Tiempo Climate Newswatch

September 2007

September 30 2007: Weather Bureau defends tsunami warning - THE weather bureau has defended its decision to withhold a tsunami warning for Victoria following yesterday's earthquake off New Zealand. - The Australian

September 30 2007: A MODERATE earthquake measuring 4.9 on the Richter scale jolted the Tokyo region early today, swaying buildings, the Japan Meteorological Agency said. - The Australian

September 30 2007: Strong quake off NZ raises tsunami fears - The Age

September 30 2007: Storm romp to second NRL title - The Age

September 30 2007: Selectors set to reward Storm - The Age

September 30 2007: Rains keep Storm crowd small in Fed Sq - The Age

September 30 2007: Perfect Storm in 7 try romp over Manly - The Age

September 30 2007: Cold night turns hot for Storm fans - The Age

September 30 2007: Weather bureau defends tsunami warning - The Age

September 30 2007: African farmers offered drought insurance - Swiss Info

September 30 2007: Southern Ocean quake sparks tsunami fear - Stuff

September 30 2007: La Nina promises warm summer - Stuff

September 30 2007: La Nina Is Here – Warmer Late Spring - Scoop

September 30 2007: La Nina Is Here [#x2013] Warmer Late Spring - Scoop

September 30 2007: Gas-to-Electricity Project for Carbon Offsets - Scoop

September 30 2007: Drought not drying out Amazon - Science Daily (Climate)

September 30 2007: Earth Science (With CD-ROM) - Earth Science offers a reader-friendly overview of our physical environment for the reader with little or no exposure to science. The emphasis is on readability, with clear explanations and examples, ... > - Science Daily (Climate)

September 30 2007: Ozone Shuts Down Early Immune Response In Lungs And Body - Science Daily (Climate)

September 30 2007: (September 30, 2007) - -- As policymakers debate what levels of ozone in the air are safe for humans to breathe, studies in mice are revealing that the inhaled pollutant impairs the body's first line of defense, making it ... > - Science Daily (Climate)

September 30 2007: Tiny Animals Exposed To Outer Space - For the first time ever, animals are being exposed to the natural space environment, with both vacuum conditions and cosmic radiation. One of the aims of sending the tiny tardigrades into space is to find out whether they can cope with the rugged conditions in space, which has previously been ... > - Science Daily

September 30 2007: Scientists Call For 80 Percent Drop In U.S. Emissions By 2050 To Avoid Dangerous Warming - By 2050, the United States must cut its emissions by at least 80 percent below those created in the year 2000 if the world is to avoid potentially dangerous impacts of human-induced climate change, ... > - Science Daily

September 30 2007: (September 30, 2007) - -- By 2050, the United States must cut its emissions by at least 80 percent below those created in the year 2000 if the world is to avoid potentially dangerous impacts of human-induced climate change, ... > - Science Daily (Climate)

September 30 2007: Setting up a veto fight with President Bush while handing Democrats another campaign issue, Congress passed legislation to expand a popular children's health program. - Mammoths are extinct, of course. No one knows if the cause was climate change, hungry Neanderthals or something else -- but they left behind remains, often frozen in the tundra. - Sci-Tech Today

September 30 2007: Many Pessimistic About Environment - Sci-Tech Today

September 30 2007: Ozone shuts down early immune response in lungs and body - As policymakers debate what levels of ozone in the air are safe for humans to breathe, studies in mice are revealing that the inhaled pollutant impairs the body's first line of defense, making it more susceptible to subsequent foreign invaders, such as bacteria. - EurekAlert!

September 30 2007: In Greenland, potatoes thrive as seal hunting wanes - Global warming is a boon for farmers and fishermen but a hardship for ice-dependent Inuit. - Christian Science Monitor

September 30 2007: Strong Earthquakes Trigger Tsunami Worries - CBS

September 30 2007: In the years since Bush rejected the 1997 - treaty, the debate within the United States has shifted toward growing concern about global warming.... - Reuters

September 30 2007: Activists Complete 1000-Mile Cut Carbon March in UK - A group of Christian Aid activists arrive in the capital this weekend at the end of a 1,000 mile Cut the Carbon march from Northern Ireland to London that has brought the issue of climate change to the doorsteps of local people and to businesses and MPs across the country. - OneWorld

September 30 2007: Pacific shaken by strong quakes - Two undersea earthquakes hit different parts of the Pacific Ocean, US and Japanese officials say. - BBC (Asia/Pacific)

September 30 2007: Hunger lurks after African floods - BBC (World)

September 30 2007: After the floods - BBC (World)

September 30 2007: Hunger lurks after African floods - Will Ross returns to Ghana and Togo in the aftermath of the worst floods in decades in Africa. - BBC (From Our Own Correspondent)

September 30 2007: Consumers worried about plastic bags' impact on the environment - Environmental News Network

September 30 2007: Tropical Storm Juliette forms in Mexican Pacific - Environmental News Network

September 30 2007: Hurricane Lorenzo hits Mexico, 3 dead - Environmental News Network

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September 30 2007: 64 Nigerians Lose Lives As Flood Ravages Continent - Following the flood crises that swept across the African continent, especially the West African region, no fewer than 110 lives have been reported lost, including those of 64 Nigerians. - All Africa News

September 30 2007: UN Concerned About Humanitarian Situation in Conflict Region - After the Ogaden National Liberation Front (ONLF) attacked an oil exploration site in the Ogaden region of the Somali Regional state, killing 74 civilian workers in April 2007, the Ethiopian national defense forces have been fighting the separatist rebel group. The fighting has affected food supply in the arid region frequently hit by drought. - All Africa News

September 30 2007: Commonwealth Ministers Meet in New York [press release] - Foreign Ministers discuss Commonwealth agenda New York meeting focuses on governance, climate change and small states - All Africa News

September 30 2007: Floods Worsen Food Shortage - AN acute food shortage has hit Karamoja following the torrential rains and floods that have destroyed all the road networks that link the region to the rest of the world. - All Africa News

September 30 2007: September 30, 2007 11:43:00 - The Federal Environment Minister, Malcolm Turnbull, expects to make a final decision on Gunns pulp mill proposal for northern Tasmania this week. - ABC News Online

September 29 2007: Greenhouse forum receives the Bush plan - VietnamNews.Net

September 29 2007: Davos Conference on Climate Change and Tourism - The global challenge of climate change and action by the tourism sector in both adaptation of destinations and mitigation of its own impacts will be addressed at the 2nd International Conference on Climate Change and Tourism in Davos - UNEP

September 29 2007: The global challenge of climate change and action by the tourism sector in both adaptation of destinations and mitigation of its own impacts will be addressed at the upcoming Second International Conference on Climate Change and Tourism in Davos. - UNEP

September 29 2007: - Fight against Climate Change: Projects from South Africa and Bangladesh Share Prestigious Environment Award - UNEP

September 29 2007: Achim Steiner, Executive Director of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and moderator of the press conference, said: "Here you have an example of how public policy and international dialogue begins to drive markets, and how markets need information." - UNEP

September 29 2007: Cats break 44-year premiership drought - The Age

September 29 2007: Drought cover - Swiss Info

September 29 2007: Drought and age damage parks' trees - Sydney Morning Herald

September 29 2007: Scientists Call For 80 Percent Drop In U.S. Emissions By 2050 To Avoid Dangerous Warming - Science Daily (Climate)

September 29 2007: (September 28, 2007) - -- By 2050, the United States must cut its emissions by at least 80 percent below those created in the year 2000 if the world is to avoid potentially dangerous impacts of human-induced climate change, ... > - Science Daily (Climate)

September 29 2007: Chesapeake Bay's Habitats Threatened By Global Warming - Science Daily (Climate)

September 29 2007: (September 28, 2007) - -- A new report on the impact of global warming on the Chesapeake Bay (near Washington D.C., USA) calls for a major shift in how land is managed in the bay to protect the nation's most prized hunting ... > - Science Daily (Climate)

September 29 2007: North America's Northernmost Lake Affected By Global Warming - Science Daily

September 29 2007: (September 29, 2007) - -- The continent's northernmost lake is being affected by climate change. Life in Ward Hunt Lake, located on a small island in the Canadian Arctic, has undergone major transformations within the last ... > - Science Daily (Climate)

September 29 2007: World Leaders Need To Remain Alert To Latest Scientific Thought On Climate Change - Science Daily

