http://www.climateark.org/ The Climate Ark is a Climate Change Portal and Internet Search Tool that provides access to reviewed climate change and renewable energy news and information -- http://www.climateark.org/ Climate Ark a project of Ecological Internet, Inc. info@ecologicalinternet.org (Dr. Glen Barry) http://www.climateark.org/img/ark.jpg http://www.climateark.org/ Christian Science Monitor: A string of disasters in China has highlighted the government's improved crisis response, but also the many challenges facing Beijing as it seeks to strike a balance between economic growth and protecting the environment. A large China oil spill near Dalian was followed on Wednesday by 3,000 chemical barrels being swept swept into a major river network in Jilin Province by flooding. The same day, authorities in Nanjing were struggling with the aftermath of a chemical explosion that ... http://news.yahoo.com/s/csm/20100729/wl_csm/316817 http://www.climateark.org/shared/reader/welcome.aspx?linkid=176062 29 Jul 2010 11:00:00 PST oil spill prevention | East/South-East Asia | China info@ecologicalinternet.org (Christian Science Monitor: Jonathan Adams) Reuters: The United Nations' climate secretariat on Thursday issued 228,400 Kyoto Protocol carbon offsets to three Asian clean energy projects, ending a two-week issuance drought but failing to reassure concerned investors. The offsets, called Certified Emissions Reductions, were given to two Chinese wind farms and an Indian biomass facility, and represented the largest daily issuance since June 16. Under Kyoto's Clean Development Mechanism scheme, investors can fund cuts in greenhouse ... http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE66S4GD20100729?feedType=RSS&feedName=environmentNews&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+reuters%2Fenvironment+%28News+%2F+US+%2F+Environment%29 http://www.climateark.org/shared/reader/welcome.aspx?linkid=176060 29 Jul 2010 11:00:00 PST carbon offset down | Worldwide/General | info@ecologicalinternet.org (Reuters: Michael Szabo) Reuters: Russia's worst drought for decades is set to drag on for at least the next 7 days in some areas but further serious damage to grain crops is not expected, a senior government weather forecaster said on Thursday. Drought in some regions of Russia, one of the world's biggest wheat exporters, has sent global prices soaring to year highs in July, putting U.S. wheat futures on track for their biggest monthly gain since 1973. Grain traders say the rally shows signs of continuing, ... http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE66S4L420100729?feedType=RSS&feedName=environmentNews&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+reuters%2Fenvironment+%28News+%2F+US+%2F+Environment%29 http://www.climateark.org/shared/reader/welcome.aspx?linkid=176057 29 Jul 2010 11:00:00 PST climate drought crop damage | Europe | Russia info@ecologicalinternet.org (Reuters: Aleksandras Budrys) Reuters: The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on Thursday denied 10 petitions challenging EPA's 2009 finding that climate-warming greenhouse gas emissions endanger human health and the environment. The EPA had received the petitions from states such as Texas and Virginia and groups like the Ohio Coal Association. http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE66S4VZ20100729?feedType=RSS&feedName=environmentNews&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+reuters%2Fenvironment+%28News+%2F+US+%2F+Environment%29 http://www.climateark.org/shared/reader/welcome.aspx?linkid=176050 29 Jul 2010 11:00:00 PST greenhouse gas n| EPA regulatio | North America | United States info@ecologicalinternet.org (Reuters: none given) Reuters: The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on Thursday rejected 10 petitions challenging EPA's 2009 finding that climate-warming greenhouse gas emissions endanger human health and the environment. The EPA received petitions questioning the scientific basis for the so-called endangerment finding -- which cleared the way for the EPA to curb carbon dioxide emissions -- from Texas and Virginia and groups like the Ohio Coal Association. With the U.S. Senate abandoning climate measures ... http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE66S52720100729?feedType=RSS&feedName=environmentNews&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+reuters%2Fenvironment+%28News+%2F+US+%2F+Environment%29 http://www.climateark.org/shared/reader/welcome.aspx?linkid=176048 29 Jul 2010 11:00:00 PST climate EPA greenhouse endangerment | North America | United States info@ecologicalinternet.org (Reuters: Deborah Zabarenko) Reuters: Three months into the worst oil spill in U.S. history, most Californians oppose offshore drilling, marking a strong shift in opinion on the issue, a poll has found. Some 59 percent of residents say they are against drilling for oil off the state's coastline while 36 percent are in favor, according to the Public Policy Institute of California survey released on Wednesday. Last year the same poll showed 43 percent were opposed