamanders In Yellowstone Park, Researchers Say - Science Daily

October 30 2008: October 30, 2008 - - Inside your laptop is a small accelerometer chip, there to protect the delicate moving parts of your hard disk from sudden jolts. It turns out that the same chip is a pretty good earthquake sensor, ... > - Science Daily

October 30 2008: World without Frogs: Combined Threats May Croak Amphibians - From climate change to herbicide pollution, it's not easy being an amphibian - Scientific American

October 30 2008: Climate change to help short-lived creatures - Scientific American

October 30 2008: Thousands homeless after Pakistan earthquake - OneWorld

October 30 2008: "Harsh storm" looms - Reuters

October 30 2008: Agencies respond to Pakistan earthquake - Development agencies fly teams into the area of Pakistan struck by an earthquake on Wednesday. - OneWorld

October 30 2008: 'Living fossil' tree contains genetic imprints of rain forests under climate change - A "living fossil" tree species is helping a University of Michigan researcher understand how tropical forests responded to past climate change and how they may react to global warming in the future. - EurekAlert!

October 30 2008: Joe the Plumber picks Nashville PR agency to handle flood of interview and appearance requests - Newsday (AP update)

October 30 2008: MSF team dispatched to villages hit by earthquake in Balochistan - OneWorld

October 30 2008: Survey reveals extent of Hurricane Ike's underwater damage to galveston - A rapid response research mission after Hurricane Ike found the hurricane significantly reshaped the seafloor and likely carried an enormous amount of sand and sediment out into the Gulf, changes that could help coastal communities gauge the effectiveness of their sometimes controversial efforts to replenish eroding sand along shorelines. - EurekAlert!

October 30 2008: Thousands of Balochistan quake victims face freezing temperatures - ZIARAT - Thousands of people in the sparsely populated southwestern province of Balochistan have spent a freezing night in the open. Aftershocks from the 29 October earthquake continued to rock the area, creating widespread panic. - IRIN

October 30 2008: Brand quits, Ross hangs on, as BBC tries to contain firestorm - Guardian Unlimited

October 30 2008: Study: 2004 tsunami was not first of large scale, awareness may improve future tsunami estimates - The deadly Indian Ocean tsunami of 2004, which claimed more than 200,000 lives, was not the first of its size to hit the region, according to new research by an international research team led by Dr. Karin Monecke, a former post-doctoral geologist at Kent State University. The research work, which is published in this week's edition of the prestigious science journal Nature, was conducted during the two and half years Monecke spent in the Kent State's Department of Geology. - EurekAlert!

October 30 2008: Conclusive vote on cause of Indonesian mud volcano - Two years' of global public debate over the cause of the Java mud volcano, Lusi, has concluded. - EurekAlert!

October 30 2008: First evidence that prenatal exposure to famine may lead to persistent epigenetic changes - A study initiated by researchers at Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health suggests that prenatal exposure to famine can lead to epigenetic changes that may affect a person's health into midlife. The findings show a trickle-down effect from pregnant women to the DNA of their unborn children and the timeframe over which such early damage can operate. These data are the first to show that early-life environmental conditions can cause epigenetic changes in humans that persist throughout life. - EurekAlert!

October 30 2008: HPE And DeWind Sign Joint Venture Agreement To Develop Texas Wind Power - Terra Daily

October 30 2008: Floods leave seven dead, one missing in Vietnam - VietnamNews.Net

October 30 2008: Earth Times - Hanoi - Heavy rains and floods killed at least seven people and left one missing in central Vietnam, officials said Thursday. "According to the updated figures as of 9 am (0200 GMT) Thursday, seven... - VietnamNews.Net

October 30 2008: Seven trapped in north China mine flood - CCTV

October 30 2008: Paddlers rescued from flood tide in Shaanxi - CCTV

October 30 2008: Herdsman confirmed dead as snowstorm blankets Tibet - CCTV

October 30 2008: Chinese president sends sympathy to Pakistani counterpart over earthquake - CCTV

October 30 2008: China's Policies and Actions for Addressing Climate Change - China Climate Change Info-Net

October 30 2008: Man-made climate change seen in Antarctica, Arctic - Reuters

October 30 2008: Small islands given short shrift in assembling archaeological record - EurekAlert!

October 30 2008: Hurricane Mitch 10 years on - BBC (World)

October 30 2008: 'Freak' hailstorm hits Devon - BBC

October 30 2008: 'Freak' hail causes flood chaos in Devon - BBC

October 30 2008: Climate ideas put under spotlight - Radical and controversial ideas to help fight climate change will be subjected to scrutiny by the UK's Royal Society. - BBC (Sci/Tech)

October 30 2008: Snow leopard wins top photo prize - A picture of an elusive snow leopard on a night-time prowl wins the prestigious Wildlife Photographer of the Year award. - BBC (Sci/Tech)

October 30 2008: 'Freak' hail causes flood chaos - BBC

October 30 2008: Data pins polar warming on humans - CNN

October 30 2008: Less grass means less gas, cattle researcher says - A University of Manitoba scientist says he's figured out how to cut the amount of greenhouse gas belching from cows by as much as 200 litres a day - feed them grain instead of grass. For the past four years, Prof. Ermias Kebreab has been analyzing cow burps at the National Centre for Livestock and the Environment south of Winnipeg to measure the amount of methane dairy cows produce when they are fed different types of food. - Environmental News Network

October 30 2008: Global methane levels on the rise again - Environmental News Network

October 30 2008: 'Carbon trading' now big business - Environmental News Network

October 30 2008: Global Business Backs UN Climate Change Deal - Environmental News Network

October 30 2008: Beyond the Banks: Bail Out the Environment, Create Jobs - Environmental News Network