September 29 2007: (September 29, 2007) - -- Melting icecaps and 'climate chaos' have put climate change at the top of the agenda for the UN General Assembly's current meeting. The report notes that while there is a general consensus on the ... > - Science Daily (Climate)

September 29 2007: In Hot Water: Ice Age Defrosted by Warming Ocean, Not Rise in CO - Scientific American

September 29 2007: Bush Administration Pushes Climate Change Action into the Future - Scientific American

September 29 2007: Setting up a veto fight with President Bush while handing Democrats another campaign issue, Congress passed legislation to expand a popular children's health program. - Mammoths are extinct, of course. No one knows if the cause was climate change, hungry Neanderthals or something else -- but they left behind remains, often frozen in the tundra. - Sci-Tech Today

September 29 2007: Many Pessimistic About Environment - Sci-Tech Today

September 29 2007: ENVIRONMENT SUMMIT-Arctic thaw may be at "tipping point" - Reuters

September 29 2007: Biofuels are derived from plants which absorb the planet-warming greenhouse gas carbon dioxide as they grow, and so are meant as a - Reuters

September 29 2007: experts have warned that global warming, blamed mainly on greenhouse gases emitted by burning fossil fuels, will bring more droughts,... - Reuters

September 29 2007: Wednesday, September 26, 2007 6:06 AM ET - experts have warned that global warming, blamed mainly on greenhouse gases emitted by burning fossil fuels, will bring more droughts,... - Reuters

September 29 2007: Environment - The Japan Times

September 29 2007: Hunt Refining Pays $49 Million to Settle Air Pollution Charges - Environmental News Service

September 29 2007: WASHINGTON, DC, September 28, 2007 (ENS) - "There is a way forward that will enable us to grow our economies and protect the environment, and that's called technology," President George W. Bush today told the representatives of 17 world leaders plus the United Nations in the first in a series of meetings with "major economies" on energy security and climate change. - Environmental News Service

September 29 2007: UPI NewsTrack TopNews - September 30, 2007 - Melissa latest tropical storm MIAMI, Sept. 29 -- Melissa became the latest tropical storm Saturday to pop up in the eastern Atlantic and begin churning westward. While it was producing sustained winds near 40 miles per hour, Melissa was no threat to... - Earth Times

September 29 2007: Melissa latest tropical storm - Earth Times

September 29 2007: Carbon nanotube plucked by nano-tweezers - New Scientist

September 29 2007: Bush urges better climate change co-operation - Financial Times

September 29 2007: Storms ahead - BBC (World)

September 29 2007: FACTBOX - Climate change meetings this year - Reuters

September 29 2007: Wednesday, September 26, 2007 6:41 PM ET - JAN. 10 - European Commission presents "the most ambitious policy ever" to fight climate change, challenging the world to follow Europe's lead in cutting... - Reuters

September 29 2007: Bush: U.S. to cut greenhouse gases - CNN

September 29 2007: Study: Global Warming Effecting North America's Northernmost Arctic Lake - Environmental News Network

September 29 2007: Tropical Storm Melissa Whirls In Atlantic - Environmental News Network

September 29 2007: 3 Dead, Hurricane Lorenzo Plows Into Mexico - Environmental News Network

September 29 2007: Deborah Zabarenko and Jeff Mason, Reuters - WASHINGTON - U.S. President George W. Bush kicks off the second day of a conference on global warming on Friday under pressure from the world's major economies to accept binding limits on emissions of greenhouse gases. Bush called the meeting as a precursor to United Nations talks in Bali in December, which will aim to launch a successor to the Kyoto Protocol, a treaty that set limits on industrial nations' emissions. Environmentalists said the conference produced nothing new and was an attempt to circumvent U.N. efforts on climate change, a charge Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice denied. - Environmental News Network

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September 29 2007: Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi said Friday that climate change is ultimately an issue of development and can only be resolved through development. Yang said at the general debate of the 62nd session of the United Nations General Assembly. - China Internet information Centre

September 29 2007: New solutions to pollution - China Internet information Centre

September 29 2007: Flood Victims to Get Frw10 Million in Food Aid - World Vision, a Christian NGO, yesterday offered food items worth Frw10 million to Bigogwe and Kanzenze Sectors in Western Province that were devastated by the recent floods. - All Africa News

September 29 2007: Floods Snuffing Life Out of Anambra Communities - Unarguably, Anambra State is the worst erosion and flood prone state in Nigeria. The records and the statistics are there to attest to this claim. Virtually, all the 245 communities (177 plus the newly recognized 68) in the State are affected or threatened by erosion, one way or the order. But the worst affected areas are Anambra South Senatorial Zone and Anambra Central Senatorial Zone. - All Africa News

September 29 2007: "US leadership in the area of - change is essential, not only because it is a big emitter of greenhouse gases, but because the US is on the cutting... - Reuters

September 29 2007: Bush under pressure at climate change conference - Reuters

September 29 2007: Greens leader slams Bush's climate change speech - ABC News Online

September 29 2007: September 29, 2007 20:58:00 - Greens leader Senator Bob Brown says a renewed push by the United States Government for voluntary cuts in greenhouse gas emissions will not help solve the problem. - ABC News Online

September 29 2007: Bush 'isolated' after climate change talks - ABC News Online

September 29 2007: September 29, 2007 11:42:00 - Some of the world's biggest greenhouse polluters have taken aim at US President George W Bush, calling him "isolated" and questioning his leadership on the problem of global warming. - ABC News Online

September 29 2007: Boaties warned of river drought danger - ABC News Online

September 29 2007: September 29, 2007 10:00:00 - People using boats and jet skis on the River Murray this long weekend are being warned to take into account lower water levels caused by the drought. - ABC News Online

September 28 2007: Investment bank buys into green power - INVESTMENT bank Babcock & Brown bought offshore wind power developer Bluewater, which is seeking to build a wind farm off the coast of Delaware expected to cost about $US1.6 billion ($1.82 billion). - The Australian

September 28 2007: Climate change may sink Maldives - The Age

September 28 2007: Arctic thaw becoming critical: NASA - A record melt of Arctic summer sea ice this month may be a sign that global warming is reaching a critical trigger point, scientists say. - The Age

September 28 2007: Babcock & Brown buys Bluewater - Australian investment firm Babcock & Brown bought offshore wind power developer Bluewater. - The Age

September 28 2007: Greenbelt MD (SPX) Sep 28, 2007 - "Towers in the Tempest," a NASA visualization that illustrates the complex science of hurricane hot towers, has been selected for an award by the National Science Foundation (NSF) and Science Magazine's fifth annual International Science and Technology Visualization Challenge. Science Magazine, published by the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), invited illustrators, pho ... - Terra Daily

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

September 28 2007: On September 26-27, scientists at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) will host an international, interdisciplinary conference on the proposed "iron fertilization" of the ocean as a means to combat rising concentrations of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. Several times over the past century, scientists and environmental engineers have proposed spreading slurries of dissolved iron ... - Terra Daily

September 28 2007: Boulder CO (SPX) Sep 28, 2007 - Melting Arctic sea ice has shrunk to a 29-year low, significantly below the minimum set in 2005, according to preliminary figures from the National Snow and Ice Data Center, part of the University of Colorado at Boulder. NASA scientists, who have been observing the declining Arctic sea ice cover since the earliest measurements in 1979, are working to understand this sudden speed-up of sea ice de ... - Terra Daily

September 28 2007: North America's Northernmost Lake Affected By Global Warming - Terra Daily

September 28 2007: Quebec City, Canada (SPX) Sep 28, 2007 - Analyses conducted by researchers from Universite Laval's Center for Northern Studies reveal that the continent's northernmost lake is affected by climate change. In an article to be published in the September 28 edition of Geophysical Research Letters, the international research team led by Universite Laval scientists Warwick Vincent and Reinhard Pienitz reports that aquatic life in Ward Hunt L ... - Terra Daily

September 28 2007: Kingston, Canada (SPX) Sep 27, 2007 - Unprecedented warm temperatures in the High Arctic this past summer were so extreme that researchers with a Queen's University-led climate change project have begun revising their forecasts. "Everything has changed dramatically in the watershed we observed," reports Geography professor Scott Lamoureux, the leader of an International Polar Year project announced yesterday in Nunavut by Indian and ... - Terra Daily