to offshore drilling and 51 percent ... http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100729/us_nm/us_oil_spill_california_poll http://www.climateark.org/shared/reader/welcome.aspx?linkid=176038 29 Jul 2010 11:00:00 PST offshore drilling oppose | North America | United States info@ecologicalinternet.org (Reuters: Dan Whitcomb) Bloomberg: The Obama administration rejected challenges to its finding last year that climate change caused by emissions of greenhouse gases is a danger to public health. The Environmental Protection Agency found that 10 petitions contesting the decision as flawed "provide no evidence to undermine our determination," Administrator Lisa Jackson said today in a statement. Industry groups, including the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, have said the EPA's carbon rules will be a drag on the ... http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-07-29/epa-rejects-challenges-to-finding-that-climate-change-is-threat-to-health.html http://www.climateark.org/shared/reader/welcome.aspx?linkid=176037 29 Jul 2010 11:00:00 PST climate health threat | North America | United States info@ecologicalinternet.org (Bloomberg: John Hughes and Jim Efstathiou Jr) Associated Press: Partisan disagreements in the Senate will delay passage of legislation responding to the Gulf oil spill until at least September, when Congress returns from its summer recess. The House is scheduled to vote on its bill Friday but will be out of town by the time the Senate takes up its version next week -- meaning Congress would have to wait to reconcile the differences. The Senate might not have the necessary 60 votes to advance the Democrats' energy and oil spill legislation, anyway, ... http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100729/ap_on_bi_ge/us_gulf_oil_spill_congress http://www.climateark.org/shared/reader/welcome.aspx?linkid=176029 29 Jul 2010 11:00:00 PST oil spill politics gulf | North America | United States info@ecologicalinternet.org (Associated Press: Frederic J. Frommer) ScienceDaily: In an unprecedented effort that will be published online on the 28th of July by the international journal Nature, a team of scientists mapped and analyzed global biodiversity patterns for over 11,000 marine species ranging from tiny zooplankton to sharks and whales. The researchers found striking similarities among the distribution patterns, with temperature strongly linked to biodiversity for all thirteen groups studied. These results imply that future changes in ocean temperature, such as ... http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/07/100728131707.htm http://www.climateark.org/shared/reader/welcome.aspx?linkid=176020 28 Jul 2010 11:00:00 PST ocean warming marine biodiversity | Worldwide/General | info@ecologicalinternet.org (ScienceDaily: none given) ScienceDaily: A new article published in the 29 July issue of the journal Nature reveals for the first time that microscopic marine algae known as "phytoplankton" have been declining globally over the 20th century. Phytoplankton forms the basis of the marine food chain and sustains diverse assemblages of species ranging from tiny zooplankton to large marine mammals, seabirds, and fish. Says lead author Daniel Boyce, "Phytoplankton is the fuel on which marine ecosystems run. A decline of phytoplankton ... http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/07/100728131705.htm http://www.climateark.org/shared/reader/welcome.aspx?linkid=176019 28 Jul 2010 11:00:00 PST marine food chain phytoplankton | Worldwide/General | info@ecologicalinternet.org (ScienceDaily: none given) ScienceDaily: Heat waves like those that baked the Northeast in July are likely to be more frequent and more intense in the future, with their effects amplified in densely built urban environments like Manhattan, according to climate scientists at The City College of New York (CCNY). "Manhattan is subject to an urban heat island effect because its physical landscape is significantly different from the surrounding suburbs," said Dr. Jorge Gonzalez, NOAA-CREST Professor of Mechanical Engineering in ... http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/07/100729101613.htm?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+sciencedaily+%28ScienceDaily%3A+Latest+Science+News%29 http://www.climateark.org/shared/reader/welcome.aspx?linkid=176017 29 Jul 2010 11:00:00 PST climate heatwave urban | North America | United States info@ecologicalinternet.org (ScienceDaily: none given) redOrbit: The Earth has been getting warmer over the past 50 years, and the past decade was the hottest in recorded history, according to the results of the 2009 State of the Climate report, which were released on Wednesday. The findings--the work of over 300 scientists from 160 different research organizations in 48 countries--analyzed "10 key climate indicators that all point to the same finding: the scientific evidence that our world is warming is unmistakable," according to a National ... http://www.redorbit.com/news/science/1898036/climate_study_finds_evidence_of_continued_global_warming/index.html?source=r_science