http://www.climateark.org/ The Climate Ark is a Climate Change Portal and Internet Search Tool that provides access to reviewed climate change and renewable energy news and information -- http://www.climateark.org/ Climate Ark a project of Ecological Internet, Inc. info@ecologicalinternet.org (Dr. Glen Barry) http://www.climateark.org/img/ark.jpg http://www.climateark.org/ Agence France-Presse: Long famous as one of the world's most polluted megalopolises, gritty Mexico City is beginning to see the fruits of years of clean-up efforts and to breathe somewhat cleaner air, experts say. "The pollution problem is still there, but it is a fact that we have been fighting pollution for more than 20 years and the improvement is undeniable," said Gustavo Alanis, with the NGO Mexican Center for Environmental Law. Unusually good air quality in recent weeks has unveiled post ... http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100317/sc_afp/environmentmexicopollutionair http://www.climateark.org/shared/reader/welcome.aspx?linkid=155500 17 Mar 2010 11:00:00 PST air pollution improvement Mexico City | North America | Mexico info@ecologicalinternet.org (Agence France-Presse: Sofia Miselem) USA Today: During the past decade, the Environmental Protection Agency's commitment to keeping children safe from the effects of pollution has lapsed, and top officials routinely ignored scores of recommendations by the agency's own children's health advisory committee, according to a report released Wednesday by the Government Accountability Office. The report, delivered during a hearing of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee Wednesday morning, documents a "reduced emphasis on ... http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2010-03-17-epa-children-pollution_N.htm?csp=34&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+usatoday-NewsTopStories+%28News+-+Top+Stories%29 http://www.climateark.org/shared/reader/welcome.aspx?linkid=155498 17 Mar 2010 11:00:00 PST environmental health kids EPA lapse | North America | United States info@ecologicalinternet.org (USA Today: Blake Morrison) Agence France-Presse: The climate change debate should be reframed in economic and security terms ahead of a year-end UN summit in Mexico seeking a binding climate deal, the president of the Maldives said Wednesday. A price tag needs to be put on "the extent to which we destroy the atmosphere, the extent to which we pollute the atmosphere," President Mohamed Nasheed said at a climate change seminar in Helsinki. Climate change was not about "hugging trees", he said, insisting that beyond the ... http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100317/sc_afp/finlandmaldiveswarmingenergyeconomy http://www.climateark.org/shared/reader/welcome.aspx?linkid=155495 17 Mar 2010 11:00:00 PST climate debate economic security | Worldwide/General | info@ecologicalinternet.org (Agence France-Presse: none given) Reuters: After two years of drought, the rains now falling in Kenya are not bringing the expected relief for Kenya's farmers. Why? Erratic weather means no one knows when to put in a crop anymore. "We are confused. It rains in the dry season. Has the rainy season of April and May shifted to now, or is this extra? It's hard to decide when to plant," remarks Rose Wanjiru while she inspects the maize in her field near Nanyuki, at the foot of Mount Kenya. Overhead, dark rain clouds - once a rarity ... http://www.alertnet.org/db/an_art/60167/2010/02/17-114644-1.htm http://www.climateark.org/shared/reader/welcome.aspx?linkid=155482 17 Mar 2010 11:00:00 PST farm insurance | Africa | Kenya info@ecologicalinternet.org (Reuters: Ilona Eveleens) Australian Broadcasting Corporation: Australian scientists say they have uncovered a "causal link" between the early emergence of a common butterfly and human-induced global warming. Dr Michael Kearney of the University of Melbourne and colleagues report their study on the butterfly Heteronympha merope in this week's issue of Royal Society journal Biology Letters. "It's now coming out about 10 days earlier than it was 60 years ago," says Kearney. "When you look at the air temperatures over that time, it's ... http://www.abc.net.au/science/articles/2010/03/17/2846005.htm http://www.climateark.org/shared/reader/welcome.aspx?linkid=155481 17 Mar 2010 11:00:00 PST butterflies warming global | Pacific/Oceania | Australia info@ecologicalinternet.org (Australian Broadcasting Corporation: none given) Australian Broadcasting Corporation: Australia's peak scientific body, farmers and supermarkets say they are gearing up for a new Green Revolution. In 50 years the world's population will be more than nine billion people, supplies of fertiliser could be severely depleted, and competition for land will have increased. According to CSIRO scientist Peter Carberry, these factors, combined with climate change, will challenge our agriculture industry like never before. Mr Carberry is deputy director of the ... http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2010/03/17/2848048.htm http://www.climateark.org/shared/reader/welcome.aspx?linkid=155480 