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/ Guardian: In a unique experiment, The Guardian has published online the full manuscript of its major investigation into the climate science emails stolen from the University of East Anglia, which revealed apparent attempts to cover up flawed data; moves to prevent access to climate data; and to keep research from climate sceptics out of the scientific literature. As well as including new information about the emails, we will allow web users to annotate the manuscript to help us in our aim of ... http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2010/feb/09/hacked-emails-police-investigation http://www.climateark.org/shared/reader/welcome.aspx?linkid=151042 09 Feb 2010 11:00:00 PST climate science email hack | Europe | United Kingdom info@ecologicalinternet.org (Guardian: Fred Pearce) Guardian: In a unique experiment, The Guardian has published online the full manuscript of its major investigation into the climate science emails stolen from the University of East Anglia, which revealed apparent attempts to cover up flawed data; moves to prevent access to climate data; and to keep research from climate sceptics out of the scientific literature. As well as including new information about the emails, we will allow web users to annotate the manuscript to help us in our aim of ... http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2010/feb/09/weather-stations-china http://www.climateark.org/shared/reader/welcome.aspx?linkid=151041 09 Feb 2010 11:00:00 PST climate science controversy emails | Worldwide/General | info@ecologicalinternet.org (Guardian: none given) Guardian: In a unique experiment, The Guardian has published online the full manuscript of its major investigation into the climate science emails stolen from the University of East Anglia, which revealed apparent attempts to cover up flawed data; moves to prevent access to climate data; and to keep research from climate sceptics out of the scientific literature. As well as including new information about the emails, we will allow web users to annotate the manuscript to help us in our aim of ... http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2010/feb/09/peer-review-block-scientific-papers http://www.climateark.org/shared/reader/welcome.aspx?linkid=151040 09 Feb 2010 11:00:00 PST climate science peer review censor | Europe | United Kingdom info@ecologicalinternet.org (Guardian: Fred Pearce) Guardian: In a unique experiment, The Guardian has published online the full manuscript of its major investigation into the climate science emails stolen from the University of East Anglia, which revealed apparent attempts to cover up flawed data; moves to prevent access to climate data; and to keep research from climate sceptics out of the scientific literature. As well as including new information about the emails, we will allow web users to annotate the manuscript to help us in our aim of ... http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2010/feb/09/yamal-climate-tree-ring-data-withheld http://www.climateark.org/shared/reader/welcome.aspx?linkid=151039 09 Feb 2010 11:00:00 PST climate trees bog history | Europe | Russia info@ecologicalinternet.org (Guardian: Fred Pearce) ClimateWire: The Obama administration announced plans yesterday to create a new National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Climate Service. The proposed entity would provide "user-friendly" information to help governments and businesses adapt to climate change, creating a central federal source of information on everything from projections of sea level rise to maps of the nation's best sites for wind and solar power. "Even with our best efforts, we know that some degree of climate ... http://www.nytimes.com/cwire/2010/02/09/09climatewire-agency-will-create-national-climate-service-63603.html http://www.climateark.org/shared/reader/welcome.aspx?linkid=151034 09 Feb 2010 11:00:00 PST climate information government | North America | United States info@ecologicalinternet.org (ClimateWire: Lauren Morello) Sydney Morning Herald: IS THE emissions trading scheme the republic issue revisited: a policy the public supports in theory but not in practice? The federal government's ETS, like the republic in the late 1990s, almost became a reality but fell short because of a split among the believers. Two months ago, Liberal senators Judith Troeth and Sue Boyce voted with the ALP in support of the government's scheme. If the five Greens senators, who say they support an ETS but want something more extensive, had ... http://www.smh.com.au/opinion/politics/is-an-emissions-trading-scheme-going-the-way-of-the-republic-20100209-npmk.html http://www.climateark.org/shared/reader/welcome.aspx?linkid=151033 10 Feb 2010 11:00:00 PST emissions trading politics failure | Pacific/Oceania | Australia info@ecologicalinternet.org (Sydney Morning Herald: Shaun Carney) Washington Post: The Obama administration proposed a new climate service on Monday that would provide Americans with predictions on how global warming will affect everything from drought to sea levels. