A drug based on a chemical found in garlic can treat diabetes types I and…
Month: November 2008
What climate change? Meltdown trumps fears at APEC
Associated Press: Countries on both sides of the Pacific have reason to be very afraid…
Africa, Europe ‘seeking to harmonise climate-change demands’
Agence France-Presse: Environment ministers from almost all of Africa’s 53 nations agreed a united front…
Electric Car Manufacturer Hopes To Generate Sales
National Public Radio: Even as America’s troubled automakers seek a handout from Congress, a relatively…
Governors pledge to fight global warming together
Associated Press: Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, his counterparts in 12 states and regional leaders from four…
Automakers detail electric car plans at L.A. show
Reuters: Many of the world’s biggest automakers on Wednesday detailed ambitious electric-car plans that promise…
Not promising the earth, ethical banks win custom
Reuters: As the financial crisis hit a climax in Belgium with the split-up of its…
Broad Schwarzenegger emissions pledge caps summit
Reuters: Impatient with the pace of national governments in fighting global climate change, 13 U.S….
South Korea to lease half of Madagascar’s arable land for corn, oil palm production
Mongabay: South Korea’s Daewoo has signed a 99-year lease for half of Madagascar’s arable land,…
United Kingdom: Carbon sale to swell government revenues
Reuters: The government will take hefty revenues from its first carbon emissions permit auction on…