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/ Guardian: Companies across Europe are hoarding permits to produce greenhouse gas emissions worth hundreds of millions of pounds, the Guardian can reveal. The surplus credits have been amassed from over-allocation of permits to pollute from the European emissions trading scheme, and by buying cheap credits from carbon-cutting projects in developing countries and holding on to their more expensive official EU allowances. The saved permits can be used to meet future targets to cut the ... http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2010/mar/11/industries-greenhouse-gas-emission-permits http://www.climateark.org/shared/reader/welcome.aspx?linkid=154840 11 Mar 2010 11:00:00 PST greenhouse gas permits emissions hoard | Europe | info@ecologicalinternet.org (Guardian: Juliette Jowit and Tim Webb) Associated Press: A judge ruled Thursday that Chevron can proceed with an international arbitration claim against Ecuador related to a 17-year-old court battle over rain forest contamination in that South American nation. U.S. District Judge Leonard Sand in Manhattan rejected an attempt by Ecuador to block the arbitration but also said his decision was limited in scope and left the arbitration panel to decide what, if anything, it will hear and when. His ruling does not directly affect the ... http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100311/ap_on_bi_ge/us_chevron_ecuador http://www.climateark.org/shared/reader/welcome.aspx?linkid=154839 11 Mar 2010 11:00:00 PST rainforest oil Chevron | North America | United States info@ecologicalinternet.org (Associated Press: Larry Neumeister) Associated Press: AUSTIN, Texas -- An Interior Department report says global climate change poses a significant threat to migratory bird populations already stressed by the loss of habitat and environmental pollution. U.S. Interior Secretary Ken Salazar joined scientists and conservation organizers at an Austin news conference Thursday to release a study entitled "The State of the Birds: 2010 Report on Climate Change." The report says oceanic birds, such as petrels and albatrosses, are at ... http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ap/tx/6908657.html http://www.climateark.org/shared/reader/welcome.aspx?linkid=154836 11 Mar 2010 11:00:00 PST climate birds threatened | North America | United States info@ecologicalinternet.org (Associated Press: none given) Associated Press: The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency says it will consider ways the states can address rising levels of carbon dioxide in oceans. The agency on Thursday settled a lawsuit filed last year by the Center for Biological Diversity in San Francisco. The problem stems from oceans absorbing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and results in the rising acidity of the water. It seriously threatens shellfish and other marine life. The lawsuit accused the EPA of acting improperly ... http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100311/ap_on_bi_ge/us_epa_acid_oceans http://www.climateark.org/shared/reader/welcome.aspx?linkid=154835 11 Mar 2010 11:00:00 PST ocean acidity state policy | North America | United States info@ecologicalinternet.org (Associated Press: Gene Johnson) Agence France-Presse: Europe's most powerful solar power plant is set to start operations in Italy later this year, the US company building the installation on an area as large as 120 football pitches said on Thursday. The plant in Rovigo near Venice in northeast Italy will take up 850,000 square metres (9.15 million square feet) and produce 72 megawatts, SunEdison said in a statement announcing the start of construction. The current biggest plant in Europe, located in Spain, produces 60 megawatts ... http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100311/sc_afp/italyuselectricityenergyalternativecompanysunedison http://www.climateark.org/shared/reader/welcome.aspx?linkid=154833 11 Mar 2010 11:00:00 PST solar plant biggest | Europe | Italy info@ecologicalinternet.org (Agence France-Presse: none given) Physorg: The increased frequency and intensity of oxygen-deprived "dead zones" along the world's coasts can negatively impact environmental conditions in far more than just local waters. In the March 12 edition of the journal Science, University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science oceanographer Dr. Lou Codispoti explains that the increased amount of nitrous oxide (N2O) produced in low-oxygen (hypoxic) waters can elevate concentrations in the atmosphere, further exacerbating the impacts of ... http://www.physorg.com/news187537818.html http://www.climateark.org/shared/reader/welcome.aspx?linkid=154831 11 Mar 2010 11:00:00 PST ocean warming dead zone | Worldwide/General | info@ecologicalinternet.org (Physorg: none given) SciDev.Net: A rise in temperature leads to the spread of malaria, according to a review of conflicting