17 Mar 2010 11:00:00 PST farming green revolution new | Pacific/Oceania | Australia info@ecologicalinternet.org (Australian Broadcasting Corporation: Brigid Andersen) Politico: Climate bill supporters are leaning toward exempting big oil companies from a broader cap on greenhouse gases as a way of winning critical support from industry players and key lawmakers. The three co-authors of the Senate climate bill hope the proposal -- backed by several large oil companies -- will bring a new set of players to the negotiating table. They are floating the idea of levying a carbon tax on each gallon of gasoline, which would be passed along to consumers at the ... http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0310/34536.html http://www.climateark.org/shared/reader/welcome.aspx?linkid=155478 17 Mar 2010 11:00:00 PST carbon tax climate bill oil industry | North America | United States info@ecologicalinternet.org (Politico: Lisa Lerer) New York Times: Generating 20 percent of America's electricity with wind, as recent studies proposed, would require building up to 22,000 miles of new high-voltage transmission lines. But the huge towers and unsightly tree-cutting that these projects require have provoked intense public opposition. A blog about energy, the environment and the bottom line. Go to Blog Enlarge This Image <h6 class="credit">Eric Harger/Pattern Energy A worker guiding cable from a barge during the Trans Bay ... http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/17/business/energy-environment/17power.html http://www.climateark.org/shared/reader/welcome.aspx?linkid=155475 17 Mar 2010 11:00:00 PST electric wire underwater | North America | United States info@ecologicalinternet.org (New York Times: Matthew L. Wald) New York Times: Carlos Martínez and his colleagues were enjoying soda and sandwiches in the bar, having chosen not to watch a film -- "Appaloosa,' with Ed Harris -- that was playing on overhead screens. They barely seemed to notice the arid landscape whizzing by or the digital display reflecting their speed, which hovered around 300 kilometers an hour. Since a high-speed rail connection -- called AVE for Alta Velocidad Española -- opened in 2008, the 520-kilometer journey, or 325 miles, between ... http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/16/science/earth/16train.html http://www.climateark.org/shared/reader/welcome.aspx?linkid=155474 16 Mar 2010 11:00:00 PST transportation train high speed | Europe | Spain info@ecologicalinternet.org (New York Times: Elisabeth Rosenthal) New Scientist: An international gang of biologists has carried out an audacious heist, stealing valuable electrons from photosynthesising algae. The power grab could open a route to more efficient exploitation of photosynthesis to power machines: with biofuels we are already converting solar power into a form that engines can use, but almost three-quarters of the sunlight energy absorbed by the organisms is lost before it can be turned into the sugars or starches used to make ... http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn18666-algaes-solar-electrons-hijacked-to-steal-power.html http://www.climateark.org/shared/reader/welcome.aspx?linkid=155472 17 Mar 2010 11:00:00 PST algae solar energy technology | Worldwide/General | info@ecologicalinternet.org (New Scientist: Colin Barras) Dow Jones: Senior White House and Obama administration officials say they are worried the nation's economic recovery could stall if Congress doesn't pass a climate bill this year. The officials warn that investors are so uncertain about the future cost of emitting greenhouse gases that they are sitting on capital rather than pouring it into "clean" technology, new power plants or energy-intensive manufacturing. The administration has for months been moving away from advocating climate ... http://www.nasdaq.com/aspx/stock-market-news-story.aspx?storyid=201003161608dowjonesdjonline000384&title=white-houseeconomic-recovery-may-stall-without-co2-bill http://www.climateark.org/shared/reader/welcome.aspx?linkid=155471 17 Mar 2010 11:00:00 PST carbon bill economic recovery | North America | United States info@ecologicalinternet.org (Dow Jones: Ian Talley) United Press International: Europe can meet 100 percent of its power supply from renewable sources by 2050 if countries work together and massively invest in grids and storage, experts and politicians say. "This is not utopia but a vision that can be realized," Michaele Schreyer, a former European Commission member, said Tuesday at an energy conference in Berlin organized by the German Green Party-affiliated Heinrich Boell Foundation. Schreyer was part of a panel discussing how realistic it is for Europe ... http://www.energy-daily.com/reports/All_renewables_How_realistic_is_it_999.html http://www.climateark.org/shared/reader/welcome.aspx?linkid=155467 16 Mar 2010 11:00:00 PST renewable energy Europe 100 percent power supply | Europe | info@ecologicalinternet.org (United Press International: Stefan Nicola) Reuters: The world may soon achieve something long dreamed of by governments and