October 30 2008: October 30, 2008 09:11 AM - - A growing "carbon army" of environmentalists, bankers and investors has seized on official backing last week for major public spending announced in Britain and the United States. They see it not just as a way to boost flagging economies, but also as an opportunity to promote investment in green energy projects. - Environmental News Network

October 30 2008: "Carbon army" hopes to grab slice of New Deal cash - Environmental News Network

October 30 2008: More than 200 killed in Pakistan quake - Rescuers on Thursday scoured the rubble left by a 6.4-magnitude earthquake that jolted a remote area of southwest Pakistan, leaving more than 200 people dead, a local official said. - CNN (Asia)

October 30 2008: October 30, 2008 17:27:00 - About 500 opponents of genetically modified crops, including the high profile conservationist Peter Cundall, have rallied at State Parliament, against the Liberal National Government's support for GM crops. - ABC News Online

October 30 2008: The Opposition has accused the Government of hiding the truth of the real cost of a carbon trading scheme. - ABC News Online

October 30 2008: October 30, 2008 18:07:00 - The Opposition has accused the Government of hiding the truth of the real cost of a carbon trading scheme. - ABC News Online

October 30 2008: Acting now on climate change will cost less: Swan - ABC News Online

October 30 2008: October 30, 2008 12:06:00 - Wayne Swan says Treasury modelling proves that acting now to reduce carbon emissions will be cheaper than taking no action. - ABC News Online

October 29 2008: Pakistani villagers get earthquake help from rebels - VietnamNews.Net

October 29 2008: Wednesday 29 October 2008 - During the 10th meeting of the Ramsar Convention on Wetlands' Conference of Contracting Parties, presently under way in the Republic of Korea, an original and ambitious partnership agreement aimed at fighting global warming has been entered into by the Ramsar Convention, the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) and the Danone Group. - UNEP

October 29 2008: As the world faces a rash of challenges needing global solutions from food shortages to financial market turbulence, more than 100 leaders from business, government and non-governmental organizations convened in Paris on 23-24 October for a climate change and resource efficiency forum. - UNEP

October 29 2008: Tokyo (AFP) Oct 28, 2008 - A dreaded major earthquake in Tokyo would set off a crisis of "toilet refugees," with a restroom shortage for nearly 820,000 people, a government study said. An expert panel of the government's Central Disaster Prevention Council came to the conclusion this week while studying the potential impact of a 7.3-magnitude earthquake in the tremor-prone metropolis. According to the study, some ... - Terra Daily

October 29 2008: Saudis send Yemen 100 million dollars in aid as flood toll rises - Terra Daily

October 29 2008: Sanaa (AFP) Oct 28, 2008 - Saudi Arabia has sent 100 million dollars in aid to Yemen in the wake of flooding that killed scores of people, President Ali Abdullah Saleh announced on Tuesday, the offical Saba news agency reported. Saleh thanked Saudi King Abdullah in a telephone call, saying it would help the Yemeni authorities "cope with the aftermath of these catastrophic floods," the agency said. In addition to ... - Terra Daily

October 29 2008: Effects Of Climate Change Vary Greatly Across Plant Families - Terra Daily

October 29 2008: Boston MA (SPX) Oct 29, 2008 - Drawing on records dating back to the journals of Henry David Thoreau, scientists at Harvard University have found that different plant families near Walden Pond have borne the effects of climate change in strikingly different ways. Some of the plant families hit hardest by global warming have included beloved species like lilies, orchids, violets, roses, and dogwoods. The work ... - Terra Daily

October 29 2008: An international team of scientists has discovered microscopic, magnetic fossils resembling spears and spindles, unlike anything previously seen, among sediment layers deposited during an ancient global-warming event along the Atlantic coastal plain of the United States. The researchers, led by geobiologists from the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) and McGill University ... - Terra Daily

October 29 2008: Britain's Prince Charles urged the world Tuesday to fight climate change, saying that while the global credit crunch may be temporary, the effects of the "climate crunch" were irreversible. The heir to the British throne issued his appeal on a visit to Tokyo, where he and his wife Camilla are marking the 150th anniversary of diplomatic relations between Japan and Britain. ... - Terra Daily

October 29 2008: Rhone glacier faces rapid meltdown - By the end of the century there will be little left of the Rhone glacier in canton Valais, according to a computer simulation by... - Swiss Info

October 29 2008: NASA Saving Lives - Using data from a NASA satellite, scientists crafted accurate storm animations intended to improve upon current models used by meteorologists. They. ... > - Science Daily

October 29 2008: Climate Change Seeps Into The Sea - Science Daily

October 29 2008: Warming Kills Yellowstone's Frogs, Salamanders? - Science Daily

October 29 2008: Amphibians' Ability To Predict Changes In Biodiversity Confirmed By New Study - Science Daily

October 29 2008: Amphibians Can Predict Changes In Biodiversity - Science Daily

October 29 2008: Amphibians' Ability To Predict Changes In Biodiversity Confirmed By New Study - Biologists have long suspected that amphibians, whose moist permeable skins make them susceptible to slight changes in the environment, might be good ... > - Science Daily

October 29 2008: Role Of Soil Microbes In Global Warming Clarified - Science Daily

October 29 2008: October 29, 2008 - - Current models of global climate change predict warmer temperatures will increase the rate that bacteria and other microbes decompose soil organic matter, a scenario that pumps even more ... > - Science Daily

October 29 2008: Nitrous Oxide Emissions Respond Differently To No-till Depending On The Soil Type - Science Daily

October 29 2008: October 29, 2008 - - The practice of no-till has gained in popularity as it creates a soil less prone to erosion and more rich in organic matter, but a new study raises questions about its influence on net greenhouse gas ... > - Science Daily

October 29 2008: Namibia cannot ignore the effects of climate change - SciDev.Net