http://www.climateark.org/shared/reader/welcome.aspx?linkid=176015 29 Jul 2010 11:00:00 PST global warming undeniable evidence | Worldwide/General | info@ecologicalinternet.org (redOrbit: none given) Economist: "THE one approach I will not accept," said Barack Obama in June of Congress's faltering efforts to fight global warming, "is inaction." Instead, the president instructed America's lawmakers to "seriously tackle our addiction to fossil fuels". Yet the energy bill unveiled by the Democratic majority in the Senate on July 27th does nothing of the sort. Harry Reid, the majority leader, having earlier abandoned as hopeless an effort to limit America's emissions of greenhouse gases through a ... http://www.economist.com/node/16693691?story_id=16693691&fsrc=rss http://www.climateark.org/shared/reader/welcome.aspx?linkid=176009 29 Jul 2010 11:00:00 PST climate bill emnsions failure | North America | United States info@ecologicalinternet.org (Economist: none given) Agence France-Presse: Greenpeace made fresh allegations Thursday that units of Indonesian paper and palm oil giant Sinar Mas are clearing high conservation-value forests including habitats of endangered orangutans. Greenpeace Indonesia forest campaigner Bustar Maitar said new investigations showed Sinar Mas subsidiaries logging peat forests and orangutan habitats on Borneo island despite repeated promises to end such practices. "Our photos provide fresh evidence of Sinar Mas's continued active ... http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100729/sc_afp/indonesiaforestsenvironmentspeciescompanysinarmas http://www.climateark.org/shared/reader/welcome.aspx?linkid=176007 29 Jul 2010 11:00:00 PST rainforest oil palm | East/South-East Asia | Indonesia info@ecologicalinternet.org (Agence France-Presse: Stephen Coates) Associated Press: Texas environmental regulators have formally proposed beefing up regulations on oil and gas drilling, in an attempt to reduce air pollution caused when companies use new technology to extract natural gas trapped in deep shales. The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality formally submitted the proposal on Wednesday, and the rules will enter a one-month public comment phase on Aug. 13. The new rules come after the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality was accused of having ... http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100729/ap_on_bi_ge/tx_gas_drilling_environment http://www.climateark.org/shared/reader/welcome.aspx?linkid=176005 29 Jul 2010 11:00:00 PST oil shale drilling rules | North America | United States info@ecologicalinternet.org (Associated Press: none given) Business Green: Britain should renegotiate its commitment to close old coal- and oil-fired power stations by 2015, so it can decarbonise generating capacity without racking up high costs for business and consumers, claims a report from energy analysts to be published next week. The European Large Combustion Plant Directive (LCPD), first drawn up in 1988, imposes tough limits on emissions of sulphur and nitrogen oxides. To stay within those limits, coal-fired stations will have to fit expensive ... http://www.businessgreen.com/business-green/news/2267316/keep-coal-fires-burning-bit http://www.climateark.org/shared/reader/welcome.aspx?linkid=176004 29 Jul 2010 11:00:00 PST coal future | Europe | United Kingdom info@ecologicalinternet.org (Business Green: Andrew Charlesworth) Business Green: Coincidental with DECC's release of its energy review, consultancy Arthur D Little is publishing a report on energy policy, Realigning UK energy policy -- from a high-cost, low-output system to a robust, cost-efficient infrastructure. BusinessGreen.com spoke to Nick White, UK managing director and energy practice leader at the consultancy and co-author of the report. BusinessGreen.com: Your report is quite critical of UK energy policy up until now, especially the recent emphasis on ... http://www.businessgreen.com/business-green/analysis/2267318/energy-policy-smart-meters http://www.climateark.org/shared/reader/welcome.aspx?linkid=176001 29 Jul 2010 11:00:00 PST energy policy | Europe | United Kingdom info@ecologicalinternet.org (Business Green: Andrew Charlesworth) New York Tiimes: There is evidently no form of energy, including renewable energy, that lacks opposition. A big spat right now centers on biomass power plants. Biomass is a broad category that encompasses everything from burning whole trees to burning leftover wood chips, agricultural residues or household garbage. The focus of the argument is currently in Massachusetts, where state regulators are considering raising the bar for biomass plants. Supporters say that cutting down trees to make ... http://green.