Tiempo Climate Newswatch

April 2008

April 30 2008: Climate change to hit major cities - The Mercury

April 30 2008: Bern (AFP) April 29, 2008 - UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon on Tuesday ordered a top level task force to take on the global crisis caused by rising food prices and urged key producer nations to end export bans. The UN chief said the immediate priority must be to "feed the hungry" and called for urgent funding for the World Food Programme. Ban said after a meeting of the heads of 27 key international agencies that ... - Terra Daily

April 30 2008: Tornado rips through Virginia, 200 injured: officials - Terra Daily

April 30 2008: Mapping Sydney's Vulnerability To Climate Change - Terra Daily

April 30 2008: Global warming expert raises concerns for tourism industry - Terra Daily

April 30 2008: Bangkok (AFP) April 29, 2008 - Nobel Peace Prize recipient Rajendra Pachauri Tuesday warned tourism industry chiefs they need to reduce their impact on climate change as consumers become more environmentally aware. "The tourism industry, for its own sake, will have to adapt," Pachauri said to more than 200 Asia Pacific airline, hotel and tourist company chief executives at a conference on tourism and climate change. ... - Terra Daily

April 30 2008: Norwegians will soon be able to help save the planet from global warming by savouring a glass of Bordeaux, a wine importer said on Tuesday. For every bag-in-box of Chateau Le Cluzeau 2006 sold in Norway the importer Bevco will buy carbon credits compensating for 18 kilograms of carbon dioxide. That is almost six times the estimated amount of CO2 emitted in the production and transport of ... - Terra Daily

April 30 2008: Police storm the Block, hunting its scourge - Sydney Morning Herald

April 30 2008: NASA Spacecraft Tracks Raging Saturn Storm - As a powerful electrical storm rages on Saturn with lightning bolts 10,000 times more powerful than those found on Earth, the Cassini spacecraft continues its five-month watch over the dramatic events. Scientists with NASA's ... > - Science Daily

April 30 2008: April 30, 2008 - - Hurricanes often lift the roofs off buildings and expose them to havoc and damaging conditions, even after the worst of the wind has passed. A local roofer, Virginia Tech faculty members from ... > - Science Daily

April 30 2008: Before ice first began to form in Antarctica around 34 million years ago, the Earth was a very different place - but then greenhouse conditions swiftly gave way to an icehouse climate, causing the ... > - Science Daily

April 30 2008: April 29, 2008 - - The environment surrounding breast cancer cells plays a crucial role in determining whether tumor cells grow and migrate or whether they fade away. A new study is the first to identify the genes ... > - Science Daily

April 30 2008: April 29, 2008 - - A new NASA satellite mission will make global soil moisture and other measurements essential to the accuracy of weather forecasts and predictions of global carbon cycle and climate. At present, ... > - Science Daily

April 30 2008: Tornadoes Take the D.C. Area by Storm - Hundreds are injured in Maryland and Virginia as rare cyclonic storms, more common to the Midwest, inundate the region - Scientific American

April 30 2008: Global Warming Fix Could Hurt Ozone - Sci-Tech Today

April 30 2008: Protocol that calls for a cap-and-trade system to limit carbon... - Reuters

April 30 2008: Wednesday, April 30, 2008 8:08 AM ET - By Deborah Zabarenko, Environment Correspondent WASHINGTON, April 30 (Reuters) - European - Reuters

April 30 2008: ONCF Weekly Environment e- bulletin - OneWorld

April 30 2008: Famine fears for North Korea - Science Daily

April 30 2008: North Korea heading towards famine: report - Science Daily

April 30 2008: Five new books tackle the problems posed by climate change. - New Scientist

April 30 2008: In the US, even the homeless have big carbon footprints - New Scientist

April 30 2008: ENVIRONMENT BLOG - New Scientist

April 30 2008: STARK ... Ruth Timperon's image of a parched Tasmanian farm is one of the images in a photographic competition aimed at highlighting the drought. - The Mercury

April 30 2008: Climate modelers see modern echo in '30s Dust Bowl - Climate scientists using computer models to simulate the 1930s Dust Bowl on the US Great Plains have found that dust raised by farmers probably amplified and spread a natural drop in rainfall, turning an ordinary drying cycle into an agricultural collapse. The researcher say the study raises concern that current pressures on farmland from population growth and climate change could worsen current food crises by leading to similar events in other regions. - EurekAlert!

April 30 2008: Starvation fears in northern Somalia - NAIROBI - Extensive drought and high inflation in the northern Togdheer region of the self-declared republic of Somaliland have pushed many families, both nomadic and urban, to the brink of starvation, local officials told IRIN. - IRIN

April 30 2008: Blackboard jungle - The focus should be on teaching standards and the learning environment, not enrolment figures, writes - Hindustan Times

April 30 2008: Vultures declining faster than the dodo - Livestock drug blamed for rapid decline in species, with dire impact on the environment - Guardian Unlimited (Science)

April 30 2008: Asian vultures in sharp decline - Livestock drug blamed for rapid decline in species, with dire impact on the environment - Guardian Unlimited

April 30 2008: Carbon Footprints and Climate Risk: Tools for Business and Government - GreenBiz

April 30 2008: Tesco Adds Carbon Footprint to Product Labels - GreenBiz

April 30 2008: Scientists at Georgia Tech have discovered a new climate pattern, the North Pacific Gyre Oscillation. This pattern explains, for the first time, changes in the water important in helping commercial fishermen understand fluctuations in the fish stock. They're also finding that as the Earth is warming, large fluctuations in these factors could help climatologists predict how oceans will respond in a warmer world. The research appears in the April 30 edition of Geophysical Research Letters. - EurekAlert!

April 30 2008: UMCES-led research team quantifies nutrient pollution reductions from urban stream restoration - EurekAlert!

April 30 2008: New University of Colorado at Boulder calculations indicate the record low minimum extent of sea ice across the Arctic last September has a three-in-five chance of being shattered again in 2008 because of continued warming temperatures and a preponderance of younger, thinner ice. - EurekAlert!

April 30 2008: Climate Change - - EurActiv

April 30 2008: UN: Plan to Fix World Food Crisis in Place By June - Environmental News Service

April 30 2008: New York Adds Energy Efficiency to Water Loan Criteria - Environmental News Service

April 30 2008: New Ohio Renewable Energy Law Has National Importance - Terra Daily

April 30 2008: Manassas VA (SPX) Apr 30, 2008 - INSIGHT has announced concern that hype over "green" supply chains, supply chains that are ecologically-friendly, miss the real opportunity for helping the environment and omit a rigorous approach. Currently, INSIGHT's optimization engine within their flagship software, SAILS 21 gives users the best answer to supply chain planning questions - this is not new. What is new, for many, is a ... - Terra Daily

April 30 2008: Washington (AFP) April 29, 2008 - A "biofuels frenzy" and other misguided policies have led to the global food crisis in which prices have soared and rice consumption is outpacing production, threatening a billion people with malnutrition, experts said Tuesday. International agriculture researchers warned that farmers will need to double global food production by 2030 to meet rising demand, and said countries should impose a ... - Terra Daily

April 30 2008: 'Biofuels frenzy' fuels global food crisis: experts - Terra Daily

April 30 2008: Environmental industry examines Climate Change Bill - EDIE

April 30 2008: Dublin 'at increased risk of flooding' - EDIE

April 30 2008: Ireland's greenhouse emissions challenge - EDIE

April 30 2008: World ill-prepared for climate change security threat - EDIE

April 30 2008: A 10-year timeout for global warming, study says - Christian Science Monitor

April 30 2008: Lots of climate-change studies, still few certainties - The Arctic can be frustrating for scientists trying to predict global warming. - Christian Science Monitor

April 30 2008: U.S. eyes shift away from corn ethanol - Worried about high food prices, Congress tries to push the biofuel industry to use nonfood crops. - Christian Science Monitor

April 30 2008: Tornado Survivors Speak (4:22) - CBS

April 30 2008: Raul Castro securing hold on Cuba (By Anita Snow) - Washington Times

April 30 2008: Natural changes may offset global warming briefly - Reuters

April 30 2008: By Michael Kahn LONDON (Reuters) - Natural - changes may offset human-caused global warming over the next decade, keeping ocean temperatures the same... - Reuters

April 30 2008: Saturn storm is longest ever seen - New Scientist

April 30 2008: 5.2 earthquake jolts Okinawa; warning system fails - The Japan Times

April 30 2008: Malaria train - Lake pollution - BBC (Africa)

April 30 2008: Eurozone economic confidence slips rapidly - Financial Times

April 30 2008: In pictures - Unearthing the secrets of a Brazilian biodiversity hotspot - BBC (World)