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Climate Service, modeled loosely on the 140-year-old National Weather Service, would provide forecasts to farmers, regional water managers and businesses affected by changing climate conditions. The move is essentially a reorganization of NOAA, ... http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/02/08/AR2010020801696.html http://www.climateark.org/shared/reader/welcome.aspx?linkid=151032 09 Feb 2010 11:00:00 PST climate information NOAA | North America | United States info@ecologicalinternet.org (Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin) Greenwire: An advertising campaign that previously pushed the phrase "clean coal" launches new spots this week focused on jobs and low-cost power, the latest offering in a three-year, nearly $120 million effort to sell Congress and the White House on coal's future. Increasingly, there are signs that it is working. Coal companies and utilities that use coal in the past year have won a number of gains. Top policymakers, including President Obama, are echoing a key message from the ads, that ... http://www.nytimes.com/gwire/2010/02/08/08greenwire-coal-ad-blitz-launches-new-spot-as-industry-se-49401.html http://www.climateark.org/shared/reader/welcome.aspx?linkid=151031 08 Feb 2010 11:00:00 PST coal industry propaganda | North America | United States info@ecologicalinternet.org (Greenwire: Anne C. Mulkern) Agence France-Presse: China on Tuesday named pollution from farms as a major cause for concern, as the world's biggest emitter of greenhouse gases released its first nationwide survey on sources of environmental degradation. "There were some outstanding problems identified by this national census such as the high contribution to water pollution by agricultural sources," the State Council, or Cabinet, said in a statement. China's rapid industrialisation has led to widespread environmental damage over ... http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100209/sc_afp/chinaenvironmentpollutionfarm http://www.climateark.org/shared/reader/welcome.aspx?linkid=151007 09 Feb 2010 11:00:00 PST farm pollution air water | East/South-East Asia | China info@ecologicalinternet.org (Agence France-Presse: none given) Guardian http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/audio/2010/feb/09/ipcc-climate-change-glaciers-error http://www.climateark.org/shared/reader/welcome.aspx?linkid=151006 09 Feb 2010 11:00:00 PST climate science IPCC politics | Worldwide/General | info@ecologicalinternet.org (Guardian: David Adam) Associated Press: Toyota says it is recalling about 437,000 Prius and other hybrid vehicles worldwide to fix brake problems -- the latest in a string of embarrassing safety lapses at the world's largest automaker. "I don't see Toyota as an infallible company that never makes mistakes," President Akio Toyoda said at a press conference Tuesday in Tokyo. "We will face up to the facts and correct the problem, putting customers' safety and convenience first." With the Prius announcement, the number ... http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100209/ap_on_bi_ge/toyota_recall http://www.climateark.org/shared/reader/welcome.aspx?linkid=151005 09 Feb 2010 11:00:00 PST Prius recall | Worldwide/General | info@ecologicalinternet.org (Associated Press: Yuri Kageyama) BBC: As CO2 levels increase and the world warms, land use, precipitation and the availability of water will also change. In response to all these disruptions, plants will emit greater levels of fragrant chemicals called biogenic volatile organic compounds. That will then alter how plants interact with one another and defend themselves against pests, according to a major scientific review. According to the scientists leading the review, the world may already be becoming more ... http://news.bbc.co.uk/earth/hi/earth_news/newsid_8503000/8503823.stm http://www.climateark.org/shared/reader/welcome.aspx?linkid=151003 09 Feb 2010 11:00:00 PST climate plants | Worldwide/General | info@ecologicalinternet.org (BBC: Matt Walker) Inter Press Service: As the financial crisis continued to threaten world economies last year, the White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel famously declared: "You never want a serious crisis to go to waste." The U.N. Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) subscribes to the Emanuel philosophy that crises always "offer a window of opportunity to embark on a path of more resilient and sustainable economic growth." The Geneva-based U.N. agency implicitly argues that even in the most economically ... http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=50254 http://www.climateark.org/shared/reader/welcome.aspx?linkid=151001 08 Feb 2010 11:00:00 PST ecological social crises | Worldwide/General | info@ecologicalinternet.org (Inter Press Service: Thalif Deen) Reuters: The Czech environment ministry has picked Norwegian firm DNV to assess expansion plans at a coal-fired power plant which has raised objections from the tiny Pacific nation of Micronesia. In December, the Federated States of Micronesia challenged Czech utility CEZ's plans to extend the life of three blocks at its Prunerov plant, while raising their output and effectiveness. Overall capacity at the plant would drop with the closure of two remaining units. The Pacific nation, a ... http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE6181UV20100209?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=150998 09 Feb 2010 11:00:00 PST coal expansion opposition Czech Micronesia | Worldwide/General | info@ecologicalinternet.org (Reuters: none given) Guardian: The Obama administration delivered a vote of confidence in climate science today by founding a service to study and report on global warming. It will put scientists and data from the national weather service and various departments of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (Noaa) under one roof in Washington DC. Administration officials described Noaa Climate Services, which will be accessible to the public at www.climate.gov, as "one-stop shopping" for business, ... http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2010/feb/09/us-climate-monitoring-service http://www.climateark.org/shared/reader/welcome.aspx?linkid=150997 09 Feb 2010 11:00:00 PST climate information service | North America | United States info@ecologicalinternet.org (Guardian: Suzanne Goldenberg) Bloomberg: Africa's failure to embrace modern farming methods is a greater impediment to food production than global warming, according to the International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics. Adopting this approach would help the continent offset possible temperature increases of as much as 3 degrees Celsius (37 degrees Fahrenheit), it said, citing conclusions made by computer modeling. Africa emits less greenhouse gas than any other continent, though it will likely be ... http://www.businessweek.com/news/2010-02-09/african-farmers-urged-to-innovate-to-offset-climate-change.html http://www.climateark.org/shared/reader/welcome.aspx?linkid=150994 09 Feb 2010 11:00:00 PST carbon offset farmers Africa | Africa | info@ecologicalinternet.org (Bloomberg: Sarah McGregor) Associated Press: Bolivia's government says it expects thousands of activists, environmentalists and scientists to travel to the Andean nation for conference on climate change. Bolivia's foreign minister, David Choquehuanca, estimates roughly 5,000 foreigners will attend the event. The 3-day forum kicks off on April 20 in the city of Cochabamba. Bolivian President Evo Morales announced in January that he would invite activists, scientists and government officials from around the world to an ... http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100209/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/lt_bolivia_climate_conference http://www.climateark.org/shared/reader/welcome.aspx?linkid=150993 09 Feb 2010 11:00:00 PST climate forum Morales | South/Central America/Caribbean | Bolivia info@ecologicalinternet.org (Associated Press: none given) New York Times: Just over two years ago, Rajendra K. Pachauri seemed destined for a scientist's version of sainthood: A vegetarian economist-engineer who leads the United Nations' climate change panel, he accepted the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize on behalf of the panel, sharing the honor with former Vice President Al Gore. But Dr. Pachauri and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change are now under intense scrutiny, facing accusations of scientific sloppiness and potential financial conflicts of ... http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/09/science/earth/09climate.html http://www.climateark.org/shared/reader/welcome.aspx?linkid=150992 09 Feb 2010 11:00:00 PST climate science IPCC lack credibility | Worldwide/General | info@ecologicalinternet.org (New York Times: Elisabeth Rosenthal) Guardian: As snow flurries continued to cause disruption across the country today, spring may feel further away than ever. But recent winters have been ending earlier than ever before, according to a new assessment of Britain's wildlife that reveals global warming could be disrupting the delicate balance of nature. The analysis confirms that spring and summer are occurring earlier, but also shows that this trend appears to be accelerating. The shift could pose problems for animals, birds and ... http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2010/feb/09/wildlife-climate-change http://www.climateark.org/shared/reader/welcome.aspx?linkid=150991 09 Feb 2010 11:00:00 PST climate wildlife plants seasonality | Europe | United Kingdom info@ecologicalinternet.org (Guardian: David