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6/1/2009
That's why he's installing a wind turbine, with a top capacity of 50 kilowatts, or enough to meet the needs of about 16 homes when it's running full-tilt. It will allow him to cut his electricity purchases by a third to a half, depending on the ...
6/1/2009
Several European countries reported major disruption to gas supplies today after the Russian company Gazprom cut deliveries to Europe via Ukraine to about a quarter of normal flows .
The reduction in supplies comes amid a deepening row ...
6/1/2009
“Scientists Are Divided”
No, they’re not. In the early years of the global warming debate, there was great controversy over whether the planet was warming, whether humans were the cause, and whether it would be a significant problem. ...
6/1/2009
For anyone interested in the weather, the good news is that 2008 was cooler than the previous year. The bad news is that the world is still getting hotter and that greater variability in weather brought on by climate change resulted in or ...
6/1/2009
Retailers have stopped stocking the bulb, which has been illuminating British homes for more than 120 years, and anticipate that they will have run out within weeks.The withdrawal is part of a Government campaign, launched by Gordon Brown ...
6/1/2009
Parts of three remote and uninhabited Pacific island chains are being set aside by President Bush as national monuments to protect them from oil and gas extraction and commercial fishing in what will be the largest marine conservation effort in ...
6/1/2009
Throughout war, disaster and recession, it has kept Britain illuminated for more than 120 years.
But the traditional incandescent lightbulb is finally being switched off for the last time.
Retailers have stopped replenishing ...
6/1/2009
The immaturity of one of the UN's flagship carbon trading scheme was underlined yesterday after Russia was suspended from trading carbon credits as a result of unpaid fees.
A spokesman for the UN confirmed that Russia had been suspended ...
6/1/2009
The most power-hungry flat screen LCD and plasma TVs could effectively be banned across California from 2011 under new regulations proposed yesterday.
The California Energy Commission, which manages the state's energy policy, said it was ...
6/1/2009
In the latest of his groundbreaking encounters with the figures whose decisions shape our environment, George Monbiot challenges Jeroen van de Veer, chief executive of oil and gas giant Shell, on ethics, greenwash advertising, renewable energy ...
6/1/2009
To best feed the world a growing number of researchers, development experts, farming groups and environmentalists are calling for new emphasis on sustainable agricultural practices that make a sharp break from current policies.A newly ...
6/1/2009
Ontario is on track to phase out coal-based power production by 2014, according to a report released last week by the Independent Electricity System Operator (IESO).
The government-created non-profit organisation, which manages the ...
6/1/2009
CATTLE farmer Neil Graham can see the landscape changing around him as his neighbours sell their properties for plantations, unable to compete against the Rudd Government's generous tax concessions for forestry companies.
The passing of ...
6/1/2009
A WASTE processing centre in Sydney's southwest is not only attracting worldwide attention by slashing greenhouse emissions and converting rubbish to electricity, it is also creating jobs.
The Macarthur Resource Recovery Park rescues ...
6/1/2009
New gas and coal-fired power stations should not be approved without guarantees carbon capture technology will work, UK government advisers said.
The Sustainable Development Commission has submitted a paper to the Scottish Parliament's ...
6/1/2009
The case for a Severn barrage has been debated for the last 15 years. With a tidal range only exceeded by the Bay of Fundy in Canada, the possibilities of renewable energy generation have been endlessly rehearsed. A barrage stretching across the ...
6/1/2009
IT SEEMS every generation has its own version of the apocalypse. Climate change may be the Armageddon of the new millennium, yet somehow it lacks the menace of, say, an atom bomb. It is destruction by increments. It is hidden in the cracks of a ...
6/1/2009
THE pace of global warming remains as much a topic of discussion as does the weather itself. Many climate scientists warn of potentially devastating social, economic and environmental costs because of continuing global warming they blame on ...
6/1/2009
Friends of the Earth has added its voice to calls for government consultants to re-evaluate figures being used in a study to ascertain what technology is appropriate for one of the biggest renewables projects in the UK.
US engineering ...
6/1/2009
A new way to reduce carbon dioxide emissions and tackle climate change had been unveiled by leading economists.
Under the proposals, companies would buy what are in effect permits to pollute, but the price of those permits would be ...
6/1/2009
Climate researchers have shown that big volcanic eruptions over the past 450 years have temporarily cooled weather in the tropics--but suggest that such effects may have been masked in the 20th century by rising global temperatures. Their paper, ...
5/1/2009
For several months I have been meaning to write a review of Rob Hopkins' The Transition Handbook: From Oil Dependency to Local Resilience, but other things got in the way-like a planetary economic meltdown and out of control climate change that ...
5/1/2009
With the possible exception of the ice that covers Greenland, the West Antarctic ice shelf is the most important body of water in the world. If it thaws, the results will be disastrous for millions, raising sea levels and flooding coastal cities ...
5/1/2009
THE new ethanol mandate for unleaded petrol in NSW will chew up 20 per cent of the state's grain crop, raising the prospect of food price hikes nationally and the possibility that grain may need to be imported.Federal Resources Minister ...
5/1/2009
Governments could slow global warming dramatically, and buy time to avert disastrous climate change, by slashing emissions of one of humanity's most familiar pollutants soot according to NASA scientists.
A study by the space agency shows ...