BBC News reports here: UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has asked the world’s science academies to review work of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).
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AFP reports here at Yahoo News: WASHINGTON – The United States could source 10 percent of its electricity from solar power by 2030, a report said Tuesday, winning support from a US lawmaker who wants to boost the number of US solar panels.
The McClatchy Newspapers reports here at Yahoo News: WASHINGTON — Lower levels of oxygen in the Earth’s oceans, particularly off the United States’ Pacific Northwest coast, could be another sign of fundamental changes linked to global climate change, scientists say.
Reuters reports here at Yahoo News: OSLO – Large amounts of a powerful greenhouse gas Methane are bubbling up from a long-frozen seabed north of Siberia, raising fears of far bigger leaks that could stoke global warming, scientists said.
Food, Inc. (2008) Eric Schlosser (Actor), Robert Kenner (Director) Food, Inc. lifts the veil on our nation’s food industry, exposing how our nation’s food supply is now controlled by a handful of corporations that often put profit ahead of consumer health, the livelihood of the American farmer, the safety of workers and our own environment. Food, Inc. reveals surprising and often shocking truths about what we eat, how it’s produced and who we have become as a nation.
AFP reports here at Yahoo News: STOCKHOLM – Sweden will build 2,000 new wind turbines over the next decade as part of a bid to dramatically increase its production of renewable energy, Enterprise and Energy Minister Maud Olofsson said Tuesday.
AFP reports here at Yahoo News: SAVANNAH, Georgia – President Barack Obama on Tuesday unveiled plans to give hefty reimbursements to US homeowners who make home improvements designed to conserve energy.
Reuters reports here at Yahoo News: WASHINGTON – Former Vice President Al Gore took aim at skeptics who doubt the reality of human-caused climate change, saying he wished it were an illusion but that the problem is real and urgent.
BBC News reports here: A century of whaling may have released more than 100 million tonnes – or a large forest’s worth – of carbon into the atmosphere, scientists say.
BBC News reports here: Plastic debris tends to accumulate in a well defined region of the western North Atlantic, scientists say. The region is said to compare with the well-documented “great Pacific garbage patch”.
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