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Canada: Wind power sector eager to deliver on B.C. power promise
Vancouver Sun: As Christy Clark’s Liberals tie British Columbia’s economic future to an unprecedented natural gas boom, proponents of the province’s renewable energy resources hope for an opportunity to join in. B.C., predisposed to both massive and small-scale hydroelectric power development, has been one of the world’s laggards in terms of wind energy. Independent power producers say B.C. has tremendous potential for wind power development -- but so far, BC Hydro’s preference has been for small-scale hydro...
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Lawmakers push for sea level rise study in Hampton Roads
Daily Press: With its low-lying military bases and waterfront houses, Hampton Roads is more vulnerable to sea-level rise than most of the United States. Yet there is no coordinated plan to adapt to waters that, combined with slow-sinking land around the Chesapeake Bay, threaten to submerge entire neighborhoods by 2100. One Republican and six Democratic state lawmakers hope to change that with a first-of-its-kind study that would inventory what's been done and what can be done to mitigate the effects of...
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Oil spurs Canadian PM China visit
BBC: Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper will visit China next week to discuss the future of Canada's oil products. The visit comes after the US rejected a pipeline route from Alberta to Texas. Five Cabinet ministers, including the ministers of natural resources, trade and foreign affairs will join Mr Harper on his second official visit to China. A spokesman for the prime minister told the Associated Press it was "absolutely in Canada's interests" to build a new pipeline to deliver oil to...
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Solar power incentives lose their shine
Telegraph: The last year hasn't been a happy one for the British economy: GDP fell by 0.2 per cent in the final quarter of 2011; unemployment rose to a 17-year high; and government debt recently reached a record £1 trillion. One sector, however, has been bathing in the broad sunlit uplands of growth. In 2010 there were 450 solar businesses, employing around 3,000 people; by the end of last year, there were almost 4,000, employing more than 25,000 people. In September alone, some 16,000 households had solar...
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Famine ends in Somalia, as drought looms in West Africa
Christian Science Monitor: Somalia’s seven-month-long famine – which killed tens of thousands and forced nearly 4 million people dependent on food aid for survival – has finally come to an end, according to the United Nations. In a study of weather patterns, improved local harvests, and availability of food aid, the UN Humanitarian Coordinator for Somalia Mark Bowden told reporters today that “famine conditions are no longer present.” The victory is a fragile one, however, as an internationalized war in Somalia rages...
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Texas drought forces a town to sip from a truck
New York Times: The water that once nourished this central Texas community never traveled far: it came from a fenced-in well at the edge of Lake Travis, down a winding street next to the golf course. These days, the water that flows from kitchen and bathroom faucets takes an extraordinary journey that can be measured not in feet but in miles. This drought-stricken place in the scenic hills outside Austin has been forced to bring in water by truck from more than 10 miles away because its sole well came close to...
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Activists fight green projects, seeing U.N. plot
New York Times: Across the country, activists with ties to the Tea Party are railing against all sorts of local and state efforts to control sprawl and conserve energy. They brand government action for things like expanding public transportation routes and preserving open space as part of a United Nations-led conspiracy to deny property rights and herd citizens toward cities. They are showing up at planning meetings to denounce bike lanes on public streets and smart meters on home appliances — efforts they equate...
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Science behind the big freeze: is climate change bringing the Arctic to Europe?
Independent: The bitterly cold weather sweeping Britain and the rest of Europe has been linked by scientists with the ice-free seas of the Arctic, where global warming is exerting its greatest influence. A dramatic loss of sea ice covering the Barents and Kara Seas above northern Russia could explain why a chill Arctic wind has engulfed much of Europe and killed 221 people over the past week. The death toll from Arctic blast has been particularly severe in the Ukraine, where many of the dead have been people...
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Indonesia to create the world's largest palm oil and rubber company
Mongabay: The Indonesian government plans to create a massive plantation firm next month when it will combine the assets of state-owned rubber and palm oil companies, reports Reuters. The new corporation, which will be consolidated under the parent company PT Perkebunan Nusantara III, will have assets worth $5.6 billion, according to State Enterprises Minister Dahlan Iskan. It will own about million hectares of oil palm and rubber plantations, rivaling Malaysia’s Sime Darby and Singapore’s Wilmar among...
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Zoos tighten security as threat of animal poaching grows
Guardian: Opening the door to the animal house, passing a rhino on the way and patting the giraffe inside, Sarah Forsyth points out small white boxes that dot the walls. "Everywhere you look there's a detector or a motion sensor," she says, chuckling in front of one that presented the security firm with a peculiarly zoo-specific problem. "These are the ones the giraffe were licking." She can laugh about it now, but two months ago, when Colchester zoo decided to put in place the £300,000 alarm system, Forsyth's...
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How the Sierra Club Took Millions From the Natural Gas Industry—and Why They Stopped
Time: Mainstream environmental groups have struggled to find the right line on shale natural gas and the hydraulic fracturing or fracking process. Gas has a much smaller carbon footprint than coal--according to most scientists--and produces far fewer air pollutants. That was enough for many major green groups to give support to gas as a "bridge fuel" to a cleaner energy future--the next best domestic alternative to coal as an electricity source while alternatives like wind and solar scaled up. But for...
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'Arctic Oscilliation' Responsible For Mixed Winter Weather
National Public Radio: For snow fans in the contiguous US, this winter has left much to be desired. The warm and mild season in the lower 48 and the wild snow dumps and cold weather up north in Alaska can be blamed largely on a weather pattern called "arctic oscillation." Audie Cornish gets an explanation of the weather phenomenon from meteorologist Jeffrey Masters.
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New USDA Map May Mean Earlier Planting In North
National Public Radio: A new map from the USDA has some northern gardeners hoping to grow plants that used to be considered too fragile for cold weather zones. The hardiness zone chart is about a half zone warmer than the last one issued in 1990. The USDA says the changes are not due to global warming, but to more sophisticated mapping methods. Seed sellers and buyers say that, whatever the reason, the warmer temperatures expand possibilities for planting this spring.