April 30 2008: Raunchy Lebanese singer Haife Wehbe causes storm in Gulf - BBC (World)

April 30 2008: Lebanese singer causes Gulf storm - BBC

April 30 2008: World food crisis alarms media - BBC (Africa)

April 30 2008: Nuclear's CO2 cost 'will climb' - The case for nuclear power as an alternative, low carbon source of energy is challenged in a new report. - BBC (Sci/Tech)

April 30 2008: Russia says has no plans to cap carbon emissions - Reuters

April 30 2008: Wednesday, April 30, 2008 2:05 AM ET - puts a cap on the average, annual greenhouse gas emissions from 2008-12 for some 37 industrialized countries, including Russia.... - Reuters

April 30 2008: Poor children main victims of climate change: UN - Reuters

April 30 2008: Wednesday, April 30, 2008 2:05 AM ET - By Jeremy Lovell LONDON (Reuters) - Millions of the world's poorest children are among the most vulnerable and unwitting victims of climate change caused by... - Reuters

April 30 2008: What brings together a Latin American beauty corporation, a boutique French advertising agency, a UK-based sustainability think-tank and a Brazilian online carbon trading venture? All of them have pledged to significantly reduce their greenhouse gas emissions en route to zero emissions by joining the Climate Neutral Network (CN Net), a web-based forum to catalyze a transition to a low-carbon world set up by the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) in cooperation with the UN's Environment Management Group. - Environmental News Network

April 30 2008: United Nations Environment Programme - What brings together a Latin American beauty corporation, a boutique French advertising agency, a UK-based sustainability think-tank and a Brazilian online carbon trading venture? All of them have pledged to significantly reduce their greenhouse gas emissions en route to zero emissions by joining the Climate Neutral Network (CN Net), a web-based forum to catalyze a transition to a low-carbon world set up by the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) in cooperation with the UN's Environment Management Group. - Environmental News Network

April 30 2008: Climate change hitting Arctic faster, harder - Environmental News Network

April 30 2008: April 30, 2008 09:50 AM - - Climate change is having a greater and faster impact on the Arctic than previously thought, according to a new study by the global conservation organization WWF. The new report, called Arctic Climate Impact Science [mdash] An Update Since ACIA, represents the most wide-ranging reviews of arctic climate impact science since the Arctic Climate Impact Assessment (ACIA) was published in 2005. The new study found that change was occurring in all arctic systems, impacting on the atmosphere and oceans, sea ice and ice sheets, snow and permafrost, as well as species and populations, food webs, ecosystems and human societies. - Environmental News Network

April 30 2008: Mitigating Climate Change: Capitalist Sham - Environmental News Network

April 30 2008: Global Warming? Expect Cooling in Near Future - Discovery Online

April 30 2008: Biofuel Craze Fueling Food Crisis, Say Experts - Promoting grain-based biofuels has led to a food crisis, experts say. - Discovery Online

April 30 2008: Ozone and Climate: One Messy Relationship - Could repairing the ozone hole worsen global warming? - Discovery Online

April 30 2008: Post-Cyclone Reconstruction Still Needed - Although Mozambican President Armando Guebuza, currently on a working visit to the northern province of Nampula, has praised reconstruction work undertaken after cyclone Jokwe hit the Nampula coast almost two months ago, a great deal more still heeds to be done to repair the damage. - All Africa News

April 30 2008: Starvation Fears in North - Extensive drought and high inflation in the northern Togdheer region of the self-declared republic of Somaliland have pushed many families, both nomadic and urban, to the brink of starvation, local officials told IRIN. - All Africa News

April 30 2008: Rich world must back 80 percent carbon cuts - Stern - Reuters

April 30 2008: He said the only way the world could defeat the - crisis was by ensuring that global carbon emissions peaked within 15 years, were then halved from... - Reuters

April 30 2008: change, individual actions really can make a cumulative difference to cutting the carbon emissions... - Reuters

April 30 2008: Vic budget funds carbon capture research - ABC News Online

April 30 2008: April 30, 2008 12:38:00 - The Victorian Premier John Brumby says investment in large-scale carbon capture and storage projects in the La Trobe Valley will make the state a world leader in clean coal technology. - ABC News Online

April 30 2008: April 30, 2008 10:29:00 - Tasmania's environment division has ordered the timber company Gunns to stop smoke emissions from its Launceston sawmill. - ABC News Online

April 29 2008: Brazil's Counterattack on Biofuels - CNN

April 29 2008: US troops battle militants, 37 dead - AT least 37 people were killed in Baghdad's Shiite militia bastion of Sadr City today, as gunmen clashed with US soldiers under cover of a severe sandstorm. - The Australian

April 29 2008: Study: CO2, methane up sharply during 2007 - Terra Daily

April 29 2008: Washington, April 28, 2008 - A U.S. government study shows global levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide increased by 19 billion tons last year, while methane rose by 27 million tons. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration scientists said the findings are part of the agency's annual update of its greenhouse gas index that tracks data from 60 sites around the world. Researchers said 20 percent of the ... - Terra Daily

April 29 2008: Ozone Hole Recovery May Reshape Southern Hemisphere Climate Change - Terra Daily

April 29 2008: Boulder CO (SPX) Apr 29, 2008 - A full recovery of the stratospheric ozone hole could modify climate change in the Southern Hemisphere and even amplify Antarctic warming, according to scientists from the University of Colorado at Boulder, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and NASA. While Earth's average surface temperatures have been increasing, the interior of Antarctica has exhibited a unique cooling ... - Terra Daily

April 29 2008: Moffett Field CA (SPX) Apr 29, 2008 - Professor Vitaly Vodyanoy and research assistant Oleg Pustovyy of the AU Department of Anatomy, Physiology and Pharmacology built the patent-pending Ilumna 120 to help NASA scientists observe microscopic life in areas where there is no electricity. The new technology could help researchers study microbes living in some of the most extreme environments on Earth. NASA used it on a preliminary ... - Terra Daily

April 29 2008: Emissions Irrelevant To Future Climate Change - Terra Daily

April 29 2008: Washington DC (SPX) Apr 29, 2008 - Climate change and the carbon emissions seem inextricably linked. However, new research published in BioMed Central's open access journal Carbon Balance and Management suggests that this may not always hold true, although it may be some time before we reach this saturation point. The land and the oceans contain significantly more carbon than the atmosphere, and exchange carbon dioxide with ... - Terra Daily

April 29 2008: Earthquake In Illinois Could Portend An Emerging Threat - Terra Daily

April 29 2008: St Louis MO (SPX) Apr 29, 2008 - To the surprise of many, the earthquake on April 18, 2008, about 120 miles east of St. Louis, originated in the Wabash Valley Fault and not the better-known and more-dreaded New Madrid Fault in Missouri's bootheel. The concern of Douglas Wiens, Ph.D., and Michael Wysession, Ph.D., seismologists at Washington University in St. Louis, is that the New Madrid Fault may have seen its day and the ... - Terra Daily

April 29 2008: Are Ice Age Relics The Next Casualty Of Climate Change - Terra Daily

April 29 2008: Swiss experts say plants have rights too - Plants need protection from maltreatment and pollution, government experts said on Monday. - Swiss Info

April 29 2008: Storm answers rumour, has no interest in Barrett - Sydney Morning Herald

April 29 2008: UK retailer tries carbon labelling - Sydney Morning Herald

April 29 2008: Spacecraft Tracks Raging Saturn Storm - Science Daily

April 29 2008: Legless Lizard And Tiny Woodpecker Among New Species Discovered In Brazil - Researchers discovered a legless lizard and a tiny woodpecker along with 12 other suspected new species in Brazil's Cerrado, one of the world's 34 biodiversity conservation hotspots. The ... > - Science Daily

April 29 2008: Will Corals Survive The Stormy Future? - Hurricanes and storms limit the ability of corals in Belize to "recruit" new coral into their communities, according to a new study in Marine Environmental Research. Coral reefs --- which can grow to be thousands of years ... > - Science Daily

April 29 2008: Formation Of Ice Sheets 34 Million Years Ago Changed Ocean Acidity - Science Daily

April 29 2008: - Before ice first began to form in Antarctica around 34 million years ago, the Earth was a very different place - but then greenhouse conditions swiftly gave way to an icehouse climate, causing the ... > - Science Daily

April 29 2008: April 29, 2008 - - Researchers in Sweden have established and isolated the tissue-specific stem cell that produces blood cells (blood stem cell) by using genetically modified embryonic stem ... > - Science Daily

April 29 2008: Carbon Footprint Of Best Conserving Americans Is Still Double Global Average - An MIT class has estimated the carbon emissions of Americans in a wide variety of lifestyles -- from the homeless to multimillionaires, from Buddhist monks to soccer moms -- and compared them to those of ... > - Science Daily