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/07/29/fight-gears-up-on-biomass/ http://www.climateark.org/shared/reader/welcome.aspx?linkid=175995 29 Jul 2010 11:00:00 PST biomass policy fight | North America | United States info@ecologicalinternet.org (New York Tiimes: Matthew L. Wald) Associated Press: An expert on marine sciences and coastal circulation says it's unlikely oil from BP's massive spill in the Gulf of Mexico will reach the East Coast. Roy He of North Carolina State University said Thursday the chances are low in part because the well is capped for now. BP expects to permanently kill it soon. He also says large amounts of oil haven't been observed in the Loop Current, which could carry oil around Florida and into East Coast waters. He also points to the ongoing ... http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100729/ap_on_bi_ge/us_gulf_oil_spill_east_coast http://www.climateark.org/shared/reader/welcome.aspx?linkid=175993 29 Jul 2010 11:00:00 PST oil spill gulf east coast | North America | United States info@ecologicalinternet.org (Associated Press: none given) Financial Times: Since comprehensive studies of the world's climate began 20 years ago, the evidence for global warming has been steadily growing. Study after study has found temperatures on land and at sea increasing, while the Arctic ice sheet has diminished in extent and thickness, and sea levels have risen. These studies were drawn together in the landmark report on climate change produced by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change in 2007. The 3,000-page report said climate change ... http://www.ft.com/cms/s/77bc6952-9a7b-11df-87fd-00144feab49a,Authorised=false.html?_i_location=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ft.com%2Fcms%2Fs%2F0%2F77bc6952-9a7b-11df-87fd-00144feab49a.html&_i_referer= http://www.climateark.org/shared/reader/welcome.aspx?linkid=175990 28 Jul 2010 11:00:00 PST climate data undeniable | Worldwide/General | info@ecologicalinternet.org (Financial Times: Fiona Harvey) ALLAFRICA: Rwanda Environment Management Authority (REMA), On Tuesday, launched a four year project aimed at protecting the population from the negative effects of climate change. Speaking during the launch, the environmental consultant, Mito Toshikazu, said the project will curtail future climate change consequences such as floods and landslides. "The project will reduce the causes of climate change by reducing the emission of greenhouse gases," Mito said. "It will sensitize the ... http://allafrica.com/stories/201007290381.html http://www.climateark.org/shared/reader/welcome.aspx?linkid=175983 29 Jul 2010 11:00:00 PST climate change project | Africa | info@ecologicalinternet.org (ALLAFRICA: none given) Business Green: The Mayor of London's cycle hire scheme sponsored by Barclays Bank launches tomorrow with cycles available for pre-registered members from 6am. Mayor Boris Johnson, himself a keen cyclist, has enthusiastically fronted the schem which aims to generate up to 40,000 extra cycle trips a day in central London, reducing car journeys, easing congestion on public transport and helping citizens to lead healthier life styles. But the scheme is not cheap to use. The initial £3 joining ... http://www.businessgreen.com/business-green/news/2267294/boris-bike-scheme-goes-live http://www.climateark.org/shared/reader/welcome.aspx?linkid=175982 29 Jul 2010 11:00:00 PST transportation bike London | Europe | United Kingdom info@ecologicalinternet.org (Business Green: Andrew Charlesworth) Yale Environment 360: Following the rocky path of climate legislation in the U.S. Congress these past years brought me back to the 1980s, and my time as a crime reporter in New York City. After a shooting in those days, a homicide detective named Marty Davin would go to the hospital and intercept the gunshot victim on a gurney outside the emergency room. If the victim was conscious, Davin would lean over and ask, "Who killed you?" That usually got the victim's attention, along with an I'm-not-dead-yet ... http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2010/jul/29/wrecked-us-climate-bill http://www.climateark.org/shared/reader/welcome.aspx?linkid=175981 29 Jul 2010 11:00:00 PST climate bill Senate failure | North America | United States info@ecologicalinternet.org (Yale Environment 360: Eric Pooley) CBC: Ocean warming such as that due to climate change may rearrange the distribution of marine life, harming some species, according to a new study conducted by researchers from Dalhousie University in Halifax. A newly discovered species and genus of the burrower loriciferan, found at 4,141 metres depth in the Atlantic's Guinea Basin south of Cote d'Ivoire, Africa, is seen in this photo taken during the Census of Marine Life. (Census of Marine Life) However, the study published ... http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2010/07/28/marine-biodiversity-study.html http://www.climateark.org/shared/reader/welcome.aspx?linkid=175979 29 Jul 2010 11:00:00 PST global warming ocean warming | Worldwide/General | info@ecologicalinternet.org (CBC: none given) Business Week: Boone Pickens, the billionaire energy hedge-fund manager, and Home Depot Inc., the largest U.S. home-improvement retailer, are winners in energy legislation that fails to help solar-panel and wind-turbine makers. The measure proposed yesterday by Senate Democrats