window.document.getElementById(’post-7932′).parentNode.className += ‘ adhesive_post’;ScienceDaily: Despite a decade of efforts worldwide to curb its release into the atmosphere, NOAA and university scientists have measured increased emissions of a greenhouse gas that is thousands of times more efficient at trapping heat than carbon dioxide and persists in the atmosphere for nearly 300 years. The substance HFC-23, […]

St. Louis Post-Dispatch: After years of planning and politicking, two next-generation power plants planned for central Illinois face their respective days of reckoning. The projects — FutureGen and Taylorville Energy Center — aspire to be among the most advanced, cleanest coal-fueled power plants in the world, proving that the nation’s vast coal reserves can […]

Mongabay: The U.S. government aims to cut its greenhouse gas emissions 28 percent by 2020 under an order announced Friday by President Obama. "As the largest energy consumer in the United States, we have a responsibility to American citizens to reduce our energy use and become more efficient," Obama said in a statement. "Our […]

Daily Mail: He is the climate change chief whose research body produced a report warning that the glaciers in the Himalayas might melt by 2035 and earned a Nobel Prize for his work — so you might expect Dr Rajendra Pachauri to be doing everything he can to reduce his own carbon footprint. But […]

Agence France-Presse: India reaffirmed to the United Nations that it would reject any attempt to impose legally binding climate change goals, but pledged to reduce emissions intensity. In an endorsement of December’s much-criticised Copenhagen Accord, the environment ministry in New Delhi said it had submitted plans to reduce emissions intensity by 20 to 25 […]

Lanka Business Online: Maldives has voluntarily pledged to slash carbon emissions 100 percent by 2020, which is the deepest cut promised by any country so far under an international accord, the Indian Ocean archipelago said. "Climate change threatens us all," Maldives president Mohamed Nasheed said in a statement. "If we don’t act now, we […]

BBC: Recent controversies over scientific data have not undermined efforts to tackle global warming, Climate Change Secretary Ed Miliband has insisted. Among the controversies are claims that some leading scientists exaggerated the melting of the Himalayan glaciers. Mr Miliband told the BBC it would be "profoundly irresponsible" to use one "mistake" as an […]

Virginian-Pilot: Coastal scientists are predicting that rising seas could drown much of the Outer Banks by the next century, but the issue is just starting to be recognized as a looming crisis in league with beach erosion. Despite the vulnerability of the barrier islands to potentially catastrophic rising seas, there is no clarion call […]

window.document.getElementById(’post-7932′).parentNode.className += ‘ adhesive_post’;Boston Globe: The nuclear industry, once an environmental pariah, is recasting itself as green as it attempts to extend the life of many power plants and build new ones. But a leak of radioactive water at Vermont Yankee, along with similar incidents at more than 20 other US nuclear plants in recent […]

Sydney Morning Herald: GREENHOUSE gas emissions by Australia’s top 200 companies surged by more than 10 per cent year-on-year, prompting fresh calls for a price on carbon to combat growing emissions levels. As Federal Parliament resumes this week with the government to put its carbon pollution reduction scheme before the Senate again, the superannuation […]

window.document.getElementById(’post-7932′).parentNode.className += ‘ adhesive_post’;Reuters: Big greenhouse gas emitters have restated their promises to fight climate change, meeting a Sunday deadline in a low-key endorsement of December’s "Copenhagen Accord". Following are plans announced since the Copenhagen summit. Each country’s percentage of world emissions is given in brackets, based on U.S. Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Center […]

Mongabay: Britain will contribute £50 million ($80m) towards efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in Indonesia, including a project that aims to encourage palm oil producers to establish plantations on degraded lands instead of in place of rainforests and carbon-dense peatlands, reports BBC News. The contribution comes under the government’s £1.5 billion ($2.4 billion) […]

window.document.getElementById(’post-7932′).parentNode.className += ‘ adhesive_post’;LA Times: The fallout from Mt. Rainier’s shrinking glaciers is beginning to roll downhill, and nowhere is the impact more striking than on the volcano’s west side. "This is it in spades," U.S. Park Service geologist Paul Kennard said recently, scrambling up a 10-foot-high mass of dirt and boulders bulldozed back […]

San Jose Mercury News: Brent Constantz’s last startup, Skeletal Kinetics, created a bone-fracture cement that costs $200 per gram and helps orthopedic surgeons heal their patients. His new startup aims to churn out billions of tons of market-price construction cement that Constantz says can help heal planet Earth by embedding billions of tons of […]

Times (UK): THE United Nations climate panel ignored warnings by leading scientists not to publish false claims that the Himalayan glaciers would melt by 2035. One warning, in 2006, a year before the report was published, came from Georg Kaser, an Austrian glaciologist who was a lead author on another section of the report […]