April 29 2008: Pricing Can Cut Carbon Dioxide Emissions From Electric Generators - Levying a price on carbon dioxide released by electric generators could considerably reduce greenhouse gas emissions -- even before the deployment of any environmentally friendly technology -- ... > - Science Daily

April 29 2008: Imagine a technology that would not only provide a green and renewable source of electrical energy, but could also help scrub the atmosphere of excessive carbon dioxide resulting from the burning of fossil fuels. That's the ... > - Science Daily

April 29 2008: Emissions Irrelevant To Future Climate Change? - Science Daily

April 29 2008: April 28, 2008 - - Climate change and the carbon emissions seem inextricably linked. However, new research suggests that this may not always hold true, although it may be some time before we reach this saturation ... > - Science Daily

April 29 2008: Monitoring Of Carbon Dioxide Will Require Global Data Collection Ten Times Larger Than Current Set Up - Science Daily

April 29 2008: April 29, 2008 - - Monitoring Earth's rising greenhouse gas levels will require a global data collection network 10 times larger than the one currently in place in order to quantify regional progress in emission ... > - Science Daily

April 29 2008: Biofuels crime against humanity - UN - Scientific American

April 29 2008: Tornadoes Take the D.C. Area by Storm - Scientific American

April 29 2008: Hundreds are injured in Maryland and Virginia as rare cyclonic storms, more common to the Midwest, inundate the region - Scientific American

April 29 2008: Panel says that capturing and burying carbon dioxide, for instance from coal-fired power plants or factories, could be one of the main ways... - Reuters

April 29 2008: change has put pressure on companies to measure the lifecycle carbon emissions of their products, called carbon... - Reuters

April 29 2008: Sorry to ruin the fun, but an ice age cometh - The odds are at least 50-50 that we will see significant cooling rather than warming in coming decades. - On Line Opinion

April 29 2008: Food scientists say stop biofuels to fight world hunger - Newsday (AP update)

April 29 2008: In the US, even the homeless have big carbon footprints - New Scientist

April 29 2008: ENVIRONMENT BLOG - New Scientist

April 29 2008: Soaring food prices force more Yemenis below poverty line - WFP - SANAA - The UN World Food Programme (WFP) office in Yemen has said food price hikes have increased the number of people living below a US$2-a-day poverty line, and hampered achievement of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). - IRIN

April 29 2008: Democrats in U.S. Senate call for increase in foreign food aid - International Herald Tribune

April 29 2008: Tidal barrier angers wildlife groups - Plan to protect swathes of coastline from flooding could threaten renowned wildlife site - Guardian Unlimited

April 29 2008: Carbon cuts - Sweden's award-winning climate change solutions - Guardian Unlimited

April 29 2008: Peter Mandelson: - By imposing sustainability standards, we can make a global biofuels market work - Guardian Unlimited

April 29 2008: Making A Killing From the Food Crisis - The world food crisis is hurting a lot of people, but global agribusiness firms, traders and speculators are raking in huge profits. - OneWorld

April 29 2008: Scientists head to warming Alaska on ice core expedition - EurekAlert!

April 29 2008: Climate Change - - EurActiv

April 29 2008: Americans' Carbon Footprints Twice as Big as Others - Environmental News Service

April 29 2008: New York Adds Energy Efficiency to Water Loan Criteria - Environmental News Service

April 29 2008: US secretary concedes biofuels may spur food price rises - Terra Daily

April 29 2008: Washington (AFP) April 28, 2008 - Setting aside farmland to produce biofuels like ethanol may be partly to blame for driving up world food prices, US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Monday. "There has been apparently some effect, unintended consequence from the alternative fuels effort," Rice told a meeting in Washington when asked for the US government's view on skyrocketing food prices. "Although we believe ... - Terra Daily

April 29 2008: Oklahoma has secured land for the worlds largest stand of switchgrass devoted to cellulosic ethanol production. Acknowledging concerns over ethanol production impacting food prices, Oklahoma advances switchgrass, a different type of energy crop, which has higher energy output than corn and does not compete with human or animal food sources. The Oklahoma Bioenergy Center (OBC) ... - Terra Daily

April 29 2008: Coskata Chooses Site For Commercial Demonstration Facility To Produce Next-Gen Ethanol - Terra Daily

April 29 2008: BP, Santelisa Vale, And Maeda Unveil Plans To Invest In Biofuels - Terra Daily

April 29 2008: Global warming: What can we do? - Christian Science Monitor

April 29 2008: Biofuels can't feed starving people - Christian Science Monitor

April 29 2008: The Early Show - chronicles a town's comeback from a devastating tornado - CBS

April 29 2008: Biofuels: bad for the environment? - BBC (Europe)

April 29 2008: Fighting Food Crisis and Climate Change with Knives and Forks - Environmental News Service

April 29 2008: Sandstorm screens Green Zone attack (By Selcan Hacaoglu) - Washington Times

April 29 2008: Raul Castro securing hold on Cuba (By Anita Snow) - Washington Times

April 29 2008: Is there a hidden order to the Northern Lights? - Contrary to expectations, some auroras appear to be polarised, with their electromagnetic waves lined up in a common orientation - New Scientist

April 29 2008: 5.2 earthquake jolts Okinawa; warning system fails - An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 5.2 jolted Miyako Island, Okinawa Prefecture, and its vicinity, but the Meteorological Agency's warning system failed to give a proper reading of its intensity. - The Japan Times

April 29 2008: Obama pastor hits back at media storm - Financial Times

April 29 2008: Analysis: A passing storm? - Financial Times

April 29 2008: A passing storm? Is the worst over? - Financial Times

April 29 2008: City haze - BBC (Sci/Tech)

April 29 2008: Warming 'affecting poor children' - BBC (Africa)

April 29 2008: Supermarket trials carbon labels - BBC (Sci/Tech)

April 29 2008: Earth's carbon balance confirmed - BBC (Sci/Tech)

April 29 2008: Poor children main victims of climate change - UN - Reuters

April 29 2008: Monday, April 28, 2008 11:24 AM ET - By Jeremy Lovell LONDON (Reuters) - Millions of the world's poorest children are among the principal victims of climate change caused by the rich developed... - Reuters

April 29 2008: Seismic events prior to previous large earthquakes suggests we are in line for a huge quake soon – but where? - New Scientist

April 29 2008: World food price crisis blamed on government neglect - New Scientist

April 29 2008: Poor children main victims of climate change: U.N. - Environmental News Network

April 29 2008: April 29, 2008 08:01 AM - - Millions of the world's poorest children are among the most vulnerable and unwitting victims of climate change caused by the rich developed world, a United Nations report said on Tuesday, calling for urgent action. The UNICEF report "Our Climate, Our Children, Our Responsibility" measured action on targets set in the Millennium Development Goals to halve child poverty by 2015. It found failure on counts from health to survival, education and sex equality. - Environmental News Network

April 29 2008: Russia says has no plans to cap carbon emissions - Environmental News Network

April 29 2008: Environmental failure? - We ask if the carbon emissions trading system is failing. - Al Jazeera

April 29 2008: Biofuel Craze Fueling Food Crisis, Say Experts - Discovery Online

April 29 2008: THE emergence of the biofuels industry as a competitor for agricultural land is driving regional economies around the world to seek new opportunities and partnerships to feed their populations, according to European Union (EU) ambassador to SA Lodewijk Bri[euml] t. - All Africa News

April 29 2008: UN Steps Up Flood Crisis Aid - The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) brought in emergency supplies for flood victims last week worth N$2 116 330. - All Africa News

April 29 2008: In other words, Myers told a meeting in London on - change, individual actions really can make a cumulative difference to cutting the carbon emissions... - Reuters

April 29 2008: April 29, 2008 07:36:00 - Botany Bay and Rockdale have been identified as areas considered most vulnerable to climate change in the Sydney region. - ABC News Online

April 28 2008: President of Brazil wants biofuel levies lifted - VietnamNews.Net

April 28 2008: Sos's Sizzle: Global warming - The Mercury

April 28 2008: Earthquake rattles South Pacific - AN earthquake with a magnitude of 6.4 rocked the Loyalty Islands region of the South Pacific today, the US Geological Survey said. - The Australian

April 28 2008: Carbon trade to burst LNG bubble - The Australian

April 28 2008: Heavy rain across country, tornado warnings - Stuff

April 28 2008: Rudd, Keating and crew storm pop charts - Sydney Morning Herald

April 28 2008: Insurgents take troops by sandstorm - Sydney Morning Herald

April 28 2008: Climate change will hurt poor and elderly most - Sydney Morning Herald

