Tag: Climate
Hungarian Emfesz says to start building new plant
"Hungarian gas wholesaler Emfesz said on Thursday that next year it would start building its planned gas-fuelled power plant which will have a total capacity of 2,400 megawatts.The first two of the plant's six 400-MW...
New GMO Con: Climate Genes
Get ready for a new wave of hyperbolic unsubstantiated spin from the biotech industry. This time they will claim they can save the food supply from climate change."First the biotech industry promised that its...
Climate change could hit tropical wildlife hardest
"Polar bears may have it relatively easy, but it`s the tropical creatures that could really struggle if the climate warms even a few degrees in places that are already hot, scientists reported on Monday.That doesn`t...
Canary in a Coal Mine MWV16
Coral reefs are dying a death of a thousand cuts and their disappearance threatens not only the incredibly diverse ecosystem that depends on them, but also human health and welfare.In this episode of MicrobeWorld...
China president begins Japan visit
Chinese president Hu Jintao has begun a visit to Japan, an always awkward meeting considering the two are historical rivals. His visit was marked by significant protests in Tokyo over the Tibet issue, but there...
Salmon Fishing Closed on West Coast of U.S.
Although the Alaskan and B.C. salmon stocks are faring slightly better than those further south, consumers in the United States and Canada should expect to be paying a lot more for salmon.So, if salmon is no longer a...
West Africa adopts plan to save the Niger River
"The Niger is the third longest river in Africa and it is dying as a result of climate change and pollution, exacerbated by 3% per annum population growth. The river runs through 9 countries, which are banding together to implement a 20 year program of desilting and...
Supermarket trials carbon labels
Consumers concerned with the health of the environment may begin to turn to a special label on various food and home items to tell them critical information on the item's carbon footprint."Supermaket chain Tesco has...
Can you feel peak oil yet?
Jim Kunstler is sensing something in the air. Could it be the symptoms of peak oil?" We're in a strange collective psychic bubble. We'd like to forgetabout all these troubling rumors of hardship and bad...
Paper or Plastic?
British Chancellor Alistair Darling announced yesterday plans to charge for one time use plastic shopping bags. "I am convinced that we can eliminate single-use disposable bags altogether” he stated. " "Given...
Arctic Meltdown Near Its "Tipping Point" Warns WWF
"MONTREAL (AFP) — Arctic sea ice is melting "significantly faster" than predicted and is approaching a point of no return, conservation group the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) warned in a new study.The volumes of the...
Plan to reverse global warming could backfire: study
"A proposed solution to reverse the effects of global warming by spraying sulfate particles into Earth`s stratosphere could make matters much worse, climate researchers said on Thursday.They said trying to cool off the planet by creating a kind of artificial sun block would...
Sorry Al, But Indeed An Ice Age Cometh
Opinion: After looking past the global warming rhetoric, and the clamour to clamp down on carbon dioxide, at the hard long-term temperature data going back hundreds of thousands and millions of years, the numbers...
Radiohead Criticize Bush on U.S. TV
Leave it to the Monbiot-loving Thom Yorke to call out Bush -- in mid-song, no less -- over America's failure to participate in the Kyoto agreement. That's a pretty good political use of their airtime, I'd...
Europe Turns to Coal Again, Raising Alarms on Cli...
One day after Earth Day, Italy has announced that its major electricity producer, Enel, is converting its huge power plant from oil to coal - which many would consider a giant step backwards in the fight against...