would give Pickens victory in his lobbying campaign for more use of natural gas, providing $3.8 billion in rebates for cars and trucks powered by the fuel. Home Depot would benefit from provisions to channel $5 billion in ... http://www.businessweek.com/news/2010-07-28/pickens-home-depot-win-in-senate-s-energy-measure.html http://www.climateark.org/shared/reader/welcome.aspx?linkid=175978 29 Jul 2010 11:00:00 PST energy measure Senate | North America | United States info@ecologicalinternet.org (Business Week: none given) Bradenton: The developer of a proposed biomass power-generating plant near Port Manatee has scored its first legal victory, but the battle over the project is not yet over. An administrative law judge recommended Wednesday that the state approve a proposed Manatee County land-use change that would allow the plant at U.S. 41 and Armstrong Road. In doing so, the judge rejected a neighboring property owner's contention that the change did not meet state law. "Petitioner has failed to ... http://www.bradenton.com/2010/07/29/2466663/judge-backs-biomass-land-use-change.html http://www.climateark.org/shared/reader/welcome.aspx?linkid=175977 29 Jul 2010 11:00:00 PST land use change | North America | United States info@ecologicalinternet.org (Bradenton: Duane Marsteller) Reuters: "Three-quarters of the fields are still under water. Maize, plantains, okra and pasture are all lost," José Asencio told IPS at the village of Santa Ana Mixtán in southern Guatemala, the area worst affected by tropical storm Agatha. The villagers have been working for food in order to survive. "We've been shoring up the banks of the Coyolate and Mascalate rivers, and the mayor has been giving us food rations, although we haven't received any for the past two weeks because supplies have run ... http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/ips/73b7489bb3c5811e3734645b9e9885cb.htm http://www.climateark.org/shared/reader/welcome.aspx?linkid=175975 29 Jul 2010 11:00:00 PST climate extremes fuel hunger | South/Central America/Caribbean | info@ecologicalinternet.org (Reuters: Danilo Valladares) Star: Some 90% of Malaysia's corals are dead due to global warming, and the reefs may never recover unless the people switch to a greener lifestyle. Universiti Sains Malaysia marine biologist Prof Dr Zulfigar Yassin said the lack of coral reefs, which provide a home to many marine species, would lead to fewer fishes in the ocean and hurt the fishing industry. Noting that coral life depends on how long it has been exposed to bleaching and its frequency, he said that even with measures ... http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2010/7/29/nation/6746036&sec=nation http://www.climateark.org/shared/reader/welcome.aspx?linkid=175974 29 Jul 2010 11:00:00 PST corals brink | Worldwide/General | info@ecologicalinternet.org (Star: none given) Reuters: Greece said on Wednesday it will invest 12 billion euros ($15.59 billion) on environmental and energy projects over the next five years to boost its ailing economy and create new jobs. The projects, ranging from renewables to town planning, may attract an additional 32 billion euros of private funds and create 192,000 jobs, Environment Minister Tina Birbili said. Greece needs to spur economic growth to fight rising unemployment and generate revenues to help pay down its debt ... http://planetark.org/enviro-news/item/58963 http://www.climateark.org/shared/reader/welcome.aspx?linkid=175973 29 Jul 2010 11:00:00 PST green growth 2015 | Europe | Greece info@ecologicalinternet.org (Reuters: none given) Jakarta Globe: Ice core samples from Eemian period 130,000 to 115,000 years ago -- the last time Earth's climate was a few degrees warmer than today -- could help forecast the impacts of current global warming, the researchers said. "Our findings will increase our knowledge on the climate system and increase our ability to predict the speed and final height of sea level rise," said Dorthe Dahl-Jensen, an ice expert at the University of Copenhagen and head of the project. "If the Eemian was ... http://www.thejakartaglobe.com/afp/earths-climate-future-may-be-etched-in-greenland-bedrock/388350 http://www.climateark.org/shared/reader/welcome.aspx?linkid=175969 29 Jul 2010 11:00:00 PST climate future Greenland | Worldwide/General | info@ecologicalinternet.org (Jakarta Globe: Marlowe Hood) San Francisco Chronicle: The next phase in the rebirth of the electric car is turning into a battle between General Motors and Nissan Motor Co. GM executives, speaking Tuesday at a plug-in car conference in San Jose, said their Chevrolet Volt will cost $41,000 when it hits the market later this year. The price had been the subject of intense speculation for years. That price puts the Volt in competition with the electric Nissan Leaf, which will cost $32,780 when it appears in December. Buyers of both ... http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/07/27/BUMA1EKNEO.DTL http://www.climateark.org/shared/reader/welcome.aspx?linkid=175968 29 Jul 2010 11:00:00 PST electric car Nissan | North America | United