October 29 2008: Australia carbon plan debate - Reuters

October 29 2008: Carbon credit schemes - Reuters

October 29 2008: 10:26am ET - The Indonesia province of Aceh is set to make a windfall by protecting a vast stretch of forest brimming with rare wildlife through the sale of carbon credits. - Reuters

October 29 2008: Mega-tsunami hit southeast Asia 700 years ago - Science Daily

October 29 2008: BLOG: ENVIRONMENT - New Scientist

October 29 2008: Over 100 killed in Balochistan quake - QUETTA - An earthquake early this morning in Balochistan Province has left dozens dead and many more injured. Initial aid efforts are getting under way. - IRIN

October 29 2008: More reports on natural disasters - IRIN

October 29 2008: Pitting corn growers against environmentalists, ethanol is a divisive issue - Guardian Unlimited

October 29 2008: Earthquake kills at least 170 people in south-west Pakistan and leaves thousands homeless - Guardian Unlimited

October 29 2008: Pakistan earthquake: the reaction - Guardian Unlimited

October 29 2008: Carbon emissions are rising so fast that the world has no chance of hitting targets, says economist - Guardian Unlimited (Science)

October 29 2008: All the laws in the world will not stop carbon levels soaring to dangerous levels if they do not lead to policy action - Guardian Unlimited (Science)

October 29 2008: Climate change bill: Turning up the heat - Guardian Unlimited (Science)

October 29 2008: Is the Middle East the Next Renewable Energy Frontier? - Greentech Media

October 29 2008: Green IT: One Answer to Global Warming? - GreenBiz

October 29 2008: Webinar: Wind Power: Turning a Breeze into Cash for Your Community - GreenBiz

October 29 2008: Thinking ahead - An energy saving stove, a fishing net, children's bunk beds... Christmas is coming and development groups are refreshing their gift catalogues. - OneWorld

October 29 2008: EPA teams with National Geographic Society and World Resources Institute to map ecosystem services - The US Environmental Protection Agency is collaborating with the National Geographic Society and the World Resources Institute to develop tools that will help to fully account for the value of ecosystem services. Ecosystem services are the goods and services people obtain from natural systems. These benefits include clean air and water, erosion and flood control, soil enrichment, food and fiber. - EurekAlert!

October 29 2008: Methane gas levels begin to increase again - The amount of methane in Earth's atmosphere shot up in 2007, bringing to an end a period of about a decade in which atmospheric levels of the potent greenhouse gas were essentially stable, according to a team led by MIT researchers. - EurekAlert!

October 29 2008: Major EU cities pledge to fight climate change - EurActiv

October 29 2008: Energy Efficiency - - Energy savings 'golden opportunity' for developing world - EurActiv

October 29 2008: Climate Change - - Dip in oil and carbon prices to hamper clean tech drive? - EurActiv

October 29 2008: Solar Powers Staples Center Events, Green Cuisine Factory - Environmental News Service

October 29 2008: Wind Power Expo 2009 - Terra Daily

October 29 2008: Scotland fears floods in wet winter months - EDIE

October 29 2008: Bjork launches war on heavy industry - Wacky warbler Bjork has launched a campaign to protect her native country's environment from the onslaught of heavy industry. - EDIE

October 29 2008: Bite the bullet on fast trains - Californians should approve a ballot measure for a bullet train – despite financial storms. - Christian Science Monitor

October 29 2008: Concern over powerful greenhouse gas - OneWorld

October 29 2008: China issues White Paper on addressing climate change - CCTV

October 29 2008: Full text: China[acute]s Policies and Actions for Addressing Climate Change - CCTV

October 29 2008: China urges developed nations to spend more on tackling climate change - CCTV

October 29 2008: Avalanche buries part of Sichuan-Tibet highway - CCTV

October 29 2008: China calls for plans to reduce global pollution - CCTV

October 29 2008: Aid flows to quake survivors as snowstorm hits Tibet - CCTV

October 29 2008: Press conference for Beijing High-level Conference on Climate Change held Tuesday - China Climate Change Info-Net

October 29 2008: Beijing to Co-host High-Level Conference on Climate Change - China Climate Change Info-Net

October 29 2008: Scores Killed In Pakistan Earthquake - CBS

October 29 2008: 2004 Tsunami Was Biggest In 600 Years - CBS

October 29 2008: AFGHANISTAN: Urgent need to pre-position food aid - IRIN

October 29 2008: China says greenhouse gases catch up with U.S. - Reuters

October 29 2008: Saina Nehwal storms into third round - Times of India

October 29 2008: Prince Charles urges action on climate change - The Japan Times

October 29 2008: Malaria train - Lake pollution - BBC (Africa)

October 29 2008: IEA cites gains from energy efficiency - Developing countries could save hundreds of billions of dollars by investing in energy efficiency rather than focusing on energy production, the International Energy Agency says - Financial Times

October 29 2008: MPs support tough bill on CO2 reporting - Mid-sized companies face mandatory reporting of their carbon emissions from 2012 after a clear Commons majority approved legislation setting ambitious targets to tackle climate change - Financial Times

October 29 2008: At least 170 dead in earthquake - Financial Times

October 29 2008: Cyclone survivors - BBC (Asia/Pacific)

October 29 2008: China warns on emissions control - China admits its greenhouse gas emissions are equal to America's and that there is little prospect of an early improvement. - BBC (Asia/Pacific)

October 29 2008: History of deadly earthquakes - BBC (Sci/Tech)

October 29 2008: Tsunami in 2004 'not the first' - BBC

October 29 2008: Earthquake 'redraws the map' - BBC (Sci/Tech)

October 29 2008: In pictures - Aftermath of devastating floods in Yemen - BBC (Middle East)