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SolarCity IPO expected in third quarter: source
Reuters: Solar power company SolarCity is expected to debut on U.S. markets in the third quarter this year and has hired Goldman Sachs to underwrite its initial public offering, a source close to the company said on Thursday. The San Mateo, California-based startup will file its IPO plans with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission "within a few weeks," the source said. The deal is expected to value the company at around $1.5 billion. Spokesmen for both SolarCity and Goldman would not comment....
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Elephants Took 24 Million Generations to Evolve From Mouse-Size
National Geographic: Some mammals need roughly 24 million generations to go from mouse-size to elephant-size, a new study says. Using both fossil and living specimens, scientists calculated growth rates for 28 different mammalian groups during the past 65 million years-and found that, for mammals, getting big takes longer than shrinking. It takes a minimum of 1.6 million generations for mammals to achieve a hundredfold increase in body size, about 5 million generations for a thousandfold increase, and about 10...
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Canada, Alberta set up oil sands monitoring
Reuters: Canada will set up a new environmental monitoring system for the northern Alberta oil sands as it seeks to fend off harsh international criticism following revelations that oversight of the huge petroleum development has been insufficient. The federal and the Alberta provincial governments said on Friday the new plan that will boost water sampling and increase information available to the public. They said they will take three years to implement a joint program that will continuously study...
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Bill would block export of Keystone fuels
Reuters: Democrats unveiled legislation on Friday that would block export of any oil transported by the Keystone XL pipeline, as they challenged claims that the delayed project would boost U.S. energy security. TransCanada's $7 billion Keystone pipeline has become a political lightning rod this election year, with Republicans arguing that the pipeline will provide a critical link to Canada's vast oil sands crude and lessen U.S. dependence on oil from more hostile regimes. But critics of the project...
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Idaho mine understates impact on fish deformities: U.S
Reuters: Selenium contamination from a phosphate mine in southeastern Idaho is linked to fish deformities such as two-headed trout, and the problem would worsen if discharge limits were eased, a new government report found. The findings come as Smoky Canyon Mine, run by the J.R. Simplot Company near the Wyoming border, is asking the Idaho Department of Environmental Quality to relax restrictions on the amount of selenium that the mine may drain into tributaries of the Snake River, a world-class trout stream....
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U.S. to require disclosure of fracking fluids on public
Reuters: The U.S. government will require natural gas drillers to disclose which chemicals they use in hydraulic fracturing on public lands, according to draft rules crafted by the Interior Department. President Barack Obama pledged in the State of the Union address last week that the government would develop a road map for responsible natural gas production and roll out new rules to ensure drillers protect the environment. Companies would be required to disclose the "complete chemical makeup of all...
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House GOP seeks to tie Keystone to highway bill
Reuters: Republican lawmakers hope to move one step closer next week to linking a measure approving the controversial Canada-to-Texas Keystone XL oil pipeline to a highway funding bill. The House of Representatives Energy and Commerce Committee will vote on Tuesday on a bill that would transfer permitting authority over TransCanada's planned pipeline to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission and direct the commission to approve the project within 30 days. "It's time for Congress to take this decision...
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Fair Trade Going Strong Amid Global Crisis
Inter Press Service: With a steady growth in production and exports, fair trade in Argentina is proving that socially and environmentally sustainable practices can be much more than a refuge from external crises. "One of the advantages of fair trade is the stability of the demand, which has remained steady despite the crisis" in developed countries, Javier González, manager of the Norte Grande Agriculture and Apiculture Cooperative, told IPS. This cooperative is located in the northern province of Tucumán and has...
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Island nations want climate change in world court
Associated Press: Small island nations, whose very existence is threatened by the rising sea levels brought about by global warming, are seeking to take the issue of climate change before the International Court of Justice. Johnson Toribiong, president of Palau, said Friday his country and other island nations had formed an expert advisory committee to bring the issue before the U.N. General Assembly. That would allow the world court in the Hague to determine the legal ramifications of climate change under international...
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Is there a future for carbon footprint labelling in the UK?
Ecologist: The media frenzy that erupted as Tesco admitted having second-thoughts on carbon footprint labels may have inflicted lasting damage on a once promising sector Back in 2007, when former CEO Terry Leahy promised to bring in carbon labels for all Tesco products everything seemed rosy. Soon after, the company announced a trial of the Carbon Trust's Carbon Reduction Label, promising a 'revolution in green consumption'. Consumers would be able to know from the label the amount of greenhouse gases used...
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Latest Effect of BP Oil Spill: Waves of Cash for Texas Coast
New York Times: Sand dunes rise above a windy, desolate stretch of beach, miles beyond where most tourists venture. Occasional flocks of brown pelicans are visible, arcing through the sky above the water. “I love watching them fly,” said Sonny Perez, manager of the Laguna Atascosa National Wildlife Refuge, which includes some of the remote northern reaches of South Padre. “They’re like little bombardiers going across.” In the coming years, the 97,000-acre refuge could add more land on the island to its holdings....
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Sierra Club Accepted Millions from Natural Gas Industry, Report Says
Yale Environment 360: The Sierra Club, the largest and oldest environmental group in the U.S., accepted more than $25 million from the natural gas industry from 2007 to 2010 while promoting the fuel as a “bridge” to a clean-energy future, according to a Time magazine report. The organization used the funds -- which largely came from Chesapeake Energy CEO Aubrey McClendon -- to support its Beyond Coal campaign. Carl Pope, executive director of the Sierra Club when the donations were made, was a vocal supporter of natural...