Adam) Independent (UK): Marine scientists are reporting that a colony of sea lions, previously unique to the Galapagos Islands, has unexpectedly decamped 900 miles south-east to an island just off the coast of Peru in what may be another symptom of global warming. According to the Peru-based Organisation of Research and Conservation of Aquatic Animals, it is the first recorded instance of a colony of Galapagos sea lions abandoning their familiar waters around the archipelago, which belongs to neighbouring ... http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/nature/goodbye-galapagos-youre-too-warm-for-us-1893327.html http://www.climateark.org/shared/reader/welcome.aspx?linkid=150989 08 Feb 2010 11:00:00 PST warming wildlife migrate | South/Central America/Caribbean | Ecuador info@ecologicalinternet.org (Independent (UK): none given) Independent (UK): Hundreds of millions of tonnes of palm oil look set to be pumped into Britain's vehicles despite scientific evidence showing that chopping down rainforests to make way for plantations exacerbates climate change, according to a leaked report. The European Commission is planning to increase the amount of palm oil used in cars and power stations under the Renewable Energy Directive (RED), which is intended to reduce greenhouse gases, suggests the document. A loophole in the draft ... http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/nature/palm-oil-deal-a-threat-to-the-rainforest-1893312.html http://www.climateark.org/shared/reader/welcome.aspx?linkid=150988 09 Feb 2010 11:00:00 PST rainforest threat palm oil | Worldwide/General | info@ecologicalinternet.org (Independent (UK): Martin Hickman) Reuters: Britain has launched a scheme to certify and label electricity produced by green means so as to help consumers and small businesses choose tariffs to support suppliers doing more to cut carbon emissions than obliged. Britain's energy regulator OFGEM said Tuesday green energy suppliers needed to show an independent panel they were carrying out an additional activity to source for more renewable electricity and to reduce household carbon emissions. "Only two per cent of Britons ... http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE61804F20100209?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=150987 08 Feb 2010 11:00:00 PST green power tariffs | Europe | United Kingdom info@ecologicalinternet.org (Reuters: none given) Agence France-Presse: The European Union on Monday unveiled a new Green logo that will have to be shown on all pre-packaged organic products produced in Europe from July. "I'm delighted that we now have a fresh EU organic food logo," said EU Agriculture Commissioner Mariann Fischer Boel as she announced that the "Euro-leaf" logo, a green leaf design incorporating the 12 stars of the EU flag, had won a competition to find the right image. "This exercise has raised the profile of organic food and we ... http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100208/sc_afp/euenvironmentconsumerlogo http://www.climateark.org/shared/reader/welcome.aspx?linkid=150981 08 Feb 2010 11:00:00 PST organic food Europe | Europe | info@ecologicalinternet.org (Agence France-Presse: none given) Mongabay: Business-as-usual agricultural expansion to meet biofuel production targets for 2020 will take a heavy toll on Brazil's Amazon rainforest in coming years, undermining the potential emissions savings of transitioning from fossil fuels to biofuels, warns a new paper published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS). The research suggests that intensification of cattle ranching, combined with efforts to promote high-yielding oil crops like oil palm could lessen forecast ... http://news.mongabay.com/2010/0208-amazon_biofuels.html http://www.climateark.org/shared/reader/welcome.aspx?linkid=150980 08 Feb 2010 11:00:00 PST Amazon biofuel policy | South/Central America/Caribbean | Brazil info@ecologicalinternet.org (Mongabay: Rhett Butler) Agence France-Presse: Finnish researchers called for a revision of climate change estimates Monday after their findings showed emissions from soil would contribute more to climate warming than previously thought. "A Finnish research group has proved that the present standard measurements underestimate the effect of climate warming on emissions from the soil," the Finnish Environment Institute said in a statement. "The error is serious enough to require revisions in climate change estimates," it ... http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100208/sc_afp/finlandenvironmentclimatechangestudy http://www.climateark.org/shared/reader/welcome.aspx?linkid=150979 08 Feb 2010 11:00:00 PST climate soil underestimated | Worldwide/General | info@ecologicalinternet.org (Agence France-Presse: none given) Reuters: A proposed new U.S. NOAA Climate Service is meant to help businesses adapt to the impact of climate change, and to spur development of new technologies to cope with it, U.S. Commerce Secretary Gary Locke on Monday. "Even with our best efforts, we know that some degree of climate change is inevitable and American citizens and businesses, and American governments ... must be able to rise to environmental and economic challenges that lie ahead," Locke told reporters in announcing the ... http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE6174IJ20100208?