http://www.ecoearth.info/ Vast Environmental Sustainability News and Information from http://www.EcoEarth.Info/: An Information Gateway Empowering the Movement for Environmental Sustainability EcoEarth.Info a project of Ecological Internet, Inc. info@ecologicalinternet.org (Dr. Glen Barry) http://www.ecoearth.info/shared/images/eilogo85.gif http://www.ecoearth.info/ Sydney Morning Herald: AUSTRALIA's two leading scientific agencies will release a report today showing Australia has warmed significantly over the past 50 years, and stating categorically that ''climate change is real''. The State of the Climate snapshot, drawn together by CSIRO and the Bureau of Meteorology partly in response to recent attacks on the science underpinning climate change, shows that Australia's mean temperature has increased 0.7 degrees since 1960. The statement also finds average daily ... http://www.smh.com.au/environment/climate-change-is-real-and-its-here-report-20100314-q63a.html http://www.ecoearth.info/shared/reader/welcome.aspx?linkid=155044 14 Mar 2010 11:00:00 PST climate change real here now | Pacific/Oceania | Australia info@ecologicalinternet.org (Sydney Morning Herald: Tom Arup) Guardian: England was given an uncomfortable reminder last week of the impact of its swelling number of inhabitants. Over the past two millennia, hundreds of its native plants and animals have been rendered extinct because the human population has risen from about one million to more than 51 million. Victims have ranged from the great auk and the lynx to the humble blue stag beetle and Davall's sedge. More to the point, 480 of the 492 species made extinct since Roman times have disappeared in ... http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2010/mar/14/threat-english-plants-species-wildlife http://www.ecoearth.info/shared/reader/welcome.aspx?linkid=155030 14 Mar 2010 11:00:00 PST farming habitat plants wildlife | Europe | United Kingdom info@ecologicalinternet.org (Guardian: Robin McKie) Independent (UK): Imagine U2 clambering on to a train to take them to a sold-out stadium; Keith Richards swigging from a bottle of organic, Fairtrade booze while Bon Jovi recycle their post-gig waste. Unlikely as it sounds, it may yet come to pass as rock'n'roll's tradition of painting the town red fades to an ethical shade of green. Polluting private jets, excessive dressing room demands and arena-busting tours are no long sustainable, according to the biggest study so far on the effect of the live ... http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/green-living/musicians-look-to-clean-up-their-acts-1921171.html http://www.ecoearth.info/shared/reader/welcome.aspx?linkid=155026 14 Mar 2010 11:00:00 PST climate environment music industry | Europe | United Kingdom info@ecologicalinternet.org (Independent (UK): Paul Bignell) Daily Comet: The conveyances room of the Terrebonne Parish Courthouse used to bustle with abstractors researching potential lease properties for oil-and-gas companies. Today, the room is much quieter, and veteran abstractor David Toups spends less time there. Instead, he`s providing the same service from his office, looking at similar records electronically from north Louisiana parishes like Caddo and Red River. He estimates that 20 to 30 percent of his business is researching natural gas ... http://www.dailycomet.com/article/20100314/ARTICLES/100319683/1214?Title=Natural-gas-development-brings-mixed-impacts http://www.ecoearth.info/shared/reader/welcome.aspx?linkid=155056 14 Mar 2010 11:00:00 PST natural gas development impact | North America | United States info@ecologicalinternet.org (Daily Comet: Kathrine Schmidt) Guardian: Little bigger than a pea, the smallest known sea horse, Hippocampus satomiae, was discovered at a depth of about 15 metres on reefs in Indonesia, from Derawan island to northern Sulawesi and Borneo. Like other pygmy sea horses, its size and camouflage make it difficult to spot. This species resembles, in texture and colour, the sea fans with which it lives. It has a pouch in which it carries its young, which are only 3mm in length. Animal names ending in -ae honour women, in this case Satomi ... http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2010/mar/14/new-to-nature-seahorse http://www.ecoearth.info/shared/reader/welcome.aspx?linkid=155031 14 Mar 2010 11:00:00 PST marine biodiversity sea horse | East/South-East Asia | Indonesia info@ecologicalinternet.org (Guardian: none given) Associated Press: Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao said he was snubbed at last year's Copenhagen climate change conference and fired back Sunday at critics who accuse China of arrogance. China was blamed by some for undermining efforts to reach a binding agreement at the