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The FutureGen Project, a clean coal demonstration plant that would have included carbon capture and sequestration (and was #8 on My Top Energy Stories of 2007) has been cancelled. The culprit? Cost…
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Just going through some files on my hard drive, and I ran across the following story. Unfortunately, I don’t have the source. But it’s an interesting look at where projected future oil reserves are…
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window.document.getElementById(’post-7932′).parentNode.className += ‘ adhesive_post’;Associated Press: The clearing of Brazil’s Amazon rain forest jumped dramatically in the final months of 2007, spurred by heavy market demand for corn, soy and cattle, the government and environmentalists said Thursday. President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva called an emergency meeting of Cabinet ministers to consider emergency measures to […]

Telegraph: An impending crisis in America’s water supply is signalled by a study that concludes more than half of the recent decline seen in the west can be linked to human activities. Scientists have been documenting significant changes in water flow in the western United States for the past 50 years. Now it has been […]

Reuters: A deep freeze holding 90 percent of the world’s ice, Antarctica is one of the biggest puzzles in debate on global warming with risks that any thaw could raise sea levels faster than U.N. projections. Even if a fraction melted, Antarctica could damage nations from Bangladesh to Tuvalu in the Pacific and cities […]

window.document.getElementById(’post-7932′).parentNode.className += ‘ adhesive_post’;Reuters: Brazil’s Government is unwilling and unable to halt destruction in the Amazon rainforest despite emergency measures it announced last week to curb rising deforestation, environmental experts say. High commodity prices and increased land use elsewhere in Brazil are driving ranchers and farmers deeper into the Amazon in search of cheap […]

window.document.getElementById(’post-7932′).parentNode.className += ‘ adhesive_post’;Mongabay: The representatives of more than 100 countries in attendance at December’s U.N. climate conference in Bali, Indonesia, finally focused on the important role tropical forests play in global warming. Developed countries have pledged almost $300 million to help forest-rich developing countries prepare for their new roles and responsibilities in […]

Guardian: Britain’s greenhouse gas emissions fell slightly last year as homes and offices used less fuel during the mild winter and recycled more waste. Overall, UK greenhouse gas emissions for 2006 dropped to 652.3m tonnes, a reduction of 0.5% on the previous year, figures from the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs show. […]

Reuters: Environmental groups sued the Bush administration on Thursday to stop plans to allow oil and natural gas drilling in the icy Chukchi Sea off Alaska, which they claim will endanger polar bears. The U.S. Interior Department plans to lease about 30 million acres of land in the Chukchi Sea — home to about […]

window.document.getElementById(’post-7932′).parentNode.className += ‘ adhesive_post’;Science Daily: The link between changes in the temperature of the sea’s surface and increases in North Atlantic hurricane activity has been quantified for the first time. The research - carried out by scientists at UCL (University College London) and due to be published in Nature on January 31 - shows that […]

Associated Press: A reported jump in the rate of Amazon deforestation is unproven despite a government crackdown on tree cutting, President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva said in comments published Thursday. Silva said figures showing increased deforestation, issued last week by his Environment Ministry, have not yet been confirmed and more research is underway, […]

Agence France-Presse: Climate change has already dramatically altered the water cycle and these changes signal a looming water supply crisis, according to a prominent group of hydrologists and climatologists writing Thursday in Science magazine. They argue that radical water cycle changes will be widespread and that past trends can no longer be relied upon […]

window.document.getElementById(’post-7932′).parentNode.className += ‘ adhesive_post’;Washington Post: The persistent and dramatic decline in the snowpack of the mountains of the West is caused primarily by human-induced global warming and not the result of natural variability of weather patterns in the region, researchers reported today. Using data collected over the past 50 years, the scientists confirmed […]

Associated Press: Global warming could cost the world up to $20 trillion over two decades for cleaner energy sources and do the most harm to people who can least afford to adapt, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon warns in a new report. Ban’s report provides an overview of U.N. climate efforts to help the […]