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We aim to raise the awareness of these issues and to source news articles and bring them to your desktop. en Thu, 11 Mar 2010 04:11:27 +0000 http://www.saveourearth.co.uk/soe_enews.php?number=8247 http://www.saveourearth.co.uk/soe_enews.php?number=8247 Wed, 10 Mar 2010 21:34:33 +0000 OSLO (Reuters) - A dimming of the sun to match conditions in the "Little Ice Age" of the 17th century would only slightly slow global warming, a study indicated on Wednesday. http://www.saveourearth.co.uk/soe_enews.php?number=8246 http://www.saveourearth.co.uk/soe_enews.php?number=8246 Wed, 10 Mar 2010 21:33:54 +0000 WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama, weighing in on the Senate's efforts to pass a climate change bill, gathered Republican and Democratic lawmakers on Tuesday to try to jumpstart an overhaul of U.S. energy policy. http://www.saveourearth.co.uk/soe_enews.php?number=8245 http://www.saveourearth.co.uk/soe_enews.php?number=8245 Wed, 10 Mar 2010 21:32:54 +0000 BEIJING (Reuters) - China's top climate negotiator said on Wednesday that the cause of global warming was still not clear but the problems it was creating were so serious that the world must anyway act to cut greenhouse gas emissions. http://www.saveourearth.co.uk/soe_enews.php?number=8244 http://www.saveourearth.co.uk/soe_enews.php?number=8244 Wed, 10 Mar 2010 21:32:19 +0000 WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Like a savvy Madison Avenue advertising team, senators pushing climate-control legislation have decided to scrap the name "cap and trade" and rebrand their product as "pollution reduction targets." http://www.saveourearth.co.uk/soe_enews.php?number=8243 http://www.saveourearth.co.uk/soe_enews.php?number=8243 Wed, 10 Mar 2010 21:15:27 +0000 NAIROBI, Kenya, March 9, 2010 - Ethiopia has become the first African country to register a large-scale forestry project under the Clean Development Mechanism of the Kyoto Protocol. The Humbo Assisted Natural Regeneration Project has restored more than 2,700 hectares of degraded land in the impoverished highlands of southwestern Ethiopia since 2007. Registration of the project by the United Nations enables the future sale of over 338,000 metric tonnes worth of carbon credits by 2017, furthering the goal of the Kyoto Protocol to reduce global greenhouse gas emissions. http://www.saveourearth.co.uk/soe_enews.php?number=8242 http://www.saveourearth.co.uk/soe_enews.php?number=8242 Wed, 10 Mar 2010 21:12:11 +0000 The head of the United Nations (UN) has announced a review of how the world examines the risk of global warming following a series of scandals around the science of climate change. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) was set up by the UN to assess the risk to the world of rising global temperatures. It won a Nobel Peace Prize for its 2007 report that concluded mankind is most likely responsible for the warming. But the report included an erroneous claim that the Himalayan glaciers would melt by 2035. There have also been questions about the use of non-peer reviewed or "grey literature" to back up some of the claims around global warming. Sceptics also claim that emails stolen from the University of East Anglia cast doubt on the science of global warming in a scandal known as "climategate". http://www.saveourearth.co.uk/soe_enews.php?number=8241 http://www.saveourearth.co.uk/soe_enews.php?number=8241 Wed, 10 Mar 2010 21:10:42 +0000 Two more councils are planning to build eco-towns under Government plans to roll out the controversial project. John Healey, the housing minister, has already given the go-ahead for four local authorities to build environmentally friendly settlements and a further nine locations are developing plans. Now two more councils in South Hampshire and East Devon are developing proposals. To qualify as an eco-town, a development must have 5,000 homes - at least 30 per cent of which are affordable to those on low incomes - and contain low-carbon services and energy supplies. The Government's aim is to build 10 eco-towns by 2020. http://www.saveourearth.co.uk/soe_enews.php?number=8240 http://www.saveourearth.co.uk/soe_enews.php?number=8240 Wed, 10 Mar 2010 21:07:18 +0000 Perth, Australia is in the grip of a heat-wave with temperatures set to soar to 40C by the end of the