Archive for ‘global warming’
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: 5%
Gore, Bono Talk Poverty, Warming at Davos
January 24th, 2008
Former Vice-President Al Gore and Irish rock singer Bono addressed the World Economic Forum on Thursday in Davos, Switzerland on tackling climate change and global poverty.
Popularity: 6%
EU climate crackdown
January 24th, 2008
The EU has announced tough new targets for all member states to combat climate change within the next decade.
Popularity: 4%
Damaging din in Egypt
January 23rd, 2008
Cairo’s pollution goes beyond the ground and skies to the ears — honking, blaring music and traffic pushing noise to ever-higher decibel levels. Health workers are seeing the results — deafness and cardiovascular problems on the rise.
Popularity: 4%
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%
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%
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%
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%
Forests, carbon capture keys to climate
January 18th, 2008
Protecting forests and burying greenhouse gases are key ways of slowing world climate change, Norway’s prime minister said on Friday a day after the Nordic nation set a stiff 2030 goal of becoming “carbon neutral”.
Popularity: 3%
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%