April 28 2008: Carbon trade proposals could destroy economy - Scoop

April 28 2008: 'Greenest' Americans' Carbon Footprint Still High - Science Daily

April 28 2008: Pricing Can Cut Carbon Dioxide Emissions From Electric Generators - Science Daily

April 28 2008: April 28, 2008 - - Levying a price on carbon dioxide released by electric generators could considerably reduce greenhouse gas emissions -- even before the deployment of any environmentally friendly technology -- ... > - Science Daily

April 28 2008: Artificial Photosynthesis Moves A Step Closer - Imagine a technology that would not only provide a green and renewable source of electrical energy, but could also help scrub the atmosphere of excessive carbon dioxide resulting from the burning of fossil fuels. That's the ... > - Science Daily

April 28 2008: Low-Carbon Electricity is Needed To Power Plug-in Hybrids - Science Daily

April 28 2008: April 28, 2008 - - Engineering researchers report that plug-in hybrid electric vehicles could help reduce greenhouse gas emissions that fuel global warming, but the benefits are highly dependent on how the electricity ... > - Science Daily

April 28 2008: Living organisms can be used to track the dispersal of atmospheric pollutants, particulates and trace elements. Biomonitoring can be used in environments where a technological approach to monitoring ... > - Science Daily

April 28 2008: Biomonitoring: Letting Plants Monitor Environmental Pollution - Science Daily

April 28 2008: April 28, 2008 - - Living organisms can be used to track the dispersal of atmospheric pollutants, particulates and trace elements. Biomonitoring can be used in environments where a technological approach to monitoring ... > - Science Daily

April 28 2008: Controlling Invasive Fish: Waterfalls Control Spread Of Lake Trout In Glacier National Park - Science Daily

April 28 2008: April 28, 2008 - - Natural barriers like waterfalls play an important role in preventing lake trout from spreading through Glacier National Park, so maintaining those barriers should be a priority, researchers said ... > - Science Daily

April 28 2008: Technological Breakthrough In Fight To Cut Greenhouse Gases - Scientists have developed a highly energy-efficient method of converting waste carbon dioxide into chemical compounds known as cyclic carbonates. Cyclic carbonates are widely used in the ... > - Science Daily

April 28 2008: The loss of sea ice due to climate change could spell disaster for polar bears and other Arctic marine mammals. Sea ice is the common habitat feature uniting these unique and diverse Arctic inhabitants. Sea ice serves as a ... > - Science Daily

April 28 2008: Clock running out on irreversible climate change - Part II - On Line Opinion

April 28 2008: Soil "unearthed" at the nanoscale: Cornell soil scientists have seen -- for the first time -- seen soil at a scale of 50 nanometers. This view provided a beautiful glimpse of patterns, how carbon sequestration works, and what happens when soils get wet, warm and cool. - EurekAlert!

April 28 2008: Plea for help as drought pushes people towards urban centres - IRIN

April 28 2008: A Sustainable Future For The Polar Regions - The significant shifts driven by climate change in the polar regions present new opportunities and pressures for development. These are challenges which demand holistic, integrated responses (PDF briefing). - OneWorld

April 28 2008: US air force calls for mission to combat climate change - World's top scientists to come together in programme to develop greener fuels and tackle global warming - Guardian Unlimited (Science)

April 28 2008: Virtual world therapeautic for addicts: UH study shows - Patients in therapy to overcome addictions have a new arena to test their coping skills -- the virtual world. A new study by University of Houston Associate Professor Patrick Bordnick found that a virtual reality environment can provide the climate necessary to spark an alcohol craving so that patients can practice how to say "no" in a realistic and safe setting. - EurekAlert!

April 28 2008: New studies from a team of researchers from the Research Institute of the MUHC and McGill University show that the environment surrounding breast cancer cells plays a crucial role in determining whether tumor cells grow and migrate or whether they fade away. Their study is the first to identify the genes behind this environmental control and correlate them with patient outcome. Their findings are published in this week's issue of Nature Medicine. - EurekAlert!

April 28 2008: 'New' ancient Antarctic sediment reveals climate change history - Recent additions to the premier collection of Southern Ocean sediment cores at Florida State University’s Antarctic Marine Geology Research Facility will give international scientists a close-up look at fluctuations that occurred in Antarctica’s ice sheet and marine and terrestrial life as the climate cooled considerably between 20 and 14 million years ago. - EurekAlert!

April 28 2008: Trade & Industry - - EU-US biodiesel row heats up - EurActiv

April 28 2008: Environment - - EurActiv

April 28 2008: Energy - - EU eyes offshore wind power boost - EurActiv

April 28 2008: UN: Biofuel Production 'Criminal Path' to Global Food Crisis - Environmental News Service

April 28 2008: GENEVA, Switzerland, April 28, 2008 (ENS) - The United States and the European Union have taken a "criminal path" by contributing to an explosive rise in global food prices through using food crops to produce biofuels, the United Nations special rapporteur on the right to food said today. At a press conference in Geneva, Jean Ziegler of Switzerland said that fuel policies pursued by the U.S. and the EU were one of the main causes of the current worldwide food crisis. - Environmental News Service

April 28 2008: Melting Andean Glaciers Could Leave 30 Million High and Dry - Environmental News Service

April 28 2008: WASHINGTON, DC, April 28, 2008 (ENS) - About 99 percent of the Chacaltaya glacier in Bolivia has disappeared since 1940, says World Bank engineer Walter Vergara, in his new report, "The Impacts of Climate Change in Latin America." One of the highest glaciers in South America, Chacaltaya is one of the first glaciers to melt due to climate change. Although the glacier is over 18,000 years old, it is expected to vanish this year. - Environmental News Service

April 28 2008: Solar Power Stars in New York Governor's Earth Day Plan - Environmental News Service

April 28 2008: Euless TX (SPX) Apr 28, 2008 - Direct Fuels has opened a biodiesel production facility at its refinery in Euless, Texas. This makes the company one of two producers of biodiesel in North Texas, yet the only one located at a fuel terminal so biodiesel can be blended directly into petroleum diesel, as per customer need. Direct Fuels has implemented a production technology that allows significant flexibility in terms of ... - Terra Daily

April 28 2008: Devastated by tornado, Kansas town rebuilds on green plan - Terra Daily

April 28 2008: Greensburg, Kansas (AFP) April 25, 2008 - Devastated by a tornado, this tiny Kansas town is banking on a greener future as homeowners, businesses and officials weave environmentally-friendly features into their rebuilding plans. It may seem an unlikely choice in this largely rural and conservative state where many municipalities don't even offer basic recycling services and environmentalism is often considered a new age or liberal ... - Terra Daily

April 28 2008: Washington DC (SPX) Apr 28, 2008 - Earth Day is a time to appreciate the natural world and explore ways we can reduce our impact on the Earth. A great way to celebrate Earth Day is by using an energy source that comes directly from "Mother Earth"---geothermal energy. Geothermal energy helps reduce the impact of pollution on our air, water, and wildlife, and its use is growing. On Earth Day 2008, 6 million Americans will be ... - Terra Daily

April 28 2008: Potent greenhouse-gas methane has been rising - Methane levels in the atmosphere rose in 2007 after 10 years. Scientists are trying to find out why. - Christian Science Monitor

April 28 2008: KMT chief to visit Beijing, relations warming - CCTV

April 28 2008: Drought Spotlights Small Georgia County - CBS

April 28 2008: "Perfect Storm" At Nation's Food Banks - CBS

April 28 2008: SOMALIA: Plea for help as drought pushes people towards urban centres - IRIN

April 28 2008: MIT tracks carbon footprints of different lifestyles - An MIT class has estimated the carbon emissions of Americans in a wide variety of lifestyles -- from the homeless to multimillionaires, from Buddhist monks to soccer moms -- and compared them to those of other nations. The somewhat disquieting bottom line is that in the United States, even the people with the lowest usage of energy are still producing, on average, more than double the global per-capita average. - EurekAlert!

