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Heatwave Lancashire hotter than Africa
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on May 24th, 2010
Lancashire Evening Post: Lancashire sweltered in baking temperatures at the weekend, with scorching summer rays making the county hotter than Ibiza, Los Angeles and parts of Africa. The county was blessed with some of the weekend's best weather, with the mercury peaking at a high of 26C on Saturday, with similar temperatures on Sunday. As the county enjoyed the heatwave, ice cream parlours, garden centres, parks and pubs were enjoying a surge in visitors, while the coastguard reported a busy weekend at ...
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Can industry help the poor more than conservation? | Eric Randolph
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on May 24th, 2010
Guardian: Is industrialisation the answer to reducing poverty in the developing world? Or should the priority be conservation of tribal communities and the environment? The debate around these questions is increasingly bitter and, for those on the frontline, increasingly violent. In a rural corner of eastern India, in the state of Orissa, armed police have been moving in on demonstrators who refuse to make way for two controversial steel projects. Tribal villagers in Kalinga Nagar, protesting ...
New Zealand stands by carbon trading plans
Posted by Water Conserve: Water Conservation RSS Newsfeed on May 24th, 2010
Business Green: New Zealand will go ahead with its proposed carbon trading scheme despite Australia abandoning its plan to price carbon last month, prime minister John Key said this morning. There had been reports in the press that the Key administration might follow Australia's lead and abandon its emissions trading legislation in the face of public opposition. But speaking in an interview on Television New Zealand earlier today, Key said there was "no chance" that the scheme would be ...
Meltdown: Why ice ages don’t last forever
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on May 24th, 2010
New Scientist: Read full article Continue reading page |1 |2 |3 BACK in 1993, a boy playing football near Nanjing, China, suddenly fell through the ground. He had inadvertently found a new cave, later named Hulu, which has turned out to be a scientific treasure chest. Besides two Homo erectus skeletons, it contains stalagmites that have helped solve one of the greatest mysteries in climate science: why the ice ages came and went when they did. For more than 2 million years, ...
UK on course to miss 2020 renewables and carbon targets
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on May 24th, 2010
Business Green: The new government must act urgently and decisively to ensure the UK meets its 2020 goal of reducing carbon emissions by 34 per cent, according to a new report from Cambridge Econometrics that today warned the country is currently on track to miss its ambitious emissions and renewable energy targets. The latest edition of UK Energy and the Environment report from the Cambridge-based consultancy calls on the new coalition to act swiftly to deliver new policies that will allow the UK to ...
Gulf oil spill: White House orders BP to cut use of dispersant by half
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on May 24th, 2010
Guardian: The White House directed BP to cut its use of chemical dispersants to break up the Louisiana oil slick by as much as 50% yesterday, reflecting concerns that the clean-up of the spill could be worsening the economic disaster in the Gulf of Mexico. Lisa Jackson, the head of the Environmental Protection Agency, said the Obama administration wanted the oil company to scale back its use of chemicals on the water surface. The order came amid increasing tension between the administration and ...
NY state might spare parks from budget ax
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on May 24th, 2010
Reuters: Cash-strapped New York state should keep 41 state parks and 14 historic sites open and avoid reducing services at others by tapping the environmental fund, Governor David Paterson proposed on Monday. The Democratic governor called on the legislature to approve this stop-gap measure; in January, he had proposed closing the parks and historic sites to help close a deficit. "I have heard from my colleague in the Legislature that funding State parks and historic sites is a top ...
UK honeybee numbers suffer further decline after harsh winter
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on May 24th, 2010
Guardian: Honeybee numbers in the UK dropped again over the winter, though the rate of decline appears to have slowed slightly despite the harsh weather. In an encouraging note, the number of hives has doubled in three years to an estimated 80,000, according to the British Beekeepers Association, which released the survey of winter honeybee losses. On average, beekeepers lost 17% of their colonies in 2009-10, compared to 19% the previous year and 30% during the winter of 2007-08. There ...
Climate Change To Hit Vietnam’s Mangrove Forests
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on May 24th, 2010
Bernama: The impacts of climate change would severely affect the biodiversity of mangrove forests across the country, Vietnam News Agency (VNA) reported experts as saying. Addressing a forum on the impacts of climate change and biodiversity held on May 22, Dr Hoang Nghia Son, director of the Institute of Tropical Biology said that biodiversity was a crucial base for the existence and development of countries around the world but it had been severely affected by climate change. "Sea ...
Australia: Pacific climate change could drive droughts
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on May 24th, 2010
Australian Broadcasting Corporation: Climate scientists are concerned a rise in temperature in the Pacific region due to climate change, could increase droughts in Australia. New research, published today in Nature Geoscience, has found the region will have significant temperature changes, which will affect the natural El Nino - La Nina weather cycle. One of the report's authors Scott Power says the cycle and temperatures in the Pacific have a direct link to drought conditions in Australia. But Dr Power ...