Even the segment-leading Prius sees its sales slowing.
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Federal safety regulators and automakers refuse to act, Public Citizen charges.
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Reuters: A number of animal and plant species in Brazil could die out as rising world temperatures cause more droughts, disease and rain storms in areas like the Pantanal wetlands and Amazon rain forest, according to studies released on Tuesday. "All our efforts to protect our biodiversity could be lost," Environment Minister Marina Silva […]

Independent (UK): Al Gore - Oscar winner and the world’s best-known anti-global warming warrior - has been accused of not living up to his lofty standards when it comes to his own opulent mansion in his home state, Tennessee. According to the right-wing Tennessee Centrer for Policy Research, the former vice-president "deserves a […]

Australian Broadcasting Corporation: Federal Environment Minister Malcolm Turnbull has attacked what he calls Labor’s scare campaign on nuclear reactors. The Opposition is pushing the Government to explain where nuclear power plants might be built if a nuclear industry is developed in Australia. Prime Minister John Howard yesterday told Parliament that last year he […]

WWF: The creation of a new national park in this French territory in South America will significantly increase the protection of tropical forests in the Amazon, says WWF. Vast in its own right, the 2 million-hectare Guyana Amazonian Park will link up with other protected areas in neighbouring Brazil, including the Tumucumaque National […]

Associated Press: An international panel of scientists presented the United Nations with a sweeping, detailed plan on Tuesday to combat climate change — a challenge, it said, "to which civilization must rise." Failure would produce a turbulent 21st century of weather extremes, spreading drought and disease, expanding oceans and displaced coastal populations, it said. […]

CanWest News Service: Twenty years ago, the waters along the east coast of Greenland above the Arctic Circle would have been choked with ice at this time of year, says Jon Egill Kristjansson of the University of Oslo. Not anymore. The new norm is what he sees out the window as his plane swoops […]

AAP: A CONCERTED and well-organised campaign has created alarm over human-induced climate change, industrial magnate Sir Arvi Parbo says. Sir Arvi also said today key international reports warning of climate change, including Al Gore’s documentary An Inconvenient Truth, are biased and scrutiny of them has been suppressed. The former head of Western Mining […]

Toronto Star: The ongoing debate over the future of coal-fired power plants in Ontario is finally coming into focus, with the potential that voters will be offered some real choices on the issue in the coming provincial election. In the 2003 election campaign, the Liberals promised to close the plants, which supply about 20 […]

Toronto Star: The U.S. market for wind-generated power may be the world’s fastest-growing this year, Boreal Energy Inc. said. Installed wind-power capacity in the U.S. may more than double to 29.1 gigawatts by the end of 2010 from 11.6 gigawatts at the end of 2006, the Minnesota-based company said. Installed capacity in the European […]

Time Magazine: Al Gore, a leading voice against global warming, is being criticized by a conservative group that claims his Nashville mansion uses too much electricity. A Gore spokeswoman said the former vice president invests in enough renewable energy to make up for the home’s power consumption. On Sunday, Gore’s documentary film "An […]

Radio Australia: A leading Australian security analyst says that water shortages are likely to push climate change to the top of the policy agenda among East Asian governments in the next decade. Speaking to Radio Australia’s foreign affairs correspondent, Graeme Dobell, Professor Alan Dupont said that Asia has been slow to address the challenges […]

Australian Broadcasting Corporation: ELEANOR HALL: One of Australia’s leading experts on climate change has told federal politicians in Canberra this morning that global warming is a tougher challenge for the world’s leaders than terrorism. Australian National University Professor Will Steffen is the chief scientist with the International Geosphere-Biosphere Program, which conducts research on behalf […]

Tennessean: After being the red-carpet darling of the Academy Awards, it was back to reality Tuesday for Al Gore, who resumed his usual role of history-spouting wonk as he addressed a gathering of national media ethicists at MTSU.Gore was the star of An Inconvenient Truth, which won best documentary feature at Sunday night’s Oscars. The […]