San Francisco Chronicle: California’s Air Resources Board on Thursday approved a first-in-the-world regulation to minimize…
Month: April 2009
Australia: Electric car pumps energy back into grid
AAP: Australian engineers have developed a plug-in hybrid electric car that not only generates power…
Groups see added risks from change in climate
New York Times: The effects of climate change, especially rising seas, threaten trillions of dollars’…
Climate talks depend on US law – top envoy
Reuters: U.S. flexibility in negotiating a global warming pact depends on passing a law to…
Time to come clean on coal
Independent (UK): It is little wonder that ministers are so attracted by the promise of…
Remembering the lost forests of America
LiveScience: Around the arrival of Columbus, “it’s said that squirrels could travel from tree to…
Gone: Mass Extinction and the Hazards of Earth’s Vanishing
Mother Jones: WE AWAKE IN OUR TENTS in the moonlight to what sounds like a…
Forest Fires Largely Overlooked by Climate-Change Modelers
Bloomberg: Forest fires worsen global warming and make it harder for societies to adapt to…
US gets leeway on UN climate deadline
Reuters: Countries such as the United States can come up with ideas for a U.N….
‘G8-Plus’ adopts charter to protect biodiversity
Agence France-Presse: Environment ministers of leading wealthy and emerging nations Friday adopted a “charter” on…