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Prince of Wales hits out at modern buildings as 'energy-guzzling glass boxes'
Telegraph: In a lecture to the country's leading engineers, the Prince of Wales has told them that glass, steel and concrete structures are not sustainably produced. London's skyline is dominated by buildings featuring these materials, including the Gherkin in the City and the Shard in Southwark -- which will become Europe's tallest building when it is completed later this year. Famous for once describing an extension to the National Gallery as a "monstrous carbuncle' and criticising plans for Chelsea...
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Somali regions no longer famine stricken: U.N
Reuters: An exceptional harvest after good rains and food deliveries by aid agencies have ended famine in Somalia for now but food stocks could run out again in May, the United Nations said on Friday. The famine, which was declared in July, killed tens of thousands in south and central Somalia, much of which is controlled by Islamist militants. More than 2.3 million Somalis, almost a third of the population, are still in need of aid. "....famine conditions are no longer present," said a statement from...
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Coal mines shut as Australia evacuates flooded towns
Reuters: Heavy rains shut four coal mines in eastern Australia on Friday as military helicopters evacuated stranded residents from inundated towns, and authorities warned of further flash flooding. More than 11,000 people in Queensland state have been isolated by the flooding and thousands had been evacuated, emergency services authorities said. The town of Moree, the centre of the region's cotton growing, has been cut in half by record floodwaters, while authorities are using helicopters to relocate...
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Republicans step up attacks on Obama's green agenda
Guardian: US Republicans are deploying a $100m election spending machine to savage Barack Obama's green agenda, with Karl Rove's political action committee releasing a new advert attacking the administration for funding a collapsed solar panel company. The latest ad buy this week raises Republican spending on adverts attacking Obama's support for Solyndra to more than $9m (£5.7m), with the election still nine months away. Republicans hope to frame the election in November as a choice between the environment...
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Glaciers now under attack from ice thieves: UN
New Kerela: Criminal gangs are becoming a threat to the world’s glaciers, which are already receding as a result of climate change, the United Nations said on Thursday, citing a case in Chile where police are investigating the theft of some 5,000 kilograms of millennia-old ice from the Jorge Montt glacier. Mining for ice could pose a major additional threat to the 454 square-kilometre glacier, which is situated in Chile’s Bernardo O’Higgins National Park, and is part of the 13,000-square kilometre Southern...
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Indian PM says lack of collective will on climate change
Agence France-Presse: Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said Thursday that "a lack of collective will" was hampering efforts to forge a common global front against the threat of climate change. Addressing the opening of a Sustainable Development Summit in New Delhi, Singh said India was committed to tackling greenhouse gas emissions, but rejected any framework that deprived the country of its right to develop. "It is necessary to recognise that currently there appears to be a lack of collective global will to...
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BUY OR SELL-Is there still a market for U.N. carbon permits?
Reuters: U.N.-backed carbon permits were among the worst performing commodities in 2011 and trading volume fell more than 35 percent in January this year from December as the benchmark contract became very illiquid, renewing concerns about lack of demand. Prices for United Nations carbon credits, called certified emissions reductions (CERs), have sunk by more than 60 percent since January last year. In a poll by Reuters last month, carbon analysts cut price estimates for benchmark CERs in the first half...
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World soy supplier Argentina needs wider rains
Reuters: Farm analysts living in Argentina's capital city went to sleep on Thursday soothed by the welcome sound of rainstorms, but the showers failed to relieve many of the country's drought-hit soy fields. While the streets and wide avenues of Buenos Aires were deluged late Thursday, causing traffic jams and a breakdown in train service, some key soy producing areas remained dry after months of below-average precipitation. Argentina supplies nearly half the world's soymeal, used for animal feed, and...
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NRC sets vote on approving Ga. nuclear plant
Associated Press: Federal safety officials will vote Feb. 9 on whether to approve what could become the nation's first nuclear plant in a generation. The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission has scheduled a hearing on the Atlanta-based Southern Co.'s request to build two new reactors at Plant Vogtle in eastern Georgia. If the commissioners approve the project, NRC staff would next issue the power company a license to construct and operate the facility. Southern Co. officials estimate the project will cost roughly...
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Climate change: India for roping in rich to shoulder burden
Hindu Business Line: The Minister for Environment and Forests, Ms Jayanthi Natarajan, made it clear on Friday that India would put pressure on richer nations to shoulder a larger burden of the climate change responsibility at the Rio meet in June. She said the principle of "equity" for cutting greenhouse gas emissions should be the "bottomline" of negotiations on climate change. She was addressing a session in the ongoing Delhi Sustainable Development Summit. World leaders are meeting in Rio de Janeiro in June for...
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Warming Seas and Corals: A New Conundrum
New York Times: As many readers know, considerable fear surrounds the future of the world`s coral reefs. Catastrophic declines have already occurred in some places, usually as a result of climate change combined with human activity like the dumping of sewage. Australian Institute of Marine ScienceTimothy Cooper, a researcher, examining a Porites coral in the Rowley Shoals in western Australia. Now, however, comes a bit of good news. In research conducted off western Australia, scientists found that coral growth...
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India, EU try to break logjam over airline carbon tax
Reuters: The European Union (EU) is willing to consider whether India's efforts to reduce carbon emissions could qualify for waivers under an EU law that charges airlines for polluting, the 27-nation bloc's climate chief said on Friday. India, along with the United States, China and several other nations, has opposed the European Union Emissions Trading Scheme that stipulates all airlines using EU airports must pay a price for emitting planet-warming gases during a flight. But the law also allows for...
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Once, men abused slaves. Now we abuse fossil fuels
Guardian: In 2005, while teaching history at a French university, I was struck by the general disbelief among students that rational and sensitive human beings could ever hold others in bondage. Slavery was so obviously evil that slave-holders could only have been barbarians. My students could not entertain the idea that some slave-owners could have been genuinely blind to the harm they were doing. At the same time, I was reading a book on climate change which noted how today's machinery – almost exclusively...