States info@ecologicalinternet.org (San Francisco Chronicle: David R. Baker) ClimateWire: What appears to be a bonfire of low-carbon energy subsidies has been lit in Europe as cash-strapped countries grapple with their empty coffers and start to cut back on what many see as over-generous support for industries from wind to solar that has created a green energy bubble. Spain, Germany, France, Italy and the Czech Republic have all announced subsidy cuts, and there are fears that the United Kingdom, making budget cuts across the board as it desperately seeks to reduce a ... http://www.nytimes.com/cwire/2010/07/29/29climatewire-europe-slashes-low-carbon-energy-subsidies-a-61653.html http://www.climateark.org/shared/reader/welcome.aspx?linkid=175967 29 Jul 2010 11:00:00 PST low carbon subsidies cut | Europe | info@ecologicalinternet.org (ClimateWire: Jeremy Lovell) Metro News: When samples were dragged up from the ocean to the deck of the Canadian Coast Guard ship Hudson in the past month, scientists found more than they bargained for. Kevin MacIsaac, a Dartmouth-based scientist, said some undiscovered sea creatures tagged along for the ride. They found 10 possibly brand new species of coral and sponges, as well as others that are new to this area. Some of the samples will give scientists a better understanding of the effects of climate change ... http://www.metronews.ca/halifax/local/article/589467--sea-finds-offer-clues-to-climate-change http://www.climateark.org/shared/reader/welcome.aspx?linkid=175964 29 Jul 2010 11:00:00 PST climate change sea | Worldwide/General | info@ecologicalinternet.org (Metro News: none given) LA Times: The world's phytoplankton appear to have been disappearing at a rate of about 1% a year for the last century, researchers announced Wednesday, a disturbing long-term trend for the microscopic algae that form the basis of the marine food chain and produce much of the world's oxygen. In reporting their findings in the journal Nature, the Canadian team said that, since 1950, phytoplankton biomass has shrunk about 40%. Scientists had known the population was shrinking, but the long-term ... http://www.latimes.com/news/science/la-sci-phytoplankton-20100729,0,6579046.story http://www.climateark.org/shared/reader/welcome.aspx?linkid=175963 29 Jul 2010 11:00:00 PST phytoplankton dying | Worldwide/General | info@ecologicalinternet.org (LA Times: Amina Khan) LA Times: As peat fires raged on the outskirts of town, shrouding Moscow in a thick cloud of smog, residents Wednesday sought to cope with a record-breaking heat wave that is expected to intensify further. Public health officials urged workers in non-essential jobs to stay home and people not to drive their cars as weather forecasters predicted temperatures exceeding 102 degrees Thursday, in a city more used to icy spells than such heat. With more than 1,480 fires in two weeks, the smog ... http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-moscow-smog-fires-20100729,0,855546.story http://www.climateark.org/shared/reader/welcome.aspx?linkid=175962 29 Jul 2010 11:00:00 PST climate heatwave record smog | Europe | Russia info@ecologicalinternet.org (LA Times: Sergei L. Loiko) Journal Gazette: The campaign to delay or even derail a proposed increase in the amount of ethanol in gasoline sold at U.S. pumps is misguided, Sen. Richard Lugar, R-Ind., said Wednesday. Two environmental groups have joined with the oil industry to lobby Congress and the Environmental Protection Agency against a proposal to increase the amount of ethanol in gas to 15 percent. The EPA has said it will announce by the end of September whether tests show that newer car engines can handle fuel with 15 ... http://www.journalgazette.net/article/20100729/NEWS03/307299925/1002/LOCAL http://www.climateark.org/shared/reader/welcome.aspx?linkid=175961 29 Jul 2010 11:00:00 PST ethanol politics | North America | United States info@ecologicalinternet.org (Journal Gazette: Sylvia A. Smith) United Press International: Defiling the nameplate of Saudi Arabia at a U.N. climate change summit in Germany in June was unacceptable, environmental group WWF said. An unnamed employee of the World Wide Fund for Nature at the June meeting of the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change caused a stir when the employee broke the nameplate of Saudi Arabia, dropped it into a toilet and distributed photographs of the defilement, the BBC reported. Oil-rich Saudi Arabia is often the target of environmental ... http://www.upi.com/Science_News/Resource-Wars/2010/07/29/WWF-sorry-for-Saudi-offenses/UPI-93741280409845/ http://www.climateark.org/shared/reader/welcome.aspx?linkid=175960 29 Jul 2010 11:00:00 PST climate protest | Middle East | Saudi Arabia info@ecologicalinternet.org (United Press International: none given) LA Times: For decades, Republicans who won statewide office in California found success, at least in part, by showing sensitivity to voters' commitment to protecting the environment. But with state unemployment hovering at more than 12%, the two GOP candidates at the top of the ticket