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Coast Guard responding to possible rig blast in Gulf (02.09.2010)
Reuters: The U.S. Coast Guard was flying helicopters to a possible offshore drilling rig explosion in the Gulf of Mexico, a Coast Guard spokesman said. Helicopters were an hour away from the site of the possible explosion, said Coast Guard Petty Officer Prentice Danner.

Oil Rig Explodes In Gulf Of Mexico (02.09.2010)
AP: An offshore petroleum rig exploded and was burning Friday in the Gulf of Mexico about 80 miles south of Vermilion Bay. The Coast Guard says no one was killed in the explosion, which was reported by a commercial helicopter flying over the site around 9 a.m. CDT. All 13 people aboard the rig have been accounted for, with one injury. The extent of the injury was not known. Coast Guard Cmdr. Cheri Ben-Iesau says seven Coast Guard helicopters, two airplanes and three cutters were ...

Climate-change assessment: Must try harder (02.09.2010)
Economist: IF THIS week's report into the workings of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) by a council of national academies of science were the sort of report children take home from school, its main themes would be expressed as "could do better" and "needs to show workings". Stern parents might read it as calling for a Gradgrind-like clampdown; more indulgent ones as an inducement for the little darlings to try a little harder. At a meeting in Busan, South Korea, this October, ...

Gulf oil rig explodes off La. coast (02.09.2010)
AP: An offshore oil rig has exploded in the Gulf of Mexico, west of the site of the April blast that caused the massive oil spill. Coast Guard Petty Officer Casey Ranel says the blast was reported by a commercial helicopter company about 9:30 a.m. CDT Thursday. Seven helicopters, two airplanes and four boats are en route to the site, about 80 miles south of Vermilion Bay along the central Louisiana coast. Ranel says it hasn't been determined whether the structure is a production ...

Changing Weather Depletes Fish Stocks (02.09.2010)
New Era: The decline in Namibia's fish resources is a result of environmental conditions and failed recovery of the resources despite conservative management strategies, says Beau Tjizoo of the Ministry of Fisheries and Marine Resources. "Warm events" that have occurred since 1995 have increased along the coast in recent years. This has led to the displacement and mortality of fish species. Reporting to the ongoing meeting of the Food, Agriculture and Natural Resources Policy Analysis ...

Report: Over 3 million electric vehicles to be sold by 2015 (02.09.2010)
Business Green: By 2015 the auto industry will have put 3.2 million electric and plug-in hybrid vehicles on the world's roads, according to research released this week. The study from analyst Pike Research, entitled Plug-in electric vehicles, predicts a 106 per cent compound annual growth rate for the vehicles over the next five years, initially driven by demand in the small consumer vehicle category. Dave Hurst, senior analyst at the organisation, predicted that small electric cars will act ...

Report: Climate science panel needs change at top (31.08.2010)
AP: Scientists reviewing the U.N.'s international climate change panel called Monday for a major overhaul in the way it is run, but they stopped short of calling for ousting its current leader. The independent review of the U.N. climate panel puts new pressure on chairman Rajendra Pachauri, who has been criticized for possible conflicts of interest but shows no sign of stepping down. "It's hard to see how the United Nations can both follow the advice of this committee and keep ...

Nigeria: Minister Warns On Climate Change-Induced Disasters (02.09.2010)
Daily Trust: Nigeria is susceptible to climate change-induced disasters, Minister of Environment, Mr. John Odey has warned. Odey said yesterday in Minna that climate induced disasters may soon affect the country as he maintained that research had revealed that Nigeria would succumb to the adverse effects of climate change. The minister's representative, Mrs. Olabisi Jaji, who was speaking at the commencement of the visit of Task Force members of the West African Science Service Centre on Climate ...

Cairn Greenland ops resume after Greenpeace protest (02.09.2010)
AFP: Scottish oil exploration group Cairn Energy said Thursday it had resumed operations on a rig off the coast of Greenland after Greenpeace ended a protest. "Cairn can confirm that operations have started again on the Stena Don (oil rig), where safety remains Cairn's priority in this drilling exploration activity," the group said in a statement. "The actions taken by Greenpeace remain a matter for the Greenlandic authorities." Four Greenpeace activists had climbed onto the ...

