| EPA experts detail global warming's health risks | 7/14/08 | WASHINGTON - Government scientists detailed a rising death toll from heat waves, wildfires, disease and smog caused by global warming in an analysis the White House buried so it could avoid regulating greenhouse gases. |
| N J Energy Future Unclear | 6/1/08 | When Gov. John Corzine and his staff announced last year that they would be drafting a ten-year energy master plan for the state, Environment New Jersey set out to convince the governor to make energy efficiency and renewable energy the center of the plan, and to reject the utility lobbyists’ proposal to build new nuclear and fossil fuel plants in the state. But.......... |
| China Quake May Cut Carbon Offset Supply | 5/15/08 | China's deadliest earthquake in decades could cut by up to 5 percent the country's supply of carbon offsets under the Kyoto Protocol over the next 12 months... |
| World's Wildlife and Environment Already Hit by Climate Change, Major Study Shows | 5/15/08 | Global warming is disrupting wildlife and the environment on every continent, according to an unprecedented study that reveals the extent to which climate change is already affecting the world's ecosystems. More on Species Die-out |
| Glacier Melt Hits Record Rate | 3/16/08 | Some of the biggest losses were in Europe — in the Alps, the Pyrenees and the Nordic region — according to the UNEP-backed World Glacier Monitoring Service at the University of Zurich in Switzerland. |
| EU's Solana warns of superpower oil rush in Arctic | 3/13/08 | The melting of the North Pole's ice caps under the impact of globalwarming could spark a dangerous geo-political oil rush in the Arctic, the European Union's topforeign-policy official warned Thursday. ... |
| EPA Called Before the Supreme Court | 3/5/08 | The U.S. EPA has denied California the waiver it needed to enact a state law requiring a 30 percent reduction in vehicle greenhouse-gas emissions by 2016. The Bush Administration has a very skewed policy pertaining to states' rights. |
| Mead Gulch? | 2/13/08 | There's a 50-50 chance that the Arizona- and Nevada-bordering, human-made Lake Mead could become Dry Ditch Mead by 2021, according to a study to be published in the journal Water Resources Research. |
| Crude Behavior | 2/12/08 | Refinery pollution may soar! Expansion plans at the BP refinery in Whiting would boost the facility's greenhouse-gas emissions to 5.8 million tons a year, the company told the Tribune. That would be equivalent to adding 320,000 cars to the nation's highways. |
| Elk Appetites | 2/11/08 | Elk like to eat. Elk like to eat a lot. This is a problem for creatures fond of the same greenery coveted by the weighty elk. It is not so good for the ecosystem, either, according to the stewards of three national parks in Colorado and the Dakotas that are faced with growing herds of the herbivorous mammals. |
| 2/11/08 | A temperature spike about 55 million years ago gave bugs the munchies, according to a new study.
If modern temperatures continue to rise as anticipated in the coming years, researchers add, the planet could see a similar increase in insect damage to crops and other plants. |
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| River Issues Plague Indian Point | 2/8/08 | A contention of the Department of Environmental Conservation calling for expensive new water cooling technology could threaten Entergy’s license renewals which would ultimately force the closure of Indian Point..... |