policymakers: higher economic growth without using more oil. Rising efficiency, conservation and substitution are steadily reducing the amount of oil needed to fuel an increase in the goods and services produced around the world. Oil demand in the rich, industrialised countries of the West already appears to have peaked and the trend in developing economies is toward an ever-smaller increase in the amount ... http://in.reuters.com/article/businessNews/idINIndia-46961420100317 http://www.climateark.org/shared/reader/welcome.aspx?linkid=155466 17 Mar 2010 11:00:00 PST oil economic growth | Worldwide/General | info@ecologicalinternet.org (Reuters: Christopher Johnson) Sydney Morning Herald: A TRAIN hauling nearly 100 carriages crawls through a warehouse as if straining from the effort. As each carriage reaches a trigger point, its belly breaks open to spew lustrous black coal onto a conveyor belt beneath the track. The sound of the belt and the intermittent screeching of the train brakes is deafening and the air leaves a chalky dryness on the tongue. About 50 trains a day pass through this "dump station" at the Kooragang terminal at Newcastle and a similar facility at ... http://www.smh.com.au/business/misgivings-over-minerals-boom-20100316-qcoj.html http://www.climateark.org/shared/reader/welcome.aspx?linkid=155465 17 Mar 2010 11:00:00 PST coal minerals boom misgivings | Pacific/Oceania | Australia info@ecologicalinternet.org (Sydney Morning Herald: Jessica Irvine) Irish Times: THE LATEST European Red List, commissioned by the EU and released yesterday, shows that habitat loss and climate change are having a serious impact on Europe`s butterflies, beetles and dragonflies. Nine per cent of butterflies, 11 per cent of beetles -- which depend on decaying wood and are essential for recycling nutrients in the soil -- and 14 per cent of dragonflies are threatened with extinction in Europe. Ireland fares relatively well, with just one butterfly under serious ... http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/world/2010/0317/1224266442290.html http://www.climateark.org/shared/reader/welcome.aspx?linkid=155463 17 Mar 2010 11:00:00 PST climate habitat small animals Europe | Europe | info@ecologicalinternet.org (Irish Times: Frank McDONALD) Edie: The International Energy Agency (IEA) and a host of global companies called this month for a 'revolution' to create a low carbon-economy. The Paris-based intergovernmental body and the chief technology officers of 30 major companies issued a joint statement urging greater action to limit global temperature increases. The statement says: "Dramatic greenhouse gas emission cuts are required. IEA studies have shown that halving current global CO2 emissions by 2050 is technically ... http://www.edie.net/news/news_story.asp?id=17802 http://www.climateark.org/shared/reader/welcome.aspx?linkid=155455 16 Mar 2010 11:00:00 PST climate energy revolution | Worldwide/General | info@ecologicalinternet.org (Edie: none given) Mongabay: Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono has issued new regulations, which will allow underground mining in protected areas, according to the Jakarta Post. The new rules will also allow power plants, renewable energy, and transportation such as toll roads in protected forests. "We are now waiting for a presidential decree to bring the regulations into force. A number of firms have applied for mining permits in protected forest areas," a senior official at the Forestry Ministry, ... http://news.mongabay.com/2010/0316-hance_indonesia_mining.html http://www.climateark.org/shared/reader/welcome.aspx?linkid=155448 16 Mar 2010 11:00:00 PST rainforest protected mining development | East/South-East Asia | Indonesia info@ecologicalinternet.org (Mongabay: Jeremy Hance) Reuters: California's drought-baked cities and farms will get considerably more water this year than last from federal officials, Interior Secretary Ken Salazar said on Tuesday, making good on forecasts issued in February after a series of strong winter storms. Irrigation districts south of the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta, which represent farmers on the west side of the state's Central Valley, will get 25 percent of their contracted water allotment from the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, ... http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE62F5ZP20100316?feedType=RSS&feedName=environmentNews&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+reuters%2Fenvironment+%28News+%2F+US+%2F+Environment%29 http://www.climateark.org/shared/reader/welcome.aspx?linkid=155445 16 Mar 2010 11:00:00 PST water parched | North America | United States info@ecologicalinternet.org (Reuters: Dan Whitcomb) BBC: Many Africans blame themselves for climate change even though fossil fuel emissions there are less than 4% of the global total, a new survey suggests. The report, the most extensive survey ever conducted on public understanding of the issue, found that others blamed God for changes in weather patterns. It suggests dealing with climate change poses similar challenges to