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=150978 08 Feb 2010 11:00:00 PST climate business adapt | North America | United States info@ecologicalinternet.org (Reuters: Deborah Zabarenko) Guardian: What a difference three months makes. Back in November, the world broadly agreed that emissions of carbon dioxide were heating up the planet and that we needed to do something about it, even if we couldn't agree exactly what. And though we'd had the usual pre-summit rollercoaster ride of dire predictions and naive exhortations (yes, I plead guilty to some of those), even hardheaded types dared to hope that Copenhagen might produce the basis of a global climate treaty. As late as 7 ... http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cif-green/2010/feb/08/case-for-climate-change-science http://www.climateark.org/shared/reader/welcome.aspx?linkid=150976 08 Feb 2010 11:00:00 PST climate action grassroots | Worldwide/General | info@ecologicalinternet.org (Guardian: Ian Katz) New Vision: THE Copenhagen accord on climate change was neither adopted nor endorsed by the 15th conference of parties in Copenhagen, Denmark. This means the accord does not have any legal standing within the UN system. Notwithstanding, the accord's lack of legal standing, the UN and some developed countries have taken the view that the accord should be implemented by a coalition of the willing countries. As a result, on January 18, the United Nations Climate Change Secretariat (UNFCCC) ... http://www.newvision.co.ug/D/8/459/709468 http://www.climateark.org/shared/reader/welcome.aspx?linkid=150975 08 Feb 2010 11:00:00 PST Copenhagen Accord Africa | Africa | info@ecologicalinternet.org (New Vision: Benard Namanya) China Daily: The science of climate change has been on the defensive in recent weeks, owing to an error that dramatically overstated the rate at which the Himalayan glaciers could disappear. Some in the media, and those who are skeptical about climate change, are currently having a field day, parsing every comma and cough in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's (IPCC) 2007 assessment. Some strident voices are even dismissing climate change as a hoax on a par with the Y2K computer bug. ... http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/opinion/2010-02/09/content_9447317.htm http://www.climateark.org/shared/reader/welcome.aspx?linkid=150973 09 Feb 2010 11:00:00 PST climate science | Worldwide/General | info@ecologicalinternet.org (China Daily: Achim Steiner) The Hill: Legendary House Speaker Sam Rayburn ushered in the 1933 Truth in Securities Act in the grim depths of the Great Depression. It was based on the principle that the purchase and sale of securities should be an honest bargain, and disclosure its cornerstone. But business trends change with the times, and today one that Sam Rayburn never heard of -- climate change -- presents a new major challenge to investors' bottom lines. Investors representing over $1 trillion in assets filed a ... http://thehill.com/opinion/op-ed/80267-disclosing-financial-climate-change-risks- http://www.climateark.org/shared/reader/welcome.aspx?linkid=150972 08 Feb 2010 11:00:00 PST climate disclosure risk | North America | United States info@ecologicalinternet.org (The Hill: Nancy K. Kopp) Environment News Service: Governments Confirm Climate Accord Pledges, No New Commitments Environment News Service (ENS) Governments Confirm Climate Accord Pledges, No New Commitments BONN, Germany, February 8, 2010 - The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change has received national pledges to cut and limit greenhouse gases by 2020 from 55 countries, including China and the United States that together account for 78 percent of global emissions from energy use. The national pledges ... http://www.ens-newswire.com/ens/feb2010/2010-02-08-01.html http://www.climateark.org/shared/reader/welcome.aspx?linkid=150971 08 Feb 2010 11:00:00 PST Copenhagen Accord pledges | Worldwide/General | info@ecologicalinternet.org (Environment News Service: none given) Agence France-Presse: US President Barack Obama's administration announced plans Monday for a new office handling climate change, aiming to help businesses chart future plans as the nation shifts to a greener economy. The first practical effect was the creation of a website, www.climate.gov, which came online Monday and brings together government resources on climate change for business, scholars and the general public. Commerce Secretary Gary Locke said that the new Climate Service would