December conference and Wen was himself criticized for skipping a meeting of top leaders attended by President Barack Obama. However, Wen says he was never formally notified of the late-night Dec. 17 event and sent Vice Foreign ... http://www.montereyherald.com/news/ci_14672589?nclick_check=1 http://www.ecoearth.info/shared/reader/welcome.aspx?linkid=155058 13 Mar 2010 11:00:00 PST Copenhagen diplomacy | East/South-East Asia | China info@ecologicalinternet.org (Associated Press: none given) Mongabay: As the President of France, Nicholas Sarkozy, argues in Paris that more funding is needed to stop deforestation and mitigate climate change, a shipment of illegal rosewood is being readied for export in Madagascar by a French company with the tacit approval of the French government. The shipment of some 4,000-5,000 tons of rosewood will be shipped under the auspices of the French company, Delmas, according to Derek Schuurman, who has published papers on the illegal logging crisis for ... http://news.mongabay.com/2010/0313-hance_mad.html http://www.ecoearth.info/shared/reader/welcome.aspx?linkid=155036 13 Mar 2010 11:00:00 PST illegal timber shipping France | Africa | Madagascar info@ecologicalinternet.org (Mongabay: Jeremy Hance) Telegraph: A new study, funded by Nasa, has found that the most serious drought in the Amazon for more than a century had little impact on the rainforest's vegetation. The findings appear to disprove claims by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) that up to 40% of the Amazon rainforest could react drastically to even a small reduction in rainfall and could see the trees replaced by tropical grassland. The IPCC has already faced intense criticism for using a report by ... http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/environment/climatechange/7437016/UN-climate-change-claims-on-rainforests-were-wrong-study-suggests.html http://www.ecoearth.info/shared/reader/welcome.aspx?linkid=155024 13 Mar 2010 11:00:00 PST rainforest climate drought long-term carbon loss | Worldwide/General | info@ecologicalinternet.org (Telegraph: Richard Gray) Monroe News: Lake Erie was shrouded in fog Friday, but its future waters might be a muddier brown or an eerier bright green due to persistent pollution and climate change, experts suggest. The lake, especially its shallowest western basin bordering Monroe County and northwest Ohio, is suffering from farm-related and other runoff that threatens to return its health to that of the 1970s when it was written off as dead. "We don't want to be responsible for writing Lake Erie's obituary again," said ... http://www.monroenews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20100313/NEWS01/703139975 http://www.ecoearth.info/shared/reader/welcome.aspx?linkid=155000 13 Mar 2010 11:00:00 PST water lake Erie quality | North America | info@ecologicalinternet.org (Monroe News: Charles Slat) Associated Press: Sen. John Kerry, hoping to win over wavering senators, said he is pushing environmental reforms to create jobs and spark energy independence, with climate benefits along "for the ride." In an interview with The Associated Press, the Massachusetts Democrat said legislation he's crafting with Sens. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., and Joe Lieberman, I-Conn., will differ from a House-passed bill that embraces a so-called "cap and trade" approach to reduce pollution blamed for global ... http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5hM1DYWlWj8EbMAj-WOC1Nui69qSgD9EDB6S80 http://www.ecoearth.info/shared/reader/welcome.aspx?linkid=154996 13 Mar 2010 11:00:00 PST climate energy bill jobs Kerry | North America | United States info@ecologicalinternet.org (Associated Press: Matthew Daly and Frederic J. Frommer) Journal Star: The neighborhood where Tyrone Hayes grew up was developed by draining a swamp. He spent his youth fascinated with frogs, turtles, snakes and lizards that shared his stomping ground. Hayes graduated from Harvard University with a major in evolutionary biology, earned a Ph.D. at 24 and became the youngest tenured professor at the University of California-Berkeley. He became a world expert on frog development. Then he met atrazine, an herbicide used on more than 70 percent of ... http://www.pjstar.com/news/x90198110/Is-herbicide-atrazine-bad-for-you http://www.ecoearth.info/shared/reader/welcome.aspx?linkid=155065 13 Mar 2010 11:00:00 PST herbicide atrazine | North America | United States info@ecologicalinternet.org (Journal Star: Clare Howard) Agence France-Presse: Around 60 countries pushed ahead on Thursday with a multi-billion-dollar scheme to reduce climate-changing emissions from deforestation, to which Germany added its support, British minister Joan Ruddock said on