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Minus 11 as UK braces for widespread snow
Independent: Britain is lying in wait for widespread snow this weekend after another bitterly cold day in which temperatures in some places struggled to get above freezing. North Dartmoor recorded a temperature of minus 2.6C at midday, while High Wycombe recorded a temperature of minus 0.7C at 3pm this afternoon. Temperatures in the South West, London and East Anglia did not get any higher than 2C or 3C, and forecasters are warning that central and eastern areas of England and Wales should expect 5-10cm...
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India's stand to be crucial for future climate deal
Times of India: France today said India's stand on climate change will be a significant factor to arrive at an agreement in the future and stressed the need to understand specific conditions of countries involved in the issue. "It is very important for us to know exactly what the approach of India is (on the issue of climate change) and to appropriate its point of view," French Ambassador for Climate Change Negotiations Serge Lepeltier said here today. "France thinks that for future climate negotiations, India...
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Equity is bottom line on climate change negotiations: India
Economic Times: In the run up to the Rio+20 Earth Summit, India today said the principle of "equity" for cutting greenhouse gas emissions should be the "bottom line" of negotiations on climate change. "I would like to reiterate one thing. Across cutting themes, the people of India believe that the bottom line whether the global commons, whether the climate change, whether this Rio + 20...at the bottomline it should be equity," Environment Minister Jayanthi Natarajan said. Natarajan's statement came a day after...
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Clear and present dangers not so clear, or present
Climate Central: Let's face it, human beings are not very good at dealing with distant, relatively uncertain threats. Whether we're talking about environmental risks, such as climate change, or systemic economic peril, such as the collapse of mortgage-backed securities that led to the 2008 financial crisis, our brains are hard-wired to focus on dangers that are front and center rather than the hard-to-see hazards that may lurk down the road. As seen with both disaster warnings and climate change threats, our brains...
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Groundhog Day in a year without a winter
Climate Central: The groundhog Punxsutawney Phil may have seen his shadow today, but the prospect of six more weeks of the mild winter of 2011/12 doesn't seem so terrible. In fact, now that we're past the typical coldest period of the year, the days are already getting longer, and the typical average temperatures are warming up day by day across the country. In many areas, this tame winter has been unusual but not unheard of. For example, in the Northeast, the winter has been one of the warmest and least snowy...
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India records world-beating green energy growth
Business Green: India's transformation into a cleantech powerhouse moved up a gear in 2011 when it racked up investments of $10.3bn in the sector, a growth rate of 52 per cent year on year that dwarfed the rest of the world's significant economies. Solar investments led the growth with a seven-fold increase in funding, from $0.6bn in 2010 to $4.2bn in 2011, just below the $4.6bn invested in wind during the year, according to figures released yesterday by analysts Bloomberg New Energy Finance (BNEF). A record...
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Kenyan drought puts traditional weather forecasters on the defensive
AlertNet: Nomadic communities living off the dry terrain of northern Kenya have relied for generations on the powers of village elders to predict the weather. But the divinations of traditional forecasters were confounded by an unexpectedly severe drought in 2011, threatening herders' livelihoods. Now pastoralists and meteorological experts are trying to find better ways to cope with regional weather that is increasingly difficult to anticipate - a situation some believe is linked to climate change. Herders...
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Setting the record straight: Climate change experts respond
Australian Broadcasting Corporation: Do you consult your dentist on your heart condition? In science, as in any area, reputations are based on knowledge and expertise in a field, and on published, peer-reviewed work. If you need surgery, you want a highly experienced expert in the field who has done a large number of the proposed operations. On January 27, the Wall Street Journal published an op-ed on climate change by the climate science equivalent of dentists practicing cardiology. While accomplished in their own fields, most...
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Climate change should remain at the top of the local government agenda
Guardian: Four or five years ago, if you asked a gathering of local government chief executives what were the top three priorities for their councils over the next decade, a majority would have included climate change. Ask the same question today, and you'll get a very different answer. Climate change seems to have fallen off the local government agenda. A recent Local Government Chronicle poll, based on research by Green Alliance, found that 37% of councils are de-prioritising climate change, and 28% are...
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Northern forests may be losing their ability to trap carbon
Physorg: If the situation remains as it is, the forests may actually put more carbon dioxide back into the air than they absorb, the researchers said. While researchers have seen this happen in tropical rainforests, the new result suggests that this problem could be much more widespread. The scientists at the University of Quebec's Montreal campus and from several Chinese institutions, reporting in this week's Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, have been able to put numbers to the fears that...
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Why Barack Obama will have to talk about climate change
Mother Jones: In his State of the Union address on January 24, President Obama largely avoided the topic of climate change. He talked about it once, in passing, as a topic on which "the differences in this chamber may be too deep" to enact new legislation. Its less-controversial cousin, "energy," on the other hand, got a whopping 23 mentions as an area where Republicans and Democrats should be able to find agreement. It became clear well before that address that the president and his administration don't think...
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Drought, warmer weather persist in much of U.S
Reuters: Weird weather kept vexing large swathes of the United States over the last week, with unseasonably warm and dry conditions melting northern snows and spreading drought through the southwest, even as heavy rains soaked parched pastures in Texas and Oklahoma, according to climate experts. Unseasonably warm temperatures were noted in Kansas and across many areas of the central Plains, with Kansas recording temperatures well above 60 degrees Fahrenheit this week. For January, the state-wide average...
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India's panel price crash could spark solar revolution
New Scientist: SOLAR power has always had a reputation for being expensive, but not for much longer. In India, electricity from solar is now cheaper than that from diesel generators. The news - which will boost India's "Solar Mission" to install 20,000 megawatts of solar power by 2022 - could have implications for other developing nations too. Recent figures from market analysts Bloomberg New Energy Finance (BNEF) show that the price of solar panels fell by almost 50 per cent in 2011. They are now just one-quarter...