studies. The review, which assessed over 70 studies that set out to untangle the link between rising temperatures and malaria incidence, says those studies that have found a link are based on more robust statistical methods than those that have not. It is widely believed that vector-borne diseases are set to worsen with climate change. But the links are complex and some argue that ... http://www.scidev.net/en/climate-change-and-energy/temperature-rise-spreads-malaria-scientists-insist.html?utm_source=link&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=en_climatechangeandenergy http://www.climateark.org/shared/reader/welcome.aspx?linkid=154830 10 Mar 2010 11:00:00 PST climate malaria | Worldwide/General | info@ecologicalinternet.org (SciDev.Net: Justine Davies) Bloomberg: Americans are less concerned about the threat of climate change than they were two years ago and almost half say the seriousness of global warming is overblown, a Gallup Organization Inc. poll shows. Thirty-two percent of people questioned said they believe climate change will affect them or their way of life, down from a high of 40 percent in 2008, according to the survey by Gallup, a Washington-based polling company. Two-thirds say global warming won't affect them in their ... http://www.businessweek.com/news/2010-03-11/americans-less-concerned-about-climate-change-gallup-poll-says.html http://www.climateark.org/shared/reader/welcome.aspx?linkid=154828 11 Mar 2010 11:00:00 PST climate public less concern | North America | United States info@ecologicalinternet.org (Bloomberg: Kim Chipman and Simon Lomax) Deutsche-Presse Agentur: US greenhouse gas emissions fell 2.9 per cent in 2008 amid a recession and record high petrol prices, according to a preliminary estimate Tuesday from the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). Lower demand for electricity and petrol helped drive down energy use over the course of the year in the United States, which along with China is the world's largest polluter. Total greenhouse gas emissions, which are blamed for global warming, have climbed nearly 13.6 per cent in the US ... http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/313251,us-greenhouse-gas-emissions-fell-29-per-cent-in-2008.html http://www.climateark.org/shared/reader/welcome.aspx?linkid=154819 09 Mar 2010 11:00:00 PST greenhouse gas emissions fall | North America | United States info@ecologicalinternet.org (Deutsche-Presse Agentur: none given) Culture Change: What was required for a growing economy, that was supposed to uplift all of modern humanity, is at root a false notion for the manipulated public: the overwhelming majority must work for others to enrich the few so that all of society benefits through unlimited expansion. This problematic profit-scheme is failing to hold up, what with general economic uncertainty on the rise (apart from "Hope") and the advanced depletion of easily extracted, cheap oil. To put even greater pressure on ... http://www.culturechange.org/cms/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=611&Itemid=66 http://www.climateark.org/shared/reader/welcome.aspx?linkid=154816 11 Mar 2010 11:00:00 PST peak oil growth jobs | Worldwide/General | info@ecologicalinternet.org (Culture Change: Jan Lundberg) Agence France-Presse: A worsening drought is exacting a terrible toll on the world-famous mountain rice terraces of the northern Philippines, local officials said Tuesday. A state of calamity was this week declared for the Banaue area that is home to many of the ancient stone-walled paddies and one of the Southeast Asian nation's most popular tourist destinations, the officials said. "The tourists still come here, but all they see are parched fields and forest fires and leave disappointed," Abriol ... http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100309/sc_afp/philippinesdroughtheritageenvironment_20100309181327 http://www.climateark.org/shared/reader/welcome.aspx?linkid=154810 09 Mar 2010 11:00:00 PST climate food rice drought | East/South-East Asia | Philippines info@ecologicalinternet.org (Agence France-Presse: none given) Guardian: Public belief in climate science has seen a precipitous slide in the US, according to new polling that suggests fewer Americans are concerned about the threat posed by global warming. Nearly half of Americans – 48% – now believe the threat of global warming has been exaggerated, the highest level since polling began 13 years ago, the poll published today by Gallup said. It directly linked the decline in concern to the controversies about media coverage of stolen emails from the ... http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2010/mar/11/americans-climate-change-threat http://www.climateark.org/shared/reader/welcome.aspx?linkid=154803 11 Mar 2010 11:00:00 PST climate threat exaggerated | North America | United States info@ecologicalinternet.org (Guardian: Suzanne Goldenberg) Reuters: Chevron Corp may pursue an international arbitration claim over environmental pollution allegations in Ecuador, a judge ruled on Thursday, part of a long-running case that carries a potential $27 billion liability for the second-largest U.S. oil company. The government of Ecuador had asked Manhattan federal court Judge Leonard Sand to prevent Chevron from taking the 17-year-old case to arbitration under the U.S.