UFO science key to halting climate change: former Canadian defense minister
AFP reports here at Yahoo News: A former Canadian defense minister is demanding governments worldwide disclose and use secret alien technologies obtained in alleged UFO crashes to stem climate change, a local paper said Wednesday.
The 12 greenest cars of 2007
CNET brings you here at News.com: The 12 greenest cars of 2007, Energy watchdog group tallies emissions, mileage and curb weight to come up with the least dirty dozen.
London announces plan to cut emissions
AP reports here at Yahoo News: LONDON - The mayor of London on Tuesday announced the city's first comprehensive plan to cut carbon emissions, stressing that global warming must be tackled locally.
Island on Alert as Stromboli Erupts
Spiegel Online reports here: The volcano on the Sicilian island of Stromboli regularly attracts visitors keen to catch a glimpse of flowing molten lava. Now the island is on general alert after the volcano started erupting more violently than usual. Authorities fear a tidal wave.
Cuba opens experimental wind farm
AP reports here at Yahoo News: HAVANA - Cuba has opened an experimental wind farm, hoping alternative energy sources can one day ease occasional power shortages while reducing the island's dependence on oil, state news media reported Sunday.
Banning new coal power plants will slow warming: NASA scientist
AFP reports here at Yahoo News: A moratorium on coal-fired power plants is key to cutting carbon dioxide emissions that promote global warming, NASA's top climatologist said Monday.
Western States Agree to Cut Greenhouse Gases
The Washington Post reports here: Five Western governors agreed yesterday on a plan to cut their states' emissions of gases linked to global warming and to establish a regional carbon-trading system, though they stopped short of saying how drastically they will seek to reduce greenhouse gases.
Bee vanishing act baffles keepers
BBC News reports here: Honeybees have been vanishing at an alarming rate from 24 American states, threatening crops. Bees pollinate more than $14bn (£7bn) worth of US seeds and crops each year, mostly fruits, vegetables and nuts.
Building sector sets green goals
BBC News reports here: Some of the UK's top building firms join forces to reduce the environmental impact of the nation's homes and offices.
New Sea Life Species Discovered in Antarctica
Spiegel Online reports here: Fan-finned ice fish, spindley orange sea stars, and roving sea cucumbers -- an unknown underwater world full of new species and exotic sealife has been discovered by an international team of scientists in Antarctica.
Poland Faces EU Fines for Highway Through Nature Reserve
Spiegel Online reports here: A planned stretch of highway through a sensitive peat bog has brought Poland into conflict with the European Union. The Polish government could face huge fines if it goes ahead with the controversial project.
Huge polar study about to begin
BBC News reports here: The largest polar research programme for 50 years, by thousands of scientists, gets under way this week.
New Satellite Hunts the Beauties of the Night
Spiegel Onlinereports here : Scientists have been puzzling over the origins of illuminated night clouds for more than a century. Now a special satellite may be able to determine whether they're a symptom of climate change.
Al Gore at the Academy Awards
Washington Post writes here: "An Inconvenient Truth," the 100-minute movie that is essentially Gore giving a slide show about global warming, is the third-highest-grossing documentary ever, with a worldwide box office of $45 million, right behind blockbusters "Fahrenheit 9/11" and "March of the Penguins."
Coastal Brits fret about climate change
AP reports here at Yahoo News: Predictions of rising sea levels usually envision the low-lying islands of the south seas, or cyclone-prone Bangladesh, as the most vulnerable victims. But Britain is part of a growing club of rich countries whose coastal populations feel threatened.
The battle of the bulbs
The LATimes reports here: Low-energy fluorescent bulbs have won over conservationists and Wal-Marts alike. But makers of the old kind have some bright ideas of their own.
Gore may cap hot year with "Inconvenient" Oscar
Reuters reports here at Yahoo News: BEVERLY HILLS, California - Al Gore narrowly missed becoming president of the United States, but Hollywood may anoint him "King of the Greens" on Sunday with an Oscar for "An Inconvenient Truth," the documentary about his slideshow on global warming.
Electric cars get White House showcase
AP reports here at Yahoo News: WASHINGTON - President Bush peered under the hood of an all-electric sport utility truck parked at the White House Friday and said his goal of reducing gasoline use by 20 percent over the next decade is realistic.
Rush for eco-friendly fair trade fabrics
AFP reports here at Yahoo News: PARIS - As consumers wake up to global warming and globalisation, ethical issues are gaining ground and spinning more and more hard cash in the competitive world of international textiles.
