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Pentagon to rank global warming as destabilising forceJan 31, 2010 - Guardian WASHINGTON - The Pentagon will for the first time rank global warming as a destabilising force, adding fuel to conflict and putting US troops at risk around the world, in a major strategy review to be presented to Congress tomorrow. |
Canada outlines greenhouse gas reduction targets in advance of UN deadlineJan 30, 2010 - Canadian Press CALGARY - Environmentalists and opposition politicians are dismissing the Conservative government's latest pledge to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, with one group predicting they'll actually increase under a new agreement hammered out last year. No longer available |
Tories hedge on emissions targetsJan 28, 2010 - Globe and Mail OTTAWA - The Harper government is hedging on its target of reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 20 per cent by 2020, saying the actual Canadian goal will depend the level of ambition adopted by the United States. |
Wind power possible source of energy in quake shattered HaitiJan 25, 2010 - Canadian Press TORONTO - Canada's Foreign Affairs Minister is eyeing the potential for wind power along Haiti's coastline as part of the effort to improve the earthquake ravaged country's capacity for power production. No longer available |
Climate, development, growth: themes Harper will highlight for G8, G20 summitsJan 24, 2010 - Canadian Press OTTAWA - Prime Minister Stephen Harper will test drive his priorities for the G8 and G20 summits this week at an elite conference in Davos, Switzerland, and he's expected to highlight the environment, development and global economic growth. No longer available |
Political setbacks for Obama dims prospects in Congress for US climate change billJan 23, 2010 - Associated Press WASHINGTON - The already long odds that U.S. President Barack Obama would win passage of significant climate change legislation soon are getting longer. No longer available |
Senators try to thwart EPA efforts to curb emissionsJan 22, 2010 - Washington Post WASHINGTON - A bipartisan group of senators introduced legislation Thursday to block the Environmental Protection Agency from regulating greenhouse gases under the Clean Air Act, a move that could undercut one of the Obama administration's top domestic priorities. |
UN climate report hurt by errors on glaciersJan 21, 2010 - Associated Press UN - A Canadian professor has reported five glaring errors in one paragraph of the world's most authoritative report on global warming, forcing the Nobel Prize-winning panel of climate scientists who wrote it to apologize and promise to be more careful. |
Massachusetts vote hurts US climate billJan 20, 2010 - Reuters WASHINGTON - Republican Scott Brown's upset victory on Tuesday in the special U.S. Senate race has dealt a further blow to Democrats' drive to pass a climate control bill in 2010. |
2000s warmest decade on recordJan 19, 2010 - Associated Press WASHINGTON - The 2000-2009 decade was the warmest on record, easily surpassing the previous hottest decade — the 1990s — researchers said Tuesday in a report providing fresh evidence that the planet may be warming at a potentially disastrous rate. |
Shell faces shareholder revolt over Canadian tar sands projectJan 18, 2010 - The Guardian CALGARY - Shell chief executive Peter Voser will be forced to defend the company's controversial investment in Canada's tar sands at his first annual general meeting, after calls from shareholders that the project be put under further scrutiny. |
Therapists report increase in green disputesJan 17, 2010 - New York Times NEW YORK - As environmental concern has grown, therapists say they are seeing a rise in bickering between couples and family members over the extent to which they should change their lives to save the planet. . |
Alberta to examine pace of oil sands growthJan 15, 2010 - Globe and Mail CALGARY - Alberta's new Energy Minister says his government needs to examine ways to moderate the pace of oil sands development, signalling a shift away from policies that favour unconstrained oil patch growth. |
Car giants giving false hope of emission-free future, report saysJan 15, 2010 - The Times OXFORD - Car companies are raising false hopes of emission-free motoring in order to continue profiting from large, fuel-hungry vehicles, according to a study. |
