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4/7/2009
Food Inc., a documentary film about the modern agricultural industry, is a hit with big-city movie reviewers, small organic farmers and vegetarians. The movie argues that large-scale agriculture produces inexpensive meat and vegetables, but ...
3/7/2009
Barack Obama will move to seal a deal with Russia for joint action on climate change during his summit in Moscow next week, the Guardian has learned.
Obama arrives in Moscow on Monday at the start of a trip to Russia, Italy and Ghana ...
3/7/2009
Twenty-two environmental campaigners have been found guilty of obstructing a train carrying coal to Drax Power Station in North Yorkshire.
Protesters boarded the train carrying coal into the station in June 2008 after it stopped for two ...
3/7/2009
THOUGH half of Ecuador lies in the Amazon basin, its rainforest is shrinking faster than in neighbouring countries (by 1.67% a year). It has been ravaged by logging, poachers and oil extraction. Settlers have streamed in to carve out a precarious ...
3/7/2009
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Climate change protesters who hijacked a power station coal train in a highly organised operation have been convicted by a jury in a unanimous verdict which came after less than two hours.
The 22 men and ...
3/7/2009
The U.S., European Union and 12 of the world's largest nations plan to embrace "an aspirational goal" of reducing emissions of global-warming gases by 50% by 2050, according to a draft declaration by world leaders set for release next week in ...
3/7/2009
The early hours of the morning in the Pantanal can be an almost deafening experience, as this beautiful wetland area wakes up to a symphony of natural sounds.There are said to be more species of birds here than in the whole of Europe, ...
3/7/2009
Officials from a 17-member body which account for the lions share of the world's carbon emissions will hold urgent talks next Tuesday to iron out differences on the eve of a July 8-10 summit of the G8.
Group of Eight diplomats and ...
3/7/2009
Groups on both sides of the spectrum have begun hitting the airwaves with new advertisements on climate-change legislation, underscoring the political ramifications going forward of the House`s razor-thin passage of the major climate and energy ...
3/7/2009
The European Union is likely to achieve its target of generating 10 percent of transport fuels from renewable sources by 2020 by blending biofuels with fossil fuels, a leading EU researcher said.
Most blending is likely to use ...
3/7/2009
The British public could invest their savings in the UK's renewable energy revolution and reap the financial rewards of helping to save the planet, under ambitious plans to be discussed this weekend.
The Public Interest Research Centre, ...
3/7/2009
Fleeting sightings of the world's rarest antelope, the hirola, in a new safe haven are cases of mistaken identity, a survey has found.
That has dashed hopes that some of the last hirola have managed to colonise a new territory where they ...
3/7/2009
Reporting in Nature Geoscience, two coastal scientists write that rising sea levels, combined with slow Mississippi Delta growth, could drown the Louisiana coast by 2100. Delta expert Ivor van Heerden, who is not involved with the research, ...
3/7/2009
After a week of discussions on the huge problems facing the tuna industry, countries attending the second joint meeting of tuna Regional Fisheries Management Organisations (RFMOs) in Spain have failed once again to take any action to solve the ...
3/7/2009
China is considering new air quality regulations as it looks to build on its success clearing Beijing's skies during the Olympics, environmental officials from the capital said on Friday.
Beijing's claim to have guaranteed safe air to ...
3/7/2009
INEFFICIENT hot water systems will be phased out and all appliances will be properly labelled under new national energy efficiency standards as part of a 10-year energy efficiency plan adopted by the Council of Australian Governments ...
3/7/2009
A New Zealand scientist warned on Thursday of rising sea levels due to Antarctic ice melt.
A New Zealand scientist warned on Thursday of rising sea
levels due to Antarctic ice melt.?(File photo)
Tim Naish said new ...
3/7/2009
China is set to raise its target for installed solar capacity to 2GW by 2011, a fifteen-fold increase on the 140MW goal it set only last year.
The state-run China Daily newspaper reported today that the National Energy Administration, ...
3/7/2009
Efforts by the world's leading cement companies knocked down carbon dioxide emissions from the industry's manufacturing process by 35 per cent even while production climbed by 53 per cent, according to the World Business Council for Sustainable ...
3/7/2009
As the United States takes its first steps toward mandating that power companies generate more electricity from renewable sources, China already has a similar requirement and is investing billions to remake itself into a green energy ...
3/7/2009
The Liberal Party, Canada's main opposition group, warned the government Thursday against blocking an international deal to combat climate change, due to be negotiated in Copenhagen this December.
Liberal Party leader Michael Ignatieff ...
3/7/2009
El Niño years typically result in fewer hurricanes forming in the Atlantic Ocean. But a new study suggests that the form of El Niño may be changing potentially causing not only a greater number of hurricanes than in average years, but also a ...
3/7/2009
The forests of the Pacific Northwest hold significant potential to increase carbon storage and help mitigate greenhouse gas emissions in coming years, a recent study concludes, if they are managed primarily for that purpose through timber harvest ...
3/7/2009
India's foreign minister on Friday called for an ambitious but fair greenhouse gas reduction target under a new climate treaty, saying any pact should not hinder the economic growth of developing countries.
"We agreed that climate change ...
3/7/2009
The US Congress has stepped on to uncertain ground over land-based carbon offsets in its landmark cap-and-trade bill, passed in the House of Representatives last week. Hasty eleventh-hour negotiations saw its proponents embrace temporary carbon ...