September 28 2007: Flu saddles drought areas with more pain - Sydney Morning Herald

September 28 2007: Public Awareness Survey shows ECan success - 2:17 PM | Environment Canterbury - Scoop

September 28 2007: Recovery From Acid Rain 'Much Slower Than Expected' - Science Daily

September 28 2007: (September 28, 2007) - -- Studies in Scotland and Wales show that streams still have high levels of acidity from pollution in the 1970s and 1980s, despite efforts to clean them. In Wales, more than 12,000 km of streams and ... > - Science Daily (Climate)

September 28 2007: Climate Change May Increase Heat-related Deaths By 2050s, Says Study - Science Daily (Climate)

September 28 2007: Nanowire Generates Power By Harvesting Energy From The Environment - Science Daily

September 28 2007: Forests Of Endangered Tropical Kelp Discovered - Forests of a species of kelp previously thought endangered or extinct in deep waters near the Galapagos Islands has just been discovered. This discovery has important implications for biodiversity and the resilience of tropical marine systems to climate ... > - Science Daily

September 28 2007: RWE to develop new process to cut pollution - Scientific American

September 28 2007: Setting up a veto fight with President Bush while handing Democrats another campaign issue, Congress passed legislation to expand a popular children's health program. - Mammoths are extinct, of course. No one knows if the cause was climate change, hungry Neanderthals or something else -- but they left behind remains, often frozen in the tundra. - Sci-Tech Today

September 28 2007: Many Pessimistic About Environment - Sci-Tech Today

September 28 2007: Hurricane Lorenzo Downgraded to Tropical Storm - Rigzone

September 28 2007: Friday, September 28, 2007 - - The National Hurricane Center reports that Hurricane Lorenzo has weakened into a tropical storm after losing strength once it made landfall in eastern Mexico. - Rigzone

September 28 2007: Thursday, September 27, 2007 7:02 PM ET - change is directly linked to economic growth," Sunita Narain, an environmentalist who has taken on the government on issues from air pollution to... - Reuters

September 28 2007: Thursday, September 27, 2007 2:01 PM ET - Biofuels are derived from plants which absorb the planet-warming greenhouse gas carbon dioxide as they grow, and so are meant as a - Reuters

September 28 2007: FACTBOX: Bush's evolving policy on global warming - Reuters

September 28 2007: Wednesday, September 26, 2007 7:02 PM ET - Here is a timeline of US President George W. Bush's evolving policy on global warming since 2001: MARCH 28, 2001 - Stating his opposition to the 1997 - Reuters

September 28 2007: Should the Commissioner of the AFP, Mick Keelty, be making comments on climate change and security? - On Line Opinion

September 28 2007: A nuclear powered world - Without early, broadscale adoption of nuclear power, unremitting world energy demand will make a mockery of greenhouse amelioration. - On Line Opinion

September 28 2007: Europe and US try to calm Microsoft storm - New Zealand Herald

September 28 2007: 2 Quakes Off Japan, No Tsunami - Newsday (AP update)

September 28 2007: Africa flood crisis hits Nigeria - Mail & Guardian Online

September 28 2007: Hundreds of thousands await aid in flood-hit Africa - Hundreds of thousands of people awaited desperately needed relief supplies and faced the threat of epidemics on Friday as the death toll climbed in Africa's worst floods in three decades. At least 300 have died in the flooding since heavy rains began sweeping across the continent two months ago. - Mail & Guardian Online

September 28 2007: Africa may face food crisis following floods - Mail & Guardian Online

September 28 2007: Iowa State consumer survey shows links between local foods, climate change, food safety - EurekAlert!

September 28 2007: Thousands out of class after floods wash away schools - IRIN

September 28 2007: Battle of the floods - IRIN

September 28 2007: International Court To Try Environmental Crimes? - As the United Nations takes an increasingly dominant role in guiding the climate change debate, there is renewed interest in a longstanding proposal for the creation of an international court to try environmental crimes. - OneWorld

September 28 2007: Fab Fabrice fries feisty Finn - Rainer Schuettler recaptured some of his old form to shock second seed Lleyton Hewitt 6-3, 7-5 and storm into the semis of $416,000 Kingfisher Airlines Open. - Hindustan Times

September 28 2007: Even gods not spared, so priests swim - Flood in Orissa has spared no one. If a common man has been badly affected, so have been the men closer to the Gods — temple priests. Priests of the temples, especially the ones situated near riverbanks, are having a tough time, reports - Hindustan Times

September 28 2007: Recovery from acid rain 'much slower than expected' - Studies in Scotland and Wales show that streams still have high levels of acidity from pollution in the 1970s and 1980s, despite efforts to clean them. - EurekAlert!

September 28 2007: Clinton Initiative Inspires Utilities, Bank to Fight Global Warming - Environmental News Service

September 28 2007: September 26, 2007 (ENS) - Chinese officials and experts have admitted the Three Gorges Dam project has caused an array of ecological ills, including more frequent landslides and pollution, and if preventive measures are not taken, there could be an environmental "catastrophe." - Environmental News Service

September 28 2007: The United States on Thursday was launching talks among the world's biggest greenhouse-gas polluters in the quest to spur action against dangerous climate change. Representatives from leading industrial and emerging economies, the UN and European Union (EU) were to meet for two days under the chairmanship of US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice. President George W. Bush, who proposed t ... - Terra Daily

September 28 2007: Dell Is First Major Computer Company To Go Carbon Neutral - Terra Daily

September 28 2007: Washington DC (SPX) Sep 28, 2007 - Dell has become the first major computer manufacturer to commit to neutralizing the carbon impact of its worldwide operations, a significant extension of its global climate policy and environmental stewardship. "Never before in the history of business have we seen such a critical need to build a worldwide community dedicated to improving the environment," Michael Dell, the company's chairman and ... - Terra Daily

September 28 2007: Since the collapse of the Soviet Union, armchair journalists and strategists have promulgated the concept that a new Great Game is afoot in Eurasia. This time, the prize is not land but access to the Caspian's vast hydrocarbon reserves, estimated by the U.S. Energy Information Administration at proven reserves of 17 billion to 49 billion barrels of oil; proven natural gas reserves are e ... - Terra Daily

September 28 2007: London streets breach EU pollution limits say Greens - EDIE

September 28 2007: Australia to study lawnmower pollution - EDIE

September 28 2007: Lovelock: Oceans offer climate change cure - Two leading environmental scientists have claimed that the oceans could hold the answer to slowing down climate change. - EDIE

September 28 2007: Your Carbon Footprint - a new training course - EDIE

September 28 2007: School averts flooding thanks to Lanes - EDIE

September 28 2007: Single body should manage urban flooding says Environment Agency - EDIE

September 28 2007: Northwest Companies To Take National Tradeshows by Storm - EDIE

September 28 2007: Biofuel over-production could spark Great Plains drought - EDIE

September 28 2007: New deal to speed up ozone recovery - EDIE

September 28 2007: Global Warming Conference - CBS

September 28 2007: Bush Addresses Climate Change - CBS

September 28 2007: Inflation jump a headache for ECB - Eurozone economy shows fresh weakness - Financial Times

September 28 2007: Portuguese politician storms off over Mourinho coverage - BBC

September 28 2007: Flooded Togo's urgent aid appeal - Togo urgently appeals for aid to deal with flooding that has affected almost half of African countries. - BBC (Africa)

September 28 2007: Bush: Climate change progress must be measurable - Reuters

September 28 2007: Lorenzo, Karen storms weaken - CNN

September 28 2007: Lorenzo weakens to tropical storm - CNN

September 28 2007: Bush wants climate change action - CNN

September 28 2007: 'Green roofs' could cool warming cities - New Scientist

September 28 2007: Conservationists Sue Bush Administration for Suppression of Global Warming Documents - Environmental News Network

September 28 2007: Alejandro Juarez, - NAUTLA, Mexico (Reuters) - Hurricane Lorenzo crashed into Mexico's Gulf coast on Friday, killing three people in a mudslide and knocking out power to 85,000 homes. - Environmental News Network

September 28 2007: UK Power Giants Fail to Show Leadership on Climate Change - Environmental News Network

September 28 2007: Bush Under Pressure at Climate Change Conference - Environmental News Network