week. Australia is no stranger to extreme weather. Melbourne was pummelled with hailstones the size of golf balls on Saturday. Long term, droughts, bushfires and floods have all plagued large swathes of Queensland, New South Wales and Victoria. Currently, with high pressure anchored in the south of the continent, the settled conditions allow fierce heat to build in the interior of the country. http://www.saveourearth.co.uk/soe_enews.php?number=8239 http://www.saveourearth.co.uk/soe_enews.php?number=8239 Wed, 10 Mar 2010 21:06:03 +0000 Since Christmas, parched areas of New South Wales, Australia's most populous state, have received their best rains in a decade, fuelling hopes the continent's worst drought in a century may finally be easing. Near Forbes, a farming town 380km (240 miles) west of Sydney, vast tracts of desolate land have turned a splendid shade of green, while dry rivers and creeks have been revived. http://www.saveourearth.co.uk/soe_enews.php?number=8238 http://www.saveourearth.co.uk/soe_enews.php?number=8238 Tue, 09 Mar 2010 21:18:47 +0000 WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama on Tuesday will gather key Republican and Democratic senators whose support is critical to passing a climate change law, seeking to jump-start stalled efforts to overhaul U.S. energy policy. http://www.saveourearth.co.uk/soe_enews.php?number=8237 http://www.saveourearth.co.uk/soe_enews.php?number=8237 Tue, 09 Mar 2010 21:18:22 +0000 NEW DELHI (Reuters) - China and India joined almost all other major greenhouse gas emitters Tuesday in signing up to the climate accord struck in Copenhagen, boosting a deal strongly favored by the United States. http://www.saveourearth.co.uk/soe_enews.php?number=8236 http://www.saveourearth.co.uk/soe_enews.php?number=8236 Tue, 09 Mar 2010 21:17:37 +0000 BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Europe's new climate chief sought to reinvigorate international climate talks on Tuesday, laying out a strategy for the EU to lead the world by example. http://www.saveourearth.co.uk/soe_enews.php?number=8235 http://www.saveourearth.co.uk/soe_enews.php?number=8235 Tue, 09 Mar 2010 21:16:58 +0000 BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Four environmental groups have sued the European Union's executive for withholding documents they say will add to a growing dossier of evidence that biofuels harm the environment and push up food prices. http://www.saveourearth.co.uk/soe_enews.php?number=8234 http://www.saveourearth.co.uk/soe_enews.php?number=8234 Tue, 09 Mar 2010 21:14:10 +0000 China and India wrote to the UN's climate secretariat today agreeing to be "listed" as a parties to the Copenhagen accord, the last-minute agreement that emerged from the chaos of the UN's summit in Copenhagen. The action falls short of full "association" and highlights the gulf between the US - the strongest backer of the accord - and the other key nations on how to deliver a global deal to combat climate change. http://www.saveourearth.co.uk/soe_enews.php?number=8233 http://www.saveourearth.co.uk/soe_enews.php?number=8233 Mon, 08 Mar 2010 20:10:57 +0000 WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Environmental Protection Administrator Lisa Jackson fought back on Monday against Senate attempts to challenge EPA's authority to regulate emissions while lawmakers work on a climate bill, saying delaying agency action would be bad for the economy. http://www.saveourearth.co.uk/soe_enews.php?number=8232 http://www.saveourearth.co.uk/soe_enews.php?number=8232 Mon, 08 Mar 2010 20:10:06 +0000 Over a third of the greenhouse gas emissions related to the consumption of goods in wealthy nations actually occur in developing countries, according to a new analysis by researchers with the Carnegie Institution. Annually, each person if the United States outsources 2.5 tons of carbon due to consumption habits, most frequently in China. In Europe the figure of 'outsourced' emissions rises to 4 tons per person. http://www.saveourearth.co.uk/soe_enews.php?number=8231 http://www.saveourearth.co.uk/soe_enews.php?number=8231 Mon, 08 Mar 2010 20:09:20 +0000 Britain's demand for imported goods is responsible for more greenhouse gas emissions abroad than any other European country, according to a new study published today. The report shows that 253m tonnes of carbon dioxide are