this year are betting that voters' concerns about jobs and economic uncertainty will trump any desire for environmental crusades. Republican Senate nominee Carly Fiorina has spent months charging Democratic ... http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-environment-20100729,0,5523418.story http://www.climateark.org/shared/reader/welcome.aspx?linkid=175945 29 Jul 2010 11:00:00 PST environment politics Republicans | North America | United States info@ecologicalinternet.org (LA Times: Maeve Reston) Australian Broadcasting Corporation: We all know climate change was a major issue in the 2007 election. So much so that both Labor and the Coalition pledged to implement an emissions trading scheme in order to reduce the nation's carbon footprint. But those days are over: Copenhagen, the GFC, Tony Abbott's rise, climate-gate and glacier-gate have changed the politics of global warming. In 2010, although the media has dedicated much time and interest to both Labor and the Coalition's climate platforms, the issue itself is ... http://www.abc.net.au/unleashed/stories/s2967794.htm http://www.climateark.org/shared/reader/welcome.aspx?linkid=175943 29 Jul 2010 11:00:00 PST climate adaptation policy | Pacific/Oceania | Australia info@ecologicalinternet.org (Australian Broadcasting Corporation: Tom Switzer) Austin Chronicle: Without Climate Change This map shows the anticipated risk of water shortages using traditional water-supply modeling. The predictions are based on "business-as-usual" assumptions about growth, energy and water consumption, agriculture, and so forth. Under that traditional scenario, Travis County rates high for risk of shortages. The global-warming perils for polar bears can seem pretty remote, but a new study released last week by the Natural Resources Defense Council brings the ... http://www.austinchronicle.com/gyrobase/Issue/story?oid=oid:1063456 http://www.climateark.org/shared/reader/welcome.aspx?linkid=175942 29 Jul 2010 11:00:00 PST climate change lines | North America | United States info@ecologicalinternet.org (Austin Chronicle: Katherine Gregor) Associated Press: In 1969, Sen. Gaylord Nelson was so moved after seeing the devastation of an oil spill off the California coast near Santa Barbara that he called for a national teach-in on the environment. The resulting "Earth Day" the following year kick-started the modern environmental movement and shaped the way Americans thought about their air, water and soil. Forty years later, the magnitude of the Gulf oil spill far exceeds Santa Barbara's spill of up to 100,000 barrels, but there hasn't been ... http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100729/ap_on_bi_ge/us_gulf_oil_spill_shaping_society http://www.climateark.org/shared/reader/welcome.aspx?linkid=175936 29 Jul 2010 11:00:00 PST gulf spill lack public interest | North America | United States info@ecologicalinternet.org (Associated Press: Frederic J. Frommer) Time: President Obama has called the BP oil spill "the worst environmental disaster America has ever faced," and so has just about everyone else. Green groups are sounding alarms about the "Catastrophe Along the Gulf Coast," while CBS, Fox and MSNBC slap "Disaster in the Gulf" chryons on all their spill-related news. Even BP fall guy Tony Hayward, after some early happy talk, admitted the spill was an "environmental catastrophe." The obnoxious anti-environmentalist Rush Limbaugh has been a rare ... http://news.yahoo.com/s/time/20100729/us_time/08599200720200 http://www.climateark.org/shared/reader/welcome.aspx?linkid=175932 29 Jul 2010 11:00:00 PST oil spill gulf damage exaggerated | North America | United States info@ecologicalinternet.org (Time: Michael Grunwald) Glenwood Springs Post Independent: The battle to get Americans to accept the science behind climate change has been "lost," an expert at the Aspen Environment Forum declared Wednesday, but there's still a way to win the war to reduce carbon emissions. Jonathan Foley, director of the Institute on the Environment at the University of Minnesota, said leaders on climate change need to concentrate on changing behavior in ways that appeal to people -- and also happen to reduce carbon emissions. "Climate scientists -- ... http://www.postindependent.com/article/20100729/VALLEYNEWS/100729865/1083&ParentProfile=1074 http://www.climateark.org/shared/reader/welcome.aspx?linkid=175930 29 Jul 2010 11:00:00 PST climate change debate | North America | United States info@ecologicalinternet.org (Glenwood Springs Post Independent: none given) BBC: Russia has some of the largest energy reserves in the world, but it keeps searching for new sources - even if it means going underwater. Two Russian deep-water submersibles have once again taken a dive in Lake Baikal, to study recently found fields of gas hydrates, a possible fuel of the future. Baikal is the world's deepest, oldest freshwater basin and one of the most biologically diverse. Located in East Siberia close to the Mongolian border, the lake holds one-fifth ... http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-10796629 