Polluters plant rain forests to earn eco rain checks
As concern over climate change heats up, electrical utilities and other polluters are investing in tropical forests. By protecting existing forests or growing new ones, companies hope to use the
As concern over climate change heats up, electrical utilities and other polluters are investing in tropical forests. By protecting existing forests or growing new ones, companies hope to use the
Almost 400 acres of trees have been planted in Tennessee by a Houston-based energy company that is replenishing forests in the Lower Mississippi Valley in anticipation of federal rules that may allow
If the current warming trend continues, don't depend on low-level clouds to come to the Earth's rescue, according to NASA researchers. A cloud's thickness and brightness influences how the planet
Europe's biggest glacier is about to disintergate. The mighty Breidamerkurjokull in southern Iceland is breaking apart and will slide into the north Atlantic in the next few
Canada's environment ministers wrapped up a two-day meeting with a new plan to cut greenhouse gases. But Ontario rejected the plan, infuriating environmentalists and other delegates. The strategy is
The floods that have ravaged Britain in recent weeks are the result of global warming, according to a senior government minister. In the first official admission that climate change was to blame,
The Clinton Administration is proposing "loopholes" in the global warming treaty that are so big the United States could get away with doing almost nothing to comply, environmentalists say. A key
Americans favored Republican presidential nominee George W. Bush and running mate Dick Cheney's position on the global warming treaty, which placed tougher standards on U.S. industries and not on
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the chemicals company, Cheminova, have signed an agreement to end all use of the organophosphate pesticide ethyl parathion.The new agreement immediately
Iron fertilisation in the Southern Ocean has been found to increase the growth of algae on the water's surface, and consequently to increase the up-take of the greenhouse gas, carbon dioxide. The
The German Environment Minister has announced that the country will cut its oil dependence and be able to meet its Kyoto obligations on time."We shall make sure Germany maintains its top position on
A research group report has said that the European Union will fail to meet its obligations for reducing CO2 emissions under the Kyoto Protocol because of a failure to implement the necessary
A bacterium that last flourished before dinosaurs tore flesh or the Appalachian Mountains emerged has been revived from a drop of fluid trapped in a crystal of rock salt for 250 million years, say
Germany announced new measures yesterday to ensure it becomes one of the few industrial nations to fulfil promised cuts in the "greenhouse gases" blamed for global warming, and urged the rest of the
DuPont,Shell,Alcan Aluminium and four other large companies have joined a growing list of businesses committing themselves to substantial voluntary reductions in releases of heat-trapping greenhouse
Severe climate changes 34 million years ago wiped out 90 percent of all tiny sea creatures living along the Gulf Coast in the United States, scientists said on Wednesday. Until now, researchers had
Seven major international corporations yesterday formed a new partnership for cutting greenhouse gas emissions using market-based methods, even before a possible political settlement is negotiated at
- The Ontario government has refused to participate in a national plan to reduce greenhouse gas emissions that cause global warming. At the conclusion yesterday of a meeting of environment and energy
The European Union will miss a legally binding target to reduce carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions because it lacks the necessary policies to combat the greenhouse effect, a study published yesterday
DuPont Shell, Alcan Aluminium and four other large companies yesterday joined a growing list of businesses committing themselves to substantial voluntary reductions in releases of heat-trapping