October 29 2008: Analysis: A 'perfect storm'? - BBC

October 29 2008: Nations see REDD in rush for carbon credits - Environmental News Network

October 29 2008: EU biofuel data change angers environmentalists - Environmental News Network

October 29 2008: October 29, 2008 10:25 AM - - BRUSSELS (Reuters) - European biofuels could receive a boost from a change in the way the European Union calculates their impact on the environment, a document shows, angering environmentalists who think they do more harm than good. - Environmental News Network

October 29 2008: Major earthquakes in recent years - Al Jazeera

October 29 2008: Rescue begins after Pakistan quake - Scores dead and thousands homeless in south west after 6.4 magnitude earthquake. - Al Jazeera

October 29 2008: Thoreau's Retreat, Re-Visited - The flowering displays at Walden Pond are fading as climate change comes to Concord, Mass. - Discovery Online

October 29 2008: Giant Tsunami Washed Ashore 600 Years Ago - Discovery Online

October 29 2008: Giant Tsunami Crashed Ashore 600 Years Ago - Evidence within coastal peat reveals a huge tsunami slammed ashore 600 years ago. - Discovery Online

October 29 2008: At least 160 killed in Pakistan quake - At least 160 people were killed Wednesday when a strong earthquake struck Pakistan, local officials said. An additional 500 were injured and 10,000 displaced in and around the area of Ziarat. - CNN (Asia)

October 29 2008: October 30, 2008 10:13:00 - Federal Environment Minister Peter Garrett says the reintroduction of entrance fees to the Northern Territory's Kakadu National Park will not reduce the number of tourists visiting the area. - ABC News Online

October 29 2008: October 30, 2008 09:08:00 - The World Commission on Protected Areas says increasing the size of national parks in Queensland will not be enough to save the state's biodiversity. - ABC News Online

October 29 2008: China predict 'climate phenomena' from global warming - ABC News Online

October 29 2008: October 29, 2008 22:12:00 - The Chinese Government has made dire predictions of increased disasters due to global warming. - ABC News Online

October 29 2008: Garrett blames Howard govt for poor environment rating - ABC News Online

October 29 2008: October 29, 2008 18:09:00 - From next year, the Qld Govt will charged firms a levy according to how much pollution they produce. - ABC News Online

October 29 2008: ANU to set up climate change centre - ABC News Online

October 29 2008: October 29, 2008 17:11:00 - The ANU has announced it is setting up a Climate Change Institute in response to public expectations to combat climate change. - ABC News Online

October 29 2008: Carbon trading companies concerned by economic crisis - ABC News Online

October 29 2008: October 29, 2008 16:22:00 - The convenor of a national carbon trading conference says delegates are concerned about the impact the global economic downturn could have on the growing sector. - ABC News Online

October 29 2008: Australian lifestyle getting worse for environment: report - ABC News Online

October 29 2008: Carbon trading sector 'could lead economic recovery' - ABC News Online

October 29 2008: October 29, 2008 12:25:00 - The convenor of a national carbon trading conference says delegates are concerned about the impact the global economic downturn could have on the growing sector. - ABC News Online

October 29 2008: A climate change scientist says real estate agents warned him not to talk about risks to properties from rising sea levels. - ABC News Online

October 28 2008: Tuesday 28 October 2008 - As the world faces a rash of challenges needing global solutions from food shortages to financial market turbulence, more than 100 leaders from business, government and non-governmental organizations convened in Paris on 23-24 October for a climate change and resource efficiency forum. - UNEP

October 28 2008: Two killed in Bangladesh cyclone: police - Terra Daily

October 28 2008: Climate Change Seeps Into The Sea - Terra Daily

October 28 2008: African Migrants Flood Into Spanish Enclave - Terra Daily

October 28 2008: Madrid (AFP) Oct 27, 2008 - Around 40 African migrants took advantage of flood damage at the border to cross into Spain's North African enclave of Melilla from Morocco on Monday, police and local government officials said. Seventeen people were detained shortly after entering Spanish territory while the rest managed to enter the city of roughly 70,000 people which was lashed by heavy rain and strong winds on Sunday, a ... - Terra Daily

October 28 2008: Snow can be stored over summer at relatively low altitudes, the Swiss snow and avalanche research institute has revealed. - Swiss Info

October 28 2008: Quake research unearths promising results - A Zurich seismologist has developed a method of estimating how many weak earthquakes are not picked up by seismic measuring stations. - Swiss Info

October 28 2008: Flood of workers doing it tough - Sydney Morning Herald

October 28 2008: Waterhouse confident of a Meteor scorcher - Sydney Morning Herald

October 28 2008: PAS 2050 - environment performance adds value - Scoop

October 28 2008: Sustainable Biofuel Test Flight Update - Scoop

October 28 2008: Bacteria Cause Old Buildings To Feel Off-color - The assumption that time, weather, and pollution are what cause buildings to decline is only partly true. Bacteria are also responsible for the aging of buildings and monuments -- a process known as biodeterioration. ... > - Science Daily

October 28 2008: NASA's Spitzer Gets Sneak Peek Inside Comet Holmes - Science Daily

October 28 2008: October 28, 2008 - - When comet Holmes unexpectedly erupted in 2007, professional and amateur astronomers around the world turned their telescopes toward the spectacular event. Their quest was to find out why the comet ... > - Science Daily

October 28 2008: NASA's Spitzer Gets Sneak Peek Inside Comet Holmes - When comet Holmes unexpectedly erupted in 2007, professional and amateur astronomers around the world turned their telescopes toward the spectacular event. Their quest was to find out why the comet ... > - Science Daily

October 28 2008: Cameras Capture 'Fireball' In The Sky: Meteor May Have Crashed In Ontario - Science Daily