-Ecuador Bilateral Investment Treaty. U.S. courts had previously ... http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE62A3RV20100311?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=154802 11 Mar 2010 11:00:00 PST rainforest oil Chevron | South/Central America/Caribbean | Ecuador info@ecologicalinternet.org (Reuters: Grant McCool) Guardian: BP has bought into the Brazilian oil rush with a $7bn (£4.65bn) deal that will boost the group's potential reserves by about 2bn barrels of oil. The deal, with Devon Energy of the US, will also create a joint venture to develop BP's controversial oil sands in Canada. A number of recent huge finds in water up to two miles deep and below a thick layer of salt on the seabed off the coast of Brazil has made the country the focus for international oil companies looking for new ... http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2010/mar/11/bp-brazil-oil-deal http://www.climateark.org/shared/reader/welcome.aspx?linkid=154801 11 Mar 2010 11:00:00 PST ocean oil deep sea | South/Central America/Caribbean | Brazil info@ecologicalinternet.org (Guardian: Tim Webb) USA Today: Eight Nobel-prize winning economists and scientists have joined more than 2,000 others in signing a letter today that urges the Senate to take swift action on climate change. "The longer we wait, the harder and more costly it will be to limit climate change and to adapt to those impacts that will not be avoided," reads the letter, which is available on the Union of Concerned Scientists' website here. "Many emissions reduction strategies can be adopted today that would save consumers ... http://content.usatoday.com/communities/onpolitics/post/2010/03/scientists-take-another-run-at-climate-change/1 http://www.climateark.org/shared/reader/welcome.aspx?linkid=154800 11 Mar 2010 11:00:00 PST climate science letter Senate | Worldwide/General | info@ecologicalinternet.org (USA Today: John Fritze) BBC: How many people are actually going to be able to install renewable energy-generating technology in their homes? That is the burning question which goes unanswered in the government's strategy document called "Warm Homes, Greener Homes", which outlines how it plans to cut carbon emissions from homes by 29% by 2020. The plan includes helping as many households as possible install loft and cavity wall insulation within the next five years, and fitting seven million homes with ... http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/8558306.stm http://www.climateark.org/shared/reader/welcome.aspx?linkid=154799 11 Mar 2010 11:00:00 PST wind turbine house | Europe | United Kingdom info@ecologicalinternet.org (BBC: Ian Blake) McClatchy Newspapers: Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger on Tuesday simultaneously defended the state's greenhouse gas reduction law and repeated his support of expanded oil drilling off the Santa Barbara coast. On Monday, the nonpartisan Legislative Analyst's Office concluded that AB 32, the landmark 2006 law that mandates cuts in greenhouse gas emissions would cost the state jobs in the near term, and have uncertain effects in the long term. Speaking to reporters after a luncheon speech at a downtown ... http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2010/03/10/90106/schwarzenegger-defends-california.html http://www.climateark.org/shared/reader/welcome.aspx?linkid=154798 10 Mar 2010 11:00:00 PST emissions politics | North America | United States info@ecologicalinternet.org (McClatchy Newspapers: Steve Wiegand) United Press International: The International Energy Agency and technology officers from 30 global companies in Paris called Wednesday for dramatic action to usher in a low-carbon economy. "The global energy system must be transformed to a low-carbon system," the statement read. "This will require a dramatic ramp up of our annual investment in a portfolio of low-carbon energy technology solutions within the next decade bearing in mind technology shifts take decades to create material impacts." The IEA ... http://www.upi.com/Science_News/Resource-Wars/2010/03/10/IEA-calls-for-low-carbon-revolution/UPI-71241268234591/ http://www.climateark.org/shared/reader/welcome.aspx?linkid=154797 10 Mar 2010 11:00:00 PST low carbon revolution | Worldwide/General | info@ecologicalinternet.org (United Press International: none given) Physorg: A joint report from the law schools at UC Berkeley and UCLA recommends ways that farmers and ranchers can mitigate the impact of climate change. "Room to Grow" identifies barriers to lowering emissions and proposes concrete