April 28 2008: Sandstorm screens Green Zone attack - Washington Times

April 28 2008: Russia says has no plans to cap carbon emissions - Reuters

April 28 2008: Monday, April 28, 2008 6:53 AM ET - puts a cap on the average, annual greenhouse gas emissions from 2008-12 for some 37 industrialized countries, including Russia.... - Reuters

April 28 2008: 'Bouncing' sand grains explain Martian dust storms - Mars's low gravity allows sand grains to leap around 100 times higher and farther than those on Earth, accounting for huge dunes and dust storms - New Scientist

April 28 2008: Wright hits back at media storm - Financial Times

April 28 2008: Navy exercise makes waves on earthquake equipment - BBC (Sci/Tech)

April 28 2008: Nature's carbon balance confirmed - BBC

April 28 2008: Darwin's footsteps - Diving deep off South America's tip for climate change clues - BBC (Americas)

April 28 2008: NCDEX sees 1.75 bln rupees of carbon credit trade - Reuters

April 28 2008: Biodiversity linked to human health - The impacts on health from loss of biodiversity can be complex and unexpected, claim the authors of a new book on the subject - New Scientist

April 28 2008: Emissions irrelevant to future climate change? - Environmental News Network

April 28 2008: Ozone and Climate: One Messy Relationship - Discovery Online

April 28 2008: heals over the next century, it may cause warming over the Antarctic continent via changing wind patterns. - Discovery Online

April 28 2008: In the first case, Janet Perlwitz of the University of Colorado at Boulder and colleagues reported that as the - ozone hole - Discovery Online

April 28 2008: -- Fixing the ozone hole may affect - climate change - Discovery Online

April 28 2008: MIT's Dara Entekhabi will lead the science team designing a NASA satellite mission to make global soil moisture and other measurements essential to the accuracy of weather forecasts and predictions of global carbon cycle and climate. NASA announced that the Soil Moisture Active-Passive mission is scheduled to launch December 2012. At present, scientists have no network for gathering soil moisture data as they do for rainfall, winds, humidity and temperature. SMAP will change that. - EurekAlert!

April 28 2008: Shifting sands - Encroaching sandstorms are costing China billions each year as desertification appears to be worsening - CNN (Asia)

April 28 2008: Plastic Recycling Scheme Launched - A new strategy that will allow you to sell your plastic waste, generate income for the youth and improve the environment has been unveiled. - All Africa News

April 28 2008: Plea for Help As Drought Pushes People Towards Urban Centres - Local leaders in central Somalia have appealed for help as the severe drought being experienced in the region is forcing many nomads who lost their livestock - the principal means of survival - to abandon their homes and move to urban centres. - All Africa News

April 28 2008: Buchanan Renewables, Schaffer Global Group, and Illovo Sugar to Lead Biofuel Workshop at the 2008 U.S. - Africa Agribusiness Forum - All Africa News

April 28 2008: Most at risk: Study reveals Sydney's climate change 'hotspots' - ABC News Online

April 28 2008: April 29, 2008 07:35:00 - Botany Bay and Rockdale have been identified as areas considered most vulnerable to climate change in the Sydney region. - ABC News Online

April 28 2008: The Federal Opposition says its new climate change policy includes increasing the use of solar power in Australia. - ABC News Online

April 28 2008: Coalition warms to solar power - ABC News Online

April 28 2008: April 28, 2008 19:30:00 - The Federal Opposition says its new climate change policy includes increasing the use of solar power in Australia. - ABC News Online

April 27 2008: Warming hobbles ancient climate cycle - BEFORE humans began burning fossil fuels, there was an eons-long balance between carbon dioxide emissions and earth's ability to absorb them, but now the planet can't keep up, scientists said today. - The Australian

April 27 2008: Baghdad's Green Zone blasted - MILITANTS bombarded Baghdad's Green Zone with rockets overnight, taking advantage of the cover of a blinding dust storm to launch one of the heaviest strikes in weeks on the fortified compound. - The Australian

April 27 2008: Smuggling of ozone-depleting chemicals in the Asia-Pacific region is much worse than expected, a study released at a UN-backed environment conference said Wednesday. The study analysed the trade of chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs), which are controlled under an international treaty, and discovered wide discrepancies in export and import figures between trading countries. "If you compare figure ... - Terra Daily

April 27 2008: Paris (AFP) April 23, 2008 - Pine beetles that have already destroyed huge swathes of Canadian forest are on pace to release 270 megatonnes of carbon dioxide (C02) into the atmosphere by 2020, says a study released Wednesday. That is the same amount of greenhouse gas emissions that Canada is committed to reducing by 2012 under the Kyoto Protocol, and would effectively doom that effort to failure, the study says. ... - Terra Daily

April 27 2008: Go green and cut red meat - As the cost of groceries continues to rise, reducing the amount of meat you eat could help stretch your budget - and protect the environment. - Stuff

April 27 2008: Stratospheric Injections To Counter Global Warming Could Damage Ozone Layer - Science Daily

April 27 2008: Rare Musk Ox May Be Threatened By Climate Change - Science Daily

April 27 2008: April 27, 2008 - - The Wildlife Conservation Society recently launched a four-year study to determine if climate change is affecting populations of a quintessential Arctic denizen: the rare musk ox. The research team ... > - Science Daily

April 27 2008: In the first experiment in a natural environment, scientists have shown that greater plant diversity significantly enhances an ecosystem's productivity. The finding underscores the importance of ... > - Science Daily

April 27 2008: Biodiversity Is Crucial To Ecosystem Productivity - Science Daily

April 27 2008: April 27, 2008 - - In the first experiment in a natural environment, scientists have shown that greater plant diversity significantly enhances an ecosystem's productivity. The finding underscores the importance of ... > - Science Daily

April 27 2008: Arctic Marine Mammals On Thin Ice - The loss of sea ice due to climate change could spell disaster for polar bears and other Arctic marine mammals. Sea ice is the common habitat feature uniting these unique and diverse Arctic inhabitants. Sea ice serves as a ... > - Science Daily

April 27 2008: change but need to start figuring out how global warming... - Reuters

April 27 2008: Is it possible that coal corporations know that carbon capture and storage is not viable, but continue to promote it to maintain share prices? - On Line Opinion

April 27 2008: Clock running out on irreversible climate change - Part II - To fight climate change environmental necessity must trump political convenience. - On Line Opinion

April 27 2008: Human warming hobbles ancient climate cycle - Science Daily

April 27 2008: Hurricane Gilly hits Mumbai - Hindustan Times

April 27 2008: Scientists Should Make A Stand - Scientists must work harder at making the public aware of the stark difference between good science and "denialist spin" when it comes to climate change, says the Director of the Research Institute for Climate Change and Sustainability at the University of Adelaide, Australia. - OneWorld

April 27 2008: Direct Fuels To Produce Biodiesel At North Texas Facility - Terra Daily

April 27 2008: Euless TX (SPX) Apr 28, 2008 - Direct Fuels has opened a biodiesel production facility at its refinery in Euless, Texas. This makes the company one of two producers of biodiesel in North Texas, yet the only one located at a fuel terminal so biodiesel can be blended directly into petroleum diesel, as per customer need. Direct Fuels has implemented a production technology that allows significant flexibility in terms of th ... - Terra Daily

April 27 2008: Agricultural Giant Battles Small Farmers - Monsanto Goes To Great Lengths To Protect Its Patents On Genetically Modified Crops - CBS

April 27 2008: EU eyes stricter standards for biofuel imports - Financial Times

April 27 2008: Analysis: The case for ethical initiatives - The belief is growing that environment projects not only improve corporate reputations but also foster innovation, cut costs and open up new markets - Financial Times

April 27 2008: Flood threat to Burmese farmers - BBC (Sci/Tech)

April 27 2008: Human warming hobbles ancient - Reuters

April 27 2008: Sunday, April 27, 2008 5:51 AM ET - scientists for the last 25 years or so have suggested that some kind of natural mechanism regulates our planet's temperature and the level of carbon... - Reuters

April 27 2008: Texas seeks U.S. ethanol cutbacks; cites corn costs - Environmental News Network

April 27 2008: April 27, 2008 07:33 AM - - Texas Gov. Rick Perry on Friday asked the U.S. government to cut "skyrocketing" food prices by waiving half of the renewable fuel standard for ethanol made from grain. The Republican governor from the oil-producing state said in a statement that such a waiver was "the best, quickest way" to ease rising food costs before lasting damage was done. - Environmental News Network

April 27 2008: Glacier disappearing - CNN (Asia)

April 26 2008: Turning up the HEAT - 'Turning up the HEAT' is a series of interactive and virtual debates on climate change and corporate power starting May 8th. You can turn up in person to the events in London, Cardiff and Manchester or you can watch and participate online. - OneWorld

April 26 2008: Brazil ethanol producer takes over Esso service - VietnamNews.Net

April 26 2008: Burn-off air scare - SMOKE haze from burn-offs pushed Tasmania close to breaching air safety standards last week. - The Mercury

April 26 2008: Hurricanes thrash Cheetahs - Stuff

April 26 2008: Housing tsunami hits market - Stuff

April 26 2008: Northern Lights Glimmer With Unexpected Trait - Some light in Earth's aurora glow is polarized -- a state not thought possible for the aurora, new observations indicate. The findings may improve understanding of Earth's upper atmosphere, its magnetic field, and the energies ... > - Science Daily