October 28 2008: October 28, 2008 - - Trees in a hyper-diverse tropical rainforest interact with each other and their environment to create and maintain diversity, researchers report in the journal Science. This study was conducted in ... > - Science Daily

October 28 2008: Wetlands Expert: China Should Think Outside The Flooding Box With Three Gorges Dam - Science Daily

October 28 2008: October 28, 2008 - - China's farmers and merchants should take advantage of new opportunities that could help mitigate some effects of the annual flooding behind the Three Gorges Dam on the Yangtze River. The reservoir's ... > - Science Daily

October 28 2008: Removal Of 'Super-polluters' Could Reduce Pollution From Nanoparticles By 25% - Science Daily

October 28 2008: October 28, 2008 - - If the "super-polluters", the high-polluting vehicles, such as certain buses and transport trucks in a poor condition, were removed, pollution from nanoparticles could be reduced by up to 25% and ... > - Science Daily

October 28 2008: Models Help Assess Biofuels' Sustainability - Science Daily

October 28 2008: Rageshree Ramachandran: Weathering Storms, Spelling and Slides - Scientific American

October 28 2008: Global poverty does nothing for global stability - The urgency to tackle the financial crisis is in stark contrast to the foot-dragging and broken promises over poverty alleviation, human rights and climate change. - On Line Opinion

October 28 2008: Aid beginning to reach flood victims - IRIN

October 28 2008: Reducing carbon emissions no easy task for Europe - International Herald Tribune

October 28 2008: Could climate change and economic collapse consign us to the same fate as the Mayans? - Guardian Unlimited (Science)

October 28 2008: Carbon emissions are rising so fast that the world has no chance of hitting targets, says Australian economist - Guardian Unlimited (Science)

October 28 2008: Runaway global warming: Stern warning - Guardian Unlimited (Science)

October 28 2008: VeraSun Shutters Ethanol Plant - Greentech Media

October 28 2008: October 28, 2008 - The company confirms it has closed an ethanol plant in Indiana a month after it canceled a fund-raising drive and hired Morgan Stanley to figure out its future amid tough times for the ethanol industry. - Greentech Media

October 28 2008: FPL Cuts Wind Power Plans - Greentech Media

October 28 2008: Webinar: Biofuels: What They Mean for County Fleets - GreenBiz

October 28 2008: Sustainable Development, Green Retrofit & Construction Congress - GreenBiz

October 28 2008: Yemen: Refugees crossing the Gulf of Aden - reports how thousands of people risk their lives every year to cross the Gulf of Aden to escape conflict, violence, drought and poverty. - OneWorld

October 28 2008: Stanford researchers: Global warming is killing frogs and salamanders in Yellowstone Park - EurekAlert!

October 28 2008: NASA-enhanced dust storm predictions to aid health community - NASA satellite data can improve forecasts of dust storms in the American Southwest in ways that can benefit public health managers. Scientists announced the finding as a five-year NASA-funded project nears its conclusion. - EurekAlert!

October 28 2008: Sustainable Dev. - - Major EU cities pledge to fight climate change - EurActiv

October 28 2008: Existing housing stock must not be ignored in the battle to reduce the carbon footprint of the UK's housing. - EDIE

October 28 2008: Arab nations must do more on environment - EDIE

October 28 2008: UK pushes for pole position on green transport - A high powered meeting of industry experts, academics and policy makers was held in London this week to discuss how to kick start the mass market production of electric vehicles and other low carbon transport. - EDIE

October 28 2008: Consumers offered energy saving advice - EDIE

October 28 2008: RACHAEL RAY Makes Wedding Bells Ring for Houston Brides After Hurricane Ike - Earth Times

October 28 2008: Russia says US, Britain politicizing 1933 Ukraine famine - Earth Times

October 28 2008: Two missing after snowstorm hits Tibet - CCTV

October 28 2008: Winter Storm Dumps Snow Across Northeast - CBS

October 28 2008: Study confirms amphibians' ability to predict changes in biodiversity - Biologists have long suspected that amphibians, whose moist permeable skins make them susceptible to slight changes in the environment, might be good bellwethers for impending alterations in biodiversity during rapid climate change. - EurekAlert!

October 28 2008: Fireworks aren't always fun! - They also stand for pollution, accidents and child labour... - Times of India

October 28 2008: Year may see no typhoons make landfall - The Japan Times

October 28 2008: Editorial Comment: Learning to live with excess debt - Deleveraging is needed but authorities are right to slow it. They must now provide an environment where the economy can slowly catch up with borrowing levels - Financial Times

October 28 2008: In pictures - Life in Burma six months after Cyclone Nargis - BBC (Asia/Pacific)

October 28 2008: Snow hits Spain as cold snap bites - BBC (World)

October 28 2008: Swept away - Aid worker tells of devastating floods in Honduras - BBC (World)

October 28 2008: Climate laws to include planes - The government agrees to include aviation and shipping in an ambitious push to cut greenhouse gas emissions. - BBC (Sci/Tech)

October 28 2008: Ice sheet secrets to be revealed - BBC (Sci/Tech)

October 28 2008: Climate change keeps swans in Siberia - Environmental News Network

October 28 2008: Carbon Dioxide, Methane Rise Sharply in 2007 - Environmental News Network

October 28 2008: Australia's Stern review warns of runaway global warming - Environmental News Network

October 28 2008: October 28, 2008 08:48 AM - - Carbon pollution levels are rising so fast that the world has no realistic chance of hitting ambitious climate targets set by Britain and the G8, an influential report to the Australian government has warned. - Environmental News Network

October 28 2008: China sets price for cooperation on climate change - Environmental News Network