September 28 2007: September 28, 2007 08:35 AM - - WASHINGTON - U.S. President George W. Bush kicks off the second day of a conference on global warming on Friday under pressure from the world's major economies to accept binding limits on emissions of greenhouse gases. Bush called the meeting as a precursor to United Nations talks in Bali in December, which will aim to launch a successor to the Kyoto Protocol, a treaty that set limits on industrial nations' emissions. Environmentalists said the conference produced nothing new and was an attempt to circumvent U.N. efforts on climate change, a charge Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice denied. - Environmental News Network

September 28 2007: New five-year plan to help combat pollution unveiled - The State Council approved in principle a five-year environmental protection plan for tackling pollution during an executive meeting presided by Premier Wen Jiabao Sept. 26. - China Internet information Centre

September 28 2007: Hurricane Lorenzo hits Mexico - CNN (Asia)

September 28 2007: Looks like the environment movement has finally managed to define "being alive" as an act of vandalism. This morning on ABC Radio National Breakfast I have repeatedly heard the meeting US sponsored meeting on climate change described as a meeting... - On Line Opinion

September 28 2007: Africa climate change woes aired at Clinton summit - Reuters

September 28 2007: Under the - Protocol to curb global warming, rich countries can meet their emissions reduction targets by funding green energy development in poor... - Reuters

September 28 2007: Bush goes on the attack on climate change - ABC News Online

September 28 2007: September 29, 2007 06:16:00 - US President George W Bush has gone on the offensive on climate change, proposing a summit pf major polluters next year to set a long-term global goal for curtting emissions. - ABC News Online

September 28 2007: Keelty stands firm on climate change security comments - ABC News Online

September 28 2007: September 28, 2007 15:15:00 - Australian Federal Police (AFP) Commissioner Mick Keelty has stood by his claim that climate change is the greatest security issue facing Australia's future. - ABC News Online

September 28 2007: Terrorism threat more immediate than climate change: PM - ABC News Online

September 28 2007: September 28, 2007 10:47:00 - Prime Minister John Howard says terrorism is a more immediate security threat than climate change, but both are major issues facing Australia. - ABC News Online

September 28 2007: A truck driver has taken the British Government to court over a decision to send copies of former US vice-president Al Gore's global warming film to secondary schools as part of its climate change campaign. - ABC News Online

September 28 2007: Defence Minister Brendan Nelson has rejected Federal Police Commissioner Mick Keelty's statement that climate change poses the greatest threat to the future of Australia's national security. - ABC News Online

September 27 2007: Fight against Climate Change: Projects from South Africa and Bangladesh Share Prestigious Environment Award - UNEP

September 27 2007: US vows action on climate change - US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has declared climate change to be a "real and growing problem" that should be resolved under the UN, as she launched a forum of major polluters viewed warily by defenders of the Kyoto Protocol. - The Australian

September 27 2007: A CLIMATE change report has painted an alarming picture of the effect on Australia if global temperatures increase by more than an average three degrees Celsius. - The Australian

September 27 2007: US says it supports UN effort on climate - The US has tried to reassure sceptics that George W Bush's gathering of major polluting nations will not undermine UN efforts on global warming. - The Age

September 27 2007: Tropical Storm Lorenzo heads for Mexico - Tropical Storm Lorenzo formed in the Gulf of Mexico and is heading for the Mexican coast but is unlikely to affect oil production in the area. - The Age

September 27 2007: Snow leopard advocate dies - The Age

September 27 2007: Storm brush off Folau speculation - The Age

September 27 2007: Now or never for Storm, says Marcus Bai - The Age

September 27 2007: More frequent cyclones likely: scientist - The Age

September 27 2007: A climate change report has painted an alarming picture of the effect on Australia if global temperatures increase by more than a three degrees Celsius average. - The Age

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

September 27 2007: Food crisis could loom after Africa floods: Red Cross - Terra Daily

September 27 2007: Geneva (AFP) Sept 26, 2007 - The Red Cross warned on Wednesday that a food crisis could be looming across east and west Africa due to the massive damage wrought on crops by ongoing flooding. The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies highlighted the situation in Ghana, Sudan and Uganda, which are among the largest nations out of the 22 struck by floods that have affected an estimated 1.5 millio ... - Terra Daily

September 27 2007: Cyclones: Nature's Fury Or Nature's Friend - Terra Daily

September 27 2007: Cairns, Australia (SPX) Sep 27, 2007 - Tropical cyclones can cause terrible damage to anyone and anything caught in their path, but scientists are also interested in the natural role cyclones play in shaping our environment. Over the next two days, CSIRO scientists will present the results of environmental research undertaken in the aftermath of Cyclone Larry, which hit north Queensland in March 2006, and Cyclone Monica, which swept ... - Terra Daily

September 27 2007: Cave Records Provide Clues To Climate Change - Terra Daily

September 27 2007: Atlanta GA (SPX) Sep 27, 2007 - When Georgia Tech Assistant Professor Kim Cobb and graduate student Jud Partin wanted to understand the mechanisms that drove the abrupt climate change events that occurred thousands of years ago, they didn't drill for ice cores from the glaciers of Greenland or the icy plains of Antarctica, as is customary for paleoclimatolgists. Instead, they went underground. Growing inside the caves of ... - Terra Daily

September 27 2007: Howard Plays Down Drought Causes As Fire Risk Blows Out 300 Percent - Terra Daily

September 27 2007: Sydney (AFP) Sept 26, 2007 - Prime Minister John Howard warned against linking Australia's worst drought on record to doomsday forecasts about climate change Wednesday, saying "a sense of proportion" was needed. A day after announcing a major aid package for drought-hit farmers, Howard played down the link between climate change and the "Big Dry." "Even the most pessimistic predictions about climate change, which I ... - Terra Daily

September 27 2007: Arctic Heat Wave Stuns Climate Change Researchers - Terra Daily

September 27 2007: Downer adopts US line on carbon caps - Sydney Morning Herald

September 27 2007: Developer to go it alone on greenhouse gases - Sydney Morning Herald

September 27 2007: Organic Sector Submits On 'Carbon Footprint' - Scoop

September 27 2007: Americans Remain Pessimistic About The Environment, Survey Finds - Science Daily (Climate)

September 27 2007: (September 28, 2007) - -- Americans remain pessimistic about the state of the environment and want prompt action taken to improve its health, according to the second annual 'America's Report Card on the ... > - Science Daily (Climate)

September 27 2007: (September 28, 2007) - -- Researchers analyzes over a thousand aftershocks of the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake, which occurred along the San Andreas Fault system in northern California. It determines details of the fault ... > - Science Daily (Climate)

September 27 2007: (September 28, 2007) - -- Forests of a species of kelp previously thought endangered or extinct in deep waters near the Galapagos Islands has just been discovered. This discovery has important implications for biodiversity ... > - Science Daily (Climate)

September 27 2007: Scientists Get First Look At Nanotubes Inside Living Animals - Rice University scientists have captured the first optical images of carbon nanotubes inside a living organism. The researchers fed carbon nanotubes to newly hatched fruit flies. Using a laser, they excited a fluorescent glow from the nanotubes and took pictures of the near-infrared glow with a ... > - Science Daily

September 27 2007: Europe and U.S. try to calm storm over Microsoft - Scientific American

September 27 2007: Tropical Storm Lorenzo Moving Toward Mexico's Veracruz - Rigzone

September 27 2007: Thursday, September 27, 2007 - - Tropical Storm Lorenzo appears to be heading toward the Mexican state of Veracruz, the U.S. National Hurricane Center said Thursday. - Rigzone

September 27 2007: FACTBOX: Climate change meetings this year - Reuters

September 27 2007: Wednesday, September 26, 2007 7:02 PM ET - JAN. 10 - European Commission presents "the most ambitious policy ever" to fight climate change, challenging the world to follow Europe's lead in cutting... - Reuters

September 27 2007: Image: Climate change disproportionately affects the poor (C) Josh Estey/CARE 2001 / - OneWorld

September 27 2007: Climate change: the real cause - OneWorld

September 27 2007: Africa flood crisis hits Nigeria, Burkina Faso - Floods that have left hundreds of thousands of Africans homeless across vast swathes of the continent have claimed 64 lives in Nigeria and 33 in Burkina Faso, government and aid officials said on Thursday. Nigeria's Red Cross said the death toll covered a period since mid-July, while 22 000 people have been displaced in 10 sometimes arid northern states. - Mail & Guardian Online

September 27 2007: Flood crisis deepens in 22 African countries - Mail & Guardian Online

September 27 2007: Top 10 ski resorts for early snow - Guardian Unlimited

September 27 2007: How sea tubes could slow climate change - Guardian Unlimited

September 27 2007: Nanowire generates power by harvesting energy from the environment - As the sizes of sensor networks and mobile devices shrink toward the microscale, and even nanoscale, there is a growing need for suitable power sources. Because even the tiniest battery is too big to be used in nanoscale devices, scientists are exploring nanosize systems that can salvage energy from the environment. Researchers at the University of Illinois have now shown that a single nanowire can produce power by harvesting mechanical energy. - EurekAlert!