steps to overcome them. California's agriculture sector plays a huge role in the state economy. But the farming industry is currently threatened by altered growing seasons, limits on water supplies, and record temperature changes. Room to Grow states that finding ... http://www.physorg.com/news187450080.html http://www.climateark.org/shared/reader/welcome.aspx?linkid=154790 10 Mar 2010 11:00:00 PST farm emissions lower | North America | United States info@ecologicalinternet.org (Physorg: none given) Physorg: Since 2004, University at Buffalo anthropologist Ezra Zubrow has worked intensively with teams of scientists in the Arctic regions of St. James Bay, Quebec, northern Finland and Kamchatka to understand how humans living 4,000 to 6,000 years ago reacted to climate changes. Credit: Office of Communications, University at Buffalo Since 2004, University at Buffalo anthropologist Ezra Zubrow has worked intensively with teams of scientists in the Arctic regions of St. James Bay, Quebec, ... http://www.physorg.com/news187462358.html http://www.climateark.org/shared/reader/welcome.aspx?linkid=154787 10 Mar 2010 11:00:00 PST global warming prehistoric | Worldwide/General | info@ecologicalinternet.org (Physorg: none given) Physorg: When people talk about global warming or the greenhouse effect, the main underlying scientific concept that describes the process is radiative forcing. And despite all the recent controversy over leaked emails and charges of poorly sourced references in the last Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report, the basic concept of radiative forcing is one on which scientists -- whatever their views on global warming or the IPCC -- all seem to agree. Disagreements come into play in ... http://www.physorg.com/news187443399.html http://www.climateark.org/shared/reader/welcome.aspx?linkid=154786 10 Mar 2010 11:00:00 PST climate science radiative forcing | Worldwide/General | info@ecologicalinternet.org (Physorg: David L. Chandler) Deutsche-Presse Agentur: Drought-driven forest fires in Vietnam this year have already consumed an area greater than the entire area burned in 2008 or 2009, officials said Tuesday. Fires have destroyed 1,600 hectares of forest so far this year, said Do Thanh Hai, a senior official at Vietnam's Forest Protection Department. That area is more than 10 times the rate measured in the first two months of 2008 or 2009, which each saw just more than 140 hectares destroyed. Hai blamed the fires on a drought that has ... http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/313125,vietnam-forest-fires-rise-sharply-in-drought.html http://www.climateark.org/shared/reader/welcome.aspx?linkid=154779 11 Mar 2010 11:00:00 PST forest drought fire | East/South-East Asia | Vietnam info@ecologicalinternet.org (Deutsche-Presse Agentur: none given) CNews: An admission by Premier Ed Stelmach that he had not seen recent photos of dying ducks at a Syncrude tailings pond has ruffled the feathers of Greenpeace. The environmental group on Wednesday presented Stelmach's spokesman, Jerry Bellikka, with two enlarged photos of tar-covered ducks, hoping the premier would take a look at the images. They were entered as evidence at the ongoing trial against Syncrude, which faces environmental charges related to the April 2008 incident in ... http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Environment/2010/03/11/13190126-qmi.html?cid=rssnewscanada http://www.climateark.org/shared/reader/welcome.aspx?linkid=154775 11 Mar 2010 11:00:00 PST tar sands ducks | North America | Canada info@ecologicalinternet.org (CNews: Frank Landry) Yale Environment 360: In light of the strong evidence that growing corn, soybeans, and other food crops to produce ethanol takes a heavy toll on the environment and is hurting the world's poor through higher food prices, consider this astonishing fact: This year, more than a third of the U.S.'s record corn harvest of 335 million metric tons will be used to produce corn ethanol. What's more, within five years fully 50 percent of the U.S. corn crop is expected to wind up as biofuels. Here's another sobering ... http://e360.yale.edu/content/feature.msp?id=2251&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+YaleEnvironment360+%28Yale+Environment+360%29 http://www.climateark.org/shared/reader/welcome.aspx?linkid=154774 11 Mar 2010 11:00:00 PST biofuel ethanol hidden costs | Worldwide/General | info@ecologicalinternet.org (Yale Environment 360: C. Ford Runge) Reuters: An event based around hundreds of fashionistas flying in from all over the world was never going to be a convincing platform for environmental campaigning, but designers in Paris haven't let that stop them. While British designer Vivienne Westwood regularly rails against global warming, fashion king Karl Lagerfeld trumped her with a rival theory at the Chanel show on Monday: the globe is in fact cooling, and he has an iceberg to prove it. "Have you felt any