Archive for ‘Events’
Climate change “greatest threat” to humanity today says Red Cross
January 21st, 2008
The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, IFRC, warned Monday that climate change was the “greatest threat” to humanity today.
Popularity: 2%
Nuclear revival rekindles waste concerns
January 20th, 2008
Thousands of canisters of highly radioactive waste from the world’s most nuclear-energized nation lie, silent and deadly, beneath this jutting tip of Normandy. Above ground, cows graze and Atlantic waves crash into heather-covered hills.
Popularity: 3%
Did oil canals worsen Katrina’s effects?
January 20th, 2008
Service canals dug to tap oil and natural gas dart everywhere through the black mangrove shrubs, bird rushes and golden marsh. From the air, they look like a Pac-Man maze superimposed on an estuarine landscape 10 times the size of Grand Canyon National Park.
Popularity: 2%
EU climate package could harm economy, top official warns
January 19th, 2008
A row within the European Union’s executive over plans to strengthen the bloc’s fight against global warming showed no sign of cooling as the EU’s top industry official warned that key parts of the plan could harm Europe’s economy.
Popularity: 4%
Tiger Attack Victim Admits Drinking
January 18th, 2008
One of the three victims of the San Francisco Zoo tiger attack was intoxicated and admitted standing atop a railing of the big cat enclosure and yelling and waving at the animal that would later maul them, killing his friend.
Popularity: 4%
Targets no panacea for climate change-Japan advisor
January 18th, 2008
Setting targets for cuts in greenhouse gas emissions is not the only solution to global warming nor a gauge of a country’s commitment in fighting it, an advisor to Japan’s government said, dismissing criticism that Tokyo’s leadership on the issue was too weak.
Popularity: 4%
Human embryo ‘cloned from man’
January 18th, 2008
An American researcher, Dr Samuel Wood, has cloned human embryos from his own skin cells.
Popularity: 2%
Texas is biggest carbon polluter
January 17th, 2008
Everything’s big in Texas — big pickup trucks, big SUVs and the state’s big carbon footprint, too. Texans’ fondness for large, manly vehicles has helped make the Lone Star State the biggest carbon polluter in the nation.
Popularity: 5%
Oregon mulls more water for farmers
January 17th, 2008
It was touted by backers as the “Oasis Project,” a plan to draw an additional 500,000 acre-feet of water from the Columbia River to help farmers in eastern Oregon increase crop production and revitalize the region’s economy.
Popularity: 3%
French oil giant Total fined in Erika oil spill disaster
January 16th, 2008
A Paris court Wednesday fined France’s largest company, the oil giant Total, 375,000 euros (556,000 dollars) for negligence in the country’s worst-ever ecological disaster, the 1999 sinking of the tanker Erika, French radio reported.
Popularity: 4%
Sea levels rising at ‘alarming’ rate, say Chinese scientists
January 16th, 2008
Scientists say new figures show that sea levels along China’s coast are rising at an ”alarming” rate due to global warming, with some cities more affected because excessive extraction of groundwater is causing ground levels to sink, state-run media reported Wednesday.
Popularity: 3%
Japanese Whalers Hold Activists Hostage
January 16th, 2008
A Japanese whaling crew holds two anti-whaling activists on board a vessel. The incident has prompted outcry from Australia while the Japanese government says the protesters actions were dangerous.
Popularity: 3%
Mine fire burns since 1962
January 15th, 2008
It was in 1962 that a fire at a waste dump spread to natural fuel that lies beneath this town. The fire burns in an underground area 350 acres wide.
Popularity: 3%
Sarkozy proposes carbon tax for EU
January 15th, 2008
In a letter to European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso, made public Tuesday, French President Nicolas Sarkozy has proposed the establishment of a so-called carbon import tax to punish countries who do not conform to greenhouse gas emission limits.
Popularity: 4%
Wash. state governor to launch greenhouse gas bill
January 15th, 2008
Washington state Gov. Christine Gregoire said Monday she plans to introduce legislation to reduce the state’s greenhouse gas emissions by 50 percent in 2050 from 1990 levels.
Popularity: 4%