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Storm over climate change among weather forecasters
Reuters: You don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows. But weather forecasters, many of whom see climate change as a natural, cyclical phenomenon, are split over whether they have a responsibility to educate their viewers on the link between human activity and the change in the Earth's climates. Only 19 percent of U.S. meteorologists saw human influences as the sole driver of climate change in a 2011 survey. And some, like the Weather Channel's founder John Coleman are vocal in their...
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Water Shortage Threatens Wildlife
Inter Press Service: The story of a pair of buffalo aggressively prowling the edges of a village in eastern Burkina Faso is a warning sign of severe water stress in the region which threatens humans and wild animals alike. People in nearly half of Burkina Faso's administrative districts could face food shortages this year, and the the country's environment ministry has also warned of disastrous consequences for wildlife. Water shortages are likely to cause increased conflict between people and animals, as is already...
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Thirty degrees below – and at least a hundred dead: Europe's big freeze
Independent: With record snowfalls, icy winds, and thousands of people trapped in remote villages, much of Central and Eastern Europe is in the grip of a cold snap that has caused more than 100 deaths. Temperatures in parts of Ukraine and other Eastern European countries are hovering around -30C (-22F). The Adriatic islands of Croatia have had a rare dusting of snow, while in Romania, parts of the Black Sea have frozen over. Several towns in Bulgaria have recorded their lowest temperatures since records began...
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Analysis: Canada plan to sell oil to China faces big hurdles
Reuters: Prime Minister Stephen Harper may still be smarting from Canada's failed bid to ramp up oil exports to the United States, but his plan B could prove to be even tougher. Harper heads across the Pacific next week in a bid to convince China to satisfy its growing energy appetite with Canada's vast oil reserves. Though it appears a classic supply-demand match on the surface, the plan faces hurdles that range from how long it will take to build the pipeline to environmental dangers and questions...
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Canada, Alberta to announce new oil sands monitoring
Reuters: The governments of Canada and Alberta will announce details of a new environmental-monitoring regime in the province's oil sands on Friday, as they look shore up an industry whose growth plans are under attack from environmental groups. Mark Cooper, a spokesman for Alberta Environment Minister Diana McQueen, said on Thursday that the two governments would make an announcement in Edmonton, Alberta, on the new monitoring plan. He did not offer details. Separate panels commissioned by the two...
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Extreme Cold Proves Deadly in Europe
Climate Central: While much of the U.S. has had a mild winter this year, record cold and snow are being blamed for dozens of deaths in Europe. According to the Associated Press, snow has fallen as far south as the Adriatic Sea, and the Black Sea has frozen along the Romanian coast. In Ukraine, temperatures dipped to the -20s°F, killing more than 40 people, many of them homeless, and hospitalizing hundreds more with hypothermia. A southerly plunge in the jet stream is allowing Arctic air to flow into Europe and...
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Key Senate Republican says drilling bill faces hurdles
Reuters: The top Republican on the Senate energy committee on Thursday acknowledged passing legislation to boost domestic energy production will be a tough task this year, even as Republicans maneuver to keep the focus on energy issues ahead of the November elections. Senator Lisa Murkowski, however, said she was hopeful that Congress would make some progress on opening up the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, or ANWR, to drilling this year. "When you have a resource as considerable as we have with the...
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Giant Crack in Antarctica About to Spawn New York-Size Iceberg
National Geographic: That's because the "Luxembourg" iceberg came from a glacial ice tongue that had just been "sitting there," said oceanographer Doug Martinson of Columbia University's Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory. By contrast, "West Antarctica has ice streams, of which Pine Island is one. Those are fast-flowing streams of ice," said Martinson, who specializes in polar oceans. When ice breaks off the Pine Island Glacier, he said, more ice can flow in faster from the mountains above-ice that will eventually...
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Bird numbers plummet around stricken Fukushima plant
Independent: Researchers working around Japan's disabled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant say bird populations there have begun to dwindle, in what may be a chilling harbinger of the impact of radioactive fallout on local life. In the first major study of the impact of the world's worst nuclear crisis in 25 years, the researchers, from Japan, the US and Denmark, said their analysis of 14 species of bird common to Fukushima and Chernobyl, the Ukrainian city which suffered a similar nuclear meltdown, showed the...
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Europe is too emotional about fracking, says Shell chief
Press Association: Shell's chief executive, Peter Voser, called on Europe for a less "emotional" response to fracking, as he outlined plans to accelerate the oil giant's use of the controversial technology used to release hydrocarbons from rocks. Mr Voser said Shell would invest $6bn (£3.8bn) to appraise, explore and develop gas and oil reserves contained in rocks this year, as it looked to significantly expand the volume of hydrocarbons it produces. About $3bn of the total will be invested developing sites in...
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Wall Street Journal attacked over climate change denial
The Week UK: A GROUP of leading climate scientists has slapped down The Wall Street Journal for publishing an article which claimed that (a) global warming is used by governments to raise taxes and (b) climate change sceptics are like the Soviet scientists who were persecuted in the 1950s for believing in genetics. In a letter published by the Murdoch-owned newspaper yesterday, the climatologists said the 16 scientists who put their names to the climate-sceptic piece are "the climate-science equivalent of...
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For Republicans, Keystone pipeline is central to agenda
New York Times: Just six months ago, Keystone for many Americans was the state nickname for Pennsylvania. But now Keystone, the Canadian pipeline, has become a centerpiece of the Republican economic and political agenda, and the party’s preferred truncheon against President Obama. On the airwaves, on the campaign trail and in both chambers of Congress, Republicans are relentlessly pushing for an expansion of the pipeline known as Keystone XL and criticizing Mr. Obama’s decision to reject the project for now, forgoing...
