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18/6/2013
The most destructive fire in Colorado state history is being reined in and some evacuation orders are being rescinded, with officials reporting the Black Forest fire 75 percent contained after one week of burning in and around the city of ...
18/6/2013
Cutting our overall use of fossil fuels has proved a daunting challenge, but it might be possible to get some relief from the effects of climate change by selectively reducing the particulate pollution we produce. Recent research suggests that if ...
18/6/2013
A study, based on 149,000 U.S. men and women, has found that eating a diet high in red meat increases risks of developing type-2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM).The study was conducted by An Pan, Ph.D., National University of Singapore, and ...
18/6/2013
The world is on track to see temperature rises of up to 5.3C by the end of the century, the International Energy Agency has warned as it set out swift action governments must take to curb climate change.A global average temperature rise ...
18/6/2013
The final report of a cross-party inquiry into Australia's biodiversity and climate change produced only "weak and ineffective" recommendations and was a missed opportunity to act, the Australian Conservation Foundation said.The House of ...
18/6/2013
Enbridge Inc. has rejected the national energy regulator’s demand to have almost $1-billion in liability coverage set aside for the Northern Gateway project, and is calling for the creation of an industry-bankrolled fund that would help pay for ...
18/6/2013
For honey bees, promiscuity leads to genetic diversity which determines the survivability of the colony, according to a new study.The study was conducted by researchers from North Carolina State University, the University of Maryland and ...
18/6/2013
Authorities in Chad have arrested a suspected member of a poaching gang accused of slaughtering nearly 200 elephants and killing five Cameroonian park rangers, the environment minister said on Tuesday.Rising demand for ivory among Asia's ...
18/6/2013
Senior members of the German government have warned EU member states that German automakers could scale back or scrap production plans in their countries unless they support weakened carbon emissions rules, according to diplomatic ...
18/6/2013
China is set to launch its first carbon trading scheme Tuesday in the southern city of Shenzhen. It’s one of seven pilot cities for emissions trading before a national rollout.In the spot light, but compared with Shenzhen government ...
17/6/2013
The Pipeline ProposalThe Great Basin stretches from Utah’s Great Salt Lake to the Sierra Nevada Mountains and from southern Idaho to southern California. About seven inches of rain falls in Nevada a year, and some areas receive less than ...
17/6/2013
Planes, trains, or automobiles: what's the most climate-friendly way to travel? A new study by researchers from IIASA and CICERO brings better estimates of how much personal travel impacts the climate.The study, published in the journal ...
17/6/2013
The international body that oversees World Heritage Sites today requested the cancellation of oil exploration permits in Virunga National Park in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.Some of the permits are held by international petroleum ...
17/6/2013
U.S. mayors pledged Monday to make their communities more resilient to increasingly severe floods, droughts, extreme storms and wildfires, which they said was more efficient and cost-effective than disaster clean-up afterwards.Four dozen ...
17/6/2013
A new study of the individual carbon footprint from leisure or business travel reveals that while air travel continues to have the largest environmental impact, people's terrestrial transportation preference can still make a big difference in how ...
17/6/2013
Nicaragua is one step closer to being carved in half by a massive cross-country canal. Leftist President Daniel Ortega rammed the project through his country`s congress last week.The lawmakers gave the Hong Kong-based HKND Group a 50-year ...
17/6/2013
The federal government insists it is striving to avoid the Great Barrier Reef being listed "in danger" ahead of a crunch UN meeting, after rejecting a Senate recommendation to block new port developments near the World Heritage ...
17/6/2013
Controversial agrichemical company Monsanto announced recently the close of the first-ever "Honey Bee Health Summit" held in an effort, according to the company, to bring together and learn from bee experts from both public and private ...
17/6/2013
Hydraulic fracturing (a.k.a. fracking) has recast the U.S.’s energy future, but it’s also shining a light on fragile water supplies, which could crimp the industry’s growth.
Exploration fracking well drilling in the desert. Photo ...
17/6/2013
As unprecedented extreme weather and climate change wreak havoc across the country, 48 local elected officials today committed themselves to fortifying their cities, towns, and counties.As the "inaugural signatories" of the Resilient ...
17/6/2013
Singapore and Malaysian officials have asked Indonesia to take "urgent measures" to address forest fires in Sumatra that are sending choking haze northward, reports AFP.Singapore's air pollution index is at the worst level since 2006, ...
17/6/2013
When dozens of police officers in riot gear raided the occupied Hayes Valley Farm in San Francisco early last Thursday morning, it seemed like the end of the road for this garden space. Activists from around the Bay Area had moved in on June 1 ...
17/6/2013
From one Nobel Peace Prize winner to another, this whole Keystone XL thing is an "atrocity."Al Gore has been calling on Barack Obama to step up the fight against climate change and Keystone, most recently during an interview with The ...
17/6/2013
To protect profits threatened by a lawsuit over its controversial herbicide atrazine, Syngenta Crop Protection launched an aggressive multi-million dollar campaign that included hiring a detective agency to investigate scientists on a federal ...
17/6/2013
Austria's alpine lakes are warming, and that's bad news for the region's fish and economy, according to new research in the journal Hydrobiologia.The Alpine valleys are warming: From 1980 to 1999 the region warmed three times the global ...