September 27 2007: Woods Institute for the Environment at Stanford University - EurekAlert!

September 27 2007: Arctic ice retreats into uncharted territory - On Oct. 1, the National Snow and Ice Data Center will issue a report summarizing the 2007 Arctic sea ice season, and NASA will issue a press release on a new sea ice study by NASA/JPL researchers. NASA has created new images in support of these and other reports about the remarkable decrease in sea ice this summer. - EurekAlert!

September 27 2007: Environment - - EurActiv

September 27 2007: Climate Change - - EurActiv

September 27 2007: EPA Funds Local Group to Fight Pollution in Manhattan - Environmental News Service

September 27 2007: Dell Computers to Go Carbon Neutral - Environmental News Service

September 27 2007: Billions Committed for Environment at Clinton Global Initiative - Environmental News Service

September 27 2007: NEW YORK, New York, September 26, 2007 (ENS) - Today in New York, the opening of the third annual meeting of the Clinton Global Initiative brought together some 1,000 leaders of business, government and nongovernmental organizations from over 70 countries, including 52 current and former heads of state, who made commitments focusing on the Initiative's four focus areas: education, energy and climate change, global health and poverty alleviation. - Environmental News Service

September 27 2007: WUHAN, Hubei, China, September 26, 2007 (ENS) - Chinese officials and experts have admitted the Three Gorges Dam project has caused an array of ecological ills, including more frequent landslides and pollution, and if preventive measures are not taken, there could be an environmental "catastrophe." - Environmental News Service

September 27 2007: Humanitarian Groups Tackle the Ravages of Climate Change - Environmental News Service

September 27 2007: PORTLAND, Oregon, September 26, 2007 (ENS) - The recent number and intensity of climate-related natural disasters worldwide has seized the attention of relief and development groups and they are taking action to help those most affected cope with the effects of climate change - severe hurricanes, droughts, floods, deforestation, and the hunger and thirst that follow. - Environmental News Service

September 27 2007: Giant ocean-based pipes could curb global warming: scientists - Terra Daily

September 27 2007: Paris (AFP) Sept 26, 2007 - Two of Britain's best known scientists proposed Wednesday to curb global warming by sowing the world's oceans with thousands, perhaps millions, of giant vertical pipes 100-to-200 meters deep. "We need a fundamental cure for the pathology of global heating," wrote James Lovelock and Chris Rapley in a letter to the British journal Nature. "Emergency treatment could come from stimulating the Ea ... - Terra Daily

September 27 2007: Sports drama 'Gracie' is heartwarming, but lacks soccer legs. 'The TV Set' is no 'Network,' but it'll ring true to anyone familiar with the machinations of the Hollywood hit machine. - Christian Science Monitor

September 27 2007: Dell Aims for Carbon Neutrality by 2008 - GreenBiz

September 27 2007: HSBC Launches Climate Change Investment Indices - GreenBiz

September 27 2007: A Climate Of Inequity - While governments argue over responsibility for global warming, development experts are thinking about the humanitarian consequences for the world’s poor. Mara Hvistendahl reports from the United Nations. - OneWorld

September 27 2007: New five-year plan to help combat pollution unveiled - China Internet information Centre

September 27 2007: Carbon Footprint Reduction - CBS

September 27 2007: Vietnam progresses in improving business environment - VietnamNews.Net

September 27 2007: UGANDA: Thousands out of class after floods wash away schools - IRIN

September 27 2007: Expanding leadership on climate change - Washington Times

September 27 2007: Protocol," he said. "The consequences of global climate change are so pressing ... it doesn't matter... - Reuters

September 27 2007: Tuesday, September 25, 2007 4:16 PM ET - By Alister Doyle, Environment Correspondent OSLO (Reuters) - - Reuters

September 27 2007: Climate change moves up US agenda - Financial Times

September 27 2007: Police Europe’s carbon market - Financial Times

September 27 2007: Comment: Police Europe’s carbon market - Financial Times

September 27 2007: The world must cut emissions or sacrifice the planet, Condoleezza Rice, US secretary of state, told a meeting of governments, in the most strongly worded statement on global warming yet made by the current US administration - Financial Times

September 27 2007: Eurozone suffers 'worst' jolt since 9/11 - Financial Times

September 27 2007: US urges climate change consensus - BBC

September 27 2007: Ugandans battle flood waters - BBC (Africa)

September 27 2007: Carbon cycles - BBC (Sci/Tech)

September 27 2007: Irish growth tops eurozone league - BBC (Europe)

September 27 2007: change in Washington to be attended by the world's 16 biggest greenhouse gas emitters, US ambassador to the European... - Reuters

September 27 2007: Rice: Fight climate change like terrorism - CNN

September 27 2007: Ocean pumps could counter global warming - New Scientist

September 27 2007: But some participants and environmentalists were unconvinced, voicing concern that Washington was trying to rally support for voluntary emissions cuts rather than the mandatory reductions called for in the 1997 Kyoto Protocol. - Environmental News Network

September 27 2007: The United States insisted on Thursday it was serious about global warming and tried to reassure skeptics that President George W. Bush's gathering of major polluting nations would not undermine U.N. efforts. - But some participants and environmentalists were unconvinced, voicing concern that Washington was trying to rally support for voluntary emissions cuts rather than the mandatory reductions called for in the 1997 Kyoto Protocol. - Environmental News Network

September 27 2007: Deborah Zabarenko and Jeff Mason -Reuters - The United States insisted on Thursday it was serious about global warming and tried to reassure skeptics that President George W. Bush's gathering of major polluting nations would not undermine U.N. efforts. - Environmental News Network

September 27 2007: China Starts Countdown To Save Biodiversity By 2010 - Environmental News Network

September 27 2007: Impact of Arctic heat wave stuns climate change researchers - Environmental News Network

September 27 2007: Robert Tuttle: - The United States is now playing a key role in tackling climate change - and clean technologies are a central plank of our policy. - Guardian Unlimited

September 27 2007: New five-year plan to help combat pollution unveiled - The State Council has approved in principle a five-year environmental protection plan for tackling pollution. The plan mainly focuses on "pollution control and prevention" in order to achieve the environmental protection targets set by the government last year. - China Internet information Centre

September 27 2007: Missing fisherman survives 30 hours at sea - A fisherman who was among six sailors to go missing when typhoon Francisco hit south China's Hainan Province returned alive -- almost 30 hours after he fell into the sea on Monday. - China Internet information Centre

September 27 2007: Thousands Out of Class After Floods Wash Away Schools - Flash floods sweeping across northern and eastern Uganda have damaged hundreds of schools, leaving at least 100,000 children out of class, the UN Children's Fund (UNICEF) said. - All Africa News

September 27 2007: Floods Keep 100,000 Children Out of School - TENS of thousands of children in eastern and northern Uganda have not been able to go to school since the beginning of this term due to the floods. UNICEF, the UN children's agency, estimates that over 100,000 pupils are yet to report to school, almost two weeks into the third term. - All Africa News

September 27 2007: September 28, 2007 06:14:00 - Defence Minister Brendan Nelson has rejected Federal Police Commissioner Mick Keelty's statement that climate change poses the greatest threat to the future of Australia's national security. - ABC News Online

September 27 2007: US committed to tackling global warming: Rice - ABC News Online

September 27 2007: September 28, 2007 00:37:00 - US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice opened a conference of the world's 16 biggest emitters of greenhouse gas, pledging the United States took seriously the threat of global warming. - ABC News Online

September 27 2007: Environment and Climate Change Minister Phil Koperberg has attempted to explain his comments that clean coal was almost an oxymoron. - ABC News Online

September 27 2007: September 27, 2007 20:23:00 - Environment and Climate Change Minister Phil Koperberg has attempted to explain his comments that clean coal was almost an oxymoron. - ABC News Online