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The coming U.S.-China solar war
Time Magazine: It's been a schizophrenic time for the U.S. solar industry. On the one hand, about $11 billion worth of solar power is set to be installed in 2012, with more than five times that figure in the investment pipeline. Demand for solar power rose eightfold between 2006 and 2011 -- from 200 MW to 1,600 MW. Nationally, the solar industry employs some 100,000 Americans, a number that rose by nearly 7% last year -- even as overall employment barely grew at all. Despite those rosy numbers, many U.S. solar...
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Japan: Researchers produce device to create biofuel from contaminated lumber
Mainichi Daily News: A device that can decontaminate radioactive lumber and efficiently create bioethanol from it has been developed by researchers at Tokyo University of Agriculture. Masaru Ichikawa, a visiting professor at the university who was involved in the development of the machine, touted its usefulness as irradiated lumber and sludge from Fukushima Prefecture continue to accumulate. "It can kill two birds with one stone and make a positive out of this momentous disaster. I hope it contributes to revival...
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Germany, China take lead in environmental policies
China Daily: Strong economic ties drive the Sino-German bilateral partnership. Energy, environment and climate change issues remain at the heart of economic relations. In a joint communiqu by Chancellor Angela Merkel and Premier Wen Jiabao in 2010 as well as during the first Sino-German Government Consultations in June 2011, energy, environment and climate issues were identified as a priority for future cooperation. Both countries implemented structural changes towards a greener economy, although under...
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United Kingdom: Renewables must benefit coastal communities says Aldous
BBC: Energy Minister Charles Hendry has said the eastern region is well placed to take advantage of the growing demand for new and off-shore energy. "In nuclear, carbon capture and storage and renewable energy, East Anglia has an extremely important role to play," stated Mr Hendry. "The skills base and the expertise which is already there is very encouraging and the ambitions of the companies involved gives us much to celebrate." He was speaking during a Westminster Hall debate called by Waveney...
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Romney takes Fla. with variety of weapons, including a climate attack
ClimateWire: Mitt Romney's crushing victory in Florida spoiled Newt Gingrich's southern momentum with a barrage of personal attacks, including one about the former speaker's views on climate change that the son of Ronald Reagan said gives conservatives "cardiac arrest." The strong finish by the former Massachusetts governor, who gained 46.4 percent of the vote to Gingrich's 31.9 percent, rode a wave of aggressive jabs criticizing Gingrich's ethics as speaker, his connections to Freddie Mac and his conviction...
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Australia: Tropical cyclones to cause $109B in damages by 2100
CBC: Tropical cyclones will cause $109 billion in damages worldwide by 2100 with the United States and China being hardest hit, says a new study. The figure includes population and economic growth costs ($56 billion) as well as the effects of climate change ($53 billion). All figures are in U.S. dollars. The estimates are based on a future global population of nine billion and an annual increase of approximately three per cent in gross world product until 2100, according to the study published on...
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Mysteries of Killer Whales Uncovered in the Antarctic
Yale Environment 360: On the afternoon of January 10, at the tip of the Antarctic Peninsula, whale researchers Robert L. Pitman and John W. Durban stood on the bridge of a cruise ship, peering through binoculars for signs of killer whales. The Weddell Sea, where English explorer Ernest Shackleton and his men were locked in the sea ice nearly a century ago, was calm and studded with icebergs. It was raining, an increasingly common occurrence in summer in this rapidly warming part of Antarctica. Around 3 p.m., Pitman...
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Middle East trails again in green energy growth
Reuters: Talk of a Middle Eastern green energy boom is likely to prove no more than a mirage with little hope of the region saving clean technology companies from the shrinking project pools of Europe. Instead India, China and Latin America offer some hope for green energy companies struggling in a European market drowning in debt and a North American market awash with gas. "We expect some growth will happen here in the Middle East but it will take time for this to become a robust industry," Juan Araluce...
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'Oceans play important role in climate change'
Times of India: "Oceans and climate are linked to each other. Far from the static, Atlantic Ocean contributes a lot to climate change," shared Prof A D Singh, department of geology, Banaras Hindu University (BHU). He has returned recently from an ocean expedition to Atlantic Ocean. Singh, who was invited by the Unites States Implementing Organisation (USIO) through the Ministry of Earth Sciences India (IODP-India) to participate as one of the shipboard scientists in the International Ocean Drilling Programme...
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EU Biofuels Targets to Cost Consumers $166 Billion, Study Says
Bloomberg: European Union policies to promote the use of biofuels for transportation will cost consumers as much as 126 billion euros ($166 billion) between now and 2020, two environmental groups said. The fuels, gasoline substitutes derived from plants, probably won't cut greenhouse gases because forests are chopped down to make way for biofuel plantations, Friends of the Earth and ActionAid said today in an e-mailed statement. The European Commission said that while biofuels cost more than fossil fuels,...
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EU climate chief calls for 'much care' on biofuels
EurActiv: The European Union's climate commissioner, Connie Hedegaard, has warned about expanding the use of biofuels as the EU executive finalises an assessment of the potentially damaging effects they may have over the earth's climate. She spoke to EurActiv as part of a wide-ranging exclusive interview on sustainability issues. A draft Commission impact assessment, obtained by EurActiv last week, indicates that the greenhouse gas emissions from biofuels such as palm oil, soybean and rapeseed may exceed...
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Australia braces for floods, threat to coal and crops
Reuters: Heavy summer rains across eastern Australia prompted authorities to issue flood warnings for vast areas of Queensland and New South Wales states on Thursday, including coal mining areas in the Hunter Valley. The Bureau of Meteorology issued the flood warnings with heavy rain expected over the next 24 hours, following saturating rains over the past week which have already swelled rivers in New South Wales and Queensland. Floods and wild weather last year inundated coal mines and damaged crops....