October 28 2008: October 28, 2008 08:46 AM - - China wants rich countries to commit 1 percent of their economic worth to help poor nations fight global warming, and will press for a new international mechanism to spread "green" technology worldwide. Unveiling the demands on Tuesday, a senior Chinese official for climate change policy, Gao Guangsheng, said the financial turmoil rattling the global economy should not deter a big increase in funds and technology to poor nations. - Environmental News Network

October 28 2008: The flowering displays at Walden Pond are fading as climate change comes to Concord, Mass. - Discovery Online

October 28 2008: Cool Weather Twisters Strike in the Dark - Spates of cold-weather tornadoes account for more damage than summer storms. - Discovery Online

October 28 2008: Indeed, it has proved useful employment for modern climate researchers. From 1852 to 1858, Thoreau kept meticulous records of the plants near Walden Pond. Researchers who recently repeated those measurements and revealed the signature of - climate change. - Discovery Online

October 28 2008: Storm kills 15 in Bangladesh - CNN (Asia)

October 28 2008: The climate science is slowly blowing more and more holes in the IPCC anthropogenic warming case, but just as with any other bubble, the bulls are at their most vigorous just as their case starts to collapse. The result? You... - On Line Opinion

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October 28 2008: Smog Cuts 2 Months Off Mexicans' Lives - ABC News

October 28 2008: October 29, 2008 09:32:00 - Sydney-based renewable energy company Solar Sailor has landed a deal to supply two Chinese commercial ships with high-tech energy generating sails. - ABC News Online

October 28 2008: October 29, 2008 09:17:00 - Scientists have found rising carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere are likely to be much more damaging to coral reefs than first thought. - ABC News Online

October 28 2008: The British Government has agreed to include aviation and shipping in a law setting targets to cut greenhouse gases. An amendment to climate change legislation tabled by ministers will compel the independent Climate Change Committee to take emissions from planes and tankers into account when it calculates carbon budgets, after more than 50 Labour MPs demanded the legislation be changed. - ABC News Online

October 28 2008: A survey of attitudes to the environment has found Australians are deeply concerned about global warming. - ABC News Online

October 28 2008: October 29, 2008 06:59:00 - A survey of attitudes to the environment has found Australians are deeply concerned about global warming. - ABC News Online

October 28 2008: China wants rich countries like Australia to contribute 1 per cent of their economic worth to fight global warming. - ABC News Online

October 28 2008: Prince Charles urged the world to fight climate change, saying that while the global credit crunch will be temporary, the effects of the "climate crunch" were irreversible. - ABC News Online

October 28 2008: The Federal Opposition is renewing its attack on the Government's climate change policy ahead of the release of long-awaited economic modelling on the impact of an emissions trading scheme. - ABC News Online

October 28 2008: Climate change has been identified as one of the biggest challenges facing Tasmania's property sector. - ABC News Online

October 28 2008: October 28, 2008 14:01:00 - Western Sydney environmentalists say an important biodiversity corridor will be compromised if 3,500 homes are built on former defence land near Penrith. - ABC News Online

October 27 2008: Mini heat wave hits - The Mercury

October 27 2008: Beijing (AFP) Oct 26, 2008 - The World Bank and the French Development Agency have agreed to lend China 910 million dollars in reconstruction funds for the devastating Sichuan earthquake, state press said Sunday. The agreement was reached at an earthquake investment conference in southwest China's Sichuan province, Xinhua news agency said. The World Bank would provide an emergency recovery loan of 710 million dollar ... - Terra Daily

October 27 2008: Paris (AFP) Oct 25, 2008 - A conference of European Union and Mediterranean states due to take place in Jordan has been postponed indefinitely because of regional tensions, officials said on Saturday in Paris. "The conference (on water) has been postponed at the request of Jordan for reasons to do with the tensions between the Arab League and Israel," said the environment ministry in France, co-chair with Egypt of the ... - Terra Daily

October 27 2008: A 6.4-magnitude earthquake struck off Indonesia's Sulawesi island on Sunday, the geophysics agency said. There were no immediate reports of damage and officials said no tsunami warning had been issued. Indonesian officials said the quake struck at 4:08 pm (0908 GMT), 91 kilometres (56 miles) southwest of Gorontalo in North Sulawesi, at a depth of 32 kilometres. The US Geological ... - Terra Daily

October 27 2008: At least 34 killed in Central America storms and floods: UN - Terra Daily

October 27 2008: Geneva (AFP) Oct 24, 2008 - Storms and floods across six Central American nations have killed at least 34 people affected 333,000, the United Nations said Friday, warning of a rising toll. Torrential rains that have swept across Honduras, Costa Rica, Belize, Nicaragua, El Salvador and Guatemala in the last week "are the worst that we have seen in many years," said Elisabeth Byrs, spokeswoman for the UN Office for ... - Terra Daily

October 27 2008: Snow can be stored over summer at relatively low altitudes, the Swiss snow and avalanche research institute has revealed. - An experiment in the eastern resort of Davos found that a thick layer of sawdust reduced the rate of melting better than fleece, which is also used to conserve glaciers. - Swiss Info

October 27 2008: Sawdust slows rate of melting snow - Snow can be stored over summer at relatively low altitudes, the Swiss snow and avalanche research institute has revealed. - Swiss Info

October 27 2008: October 22, 2008 - 9:31 PM - New pollution sources put lives at risk - Swiss Info

October 27 2008: Bacteria cause old buildings to feel off-color - The assumption that time, weather, and pollution are what cause buildings to decline is only partly true. Bacteria are also responsible for the aging of buildings and monuments -- a process known as biodeterioration. Leonila Laiz from the Institute for Natural Resources and Agrobiology in Seville, Spain, and colleagues have just isolated five new strains of bacteria that degrade old buildings. Their work is published online this week in Springer's journal Naturwissenschaften. - EurekAlert!

