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10/2/2013
Climate change -- a topic absent from last year’s presidential campaign -- has slipped so far down the nation’s to-do list that stakeholders have taken to counting how often the president even utters the phrase.
So when President Barack ...
5/2/2013
Asia Pulp and Paper (APP), a forestry giant that has been widely criticized for its role in driving deforestation and contributing to social conflict in Indonesia, today announced a zero deforestation policy that could have a dramatic impact on ...
4/2/2013
Every winter, a heavy haze of pollution envelops many Asian cities.
The smog is a local hazard: Reduced visibility grounded planes in New Delhi in December, while toxic amounts of particulate matter kept Beijing residents indoors several ...
30/12/2012
Yes, elections do have consequences, and those associated with a likely continuation of disastrous Obama administration energy policies will be huge. Now in this coming new year, with his hold on the Oval Office secure for a final term, the ...
4/12/2012
The city of Parauapebas, Brazil is booming: built over the remains of the Amazonian rainforest, the metropolis has grown 75-fold in less than 25 years, from 2,000 people upwards of 150,000. But little time for urban planning and both a spatial ...
19/10/2012
A California businessman chartered a fishing boat in July, loaded it with 100 tons of iron dust and cruised through Pacific waters off western Canada, spewing his cargo into the sea in an ecological experiment that has outraged scientists and ...
18/10/2012
An environmental entrepreneur whose plan to dump iron in a patch of the Pacific Ocean was shelved four years ago after a scientific outcry has gone ahead with a similar experiment without any academic or
government oversight, startling and ...
18/10/2012
Ecosystem services is not exactly a phrase to stir the human imagination. But over the past few years, it has managed to dazzle both diehard conservationists and bottom-line business types as the best answer to global environmental ...
15/10/2012
On the night of the Great Storm, October 15, 1987, Ray Hawes was sitting in bed nervously watching the trees outside his window. They blew "back and forth, back and forth, back and forth... then one just kept coming forward until it practically ...
7/10/2012
For Britain’s legion of gardeners, peat has long been as essential to gardening as beer is to the corner pub. So trowels flew after the British
government — heeding environmental concerns — announced plans to gradually eliminate peat from all ...
26/7/2012
Cecil and Delores Kolka thought they escaped the worst of the Ash Creek Fire when the 390-square-mile blaze spared their home and several pastures as it ripped through the couple’s Montana cattle ranch.But when the family went to round up ...
5/7/2012
More than half of Liberia's
forests have been granted to logging companies according to figures released to the Guardian from Global Witness – and all of the contracts have been issued during Ellen Johnson Sirleaf's
government. "What we've seen ...
4/7/2012
Controversial plans to
sell off England’s
public forest estate were finally abandoned by the
Government today, after an expert panel called for the 637,000 acres of woodlands owned by the Forestry Commission to remain in
public ...
11/6/2012
In a young man's eyes the logging that laid waste to the coastal forest was akin to a military invasion.
Cameron Hill was barely a teenager when loggers descended onto Gitga'at First Nation territory in the early '80s, clear-cutting vast ...
19/3/2012
Just 2% of the British
public believes that David Cameron has been successful in his pledge to lead the "greenest
government ever", a new YouGov poll reveals.
Respondents were asked to rate the
government's green credentials, including ...
24/1/2012
The aviation industry and federal
government are closing in on deals to build the United States' first commercial-scale sources of jet biofuel, a move considered critical to cutting the sector's emissions.
Over the past three years, ...
16/1/2012
Following in the UK's footsteps, the Netherlands is now working to derail a European Commission proposal to officially designate fuels from Canada's vast tar sands fields as highly polluting and discourage their use.
A secret proposal, ...
10/1/2012
A biologist, an energy lawyer and an aboriginal geologist will sit down Tuesday in a recreation centre in the wilderness of northern British Columbia to initiate what could be the fiercest environmental standoff ever seen in ...
20/12/2011
It's time to pitch back into the controversy over Canada's lobbying offensive against proposed European penalties on fuels from tar sands. But this time we're going through the looking glass, with Canada secretly admitting it has no "credible ...
17/12/2011
Revealed: The true scale of Britain's woodland
sell-off - UK Politics - UK - The Independent Friday 30 December 2011 Jobs Dating Shop http://www.independent.co.uk/incoming/article6259960.ece/ALTERNATES/w202h90/ipad-app.jpg ...
7/12/2011
The benefits of England's
publicly owned
forests were "greatly undervalued" by the planned state
sell-off, a
government-appointed panel will say on Thursday in a report that deals a new blow to the coalition's green credentials.
The ...
13/11/2011
David Cameron today faces a revolt of business leaders, councils, environment campaigners and unions furious at his decision to cut funding for household solar energy, severely undermining his claim that the coalition would be the "greenest ...
10/11/2011
Char Nongolia village is a basket case when it comes to climate change impacts such as increasing salinity, frequent cyclones, tidal surges, erratic rainfall and extended droughts.
Yet, the 40,000 people of this village, sitting on a ...
21/10/2011
The California Air Resources Board on Thursday unanimously adopted the nation's first state-administered cap-and-trade regulations, a landmark set of air pollution controls to address climate change and help the state achieve its ambitious goals ...
10/10/2011
It takes a lot of energy to keep up with Tri Mumpuni Iskandar, which seems fitting given her passion: to electrify poor, rural communities across Indonesia's sprawling 3,200-mile-long archipelago.The charismatic director of the People ...