released overseas each year in the manufacture of products bound for UK shores, the equivalent of 4.3 tonnes per person. The average Briton's carbon footprint is 9.7 tonnes, not including emissions from goods. Only the US and Japan have higher emissions linked to their imports, at 699m tonnes and 284m tonnes of carbon dioxide per year respectively, the study found. The majority of the emissions are released in rapidly industrialising parts of the developing world, such as China and India. http://www.saveourearth.co.uk/soe_enews.php?number=8230 http://www.saveourearth.co.uk/soe_enews.php?number=8230 Mon, 08 Mar 2010 17:48:05 +0000 OSLO (Reuters) - South Africa, India and Indonesia are vying to win the U.N.'s top climate change job, a key post to build trust between poor and rich in 2010 after the U.N.'s Copenhagen summit which set few binding targets. http://www.saveourearth.co.uk/soe_enews.php?number=8229 http://www.saveourearth.co.uk/soe_enews.php?number=8229 Mon, 08 Mar 2010 17:47:19 +0000 BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Loopholes in the United Nations climate treaties could actually amount to an increase in global climate-warming emissions and the chance to rein in temperatures may be slipping away, a draft European Union report showed. http://www.saveourearth.co.uk/soe_enews.php?number=8228 http://www.saveourearth.co.uk/soe_enews.php?number=8228 Mon, 08 Mar 2010 17:45:52 +0000 WASHINGTON, DC, March 4, 2010 (ENS) - Senator Jay Rockefeller today introduced legislation to impose a two-year moratorium on the Environmental Protection Agency's ability to regulate greenhouse gases from power plants and other stationary emitters. The bill is the latest salvo in the battle over which branch of government will control greenhouse gases - the legislative branch through a clean energy and climate bill, or the executive branch by EPA regulation. http://www.saveourearth.co.uk/soe_enews.php?number=8227 http://www.saveourearth.co.uk/soe_enews.php?number=8227 Mon, 08 Mar 2010 17:44:20 +0000 The head of the International Monetary Fund has proposed a plan for the world's governments to pool together to raise money needed to adapt to climate change, a rare step for an organisation that normally does not develop environmental policies. The IMF managing director, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, said the fund is concerned by the huge amount of money needed and the effect this will have on the global economy. He added that the proposal may help efforts to reach a binding agreement on climate change this year. http://www.saveourearth.co.uk/soe_enews.php?number=8226 http://www.saveourearth.co.uk/soe_enews.php?number=8226 Mon, 08 Mar 2010 17:43:06 +0000 The world's animals and plants are being killed off by humans faster than new ones can evolve, for the first time since dinosaurs became extinct, experts have warned. Despite hope that nature was fighting back, it appeared that the global wipeout of species was accelerating, they said. Speaking ahead of two next week on the state of British and European wildlife, Simon Stuart, from the International Union for the Conservation of Nature, admitted that the rate of extinction had not slowed. http://www.saveourearth.co.uk/soe_enews.php?number=8225 http://www.saveourearth.co.uk/soe_enews.php?number=8225 Mon, 08 Mar 2010 17:41:47 +0000 A strong earthquake has struck eastern Turkey, killing at least 57 people, officials have said. The 6.0-magnitude quake, centred on the village of Basyurt in Elazig province, struck at 0432 (0232 GMT). It has been followed by more than 40 aftershocks. Officials said the nearby village of Okcular had been almost destroyed and several others badly damaged. A number of people were trapped in the rubble of collapsed buildings, many of which were built of mud-bricks. http://www.saveourearth.co.uk/soe_enews.php?number=8224 http://www.saveourearth.co.uk/soe_enews.php?number=8224 Sun, 07 Mar 2010 21:29:05 +0000 Brazil and the United States have signed an agreement to worth together to reduce deforestation as part of an effort to slow climate change. http://www.saveourearth.co.uk/soe_enews.php?number=8223 http://www.saveourearth.co.uk/soe_enews.php?number=8223 Sun, 07 Mar 2010 21:28:27 +0000 A major study for the UK government has cast doubt over claims that rising temperatures are causing soil to