September 27 2007: Experts call for healthy environment to become human right - ABC News Online

September 27 2007: September 27, 2007 18:39:00 - International legal experts have recommended that the right to a healthy environment become part of human rights law. - ABC News Online

September 27 2007: A New South Wales council is investigating whether it needs to start setting money aside to buy out coastal properties likely to be affected by sea-level rises associated with climate change. - ABC News Online

September 27 2007: Govt ignoring drought plight for some: opposition - ABC News Online

September 27 2007: September 27, 2007 13:00:00 - South Australian Opposition Leader Martin Hamilton-Smith says extensive drought support is being provided to Eyre Peninsula at the expense of Riverland producers. - ABC News Online

September 27 2007: September 27, 2007 11:00:00 - Scientists say most of the far north Queensland rainforest that was shredded by Cyclone Larry in March last year has bounced back. - ABC News Online

September 27 2007: Farmers' snow hopes melt - ABC News Online

September 27 2007: September 27, 2007 10:38:00 - Battling irrigators along the Murray and Murrumbidgee river systems are unlikely to get much relief from this year's snow melts in the New South Wales ski fields. - ABC News Online

September 27 2007: Federal Environment Minister Malcolm Turnbull is refusing to be drawn on speculation that a report from the Commonwealth's chief scientist recommends more conditions for the controversial Gunns pulp mill in Northern Tasmania. - ABC News Online

September 26 2007: Press Conference on Release of Survey by Carbon Disclosure Project - UNEP

September 26 2007: Press Conference - High-Level Event on Climate Change with UNEP Executive Director Achim Steiner - Today's high-level event on climate change pointed to "unprecedented momentum of public and political attention" to environmental issues, Achim Steiner said - UNEP

September 26 2007: Regulation is the most effective means to achieve greenhouse gas emission reductions from buildings, a sector which accounts for some 30-40 % of global energy use. - UNEP

September 26 2007: Farmers' welfare '12 times that of others' - A DROUGHT policy expert says farming families are now receiving welfare support at 12 times the rate of other welfare recipients in the community. - The Australian

September 26 2007: Strong earthquake hits off Sumatra - A POWERFUL undersea earthquake rattled western Indonesia, geological agencies said, but there were no immediate reports of injuries or damage. - The Australian

September 26 2007: Mike Steketee, National affairs editor - FROM climate change to high schools, the ALP's policies have extraordinarily long-range targets. - The Australian

September 26 2007: Earthquake hits off Indonesia's Sumatra - A powerful undersea earthquake has rattled western Indonesia but there were no reports of injuries or damage, geological agencies say. - The Age

September 26 2007: Farm welfare '12 times other payments' - A drought policy expert says farming families are now receiving welfare support at 12 times the rate of other welfare recipients in the community. - The Age

September 26 2007: Carbon capture plant set to be built - The Age

September 26 2007: Scientists Call For 80 Percent Drop In US Emissions By 2050 To Avoid Dangerous Warming - Terra Daily

September 26 2007: Lubbock TX (SPX) Sep 26, 2007 - By 2050, the United States must cut its emissions by at least 80 percent below those created in the year 2000 if the world is to avoid potentially dangerous impacts of human-induced climate change, according to a report released today by scientists at Texas Tech University, the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) and Stanford University. To avoid the most severe effects of climate change, ... - Terra Daily

September 26 2007: Flagstaff AZ (SPX) Sep 25, 2007 - What caused the extinction of mammoths and the decline of Stone Age people about 13,000 years ago remains hotly debated. Overhunting by Paleoindians, climate change and disease lead the list of probable causes. But an idea once considered a little out there is now hitting closer to home. A team of international researchers, including two Northern Arizona University geologists, reports evid ... - Terra Daily

September 26 2007: NASA Finds Greenland Snow Melting Hit Record High In High Places - Terra Daily

September 26 2007: Greenbelt MD (SPX) Sep 26, 2007 - A new NASA-supported study reports that 2007 marked an overall rise in the melting trend over the entire Greenland ice sheet and, remarkably, melting in high-altitude areas was greater than ever at 150 percent more than average. In fact, the amount of snow that has melted this year over Greenland could cover the surface size of the U.S. more than twice. Marco Tedesco, a research scientist ... - Terra Daily

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

September 26 2007: Global Corporate Climate Change Report Released - Terra Daily

September 26 2007: China struggling to tackle rising pollution - Terra Daily

September 26 2007: Beijing (AFP) Sept 24, 2007 - China is finding it increasingly difficult to cope with rising pollution and its impact on the environment despite record investment in clean technology, state media reported Monday. "China is under increasing pressure to cope with environmental pollution," Xinhua news agency quoted a report by the State Environmental Protection Administration (SEPA) as saying on the nation's environment in ... - Terra Daily

September 26 2007: Africa flood crisis deepens - Terra Daily

September 26 2007: Nairobi (AFP) Sept 25, 2007 - Fresh rainfalls and slow relief have deepened the humanitarian crisis caused by record floods in Africa which have affected more than 1.5 million people and killed at least 300, aid agencies warned Tuesday. The worst floods in three decades have now affected 22 countries, displacing hundreds of thousands and starkly raising the risk of epidemics since the deluge hit parts of the continent in ... - Terra Daily

September 26 2007: Stalagmites provide climate change clues - Science Daily (Climate)

September 26 2007: Impact Of Arctic Heat Wave Stuns Climate Change Researchers - Science Daily (Climate)

September 26 2007: (September 26, 2007) - -- Unprecedented warm temperatures in the High Arctic this past summer were so extreme that researchers with a climate change project have begun revising their forecasts. From their camp on Melville ... > - Science Daily (Climate)

September 26 2007: (September 26, 2007) - -- Forests of a species of kelp previously thought endangered or extinct in deep waters near the Galapagos Islands has just been discovered. This discovery has important implications for biodiversity ... > - Science Daily (Climate)

September 26 2007: Could Iron Fertilization Of Oceans Combat Global Warming? - Science Daily

September 26 2007: Greenland Snow Melting Hit Record High In High Places, NASA Finds - A new NASA-supported study reports that 2007 marked an overall rise in the melting trend over the entire Greenland ice sheet and, remarkably, melting in high-altitude areas was greater than ever at 150 percent more than average. In fact, the amount of snow that has melted this year over Greenland ... > - Science Daily

September 26 2007: (September 26, 2007) - -- A new NASA-supported study reports that 2007 marked an overall rise in the melting trend over the entire Greenland ice sheet and, remarkably, melting in high-altitude areas was greater than ever at ... > - Science Daily (Climate)

September 26 2007: (September 26, 2007) - -- An invasion of American beach grass is under way along the Oregon coast, threatening to change dune ecology and reduce the ability of dunes to protect roads, property and towns from coastal storms. ... > - Science Daily (Climate)

September 26 2007: Amazon Forest Shows Unexpected Resiliency During Drought - Science Daily

September 26 2007: Microscopic Pollution May Trigger Heart Attacks And Strokes By Spurring Blood Clots - Science Daily

September 26 2007: (September 26, 2007) - -- Thousands of people die from strokes and heart attacks within 24 hours of a spike in microscopic pollution. Scientists couldn't figure out why. New research has found that these tiny pieces of soot ... > - Science Daily (Climate)

September 26 2007: Hardy Amazon 'greens in times of drought' - A study has shown that forest canopies in the Amazon can photosynthesise more and become 'greener' in times of drought. - SciDev.Net

September 26 2007: OSLO (Reuters) - Norway will limit companies' ability to buy greenhouse gas emission quotas in developing countries in line with European Union rules aimed... - Reuters

September 26 2007: CORRECTION: UN Climate change debate coins new jargon - Reuters

September 26 2007: Tuesday, September 25, 2007 4:05 PM ET - By Deborah Zabarenko, Environment Correspondent UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - To understand the - Reuters

September 26 2007: Protocol, an international agreement adopted in 1997 in - , Japan, which sets binding targets for emission of greenhouse gases... - Reuters

September 26 2007: Schwarzenegger urges UN to move on climate change - Reuters

September 26 2007: Tuesday, September 25, 2007 4:09 PM ET - treaty requires 36 industrial nations to cut greenhouse emissions by at least 5 percent from 1990 levels by 2012, when the protocol runs out.... - Reuters