Smuggling of endangered species is surging
Spiegel Online reports here: Why keep a tabby cat if you can have a bearded dragon as a pet? The world market in exotic animals is soaring. But the boom has a dark side -- smuggling of endangered species is surging, and discarded piranha fish have even appeared in a German river.
Bush touts energy plan in North Carolina
AP reports here at Yahoo News: FRANKLINTON, N.C. - Trying to draw attention to his domestic agenda, President Bush on Thursday extolled the science of turning grasses and wood chips into ethanol to lessen the U.S. thirst for foreign oil.
Threat to ocean sharks increases
BBC News reports here: Several species of ocean-going shark are more threatened than previously thought, scientists conclude and say over-fishing is a principal reason for the decline.
Forests Hold Clues to Climate
The Washington Post writes here: Changing northern woodlands may free vast stores of greenhouse gases, spurring global warming.
Experts: Warming may harm Tuscan wines
AP reports here at Yahoo News: ROME - Imagine a world where Scandinavia produces wines to rival Italy's fabled Chianti region. It could come to just that by the end of the century, experts in Italy warn, if global warming continues unchecked.
Burning the World's Waste
Spiegel Online reports here: A booming new industry has quietly emerged in Germany. Waste incineration firms are importing massive amounts of toxic waste. Now public opposition is mounting against the burning of highly contaminated waste from Australia.
Greenpeace asks India to ban common lightbulb
AFP reports here at Yahoo News: BANGALORE, India - Environmental group Greenpeace asked India Wednesday to follow Australia and ban the common lightbulb to cut greenhouse gas emissions, fight climate change and conserve energy.
Business 3.0 - Eco-Innovation Revolution
Fast Company writes in this recommended article: It's official: Government isn't going to cure the world's ills, but business just might. A look at how the profit motive--turbocharged by a little Darwinian unease--is driving people to help themselves.
China's investment curbs face test of steel
Reuters reports here at Yahoo News: LUANXIAN, China - The fate of a campaign by China to curb headlong investment and start cleaning up its polluted environment turns on businessmen like Cai Nianguang.
A Europe Divided over Climate Policy
Spiegel Online reports here: Earlier this month, the European Union announced ambitious environmental goals and current EU President Angela Merkel has made the issue of climate change a priority. But even as Germany forges ahead, many EU countries are lagging. EU environmental policy could suffer.
Comeback for systems that heat water with solar energy
CNET News.com reports here: Systems that heat water with solar energy are catching on--again. Could they insulate you from fluctuating utility bills?
Australia aiming for more energy efficient fluorescent bulbs
BBC News reports here: Australia has announced plans to ban incandescent light bulbs and replace them with more energy efficient fluorescent bulbs. The environment minister said the move could cut the country's greenhouse gas emissions by 4 million tonnes by 2012.
Last Month Warmest January on Record by Far
AP reports here at Fox News: The broken record was fueled by a waning El Nino and a gradually warming world, according to U.S. scientists who reported the data Thursday. (more)
'Now or never' for climate action
BBC News reports here: EU nations must back plans to cut emissions by 30% by 2020 or risk jeopardising future global climate efforts, ministers warn.
American Association for the Advancement of Science: Warming a mounting threat
AP SAN FRANCISCO - The world's largest general scientific society ( American Association for the Advancement of Science ) on Sunday joined the concern over global climate change, calling it a "growing threat to society."
Wild grass could hold key to clean fuels of the future
AFP reports here at Yahoo News: A wild grass found in Asia and Africa could hold the key to dreams of providing an alternative to fossil fuels blamed for global warming, experts said.
Robot watches out for rare bird
BBC News reports here: A robot ornithologist has been installed in a wildlife refuge to look for the elusive ivory-billed woodpecker.
Rising sea levels present China with 'unimaginable challenges'
AFP reports here at Yahoo News: Shanghai, Guangzhou and other large coastal cities in China could face "unimaginable challenges" if global warming continues and the oceans keep rising, state media said.
Greenhouse gases hit new high
Reuters reports here at Yahoo News: Greenhouse gases widely blamed for causing global warming have jumped to record highs in the atmosphere, apparently stoked by rising emissions from Asian industry, a researcher said on Friday.
Sachs warns of global warming disaster
AP reports here at Yahoo News: The world faces a global warming disaster if the United States and China do not take decisive action to cut greenhouse gas emissions, a leading economist said at the U.N. Friday.
Wind shifts devastate ocean life
BBC News reports here: San Francisco - The delicate interplay between the oceans and atmosphere is changing with catastrophic consequences.
Termites could play a significant role in the ethanol industry
CNET News.com reports here: Researchers are figuring out how the bugs turn wood into food to see if the same processes could be applied to make transportation fuel.Termites, the dread of homeowners worldwide, could play a significant role in the ethanol industry.
