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25 July
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Free parking for motorbikes, scooters
MOTORCYCLE and scooter riders will be able to park for free on streets controlled by the Sydney City Council in its proposal to encourage smaller, more environmentally-friendly modes of travel.
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The Australian |
Major cities headed for 50C scorchers
MELBOURNE, Adelaide and Sydney will blister in temperatures of more than 50C by 2050, according to the first hard look at the impact of climate change on extreme weather.
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The Australian |
PM casts about for carbon cohorts
PRIME Minister Kevin Rudd is hoping to woo the Coalition to support his emissions trading scheme ? but he may end up in bed with the Greens.
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The Australian |
Unique Fossil Discovery Shows Antarctic Was Once Much Warmer
A new fossil discovery -- the first of its kind from the whole of the Antarctic continent -- provides new evidence to support the theory that the polar region was once much warmer. Scientists made the new fossil discovery in the Dry Valleys of the East Antarctic region. The fossils (ostracods) come from an ancient lake -- 14 million years old -- and are exceptionally well preserved, with all of their soft anatomy in 3-dimensions. This rare find has implications for tracking the polar ice cap.
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ScienceDaily.com |
EU 27 eye increased EU action on space
All member states are politically committed to promotingmore EU actionon space, the French Presidency said after a two-day informal meeting of the bloc's ministers for space. But theissue of where the moneyforthis increased ambition will actually come from will onlybe discussed later.
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EurActiv |
Drivers 'unaware of emission levels'
Nearly three in four drivers do not know how much carbon dioxide their car emits, it was revealed today.
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The Independent |
Costs Of Climate Change, State-by-state: Billions, Says New Report
Climate change will carry a price tag of billions of dollars for a number of US states, says a new series of reports. The researchers conclude that the costs have already begun to accrue and are likely to endure. They studied Colorado, Georgia, Kansas, Illinois, Michigan, Nevada, New Jersey and Ohio. Studies on additional states are in the works.
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ScienceDaily.com |
New Piece Of Climate Change Puzzle Found In Ancient Sedimentary Rocks
Researchers have added a new source of carbon dioxide to the complex climate change puzzle by showing that ancient rocks can release substantial amounts of organic matter into Earth's rivers and oceans, and that this organic matter is easily converted by bacteria to carbon dioxide, which enters the atmosphere and contributes to climate change.
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ScienceDaily.com |
Paying To Save Tropical Forests Could Be A Way To Reduce Global Carbon Emissions
Wealthy nations willing to collectively spend about $1 billion annually could prevent the emission of roughly half a billion metric tons of carbon dioxide per year for the next 25 years, new research suggests. It would take about that much money to put an end to a tenth of the tropical deforestation in the world, one of the top contributors to greenhouse gas emissions, researchers estimate.
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ScienceDaily.com |
Past Climate Change: Continental Stretching Preceding The Opening Of The Drake Passage
Due to the impact of global warming, it has become essential to understand the causes and processes involved in past climate changes. One of the most prominent events in Earth's climatic evolution was the transition from the global warmth of the Eocene "greenhouse" to the Oligocene "icehouse" glacial conditions.
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ScienceDaily.com |
Kenya: Livestock Disease, High Prices Fuelling Food Insecurity
Recurrent outbreaks of the viral livestock disease peste des petits ruminants (PPR), which affects goats and sheep, are exacerbating poor food security in the mainly pastoralist Turkana region of northwestern Kenya.
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AllAfrica.com |
Uganda: New Practices to Help Farmers Beat Climate Change
FARMERS need to learn new practices to adapt to new climatic changes. A report released by Oxfam, a non-governmental organisation, shows that adaptation can help the communities live with the climatic change that has taken its toll on farming and pastoral communities.
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AllAfrica.com |
Uganda: Climate Change Monitors On Rwenzori
They flock our country year in and year out appreciating the gifts that God gave our land. Flocking our nation to climb our mountains that they call virgin because they have survived the heavy pollution and litter that is a characteristic of the foreign peaks such as the Everest.
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AllAfrica.com |
Climate Change Fight Requires 'New Deal' Effort
A U.K. group is calling for a climate change strategy similar in scale to Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal, including a massive investment in renewables and major shake-up of taxation and financial systems.
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ClimateBiz |
£60m biomass plant gets go ahead
E.ON has been given the green light to build a £60m renewable energy plant on the site of a former coal-fired power station.
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Environment Data Interactive Exchange |
Severn fence 'could provide 1% of UK power'
A coalition of researchers and energy companies have floated the idea of constructing a Severn tidal 'fence' instead of the controversial barrage that has been proposed for the river.
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Environment Data Interactive Exchange |
Nuclear decommissioning costs exceed £73bn
The cost of decommissioning Britain's nuclear facilities has risen to £73.6bn, official figures have confirmed.
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Environment Data Interactive Exchange |
Seaweed could be energy source
Energy concerns in Ireland could be quashed through the use of seaweed, it has been claimed.
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Environment Data Interactive Exchange |
Task force launched for Dublin Bay
The Dublin Bay Task Force was inaugurated last week by the Irish minister for the environment, heritage and local government.
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Environment Data Interactive Exchange |
Tidal generator connected to grid
A commercial-scale tidal generator was connected to the national grid for the first time on Thursday, it has emerged.
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Environment Data Interactive Exchange |
