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| Japan should set mid-term emissions targets: envoy
February 13, 2009 at 7:50 am
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| TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan should show leadership by setting mid-term targets for cutting greenhouse gas emissions, the European Commission's top climate change negotiator said on Friday. |
| Cleaner waters attract sharks to Sydney beaches
February 12, 2009 at 11:34 pm
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| SYDNEY (Reuters) - Environmental protection of Sydney's beaches and harbor has created a cleaner marine environment, but is attracting sharks closer to shore chasing fish, say marine experts, after two shark attacks in two days. |
| Australia's emissions plan wavers as carbon price falls
February 12, 2009 at 10:57 pm
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| SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australia's plans to curb greenhouse gas emissions are in danger of being derailed as the carbon price falls in Europe and the government convenes a parliamentary inquiry into its proposed emissions trading scheme. |
| Penguins facing longer commute for food: expert
February 12, 2009 at 9:15 pm
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| CHICAGO (Reuters) - A penguin species found in Argentina is under threat because climate change is forcing the birds to swim farther to find food, researchers said on Thursday. |
| Model sees severe climate change impact by 2050
February 12, 2009 at 7:19 pm
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| LONDON (Reuters) - Current efforts to limit greenhouse gas emissions will do little to ease damaging climate change, according to a report issued Friday that predicts Greenland's ice sheets will start melting by 2050. |
| U.S. to mull protection for alpine rabbit on warming
February 12, 2009 at 6:32 pm
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| NEW YORK (Reuters) - The U.S. government has agreed to study whether the American pika, a tiny cold-loving relative of the rabbit, should be protected under the Endangered Species Act due to warmer temperatures, scientists said on Thursday. |
| U.S. economic stimulus to boost renewable energy
February 12, 2009 at 6:04 pm
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| WASHINGTON (Reuters) - After weeks of debate, Democratic leaders in House of Representatives and the Senate have reached an agreement on an economic stimulus package that would pump billions of dollars into "smart grid" projects and renewable energy. |
| Fish seen shifting 125 miles by 2050 due to warming
February 12, 2009 at 5:36 pm
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| OSLO (Reuters) - Global warming will push fish stocks more than 200 km (125 miles) toward the poles by mid-century in a dislocation of ocean life, a study of more than 1,000 marine species projected. |
| Australia calls inquiry into own emissions plan
February 12, 2009 at 5:24 pm
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| CANBERRA (Reuters) - The Australian government has convened a parliamentary inquiry into its plan for curbing greenhouse gas emissions, but denied on Friday it was backing away from the scheme which is due to launch next year. The government said in a brief statement on Thursday it had asked the lower house's economics committee to make inquiries and report back to parliament on its proposed emissions-trading scheme, part of a climate-change policy unveiled last December. |
| Team will use radar to measure thinning Arctic ice
February 12, 2009 at 1:03 pm
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| OTTAWA (Reuters) - Three British polar adventurers will this month begin a 620-mile trek to the North Pole with an experimental portable radar set to gauge exactly how fast Arctic ice sheets are melting, they said on Thursday. |
| Canada eyes climate deal with "open-minded" Obama
February 12, 2009 at 12:55 pm
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| OTTAWA (Reuters) - Canada's Conservative government said on Thursday it hopes to reach a climate change deal with the U.S. Obama administration, saying an economic crisis is not an ideal time for Canada to be imposing new costs on industry on its own. |
| Garbage disaster looms at giant Mexico City dump
February 12, 2009 at 12:05 pm
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| NEZAHUALCOYOTL, Mexico (Reuters) - Mexico City is facing a crisis over where to put its trash -- enough to fill four sports stadiums a year -- with its sprawling dump already crammed to bursting and under a closure order. |
| Poland says awaits EU to allocate 2008 CO2 permits
February 12, 2009 at 11:48 am
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| WARSAW (Reuters) - Poland will allocate 2008 carbon dioxide (CO2) emission permits to its industry only when the European Union's executive Commission passes them to Warsaw, an official said on Thursday. |
| UK plans efficiency retrofits for all homes
February 12, 2009 at 10:47 am
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| LONDON (Reuters) - Britain proposed on Thursday to allow all households from 2012 to apply for loans and cash to save energy and cut carbon emissions, costs energy companies are likely to meet and pass on to all consumers. |
| South Carolina regulators OK nuclear power project
February 12, 2009 at 10:04 am
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| WILMINGTON, North Carolina (Reuters) - South Carolina regulators have unanimously approved a request by the state's largest utility, South Carolina Electric & Gas (SCE&G), to join with a state-owned utility to build two nuclear reactors. |
| CO2 hits new peaks, no sign global crisis causing dip
February 12, 2009 at 9:52 am
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| OSLO (Reuters) - Atmospheric levels of the main greenhouse gas are hitting new highs, with no sign yet that the world economic downturn is curbing industrial emissions, a leading scientist said on Thursday. |
| Nigeria may work on Cameroon dam for power share
February 12, 2009 at 9:13 am
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| YAOUNDE (Reuters) - Nigeria may help upgrade a hydroelectric dam in Cameroon in exchange for supplying power to a remote corner of its territory, government officials from both countries said this week. |
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