help ... http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100208/sc_afp/usclimatewarminggovernment http://www.climateark.org/shared/reader/welcome.aspx?linkid=150970 08 Feb 2010 11:00:00 PST climate government agency reorganization | North America | United States info@ecologicalinternet.org (Agence France-Presse: none given) BBC: Four "eco-towns" due to be built in England are to receive a funding boost of £60m to be spread over the next two years, the government has announced. The towns, which were whittled down from a shortlisted 12 last year, are Whitehill-Bordon in Hampshire, St Austell in Cornwall, Rackheath in Norfolk and North West Bicester in Oxfordshire. Each is set to receive just over £9m for the next financial year from the Department for Communities and Local Government and the Homes and ... http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/8504050.stm http://www.climateark.org/shared/reader/welcome.aspx?linkid=150969 08 Feb 2010 11:00:00 PST sustainable building eco-towns | Europe | United Kingdom info@ecologicalinternet.org (BBC: none given) Greenwire: The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration launched a new climate service today, a reorganization effort aimed at improving long-range assessments of climate change, sea-level rise and severe weather. The effort is aimed at providing long-term forecasts to assist fisheries managers, farmers, state governments, renewable energy developers, water managers and others. Commerce Secretary Gary Locke likened the new climate shop to the 140-year-old National Weather Service, ... http://www.nytimes.com/gwire/2010/02/08/08greenwire-noaa-reorganizes-with-eye-toward-assessing-eff-30957.html http://www.climateark.org/shared/reader/welcome.aspx?linkid=150968 08 Feb 2010 11:00:00 PST climate NOAA recorganize | North America | United States info@ecologicalinternet.org (Greenwire: Allison Winter) United Press International: Scientific evidence from the environmental community suggests global warming trends are the result of human activity, a U.N. official said in Ankara. Achim Steiner, the head of the U.N. Environment Program, deflected criticism of a U.N.-backed panel that admitted to errors in its reporting on the rate of climate change. The U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change said in January it made errors in reports saying the Himalayan glaciers could melt away by 2035, which the ... http://www.upi.com/Science_News/Resource-Wars/2010/02/08/UN-deflects-climate-change-criticism/UPI-15201265648400/ http://www.climateark.org/shared/reader/welcome.aspx?linkid=150966 08 Feb 2010 11:00:00 PST climtate science criticism | Worldwide/General | info@ecologicalinternet.org (United Press International: none given) Agence France-Presse: A massive Australian coal export deal with China, seen as boosting the economy and creating jobs, would ultimately result in enormous greenhouse gas emissions, The Greens political party said Sunday. Australian miner Resourcehouse announced Saturday it had secured a 60-billion-US-dollar deal with energy-hungry China to ship 30 million tonnes of coal a year from a proposed mine in Queensland. But Greens Senator Bob Brown said the deal would result in the release of significant ... http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100208/sc_afp/australiachinaresourcesminingcoalenvironment http://www.climateark.org/shared/reader/welcome.aspx?linkid=150964 08 Feb 2010 11:00:00 PST coal deal China Australia | Worldwide/General | info@ecologicalinternet.org (Agence France-Presse: none given) International Falls Daily Journal: The potential effects of climate change and other factors on the long-term viability of moose in Voyageurs National Park has prompted a collaring project. Park staff plan to capture up to 14 adult moose to attach state-of-art telemetry collars in the next weeks as part of a continuing project on moose in the park. The project is a collaborative effort among scientists from Voyageurs National Park, the University of Minnesota-Duluth's Natural Resources Research Institute, and ... http://www.ifallsdailyjournal.com/news/outdoors/voyageurs-national-park-collar-moose-it-studies-climate-change-102 http://www.climateark.org/shared/reader/welcome.aspx?linkid=150962 08 Feb 2010 11:00:00 PST climate wildlife moose | North America | United States info@ecologicalinternet.org (International Falls Daily Journal: none given) Business Green: A national renewable energy standard could create more than 274,000 more jobs in the US, according to a new study, which argues that mandatory targets for renewable energy generation would prove one of the most effective means of generating so-called "green collar jobs". Lobby group the RES Alliance for Jobs commissioned Navigant Consulting to analyse the employment impact of proposals for a "25 per cent by 2025" renewable energy standard, which would force US energy firms to source a ... http://www.businessgreen.com/business-green/news/2257517/renewable-standard-provide http://www.climateark.org/shared/reader/welcome.aspx?linkid=150961 08 Feb 2010 11:00:00 PST renewable energy jobs | North America | United States info@ecologicalinternet.org (Business Green: Danny Bradbury) Mongabay: A local organization in Papua New Guinea, known as Asples Madang, is fighting against one of the region's biggest industrial loggers, Rimbunan Hijau (RH) chaired by billionare Tiong Hiew King. Aspeles Madang has accused Malaysian company, RH, of acquiring land illegally and of using brute force and bribery in its dealing with locals. A lawsuit by a local landowner claiming that the Forest Management Area was illegally granted to RH has put the company's logging on hold for two months ... http://news.mongabay.com/2010/0208-hance_rh.html http://www.climateark.org/shared/reader/welcome.aspx?linkid=150960 08 Feb 2010 11:00:00 PST Rimbunan Hijau logging bribery violence | Pacific/Oceania | Papua New Guinea info@ecologicalinternet.org (Mongabay: Jeremy Hance) Business Green: Satisfaction across the renewable energy industry with the announcement last week of new feed in tariffs for homes and businesses installing renewable energy technologies was tempered somewhat after the government suspended its existing grant scheme for on-site renewables. In a surprise move the Department of Energy and Climate Change circulated an announcement last Wednesday confirming that phase one and two of the Low Carbon Building Programme (LCBP) grant scheme was closed to new ... http://www.businessgreen.com/business-green/news/2257514/government-subsidy-cancellation http://www.climateark.org/shared/reader/welcome.aspx?linkid=150959 08 Feb 2010 11:00:00 PST renewable grants | Europe | United Kingdom info@ecologicalinternet.org (Business Green: none given) Washington Post: The Obama administration proposed a new National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Climate Service on Monday, reorganizing the agency so it can provide Americans with predictions on how global warming will affect everything from drought to sea levels. The initiative, modeled loosely on the 140-year-old National Weather Service, will provide forecasts to farmers, regional water managers and business operators affected by changing climate conditions. But it comes at a time when ... http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/02/08/AR2010020801696.html?wprss=rss_nation http://www.climateark.org/shared/reader/welcome.aspx?linkid=150958 08 Feb 2010 11:00:00 PST climate NOAA reorganize | North America | United States info@ecologicalinternet.org (Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin) Associated Press: President Barack Obama's administration is forming a new agency to study and report on the changing climate. Climate change has drawn widespread concern in recent years as temperatures around the world rise, threatening to harm crops, spread disease, increase sea levels, change storm and drought patterns and cause polar melting. Commerce Secretary Gary Locke and Jane Lubchenco, head of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, planned to announce Monday that NOAA ... http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/35297113/ns/us_news-environment/ http://www.climateark.org/shared/reader/welcome.aspx?linkid=150955 08 Feb 2010 11:00:00 PST climate change new agency | North America | United States info@ecologicalinternet.org (Associated Press: none given) Associated Press: The Obama administration on Monday proposed a new agency to study and report on the changing climate. Also known as global warming, climate change has drawn widespread concern in recent years as temperatures around the world rise, threatening to harm crops, spread disease, increase sea levels, change storm and drought patterns and cause polar melting. Commerce Secretary Gary Locke and Jane Lubchenco, head of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, announced NOAA ... http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory?id=9777038 http://www.climateark.org/shared/reader/welcome.aspx?linkid=150954 08 Feb 2010 11:00:00 PST climate agency new federal Obama | North America | United States info@ecologicalinternet.org (Associated Press: Randolph E. Schmid) WA Today: Scientists have made a surprising link between climate patterns in Australia and Antarctica. If you thought the drought affecting south-west WA since the 1970s was extreme, you were right. But just how extreme has been a matter of contention. Now, scientists believe it could be the worst of its kind in 750 years, after making an unexpected discovery. Researchers from the Australian Antarctic Division and Antarctic Climate and Ecosystems Co-operative Research ... http://www.watoday.com.au/environment/climate-change/wa-drought-could-be-worst-for-750-years-20100205-niee.html http://www.climateark.org/shared/reader/welcome.aspx?linkid=150947 09 Feb 2010 11:00:00 