HIV and Aids, as people lack key information. It was carried out for the BBC World Service trust and ... http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/8571589.stm http://www.climateark.org/shared/reader/welcome.aspx?linkid=155430 17 Mar 2010 11:00:00 PST climate Africa cultural issues | Africa | info@ecologicalinternet.org (BBC: Matt McGrath) ScienceDaily: Chemicals that helped solve a global environmental crisis in the 1990s -- the hole in Earth's protective ozone layer -- may be making another problem -- acid rain -- worse, scientists are reporting. Their study on the chemicals that replaced the ozone-destroying chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) once used in aerosol spray cans, air conditioners, refrigerators, and other products, appears in ACS' Journal of Physical Chemistry A. Jeffrey Gaffney, Carrie J. Christiansen, Shakeel S. Dalal, ... http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/03/100303114001.htm?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+sciencedaily+%28ScienceDaily%3A+Latest+Science+News%29 http://www.climateark.org/shared/reader/welcome.aspx?linkid=155427 16 Mar 2010 11:00:00 PST acid rain climate chemicals worsen | Worldwide/General | info@ecologicalinternet.org (ScienceDaily: none given) Associated Press: Chinese officials said Wednesday they are investigating heightened lead levels among hundreds of children in Hunan province thought to be linked to local smelters -- one of many cases underscoring the toll pollution is taking on the health of rural Chinese. Health checks last month showed excessive levels of lead in the blood samples of 254 out of 397 children under age 14 living in three villages closest to the factories in Hunan's Jiahe county, a county government spokesman ... http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100317/ap_on_re_as/as_china_lead_poisoning http://www.climateark.org/shared/reader/welcome.aspx?linkid=155425 17 Mar 2010 11:00:00 PST lead poisoning children pollution | East/South-East Asia | China info@ecologicalinternet.org (Associated Press: Christopher Bodeen) Press Trust of India: Underlining that the UN will lead the climate change negotiations, Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has rejected the possibility of a "double track" approach being adopted on Climate Change where simultaneous talks between the big economies run in parallel with the United Nations negotiations. "I think that 'double track' is not desirable at this time. That should be negotiated in United Framework Convention on Climate Change. That is the firm agreement of the member states," Ban said ... http://www.ptinews.com/news/568687_UN-rules-out-double-track-approach-on-Climate-Change http://www.climateark.org/shared/reader/welcome.aspx?linkid=155411 17 Mar 2010 11:00:00 PST climate United Nations double track | Worldwide/General | info@ecologicalinternet.org (Press Trust of India: none given) Reuters: U.S. environmental groups are trying to expand a climate change bill being written in the Senate to help foreign countries pay for enforcing laws they already have in place for protecting forests as one way of reducing carbon pollution. Global warming legislation passed in the U.S. House of Representatives last year would set up financial incentives encouraging new steps in the United States and abroad for reducing greenhouse gas emissions blamed for global warming. But there ... http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE62F27720100316 http://www.climateark.org/shared/reader/welcome.aspx?linkid=155404 17 Mar 2010 11:00:00 PST climate forestry law enforcement | North America | United States info@ecologicalinternet.org (Reuters: Richard Cowan) USA Today: Americans' worries about environmental issues have hit a 20-year low, largely because of economic concerns, according to a Gallup Poll released Tuesday. Fewer adults worry "a great deal" about each of eight issues surveyed, including global warming, than a year ago, according to the poll of 1,014 Americans taken March 4-7. Their concerns about six of the issues hit record lows. At the same time, in findings Gallup will release later this week, a record number -- 53% -- say ... http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/environment/2010-03-16-environment_N.htm http://www.climateark.org/shared/reader/welcome.aspx?linkid=155400 16 Mar 2010 11:00:00 PST environment public concern record low | North America | United States info@ecologicalinternet.org (USA Today: Wendy Koch) Greenwire: The U.S. Chamber of Commerce petitioned U.S. EPA yesterday for reconsideration of the agency's finding that greenhouse gases "endanger" public health and welfare, a determination that sets the stage for broad climate change regulations. "The Chamber believes that the right way to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in the atmosphere is through bipartisan legislation and comprehensive international agreements," said the chamber's chief legal officer and general counsel Steven Law in a ... http://www.nytimes.com/gwire/2010/03/16/16greenwire-us-chamber-petitions-epa-to-reconsider-greenho-18205.html