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21/8/2008
Despite a three-year lull in storm activity, the Gulf Coast faces a long-term triple threat of stronger hurricanes, heavier rains and higher sea levels resulting from global warming, according to an environmental group calling for more action to ...
21/8/2008
At the beginning of this summer, the Dutch national meteorological institute (KNMI) announced that it was possible that the North Pole would be completely ice-free this summer. The KNMI based its prediction on information from the American ...
21/8/2008
The Federal Government is being urged to declare a buffer zone along Australia's coastline to ensure a safe approach is taken to future coastal development.
Concerns about a lack of planning to combat the threats of climate change have ...
21/8/2008
With resource nationalism rising as fast as oil prices, Iceland is looking to provide international oil companies something they increasingly lack -- access to new areas potentially rich with oil and gas.
What's the catch? The 100 or so ...
21/8/2008
South Pacific leaders opened their annual summit in Niue on Tuesday with a warning that climate change was causing havoc to island states and that their struggling economies were continuing to falter.
The future of democracy in Fiji, one ...
20/8/2008
Earth’s oceans are on the brink of massive change. You see it in such details as the hordes of Pacific mollusks that researchers have identified as ready to invade the North Atlantic as a thawing Arctic Ocean opens the way. You also see it in ...
20/8/2008
John McCain stood atop an oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico on Tuesday and proclaimed that he had the key to solving America's energy woes, slashing the price of gas, and unfettering U.S. foreign policy from its addiction to foreign oil. Drill. Drill ...
20/8/2008
Energy companies placed $487.3 million in winning bids for the right to drill in the western Gulf of Mexico, knowing they may get a chance later to explore in other areas that have been off limits for decades.
The lease sale Wednesday ...
20/8/2008
Senator John McCain finally made it to an oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico on
Tuesday morning for a tour and photographs that his campaign hoped would be
worth, if not 1,000 words, then at least two — “drill now,” Mr. McCain’s mantra
in ...
20/8/2008
The United Nations will create a climate change center to help Pacific island nations threatened by rising seas because of global warming, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said.
``Climate change is not science fiction,'' Ban said in a ...
19/8/2008
The United Nations and Samoa plan to establish an Inter-Agency Climate Change Centre to help coordinate support to Pacific Island countries to combat the impact of global warming in their region.
Given the direct impact of climate change ...
19/8/2008
THE speed at which the climate is changing has been significantly underestimated, with thousands of Australian homes potentially at risk from rising sea levels, a conference has heard.
More than 80 per cent of Australians live in the ...
19/8/2008
Japanese police have sought arrest warrants for three anti-whaling activists after their heated clashes with Tokyo's whaling fleet in the Southern Ocean last year, the government said on Monday.
"It's natural to seek an arrest warrant ...
18/8/2008
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said on Saturday when the US Congress returns next month from its summer recess, Democrats will offer legislation that could give oil companies drilling access to more offshore areas.
By moving to open ...
18/8/2008
Former Cabinet minister Lord Smith of Finsbury has warned Britain will struggle to defend its coastline in the future.
The Environment Agency (EA) chief the Independent that the east and south coasts are particularly vulnerable to ...
18/8/2008
Birds Australia has signalled a dire future for migratory birds during a federal hearing on coastal climate change.
The House of Representatives Climate Change, the Environment and Arts Committee is meeting in Darwin this week to hear ...
18/8/2008
The growing threat from swarms of jellyfish around Britain's coast is to be investigated for the first time by British and Irish scientists. Using the latest technology, researchers are planning to tag jellyfish to explore their life cycles and ...
18/8/2008
A PARLIAMENTARY committee investigating the projected impact of climate change on Australia's coastal areas begins three days of public hearings in Darwin today.
The House of Representatives standing committee on climate change, water, ...
17/8/2008
Nearly 40 years after some 80,000 barrels of oil washed up on the beaches of Santa Barbara and launched a move to ban offshore drilling Congress is heading toward a vote to end that moratorium.
For a generation of Democratic ...
17/8/2008
A coalition of environmental groups wants Australia and New Zealand to ease immigration for Pacific Islanders displaced by rising sea levels.
In a letter to Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd and his New Zealand counterpart, Helen ...
17/8/2008
Two projects, one in Israel and another in Japan, look at ways of cultivating corals in laboratories and transplanting them to degraded reefs to rejuvenate the marine ecosystem.
A thriving colony: A coral reef before (left) and after ...
17/8/2008
There has been an urgent call for Australia and New Zealand to tailor their immigration programs to help Pacific Islanders displaced by climate change.
Over 100 NGOs from across the Asia-Pacific region have sent a letter to Prime ...
16/8/2008
Republican presidential candidate John McCain promotes nuclear power as a central element of his energy plan, boasting in particular about the safety record of the Navy's reactor-propelled fleet.
``We have been sailing nuclear ships ...
16/8/2008
Algae could be used as a biofuel while simultaneously cleaning up the environment, report researchers at the University of Virginia.
By feeding algae extra carbon dioxide — the principle greenhouse gas contributing to climate change — ...