warming this ... http://www.vancouversun.com/life/Chanel%20muses%20global%20cooling%20with%20iceberg%20show/2666451/story.html http://www.climateark.org/shared/reader/welcome.aspx?linkid=154769 11 Mar 2010 11:00:00 PST climate fashion | Worldwide/General | info@ecologicalinternet.org (Reuters: Sophie Hardach and Mathilde Gardin) Sydney Morning Herald: TAXPAYERS will pay up to $100 million to remove foil insulation or install electrical safety switches in 50,000 homes in a bid to fix the government's suspended insulation scheme. The Assistant Climate Change Minister, Greg Combet, said yesterday removing insulation or installing the switches were now the only ways to ensure safety in homes fitted with foil insulation under the rebate scheme. The government had promised safety checks for the 50,000 homes to test for ceilings ... http://www.smh.com.au/environment/energy-smart/now-taxpayers-face-100m-bill-to-fix-insulation-mess-20100310-pzeb.html http://www.climateark.org/shared/reader/welcome.aspx?linkid=154767 11 Mar 2010 11:00:00 PST climate insulation installation | Pacific/Oceania | Australia info@ecologicalinternet.org (Sydney Morning Herald: Tom Arup) Reuters: Global solar demand has surged on brisk buying from Germany, but analysts are split over whether the market will break down once incentives in the world's largest solar market are pared back. The recent surge in sales has helped the industry recover from a brutal 2009, when prices for the modules that turn sunlight into electricity tumbled by more than 40 percent as a glut of supplies and difficult financial markets slowed growth. That rebound may be short-lived. UBS, in a ... http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE6294OA20100310 http://www.climateark.org/shared/reader/welcome.aspx?linkid=154765 11 Mar 2010 11:00:00 PST solar subsidy cut | Europe | Germany info@ecologicalinternet.org (Reuters: Dana Ford and Christoph Steitz) Greenwire: Renewable energy is being praised in Washington, but it is generating snickers here in the nation's traditional energy capital, where oil, gas and utility leaders are gathered for a major industry conference. Leaders of two of the world's largest oil and gas companies used their addresses at CERAWeek, a sprawling conference sponsored by energy analysis firm IHS Cambridge Energy Research Associates, to warn against unbridled optimism about wind and solar energy. Khalid Al-Falih, ... http://www.nytimes.com/gwire/2010/03/10/10greenwire-oil-execs-chortle-as-obama-admin-promotes-rene-73770.html http://www.climateark.org/shared/reader/welcome.aspx?linkid=154764 10 Mar 2010 11:00:00 PST renewable energy oil industry resistance | North America | United States info@ecologicalinternet.org (Greenwire: Mike Soraghan) New York Times: Los Angeles averages more than 300 days of sunshine a year, and it often seems as if environmentalists outnumber rattlesnakes in many parts of the sprawling city. It would seem, then, that solar energy would be a thriving local industry here. But that has never been the case, and experts cite cost as the main reason. Now, the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power, the largest municipal utility in the United States, is poised to pass a roughly 5 percent rate increase on ... http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/11/science/earth/11solar.html http://www.climateark.org/shared/reader/welcome.aspx?linkid=154763 11 Mar 2010 11:00:00 PST solar energy price | North America | United States info@ecologicalinternet.org (New York Times: Jennifer Steinhauer) Inter Press Service: Changes in weather patterns have turned agriculture into a gamble with nature for Tanzanian farmers. Prolonged droughts and floods have made the lives of small-scale farmers, who don't have access to irrigation, extremely difficult. In Tanzania, where the economy is largely driven by agriculture, the largely poor, rural population has become even more vulnerable. According to the national Ministry of Agriculture (MoA), agriculture accounts for up to 60 percent of the country's ... http://www.ipsnews.net/africa/nota.asp?idnews=50618 http://www.climateark.org/shared/reader/welcome.aspx?linkid=154761 10 Mar 2010 11:00:00 PST climate farming gamble | Africa | Tanzania info@ecologicalinternet.org (Inter Press Service: none given) Reuters: It's rare when a conservative Republican in Congress heaps praise on President Barack Obama, especially in regards to fighting global warming, but Senator Lindsey Graham did just that on Wednesday. The South Carolina lawmaker has, despite opposition from many in his party, worked with Obama and Democrats on a comprehensive energy and environmental bill, winning their support of more government aid for nuclear power and expanded oil and gas drilling. Nuclear power and domestic ... http://uk.reuters.com/article/idUKN1016990220100310 http://www.climateark.org/shared/reader/welcome.aspx?linkid=154760 10 Mar 2010 11:00:00 PST climate