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At the recent CanSecWest Applied Security Conference that was held in Canada, three computers running Mac OS X, Vista and Ubuntu Linux respectively were offered for hacking. None of the three were compromised remotely, i.e., via network access, on the first day.
The second day, with rules relaxed a bit by allowing hackers access to […]

Thanks to a reader for this tip. Argonne National Laboratory has just published a Life-Cycle Analysis (LCA) of biogasoline, biodiesel, green diesel, and petroleum diesel:
Life-Cycle Assessment of…
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Christian Science Monitor: This week, negotiators from 163 countries dip their toes into poorly charted diplomatic waters as they prepare to craft a new agreement to fight global warming. Meeting in Bangkok, Thailand, through Friday, negotiators aim to lay out a detailed negotiating timetable for a draft pact they can submit for approval in […]

window.document.getElementById(’post-7932′).parentNode.className += ‘ adhesive_post’;Sydney Morning Herald: AUSTRALIA needs to urgently identify land that can act as refuges for native wildlife and plants threatened by climate change and decide how to minimise the number of species that will face extinction, a disturbing report by the CSIRO has warned. While saving species should be a priority, […]

Washington Post: Former vice president Al Gore will launch a three-year, $300 million campaign Wednesday aimed at mobilizing Americans to push for aggressive reductions in greenhouse gas emissions, a move that ranks as one of the most ambitious and costly public advocacy campaigns in U.S. history. The Alliance for Climate Protection’s "we" campaign will […]

Guardian: Al Gore, elevated to almost prophetic status for his campaign against global warming, on Sunday night unveiled a new $300m advertising blitz intended to force a debate on climate change during the presidential elections. The Nobel laureate, who appeared with his wife, Tipper, on the CBS programme 60 Minutes to roll out the […]

Reuters: China’s Huaneng Group will start in June building the country’s largest wind farm of 300 megawatts, a Chinese paper said, as the world’s second-largest energy user seeks to grow its tiny renewables sector. The project, with a total of 200 turbines to be erected in a 100-square-kilometre area in Fuxin city of […]

Reuters: The US West is heating up at nearly twice the rate of the rest of the world and is likely to face more drought conditions in many of its fast-growing cities, an environmental group said on Thursday. By analysing federal government temperature data, the Natural Resources Defence Council concluded that the average […]

Reuters: Britain’s landmark Climate Change Bill, which for the first time sets a legal requirement on a government to cut carbon emissions, is expected to pass its first parliamentary hurdle on Monday but has a rocky ride ahead. The House of Lords is expected to vote in its third reading on Monday on […]

Reuters: California’s influential Air Resources Board on Thursday cut by 70 percent the number of electric cars and other zero-emission vehicles automakers will be required to sell in coming years, in a strong signal that technology has lagged hopes in the largest US auto market. Following a marathon session that included testimony from […]

Australian Broadcasting Corporation: Scientists and environment officials from 163 countries will attend talks in the Thai capital Bangkok today, as the first formal discussions in the process of drawing up a replacement for the Kyoto Protocol get underway. The meeting follows major United Nations talks in Bali last December, at which some 190 nations […]

Reuters: Record-high soybean prices are expected to lure US farmers to make a huge shift away from corn production in 2008 and if the current cold, soggy weather pattern persists in key corn states, corn plantings may be cut even more dramatically than analysts now expect. "It’s still early, but it has to […]

Solomon Times: Minister for Environment, Conservation and Meteorology Gordon Darcy Lilo confirms that effects of global warming are now evident in Solomon Islands. Speaking in Parliament last week, Mr. Lilo said the effects include coastal erosions, inundation and salt water intrusion of Fanalei and Walande Islands in Malaita Province and the sinking of Hakupa […]

window.document.getElementById(’post-7932′).parentNode.className += ‘ adhesive_post’;Telegraph: Biodiversity doesn’t sell! At least that was the frustrated cry of at least one delegate at a conference of corporations, NGO’s and financiers who met to explore innovations in biodiversity and business in New York last week. At present, natural capital remains largely off balance sheet to all but the […]

Reuters: Delegates from up to 190 nations will meet in Bangkok from March 31-April 4 for the first round of UN talks on a sweeping new pact to fight climate change. The Bangkok meeting, totalling about 1,000 delegates led by senior government officials, will be the first formal UN negotiations on a UN climate […]