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Carbon dioxide level crosses milestone at Hawaii site Date: 13-May-13 Country: USA Author: Deborah Zabarenko The amount of climate-warming carbon dioxide in the atmosphere topped 400 parts per million at a key observing station in Hawaii for the first time since measurement began in 1...
Date: 14-Mar-13 Country: NORWAY Author: Alister Doyle and Nerijus Adomaitis A driver leaves a free car park reserved for electric vehicles in Oslo February 25, 2013. Norway's buzzing little market for pure electric cars has in its very success shown the severe drawbacks to a model tha...
U.N. clinches global deal on cutting mercury emissions Date: 21-Jan-13 Country: SWITZERLAND Author: Tom Miles and Emma Farge A general view of Rangeley Lake, which is being monitored for mercury levels, in Rangeley, Maine in this file photo taken August 23, 2005. Photo: Brian Snyder M...
Exclusive: Deforestation appears to rise again in Brazil's Amazon Date: 25-Jan-13 Country: BRAZIL Author: Paulo Prada An aerial photograph shows an opening cut in the Amazon rainforest by loggers and farmers, in the Cachoeira Seca Indigenous Territory in Para State of northeastern Bra...
Exclusive: Foreign investors set to sue Spain over energy reform Date: 15-Feb-13 Country: SPAIN Foreign investors in renewable energy projects in Spain have hired lawyers to prepare potential international legal action against the Spanish government over new rules they say break their...
Big cities' heat can change temperatures a continent away: study Date: 29-Jan-13 Country: USA Author: Deborah Zabarenko The energy big cities burn - mostly coal and oil to power buildings, cars and other devices - produces excess heat that can get into atmospheric currents and influen...
Date: 28-Sep-12 Country: BELGIUM Author: Barbara Lewis ?Wind turbines are seen near the village of Piansano, 90 km (60 miles) north of Rome, April 16, 2012. Photo: Max Rossi Installed EU wind capacity has reached the 100 gigawatt mark - the equivalent of power generated from 39 nuclea...
NZ joins Australia in court against Japanese whaling Date: 27-Nov-12 Country: NEW ZEALAND Author: REUTERS ?A crew member holds a grippling hook Photo: ?SEA SHEPHERD New Zealand has joined Australia in the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in a case against Japanese whaling in the S...
