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Deadly dozen spread by climate change

12/08/2008

The Wildlife Conservation Society has reported that climate change will hasten the spread of a range of diseases it calls the 'deadly dozen' which includes avian flu and yellow fever.
The US-based society works in 60 countries and called for im...

Architects agree incentives needed

12/08/2008

The Australian Institute of Architects are supporting calls for incentives for local and commercial buildings to slash carbon emissions beyond what the the federal government's projected carbon trading scheme can achieve. This would then significantly...

Businesses can be part of solution

12/08/2008

An innovative project by the David Hume Institute at Edinburg University has found from three business contributions that those in the business world think they can provide solutions to the environmental movement.

Participants were aske...

Squirrel population drops 12

12/08/2008

Endangered Mount Graham red squirrels in the Southern Arizona peak have declined about 12% say Arizona Game and Fish Department.

The officials have found 263 of the tiny squirrels, 299 were found the previous year. Placed on the endang...

Private sector lead say Exelon VP

12/08/2008

Ruth Ann Gillis, Executive vice president of Exelon has called on American corporations to lead in reducing carbon emissions instead of waiting for the government to pass legislation on climate change.

Speaking at the Corporate Climate Response...

Eliasch Review presented

12/08/2008

The Eliasch Review was presented to the Prime Minister as a way of using free market economics to slow climate change.

It suggested a 'forest emissions trading system', where credits are given to rainforest nations for limiting CO2 throug...

Pipeline unnecessary says expert

12/08/2008

Climate change expert and Australian of the Year Professor Tim Flannery has criticized the planned $750 million pipeline, insisting there is no justification to build the pipeline to bring water to Melbourne.

Construction has started on the...

Arab states must adapt

12/08/2008

Global warming experts in Beirut have warned Arab states to find a way to address climate change or face "catastrophic" consequences.

Delegates were at a workshop to prepare Arab countries to engage in negotiations on the International Cl...

Gas industry at risk

12/08/2008

The gas industry in Australia is at risk of diminishing by more than 25% by 2020 unless it is protected from the proposed emissions trading scheme, insist analysts.

The industry, worth $15 billion, has used new analysis to reinforce its...

Regime shift in N Atlantic

12/08/2008

Cornell University researchers have claimed that warming in the Artic is the worst in the last 5 centuries and has triggered a 'regime shift' in North Atlantic ecosystems.

The scientists studied fresh water from melting ice in the Canadian...

Australias alps listed

12/08/2008

Australia has taken the unusual step of placing its Alps, home to some native flora and fauna species, on its national heritage register in a quest to protect it.

The Alps ranges 1.5 million hectares and includes 11 nat...

Samoa hosts facility

12/08/2008

Samoa is set to host the first climate change training facility in the Pacific.

Faumuina Tiatia Liuga, the country's Environment Minister made the announcement at the Pacific Climate Change Roundtable in Apia, Samoa's capital.

Indias Sibal wants local action

12/08/2008

India's Union Minister for Science and Technology Kapil Sibal has asked for local solutions to climate change, saying that while there should be international cooperation to address the problem, there is no single global strategy for it.

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Emissions can destroy marine life

12/08/2008

Scientists from the University of New South Wales postulate that carbon emissions will destroy Southern Ocean marine life in as little as two decades.

Human-created carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is usually absorbed by the oceans, maki...

US Govs to host international climate meet

12/08/2008

Arnold Schwarzenegger, California's Governor has announced that American governors will co-host an international climate meet on November 18 - 19.

The Governors' Global Climate Summit will be held in Los Angeles to discuss collaborative a...

China asks for green tech transfer

12/08/2008

China's Premier Wen Jiabao has asked industrialized nations to transfer emissions curbing technology to the populous nation and other developing nations as well as to change unsustainable lifestyles.

He said that global community should s...

Rock absorbs carbon emissions

12/08/2008

Scientists have found that a rock particularly common in Oman has the ability to soak up carbon dioxide to slow global warming.

Carbon dioxide that comes in contact with peridotite is converted into solid minerals like calcite, say the s...

Climate change will cost California

12/08/2008

A new report has found that California may have to pay as much as $23 billion annually if global warming is not addressed enough.

The University of California Berkeley researchers attempted to project the long term economic damage the phen...

UNEP warn of brown clouds

12/08/2008

The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) has warned that a 3km-thick layer of sooty air pollution over parts of the globe is darkening cities, melting glaciers and bringing about more extreme weather patterns.

The atmospheric brown c...

Soil study finds climate change not as severe

12/08/2008

A new international study has found that climate change may not be as severe as predicted.

Researchers in the study published in the Nature Geoscience journal have even said current modelling of carbon dioxide emissions from soils may even be o...

US Energy Dept climate tests to stop

12/08/2008

The US Department of Energy has been conducting experiments for more than a decade on a small group of trees by injecting elevated levels of carbon dioxide to test how they will respond to climate change.

