Archive for ‘Written Word’
Republicans differ on global warming
January 24th, 2008
While the major presidential candidates agree global warming is real, the Republicans are sharply divided over what to do about it — even as they chase votes in Florida, where the predicted risk of rising sea waters and more severe storms is anything but a passing concern.
Popularity: 5%
Global warming enters hurricane debate
January 24th, 2008
A lively and sometimes scrappy debate on whether global warming is fueling bigger and nastier hurricanes like Katrina is adding an edge to a gathering of forecasters here.
Popularity: 6%
World forum focuses on terrorism
January 24th, 2008
Fears of world recession briefly took a back seat Thursday at the World Economic Forum, where leaders from Afghanistan, Pakistan and Iraq focused on how to establish security in their volatile regions.
Popularity: 13%
Main points of the EU’s climate and energy package
January 23rd, 2008
The European Commission’s package of legal proposals on the climate and energy consists of the following documents:
Popularity: 6%
EU approves ambitious energy and climate change package
January 23rd, 2008
The European Commission approved Wednesday ambitious plans to turn the European Union into the most environmentally-friendly economy in the world.
Popularity: 7%
Biofuel production may worsen water, food problems in Asia: study
January 22nd, 2008
An international research group has warned in a recent study that continued rapid growth in biofuel production may worsen already serious water resource and food problems in Asia.
Popularity: 6%
Dozens of rare reptiles die in India
January 22nd, 2008
Conservationists and scientists scrambled Tuesday to determine what has killed at least 50 critically endangered crocodile-like reptiles in recent weeks in a river sanctuary in central India.
Popularity: 6%
Stench wafts through Gaza as sewage system falters
January 22nd, 2008
Yussef Al-Jayar jolted awake this week when gallons of raw sewage spewed out of the pumping station next door and started to seep under his door and into his mattress.
Popularity: 4%
Architect Foster sees future in green desert city
January 22nd, 2008
Imagine a city of 50,000 with no cars, no carbon, no waste, a green city of the future. Now imagine it in the Gulf desert, where summer temperatures can hit 50 degrees and 24-hour air conditioning is a way of life.
Popularity: 7%
Top EU ecology expert wants global warming Marshall plan
January 21st, 2008
Jacqueline McGlade, the EU’s chief environment expert, believes Europe needs a Marshall plan of investment - up to several percentage points of GDP per year - to reduce the vulnerability to climate change.
Popularity: 3%
New LV Buses Powered By Hydrogen
January 21st, 2008
The city of Las Vegas got a little greener this month when it incorporated two hydrogen-powered buses into its downtown fleet.
Popularity: 3%
EU looks to protect heavy industry in climate-change storm
January 21st, 2008
The European Union is set to give its heaviest users of energy special treatment in a forthcoming package of laws on climate change, officials in Brussels indicated Monday
Popularity: 3%
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%