October 27 2008: Tracking Pollution From Space - Engineers processed data from NASA's Aura satellite in order to track and predict the movement of airborne pollution. Using satellite data to measure. ... > - Science Daily

October 27 2008: Cameras Capture 'Fireball' In The Sky: Meteor May Have Crashed In Ontario - For the second time this year, the University of Western Ontario Meteor Group has captured incredibly rare video footage of a meteor falling to Earth. Astronomers suspect the fireball dropped ... > - Science Daily

October 27 2008: Seven years after Sept. 11, and in the wake of many major natural disasters such as forest fires, hurricanes and flooding, nearly half of US states either have no state-level emergency plan or do not ... > - Science Daily

October 27 2008: October 27, 2008 - - Seven years after Sept. 11, and in the wake of many major natural disasters such as forest fires, hurricanes and flooding, nearly half of US states either have no state-level emergency plan or do not ... > - Science Daily

October 27 2008: - Seven years after Sept. 11, and in the wake of many major natural disasters such as forest fires, hurricanes and flooding, nearly half of US states either have no state-level emergency plan or do not ... > - Science Daily

October 27 2008: Climate Change, Acid Rain Could Be Good For Forests - Science Daily

October 27 2008: October 27, 2008 - - The first-ever glimpse of nanoscale catalysts in action could lead to improved pollution control and fuel cell technologies. Scientists have observed catalysts restructuring themselves in response to ... > - Science Daily

October 27 2008: How Does Climate Change Affect The Water Cycle? - Science Daily

October 27 2008: October 27, 2008 - - Climate change is having an impact on the water cycle, raising the issue of whether we should be investing in adapting to these impacts or focusing on more pressing water resource issues, such as ... > - Science Daily

October 27 2008: Biodiversity In A Warmer World - Science Daily

October 27 2008: October 27, 2008 - - Will climate change exceed life's ability to respond? Biodiversity in a Warmer World, published in the Oct. 10, 2008, issue of the journal, Science, illustrates that cross-disciplinary research ... > - Science Daily

October 27 2008: - Will climate change exceed life's ability to respond? Biodiversity in a Warmer World, published in the Oct. 10, 2008, issue of the journal, Science, illustrates that cross-disciplinary research ... > - Science Daily

October 27 2008: Thinking It Through: Scientists Call For Policy To Guide Biofuels Industry Toward Sustainability - Science Daily

October 27 2008: October 27, 2008 - - As the United States and other nations commit to the path of biofuels production, 23 scientists call for sustainable practices in an industry that will, as one of them says, "reshape the Earth's ... > - Science Daily

October 27 2008: Namibia cannot ignore the effects of climate change - Countries like Namibia cannot ignore the environment's contribution to national wealth in the face of climate change, says - SciDev.Net

October 27 2008: Microbiology has much to offer climate change science - SciDev.Net

October 27 2008: USDA, industry meet on aid to ethanol, rural cos - Scientific American

October 27 2008: 9:35am ET - Backers of extreme technologies to curb global warming advocate dumping iron dust into the seas or placing smoke and mirrors in the sky to dim the sun. - Reuters

October 27 2008: Greenhouse gas higher than thought - Reuters

October 27 2008: Fetal genes record mum's starvation - New Scientist

October 27 2008: 'Five-a-day' steps to well-being - 'Five-a-day' actions to improve well-being - despite credit crunch, growing economic uncertainty and accelerating climate change. - OneWorld

October 27 2008: Catching quakes with laptops - Inside your laptop is a small accelerometer chip, there to protect the delicate moving parts of your hard disk from sudden jolts. It turns out that the same chip is a pretty good earthquake sensor, too -- especially if the signals from lots of them are compared, in order to filter out more mundane sources of laptop vibrations, such as typing. - EurekAlert!

October 27 2008: 'Avoid crackers, spread love, cheer on Diwali' - Television stars have urged their fans to stay away from crackers this Diwali, keeping in mind rising air pollution and global warming, but added that people should spread festive cheer by getting together with family and friends. - Hindustan Times

October 27 2008: Kushalrani Gulab - Bihar floods - Hindustan Times

October 27 2008: Ed Pilkington hears why an ethanol plant manager dreads Barack Obama - Guardian Unlimited

October 27 2008: 666 revelations - Ed Pilkington meets an ethanol plant manager who dreads Obama - Guardian Unlimited

October 27 2008: Minister bows to calls on climate change bill - Guardian Unlimited (Science)

October 27 2008: CO2 curbs may be too late for reefs - Ambitious targets to stabilise greenhouse gas levels still place over 90% of coral in jeopardy - Guardian Unlimited (Science)

October 27 2008: New research shows the massive shifts in natural systems triggered by climate change - Guardian Unlimited (Science)

October 27 2008: New research demonstrates the massive shifts in natural systems triggered by climate change - Guardian Unlimited

October 27 2008: Warming is 'making seas more salty' - Guardian Unlimited

October 27 2008: Climate change 'making seas more salty' - Guardian Unlimited (Science)

October 27 2008: Carbon emissions are rising so fast that the world has no chance of hitting climate targets, says Australian economist - Guardian Unlimited (Science)

October 27 2008: Australia's Stern review warns of runaway global warming - Guardian Unlimited (Science)

October 27 2008: Aircraft ready to run on biofuel, says jet manufacturer, but critics question sustainability - Guardian Unlimited

October 27 2008: Aircraft ready to run on biofuel, says Boeing, but critics question long-term sustainability - Guardian Unlimited (Science)

October 27 2008: Biofuel flying in three years - Boeing - Guardian Unlimited

October 27 2008: 'Biofuel flying will take off in three years' - Guardian Unlimited (Science)

October 27 2008: Climate change - Guardian Unlimited (Science)

October 27 2008: October 27, 2008 - The Spanish solar panel maker is looking for buyers of its solar power plants after its original buyers backed out. Also, Spain is cracking down on fraudulent solar development claims. - Greentech Media

October 27 2008: Effects of climate change vary greatly across plant families - Drawing on records dating back to the journals of Henry David Thoreau, scientists at Harvard University have found that different plant families near Walden Pond have borne the effects of climate change in strikingly different ways. Some of the plant families hit hardest by global warming have included beloved species like lilies, orchids, violets, roses, and dogwoods. - EurekAlert!