Thursday. "There was a tremendous mood of determination to get things done. I regard this as quite a breakthrough, actually," Ruddock, who is secretary of state for energy and climate change, told AFP in a phone interview. Around 60 countries, gathering donor economies ... http://www.tehrantimes.com/index_View.asp?code=215897 http://www.ecoearth.info/shared/reader/welcome.aspx?linkid=155009 13 Mar 2010 11:00:00 PST forest carbon international | Worldwide/General | info@ecologicalinternet.org (Agence France-Presse: none given) Guardian: Watch one of the contentious climate change adverts The advertising watchdog has mildly rebuked the government over the phrasing of a claim in two advertisements on the danger of climate change, while dismissing the rest of the complaints against the controversial television and newspaper campaign. The campaign, run by the Department of Environment and Climate Change last winter, brought in 939 complaints. Various groups said the adverts were political, too scary, and factually ... http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2010/mar/13/government-cleared-climate-change-adverts http://www.ecoearth.info/shared/reader/welcome.aspx?linkid=154986 13 Mar 2010 11:00:00 PST climate advertisements government | Europe | United Kingdom info@ecologicalinternet.org (Guardian: none given) Guardian: In 1993, three years into her presidency of Ireland, Mary Robinson paid a visit to west Belfast. The trip was controversial before she went – the Irish government didn't want her there, and neither did the British – but it became far more controversial when, in the course of her tour, she happened to shake the hand of a local politician, one Gerry Adams. The next day, "trying to be a good president, I washed the hair and waited for the hairdresser to arrive," Robinson told an RTÉ radio show ... http://www.guardian.co.uk/theguardian/2010/mar/13/mary-robinson http://www.ecoearth.info/shared/reader/welcome.aspx?linkid=154982 13 Mar 2010 11:00:00 PST climate urgency poor | Europe | Ireland info@ecologicalinternet.org (Guardian: Aide Edemariam) Guardian: The Empathic Civilization: The Race to Global Consciousness in a World in Crisis by Jeremy Rifkin 688pp, Polity Press, £17.99 Buy The Empathic Civilization: The Race to Global Consciousness in a World in Crisis at the Guardian bookshop Whoever hacked into the emails at the University of East Anglia fired the opening salvo in a new kind of dirty war. The Copenhagen conference met on the basis that dealing with global warming was in everyone's interest. The idea that nearly 200 ... http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2010/mar/13/empathetic-civilization-jeremy-rifkin-climate http://www.ecoearth.info/shared/reader/welcome.aspx?linkid=154980 13 Mar 2010 11:00:00 PST climate civilization empathy | Worldwide/General | info@ecologicalinternet.org (Guardian: John Gray) BBC: Sales of ivory and a possible ban on trading bluefin tuna top the agenda for the two-week CITES meeting that opens this weekend in Doha, Qatar. CITES - the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species - will set a precedent if it votes to ban trading in a lucrative fish such as bluefin. The US and EU back the proposal, but Japan is set against. Conservation groups are also hoping for increased protection on sharks, coral, polar bears, lizards and ... http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8565480.stm http://www.ecoearth.info/shared/reader/welcome.aspx?linkid=154973 13 Mar 2010 11:00:00 PST endangered ivory tuna | Worldwide/General | info@ecologicalinternet.org (BBC: Richard Black) New York Times: The Obama administration has always had a backup plan in case Congress failed to pass a broad climate change bill. The Environmental Protection Agency would use its Clean Air Act authority to regulate greenhouse gases. Regulation, or the threat of it, would goad Congress to act or provide a backstop if it did not. The House passed a bill last year seeking an economywide cap on emissions, but there has been no progress in the Senate. Now some senators seem determined to undercut the ... http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/13/opinion/13sat2.html http://www.ecoearth.info/shared/reader/welcome.aspx?linkid=154972 13 Mar 2010 11:00:00 PST climate politics inaction | North America | United States info@ecologicalinternet.org (New York Times: Editorial) Record-Eagle: A local environmental group is increasingly worried that Traverse City Light & Power is on an unstoppable fast track to building a local wood-burning power plant, but the public utility insists a decision hasn't been made. Light & Power officials are expected to decide next month whether to construct a biomass plant in Traverse City. The