EU Can't Agree on Warming Targets
Spiegel Online reports here: In the wake of a UN report last month about global warming, EU member states failed to agree on a Europe-wide goal to dramatically increase their use of green energy sources by 2020. Meanwhile, with time on the Kyoto protocol running out, a forum in Washington discusses the shape of things to come.
US industry warming to climate change fight
AFP reports here at Yahoo News: Saving the planet is a worthy goal, but corporate America also sees money to be made in the fight against global warming.
NY students imagine city plan after global warming
Reuters reports here at Yahoo News: While the world's top scientists recently warned governments to take urgent action on global warming, a small group of Brooklyn students have designed their own plan for living with climate change.
Hope for end of climate deadlock
BBC News reports here: Leading US politicians are meeting legislators from the EU, China, Japan and India to seek a breakthrough in the international climate deadlock.
Groups sue to protect marine mammals
AP reports here at Yahoo News: ANCHORAGE, Alaska - Two conservation groups sued the federal government Tuesday claiming marine mammal regulators are not doing enough to protect polar bears and walruses against the combined threat of oil and gas exploration and global warming.
Sea level rise could hit poor countries hard: study
Reuters reports here at Yahoo News: Even a small rise in the world's sea levels, predicted as a result of global warming, could make environmental refugees of some 56 million people in developing countries, a World Bank economist said on Tuesday.
Mobile networks powered by wind
BBC News reports here: Wind and solar energy could be used to set up mobile phone networks in rural areas without power.
Time to begin 'adapting' to climate change?
The Christian Science Monitor reports here at Yahoo News: At the World Bank in Washington, officials have posted some new "help wanted" signs. The bank is looking for a few good specialists (two, to be precise) to focus on adapting to global warming.
German Minister Calls For Emissions Labeling Scheme for New Cars
Spiegel Online reports here: Germany's transport minister has called for a new labeling scheme for German cars: environmentally friendly cars would earn a green 'traffic light' symbol while CO2 belchers would be damned with a red traffic light. A leading Green Party politician has reacted by telling Germans to buy Toyota hybrids instead.
Japan whale ship in protest clash
BBC News reports here: A Japanese whaling ship sends up a distress signal after colliding with a protest boat in the Antarctic.
Pollution worsens as curbs fail in China
AFP reports here at Yahoo News: China has missed government-set targets to cut pollution by two percent last year as fast-paced economic growth produced more rather than less environmental contamination.
Melting Glaciers endangering Peru's future water supplies
The Associated Press reports here at Yahoo News: The ice atop Cordillera Blanca, the largest glacier chain in the tropics, is melting fast because of rising temperatures, and peaks are turning brown. The trend is highlighting fears of global warming and, scientists say, is endangering future water supplies to the arid coast where most Peruvians live.
Tokyo sets snowless record
AFP reports here at Yahoo News: Tokyo has set a record for its longest snowless winter amid growing worldwide concerns about global warming, according to meteorologists.
G7 finance ministers make little headway on climate: Germany
AFP reports here at Yahoo News: Group of Seven finance chiefs made little headway here on energy and global warming questions, the German finance minister disclosed at the end of a meeting that closely followed a major warning on climate change from the United Nations.
Cloudy outlook for China's solar industry
AFP reports here at Yahoo News: Solar power has the potential to be a growth industry in China but the nation's government does not seem keen on providing the support the sector needs, according to observers.
Scientists to vie for $25M climate prize
AP reports here at Yahoo News: LONDON - British tycoon Sir Richard Branson on Friday announced a $25 million prize for the first scientist to come up with a way to extract greenhouse gases from the atmosphere.
UK wind power hits key milestone
BBC News reports here: The UK is to become only one of seven nations to have over two gigawatts of operational wind power capacity.
CO2 can be stored in aquifers for years: study
Reuters reports here at Yahoo News: Injecting carbon dioxide emissions from electric power plants into deep underground aquifers may be a suitable long-term disposal method for the greenhouse gas, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology said on Wednesday.
Bush Ripped on Global Warming
Wired News reports here: Senators from both parties tee off on the White House as evidence mounts indicating it suppressed evidence of climate change.
Mobiles switch on with biofuels
BBC News reports here: Mobile firms turn to biodiesel to generate power for their networks in unconnected, rural India.
Fast-food fat: Future fuel?
CNET News.com reports here: Alternative-fuel advocates say waste oil from America's fast-food restaurants and food processing plants could be a major source of biodiesel fuel for trucks and cars.