April 26 2008: Ozone Hole Recovery May Reshape Southern Hemisphere Climate Change And Amplify Antarctic Warming - Science Daily

April 26 2008: Breakthrough May Help Cut Greenhouse Gases - Science Daily

April 26 2008: Battle for airport that saved Berlin - Referendum seems unlikely to avert closure of Tempelhof airport, the Allies' airlifts to which which kept the city from starvation in 1948 - Guardian Unlimited

April 26 2008: 'Sustainable' bio-plastic can damage the environment - Corn-based material emits climate change gas in landfill and adds to food crisis - Guardian Unlimited

April 26 2008: Trade war fears over biofuels - Guardian Unlimited

April 26 2008: European Biodiesel Blames U.S. - Greentech Media

April 26 2008: April 25, 2008 - The EU is considering whether to investigate a complaint that the U.S. biofuel subsidy is driving European producers out of business. The European Biodiesel Board on Friday asked the union to impose a punitive tariff. - Greentech Media

April 26 2008: The biofuel startup says it will locate its 40,000-gallon-per-year demonstration plant near Pittsburgh. The project will cost $25 million. - Greentech Media

April 26 2008: Railroad Sued for Water Pollution in South Carolina Wreck - Environmental News Service

April 26 2008: Tech-innovation to fight climate change - CCTV

April 26 2008: The Crown Estate to Purchase the World's Largest Offshore Wind Turbine From Clipper Windpower for Deployment in UK Waters - Environmental News Service

April 26 2008: World Bank Carbon Plan 'A Protection Racket' - OneWorld

April 26 2008: Consensus on crops turns into acrimony - Politicians are finding it increasingly uncomfortable to support subsidies and targets for biofuel production that exacerbate the tightness of food supplies - Financial Times

April 26 2008: France is key for eurozone housing market - Financial Times

April 26 2008: US farm bill cuts key ethanol tax credit - Financial Times

April 26 2008: Polar bears 'at risk' in Canada - Polar bears in Canada are at risk from climate change but not threatened by extinction, a panel of experts say. - BBC (Americas)

April 26 2008: Come rain or shine - First you're warned of heatwaves, then it rains ... How are gardeners supposed to plan ahead? - Guardian Unlimited

April 26 2008: Megaquake set to strike within a decade - Seismic events prior to previous large earthquakes suggests we are in line for a huge quake soon – but where? - New Scientist

April 26 2008: April 25, 2008 06:02 PM - - The polar bear, a symbol of Canada's far north as well as the effects of climate change on the sensitive Arctic environment, is in trouble, but it is not endangered or threatened with extinction, a Canadian advisory panel said on Friday. The Committee on the Status of Endangered Wildlife in Canada gave the polar bear its weakest classification, that of "special concern," but the Canadian government would nonetheless have to develop a management plan to protect the animals if it agrees with the new label. - Environmental News Network

April 26 2008: The Biofuels Scam, Food Shortages and the Coming Collapse of the Human Population - Environmental News Network

April 26 2008: Environmental failure? - We take a look at if the Carbon Emissions Trading system is failing. - Al Jazeera

April 25 2008: State of Green Business 2008 - In this landmark report, Joel Makower and the editors of GreenBiz.com answer the question: How are U.S. businesses doing in their quest to be more environmentally responsible? It introduces the GreenBiz Index, 20 indicators of progress, tracking the resource use, emissions, and business practices of U.S. companies: carbon, materials, energy, and toxics intensity, clean-tech investments, e-waste recovery, paper use, employee commuting, and more. - GreenBiz

April 25 2008: Earthquake In Illinois Could Portend An Emerging Threat - Science Daily

April 25 2008: April 25, 2008 - - To the surprise of many, the earthquake on April 18, 2008, about 120 miles east of St. Louis, originated in the Wabash Valley Fault, not the better-known and more-dreaded New Madrid Fault in ... > - Science Daily

April 25 2008: Stratospheric Injections To Counter Global Warming Could Damage Ozone Layer - Science Daily

April 25 2008: Glaciers Reveal Martian Climate Has Been Recently Active - Science Daily

April 25 2008: Solar Power Lightens Up with Thin-Film Technology - Scientific American

April 25 2008: Pine beetles may affect climate change - study - Reuters

April 25 2008: Wednesday, April 23, 2008 9:05 AM ET - undo energy-saving efforts made by Canada to reduce its carbon emissions as agreed under the United Nations - Reuters

April 25 2008: The sulfur injection idea has been proposed by a number of - scientists as a potential solution to global warming. Tilmes said the idea was intended... - Reuters

April 25 2008: Pine beetle outbreaks turn forests into carbon source - An outbreak of mountain pine beetles in British Columbia is doing more than destroying millions of trees: By 2020, the beetles will have done so much damage that the forest is expected to release more carbon dioxide than it absorbs, according to new research. - International Herald Tribune

April 25 2008: California offers help to China on cutting greenhouse gases - International Herald Tribune

April 25 2008: Biofuel producers trigger trade war - European biodiesel producers urge EU to impose punitive duties on cheap imports from the US - Guardian Unlimited

April 25 2008: The state has designated 1,100 plus acres of switchgrass for the production of cellulosic ethanol -- but does the environment benefit? - Greentech Media

April 25 2008: April 24, 2008 - The state has designated 1,100 plus acres of switchgrass for the production of cellulosic ethanol -- but does the environment benefit? - Greentech Media

April 25 2008: April 25, 2008 - The biofuel startup says it will locate its 40,000-gallon-per-year demonstration plant near Pittsburgh. The project will cost $25 million. - Greentech Media

April 25 2008: ROCHESTER, N.Y. -- Kodak has reduced its greenhouse gas emissions 28 percent since 2002, and has recycled or reused 42 million pounds of waste through a company program, it announced this week. The company also made strides in reducing energy consumption and occupational injuries. - GreenBiz

April 25 2008: April 24, 2008 - NEW YORK, N.Y. -- The firm plans to cut its carbon emissions around the globe, mostly from facilities, by 20 percent by 2012 as well as offset all employee air travel. - GreenBiz

April 25 2008: LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM -- National Grid raised its greenhouse gas emissions reduction goal from 60 percent to 80 percent by 2050, and plans to add carbon budgets that are tied to financial performance, the company announced Friday. - GreenBiz

April 25 2008: April 25, 2008 - LAKE FOREST, Calif. -- Using data generated over more than seven years, the audit focused on the company’s carbon emissions, waste and water consumption. Sole, the parent of etnies and other action sports clothing and footwear brands, will now use the data to begin trimming its footprint with the intention of becoming carbon neutral by 2020. - GreenBiz

April 25 2008: Jonathan Bardelline - When companies recycle e-waste, they need to ensure that every stage of the recycling process is set up appropriately, from where the waste is sent to how it's processed. But the effort is worth it. Aside from helping the environment, proper e-waste disposal can be a revenue stream and protect a company's work. - GreenBiz

April 25 2008: Sole Technology Discloses Eco-Audit Results, Aims for Carbon Neutrality - GreenBiz

April 25 2008: JPMorgan Chase Aims for 20 Percent Carbon Reduction - GreenBiz

April 25 2008: ESCOs and Utilities: Shaping the Future of the Energy Efficiency Business - GreenBiz

April 25 2008: Biofuels: Sustainability Not Guaranteed - OneWorld

April 25 2008: Friends of the Earth Europe - Image: More sugarcane is being grown for biofuel - OneWorld

April 25 2008: In a forthcoming special issue of the Inderscience publication, the International Journal of Environment and Pollution (2008, Volume 32, Issue 4), researchers from various fields explain how living organisms can be used to track the dispersal of atmospheric pollutants, particulates and trace elements. - EurekAlert!

April 25 2008: Carnegie Mellon researchers urge development of low carbon electricity - Carnegie Mellon engineering researchers report that plug-in hybrid electric cars could help reduce greenhouse gas emissions. - EurekAlert!

April 25 2008: University of Oslo, French PAI Aurora, French Solar Terrestrial Physics Group, Norwegian Research Council, AFOSR Task 2311AS - EurekAlert!