pump greater amounts of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, further fuelling global warming. In 2005 it was reported in the science journal Nature that over the past 25 years 100m tonnes of carbon dioxide had been released by the soil of England and Wales. The figure cancelled out all emissions cuts in the UK since 1990. However, a national survey of the soils of Great Britain, funded by the department for environment food and rural affairs, claims to have found no net loss of carbon over approximately the same period. http://www.saveourearth.co.uk/soe_enews.php?number=8222 http://www.saveourearth.co.uk/soe_enews.php?number=8222 Fri, 05 Mar 2010 20:43:20 +0000 BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The European Union executive is tempering its hopes of securing a legally binding climate deal in talks this year culminating in Cancun, Mexico, focusing instead on a 2011 summit in South Africa, a source said. http://www.saveourearth.co.uk/soe_enews.php?number=8221 http://www.saveourearth.co.uk/soe_enews.php?number=8221 Fri, 05 Mar 2010 20:42:46 +0000 TOKYO (Reuters) - A rift within Japan's government over legislation to fight climate change has raised the risk of it watering down plans for an emissions trading system that is at the core of its drive for greener policies. http://www.saveourearth.co.uk/soe_enews.php?number=8220 http://www.saveourearth.co.uk/soe_enews.php?number=8220 Fri, 05 Mar 2010 20:42:08 +0000 BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The European Union's development chief may be forced to name and shame France, Germany and Italy for not living up to their aid commitments, contributing to a roughly $17 billion funding gap this year. http://www.saveourearth.co.uk/soe_enews.php?number=8219 http://www.saveourearth.co.uk/soe_enews.php?number=8219 Fri, 05 Mar 2010 20:37:30 +0000 Man is responsible for global warming, according to a new report that hits back at the growing scepticism around climate change. The Met Office-led report looked at the latest figures on global temperatures, melting sea ice and humidity. It also considered new evidence on the extent of warming in the Antarctic, rainfall patterns and salinity of the oceans. It concluded that is was "human influence" that is changing the climate. http://www.saveourearth.co.uk/soe_enews.php?number=8218 http://www.saveourearth.co.uk/soe_enews.php?number=8218 Fri, 05 Mar 2010 20:36:37 +0000 Millions of tonnes of recycling is still being sent to landfill by businesses despite a multimillion pound Government campaign, according to spending watchdogs. The Department for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs spent £240 million between 2005 and 2008 on encouraging businesses to cut waste. The money was spent on raising awareness, training managers and developing easier ways to recycled. But a report by the National Audit Office (NAO) found the 200 million tonnes of waste from construction and industry only fell by 11 per cent during the period. http://www.saveourearth.co.uk/soe_enews.php?number=8217 http://www.saveourearth.co.uk/soe_enews.php?number=8217 Fri, 05 Mar 2010 20:34:35 +0000 The Met Office is to stop publishing seasonal forecasts, after it came in for criticism for failing to predict extreme weather. It was berated for not foreseeing that the UK would suffer this cold winter or the last three wet summers in its seasonal forecasts. The forecasts, four times a year, will be replaced by monthly predictions. The Met Office said it decided to change its forecasting approach after carrying out customer research. http://www.saveourearth.co.uk/soe_enews.php?number=8216 http://www.saveourearth.co.uk/soe_enews.php?number=8216 Fri, 05 Mar 2010 20:33:44 +0000 A review from the UK Met Office says it is becoming clearer that human activities are causing climate change. It says the evidence is stronger now than when the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change carried out its last assessment in 2007. The analysis, published in the Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews Climate Change Journal, has assessed 110 research papers on the subject. It says the Earth is changing rapidly, probably because of greenhouse gases. http://www.saveourearth.co.uk/soe_enews.php?number=8215 http://www.saveourearth.co.uk/soe_enews.php?number=8215 Fri, 05 Mar 