window.document.getElementById(’post-7932′).parentNode.className += ‘ adhesive_post’;Wall Street Journal: China has been publicly excoriated by U.S. officials and others for opposing a binding climate-change deal at this month’s United Nations summit in Copenhagen. But the real loser was India. By aligning itself with China’s negotiating position, India bracketed itself with the world’s largest polluting nation. This tack […]

San Francisco Chronicle: The recent dose of foul weather has raised the spirits of California’s water lords, but measurements taken Wednesday in the Sierra Nevada show there is still not enough snow to ease drought conditions. The ritual trek into the snowy wilderness to survey the state’s frozen water supply found less snow than […]

CBS News: This month, a poll of 3,000 Americans showed 49 percent were not that worried about global warming. That’s up from 39 percent in 2007, when Al Gore’s book and documentary "An Inconvenient Truth" was the hot topic in the climate change debate. So, does the political will to save the planet from […]

window.document.getElementById(’post-7932′).parentNode.className += ‘ adhesive_post’;Reuters: European Union carbon futures slipped in light trading on Thursday to end the year down 21 percent from 2008 closing prices. Dec-10 futures for EU Allowances closed down 17 cents or 1.3 percent at 12.53 euros a tonne in an abbreviated trading session on London’s European Climate Exchange (ECX). […]

window.document.getElementById(’post-7932′).parentNode.className += ‘ adhesive_post’;Reuters: France’s government wants to salvage a carbon tax, scrapped on constitutional concerns, by closing loopholes for some businesses, Economy Minister Christine Lagarde said on Thursday. The French Constitutional Council annulled the tax, hailed by President Nicolas Sarkozy as a ground-breaking tool to fight climate change, on Tuesday on the grounds […]

ScienceDaily: As the Arctic warms, permafrost will degrade, potentially resulting in increased groundwater runoff as frozen ground that had blocked the flow of water melts. To investigate how groundwater systems will evolve as surface temperatures rise, Bense et al. developed a model to simulate an idealized aquifer covered by a layer of permafrost. They […]

Guardian: In a way, Eugenie Harvey wasn’t an obvious choice to be director of the 10:10 campaign. "My initial reaction was: I’m not a climate change expert, I’m not a scientist, I’m not someone who has been campaigning in this area for 20 years," Harvey admits, "so do I have the credibility to take on […]

Guardian: The story is told of how two Ghanaian old ladies emerged from church one Sunday morning in June 1967. During the service, the minister had asked for prayers for the people of Israel, who were at war. "Akosua", one lady turned to the other, "what are we going to do?" "Do about […]

window.document.getElementById(’post-7932′).parentNode.className += ‘ adhesive_post’;Reuters: The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has "serious reservations" about allowing shale gas drilling in New York City’s watershed, warning of a threat to the drinking water for 9 million people. An EPA report on the divisive issue is the latest potential roadblock for energy companies seeking to exploit the Marcellus […]

Business Green: Investment in clean technologies is set to increase over the next 12 months and is unlikely to be unduly hampered by the weak agreement delivered at the Copenhagen Summit earlier this month, according to a major survey of leading investors from investment bank Jefferies. The survey of 200 clean tech investors representing […]

Business Green: South Korea is set to continue its quest to establish the country as one of Asia’s leading clean tech hubs during 2010, with the government predicting that South Korean manufacturing companies will invest more than $3.4bn in the clean technology sector over the next 12 months, up from $2.7bn in 2009. Earlier […]

Agence France Presse: Toyota is facing a potential safety issue with its highest profile vehicle, the Prius, the latest in a plague of quality problems that forced it to recall four million vehicles in 2009. A growing number of owners allege that the brakes on the third-generation, 2010 Toyota Prius can malfunction […]

Guardian: Rising temperatures on the slopes of Mount Kenya have put an extra 4 million people at risk of malaria, research funded by the UK government warned today. Climate change has raised average temperatures in the Central Highlands region of Kenya, allowing the disease to creep into higher altitude areas where the population has […]

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Agence France Presse: The Red River that divides Hanoi is at its lowest level in more than a century, and global warming could be a factor, a Vietnamese official said on Thursday. "The level of the Red River was measured at only 0.66 metres (2.2 feet) on Tuesday morning, the lowest level […]