http://www.climateark.org/shared/reader/welcome.aspx?linkid=155399 17 Mar 2010 11:00:00 PST greenhouse gas regulation EPA business opposition | North America | United States info@ecologicalinternet.org (Greenwire: Robin Bravender) Carbon Positive: EU carbon market authorities, exchanges and traders are scrambling to defuse the threat that trading in recycled CER carbon credits poses for the credibility of the world's biggest carbon market. News that the Hungarian government had on-sold CERs already used for compliance in the EU ETS has been followed by reports more such trades have occurred. This has sent a wave of concern through the market amid fears that market confidence may be undermined by the trading of credits that have no ... http://www.carbonpositive.net/viewarticle.aspx?articleID=1923 http://www.climateark.org/shared/reader/welcome.aspx?linkid=155395 17 Mar 2010 11:00:00 PST carbon market credibility Eurpe | Europe | info@ecologicalinternet.org (Carbon Positive: none given) Business Green: The US solar energy industry welcomed a major new player this week with news that a company backed by billionaire media mogul and vocal environmental campaigner Ted Turner has announced plans for its first solar farm. Turner, who founded CNN and is America's largest individual land owner, with control of ranches totalling around two million acres, announced earlier this year that his green investment firm Turner Renewable Energy had teamed up with Atlanta-based energy giant Southern ... http://www.businessgreen.com/business-green/news/2259636/ted-turner-unveils-plan-30mw http://www.climateark.org/shared/reader/welcome.aspx?linkid=155394 17 Mar 2010 11:00:00 PST solar investment | North America | United States info@ecologicalinternet.org (Business Green: James Murray) Business Green: The integrity of the EU's emissions trading scheme could be badly undermined unless governments resist the temptation to sell on "recycled" certified emission reduction (CERs) credits that have already been surrendered by businesses. That is the stark warning from the International Emissions Trading Association (IETA), after the Hungarian government last week agreed to sell on two million "recycled" CERs to an undisclosed intermediary. Government officials confirmed the CERs ... http://www.businessgreen.com/business-green/news/2259625/carbon-traders-voice-fears http://www.climateark.org/shared/reader/welcome.aspx?linkid=155393 17 Mar 2010 11:00:00 PST carbon market fraud credits recycled | Europe | info@ecologicalinternet.org (Business Green: James Murray) National Geographic: Nobel Prize-winning physicist Steven Chu has always had wide-ranging research interests. Before President Obama tapped him to be his energy secretary, Chu was the director of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in California. With funding from the Department of Energy and a major grant from BP, the laboratory's scientists are working to transform renewable-energy technologies, aiming to slash the price of solar power and make biofuels kinder to the planet. With such breakthroughs, they ... http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/03/090302-steven-chu-interview/ http://www.climateark.org/shared/reader/welcome.aspx?linkid=155391 02 Mar 2010 11:00:00 PST energy climate fast change | Worldwide/General | info@ecologicalinternet.org (National Geographic: Michelle Nijhuis) ScienceDaily: For decades, farmers have been trying to find ways to get more energy out of the sun. In natural photosynthesis, plants take in solar energy and carbon dioxide and then convert it to oxygen and sugars. The oxygen is released to the air and the sugars are dispersed throughout the plant -- like that sweet corn we look for in the summer. Unfortunately, the allocation of light energy into products we use is not as efficient as we would like. Now engineering researchers at the University of ... http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/03/100316142527.htm?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+sciencedaily+%28ScienceDaily%3A+Latest+Science+News%29 http://www.climateark.org/shared/reader/welcome.aspx?linkid=155387 16 Mar 2010 11:00:00 PST solar technology sugars photosynthesize | Worldwide/General | info@ecologicalinternet.org (ScienceDaily: none given) National Geographic: Printing presses normally used to make Australian dollar bills produced solar power cells in a trial near Melbourne last week. The giant machines arranged and stamped flexible solar panels onto plastic film. (Read about solar power.) The cells were only 3 percent efficient, meaning they could convert only a small amount of solar energy into electricity. But Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) project leader Gerry Wilson told Australian ... http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/02/090225-solar-cells-printed/ http://www.climateark.org/shared/reader/welcome.aspx?linkid=155383 25 Feb 2010 11:00:00 PST solar technology print cells | Worldwide/General | info@ecologicalinternet.org (National Geographic: Dave Hansford) CBS News: The fate of