politics Obama Graham | North America | United States info@ecologicalinternet.org (Reuters: Richard Cowan) Scotsman: THE Scottish Government has unveiled a vision for Scotland to lead the way globally in key technology to capture carbon dioxide from power stations and store it underground. A "road map" for the development of carbon capture and storage (CCS) has been drawn up. It reveals that between 2015 and 2020 the Scottish Government is aiming to have two power stations furnished with CCS technology up and running. And the report reveals Holyrood is aiming for Scotland to have a ... http://news.scotsman.com/scitech/Unveiled-Scotland39s-carbon--capture.6141036.jp http://www.climateark.org/shared/reader/welcome.aspx?linkid=154756 11 Mar 2010 11:00:00 PST carbon climate capture | Europe | United Kingdom info@ecologicalinternet.org (Scotsman: Jenny Fyall) Virginian-Pilot: Oceans are becoming more acidic, which poses another threat in Virginia to oysters, clams and crabs as well as to water quality and coastal ecosystems, a panel of scientists and environmentalists warned Wednesday. The experts, including researchers from Old Dominion University and the Virginia Institute of Marine Science, spoke after a special screening of the documentary film "Acid Test" at the Naro Expanded Cinema in Norfolk. More than 100 attended the free event, intended to ... http://hamptonroads.com/2010/03/seas-acidity-threatens-life-livelihoods-film-says http://www.climateark.org/shared/reader/welcome.aspx?linkid=154755 11 Mar 2010 11:00:00 PST ocean acid marine life threatened | North America | United States info@ecologicalinternet.org (Virginian-Pilot: Scott Harper) CNA: Indigenous peoples worldwide contribute little to global warming but suffer the most from its impact, a local professor said Thursday at an international indigenous conference in Taiwan. "Most indigenous peoples around the world are not the major source of air pollution, energy overuse or carbon dioxide emissions," said Jolan Hsieh, an associate professor at the College of Indigenous Studies of Taiwan's National Dong Hwa University. "However, who sustains the most damage of all ... http://focustaiwan.tw/ShowNews/WebNews_Detail.aspx?Type=aSOC&ID=201003110020 http://www.climateark.org/shared/reader/welcome.aspx?linkid=154754 11 Mar 2010 11:00:00 PST climate indigenous affect most | Worldwide/General | info@ecologicalinternet.org (CNA: Alex Jiang) ScienceDaily: Specialists from various Earth system science disciplines recently gathered to address a major question: what will our environment look like in the future? Of course, possible answers to this question raise even more questions. For instance, if changing climatic conditions were to alter local vegetation, how would this new landscape react to future climatic trends? Answering these questions with certainty would allow us to manage better our natural resources by defining appropriate ... http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/03/100311092420.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=154751 11 Mar 2010 11:00:00 PST climate future predicting | Worldwide/General | info@ecologicalinternet.org (ScienceDaily: none given) ScienceDaily: In the March issue of BioScience, researchers present a sophisticated new analysis of the effects of boosting use of maize-derived ethanol on greenhouse gas emissions. The study, conducted by Thomas W. Hertel of Purdue University and five co-authors, focuses on how mandated increases in production of the biofuel in the United States will trigger land-use changes domestically and elsewhere. In response to the increased demand for maize, farmers convert additional land to crops, and ... http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/03/100311074121.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=154750 11 Mar 2010 11:00:00 PST ethanol emissions greenhouse gas boost | Worldwide/General | info@ecologicalinternet.org (ScienceDaily: none given) Reuters: France will push the Group of 20 countries to impose a tax on financial transactions to raise billions of dollars to help developing nations fight climate change, President Nicolas Sarkozy said Thursday. Speaking at a conference on forests, Sarkozy repeated his call for a renewed effort on climate change after the "frustrating" Copenhagen conference in December, aiming his fire at "all those who, behind their fine words, want to do nothing." "Those who don't want to do anything ... http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE62A2R120100311?