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22/8/2008
DEMAND for rooftop solar systems is growing so quickly that people are being forced to wait for up to nine months before they can be installed.
Figures from the Department of the Environment show that applications for the Federal ...
22/8/2008
For a nation that has shown a marked reluctance to engage with the campaigns to mitigate climate change, at least at the highest political levels, the endorsement of Tim Flannery as Australian of the Year last year is a remarkable personal ...
21/8/2008
A U.S. scientist is warning the effects of global climate change on ecosystems might increasingly serve as potential triggers for wars and other conflicts.
University of Illinois research scientist Jurgen Scheffran, writing earlier this ...
21/8/2008
Dawn was just breaking over the Black Forest when Helga Schneider climbed out of bed, tugged on her overalls and thick brown galoshes, and trudged out to the cow pen. She herded a dozen head into a tiled alcove strewn with straw and manure, and ...
21/8/2008
European and North American forestry companies are increasingly investing in
making biofuels out of wood residues, a market they say will be closely linked
with their core paper business.
Making production self-sufficient is their ...
21/8/2008
Air circulates above the Earth in four distinct cells, with two either side of the equator, says new research out today (21 August) in Science.
The new observational study describes how air rises and falls in the atmosphere above the ...
21/8/2008
More than 150 nations meet in Ghana from Thursday trying to speed up sluggish talks on a new climate treaty and plug big gaps in a "vision" of leading industrial nations of halving world greenhouse gas emissions by 2050.
The Aug. 21-27 ...
21/8/2008
Indigenous rights groups called off more than a week of protests on Wednesday at two key Peruvian energy sites after congressional leaders moved to throw out a controversial land law issued by President Alan Garcia.
Protesters fear the ...
21/8/2008
Developing countries and human rights groups will clash today at a key UN climate change meeting intended to arrest the destruction of tropical forests. The felling is responsible for almost 20% of annual global carbon emissions, making it a ...
21/8/2008
Honda Motor Co Japan's second-biggest auto maker, said on Wednesday it is considering exporting solar cells as it plans to expand the annual capacity of a solar cell factory to 27.5 mega watts by the year-end.
Production of solar panels ...
21/8/2008
About 1,000 delegates from more than 150 nations will meet in Ghana from Aug. 21-27 for talks on a new climate treaty to succeed the UN's Kyoto Protocol.
THE PROBLEM
A UN panel of climate experts says it is more than 90 percent ...
21/8/2008
Time is running out in the fight against global warming, the UN's top climate change official warned as a new round of UN talks got started here Thursday.
"There is little time left to get a solid negotiating text on the table. Clearly ...
21/8/2008
In an effort to stay competitive in a global market where increasing demands are made by consumers for 'green' products, South African fruit and wine farmers have launched an initiative to determine the environmental impact of their industries. ...
21/8/2008
Indonesia and Denmark called for climate negotiators gathered in Africa to speed up talks to clinch an agreement by next year on how to curb the output of greenhouse gases blamed for global warming.
“Time flies and therefore we must fly ...
21/8/2008
Just in case anyone missed one of the key points of this summer’s still simmering siege of California wildfires, it is this: Climate change is here, it’s real, and it is time to stop quarreling about the causes and get on with doing something ...
21/8/2008
Despite a three-year lull in storm activity, the Gulf Coast faces a long-term triple threat of stronger hurricanes, heavier rains and higher sea levels resulting from global warming, according to an environmental group calling for more action to ...
21/8/2008
Björn Lomborg accuses me of scare tactics in my article on the catastrophic consequences of a 4C temperature rise. But his confidence that global warming on this scale would have only moderate impacts, knocking global GDP by a mere 3.5% by 2300, ...
21/8/2008
Nick Clegg has set a deadline of 2050 for Britain to become energy independent, saying there needed to be a cross-party dedication to the project equal to that required to put a man on the moon.
The Liberal Democrat leader said an ...
21/8/2008
Air travelers may be fooling themselves with a feel-good green glow from offsetting their carbon emissions, according to critics of the system.
A lack of rigor in the calculation of greenhouse gas emissions from air travel is undermining ...
21/8/2008
Australia released an initial US$2 million Tuesday out of a US$13.7 million fund for Asia-Pacific nations to help protect forests and reduce greenhouse gas emissions, the government announced Tuesday. The first two beneficiaries will be Papua New ...
21/8/2008
The Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (STRI), the Panama-based branch of the Smithsonian Institution, will offset its carbon dioxide emissions by working with an indigenous community to conserve forests and reforest degraded lands with ...
21/8/2008
At the beginning of this summer, the Dutch national meteorological institute (KNMI) announced that it was possible that the North Pole would be completely ice-free this summer. The KNMI based its prediction on information from the American ...
21/8/2008
Here in a 13,700-year-old peat bog, ecologist Ed Berg reaches into the moss and pulls out more evidence of the drastic changes afoot due to the Earth's warming climate.
Rooting through a handful of mossy duff, Dr Berg, an ecologist for ...
21/8/2008
Protecting houses from forest fires in Montana is costing the state millions extra, and it's only going to get more expensive as more residents settle on large rural lots, a new study says.
"We're very confident our data supports (that) ...
21/8/2008
The head of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has described as "tragic" the lack of action on climate change by developed countries.
Rajendra Pachauri has warned that more action is needed to combat climate ...