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29/7/2010
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 ...
29/7/2010
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 ...
29/7/2010
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 ...
29/7/2010
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 ...
29/7/2010
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 ...
29/7/2010
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 ...
29/7/2010
“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 ...
29/7/2010
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 ...
29/7/2010
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 ...
29/7/2010
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 ...
29/7/2010
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 ...
29/7/2010
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 ...
29/7/2010
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 ...
29/7/2010
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 ...
29/7/2010
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 ...
29/7/2010
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 ...
29/7/2010
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 ...
29/7/2010
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 ...
29/7/2010
Foreign-owned "carbon foresters" have ambitions to turn a fifth of New Zealand sheep and beef farmland into forests and that will devastate many rural towns, the national farmers' lobby says.
Federated Farmers president Don Nicolson said ...
29/7/2010
The first lawsuits linked to the Gulf of Mexico oil spill go to court Thursday, as BP prepared -- after months of trying -- to permanently seal its ruptured well.
As the Gulf of Mexico disaster this week reached the 100-day mark with ...
29/7/2010
What a difference an oil spill makes. Californians, whose dislike of offshore drilling dates back to the Santa Barbara spill of 1969, had begun to see virtue in new sources of oil as gasoline prices soared in 2008, polls showed.
That ...
29/7/2010
Not so for Gillian Galford, a recent graduate of the Brown-MBL Graduate Program in Biological and Environmental Sciences (and now a post-doctoral fellow at Columbia University's Earth Institute) and her colleagues, who take a big-picture approach ...
29/7/2010
The Gulf of Mexico oil disaster reached the 100-day mark Wednesday with hopes high that BP is finally on the verge of permanently sealing its ruptured Macondo well.
But years of legal wrangles and probes lie ahead and myriad questions ...
29/7/2010
The microscopic plants that support all life in the oceans are dying off at a dramatic rate, according to a study that has documented for the first time a disturbing and unprecedented change at the base of the marine food web.
Scientists ...
29/7/2010
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 ...