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=154749 11 Mar 2010 11:00:00 PST climate funding Sarkozy | Europe | France info@ecologicalinternet.org (Reuters: James Mackenzie) CNN: Those beating the global warming drum have sure taken a few lumps lately. First there were the hacked e-mails from climate scientists, which critics say show an effort to massage some data and keep some scientists out of the debate. Facebook Digg Twitter Buzz Up! Email Print Comment on this story Then there was an admission from the Untied Nations' top climate body saying that it relied on some flawed numbers to predict a Himalayan glacier would soon melt. Add to ... http://money.cnn.com/2010/02/25/news/economy/climate_change/ http://www.climateark.org/shared/reader/welcome.aspx?linkid=154746 11 Mar 2010 11:00:00 PST climate science trust | Worldwide/General | info@ecologicalinternet.org (CNN: Steve Hargreaves) Agence France-Presse: Kenyan President Mwai Kibaki thanked Japan's Crown Prince Naruhito Thursday for his country's support in programmes to combat climate change, the government said. The prince arrived in Nairobi late Wednesday for a three-day trip that follows a visit to Ghana. Kibaki hailed Japan's "continued financial and technical support" notably in programmes to combat climate change, a statement from his office said. After meeting with Kibaki, the prince visited a Japanese school in ... http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100311/wl_africa_afp/japanroyalsdiplomacykenyaghana http://www.climateark.org/shared/reader/welcome.aspx?linkid=154743 11 Mar 2010 11:00:00 PST climate development aid Japan Kenya | Worldwide/General | info@ecologicalinternet.org (Agence France-Presse: none given) New Scientist: SCHOOLS in three US states - Louisiana, Texas and South Dakota - have been told to teach alternatives to the scientific consensus on global warming. The moves appear to be allied to efforts to teach creationism in public schools. Such efforts have in the past been thwarted when courts ruled them unconstitutional, but those advocating the teaching of sound science may find it harder to fight misrepresentations concerning climate change. Last week, South Dakota's state legislature ... http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20527514.100-battle-over-climate-science-spreads-to-us-schoolrooms.html?DCMP=OTC-rss&nsref=climate-change http://www.climateark.org/shared/reader/welcome.aspx?linkid=154741 11 Mar 2010 11:00:00 PST climate science school | North America | United States info@ecologicalinternet.org (New Scientist: Debora MacKenzie) Reuters: New forecasts suggest the European Union will exceed its target of getting 20 percent of its energy from renewable sources in 2020, the European Commission said Thursday. The latest national projections submitted by governments to the EU executive suggest the 27-nation bloc could reach an overall renewable share of 20.3 percent by the end of the decade. "These forecasts show that member states take renewable energy very seriously and are really dedicated to pushing their ... http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE62A2KI20100311?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=154739 11 Mar 2010 11:00:00 PST renewable target exceed | Europe | info@ecologicalinternet.org (Reuters: none given) BBC: The war I'm interested in is the water war - not an armed conflict, but a struggle nonetheless, between people and a rapidly disappearing resource. The alarming thing, for those working to ease this new conflict, is that Cypriots don't even seem to realise that hostilities between them and nature have begun. Charalampos Theopemptou is the Greek Cypriot side's Environment Commissioner, and it was he who told me the story about the old man in the classroom. He explains its ... http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/from_our_own_correspondent/8560424.stm http://www.climateark.org/shared/reader/welcome.aspx?linkid=154736 11 Mar 2010 11:00:00 PST water shortage conflict | Middle East | Cyprus info@ecologicalinternet.org (BBC: none given) Business Green: Some plastics presented as being "degradable" are no better for the environment than conventional plastics and could even result in negative impacts on soil and wildlife, according to a major new government-backed study. The year long research programme from Loughborough University assessed the environmental impact of oxo-degradable plastics, which are widely used to make plastic bags and packaging that is frequently presented as being "degradable" by retailers. They work by ... http://www.businessgreen.com/business-green/news/2259356/research-casts-doubt-green http://www.climateark.org/shared/reader/welcome.aspx?linkid=154734 11 Mar 2010 11:00:00 PST plastics degradable | Worldwide/General | info@ecologicalinternet.org (Business Green: James Murray) Reuters: Japan watered down legislation to fight climate change Thursday after weeks of wrangling within the government over plans for an emissions trading system that has met stiff resistance from industry. The proposed climate bill, set to be enacted in parliament by mid-June, left room for the trading scheme to set caps on emissions per unit of production, which would allow rises in emissions when output grows. The government had earlier pledged a "cap-and-trade" scheme setting ... http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE62A28720100311?