September 26 2007: EU struggles to walk its talk on climate change - Reuters

September 26 2007: ANALYSIS-Carbon price is poor weapon against - Reuters

September 26 2007: Tuesday, September 25, 2007 4:09 PM ET - There is also the Clean Development Mechanism of the - Reuters

September 26 2007: There is also the Clean Development Mechanism of the - Protocol on cutting global carbon emissions, under which developing nations effectively get paid... - Reuters

September 26 2007: By Jeremy Lovell LONDON, Sept 24 (Reuters) - The battle to beat - change has come down to one weapon -- the price of carbon.... - Reuters

September 26 2007: UNITED NATIONS, Sept 24 (Reuters) - World leaders showed a "major political commitment" to forge a pact on - change once the Kyoto Protocol runs out,... - Reuters

September 26 2007: Tuesday, September 25, 2007 4:23 PM ET - UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - World leaders showed a "major political commitment" to forge a pact on climate change once the - Reuters

September 26 2007: Flood crisis deepens in Africa - Mail & Guardian Online

September 26 2007: Africa may face food crisis following floods - The Red Cross warned on Wednesday that a food crisis could be looming across East and West Africa due to the massive damage wrought on crops by ongoing flooding. The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies highlighted the situation in Ghana, Sudan and Uganda. - Mail & Guardian Online

September 26 2007: UN is $19m short on Sudan flood aid appeal - Mail & Guardian Online

September 26 2007: Health officials concerned over child malnutrition crisis in Bangladesh - DHAKA - As flood waters continue to recede throughout much of Bangladesh after this year's above average monsoon rains, health experts have expressed concern over child malnutrition in the country. - IRIN

September 26 2007: New orchid species found in Vietnam - London - Scientists have discovered 11 plant and animal species, including a snake, in a remote area of Vietnam, the environment group WWF said on Wednesday. The new species, found in an area of... - VietnamNews.Net

September 26 2007: By CAREY GOLDBERG / The Boston Globe - As we learn more about genetics, a simple fact remains: the great majority of things parents care about passing on to their children are complex traits, affected by multiple genes and the environment. Our lives and health remain - for the most part - beyond our powers to predict. - International Herald Tribune

September 26 2007: UN chief calls for action on global warming - International Herald Tribune

September 26 2007: By WARREN HOGE - At a meeting of 150 nations, Ban Ki Moon, the UN secretary general, laid the foundation for negotiations on an agreement to follow the Kyoto Protocol, the 1997 pledge on carbon emissions. - International Herald Tribune

September 26 2007: By COLIN NICKERSON / The Boston Globe - The explosion of a disintegrating comet or asteroid over North America may have doomed the so-called Clovis people and beasts like the woolly mammoth, new research maintains. - International Herald Tribune

September 26 2007: Before summit, a yawning gap on climate change - International Herald Tribune

September 26 2007: Bush again puts U.S. at edge of global warming debate - International Herald Tribune

September 26 2007: Poll: Many Pessimistic About Environment -AP - Guardian Unlimited

September 26 2007: A research team led by San Jose State University and the University of California, Santa Barbara has discovered forests of a species of kelp previously thought endangered or extinct in deep waters near the Galapagos Islands. The discovery has important implications for biodiversity and the resilience of tropical marine systems to climate change. The research paper describing the discovery is published in this week's online issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. - EurekAlert!

September 26 2007: Researchers discover forests of endangered tropical kelp - A research team led by San Jose State University and the University of California, Santa Barbara has discovered forests of a species of kelp previously thought endangered or extinct in deep waters near the Galapagos Islands. The discovery has important implications for biodiversity and the resilience of tropical marine systems to climate change. The research paper describing the discovery is published in this week's online issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. - EurekAlert!

September 26 2007: North America's northernmost lake affected by global warming - EurekAlert!

September 26 2007: European Commission Joins Methane to Markets Partnership - Environmental News Service

September 26 2007: WASHINGTON, DC, September 25, 2007 (ENS) - An international partnership to reduce emissions of the greenhouse gas methane expanded today as the European Commission joined the United States and 19 other countries in finding ways to promote the recovery of methane and its use for energy. - Environmental News Service

September 26 2007: NEW YORK, New York, September 25, 2007 (ENS) - United States President George W. Bush today told the UN General Assembly that he supports a "strong and vibrant" United Nations empowered to carry out the shared goals of the world body and its host country, from addressing global pandemics to stopping the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction to dealing with climate change. - Environmental News Service

September 26 2007: Despite the looming threat of a presidential veto, the U.S. Senate today passed the Water Resources Development Act conference report by a vote of 81-12. The Senate passage follows House approval in August by a vote of 381-40. The bill authorizes flood control, navigation, and ecosystem restoration projects. - Environmental News Service

September 26 2007: Long Beach CA (SPX) Sep 26, 2007 - Fat Spaniel Technologies, the leading provider of critical information services for distributed renewable energy systems, today launched "Fat Spaniel Insight Manager," a new multi-site management portal that enables system operators to maximize performance and reduce maintenance costs across their entire portfolio of managed sites. Designed to simultaneously manage multiple commercial-scale rene ... - Terra Daily

September 26 2007: Edie News - LONDON, Sept. 26, 2007 -- Several leading companies have agreed to act as guinea pigs in a United Kingdom government-backed scheme to highlight the carbon footprint of their products. - GreenBiz

September 26 2007: Interview: J. Jay Park on the Iraq oil law - J. Jay Park's work on international legal petroleum regimes has taken him around the world. He helped craft Somalia's new hydrocarbons law and has led training sessions for officials in Iraq's Oil Ministry. He also represented Western Oil Sands, a Canadi... - Earth Times

September 26 2007: Are sunspots prime suspects in global warming? - Christian Science Monitor

September 26 2007: Deeper level of interest in climate fix - High-level climate-change summits this week reveal a supportive environment for action. - Christian Science Monitor

September 26 2007: Big carbon cuts: scary, but doable - Christian Science Monitor

September 26 2007: Flood of refugees amid Congo conflict - Christian Science Monitor

September 26 2007: Coca-Cola, Cadbury Schweppes Volunteer to Measure Carbon Footprint of Some Products - GreenBiz

September 26 2007: Two-thirds of the world’s population want major steps taken to fight global warming, a BBC poll suggests... - Carbon Positive

September 26 2007: World wants climate action: Poll - Climate change news > Kyoto & climate politics - Carbon Positive

September 26 2007: Climate change news > Kyoto & climate politics - Carbon Positive

September 26 2007: A high-level UN meeting has seen calls for new action on global warming but there was little advance on how to deliver it... - Carbon Positive

September 26 2007: PAKISTAN: World Bank recommends improved flood forecasting - IRIN

September 26 2007: change policy please join the online Reuters carbon community at... - Reuters

September 26 2007: FACTBOX-Bush's evolving policy on global warming - Reuters

September 26 2007: Tuesday, September 25, 2007 4:04 PM ET - Here is a timeline of President George W. Bush's evolving policy on global warming since 2001: March 28, 2001 - Stating his opposition to the 1997 - Reuters

September 26 2007: European carbon firms 3C, Factor to merge in 2008 - Reuters

September 26 2007: Under the - Protocol on global warming, companies in rich countries can meet domestic emission goals by buying carbon offsets from developing nations,... - Reuters

September 26 2007: changing carbon gases, 59 percent called for urgent action and in China, which builds a... - Reuters

September 26 2007: UN chief sees commitment to climate change - Reuters

September 26 2007: Tackling Climate Change Is Like Ending The Slave Trade - George W Bush will host a meeting starting tomorrow of the world's main greenhouse gas producers to discuss climate change. But the modern-day equivalents of the slaves are not invited to the table, says Saleemul Huq of IIED. - OneWorld

September 26 2007: Odd object blurs line between comets and asteroids - New Scientist

September 26 2007: The oceans were brewed up right here on Earth – and were not delivered by asteroids and comets as commonly thought, a new study suggests - New Scientist

September 26 2007: Engineers at Ohio State University have found a way to turn discarded chicken eggshells into an alternative energy resource. The patented process uses eggshells to soak up carbon dioxide from a reaction that produces hydrogen fuel. It also includes a unique method for peeling the collagen-containing membrane from the inside of the shells, so that the collagen can be used commercially. - EurekAlert!

September 26 2007: Impact of Arctic heat wave stuns climate change researchers - EurekAlert!

