Well-known authors and artists publish an open letter demanding the council rethink its 'extraordinary' move
A group of some of Britain's best-known authors and artists has condemned the British Council's "extraordinary" decision to all but end its groundbreaking international work on climate chang...
Julie Bass faces the prospect of going to jail for what she's growing in her front yard.
The illegal growth is tomatoes. And zucchinis, peppers and other edible and what normally would be legal plants.
The officials in Bass' hometown of Oak Park, Mich., have charged her with growing "vegetable gar...
Got hope and change?
Supply-sider David Stockman was full of it in 1981 when the Reagan Revolution swept the country. Stockman, a rising star in GOP politics, became Reagan’s Director of the Office of Management and Budget and quickly began looking for ways to curtail the dreaded “welfare state.”...
The situation at the damaged nuclear reactors in Fukushima is dire. Two days ago, three workers were exposed to water containing radioactive materials 10,000 times the normal level in the basement of Reactor No. 3. This reactor is especially dangerous because it contains MOX fuel, a mixture of...
The US EPA is the source of most air quality impact assessment models used in the US for regulatory purposes, such as predicting the potential impacts from proposed stationary sources of air pollutants and mobile sources such as motor vehicles. Since motor vehicle emissions vary with regulatory chan...
My sense of these things is that this will happen five or six times before what will be termed as an “historic agreement” is signed, but this one does sound fairly serious:
Jeremy Hobbs, Executive Director of Oxfam put out this statement:
Africa has pulled the emergency cord to avoid a train crash...
A MAJOR group of developing nations, including China and most African nations, have walked out of working groups, triggering a major stalemate between developed and developing countries at the Copenhagen climate change negotiations.
LUCY KNIGHT IN COPENHAGEN
The stalemate comes as more than 120 wo...
'Get to work', urges climate head
By Richard Black
Environment correspondent, BBC News, Copenhagen
The president of the UN climate summit has urged delegates to "get to work" after protests from developing nations forced a suspension of several hours.
Talks resumed late on Monday after the presi...
TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO: Commonwealth leaders have thrown their full support behind the United Nations climate talks in Copenhagen next month.
At their summit in Trinidad and Tobago, all 53 member states pledged their commitment to seal a legally binding agreement, aimed at cutting greenhouse gas emiss...
Written by Estrella Torres / ReporterSunday, 29 November 2009 21:45
With the Philippines experiencing the harshest impact of climate change after three devastating typhoons, the British envoy to Manila gave assurances that his government will push for a clear timetable to a legally binding agreemen...
NRDC reports on the drinking water systems of 19 cities and finds that pollution, old pipes and outdated treatment threaten tap water quality.
How's the Water?
In many places there's a lot of work to be done:
Tap water in many cities might pose a health risk to some residents
Sometimes cities ...
Sweden urged other European nations on Friday to follow its lead in linking new taxes to greenhouse gas emissions as governments seek additional sources of income in the wake of the financial crisis.
Denmark, Finland and Slovenia already have taxes on household carbon emissions that can add costs t...
President Hu Jintao is making an unprecedented string of visits to United Nations summits as he leads a high-ranking Chinese delegation to the United States this week.
The president will be in New York for the UN Summit on Climate Change, the 64th annual UN General Assembly debate and a nuclear non...
President Obama delivered a speech to the United Nations today as 100 world leaders gathered for the highest-level summit yet on climate change. Obama said the United States is "determined to act" as the "threat from climate change is serious, it is urgent, and it is growing."
Here is the text of O...
From: Ranga Sirilal, Reuters
MALE (Reuters) - The Maldives archipelago, threatened by rising sea levels blamed on climate change, said on Monday it would introduce a new environment tax on all tourists who use its resorts and provide its economic lifeline.
Famed mostly for high-end luxury resorts ...
By Alister Doyle, Environment Correspondent, Sun Aug 30, 2009
OSLO (Reuters) - Activists launched what they called the world's biggest campaign to combat global warming on Friday, urging governments to agree a tough U.N. climate pact at talks in Copenhagen starting in 100 days' time.
Environmental...
The global land surface temperature for July 2009 was 0.92 degree F (0.51 degree C) above the 20th century average of 57.8 degrees F (14.3 degree C), and tied with 2003 as the ninth-warmest July on record.
Notable Developments and Events
El Niño persisted across the equatorial Pacific Ocean duri...
In the April/May 2008 issue of National Wildlife magazine senior editor Roger Di Silvestro tells us how, because an antiquated 1872 law, hard rock mining companies are able to obtain leases on public lands at ridiculously low cost and extract minerals from those lands at huge profits, and leave behi...
Nations around world look at a banby Joan Lowy
Imagine a world without plastic shopping bags. It could be the future.
There is a growing international movement to ban or discourage the use of plastic bags because of their environmental effects. Countries from Ireland to Australia are cracking down...
An article in the Seattle Times about my home town of Edmonds. Which is the first city in Washington State to ban plastic bags. Way to go Edmonds!
Link: http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/politics/2009555416_bagban29m.html?cmpid=2727
Edmonds has become the first city in the state to ban plastic...