October 27 2008: Climate Change - - EurActiv

October 27 2008: , October 27, 2008 (ENS) - Young artists from around the world have raised $21,000 for the United Nations Children's Fund, UNICEF, to spend on climate-related disasters by auctioning off 26 of their paintings in New York Saturday night. The auction, held at the Harvard Club, was organized by the UN Environment Programme as part of its Paint for the Planet event, which attracted nearly 200,000 entries worldwide. - Environmental News Service

October 27 2008: Iran's Rafsanjani blames finance 'tsunami' for low oil price - Terra Daily

October 27 2008: MEDIA ALERT: Ixia and Juniper Networks Unveil New Energy Efficiency Initiative with Live Demonstration - Earth Times

October 27 2008: Polish government to approve eurozone entry plan, says Tusk - Earth Times

October 27 2008: China calls for Asia-Europe co-op for sustainable development - China Climate Change Info-Net

October 27 2008: Chinese companies newest members of global environment body - China Climate Change Info-Net

October 27 2008: BANGLADESH: Cyclone Rashmi strikes coastal districts - IRIN

October 27 2008: Carbon emission targets, international agreements and carbon markets are not effective ways of tackling climate change, Prof Lord Anthony Giddens told a meeting in London last week. - OneWorld

October 27 2008: Can smoke and mirrors ease global warming? - Reuters

October 27 2008: Radar can finally tell a wind turbine from a plane - New Scientist

October 27 2008: Germany struggles to strike economy-environment balance - The Japan Times

October 27 2008: Earthworm activity can alter forests' carbon-carrying capabilities - Earthworms can change the chemical nature of the carbon in North American forest litter and soils, potentially affecting the amount of carbon stored in forests. Purdue scientists, along with collaborators from the Smithsonian Institution and Johns Hopkins University, want to determine the earthworms' effect on forest chemistry by comparing carbon composition in forests that vary in earthworm activity. - EurekAlert!

October 27 2008: Editorial Comment: Borrow and spend - As the downturn deepens, the case for fiscal stimulus looks stronger by the day – not only in the UK, but also in the US and the eurozone - Financial Times

October 27 2008: Analysis: Storm over? - BBC

October 27 2008: Steep decline - Climate change in frame for amphibian loss at Yellowstone - BBC (Americas)

October 27 2008: Yemen floods ruin homes - CNN

October 27 2008: Biblical 'Solomon's mines' confirmed by dating - Carbon dating has determined that large Jordanian copper works are 3000 years old, supporting the idea that they were the Biblical mines of Edom - New Scientist

October 27 2008: World can halt fossil fuel use by 2090 - Renewable energy could provide all global energy needs by 2090, saving $18 trillion in future fuel costs, a report says - New Scientist

October 27 2008: Levels of a powerful greenhouse gas emitted by the electronics industry are four times as high as previously estimated, and they're growing fast - New Scientist

October 27 2008: New Scientist - The world could eliminate fossil fuel use by 2090, saving $18 trillion in future fuel costs and creating a $360 billion industry that provides half of the world's electricity, the European Renewable Energy Council (EREC) and environmental group Greenpeace said on Monday. - Environmental News Network

October 27 2008: swift wind turbine - quiet rooftop windpower - Environmental News Network

October 27 2008: Risks of global warming greater than financial crisis: Stern - Environmental News Network

October 27 2008: October 27, 2008 09:31 AM - - HONG KONG (Reuters) - The risks of inaction over climate change far outweigh the turmoil of the global financial crisis, a leading climate change expert said on Monday, while calling for new fiscal spending tailored to low carbon growth. - Environmental News Network

October 27 2008: Scores feared dead in Yemen floods - Al Jazeera

October 27 2008: Tourism leaves Bali's poor facing drought - Al Jazeera

October 27 2008: Yellowstone Amphibians Declining Under Climate Change - Discovery Online

October 27 2008: Continue This Story - Yellowstone Amphibians Declining Under Climate Change - Discovery Online

October 27 2008: Coastal Areas Facing Danger - UN - Climate change could lead to higher sea levels, affecting most of the world's coastal cities and towns, the United Nations has warned. - All Africa News

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October 27 2008: Greens challenge Turnbull to take climate change lead - ABC News Online

October 27 2008: Harvest storm water, committee told - ABC News Online

October 27 2008: October 27, 2008 14:42:00 - The Department of Environment and Conservation (DEC) is urging boat owners to steer clear of humpback whale pods off the Perth coast. - ABC News Online

October 27 2008: Opposition environment spokesman begins basin tour - ABC News Online

October 27 2008: October 27, 2008 14:10:00 - The Federal Opposition's environment spokesman, Greg Hunt, says infrastructure improvements, not water buybacks, should be the first priority for the Murray-Darling Basin. - ABC News Online

October 26 2008: Children Raise US$ 21,000 for the Fight Against Climate Change - UNEP

October 26 2008: Sunday 26 October 2008 - In a ray of hope amid the current economic crisis, children from around the world have pulled together and raised US$21,000 for the fight against climate change. - UNEP

October 26 2008: Image: A family outside their home in Leogane, a town in southern Haiti hit by Hurricane Gustav - OneWorld

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