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Indonesia to set up $5.6 billion plantation firm
Reuters: Indonesia's government plans to create one of the world's largest palm oil and rubber firms in March by combining state planters with total assets of $5.6 billion, a government minister told Reuters on Thursday. A planned listing of the firm will tap investor interest in a country with a recently acquired "investment grade" rating and create a rival to top regional planters such as Malaysia's Sime Darby and Singapore's Wilmar. The government will consolidate the assets of 15 state firms, whose...
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Climate change precipitates food shortages, unrest
Zee News: Long-term climate change has often destabilized civilizations through food shortages, hunger, infectious disease and unrest, a study reveals. Historical records foreshadow a grim picture for a future threatened by even greater climate change, says the study by the Australian National University (ANU). Tony McMichael, professor at the ANU National Centre for Epidemiology and population Health, examined climate change and its impact over the last 6,000 to 7,000 years, as documented in historical,...
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United Kingdom: Caroline Spelman refuses to deny plans to slash environmental regulations
Guardian: The environment secretary, Caroline Spelman, has refused to deny that the Cabinet Office is proposing to rip up of thousands of pages of environmental regulations and guidance as part of the government's "red tape challenge". The proposal, revealed by the Guardian, is understood to be led by Oliver Letwin and is causing deep concern among green MPs and campaigners. It follows the cutting of planning regulation guidance from 1,000 pages to just 50 pages, which sparked a national outcry last year....
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China's disregard for the environment shows no sign of improving
Telegraph: China continues to struggle to balance the demands of growing its economy and lifting more of its 1.3 billion-plus people out of poverty, with the need to protect what is left of its environment. Decades of loosely-regulated industrialisation has rendered vast swathes of China's land and waterways toxic. One-third of the Yellow River is not only incapable of supporting marine life but is so deadly it can't be used even for industrial purposes. The pollution that belches from coal-fired power plants...
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Israel: Climate Change and Forest Fires Conference
Jerusalem Post: On Thursday, January 26, scientists and foresters participating in the Climate Change and Forest Fires Conference organized by KKL-JNF, in cooperation with the Ministry of Environmental Protection, visited the Carmel Forest. KKL-JNF Chief Forester David Brand welcomed the participants, many who came from around the world, and provided professional background information during the tour. The group was greeted at a site overlooking Nahal Bustan by KKL-JNF Northern Region Director Dr. Omri Boneh,...
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Human Activity, Not Solar Activity, Drives Global Warming
redOrbit: A new NASA study underscores the fact that greenhouse gases generated by human activity - not changes in solar activity - are the primary force driving global warming. The study offers an updated calculation of the Earth`s energy imbalance, the difference between the amount of solar energy absorbed by Earth`s surface and the amount returned to space as heat. The researchers` calculations show that, despite unusually low solar activity between 2005 and 2010, the planet continued to absorb more...
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United Kingdom: Ministers accused of 'negligence' for ruling out third Heathrow runway
Guardian: A commission of influential London business leaders has denounced the coalition as "negligent" for ruling out a third runway at Heathrow, and called on them to reconsider all the options for greater airport capacity in the south-east. London First, a lobbying group representing many of the capital's biggest employers in the City and beyond, has launched a report describing an expanded at Heathrow as the "only credible option" for the capital. It accuses the government of being unwilling to consider...
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Falling solar prices good for climate, bad for firms
Reuters: There is a bright side to the plunge in solar panel prices that has brought down some U.S. and German manufacturers which relied too heavily on subsidies for green energy - solar power costs have fallen faster than anyone thought possible. The falls in prices for photovoltaic components, pushed down by economies of scale and fierce competition from China, have made solar nearly as cheap as conventional sources in Germany's electricity grid. The boom in Germany, the world's biggest photovoltaic...
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California Nuclear plant shuts down reactor as precaution
Reuters: One of two reactors at the San Onofre nuclear power station in Southern California was shut down on Tuesday after a small leak was detected in a steam generator tube, but the incident posed no risk to the public or plant workers, the facility operator said. The reactor unit, which normally provides 1,100 megawatts of electricity, was shut down at about 5:30 p.m. local time as a precaution and will remain off line for a least a couple of days, said Gil Alexander, a spokesman for Southern California...
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REDD: When carbon credits work in the Amazon
GlobalPost: Sitting on the porch of his ramshackle wooden hut, shaded from the Amazonian sun by the thick rainforest canopy, Brazil nut collector Eleuterio Martin admits he has never heard of global warming. Yet Martin, 73, is now set to play his part in a groundbreaking new project that could become one of the most effective ways to curb rising global greenhouse gas emissions. He is one of hundreds of local people here in the Madre de Dios region of Peru, near the Bolivian border, who have teamed up with...
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REDD: Saving the Amazon rainforest
GlobalPost: International negotiators are closing in on a new solution for combating climate change -- and saving the world's remaining forests. Some 20 percent of all greenhouse-gas emissions now come from deforestation, especially in the lush, green band of tropical rainforest that circles the earth. That is more than from global transport. So representatives from member states involved in UN climate negotiations are attempting to hammer out a way to make it more profitable to protect forests than...
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Ministers 'misled MPs over need for nuclear power stations'
Guardian: Ministers misled parliament over the need to build a new fleet of nuclear power stations, distorting evidence and presenting to MPs a false summary of the analysis they had commissioned, a group of MPs and experts alleged in a report published on Tuesday (PDF). If MPs had been presented with an accurate picture of the evidence for and against new reactors, the government's plans might have been challenged, according to the report. Both the previous Labour government and the current coalition overstated...
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Multinationals getting better at cutting emissions — report
Business Day: INCREASING numbers of multinational companies had reduced their carbon emissions in recent years and were beginning to look at their supply chains for further reductions, according to a report published this morning by the global climate change reporting system known as the Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP) and the global management consultancy Accenture. There was a marked rise in the number of companies with climate change strategies that incorporated procurement guidelines, and more than a third...
