General Motors promotes its new 100,000-mile warranty, Kia hopes new vocabulary will score with consumers.
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Automakers nervous; only Honda supports higher MPG requirement.
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At the European Renewable Energy Policy conference in Brussels this week, German Environment laid down a challenge to the renewables industry to harness the enormous potential for solar power in the North Africa.
If we can send a man to the moon, then why can’t we harness the sun’s energy in the Sahara? asked Gabriel.
There was […]

Christian Science Monitor: More than 120 scientists across seven federal agencies say they have been pressured to remove references to "climate change" and "global warming" from a range of documents, including press releases and communications with Congress. Roughly the same number say appointees altered the meaning of scientific findings on climate contained in communications related […]

Agence France-Presse: US politicians called today for an end to American complacency over global warming as the new Democratic-controlled Congress weighed measures to reduce greenhouse gases. After years of relegating climate change to the bottom of the legislative agenda, Democrats who wrested control of the House and the Senate from the Republicans in November elections, […]

Australian: AUSTRALIA’S best hope of making affordable but deep cuts in greenhouse gas emissions by 2030 to reach global targets is by using clean coal, nuclear and gas technologies rather than renewable energy sources. A major report to be released today predicts a 30 per cent cut in emissions by 2030 - the amount […]

Age: Six years ago, Lesley Hughes published a paper blowing the whistle on what a fraction of a degree of warming was doing to the natural world. Now, with international scientists about to release a report anticipating temperature increases of three to five degrees in the next century, Dr Hughes is looking ahead to what […]

AAP: AVERAGE Sydney temperatures will soar by 4.8C by 2070, according to a CSIRO report commissioned by the NSW Government. In summer, maximum temperatures could rise by up to seven degrees by 2070, News Ltd newspapers report. The CSIRO has predicted Sydney would resemble the dry, harsh conditions in the village of Paterson, 150km […]

Sydney Morning Herald: WORLD governments should heed the broadest scientific assessment so far of a human link to global warming and agree on prompt action to slow the trend, the chairman of a United Nations climate report said on Monday. A draft of the report projects a big rise in temperatures this century - […]

Reuters: German electricity generation from renewable energy sources rose by 15 percent last year to 73.2 billion kilowatt hours (kWh), industry association VDEW said on Tuesday. Within Germany’s total power output in 2006, which was up from 63.5 billion kWh in 2005, renewables accounted for an 11.9 percent share compared with 10 percent […]

Reuters: Indonesia wants rich countries to pay developing nations to preserve their forests, which are vital to help remove greenhouse gases from the atmosphere, the country’s environment minister told Reuters on Tuesday. The proposal will be tabled at a UN conference on climate change to be held in the Indonesian resort island of […]

Reuters: Banks, grocery stores, and Uncle Sam are among the top US purchasers of power from alternative sources like wind, solar, geothermal and hydro, federal environment regulators said this week. US bank Wells Fargo & Co. annually purchases 550 million kilowatt hours, or 42 percent, of its electricity from wind power sources, as […]

Reuters: Africa has missed out on booming investment in clean energy projects partly over worries that it is a tough destination to do business, a UN official said on Tuesday. The Kyoto Protocol obliges 35 rich nations to cut greenhouse gases by 5 percent below 1990 levels by 2008-12, mostly through curbing the […]

Reuters: The number of air travellers is expected to double by 2025, rising to more than 9 billion a year, a body representing the world’s airports said on Tuesday. The Airports Council International (ACI) predicted air freight would triple over the same period. In its Global Traffic Forecast 2006-2025, ACI said passengers passing […]

Reuters: Alice Hale remembers the day she first saw a northern cardinal, an unmistakable creature famed in bird watching circles for its brilliant scarlet plumage. "I saw a northern cardinal in a tree at the end of my driveway about a dozen years ago and then they started coming to my bird feeders […]