President Obama's health care reform package is still up in the air, but he appears to be already taking on an equally challenging and contentious agenda item -- climate change legislation. Former President Bill Clinton met with Senate Democrats today to talk about climate change, CBS News Capitol Hill Producer John Nolen reports. The visit follows a meeting in the White House last week Mr. Obama had with 14 senators, including six Republicans, according to Daily Beast ... http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-20000572-503544.html http://www.climateark.org/shared/reader/welcome.aspx?linkid=155382 16 Mar 2010 11:00:00 PST climate change legislation Obama Democrats Congress | North America | United States info@ecologicalinternet.org (CBS News: Stephanie Condon) Green Left: Cuba's successful models of sustainable development -- in areas of food, housing and health -- are now being widely replicated throughout Latin America. Cuba marked the 50th anniversary of its revolution in 2009. The Cuban people have withstood five decades of hostility from the United States and its international allies. However, Cuba's best form of resistance has been not just the assertion of national sovereignty, but the creation of an alternative model of development that ... http://www.greenleft.org.au/2010/830/42684 http://www.climateark.org/shared/reader/welcome.aspx?linkid=155375 13 Mar 2010 11:00:00 PST sustainability socialism green revolution | South/Central America/Caribbean | Cuba info@ecologicalinternet.org (Green Left: Helen Yaffe) Bloomberg: China's control over the prices of power from wind is dictating the supply of tradable emission credits in the UN carbon market, the world's second biggest, according to a report from Stanford University. The board overseeing the United Nations carbon market is forced to rely on data from China to judge when windfarms qualify for emissions credits, said Richard Morse, a Stanford University research associate and co-author of the report. The board, established to channel funds to ... http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601091&sid=aSk2DK7U3h.g http://www.climateark.org/shared/reader/welcome.aspx?linkid=155374 16 Mar 2010 11:00:00 PST carbon offsets control | Worldwide/General | info@ecologicalinternet.org (Bloomberg: Jim Efstathiou Jr. and Mathew Carr) Time Magazine: One of the many crimes that climate scientists have been accused of lately is that they claim absolute certainty in a field of research fraught with uncertainty. Sure, the planet is warming, say skeptics, but that's happened throughout Earth's history, long before humans were burning fossil fuels. So, how can we be sure this isn't just a natural phenomenon? Yet a search through the much vilified Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) reports shows that absolute certainty is ... http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1971702,00.html http://www.climateark.org/shared/reader/welcome.aspx?linkid=155373 12 Mar 2010 11:00:00 PST global warming science strong case | Worldwide/General | info@ecologicalinternet.org (Time Magazine: Michael D. Lemonick) Honolulu Advertiser: Hawai'i's native birds are among the most likely of any U.S. region to be harmed by ongoing climate change, a new report on the "State of the Birds" shows. A stunning 93 percent of native Hawaiian birds have medium or high vulnerability to climate change, according to the sweeping 2010 report by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service in cooperation with government and private conservation groups. It's the second time in as many years that the coalition of bird conservation agencies ... http://www.honoluluadvertiser.com/article/20100315/NEWS11/3150364/LOCALNEWSFRONT/New+climate+report+details+extreme+risk+to+Isle+birds http://www.climateark.org/shared/reader/welcome.aspx?linkid=155370 15 Mar 2010 11:00:00 PST climate birds extreme risk | North America | United States info@ecologicalinternet.org (Honolulu Advertiser: Diana Leone) Press Trust of India: Apparetly buoyed by government support, Inter-governmental Panel on Climate Change chief RK Pachauri today said he was in no mood to follow the footsteps of Yvo de Boer, the UN's top climate change official who has quit the post unhappay over the outcome of Copenhagen summit. "Certainly not," Pauchari said when asked if he too would resign like Boer who announced his decision to quit the post last month, apparently unhappy over failure of the Copenhagen summit in December last ... http://www.ptinews.com/news/565823_Pachauri-not-to-quit-IPCC http://www.climateark.org/shared/reader/welcome.aspx?linkid=155369 15 Mar 2010 11:00:00 PST IPCC Pachauri quit | South Asia | India info@ecologicalinternet.org (Press Trust of India: none given) Associated Press: European Union governments can and should step up cuts in their greenhouse gas emissions because the economic recession has already made significant reductions for them, according to research commissioned by the European Green lawmakers. A report released Monday by environmental consultancy CE Delft says the EU could