April 25 2008: Wind Power Will Help Texas Town Desalinate Groundwater - Environmental News Service

April 25 2008: Fiji Water Discloses Supply Chain Carbon Footprint, Plans to Reduce Environmental Impact - GreenBiz

April 25 2008: Renewable Energy - GreenBiz

April 25 2008: Carbon Offsets - GreenBiz

April 25 2008: Calculating Your Carbon Footprint - CBS

April 25 2008: Carbon Reduction In Action - CBS

April 25 2008: Japan to offer $100 million in emergency food aid - Asahi

April 25 2008: Food or fuel? A tough choice - The US and Europe could open their markets to more ethanol from Brazil, where the impact on agriculture could be small, writes - Financial Times

April 25 2008: China and EU address trade issues - China and the European Union vowed to seek balanced trade and foster cooperation in climate change in high-level talks dogged by tension over Tibet protests and the Olympics - Financial Times

April 25 2008: IEA warns against retreat on biofuels - Financial Times

April 25 2008: Police storm Zimbabwe opposition HQ - Financial Times

April 25 2008: Zimbabwe police storm MDC office - VietnamNews.Net

April 25 2008: Fears for melting NZ glacier - BBC (World)

April 25 2008: Climate 'fix' could deplete ozone - BBC (Sci/Tech)

April 25 2008: Gaza's sewage 'tsunami' - BBC (From Our Own Correspondent)

April 25 2008: Releasing sulphates into the air might slow global warming, but it would punch huge holes in the ozone layer - New Scientist

April 25 2008: Plan to reverse global warming could backfire - Environmental News Network

April 25 2008: April 25, 2008 05:15 AM - - CHICAGO (Reuters) - A proposed solution to reverse the effects of global warming by spraying sulfate particles into Earth's stratosphere could make matters much worse, climate researchers said on Thursday. They said trying to cool off the planet by creating a kind of artificial sun block would delay the recovery of the Antarctic ozone hole by 30 to 70 years and create a new loss of Earth's protective ozone layer over the Arctic. - Environmental News Network

April 25 2008: Merrill, ICF collaborate on voluntary carbon consultancy - Environmental News Network

April 25 2008: Transatlantic trade row looms over biodiesel - Environmental News Network

April 25 2008: Narwhals Threatened by Polar Melt - Step aside, polar bears: Narwhals could be the new icon of global warming vulnerability. - Discovery Online

April 25 2008: Govt Links Rising Food Prices to Conflict Risk - A surge in rice prices in 1979 contributed to Liberia's descent into chaos, sparking riots and a political crisis that led to the coup that brought Samuel Doe to power. Now the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) has identified Liberia as one of 37 countries facing a hunger crisis as a result of food price hikes. - All Africa News

April 24 2008: UN Aid Worker Killed in Darfur - A World Food Programme driver has been shot dead while delivering vital food relief to Darfur, the second such killing in two months. - OneWorld

April 24 2008: 'Forget global warming, prepare for Ice Age' - The Mercury

April 24 2008: The international response to security threats posed by climate change has been "slow and inadequate", according to a report published Wednesday. According to the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI), a British security think tank, a failure to adequately prepare for this is on a par with neglecting the risks of nuclear weapons proliferation or terrorism. "In the next decades, climate ... - Terra Daily

April 24 2008: Larger Pacific Climate Event Helps Current La Nina Linger - Terra Daily

April 24 2008: Pasadena CA (SPX) Apr 24, 2008 - Boosted by the influence of a larger climate event in the Pacific, one of the strongest La Ninas in many years is slowly weakening but continues to blanket the Pacific Ocean near the equator, as shown by new sea-level height data collected by the U.S.-French Jason oceanographic satellite. This La Nina, which has persisted for the past year, is indicated by the blue area in the center of ... - Terra Daily

April 24 2008: Huntsville AL (SPX) Apr 24, 2008 - The La Nina cooling of the tropical atmosphere continued in March, with temperatures in the tropics falling to their coldest seasonally-adjusted temperature (-0.49 C below the 20-year average for March) since the La Nina of March 1989, according to Dr. John Christy, a professor of atmospheric science and director of the Earth System Science Center (ESSC) at The University of Alabama in Huntsville ... - Terra Daily

April 24 2008: Singapore (AFP) April 23, 2008 - Smuggling of ozone-depleting chemicals in the Asia-Pacific region is much worse than expected, a study released at a UN-backed environment conference said Wednesday. The study analysed the trade of chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs), which are controlled under an international treaty, and discovered wide discrepancies in export and import figures between trading countries. "If you compare figure ... - Terra Daily

April 24 2008: Biodiversity loss will lead to sick world: experts - Terra Daily

April 24 2008: Singapore (AFP) April 23, 2008 - The world risks wiping out a new generation of antibiotics and cures for diseases if it fails to reverse the extinction of thousands of plant and animal species, experts warned Wednesday. Biodiversity loss has reached alarming levels, and disappearing with it are the secrets to finding treatments for pain, infections and a wide array of ailments such as cancer, they said, citing the findings ... - Terra Daily

April 24 2008: Beetles may doom Canada's carbon reduction target: study - Terra Daily

April 24 2008: Up-to-the-minute-data and expertise derived from the Advanced Land Observation Satellite (ALOS) developed and operated by the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) will contribute a better formulation of measures to adapt to climate change threats in Latin America and the Caribbean, according to an agreement signed today between JAXA and the World Bank. ALOS will be used by the World ... - Terra Daily

April 24 2008: Carbon tax adds 10c a litre to petrol - Sydney Morning Herald

April 24 2008: Carbon output goes off the chart - Sydney Morning Herald

April 24 2008: CBS Evening News - Calculating your carbon footprint ... and how to make it smaller. - CBS

April 24 2008: Illinois Earthquake May Portend New Threat - Science Daily

April 24 2008: Global Warming 'Fix' Could Threaten Ozone Layer - Science Daily

April 24 2008: Ozone Hole Recovery: Warmer Antarctica? - Science Daily

April 24 2008: Ozone Hole Recovery May Reshape Southern Hemisphere Climate Change And Amplify Antarctic Warming - Science Daily

April 24 2008: Greenhouse Gases, Carbon Dioxide And Methane, Rise Sharply In 2007 - Science Daily

April 24 2008: Greenhouse Gases Rise Sharply In 2007 - Science Daily

April 24 2008: Greenhouse Gases, Carbon Dioxide And Methane, Rise Sharply In 2007 - Last year alone global levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide, the primary driver of global climate change, increased by 0.6 percent, or 19 billion tons. Additionally methane rose by 27 million tons ... > - Science Daily

April 24 2008: It may not be an ideal topic for polite conversation, but human beings are swarming with bacteria: Even the average healthy adult plays host to about 100 trillion microscopic organisms. Infection ... > - Science Daily

April 24 2008: Researchers have produced a first draft of the papaya genome. This draft sheds new light on the evolution of flowering plants. And because it involves a genetically modified plant, the newly ... > - Science Daily

April 24 2008: April 24, 2008 - - Researchers have produced a first draft of the papaya genome. This draft sheds new light on the evolution of flowering plants. And because it involves a genetically modified plant, the newly ... > - Science Daily

April 24 2008: Environment Key Early: Genes' Role Expands In Alcohol Dependence - Science Daily

April 24 2008: April 24, 2008 - - The influence of genetics increases as young women transition from their first drink to alcohol dependence. Researchers found that although environment is most influential in determining when ... > - Science Daily

April 24 2008: Newly Created Microbe Produces Cellulose And Sugars For Biofuels - Science Daily

April 24 2008: New Microbe Makes Cellulose For Biofuels - Science Daily

April 24 2008: Newly Created Microbe Produces Cellulose And Sugars For Biofuels - A newly created microbe produces cellulose that can be turned into ethanol and other biofuels, report scientists. They say the microbe could provide a significant portion of the nation's ... > - Science Daily

April 24 2008: Energy Saving Lights: Organic Light Emitting Diode Made To Last Longer, Resist Moisture - Science Daily

April 24 2008: Researchers Propose Way To Incorporate Deforestation Into Climate Change Treaty - Science Daily

April 24 2008: April 23, 2008 - - Researchers have proposed a new option for incorporating deforestation into the international climate change treaty. The approach would provide carbon credits for developing countries that both set ... > - Science Daily

April 24 2008: Preserving Biodiversity Within Food Crops: Saving Old Distinctive Varieties Of Carolina Collards - Science Daily

April 24 2008: Scientists sequence GM papaya genome - Scientists have produced a draft genome sequence of a genetically modified papaya that could benefit future cultivation of the fruit. - SciDev.Net

April 24 2008: Environment groups target Senate races on - Reuters

April 24 2008: By Scott Malone BOSTON (Reuters) - Chief executives can no longer brush off concerns about - change but need to start figuring out how global warming... - Reuters

April 24 2008: Vested interests shaping government policy - Climate change: focusing on economics alone is to suggest that the market can sort it all out. But clearly it hasn't, can't and won't. - On Line Opinion

April 24 2008: Injecting sulfate particles into stratosphere could have drastic impact on Earth's ozone layer - A much-discussed idea to offset global warming by injecting sulfate particles into the stratosphere would have a drastic impact on Earth's protective ozone layer, new research concludes. - EurekAlert!

