Reuters: Australia’s controversial carbon emissions trading laws passed their first parliamentary hurdle on Thursday but…
Month: June 2009
Foreigners swept aside as wind power blows through China
Reuters: The world’s biggest wind farm, China’s Rudong, is unlikely to blow any business the…
Australia: Stock being moved as drought continues: Mayor
Australian Broadcasting Corporation: A south-west Queensland Mayor says graziers in his region are being forced…
Bioenergy Makes Heavy Demands On Scarce Water Supplies
ScienceDaily: The ‘water footprint’ of bioenergy, i.e. the amount of water required to cultivate crops…
Burning fossil fuels is disrupting nitrogen cycle
Mongabay: The burning of fossil fuels has disrupted the nitrogen cycle by altering that amount…
Gore says carbon capture boom unlikely across China
Reuters: A carbon capture boom is unlikely near term in China, the world’s top greenhouse…
Obama seeks US-Chinese deal on global warming
Guardian: The Obama administration said yesterday that it was pursuing a joint US-Chinese deal on…
REDD can compete financially with palm oil in Indonesia peatlands while protecting endangered species
Mongabay: A new paper by Oscar Venter, a PhD student at the University of Queensland,…
Climate change work ‘a game-changer’: Pelosi
Agence France-Presse: US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Thursday that the initial progress Congress has…
U.S. tells California to cut water use to save fish
Reuters: Californians’ thirst for water has pushed salmon and other fish to the brink of…