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Pollution typically declines during a recession. Not this time. Despite a global economic slump, worldwide carbon dioxide pollution jumped 2 percent last year, most of the increase coming from China, according to a study published online Tuesday.
The price of carbon allowances dropped 33 percent in the latest quarterly auction held by 10 Northeastern states in an initiative to reduce greenhouse gases in the region.
Our story last week on the failure of the government's mortgage relief efforts drew a flood of mail from homeowners facing default and foreclosure. The Answer Desk, by John W. Schoen.
Customs agents this week arrested nine people in the London area suspected of a multimillion dollar fraud in trading carbon permits, bringing attention to a rich new field for crime sprung from the fight against climate change.
The tiny island nation of Tuvalu, already under threat from rising seas caused by global warming, vowed Sunday to do its part for climate change by fueling its economy entirely from renewable sources by 2020.
Wade McGillis peered up at the structure propped like a high-tech stick figure — minus the head — on an elementary school roof. Then he examined the electronics attached to its spindly metal frame, looking out over the Harlem brownstones nearby and the skyscrapers farther away.
A piece of rocket hardware failed to separate during the launch of a NASA climate satellite earlier this year, causing it crash back to Earth, according to an accident summary released Friday.
The British government detailed ambitious plans Wednesday to cut carbon emissions substantially by 2020, and said 40 percent of the country's electricity by then would come from renewable sources.
The global recession has an up side, at least for people worried about climate change: carbon emissions are growing more slowly than in recent years, Dutch researchers said Thursday.
North Dakota utility regulators oppose a "cap and trade" method of reducing gases that may promote global warming, saying it could double consumers' power bills without providing any discernible environmental benefit.
It was a bold promise: the House would "lead by example" to fight global warming, becoming the first legislative body in the world to zero out its carbon impact on the planet.
As envisioned by , the federal government will soon begin tapping into a huge new source of revenue by requiring companies to pay for the permission to emit so-called greenhouse gasses linked to global warming.
Do you drive? Use electricity? Travel by plane? Unless you live off the grid in a self-sustaining house powered by solar panels, consume only food you’ve grown yourself and travel only as far as your feet will take you, the answer is an environmentally unfriendly “yes.”
A new satellite to track the chief culprit in global warming crashed into the ocean near Antarctica after launch Tuesday, dealing a major setback to NASA's already weak network for monitoring Earth and its environment from above.
The Obama administration on Tuesday agreed to review whether it should regulate carbon dioxide emissions from coal-fired power plants, portending a major reversal of the Bush administration's policy on global warming.
Why bother reducing my carbon footprint? That's probably what many people asked after reading about a new study that predicts that even if carbon emissions were drastically reduced, droughts and other severe climate changes tied to the emissions would persist for 1,000 years.
The mortality rate of old-growth forests across the West has more than doubled in recent decades, and those forests are now losing more trees than they gain, according to a new study that identified the most probable cause as warming temperatures.
Severe winter weather and a stormy economy could combine to make one of the season’s common killers, carbon monoxide poisoning, even worse this year, public health and safety officials say.
Winter has just made its official, blustery entrance into the Northeast — accompanied by its usual entourage of frosty annoyances: slush, black ice and a wind-chill factor in the single digits — and my mind is already wandering. As I delicately traverse the slippery patch of ice that has taken up residence on my front stoop, peel on my long underwear and scrape inches of crusty snow off of my windshield, one thought refuses to vacate my mind: I’ve got to get away.
Just in time for Christmas, German researchers are ramping up a manufacturing technique for making intricate Nativity figurines, toys, and even hi-fi speaker boxes from a renewable and surprisingly versatile source: liquid wood.
The amount of U.S. greenhouse gases flowing into the atmosphere, mainly carbon dioxide from burning fossil fuels, increased last year by 1.4 percent after a decline in 2006, the Energy Department reported Wednesday.
Coal may be a four-letter word for former Vice President Al Gore and many environmentalists. But some researchers believe technology may yet salvage the concept of “clean coal” — or at least coal — as an alternative to foreign oil while the drive for longer-term alternative energy picks up steam.
Power companies were the biggest spenders in the nation's first cap-and-trade greenhouse gas auction, raising nearly $40 million that will be spent by Northeast states on renewable and energy efficient technologies.
The Environmental Protection Agency wants to make sure curbing global warming doesn't contaminate drinking water.
Here’s the type of conundrum that Wendy Richardson often finds herself debating: If she is three miles from her office and realizes she has forgotten her reusable water bottle, is it more environmentally friendly to drive her Toyota Prius hybrid back to get it, or to walk 100 feet to a convenience store and buy a bottle of water?
British PM Brown: UK faces a climate catastrophe of floods, droughts and killer heatwavesUK PM Gordon Brown warns that Copenhagen negotiators have 50 days to save the world from global warming and break the "impasse", telling the Major Economies Forum in London there was "no plan B".
New Statesman Leader on Copenhagen: World leaders need to become green heroes too"heroes ...who lead from the bottom up, corralling support for their cause by being passionate, committed and practically engaged. If the politicians can only delay and equivocate, we must take matters into our own hands."
U.S. and China reach accord on data collectionThe United States and China have agreed to cooperate on developing an inventory of China's greenhouse gas emissions, the Environmental Protection Agency announced Wednesday, an initiative that appears be a response to criticism of Beijing's data collection.