The million-dollar Free Air CO...

VCS for forestry trading

12/08/2008

A new carbon trading standard is set to link forest management and agricultural projects to a market to address climate change.

The Voluntary Carbon Standard (VCS) allows projects like those that result in lower deforestation rates to obta...

Jordan curbs deforestation

12/08/2008

The Kingdom of Jordan is in the midst of tightening up controls over logging in its fast-disappearing forests.

The northern governorates such as in the Ajloun and Jerash have announced procedures aimed at curbing illegal logging.
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Endangered trees in Sydney

12/08/2008

Plans to build up houses for half a million people in two western Sydney areas threatens the already endangered Cumberland Plain Woodlands, say environmentalists in Australia.

The woodlands, which once sprawled over more than 30% of the ...

Greater buffers between fish and pesticides needed

12/08/2008

Federal biologists have ruled that orchards who use three salmon-harming pesticides will have to expand their buffer zones so that the chemicals do not contaminate streams.

NOAA Fisheries Service issued findings that chemicals malathion, ...

UNs highest climate official hails Obama promises

12/08/2008

US President-elect Barack Obama has committed to establish annual targets to reduce US carbon emissions to 1990 levels by 2020 and strive to cut them a further 80% by 2050.

Yvo de Boer, United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Chan...

Governors Global Climate Summit ends with declaration

12/08/2008

Participants from six countries including the California's Arnold Schwarzenegger have signed a declaration at the Global Climate Summit that acknowledges the threat of climate change to the economy and nature.

The declaration seeks for sta...

Russia bestows 500000 to APEC climate fund

12/08/2008

Russia has agreed to bestow $500,000 to a climate change and disaster fund in the Asia Pacific.

Sergei Lavrov, Russia's Foreign Minister said the donation was an "initial contribution" to the Support Fund of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC).

Food supply threatened

12/08/2008

A new report from the Pacific Economic Cooperation Council (PECC) has found that food production in the developing economies of the Asia Pacific region is most threatened by climate change.

The report was released at the APEC Leaders w...

More povertystricken Vietnamese with climate change

12/08/2008

An Oxford Committee for Famine Relief (Oxfam) report has found that Vietnam is among the top ten countries at risk of poverty due to climate change.

The report was timed to be released ten days prior to the UNFCCC summit in Poznan, Poland f...

APEC emphasizes international cooperation

12/08/2008

APEC leaders have emphasized the importance of international cooperation to address climate change.

A declaration at the end of the Lima Economic Leaders' Meeting of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) forum said, "We reaffirmed ou...

Indonesia to implement Bali Climate Change Recommendation

12/08/2008

Indonesia plans to take action on the United Nation's Bali Climate Change Recommendation next year.

"The program will start next year, and involve three Indonesian ministries, namely the forestry ministry, agriculture ministry and public wor...

Africa wants collective climate focus

12/08/2008

African representatives at a climate change conference in Algiers have agreed that their institutions need to develop a collaborative capactity for discussing and drafting projects to counteract global warming effects.

The 'Algiers Dec...

Closer to atrisk species model

12/08/2008

Researchers think they will soon have a model that will be able to predict which species are most vulnerable to climate change.

Townsville's The Centre for Tropical Biodiversity and Climate Change at James Cook University has been collab...

California embraces electric cars

12/07/2008

California will soon be the state of electric cars as mayors of San Francisco, Oakland, and San Jose announced a public-private partnership to unfold a $1 billion groundbreaking network of charging outlets.

Palo-Alto based Better Place...

NZ to review climate change science

12/07/2008

Prime Minister John Key has pledged to reassess the country's emissions trading and possibly review the science behind global warming, sparking outrage from environmental groups and supporters.

"I'm quite confident the select committee...

US prepares to act

12/07/2008

The US, the largest greenhouse gas emitter in the world, may soon be picking up the challenge of address climate change.

Senator John Kerry, en route to international climate change talks in Poland said, "It's a very exciting time. It's...

Greenpeace FOE the Environmental Fraud Palm Oil Bashing

12/07/2008

Environmental fraud is big business. The natural level of discomfort that results from the thought of global warming is reinforced by numerous reports claiming inevitable environmental doom. A recent article in the Nature Magazine went as far as predicting...

Save poor nations say Bangladeshi ralliers

12/07/2008

Approximately 500 women gathered to protest against climate change in Dhaka, Bangladesh's capital.

The women demanded industrialized nations reduce greenhouse gas emissions and compensate poorer nations that scientists say will be hit th...

Tax shifts to fight global warming PWC

12/07/2008

Climate-change tax experts with Pricewaterhousecoopers (PWC) in Canada have urged businesses in British Columbia to get ready for shifts in taxation systems as governments start to address climate change.

Substantial changes could occur...