PST climate drought worst | Pacific/Oceania | Australia info@ecologicalinternet.org (WA Today: Chalpat Sonti) Associated Press: Walking on a dusty field of cut rice that was once rainforest, researcher Flavio Wruck explains how farming, the Amazon's biggest killer, can be turned into its best defender. At the government-run experimental farm where he works, he points toward plots where crops, cattle and timber live together. It's a simple system, long practiced in the U.S., of rotating crops and revitalizing pasture instead of simply chopping down forest and planting new grasslands. But here in the ... http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/world/to-save-amazon-rainforest-expert-pushes-smarter-farming-to-replace-slash-and-burn-83765067.html http://www.climateark.org/shared/reader/welcome.aspx?linkid=150946 08 Feb 2010 11:00:00 PST Amazon farming threaten | South/Central America/Caribbean | Brazil info@ecologicalinternet.org (Associated Press: Bradley Brooks) USA Today: Once the speed gauge hits 350 kilometers per hour, or 217 miles per hour, passengers charge down the aisle to photograph the electronic display. "If we go any faster, we'll take off!" jokes Hu Qing, cracking open another can of beer on China's world-record-breaking train. The Dec. 26 opening of the high-speed link between south Chinese cities Guangzhou and Wuhan is the latest example of massive state spending to keep China's economy roaring. The fast-expanding network of ... http://www.usatoday.com/money/world/2010-02-08-fasttrain08_ST_N.htm http://www.climateark.org/shared/reader/welcome.aspx?linkid=150945 08 Feb 2010 11:00:00 PST climate transportation high speed trains | East/South-East Asia | China info@ecologicalinternet.org (USA Today: Calum MacLeod) Tribune News Service: For each degree rise in the temperature in the region, Punjab will lose 750 kg per hectare of wheat. This startling revelation emerged at the 13th Punjab Science Congress organised by Panjab University in collaboration with the Punjab Academy of Sciences to thrash out issues related to climate change. Governor of Jammu and Kashmir NN Vohra inaugurated the congress on 'Climate change: Concerns and solutions' at the university auditorium here today. Talking to The Tribune, Prof ... http://www.tribuneindia.com/2010/20100208/main5.htm http://www.climateark.org/shared/reader/welcome.aspx?linkid=150944 07 Feb 2010 11:00:00 PST climate food wheat | South Asia | India info@ecologicalinternet.org (Tribune News Service: Neha Miglani) Australian: THERE are many ways to skin a camel, but none, it seems, that count towards reducing Australia's carbon footprint. Scientists have found camels to be the third-highest carbon-emitting animal per head on the planet, behind only cattle and buffalo. Culling the one million feral camels that currently roam the outback would be equivalent to taking 300,000 cars off the road in terms of the reduction to the country's greenhouse gases. But Climate Change Minister Penny Wong told The ... http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/nation/feral-camels-clear-in-penny-wongs-carbon-count/story-e6frg6nf-1225827641354 http://www.climateark.org/shared/reader/welcome.aspx?linkid=150943 08 Feb 2010 11:00:00 PST climate wildlife feral camels | Pacific/Oceania | Australia info@ecologicalinternet.org (Australian: Ean Higgins) Australian: HUNDREDS of homes that have been fitted with foil insulation under the Rudd government's stimulus program have been turned into potential death traps because installers have laid the insulation over live wires or used metal fasteners, causing it to become electrified. An audit of almost 1000 homes in Queensland has found that in about 2 per cent of cases, foil insulation was installed inappropriately, causing the roof to become "live". This means that if home owners enter their roof ... http://www.theaustralian.com.au/business/property/roof-insulation-turns-houses-live/story-e6frg9gx-1225827643226 http://www.climateark.org/shared/reader/welcome.aspx?linkid=150942 08 Feb 2010 11:00:00 PST energy efficiency insulation correctly install | Pacific/Oceania | Australia info@ecologicalinternet.org (Australian: Nicola Berkovic) Thanh Nien: Both local and international experts said at a forum on the Mekong River environment organized by the Can Tho University on Wednesday that the dams will seriously threaten food security in riparian countries. Dao Trong Tu, former Vietnam country coordinator for the Mekong River Commission, said three hydropower dams are already under construction in China, and another 11 were planned in Laos and Cambodia. La Chhuon, an expert of Oxfam Australia in Cambodia, said fishermen in ... http://www.thanhniennews.com/society/?catid=3&newsid=55081 http://www.climateark.org/shared/reader/welcome.aspx?linkid=150941 08 Feb 2010 11:00:00 PST rainforest dam Mekong | East/South-East Asia | Vietnam info@ecologicalinternet.org (Thanh Nien: none given)