Environmental News about Climate Change

EarthWire Climate provides a daily overview on the issue of climate change as reported in the media. The web site is updated every day by a team of editors that reviews media sources for environmental news stories.

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Big donors ditch rightwing Heartland Institute over Unabomber billboard
Guardian Unlimited | 09 May 2012
Extremist US thinktank compared those who believe in man-made climate change to serial killer Ted KaczynskiAn ultra-conservative thinktank has suffered a mass exodus of corporate donors after running an ad campaign comparing climate change believers to a serial killer.The Heartland Institute has...

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Injecting sulfate particles into stratosphere won't fully offset climate change
ScienceDaily.com | 25 Jan 2012
New research demonstrates that one suggested method of geoengineering the atmosphere to deal with climate change, injecting sulfate particles into the stratosphere, probably would have limited success.

Climate Change Science | Responses

Africa: Greenpeace Activists Arrested in Climate Demonstrations
AllAfrica.com | 05 Dec 2011
Six Greenpeace campaigners were arrested on the sidelines of the UN climate conference on Monday as they protested against corporate responsibility for carbon emissions.

South Africa | Climate Change Negotiations | Greenhouse Gas Emissions | Responses

More wild fires erupt in Texas
Reuters | 11 Apr 2011
Six new fires erupted in Texas on Monday while more out-of-state firefighting reinforcements were dispatched to try to gain control in a state that has lost nearly 600,000 acres to wild fires since February 22.

United States | Biodiversity | Climate Variability | Responses

Minister wants Germany to drop nuclear extension
Reuters | 10 Apr 2011
The German government should scrap its plans to extend nuclear energy by an average of 12 years as a result of the disaster in Japan, Environment Minister Norbert Roettgen said in an interview published on Sunday.

Some people's climate beliefs shift with weather
ScienceDaily.com | 08 Apr 2011
In three separate studies, researchers surveyed about 1,200 people in the United States and Australia, and found that those who thought the current day was warmer than usual were more likely to believe in and feel concern about global warming than those who thought the day was unusually cold.

Climate Change | Research | Responses

South Korean schools close amid radiation fears
Guardian Unlimited | 08 Apr 2011
More than 100 schools close in Gyeonggi province, despite the PM's office saying radiation levels in rain pose no health risk. More than 100 South Korean schools have cancelled or shortened classes over fears that rain falling across the country may show traces of radiation from the Fukushima nuclear plant in Japan. The Education Office of Gyeonggi province said it allowed schools to decide whether to open on Thursday.

Ten years to save Australia's Great Barrier Reef
New Scientist | 08 Apr 2011
Carbon dioxide emissions must be cut within a decade to give the reef system a fighting chance of survival.

China to ban imports of farm products from Japan
Reuters | 08 Apr 2011
China will ban the import of farm produce, including food, edible agricultural products and feedstuff, from 12 areas in Japan, the country's quarantine authorities said, as concerns about radiation contamination mount.

Climate change targets developing world's cities
Reuters | 07 Apr 2011
Many fastest-growing cities, especially those in the developing world, stand to suffer disproportionately from the effects of climate change, a new study reported on Thursday.

House passes bill to stop EPA climate program
Reuters | 07 Apr 2011
The House of Representatives passed legislation on Thursday that would stop the Environmental Protection Agency from regulating emissions of gases blamed for warming the planet, a day after the Senate rejected similar legislation.

United States | Climate Change | Government and Climate Change | Greenhouse Gas Emissions | Responses

Green bankers can restore City's reputation
Guardian Unlimited | 07 Apr 2011
Such traders can help Britain earn its way in a competitive global economy while supporting the realisation of a greener and more sustainable future. After the events that led to the credit crunch and our current fiscal situation, the last thing people want is more bankers. But what if they were...

United Kingdom | Economy | Policy | Responses

Japanese nuclear engineers plug Fukushima leak
Guardian Unlimited | 06 Apr 2011
Workers stem flow of radioactive water into sea using mixture of sawdust, newspaper, concrete and a type of liquid glass. Engineers battling to contain the crisis at Japan's Fukushima nuclear power plant appeared to have turned an important corner last night after they stopped highly radioactive water from leaking into the ocean from one of the facility's crippled reactors.

Japan | Disasters | Government and Climate Change | Industry | Responses

Obama to drill down on energy, education, competitiveness in Philadelphia-area, NYC stops
Washington Post | 06 Apr 2011
President Barack Obama is focusing on two parts of his plan to make America more competitive: energy and education.

Environmental groups seek delay in new U.S. nuclear plants
Reuters | 06 Apr 2011
An alliance of southeastern public interest groups on Wednesday asked the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to suspend the fast-track approval process for the new Westinghouse AP1000 reactor.

Biodiversity vital to streams as extinctions rise
Reuters | 06 Apr 2011
As Earth enters a period of mass extinction, a study released on Wednesday offers a new reason to preserve biodiversity: it's an effective, natural pollution scrubber in streams.

Russia, Turkey climate action insufficient: EBRD
Reuters | 06 Apr 2011
Insufficient support is holding back climate action across the bloc of former communist countries and Turkey, an EBRD report said on Wednesday.

Tree growth and fecundity affected more by climate change than previously thought
ScienceDaily.com | 05 Apr 2011
An 18-year study of 27,000 individual trees finds that tree growth and fecundity -- the ability to produce viable seeds -- are more sensitive to climate change than previously thought.

Biodiversity | Carbon Storage | Climate Change | Research | Responses

Kyoto pact rift threatens progress at U.N. climate talks
Reuters | 05 Apr 2011
Poorer nations upped the ante on rich countries at U.N. climate talks on Tuesday by demanding that the world's main climate treaty be extended from 2013 and for industrialized countries to deepen carbon-cutting pledges.

U.S. eyes more rules to prevent oil blowouts
Reuters | 05 Apr 2011
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. government is weighing more safety standards for blowout preventers on oil-drilling rigs, after a probe uncovered a possible design flaw that may have helped to cause last year's massive Gulf oil spill, Interior Secretary Ken Salazar said on Tuesday.

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