easily increase its target to cut carbon dioxide emissions from 20 percent by 2020 to at least 30 percent -- and that it should be aiming for 40 percent to hold back ... http://finance.yahoo.com/news/EU-should-step-up-climate-cut-apf-432441923.html?x=0&.v=2 http://www.climateark.org/shared/reader/welcome.aspx?linkid=155367 15 Mar 2010 11:00:00 PST carbon cut Europe increase | Europe | info@ecologicalinternet.org (Associated Press: Recession Makes It Easy For Eu To Set Bigger Greenhouse Gas Cut, Report Says) Philippine Daily Inquirer: Lack of food due to the drought has forced monkeys to leave their sanctuary in the village of New Israel here and seek refuge in nearby forested areas. "It all started when severe heat due to effect of El Niño phenomenon wilted some crops in the village including some banana plants that serve as food for these animals," Darwin Paraiso, a village councilman, said. Paraiso said the monkeys started to form groups and fight each other every time food, particularly bananas donated ... http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/breakingnews/regions/view/20100315-258858/Drought-drives-Cotabato-monkeys-deeper-into-forests http://www.climateark.org/shared/reader/welcome.aspx?linkid=155366 15 Mar 2010 11:00:00 PST climate drought rainforest wildlife | East/South-East Asia | Philippines info@ecologicalinternet.org (Philippine Daily Inquirer: Williamor Magbanua) Business Green: Sainsbury's has today unveiled plans to invest a chunk of the £1bn it spends each year on business sustainability issues with Imperial College London in a bid to identify ways to accelerate carbon emission reductions across its stores. Justin King, the retailer's chief executive, said in a keynote speech at the Base conference in London today that the funding was a "relatively small" part of Sainsbury's annual investment budget, but would still represent a " substantial" sum for the ... http://www.businessgreen.com/business-green/news/2259630/sainsbury-makes-low-carbon http://www.climateark.org/shared/reader/welcome.aspx?linkid=155360 16 Mar 2010 11:00:00 PST carbon supermarkets | Europe | United Kingdom info@ecologicalinternet.org (Business Green: Cath Everett) Agence France-Presse: Three Greenpeace activists Tuesday staged a protest against the building of a gas treatment terminal off the coast of Liguria in northern Italy they say endangers a nearby whale sanctuary. The activists daubed "Balene Finite" (The End of Whales) on the side of a vessel operated by an energy consortium before boarding the boat and unfurling a banner reading "Fine del Santuario" (The End of the Sanctuary). The sanctuary is the main summer feeding area for Mediterranean blue ... http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100316/sc_afp/italygasenvironmentseawhales http://www.climateark.org/shared/reader/welcome.aspx?linkid=155359 16 Mar 2010 11:00:00 PST natural gas liquid whale | Europe | Italy info@ecologicalinternet.org (Agence France-Presse: none given) Business Green: The case for the rapid roll out of new recycling and waste-to-energy facilities was strengthened today with the release of a major new report assessing the environmental impact of different waste disposal approaches. The study from the government-backed WRAP advisory body updated research from two years ago by analysing around 200 different reports assessing the lifecycle impact of recycling, landfill and energy capture approaches for common waste streams. It concluded that ... http://www.businessgreen.com/business-green/news/2259583/research-suggests-recycling http://www.climateark.org/shared/reader/welcome.aspx?linkid=155325 16 Mar 2010 11:00:00 PST recycling research | Worldwide/General | info@ecologicalinternet.org (Business Green: James Murray) Associated Press: Special U.N. climate envoy Gro Harlem Brundtland says she expects talks on a new climate change agreement to increasingly move outside formal U.N. negotiations. Brundtland says backstage discussions among the U.S., China, India, Brazil and South Africa, will play a critical role leading up to the next major U.N. climate conference in Mexico at the end of this year. The limited accord reached at the last climate summit in Copenhagen emerged from a late-night meeting among the ... http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5jgEChLfSlnFM9sVxr1mcG_iYxHvgD9EFMMIG3 http://www.climateark.org/shared/reader/welcome.aspx?linkid=155320 16 Mar 2010 11:00:00 PST Mexico climate negotiations dual track | Worldwide/General | info@ecologicalinternet.org (Associated Press: none given) ScienceDaily: A new study involving scientists from 13 different organizations, universities and research institutions states that forest protection offers one of the most effective, practical, and immediate strategies to combat climate change. The study was published in PLoS Biology and makes specific recommendations for incorporating protected areas into overall strategies to reduce emissions of greenhouse gasses from deforestation and degradation (nicknamed REDD). "Deforestation leads to about ... http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/03/100316083719.htm?