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Argentina tries to combat a drier future
AlertNet: For almost two months, an intense drought has been damaging crops in Argentina, especially corn and soy, threatening the economic and food security of a country where agriculture and livestock account for approximately 10 percent of GDP. German Cuadrada rents 220 hectares (540 acres) of land in Pozo del Molle, Cordoba province, where he grows maize and soybeans. Since December he has lost his entire maize crop and part of his soybeans. "If we don't receive a 100-150 mm (4-6 inches) rainfall...
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No big Fukushima health impact seen: U.N. body chairman
Reuters: The health impact of last year's Fukushima nuclear disaster in Japan appears relatively small thanks partly to prompt evacuations, the chairman of a U.N. scientific body investigating the effects of radiation said on Tuesday. The fact that some radioactive releases spread over the ocean instead of populated areas also contributed to limiting the consequences, said Wolfgang Weiss of the U.N. Scientific Committee on the effects of Atomic Radiation (UNSCEAR). "As far as the doses we have seen...
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Canada: Climate change shrinking forests in 3 prairie provinces
Canadian Press: Research shows northern forests in Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba are drying up and shrinking from drought caused by climate change, while the eastern boreal forest is holding its own. A paper published Monday suggests the forests in those provinces are already emitting more greenhouse gases than they absorb. The finding could overturn assumptions that global warming would improve growing conditions for trees in the North. "We found the boreal east and the boreal west is a totally different...
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Drought May Cause Shutdown of Texas Rice Production
Climate Central: Although recent rains have put a dent in the Texas drought, a day of reckoning looms for the state's long-grain rice growers, who pump millions into the economy in Southeast Texas each year and account for about 5 percent of America's rice production. Come March 1, if there is less than 850,000 acre-feet of water in reservoirs along the Lower Colorado River, water managers will be forced to take the unprecedented step of withholding water from agricultural users, which will mean severe cuts to Texas...
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Reclaimed Wastewater for Drinking: Safe But Still A Tough Sell
National Geographic: This story is part of a special National Geographic News series on global water issues. Water filtration technology has advanced to the point where wastewater can be rendered safe for drinking, according to a new report, but legislative and psychological hurdles will need to be overcome before widespread adoption can happen. "Expanding water reuse could significantly increase the nation's water resource, particularly in coastal communities," said Rhodes Trussell, president of Trussell Technologies...
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In the Little Ice Age, Lessons for Today
New York Times: Gifford Miller, a professor at the University of Colorado at Boulder, collecting plant samples from beneath the ice on Baffin Island. In the winter of 1780, New Yorkers could walk the five miles from Manhattan to Staten Island on ice as thick as eight feet. This is just one example of what happened during the Little Ice Age, a sudden cooling of global temperatures by one degree Celsius (1.8 degrees Fahrenheit) that began toward the end of the 13th century and lasted well into the 19th century....
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Record Warmth in Eastern U.S.; Temps Tumble in Alaska
Climate Central: While Alaska continues to to suffer from record cold and snow, much of the rest of the country continues to experience a year without winter. This week, it's likely that warm temperature records will be broken throughout the eastern U.S., with forecast highs in New York City approaching 60°F on Tuesday and Wednesday, and reaching the mid-60s in Washington, D.C. According to the National Weather Service (NWS), record highs may also be set today in Islip, N.Y., and Bridgeport, CT. Satellite image...
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Sustainable energy is answer to wider crisis: EU's Hedegaard
Reuters: Energy efficiency offers one of the best tools for tackling the world's debt and social crises as sustainable development comes in from the margins to the mainstream of economic debate, the European Union's climate chief said on Tuesday. EU Climate Commissioner Connie Hedegaard was speaking after Monday's summit of EU leaders sought ways to create jobs as well as to deal with massive amounts of debt. At the same time, data showed euro zone unemployment had reached the highest level since before...
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Poland eyes changes to renewable support plan
Reuters: Coal-reliant Poland aims to increase support for biogas and solar generation through the end of the decade while cutting support for investment in wind and other renewable generation, a government official said on Tuesday. Deputy Economy Minister Mieczyslaw Kasprzak said a new draft bill calls for Poland to increase the share of renewables in Poland's energy mix to 15.5 percent by 2020, up from less than 10 percent in 2010. "Our goal is to simplify, optimize and improve the support mechanism...
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Tropical Forests Store More Carbon Than Previously Believed, Study Says
Yale Environment 360: Woods Hole Research Center Biomass in the Democratic Republic of the Congo data -- including cloud-penetrating LiDAR -- and field observations from forests, woodlands and savannas across Africa, Asia, and South America, researchers say they were able to create the first “wall-to-wall” map depicting carbon density. According to their results, Brazilian rainforests store about 53.2 billion tons of carbon, followed by the Democratic Republic of the Congo (22 billion) and Indonesia (18.6). “For the first...
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'Unusual Event' at Illinois Nuclear Reactor Causes Shutdown
Yahoo!: A nuclear power plant about 95 miles to the northwest of Chicago lost power Monday morning and shut down in an "unusual event," according to WIFR. The Byron Generating Station operated by Exelon Nuclear had a power loss at 10:18 a.m., causing a unit to shut down and generators to provide power as Byron Station began to vent steam to reduce pressure. * Steam venting at Byron Station is designed to reduce pressure in the event of a power loss and the steam contains low levels of the radioactive...
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What the Occupy movement must learn from Sundance
Guardian: So, late last year, I said – to some controversy here – that the violent crackdown against the Occupy movement in the United States represented the first salvos of a civil war initiated by political and allied economic elites against protesters in a nascent movement whose still-not-fully articulated agenda would represent a threat to their unmediated and untransparent hold on profits. And a civil war it has indeed turned out to be. Over the weekend, 2,000 citizens marched in support of Occupy...
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