2010 20:33:02 +0000 The European Commission is planning an EU-wide minimum tax on carbon as part of the EU's green energy agenda - but the UK opposes such a move. The minimum tax would apply to fuel, natural gas and coal. The EU's new Taxation Commissioner, Algirdas Semeta, is working to revise the EU's existing Energy Taxation Directive, his spokeswoman said. Carbon taxes already exist in EU members Sweden, Finland and Denmark. In France the idea is being hotly debated. http://www.saveourearth.co.uk/soe_enews.php?number=8214 http://www.saveourearth.co.uk/soe_enews.php?number=8214 Thu, 04 Mar 2010 22:03:43 +0000 NEW YORK (Reuters) - The deadly El Nino weather anomaly should dissipate by early summer in the northern hemisphere, but there is a chance a weak version will linger for the rest of 2010, according to a U.S. government report issued Thursday. http://www.saveourearth.co.uk/soe_enews.php?number=8213 http://www.saveourearth.co.uk/soe_enews.php?number=8213 Thu, 04 Mar 2010 22:03:12 +0000 WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A fight over U.S. President Barack Obama's climate change initiatives intensified on Thursday when an influential Democratic senator sought a two-year pause on regulations to reduce carbon dioxide pollution from coal-fired power plants and other smokestacks. http://www.saveourearth.co.uk/soe_enews.php?number=8212 http://www.saveourearth.co.uk/soe_enews.php?number=8212 Thu, 04 Mar 2010 22:02:10 +0000 OSLO (Reuters) - Large amounts of a powerful greenhouse gas are bubbling up from a long-frozen seabed north of Siberia, raising fears of far bigger leaks that could stoke global warming, scientists said. http://www.saveourearth.co.uk/soe_enews.php?number=8211 http://www.saveourearth.co.uk/soe_enews.php?number=8211 Thu, 04 Mar 2010 22:01:35 +0000 BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Biodiesel and other "green" fuels that Europeans put in their cars can have unintended consequences for tropical forests and wetlands, European Union reports show -- the first evidence of EU misgivings. http://www.saveourearth.co.uk/soe_enews.php?number=8210 http://www.saveourearth.co.uk/soe_enews.php?number=8210 Thu, 04 Mar 2010 22:00:12 +0000 SINGAPORE/ANCHORAGE (Reuters) - The world has become far too hot for the aptly named Exit Glacier in Alaska. http://www.saveourearth.co.uk/soe_enews.php?number=8209 http://www.saveourearth.co.uk/soe_enews.php?number=8209 Thu, 04 Mar 2010 21:58:47 +0000 Methane, a greenhouse gas 30 times more potent than carbon, is spewing from what was believed to be an impermeable barrier in Siberia in amounts equal to methane releases from the world's oceans. The discovery has lead researchers to fear the possibility of abrupt climate warming. According to the study published in Science, subsea permafrost below the East Siberian Arctic Shelf has become compromised, leaking vast amounts of methane into the atmosphere. http://www.saveourearth.co.uk/soe_enews.php?number=8208 http://www.saveourearth.co.uk/soe_enews.php?number=8208 Thu, 04 Mar 2010 21:57:06 +0000 Evidence from a respected scientific body to a parliamentary inquiry examining the behaviour of climate-change scientists, was drawn from an energy industry consultant who argues that global warming is a religion, the Guardian can reveal. The submission, from the Institute of Physics (IOP), suggested that scientists at the University of East Anglia had cherry-picked data to support conclusions and that key reconstructions of past temperature could not be relied upon. http://www.saveourearth.co.uk/soe_enews.php?number=8207 http://www.saveourearth.co.uk/soe_enews.php?number=8207 Thu, 04 Mar 2010 21:55:18 +0000 Spirtis will come in plastic bottles and milk in bags as part of the latest consumer-led campaign to cut excess food packaging. The major food retailers including Tesco, Sainsbury's and Marks and Spencer have all agreed to cut the carbon footprint of grocery packaging by 10 per cent over the next two years. This will mean selling milk in bags, spirits in plastic bottles, meat in vacuum-packed plastic bags and loose fruit and vegetables. Even Easter eggs will come with less plastic packaging. http://www.saveourearth.co.uk/soe_enews.php?number=8206 http://www.saveourearth.co.uk/soe_enews.php?number=8206 Thu, 04 Mar 2010 21:53:09 +0000 Victims of Hurricane Katrina are seeking