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Marine paradise in peril as BP oil disaster threatens to become worst ever
window.document.getElementById(‘post-7932′).parentNode.className += ‘ adhesive_post’;Times (UK): Fish are leaping, a dolphin is cruising behind the boat and six brown pelicans have just flown overhead in a perfect V-formation like a display team. When Captain Sam Elliott cuts the engine, the only sound is the water lapping against the hull and the cry of gulls. On [...]
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The chance discovery that averted ecological disaster
window.document.getElementById(‘post-7932′).parentNode.className += ‘ adhesive_post’;Independent (UK): It was perceived as one of the greatest environmental threats of the late-20th century. Twenty-five years ago this month, a hole in the ozone layer was detected high in the atmosphere over the frozen wastes of Antarctica; scientists warned it might spread to other parts of the world, leading to [...]
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Credit agency downgrades BP amid oil spill
Agence France-Presse: Ratings agency Moody’s lowered its outlook on BP’s debt to "negative" from "stable" on Wednesday due to "considerable uncertainty" over the group’s finances following the Gulf of Mexico oil spill. "Moody’s action reflects the considerable uncertainty associated with the financial liabilities and clean-up costs that BP may incur as a result of [...]
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BP Says One Oil Leak of Three Is Shut Off
window.document.getElementById(‘post-7932′).parentNode.className += ‘ adhesive_post’;New York Times: For the first time since an explosion on a drilling rig 15 days ago left an undersea well spewing crude oil into the Gulf of Mexico, engineers succeeded in shutting off one of the three leaks from the damaged well late Tuesday night, a spokesman for BP said on [...]
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China issues strict rules to meet emissions targets
window.document.getElementById(‘post-7932′).parentNode.className += ‘ adhesive_post’;Agence France Press: China said on Wednesday it would punish officials who failed to fulfil emissions reduction targets, warning the nation’s current environmental situation was extremely serious. "The energy-saving, emissions reduction situation is very grim, particularly since the third quarter of 2009 when high energy, high emissions industries increased rapidly," China’s [...]
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Germany claims progress in half-way climate talks
Deutsche Welle: The first international ministers conference on climate change since the failed UN summit at Copenhagen in 2009 wrapped up in Bonn, Germany, on Tuesday (04.05.2010). A focus group of some 40 countries was supposed to look for opportunities to take action in the absence of a global agreement. German Environment Minister Norbert [...]
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U.N. forecasts less than 1 bln Kyoto offsets by 2012
Reuters: A United Nations agency on Wednesday cut its forecast for pre-2012 Kyoto Protocol carbon offsets, estimating for the first time that less than 1 billion tonnes will come to market before the climate pact expires. "Due to the medium issuance in March (11.4 million) and in April (9.9 million), our projection for the [...]
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Reid says supports raising oil-spill liability cap
Reuters: Senate Democratic Leader Harry Reid said on Wednesday that he supported a proposal to raise the liability cap on companies responsible for oil spills from $75 million to $10 billion. "I would support that," Reid said at a press conference when asked about the proposal by Democratic Senator Bill Nelson of Florida. [...]
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Hidden Costs of Oil Revealed; Will it Matter?
Associated Press: America is seeing the usually hidden costs of fossil fuels – an oil spill’s potential for huge environmental and economic damage, and deaths in coal and oil industry accidents. But don’t expect much to change. America and the world crave more oil and coal, no matter the all-too-risky ways needed to extract [...]
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Critics question need for Malaysia’s nuclear power plan
Agence France-Presse: Malaysia’s plan to build its first nuclear power plant ran into opposition Wednesday from politicians and environmentalists who queried how necessary and safe it would be. The government on Tuesday said the country’s growing energy needs would be met by a nuclear power station that would be up and running in 2021. [...]
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Malaysia, Indonesia palm oil groups unite against critics
window.document.getElementById(‘post-7932′).parentNode.className += ‘ adhesive_post’;Agence France-Presse: Palm oil producers from Malaysia said Wednesday they had formed a coalition with their counterparts in Indonesia to counter intensified campaigns that blame the industry for rapid deforestation. The Indonesia-Malaysia Palm Oil Group brings together six organisations from the two countries, which account for 85 percent of global production. [...]
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Coast Guard sending 80 vessels to attack oil spill
Associated Press: A U.S. Coast Guard spokesman at the command center in Mobile, Ala., says officials aren’t taking a passive approach to the Gulf oil spill. Lionel Bryant said Wednesday the plan is to send out about 80 vessels to deploy more than 100,000 feet of boom in waters off Florida, Alabama and Mississippi. [...]
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Deepwater Horizon oil spill: Obama attempts to limit political fallout
Guardian: The Obama administration took defensive action today over early assurances that a sunken BP rig was not leaking crude oil into the Gulf of Mexico, issuing a 6,000-word timeline of its actions to try to contain the disaster, and dispatching a phalanx of administration officials to the region. The move came on a [...]
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Climate change and mountain building led to mammal diversity patterns
window.document.getElementById(‘post-7932′).parentNode.className += ‘ adhesive_post’;Physorg: Travel from the tropics to the poles, and you’ll notice that the diversity of mammals declines with distance from the equator. Move from lowland to mountains, and you’ll see diversity increase as the landscape becomes more varied. Ecologists have proposed various explanations for these well-known "biodiversity gradients," invoking ecological, evolutionary and [...]
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Spain: Solar energy “Club Med” touts technological advances