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=154733 11 Mar 2010 11:00:00 PST climate bill weaken | East/South-East Asia | Japan info@ecologicalinternet.org (Reuters: Chisa Fujioka) Associated Press: Rich nations must contribute more to a climate change fund and help fight deforestation, French President Nicolas Sarkozy said in opening a conference Thursday on saving the world's forests -- a key defense against global warming. Ministers from some 40 nations were attending the one-day Paris meeting, including Indonesia and other heavily wooded countries in the Amazon and Congo river basins. Efforts to halt deforestation, one of the culprits in climate change, have been ... http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5jNcYn41DoIUhLYsvgKUqhKotngRQD9ECEIP86 http://www.climateark.org/shared/reader/welcome.aspx?linkid=154732 11 Mar 2010 11:00:00 PST deforestation funds fight | Worldwide/General | info@ecologicalinternet.org (Associated Press: Elaine Ganley) Agence France-Presse: French President Nicolas Sarkozy on Thursday demanded reforms of the United Nations and urged negotiations under a small group of countries to accelerate efforts to fight climate change. Sarkozy, opening a one-day conference on deforestation, stood by the UN, saying there was "no alternative strategy" to a forum that gave all nations, rich and poor, a voice in a global arena. But he said changes to the UN were way overdue. "The UN is absolutely indispensable and yet at ... http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100311/sc_afp/unclimatewarmingforests http://www.climateark.org/shared/reader/welcome.aspx?linkid=154730 11 Mar 2010 11:00:00 PST climate United Nations reform | Europe | France info@ecologicalinternet.org (Agence France-Presse: Richard Ingham) Guardian: Let me begin with a plea to tone down this debate on feed-in tariffs. Jeremy Leggett and I have addressed each other politely and stuck to the facts. I have no ill feelings towards him; I simply believe that he is wrong about solar power. But the level of viciousness displayed on the comment threads, by email and on other sites has to be seen to be believed. Where does fury of this kind come from? In my experience it's often associated with denial. People who don't like the outcomes ... http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/georgemonbiot/2010/mar/11/solar-power-germany-feed-in-tariff http://www.climateark.org/shared/reader/welcome.aspx?linkid=154728 11 Mar 2010 11:00:00 PST solar technology | Europe | Germany info@ecologicalinternet.org (Guardian: George Monbiot) Business Day: CHINA yesterday told the US to make stronger commitments on climate change and provide environmental expertise and financing to developing nations. At the same time, China said its own efforts to reduce energy intensity had been hampered by its economic recovery in the latter part of last year, which brought growth in heavy energy-consuming industries. Climate change negotiator Xie Zhenhua acknowledged the Obama administration's greater stress on greenhouse gas reductions, but ... http://www.businessday.co.za/articles/Content.aspx?id=95923 http://www.climateark.org/shared/reader/welcome.aspx?linkid=154724 11 Mar 2010 11:00:00 PST climate pledge stronger | Worldwide/General | info@ecologicalinternet.org (Business Day: none given) LA Times: Will cutting carbon kill jobs in California? That's the premise of a November ballot initiative proposed by Republican lawmakers, whose cause got a boost this week from a report by the nonpartisan Legislative Analyst's Office that concluded the state's landmark global warming law might hurt employment. The report made headlines because it contrasts sharply with an earlier analysis by the California Air Resources Board, which concluded that the law, AB 32, would actually create 120,000 jobs ... http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/editorials/la-ed-climate11-2010mar11,0,1476411.story http://www.climateark.org/shared/reader/welcome.aspx?linkid=154723 11 Mar 2010 11:00:00 PST climate pollution afford | North America | United States info@ecologicalinternet.org (LA Times: Editorial) Reuters: Corporate America needs to track its use of energy and resources as closely as it does its hiring and cash flow if it wants to keep pace with social concern about climate change and other sustainability issues, an activist U.S. investor group argues in a new report. Population growth and a rising standard of living across the world will bring opportunities -- but also risks of higher energy costs, scarcer water and other possible consequences of climate change, the Ceres coalition of ... http://news.stv.tv/environment/162799-time-for-next-stage-of-sustainable-business/ http://www.climateark.org/shared/reader/welcome.aspx?linkid=154721 11 Mar 2010 11:00:00 PST sustainable business | Worldwide/General | info@ecologicalinternet.org (Reuters: Scott Malone)