M.P.G. standards loom, so car designers look afarJan 14, 2010 - New York Times DETROIT - It wasn’t a particular look or style that dominated the conversations of designers at the 2010 Detroit auto show, and it wasn’t a buzzword like retro or kinetic or flame-surfaced. It was the shadow of a number: 35.5. |
Investors urge governments to take immediate action on climate changeJan 14, 2010 - The Guardian NEW YORK - Over 450 investors controlling $13tn of assets yesterday urged world governments to pre-empt an international climate change treaty and take immediate action on global warming, or risk losing the opportunity to establish a clean and sustainable low-carbon economy. |
Arctic permafrost leaking methane at record levels, figures showJan 14, 2010 - The Guardian EDINBURGH - Scientists have recorded a massive spike in the amount of a powerful greenhouse gas seeping from Arctic permafrost, in a discovery that highlights the risks of a dangerous climate tipping point. |
New Disraeli plan satisfies drivers, cyclistsJan 12, 2010 - Winnipeg Free Press WINNIPEG - Northeast Winnipeg motorists and cyclists both got what they want from the final design for a rehabilitated Disraeli Freeway: No extended closures during the construction period and a bike-and-pedestrian bridge that doesn't require a detour. |
Climate change 'critical': pollJan 11, 2010 - Winnipeg Free Press OTTAWA - Canadians believe climate change poses a significantly bigger threat to the "vital interests" of this country over the next decade than international terrorism, a new poll suggests. |
Pine beetle turns trees to carbon emittersJan 10, 2010 - EU News Network VANCOUVER - Canadian researchers say the pine beetle has killed so many trees, the forests of British Columbia now put more greenhouse gases into the air than they store. |
The resurgence of El Niño means 2010 could yet be hottest yearJan 10, 2010 - Guardian LONDON - It may be a hard notion to accept after a week that has seen the UK paralysed by snow and ice. Nevertheless, meteorologists are adamant that our world is still getting warmer. Indeed, many now believe that 2010 may turn out to be the hottest year on record. |
U.S. scrapped more cars last year than bought new onesJan 5, 2010 - Reuters WASHINGTON - Americans scrapped more automobiles than they bought last year as the ragged economy reduced demand and some major cities expanded mass transit service, according to a new report. |
Australia baked under hottest decade on recordJan 5, 2010 - Reuters SYDNEY - Australia experienced its hottest decade on record from 2000 to 2009 due to global warming, the nation's bureau of meteorology said on Tuesday, as annual summer bushfires again burn drought lands and destroy homes. |
Planet in peril but not for Manitobans: PollJan 4, 2010 - Canoe.ca TORONTO - According to a Leger Marketing poll, more than half of Canadians believe greenhouse gases produced by human activity are a key factor spurring climate change, and they say the planet is in peril if significant action isn't taken soon. But in Manitoba, 40% or less of those surveyed shared that sense of urgency. |
Climate change scepticism will increase hardship for world's poor: IPCC chiefJan 4, 2010 - Guardian UN - Climate change scepticism is likely to surge in 2010 and could exacerbate "hardship" for the planet's poorest people, one of the world's leading authorities on climate change has told the Guardian. |
C.I.A. is sharing data with climate scientistsJan 4, 2010 - New York Times WASHINGTON - Top scientists and spies are collaborating on an effort to use the U.S. federal government’s intelligence assets — including spy satellites and other classified sensors — to assess the hidden complexities of environmental change. They seek insights from natural phenomena like clouds and glaciers, deserts and tropical forests. |
World's largest CO2 plant opens in the Middle EastJan 4, 2010 - Arab News MANAMA - With the opening of the world's largest carbon dioxide (CO2) recovery plant at Gulf Petrochemical Industries Company (GPIC) complex in Sitra, Bahrain has become the first petrochemical company in the Middle East to use this advance technology to recycle carbon emissions. |
Europe unites to build renewable energy 'supergrid'Jan 3, 2010 - Guardian EUROPE - Nine countries formally draw up plans to link their clean energy projects around the North Sea. The network, made up of thousands of kilometres of highly efficient undersea cables that could cost up to €30bn, would solve one of the biggest criticisms faced by renewable power – that unpredictable weather means it is unreliable. |
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