Greenpeace activists arrested after abandoning occupation of Arctic oil rig (02.09.2010)
Guardian: Four Greenpeace activists who halted drilling by a British-owned oil exploration rig off Greenland have been arrested after they abandoned their occupation because of severe weather. Greenlandic police arrested the four after high winds buffeted the Stena Don drilling rig overnight, forcing them to abandon mountaineering-style platforms they had suspended by ropes underneath the platform less than 48 hours earlier. Morten Nielsen, deputy head of Greenland police, said the four ...

'Climate migrants' projected to flood US (02.09.2010)
Washington Times: Climate change in Latin America – and the accompanying drought, flooding and desertification – is likely to drive increased illegal migration across the Mexico-U.S. border in coming years, according to a report. Worsening economic conditions, spiraling social tensions and growing political instability will drive greater numbers to make the dangerous journey to the United States in the long term, according to the American Security Project, a bipartisan nonprofit research group focused ...

Floods swamp south Sudan region (01.09.2010)
BBC: Some 57,000 people have been forced from their homes because of dramatic floods in south-western Sudan over the past month, health officials say. Heavy rains have left Aweil, the main town of Northern Bahr al-Ghazal province, largely under water. A BBC correspondent says the floods pose another challenge to the already delayed voter registration. Southern Sudan is voting on whether to secede from the north in a referendum in January. Challenge The BBC's ...

Hurricane prompts US evacuations (01.09.2010)
BBC: Evacuations have begun in areas of the US East Coast likely to be hit by Hurricane Earl. The hurricane strengthened to a category four storm again, generating sustained winds of 215km/h (135mph). President Barack Obama said officials needed to be ready for a "worst case" scenario in a call to the US Federal Emergency Management Agency (Fema). One island in North Carolina's Outer Banks is being evacuated and visitors are being asked to leave another. The narrow ...

Hurricane threatens US holiday islands (02.09.2010)
Reuters: Visitors and some residents were evacuated from low-lying holiday islands off the North Carolina coast yesterday as Hurricane Earl bore down on the US eastern seaboard, churning up dangerous swells. Earl, still a major (Category 3) hurricane, weakened slightly overnight as it swept across the Atlantic east of the Bahamas. It was on track to approach North Carolina's coast early tomorrow, the US National Hurricane Centre (NHC) said. The second major hurricane of the season was ...

Will Texas oil firms succeed in undoing California greenhouse gas laws? (01.09.2010)
Christian Science Monitor: A bit of a propaganda war is heating up in California over Proposition 23, a citizen's initiative which could suspend the state's landmark greenhouse gas reduction law. Backed by manufacturers and Texas oil companies Valero and Tesoro, the ballot initiative would halt enforcement of the 2006 emissions law, AB32, until California unemployment, now over 12 percent, sinks to 5.5 percent for at least a year. Backers of the "California Jobs Initiative" say it is necessary to protect ...

Mo., Premium Standard reach deal on hog odor issue (01.09.2010)
AP: Premium Standard Farms has been given a two-year extension to install technology at its hog confinements to reduce odors after it failed to meet a July 31 deadline established by a Jackson County court six years ago. As part of the deal between the company and the Missouri attorney general's office, the hog company has agreed to pay a total of million, half of which will go to school districts in five counties and the other half to road funds in six counties. The Princeton, ...

Secret titanium mine threatens Cambodia's most untouched forest (01.09.2010)
Mongabay: Although the mining consortium, United Khmer Group, has been drawing up plans to build a massive titanium mine in a Cambodian protected forest for three years, the development did not become public knowledge until rural villagers came face-to-face with bulldozers and trucks building access roads. Reaction against the secret mine was swift as environmentalists feared for the impacts on wildlife and the rivers, local villagers saw a looming threat to their burgeoning eco-tourism trade, and ...

Weather clash causes snowy winter (01.09.2010)
BBC: Scientists have shown that a severe snowfall in North America and Northern Europe in the winter of 2009-2010 was caused by a rare, once in a century, collision of two weather systems. They concluded the harsh winter and heavy snow was an example of hard to predict weather events, not a change in climate. They analysed historical snow records. The research was published in Geophysical Research Letters. In the winter of 2009-2010 much of Northern Europe experienced ...

Onzo and SEE reveal plan for smart heat meters (02.09.2010)
Business Green: Smart meters capable of measuring and managing a building's electricity use in real time are becoming increasingly common, but to date there has been little progress in the development of smart devices for managing the use of heat. That looks set to change after smart meter developer Onzo and energy giant Scottish & Southern Energy (SSE) yesterday revealed they are working on a project to apply smart meter functionality to domestic hot water and heating systems. The ...

