Climate Counts to Release Updated Company Climate Scores May 7
(CSRwire) April 22, 2008 - Climate Counts (www.climatecounts.org) is urging consumers to consider a company’s climate commitment this Earth Day by checking out company scores and rankings on the Climate Counts Company Scorecard. The Scorecard helps consumers to factor a company’s track record on climate […]
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BBC News has a story out of Mali in West Africa that describes how a women’s co-operative in the village of Kabara, south of Timbuktu, is using underground aquifers to plant eucalyptus trees. In this region where the annual rainfall is less than 400mm, reforestation is essential to return nutrients to the soil, and to […]
From SciDev.Net
by Naomi Antony
3 April 2008
Biomass stoves contribute
to black carbon emissions
Flickr/Eileen Delhi
Black carbon, a key component of soot, plays a much larger role in global warming than previously estimated, scientists have found.
They cite black carbon as the second largest contributor to global warming after carbon dioxide.
“We’ve got one more thing to worry about,” says Veerabhadran […]
The Alliance for Climate Protection has unveiled a new website called We can solve the climate crisis and is reaching out to a diverse array of groups to build broader awareness and support for solving global warming. They’ve also created this video to illustrate the importance of Americans taking leadership on the issue:
Click here to […]
February 7, 2008 – 2:05 am
Xenopsylla cheopis, a flea vector of Yersinia pestis
Scidev.net
22 January 2008
Source: PLoS Medicine
The plague’s ability to cause disease and capacity for rapid spread mean it should be taken far more seriously.
Writing in PLoS Medicine, Nils Chr. Stenseth and colleagues warn that the disease remains a threat, particularly in Africa. More than 90 per cent of cases […]
February 2, 2008 – 4:30 am
Migration to cities due to climate change could foster the spread of HIV
28 January 2008
Source: British Medical Journal
The effect of climate change on health should be added to the medical curriculum, write A. J. McMichael and colleagues in the British Medical Journal.
They say the health sector must also minimise greenhouse gas emissions from its own […]
January 20, 2008 – 3:26 am
TreeHugger
Image courtesy of Don McPhee According to a new report ranking the world’s cities in the order of which will be most vulnerable to coastal flooding by 2070, all but one of the 10 were found to be in developing countries in Asia. The combined effects of climate change, urbanization and population growth are expected […]
December 23, 2007 – 6:49 am
EarthJustice
Conservation groups ask Kansas Supreme Court to deny coal power scheme
December 19, 2007
The current Sunflower Electric Power Plant, Holcomb, Kansas. A permit for two additional coal-fired generators was denied by Kansas state authorities.
Photo: DOE
Topeka, KA — America’s energy policy is at stake in Kansas, conservation groups declared today, as they challenged attempts to get state […]
December 22, 2007 – 9:13 am
Ban Ki-Moon, UN secretary-general, at the Bali conference
Imelda V. Abano
18 December 2007
Source: SciDev.Net
[BALI] Countries have agreed a two-year ‘roadmap’ leading to a new climate treaty to succeed the Kyoto Protocol in 2012.
After two weeks of negotiations at the UN Framework on Climate Change Conference (UNFCCC) last week (14 December), 187 countries agreed to the strategy […]
December 17, 2007 – 11:17 pm
Plantation in China’s Huairou district
Wang Shu and Jia Hepeng
14 December 2007
Source: SciDev.Net
[BEIJING] Climate change has helped plants in China become more robust, according to a study by Chinese scientists.
Scientists at the Beijing Normal University studied the link between climate factors and changes in plants’ net primary productivity — a term used to evaluate the net […]
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