April 24 2008: UN halts Gaza food aid, cites fuel cutoff - Newsday (AP update)

April 24 2008: Using chemicals to cut global warming may damage ozone layer - Newsday (AP update)

April 24 2008: GMO coupled with organic farms best for environment - Science Daily

April 24 2008: ENVIRONMENT BLOG - New Scientist

April 24 2008: Montana State researchers study spread of lake trout in Glacier National Park - Montana State University researchers make recommendations for fighting the spread of lake trout in Glacier National Park. - EurekAlert!

April 24 2008: UN: Food prices unleash silent tsunami - Mail & Guardian Online

April 24 2008: Climate change can stoke Africa conflicts, says scientist - Mail & Guardian Online

April 24 2008: Smog in Beijing - Guardian Unlimited

April 24 2008: Sugarcane Biodiesel Heads to Brazil - Greentech Media

April 24 2008: April 23, 2008 - U.S.-based Amyris, whose biofuel technology comes from its development of anti-malarial drugs, teams up with Brazilian ethanol distributor Crystalsev in a joint venture to make biodiesel. - Greentech Media

April 24 2008: Solar-thermal developer eSolar snags $130 million while competitor Stirling Energy Systems gets $100 million, and the U.S. Department of Energy spends up to $86 million more for biofuel demonstration projects. - Greentech Media

April 24 2008: Are Ice Age relics the next casualty of climate change? - The Wildlife Conservation Society recently launched a four-year study to determine if climate change is affecting populations of a quintessential Arctic denizen: the rare musk ox. - EurekAlert!

April 24 2008: Ozone hole recovery may reshape southern hemisphere climate change - A full recovery of the stratospheric ozone hole could modify climate change in the southern hemisphere and even amplify Antarctic warming, according to scientists from the University of Colorado at Boulder, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and NASA. - EurekAlert!

April 24 2008: Pollution : L'UE envisage de taxer les poids lourds - EurActiv

April 24 2008: Climate Change - - EurActiv

April 24 2008: New biofuels source is discovered - Terra Daily

April 24 2008: Morphic Technologies Tests Tomorrow's Wind Turbines On Oland - Terra Daily

April 24 2008: Stockholm, Sweden (SPX) Apr 24, 2008 - As part of the continued development of Morphic's fuel cell-based energy systems, the company will be testing a proprietary 20 kW wind turbine this fall in the toughest possible conditions on the island of Oland off the coast of Sweden. All components in Morphic's energy system are developed for large-scale production and Morphic is involved in discussions with various players in all application ... - Terra Daily

April 24 2008: Germany backs EU biofuels targets - Terra Daily

April 24 2008: Babson College To Commission Campus Wind Turbine During Earth Day Celebrations - Terra Daily

April 24 2008: Wellesley MA (SPX) Apr 24, 2008 - On Tuesday, April 22nd, Babson officially became the first college in the greater Boston area to utilize wind power through an on-campus installation, joining the growing number of US colleges and universities that have chosen to develop their commitment to sustainable business practices through the use of renewable energy technologies. The commissioning ceremony took place at 2:00 PM, ... - Terra Daily

April 24 2008: UN stops Gaza food deliveries over fuel shortage - Tel Aviv/Gaza - The UnitedNations has stopped food aid deliveries for 650,000 Palestinian refugees in the Gaza Strip because of fuel shortages, a UN spokesperson told local media late Thursday. Because there is no petrol for vehicles, the packages of... - Earth Times

April 24 2008: Merrill Lynch Enters the Carbon Offset Business - GreenBiz

April 24 2008: JPMorgan Chase Aims for 20 Percent Carbon Reduction - GreenBiz

April 24 2008: Heavy snow falls in spring in N China - CCTV

April 24 2008: in N China " width="155" height="100" border="0" /> - Heavy snow falls - CCTV

April 24 2008: China publishes forest fire control regulation for public discussion - CCTV

April 24 2008: NE China, Inner Mongolia face highest spring forest fire risk in 60 years - CCTV

April 24 2008: Rise in funding pledged to tackle climate change - CCTV

April 24 2008: Rebuilding from winter storms "nearly complete" - CCTV

April 24 2008: Severe Storms Wallop Texas - CBS

April 24 2008: Fukuda, EU leaders agree to boost cooperation in climate-change fight - Japan and the European Union agree to step up cooperation in the fight against global warming, calling for a "highly ambitious and binding international approach" to cut greenhouse gas emissions. - The Japan Times

April 24 2008: BP plans to invest $560m in biofuels - Financial Times

April 24 2008: Fukuda to woo Russia on trade - Japan seeks support on global warming - Financial Times

April 24 2008: In the first experiment in a natural environment, Brown University scientists have shown that greater plant diversity significantly enhances an ecosystem's productivity. The finding, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, underscores the importance of biodiversity to an ecosystem's value, such as capturing the global warming gas carbon dioxide. - EurekAlert!

April 24 2008: Brown scientists say biodiversity is crucial to ecosystem productivity - In the first experiment in a natural environment, Brown University scientists have shown that greater plant diversity significantly enhances an ecosystem's productivity. The finding, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, underscores the importance of biodiversity to an ecosystem's value, such as capturing the global warming gas carbon dioxide. - EurekAlert!

April 24 2008: Fuel crisis halts Gaza food aid - BBC

April 24 2008: Russian forest fires spreading - BBC (World)

April 24 2008: Hints of methane's renewed rise - BBC (World)

April 24 2008: Earthquake in Illinois could portend an emerging threat - To the surprise of many, the earthquake on April 18, 2008, about 120 miles east of St. Louis, originated in the Wabash Valley Fault, not the better-known and more-dreaded New Madrid Fault in Missouri's bootheel. The concern of Douglas Wiens, Ph.D., and Michael Wysession, Ph.D., seismologists at Washington University in St. Louis, is that the New Madrid Fault may have seen its day and the Wabash Fault is the new kid on the block. - EurekAlert!

April 24 2008: Arctic currents may be warming the world - New Scientist

April 24 2008: 'Planetary sunshade' could strip ozone layer by 76% - New Scientist

April 24 2008: Ecological Society of America - The loss of sea ice due to climate change could spell disaster for polar bears and other Arctic marine mammals. The April Special Issue of Ecological Applications examines such potential effects, puts them in historical context, and describes possible conservation measures to mitigate them. The assessment reflects the latest thinking of experts representing multiple scientific disciplines. Sea ice is the common habitat feature uniting these unique and diverse Arctic inhabitants. - Environmental News Network

April 24 2008: Flooding: a tale of rich and poor worlds - Environmental News Network

April 24 2008: EU considers truck pollution charges - Environmental News Network

April 24 2008: April 24, 2008 07:16 AM - - GENEVA (Reuters) - Arctic ice may be melting faster than most climate change science has concluded, the conservation group WWF said in a report published on Thursday. It found that ice in Greenland and across the Arctic region was retreating "at rates significantly faster than predicted in previous expert assessments." - Environmental News Network

April 24 2008: Business Books: Time for CEOs to face climate change - Environmental News Network

April 24 2008: Panos London - Mozambique is one of the world's poorest countries, the UK is one of the richest. Both are struggling to respond to a changing climate. Factory workers hurriedly evacuated after a local beck burst its banks; firemen having to rescue a mother and child after their car got stuck in flood water and thousands of homes being put on flood alert. These were the scenes which greeted the start of the year in the United Kingdom following abnormally heavy rainfall. - Environmental News Network

April 24 2008: Greenhouse Gas Emissions 'On Wrong Track' - Discovery Online

April 24 2008: Food Relief Truck Driver Killed in Darfur on the Eve of Ration Cuts - The United Nations World Food Programme announced today the killing of a truck driver transporting vital food relief to Darfur, the second such killing in two months. - All Africa News

April 24 2008: The UN, leading talks to find a climate pact to succeed the - Protocol, wants to highlight lifetimes dedicated to the environment with the awards,... - Reuters

April 24 2008: Charge Your Phone with Wind Power - ABC News

April 24 2008: Scientist slams spread of climate change 'misinformation' - ABC News Online

April 24 2008: April 24, 2008 23:00:00 - A leading climate change scientist says there is too much misinformation being spread about the theory. - ABC News Online

April 24 2008: Mt Cook glacier melting away: scientists - ABC News Online

April 24 2008: April 24, 2008 11:40:00 - Scientists in New Zealand say most of their country's largest glacier could melt away within the next 20 years. - ABC News Online

April 24 2008: Brazil launches sugarcane biofuel - ABC News Online

April 24 2008: April 24, 2008 10:10:00 - A new diesel biofuel derived from sugarcane is to be launched in Brazil after an accidental discovery