http://www.climateark.org/shared/reader/welcome.aspx?linkid=175927 29 Jul 2010 11:00:00 PST ocean energy deepwater | Europe | Russia info@ecologicalinternet.org (BBC: Katia Moskvitch) Reuters: A fleet of 6,000 bicycles for hire will hit the streets of central London on Friday when the city's mayor Boris Johnson launches a scheme intended to fuel a cycling revolution in the congested capital. The initiative, which follows similar projects in cities including Paris and Montreal, aims to ease overcrowding on London's commuter network, with 400 bicycle "docking stations" from Notting Hill in the west to the Tower of London in the east. "The new system could transform the ... http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE66S20S20100729?feedType=RSS&feedName=environmentNews&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+reuters%2Fenvironment+%28News+%2F+US+%2F+Environment%29 http://www.climateark.org/shared/reader/welcome.aspx?linkid=175919 29 Jul 2010 11:00:00 PST congested Londoners bikes | Europe | United Kingdom info@ecologicalinternet.org (Reuters: none given) Reuters: BP has tapped HSBC to sell its stake in the Nam Con Son gas project in Vietnam, as it scrambles to hive off $30 billion of assets to pay for the clean-up of the worst oil spill in U.S. history, three sources said. The British oil giant, which is on a campaign to sell a host of assets from Pakistan to Egypt, said last week it is seeking a buyer for its stake in the Nam Con Son gas project offshore southern Ho Chi Minh City, worth $966 million by one estimate. India's state-run ... http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100729/ts_nm/us_bp_vietnam http://www.climateark.org/shared/reader/welcome.aspx?linkid=175914 29 Jul 2010 11:00:00 PST oil spill BP sell assets | East/South-East Asia | Vietnam info@ecologicalinternet.org (Reuters: Joseph Chaney and Quentin Webb) Mongabay: With 18,000 islands spanning two major bigeographic realms (and a curious outlier in Sulawesi) across an area of nearly 2 million square kilometers, Indonesia is one of the world's most biodiverse countries. It has the world's third largest extent of tropical forests, has the planet's richest coral reefs, and is home to more than 12 percent of plant and animal species. Indonesia is culturally rich as well. Its hundreds of cultures speak more than 500 languages. But Indonesia's ... http://news.mongabay.com/2010/0729-interview_meijaard.html http://www.climateark.org/shared/reader/welcome.aspx?linkid=175911 29 Jul 2010 11:00:00 PST rainforest orangutan local people | East/South-East Asia | Indonesia info@ecologicalinternet.org (Mongabay: Rhett Butler) Washington Post: Scientists from around the world are providing even more evidence of global warming, one day after President Barack Obama renewed his call for climate legislation. "A comprehensive review of key climate indicators confirms the world is warming and the past decade was the warmest on record," the annual State of the Climate report declares. Compiled by more than 300 scientists from 48 countries, the report said its analysis of 10 indicators that are "clearly and directly related ... http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/07/28/AR2010072803904.html http://www.climateark.org/shared/reader/welcome.aspx?linkid=175910 29 Jul 2010 11:00:00 PST global warming continuing | Worldwide/General | info@ecologicalinternet.org (Washington Post: none given) Canadian Press: Canadian researchers hope to stem the global IT industry's rampant output of greenhouse gas emissions by perfecting a way to host the Internet's content purely on green power. And if their experiment succeeds, Canada could essentially become the world's largest Internet server -- powered with almost no carbon footprint -- and help reduce one of the most significant, growing sources of pollution. The GreenStar Network is a two-year project funded by the Canadian Advanced Network ... http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/technology/canadian-researchers-hope-to-green-the-web-and-make-canada-the-worlds-web-server/article1654917/ http://www.climateark.org/shared/reader/welcome.aspx?linkid=175909 29 Jul 2010 11:00:00 PST energy Internet renewable | North America | Canada info@ecologicalinternet.org (Canadian Press: Michael Oliveira) Shanghai Daily: SHANGHAI has completed construction of a 523-kilometer flood-control dike able to combat severe flooding, local officials told a disaster risk reduction forum in Shanghai yesterday, the 34th anniversary of the Tangshan Earthquake. The 7.8-magnitude earthquake which hit Hebei Province's Tangshan City in July 28, 1976, killed more than 242,000 people. The forum organizer, the DEVNET Pavilion at the World Expo, teamed up United Nations' agencies and local governments to gather ... http://www.shanghaidaily.com/sp/article/2010/201007/20100729/article_444621.htm http://www.climateark.org/shared/reader/welcome.aspx?linkid=175908 29 Jul 2010 11:00:00 PST climate flood Shanghai | East/South-East Asia | China info@ecologicalinternet.org (Shanghai Daily: Cai Wenjun and Li We)