September 26 2007: Gore calls for ‘global Marshall plan’ - Al Gore, the former US vice-president, called for a ‘Marshall plan’ to make job creation and measures to address climate change compatible and urged President Bush to commit to mandatory cuts in carbon dioxide emissions. - Financial Times

September 26 2007: Ceres to invest $75m in new biofuels field - Ceres, a California biotechnology company focused on creating genetically modified switchgrass, sorghum and other plants that can be more easily converted into biofuels, is to announce $75m in late-stage venture funding - Financial Times

September 26 2007: NZ volcano eruption injures man - BBC (Asia/Pacific)

September 26 2007: Fortis group buys carbon rights - BBC (Sci/Tech)

September 26 2007: Lovelock urges ocean climate fix - A quick global warming fix using pipes in the oceans is proposed by scientists James Lovelock and Chris Rapley. - BBC (Sci/Tech)

September 26 2007: Sea creatures' global warming fix - BBC (Sci/Tech)

September 26 2007: To offset or not to offset, that is the question. Companies of all stripes are facing the question of whether carbon offsets are solution to the climate crisis or enabling companies to buy redemption for their dirty practices, and offset providers have targeted IT departments as potential customers. - GreenBiz

September 26 2007: Vertical ocean pipes could counter global warming - New Scientist

September 26 2007: Carbon windfall to go to clean energy: official - Environmental News Network

September 26 2007: Survey: US Businesses Conflicted About Adopting Climate Change Practices - Environmental News Network

September 26 2007: Storms pose no risk to U.S. oil rigs in Mexico Gulf: NHC - Environmental News Network

September 26 2007: Climate change hits China's poor hardest - China Internet information Centre

September 26 2007: Tropical storms hit south and east China - Tropical storms Wipha and Francisco, potentially the most destructive ones in a decade, slammed into China's southern and eastern coastal provinces and cities in early autum this year. - China Internet information Centre

September 26 2007: Extreme weather threat grows, but China can cope: CMA director - China is more at risk this year from extreme weather patterns, such as drought, floods and typhoons, than at any other time in the past decade due to climate change, Zheng Guoguang, Director of the China Meteorological Administration (CMA), noted on September 24. However, he said that the central government had taken effective preparations and guaranteed accurate weather forecasting to reduce the number of casualties caused by such phenomena. - China Internet information Centre

September 26 2007: THE storm over President Thabo Mbeki's controversial suspension of prosecutions chief Vusi Pikoli intensified yesterday, with sources close to Pikoli claiming that delays in the Jacob Zuma trial were behind the move. - All Africa News

September 26 2007: September 27, 2007 07:25:00 - Federal Environment Minister Malcolm Turnbull is refusing to be drawn on speculation that a report from the Commonwealth's chief scientist recommends more conditions for the controversial Gunns pulp mill in Northern Tasmania. - ABC News Online

September 26 2007: Global warming to intensify bushfire season: study - ABC News Online

September 26 2007: September 26, 2007 15:47:00 - A report released in Brisbane today predicts Queensland firefighters face longer and more extreme bushfire seasons if greenhouse gas emissions are not reduced. - ABC News Online

September 26 2007: Drought money won't help Goulburn Murray: UDV - ABC News Online

September 26 2007: September 26, 2007 15:32:00 - A drought counsellor says the federal government's $700 million drought package will be of little use to Goulburn Murray dairy farmers. - ABC News Online

September 26 2007: Rain across parts of the mid-north of South Australia overnight might help some farmers salvage grain crops, affected by drought. - ABC News Online

September 26 2007: The Climate Institute is warning Victoria's fire danger will reach catastrophic levels unless the Federal Government tackles climate change. - ABC News Online

September 26 2007: A report shows that Australia's fire danger season will increase dramatically because of climate change. - ABC News Online

September 26 2007: A group campaigning for the preservation of all Indigenous rock art on the Burrup Peninsula near Karratha, in north-west Western Australia, is trying to put electoral pressure on federal Environment Minister Malcolm Turnbull. - ABC News Online

September 26 2007: Honour for climate change scientist - ABC News Online

September 25 2007: Scientists, policymakers and industry leaders gather to discuss ocean iron fertilization - On Sept. 26-27, scientists at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution will host an international, interdisciplinary conference on the proposed "iron fertilization' of the ocean as a means to combat rising concentrations of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. - EurekAlert!

September 25 2007: UN wants control of climate change rules - VietnamNews.Net

September 25 2007: Rapeseed Biofuel ‘Produces More Greenhouse Gas Than Oil Or Petrol’ - OneWorld

September 25 2007: NZ's Mount Ruapehu volcano erupts - The Age

September 25 2007: Quinn a quiet achiever in Storm backline - The Age

September 25 2007: Kyoto 'won't strip Australia of vote' - Australia will have a vote at an important climate change meeting in Bali later this year, Foreign Minister Alexander Downer says. - The Age

September 25 2007: Rein caught in British job-search contract storm - The Age

September 25 2007: The Climate Group Addresses UN During Pivotal Week On Climate Change - Terra Daily

September 25 2007: New York NY (SPX) Sep 25, 2007 - Dr. Steve Howard, CEO of The Climate Group today addressed the largest ever meeting of world leaders on climate change at the United Nations' headquarters in New York. The UN event "The Future in our Hands: Addressing the Leadership Challenge of Climate Change" seeks to secure political commitment on climate change from Heads of State and top officials from more than 150 countries and build mome ... - Terra Daily

September 25 2007: What caused the extinction of mammoths and the decline of Stone Age people about 13,000 years ago remains hotly debated. Overhunting by Paleoindians, climate change and disease lead the list of probable causes. But an idea once considered a little out there is now hitting closer to home. A team of international researchers, including two Northern Arizona University geologists, reports evid ... - Terra Daily

September 25 2007: New York NY (SPX) Sep 25, 2007 - The Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP), a collaboration of over 315 institutional investors with assets under management of more than $41 trillion, releases its 5th annual global report, providing the largest and most comprehensive database of strategies from the world's largest corporations regarding the impact of climate change on shareholder value. CDP also launches the Climate Disclosure ... - Terra Daily

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September 25 2007: Ecuador Takes Leadership Role On Climate Change - Terra Daily

September 25 2007: New York NY (SPX) Sep 25, 2007 - Ecuador's President Rafael Correa presented the Yasuni-ITT Initiative at a United Nations meeting of world leader's on global climate change. This pioneering initiative is an unprecedented proposal by an oil exporting country to leave its largest oil reserve unexploited to contribute to the reduction of global greenhouse gases and to initiate Ecuador's transition toward the world's first truly s ... - Terra Daily

September 25 2007: Climate change melting Kashmir glaciers: report - Terra Daily

September 25 2007: Africa flooding spreads, 22 countries hit: UN - Terra Daily

September 25 2007: Geneva (AFP) Sept 24, 2007 - Flooding across a swathe of Africa now affects 22 countries, including Ethiopia, Niger and Sudan where the situation has worsened in recent days, the United Nations said Monday. More than 800,000 people are now affected by torrential rains in those three countries alone, compared to around 700,000 recorded last week, according to data from the UN humanitarian coordination office. OCHA sa ... - Terra Daily

September 25 2007: Governments urged to act on global warming - Swiss Info

September 25 2007: CARBON ZERO PLAN PAYS OFF - Stuff

September 25 2007: Siberian thaw could speed up global warming - Sydney Morning Herald

September 25 2007: Greenland Snow Melting Hit Record High In High Places, NASA Finds - Science Daily (Climate)

September 25 2007: (September 25, 2007) - -- A new NASA-supported study reports that 2007 marked an overall rise in the melting trend over the entire Greenland ice sheet and, remarkably, melting in high-altitude areas was greater than ever at ... > - Science Daily (Climate)

September 25 2007: Pollution Drives Frog Deformities By Ramping Up Infections - Science Daily

September 25 2007: Spatial Patterns In Tropical Forests Can Help To Understand Their High Biodiversity - Science Daily (Climate)

September 25 2007: Extraterrestrial Impact Likely Source Of Sudden Ice Age Extinctions - What killed the woolly mammoths? Scientists now suggests that a comet or meteorite exploded over the planet roughly 12,900 years ago, causing the abrupt climate changes that led to the extinction of the woolly mammoth and other giant prehistoric ... > - Science Daily

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