Analyst warns CDM reforms could spark carbon price spike (02.09.2010)
Business Green: Reforms to the UN's Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) currently being considered by the offset scheme's Executive Board could lead to a spike in the price of carbon credits issued under the scheme. That is the conclusion of a new analysis from research firm Point Carbon, which predicts that proposed reforms governing the liabilities faced by the Designated Operation Entities (DOEs) that check the validity of emission reduction projects would simultaneously constrict the supply of ...

U.S. test shows water problem near natgas drill site (01.09.2010)
Reuters: U.S. government officials urged residents of a Wyoming farming community near natural gas drilling sites not to use private well water for drinking or cooking because of chemical contamination. "Sample results indicate that the presence of petroleum hydrocarbons and other chemical compounds in groundwater represents a drinking water concern," the Environmental Protection Agency said in a statement about tests of 19 water wells around the town of Pavillion. The Wyoming ...

Enbridge wants to work on Lake Michigan pipeline (01.09.2010)
AP: Enbridge Energy Partners, the company whose pipeline caused a major oil spill in the Kalamazoo River five weeks ago, said Wednesday its plan to reinforce its oil pipelines under Lake Michigan is part of a routine maintenance program. Enbridge has filed for a state permit that would allow the company to add more anchoring braces to two pipelines along the lake bottom in the Straits of Mackinac between Mackinac County in the Upper Peninsula and Emmet County in the Lower Peninsula. The ...

Change of heart from climate sceptics (01.09.2010)
ABC: MARK COLVIN: Two of the world's most influential climate sceptics appear to have had a change of heart. The Danish academic Bjorn Lomborg wrote a book in 2001 called The Skeptical Environmentalist which said climate change wasn't that serious and we couldn't and shouldn't do much about it. But now he says it's undoubtedly one of the chief concerns facing the world today. Michael Hanlon the formerly ultra-sceptic science editor of Britain's two-million-copies-a-day Daily Mail has also ...

Environmental Protester Takes Hostages in Discovery Channel Building (01.09.2010)
ENS: Environmental Protester Takes Hostages in Discovery Channel Building Environment News Service (ENS) Environmental Protester Takes Hostages in Discovery Channel Building SILVER SPRING, Maryland, September 1, 2010 (ENS) - A man protesting the nature of the Discovery Channel's environmental programming is holding hostages inside the Discovery Building in Silver Spring. Montgomergy County Police have shut down all traffic in the surrounding area and are negotiating with ...

All Eyes Fixed On Hurricane Earl (01.09.2010)
redOrbit: Mandatory evacuations have gone up for visitors along parts of North Carolina's coastal islands on Wednesday as Hurricane Earl continues its path toward the eastern seaboard of the United States, churning up dangerous swells. Earl weakened slightly overnight as it moved across the Atlantic east of the Bahamas. It is still a strong Category 3 hurricane and is on track to approach the North Carolina coast early Friday, according to the National Hurricane Center (NHC). Earl had ...

Greenpeace wants Facebook center off coal fuel (01.09.2010)
AP: Greenpeace said about 500,000 Facebook users have urged the world's largest social network to abandon plans to buy electricity from a coal-based energy company for its new data center in the U.S. Greenpeace Executive Director Kumi Naidoo sent a letter Wednesday to Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg warning that the company risked its reputation and financial health if it ignored the environmental impacts of its actions. "Facebook is really out of step with the trend" among ...

Judge refuses to toss suit vs federal drilling ban (01.09.2010)
AP: A federal judge who overturned the Obama administration's initial six-month moratorium on deepwater oil drilling has rejected the government's bid to have the court challenge thrown out. Government lawyers argued that a lawsuit filed by several offshore service companies over the May 28 moratorium was moot because the Interior Department imposed a new, temporary drilling ban on July 12. But U.S. District Judge Martin Feldman rejected that argument Wednesday, saying the second ...

Climate: Risks loom for China: study (01.09.2010)
AFP: Climate change could reduce key harvests in China by a fifth if the gloomiest scenarios prove true, according to a study on Wednesday. Publishing in the journal Nature, a team of Chinese scientists say China's climate "has clearly warmed" over the past half century, gaining 1.2 degrees Celsius (2.2 degrees Fahrenheit) since 1960. The hotspots were northeastern China with a warming trend of 0.36 C (0.65 F) per decade, and Inner Mongolia, with a warming of 0.4 C (0.7 F) per ...

