| Exxon Valdez oil spill still taking toll on killer whales(By Kyle Hopkins, Anchorage Daily News Kyle Hopkins, Anchorage Daily News 2009-02-10 03:10) | | ANCHORAGE — An already fragile population of killer whales that hunts Prince William Sound never recovered from the Exxon Valdez oil spill and is doomed to die off, biologists said this week. Marine mammal biologist Craig Matkin of Homer has tracked... |
| 2 federal agencies settle global warming lawsuit(By TERENCE CHEA, Associated Press Writer Terence Chea, Associated Press Writer 2009-02-07 01:10) | | SAN FRANCISCO – The federal government on Friday settled a lawsuit that accused two U.S. agencies of financing energy projects overseas without considering their impacts on global warming. The Export-Import Bank of the United States and the Overseas... |
| Report to detail, address coastal pollution in NY(By MICHAEL VIRTANEN, Associated Press Writer Michael Virtanen, Associated Press Writer 2009-01-30 20:16) | | ALBANY, N.Y. – Faced with more beaches closures, depleted shellfish beds and sharply reduced commercial fisheries, New York is poised to act against a rising tide of unhealthy coastal waters. Officials were scheduled to release a plan Thursday to ex... |
| Ship firm calls jail term for tanker crew a 'disgrace'( 2008-12-13 02:53) | | SEOUL (AFP) – Managers of a Hong Kong supertanker whose crew chiefs were jailed over South Korea's worst oil spill have blasted the decision as a "disgrace and insult" to the world shipping community. An international union federation sepa... |
| Hybrid solar plant to reduce need for fossil fuel(By BRIAN SKOLOFF, Associated Press Writer Brian Skoloff, Associated Press Writer 2008-12-03 15:50) | | INDIANTOWN, Fla. – Proclaiming green the new gold, Florida Power & Light executives on Tuesday marked the groundbreaking of the first of three new solar power projects that will eventually make the state No. 2 in the nation for energy from the s... |
| Over 10,000 metal workers protest EU climate plans( 2008-12-03 15:37) | | BRUSSELS (AFP) – More than 10,000 metal workers, most from Germany, protested in Brussels Tuesday over EU plans to tackle climate change, which they fear will hit their industry. The protesters -- 11,300 according to police, 12,000 according to orga... |
| Greenpeace activists arrested for coal ship protest off Denmark( 2008-12-03 15:37) | | COPENHAGEN (AFP) – Three Greenpeace activists were briefly arrested Tuesday as they attempted to board a Panama-flagged cargo ship carrying South African coal to Denmark, Danish police said. The three, who could face charges of obstructing public tr... |
| Climate talks seen on track as SAfrica leads call for concessions( 2008-12-03 15:37) | | POZNAN, Poland (AFP) – Negotiators at the UN climate talks in Poznan got down to work on Tuesday as South Africa headed demands for rich nations to agree to tough targets in a new pact for defeating global warming. "We're out of the starting ga... |
| Global warming could harm Pacific food security: UN( 2008-12-03 15:37) | | ROME (AFP) – Global warming causes freak weather that may have a "devastating impact" on food security in the Pacific region, the UN food agency warned on Tuesday. "Climate projections for the Pacific island countries are bleak and in... |
| Greenpeace stages protest at Polish power plant( 2008-12-03 15:32) | | WARSAW (AFP) – Greenpeace activists on Tuesday scaled a 150-metre (500 foot) high smokestack at a power plant in central Poland to urge the government to agree to European environment reforms. Activists from Canada, Britain, Germany, Poland and Swed... |
| Activists blast US at climate change talks(By VANESSA GERA, Associated Press Writer Vanessa Gera, Associated Press Writer 2008-12-03 15:32) | | POZNAN, Poland – Environmentalists criticized the United States and other rich countries Tuesday for failing so far to make meaningful commitments at a U.N. conference on climate change. Some 190 countries are meeting in Poznan, Poland, for talks th... |
| Activists: no progress yet at climate talks( 2008-12-02 15:31) | | POZNAN, Poland – Environmentalists say they are disappointed with some of the world's richest countries for failing to make meaningful commitments at a U.N. conference on climate change. Some also fault outgoing President George W. Bush, saying his... |
| Top scientist dismayed at spending imbalance on climate, poverty(by Richard Ingham Richard Ingham 2008-12-02 10:37) | | POZNAN, Poland (AFP) – The head of the world's top climate scientists says he is stunned at the trillion-dollar cheques that have been signed to ease the banking crisis when funding for poverty and global warming is scrutinised or denied. In an inte... |
| Cost of reducing emissions by 2030 likely to surge: UN report( 2008-11-29 02:22) | | PARIS (AFP) – Hundreds of billions more dollars are likely to be needed to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions by a 2030 target, according to UN estimates published on Friday ahead of global talks on climate change. The report, to be presented at the De... |
| Global coal damage costs 360 billion euro annually: Greenpeace( 2008-11-27 14:12) | | WARSAW (AFP) – The use of coal for energy production causes at least 360 billion euros worth of damage to human health and the environment every year, Greenpeace said in a new report published on Thursday. "When taking into account about 90 per... |
| Kenya taps into Brazil's ethanol expertise(By Rob Crilly Rob Crilly 2008-11-16 17:24) | | Kisumu, Kenya – When Spectre International took over an ethanol plant in the far west of Kenya four years ago, the company inherited a run-down site that had been abandoned – unfinished – two decades earlier. The buildings were shells an... |
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