Sri Lanka Minister on First World "Climate Nazism, Climate Racism and Climate Terrorism"Sri Lanka Minister: "So in Copenhagen, developing countries will have a moral high ground... developed countries only have brute force and concepts like Climate Nazism, Climate Racism and Climate Terrorism. "
Dr Lovelock: "Climate war could kill nearly all of us, leaving survivors in the Stone Age"Lovelock: "We have enjoyed 12,000 years of climate peace since the last shift from a glacial age to an interglacial one. Before long, we may face planet-wide devastation worse even than unrestricted nuclear war ..."
Experts: GHG pollution 50% greater than thought, livestock give over 51% of GHGs pa World Bank Group environmentalists have re-examined greenhouse gas (GHG) pollution due to methanogenic livestock - total GHG pollution is 50% greater than thought previously and livestock contribute over 51% of total.
Australians Face Reality On Sea-Level Rise - plus 1.1 meters means 2 million Oz refugees Official Australian report based on conservative IPCC projections : with a sea-level rise of 1.1 meters about two million Australians would become refugees and have to leave their homes and the places they love.
Tackling climate change with technologyNew technologies will be required if the world economy is to grow without accelerating climate change.
Rudd Australian Government bows to pressure & excludes agriculture emissions from ETSAccording to this report from top newspaper The Age (Melbourne): "The Government will permanently exclude agricultural emissions and give farmers access to credits for good farming practices such as tree planting."
Canada's boreal forest top-rated carbon warehouseThe boreal forest stores more carbon than any land-based ecosystem on the planet, according to a new report that says the Amazon is no match for Canada's boggy bush. North America's boreal forest contains nearly twice as much carbon per hectare as tropical forests, says the …
'White dwarf' stars may signal missing link'White dwarf' stars may explain what happens to smaller-size stars that die.
Efforts underway to extend satellites' lifespanSpacecraft have used ion drives to explore the moon and deep space, but a new study aims to boost the electric propulsion idea to keep satellites around Earth alive longer.
Tribal leaders asked to support climate legislationA group of tribal, advocacy, environmental and legal organizations is requesting that tribes support climate legislation, especially given current incentives proposed in Congress. Leaders from the allied organizations, the National Wildlife Federation, the National Congress of A …
All hope is lost for Copenhagen climate treaty, British officials say - Times OnlineA world treaty on climate change will be delayed by up to a year and is likely to be watered down because countries with the highest greenhouse gas emissions are refusing to commit to legally binding reductions.
In 1998 Michael mann now at Pennsylvania State university published a chart so the so called "hockey stikck" graph that showed average temps in Northern Hemisphere staying about the same until the 1900's and then exploding upward in a curve at the end, therefore the so called hoc …
Al Gore could become world's first carbon billionaire Last year Mr Gore's venture capital firm loaned a small California firm $75m to develop energy-saving technology. The company, Silver Spring Networks, produces hardware and software to make the electricity grid more efficient.
Greenhouse gas (GHG) pollution: Victoria dirtiest state in one of dirtiest countries, AustraliaHome to three of Australia's four dirtiest power stations and none of the 12 biggest renewable energy plants... less than 2 per cent of electricity clean ... brown coal accounted for 94 per cent of electricity, with gas 4 per cent.
Oz Government CSIRO bid to GAG top economist's attack on Obama-style carbon ETSThe taxpayer-funded research organization CSIRO has reportedly stopped publication of a peer-reviewed research article by a top ecological economist critical of Obama-style carbon trading-based ETS approach
Worsening Australian Timor Sea oil spill disaster - fire breaks out on leaking Oz oil rigFire broke out yesterday on the oil rig, which has been leaking oil into the Timor Sea for 10 weeks (100x100 km) . Oil field operator PTTEP Australasia said the West Atlas rig and Montara well-head platform were on fire.
Progressive Democrats of America (PDA) back Direct Carbon Pricing + Revenue Recycling Progressive Democrats of America (PDA) finalized a months-long process with their endorsement of direct carbon pricing, with revenue recycling as the preferred method for reducing carbon dioxide in the Earth's atmosphere.
Toyota Engineers New Flower Species to Absorb Emissions at Prius Factories"Toyota has long faced the criticism that the process of manufacturing Priuses has a larger environmental impact than most cars.
Government clears way for greener power expansionThe British Columbia government has ordered BC Hydro to yank the aging Burrard Thermal generating plant off its roster of baseline electricity sources. The decision throws open the doors to a significant expansion of private-sector power development, and sparked a fresh round of …
With eyes open to cost of climate change, it's time to decideAll we had were questions. Now we have answers. The answers aren't pretty.
Maldives President: save us from global warming - today to US means tomorrow to YOU"It is important to defend the Maldives which is on the frontline of climate change. If it can happen today to our nation, tomorrow it can happen with you as well...climate change is happening and the world is going to end."
"We should be terrified": Top Scientists' 350 ppm CO2 by 2050 Too Ambitious, Say MPsFaced with Dr Fankhauser's 350 ppm CO2 proposal MP Barry Gardiner, asked the 120 legislators present whether they believed limiting CO2 concentration to 350 ppm by 2050 was practicable. Only two said yes.
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