AAP: Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has conceded that a carbon emissions trading scheme would push…
Month: June 2008
Buoyed by Rain, Australia Wheat Farmers Chase Big Crops
Reuters: Powerful lights eerily illuminate pitch-black paddocks as farmers sow newly rain-blessed soil with one…
Auto Industry Faces Challenge in Mass-Producing Electric Cars
Deutsche Welle: As petrol prices continue to hit the roof, the world’s major car makers…
Australia Promises Broad Cover for Carbon Trades
Reuters: Australia’s planned carbon emissions trading system, due to start in 2010, will be as…
Wind power ‘not the answer’ to UK’s energy gap
24dash: The massive increase in wind power planned by the Government is not the answer…
Russia: Water of Lake Baikal is Evaporating
Periodico 26: Russian and U.S. scientists have discovered that the rising temperature of Russia’s Lake…
US Floodwaters Held at Bay as Cleanup Starts
Reuters: Levees held on the Mississippi River on Monday in the worst Midwest floods in…
Tropical oceans expose riddle over global-warming equation
Agence France Presse: A probe into levels of an important greenhouse gas above the tropical…
Japan: Tokyo Bourse’s Carbon-Permit Trading Hinges on Government Plans
Bloomberg: The introduction of carbon permits trading on the Tokyo Stock Exchange Inc. will hinge…
The real price of solar power
Christian Science Monitor: An old Soviet joke serves as a reminder of the potential distorting…