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+sciencedaily+%28ScienceDaily%3A+Latest+Science+News%29 http://www.climateark.org/shared/reader/welcome.aspx?linkid=155319 16 Mar 2010 11:00:00 PST climate forest protected area | Worldwide/General | info@ecologicalinternet.org (ScienceDaily: none given) San Francisco Chronicle: For more than a dozen years, researchers have been fertilizing small patches of the world's oceans with iron to see if they could make the floating plants called phytoplankton flourish into massive blooms that would absorb carbon dioxide, the worst planet-warming greenhouse gas in the atmosphere. The idea was that the absorbed carbon would sink to the ocean bottom and remain there essentially forever. Many experts have hailed the idea as one surefire solution to the problem of global ... http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2010/03/16/MN2C1CE0E4.DTL http://www.climateark.org/shared/reader/welcome.aspx?linkid=155315 16 Mar 2010 11:00:00 PST ocean fertilization backfire | Worldwide/General | info@ecologicalinternet.org (San Francisco Chronicle: David Perlman) Greenwire: The use of corn ethanol in place of gasoline causes enough carbon emissions from land-use changes to cancel immediate tailpipe benefits, according to research published last week that confirms a controversial earlier study. The analysis examines a hypothesis by Timothy Searchinger and his co-authors published in 2008 in Science magazine that says using U.S.-grown corn for fuel triggers commodity price changes that ultimately lead to native ecosystems being destroyed, with a high ... http://www.nytimes.com/gwire/2010/03/15/15greenwire-study-corn-ethanol-an-unattractive-compliance-19757.html http://www.climateark.org/shared/reader/welcome.aspx?linkid=155314 15 Mar 2010 11:00:00 PST corn climate ethanol | North America | United States info@ecologicalinternet.org (Greenwire: Jenny Mandel) ClimateWire: The United Kingdom is facing a crisis that could cripple its efforts to massively boost the amount of electricity it gets from renewable energy sources and cut greenhouse gas emissions -- both within the next decade. It simply does not have enough engineers, designers, scientists, physicists and mathematicians to do the job, let alone enough skilled technicians to install and connect the machinery. "It is a very serious problem," said Peter Crossley of the Joule Centre for ... http://www.nytimes.com/cwire/2010/03/15/15climatewire-uk-faces-a-major-skills-shortage-as-renewabl-32451.html http://www.climateark.org/shared/reader/welcome.aspx?linkid=155312 15 Mar 2010 11:00:00 PST renewable energy skills shortage | Europe | United Kingdom info@ecologicalinternet.org (ClimateWire: Jeremy Lovell) Canwest News Service: Canada's oilsands were the target of a major public relations offensive in Britain on Monday with the nationwide premiere of the film Dirty Oil narrated by Canadian actor Neve Campbell, and the simultaneous release of a World Wildlife Fund report claiming that a host of global ills -- including four million child deaths annually from poor sanitation and other causes -- could be prevented by diverting the billions being invested by oil giants in Alberta to UN health programs. "This ... http://www.montrealgazette.com/entertainment/movie-guide/Oilsands%20defensive%20after%20double%20attack/2686142/story.html http://www.climateark.org/shared/reader/welcome.aspx?linkid=155298 15 Mar 2010 11:00:00 PST oilsands protest defensive | North America | Canada info@ecologicalinternet.org (Canwest News Service: Randy Boswell) Reuters: Levels of the main greenhouse gas in the atmosphere have risen to new highs in 2010 despite an economic slowdown in many nations that braked industrial output, data showed on Monday. Carbon dioxide, measured at Norway's Zeppelin station on the Arctic Svalbard archipelago, rose to a median 393.71 parts per million of the atmosphere in the first two weeks of March from 393.17 in the same period of 2009, extending years of gains. "Looking back at the data we have from Zeppelin ... http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE62E2KJ20100315 http://www.climateark.org/shared/reader/welcome.aspx?linkid=155296 15 Mar 2010 11:00:00 PST carbon emissions new highs | Worldwide/General | info@ecologicalinternet.org (Reuters: Alister Doyle) Reuters: Germany may delay some proposed cuts in solar incentives, granting a longer-than-expected grace period to players in the world's biggest solar market, according to a draft law obtained by Reuters on Monday. Cuts in so called feed-in tariffs -- prices utilities are obliged to pay to generators of renewable energy -- for open-field sites are to be delayed by three months to October 1, the draft states. However, coalition sources told Reuters that the new proposal was still ... http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE62E2EN20100315 http://www.climateark.org/shared/reader/welcome.aspx?linkid=155295 15 Mar 2010 11:00:00 PST solar subsidies incentive | Europe | Germany info@ecologicalinternet.org (Reuters: none given)