Times of India: The effect of climate change on India could be far worse than previously estimated. Latest projections indicate that after 2050, temperatures would rise by 3-4 degrees over current levels and rainfall would become both heavier and less regular, posing a grave threat to agriculture. These are part of the research conducted by scientists at Pune’s Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology, one of the key government institutions studying climate change in India. The findings are currently …
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Xinhua: UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon emphasized on Tuesday the importance of young people’s role in the global fight against climate change. "We will need the spirit of youth in abundance as the world seeks to embrace cleaner, more sustainable forms of energy, including renewable resources," Ban said in a message for International Youth Day, which falls on Tuesday. With their propensity for spreading new habits and technologies and adaptability to make low-carbon lifestyles and …
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Independent: The Anglo-Dutch energy giant Shell misled the public about the green credentials of a vastly polluting oil project in Canada, in an attempt to assure consumers of its good environmental record, a media watchdog will rule today. In an embarrassing rejection of Shell’s "greenwash", the Advertising Standards Authority said the company should not have used the word "sustainable" for its controversial tar sands project and a second scheme to build North America’s biggest oil refinery. Both …
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Guardian: Sticking it to the man has recently taken on a whole new meaning, as political and environmental activists turn increasingly to the power of superglue (or indeed any non-branded fast-acting cyanoacrylate-based adhesive capable of sticking human flesh to large, immovable objects) to help them make their points. Last month there was Dan Glass from Plane Stupid, who gamely tried to gum himself to Gordon Brown and then the Downing Street gates, and the rather more successful bonding of …
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Australian Broadcasting Corporation: A 16-million hectare block of Western Australian wilderness could hold the key to sequestering the nation’s carbon. The Great Western Woodlands runs along the far eastern section of the wheatbelt and into the goldfields, and across the western side of the Nullarbor Plain. It’s the world’s largest remaining untouched temperate woodland, and is said to store almost double the nation’s annual carbon emissions. The Wilderness Society is calling for the region to be protected …
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Guardian: Oil giant Shell misled the public when it claimed in an advertisement that its giant $10bn oil sands project in northern Canada was a "sustainable energy source", according to the Advertising standards authority. The tar sands cover over 140,000 square kilometres of Alberta and contain nearly 173bn barrels of oil in the form of bitumen. This is strip-mined from vast open pits and the bitumen is then heated, using far larger amounts of energy than in normal oil operations, therefore …
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Age: The glamour of the Jet Age may have faded, but Travel + Leisure magazine’s Kendall Hill has some practical tips on how to survive the new, and often confusing world, of airline travel. In bygone days the glamour of the Jet Age was captured in commercial posters depicting elegant passengers in exotic climes. These images epitomised a bold new era of convenience and leisure far removed from today’s volatile air industry, where constant changes to rules and regulations, cost-cutting and …
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Age: <body>THE recent release of the draft Garnaut report has focused attention on how an emissions trading scheme (ETS) should be implemented in Australia to curb our carbon emissions. In doing this, the report glosses over some considerations and makes assumptions that appear designed to make an ETS a fait accompli as far as the best response to climate change goes. This is unfortunate, as an ETS has some problems that do not arise under a carbon tax. As with many official announcements …
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Australian: AUSTRALIA could be home to the world’s largest solar energy plant in three years, with a study backed by major miners under way to build a series of $1 billion renewable energy operations. Global engineering company WorleyParsons is leading the way for nine of its clients, which include BHP Billiton and Rio Tinto, to investigate building 250 megawatt advanced solar-thermal power stations, with predictions the first could be operating by 2011. WorleyParsons managing director, …
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Voice of America: Scientists have long thought that the vast areas of sea ice in Antarctica could help them unlock some of the secrets of climate change. The ice reflects sunlight back into space. With global temperatures rising, there are concerns that polar ice is shrinking, and, as it does, additional energy is absorbed by the earth, causing more warming. For the first time, researchers have been able to gather crucial information from the heart of this icy wilderness thanks to help from an …
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