to sue carbon gas-emitting multinationals for helping fuel global warming and boosting the 2005 storm. The class action suit brought by residents from southern Mississippi, which was ravaged by hurricane-force winds and driving rains, was first filed just weeks after the August 2005 storm hit. "The plaintiffs allege that defendants' operation of energy, fossil fuels, and chemical industries in the United States caused the emission of greenhouse gasses that contributed to global warming," say the documents seen by the AFP news agency. http://www.saveourearth.co.uk/soe_enews.php?number=8205 http://www.saveourearth.co.uk/soe_enews.php?number=8205 Wed, 03 Mar 2010 22:40:28 +0000 Australia has joined forces with its neighbor, Indonesia, to aid beleaguered forests in the Jambi province on the island of Sumatra, reports Reuters. http://www.saveourearth.co.uk/soe_enews.php?number=8204 http://www.saveourearth.co.uk/soe_enews.php?number=8204 Wed, 03 Mar 2010 22:39:14 +0000 Western Australia endured its hottest summer on record, according to the state weather bureau. At 29.6°C, temperatures were 0.2°C warmer than the previous record, set in 1997-1998. Western Australia has been keeping state-wide temperature data since 1950. http://www.saveourearth.co.uk/soe_enews.php?number=8203 http://www.saveourearth.co.uk/soe_enews.php?number=8203 Wed, 03 Mar 2010 22:36:43 +0000 More than 10,000 homes a week will be given 'eco-upgrades' under Government plans to make every home in Britain environmentally friendly. Ed Miliband, the Energy and Climate Change Secretary, said seven million homes will have insulation or renewable energy devices like solar panels fitted by 2020. Energy companies will work with local authorities to carry out the ambitious refurbishment programme "street by street" and "house by house". Mr Miliband admitted households will pay around £50 per year to subsidise the nationwide scheme through fuel bills but insisted that this would be outweighed by savings in the long term. http://www.saveourearth.co.uk/soe_enews.php?number=8202 http://www.saveourearth.co.uk/soe_enews.php?number=8202 Tue, 02 Mar 2010 21:21:55 +0000 Anacondas, giant otters and the world's largest bird of prey proved to be worth more than their weight in gold when dredging for the metal was banned in their forest home, conservationists have said. The ban on gold dredging in the unspoilt region of Guyana follows a campaign by Amerindian villagers, backed by scientists from the Zoological Society of London. http://www.saveourearth.co.uk/soe_enews.php?number=8201 http://www.saveourearth.co.uk/soe_enews.php?number=8201 Tue, 02 Mar 2010 21:18:50 +0000 WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Senator Lindsey Graham said on Tuesday a proposed economy-wide cap-and-trade system for reducing emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases was dead and would be replaced in a new bill. http://www.saveourearth.co.uk/soe_enews.php?number=8200 http://www.saveourearth.co.uk/soe_enews.php?number=8200 Tue, 02 Mar 2010 21:17:59 +0000 LONDON (Reuters) - British households will be able to take out soft loans to improve the efficiency of their homes, under a new proposed law to fight climate change and cut fuel poverty, the government said on Tuesday. http://www.saveourearth.co.uk/soe_enews.php?number=8199 http://www.saveourearth.co.uk/soe_enews.php?number=8199 Tue, 02 Mar 2010 21:09:53 +0000 Traders in Vohemar, a port in northeastern Madagascar, are preparing for to ship $54 million worth of timber illegally logged from the Indian Ocean island nation's rainforest parks, report local sources. http://www.saveourearth.co.uk/soe_enews.php?number=8198 http://www.saveourearth.co.uk/soe_enews.php?number=8198 Tue, 02 Mar 2010 21:06:02 +0000 BRUSSELS, Belgium, March 1, 2010 (ENS) - Wildfires, storms, droughts and heat waves - European forests are beset with threats from a warming planet. Today, the European Commission opened a wide-ranging public discussion on how best to safeguard EU forests from the impacts of climate change. The request for public input is contained in a Green Paper that the commission adopted today focused on the ways that climate change is modifying forest management and protection in Europe and how policy should evolve at the EU level to enhance the forest protection activities of the 27 EU member states.