Friends of the Earth sue Canada for breaching Kyoto treaty
May 30, 2007
OTTAWA -- The environmental group Friends of the Earth sued Canada on Tuesday for failing to meet its Kyoto Protocol obligations to cut greenhouse gas emissions linked to global warming.
South Korea sets up carbon fund by July
May 30, 2007
SEOUL—South Korea, which imports 97 percent of its energy and mineral needs, plans to set up the nation’s first government-led carbon fund in July.
DENR official urges balance between climate-change mitigation, biodiversity
May 29, 2007
AN official of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) is urging government policymakers to put in place a set of standards and sound mechanism that addresses biodiversity concern in relation to the production of biofuels.
Cheaper solar power heads mainstream
May 28, 2007
NEW YORK — Solar power should become a mainstream energy choice in three or four years as companies raise output of a key ingredient used in solar panels and as China emerges as a producer of them, according to a report by an environmental research group.
Climate change to spur allergies, ticks, malaria
May 26, 2007
GENEVA — Climate change could extend the pollen season and encourage more disease-carrying ticks in northern Europe, and allow mosquitoes to thrive in new areas of Africa and Asia, public health officials said this week.
UN urges world to stem extinctions
May 24, 2007
OSLO — Human activities are wiping out three animal or plant species every hour and the world must do more to slow the worst spate of extinctions since the dinosaurs by 2010, the United Nations said on Tuesday.
Pressure mounts to end whale slaughter
May 24, 2007
WASHINGTON -- The International Whaling Commission holds its annual talks in Alaska next week amid pressure to end an impasse over commercial and scientific whaling threatening the conservation of the gentle giants.
California threatens to sue US gov’t over greenhouse gases
May 23, 2007
WASHINGTON -- California on Tuesday warned it would sue the US government if it blocked ambitious efforts to slash greenhouse gas-causing emissions from motor vehicles.
New York's taxis to be entirely hybrid by 2012
May 20, 2007
NEW YORK -- New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg said Tuesday that the city's signature yellow taxi cabs would all be using hybrid energy within five years, reducing air pollution and helping to combat climate change.
First endangered stork hatched in Japan since 1964
May 20, 2007
TOKYO -- Endangered Oriental white storks have naturally hatched a chick in Japan for the first time in more than four decades, a park official said Sunday.
UN lists steps to mitigate climate change
May 20, 2007
MANILA, Philippines -- At a relatively low cost, the world can curb global warming over the next decades using known technologies, according to a report that the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change released on May 4 in Bangkok.
Big area of Antarctica has melted, satellite finds
May 17, 2007
WASHINGTON.—Vast areas of snow in Antarctica melted in 2005 when temperatures warmed up for a week in the summer in a process that may accelerate invisible melting deep beneath the surface, NASA said on Tuesday.
Greenpeace builds replica of Noah's Ark on Ararat
May 17, 2007
ISTANBUL, Turkey -- Environmental activists are building a replica of Noah's Ark on Mount Ararat -- where the biblical vessel is said to have landed after the great flood -- in an appeal for action on global warming, Greenpeace said Wednesday.
Bill Clinton unveils energy-saving plan for 15 cities
May 17, 2007
NEW YORK -- Former US president Bill Clinton on Wednesday announced a five-billion-dollar program to make buildings in 15 of the world's largest cities more energy efficient and help combat global warming.
Dwarf buffalo fights for survival in RP
May 15, 2007
MOUNT MAGAWANG, Philippines -- A stout black tamaraw bull warily leads a grey cow and two calves onto a meadow, sniffing the late afternoon air to check for the presence of hunters.