Warmer temperatures in China to reduce crop yields (01.09.2010)
Reuters: With the climate set to get warmer from greenhouse gases, Chinese scientists predicted on Thursday that freshwater for agriculture will shrink further in China, reducing crop yields in the years ahead. In a paper published in Nature, they said the temperature in China had gone up by 1.2 degrees Celsius since 1960 and will increase by another 1 to 5 degrees Celsius by 2100. "Such a pronounced summer warming would inevitably enhance evapo-transpiration, increasing the risk of ...

Report: Climate change threatens historic Jamestown, Va (01.09.2010)
USA Today: Human-caused climate change threatens to flood Jamestown, the first permanent European settlement in what became the American colonies and the United States, says a report Wednesday by environmental groups. Jamestown Island, the site of the original 1607 settlement, is low enough to be inundated by rising seas and tidal waters -- even if the waters do not rise as much by 2100 as scientists predict, according to the report by Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) and the ...

Judge rules against government on drilling halt (01.09.2010)
Reuter: A federal judge in New Orleans rejected on Wednesday the U.S. government's request to dismiss a lawsuit challenging its original 6-month deepwater drilling moratorium. Hornbeck Offshore Services Inc and other oil companies sued the government when it first ordered a halt to deepwater drilling in the Gulf of Mexico in May after BP Plc's well rupture that killed 11 workers and caused the world's worst offshore spill. The drilling halt was subsequently amended, so the government ...

BP ad spending tripled after spill: US lawmakers (01.09.2010)
AFP: Energy giant BP spent more than 93 million dollars on advertising in the three months after the April 20 Gulf oil spill, triple what it spent over the same period in 2009, US lawmakers said Wednesday. Leaders of a key US House of Representatives Committee said the embattled firm, still reeling from the disaster's impact, told them Monday that it had shelled out 93.4 million dollars on ads from the spill through July 2010. "This is more than three times the amount the company ...

6 global warming skeptics who changed their minds (01.09.2010)
The Week Magazine: With 2010 shaping up as the warmest year on record and unprecedented heat waves gripping the planet, global warming skeptics have suffered another blow with the defection of the "most high-profile" member of their camp, author Bjorn Lomborg. But Lomborg isn't the first doubter to accept the scientific consensus that human carbon emissions are warming the planet and need to be curtailed. Here, a review of several prominent cases: 1. Bjorn Lomborg, Danish academic Lomborg made ...

Financing said vital for world climate change deal (01.09.2010)
Reuters: A global fund to help poorer countries switch to green industrial technology is vital in any new international pact to battle global warming, Switzerland's top climate change negotiator said on Wednesday. The official, Franz Perrez, was speaking at a news conference on the eve of a two-day gathering of environmental ministers and experts from some 45 countries to discuss how to reach agreement on a funding deal. "An agreement on viable long-term financing is one of the very ...

Feds fail to use land for solar power (01.09.2010)
AP: Not a light bulb's worth of solar electricity has been produced on the millions of acres of public desert set aside for it. Not one project to build glimmering solar farms has even broken ground. Instead, five years after federal land managers opened up stretches of the Southwest to developers, vast tracts still sit idle. An Associated Press examination of U.S. Bureau of Land Management records and interviews with agency officials shows that the BLM operated a first-come, ...

Climate Change Implicated in Decline of Horseshoe Crabs (01.09.2010)
U.S. News and World Report: A distinct decline in horseshoe crab numbers has occurred that parallels climate change associated with the end of the last Ice Age, according to a study that used genomics to assess historical trends in population sizes. The new research also indicates that horseshoe crabs numbers may continue to decline in the future because of predicted climate change, said Tim King, a scientist with the U.S. Geological Survey and a lead author on the new study published in Molecular ...

India among 40 countries to attend Swiss climate change meet (01.09.2010)
Daily News & Analysis: Switzerland will host an informal summit of 40 countries, including India, on global warming on Friday to discuss modalities for a new Climate Fund that is expected to unblock the stalled negotiations on the issue. Since the Copenhagen Climate Change meeting in December last year, the ongoing negotiations under the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCC) have made little progress on a range of issues, including the emission-reduction targets as well as financing for ...

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