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By Matt Walker Editor, Earth News Songbirds in the US are getting smaller, and climate change is suspected as the cause. A women’s group is criticising the United Nations for appointing only men to a 19-strong panel of experts to work out how to raise billions of dollars to fight climate change. “A planet of men? Since when?” asks the German-based Gender CC — Women for Climate Justice in a statement. The new panel, to be co-chaired by British Prime Minister Gordon Brown [...] Scientists studying remote Arctic seas north of Siberia have found high levels of the powerful greenhouse gas methane, in some places bubbling up from the seabed. But is it new (extremely alarming as a possible sign of climate change), impossible to know how long it’s been going on (still worrying), or might it have been happening for a long time (less alarming)? Even the scientists [...] -Bernd Debusmann is a Reuters columnist. The opinions expressed are his own- The project involved more than 2,500 scientists. It cost $ 10.5 billion between 1983 and 2009 and it included one of the most bizarre scientific tasks of all time: evaluate whether nuclear waste stored deep inside a Nevada desert mountain would [...] American sci-fi blockbuster The Day After Tomorrow warned global audiences about climate change as it showed New York smothered by ice as temperatures plunged worldwide. But the 2004 movie evidently made little impact on growth-crazy Asia, which has gone ahead spewing pollutants without imagining risks that they might disrupt the climate. This year a group of filmmakers in [...] Asher Miller is executive director of think tank Post Carbon Institute. Any opinion expressed here is his own. It should come as no surprise to anyone paying attention to the politics of climate legislation to hear Senator Lindsey Graham pronounce, “the cap-and-trade bills in the House and Senate are dead.” The truth is that they’ve been [...] This article by Beth Hodgson originally appeared in GlobalPost. Over the last few months, we’ve seen serious discussions taking place globally as countries and cities pledge to go green. Some cities have made greener strides than others, which puts them at the top of the list for sustainability goals. The five greenest cities in the world aren’t necessarily [...] John Laforet is president of Wind Concerns Ontario, a coalition of 42 grassroots organizations aiming to curtail development of wind farms in the central Canadian province of Ontario. He is also running for municipal public office. Governments around the world are actively seeking private development of renewable energy projects by offering generous feed-in tariffs that [...] |
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