facility would be fired on wood, but could accept designated fuel crops or other items. Officials recently released a consulting firm's ... http://www.record-eagle.com/local/local_story_072220517.html http://www.ecoearth.info/shared/reader/welcome.aspx?linkid=155067 13 Mar 2010 11:00:00 PST biomass energy ill-conceived | North America | United States info@ecologicalinternet.org (Record-Eagle: Art Bukowski) Telegraph: At least one in six of the 255 wind farms in Britain have received noise complaints according to figures obtained by the Daily Telegraph. But local authorities have never managed to prosecute on the grounds of noise nuisance because it is so difficult to prove. The main problem is the intermittent nature of noise from wind farms that makes it difficult to measure. Inspectors have to be on the site when the noise is worst, even though that could be in the middle of the night. ... http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/earthnews/7429753/Noisy-wind-farms-face-crackdown.html http://www.ecoearth.info/shared/reader/welcome.aspx?linkid=155022 13 Mar 2010 11:00:00 PST wind farms noisy | Europe | United Kingdom info@ecologicalinternet.org (Telegraph: Louise Gray) Associated Press: A new report says birds that live in and visit Louisiana's badly damaged and eroding coast are threatened by climate change. On Louisiana's coast, sea level rise and the loss of habitat will threaten migratory songbirds, ocean bird species and waterfowl, according to Melanie Driscoll, director of bird conservation at the Louisiana Audubon Society. The report, "The State of the Birds: 2010 Report on Climate Change," was released Thursday. A 2009 report on bird populations ... http://www.wxvt.com/Global/story.asp?S=12134951 http://www.ecoearth.info/shared/reader/welcome.aspx?linkid=155016 13 Mar 2010 11:00:00 PST climate birds coastal | North America | United States info@ecologicalinternet.org (Associated Press: none given) San Francisco Chronicle: Emperor penguins and chicks in Antarctica are the most severely threatened by impending climate changes, the report says. The birds need solid sea ice to lay eggs and raise chicks on. Shifting sea ice around Antarctica is already disrupting penguin colonies as the world's climate warms, according to a new report by a team of polar scientists. The researchers looked at the complex relationship between emperor and Adelie penguins and their changing habitats and studied how a ... http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/03/12/MN2C1CDP5M.DTL http://www.ecoearth.info/shared/reader/welcome.aspx?linkid=155008 13 Mar 2010 11:00:00 PST Antarctic ice penguins | Arctic/Antarctic | info@ecologicalinternet.org (San Francisco Chronicle: David Perlman) Press Democrat: To a long list of predators and threats, the western snowy plover, a sparrow-sized bird that nests in sandy beaches on the Sonoma coast, has a new nemesis: climate change. The little brown, black and white shorebird is among the feathered species at risk from rising seas due to climate change, bird experts said. "They are already in trouble," Gary Langham, director of bird conservation for Audubon California, said of the plovers, a threatened species since 1993. "Climate change ... http://www.pressdemocrat.com/article/20100312/ARTICLES/100319725/1349?Title=Report-Climate-change-would-hurt-coastal-birds http://www.ecoearth.info/shared/reader/welcome.aspx?linkid=155004 13 Mar 2010 11:00:00 PST climate birds coastal | North America | United States info@ecologicalinternet.org (Press Democrat: Guy Kovner) Herald: Government has called on farmers to adjust to changing weather patterns and become more scientific in their approach to agriculture. In a speech read on his behalf by Mr Collins Mungate, a senior official in the Ministry of Media, Information and Publicity, Minister Webster Shamu said Zimbabwe -- like all other countries in the region -- was affected by the effects of global warming and climate change. "Our rainfall pattern, amount and distribution of rain have changed ... http://www.herald.co.zw/inside.aspx?sectid=16496&cat=1 http://www.ecoearth.info/shared/reader/welcome.aspx?linkid=154997 13 Mar 2010 11:00:00 PST farmer weather patterns changing | Africa | Zimbabwe info@ecologicalinternet.org (Herald: none given) News Journal: Young people in evangelical churches have likely never heard a sermon linking scripture with a love of creation and caring for the earth. That explains the slowness of mainline evangelicals in signing onto the movement to lower carbon emissions and avert climate change, said the Rev. Richard Cizik, president of the New Evangelical Partnership for the Common Good. He's reached that opinion from hundreds of talks he's given on campuses, and it's sad news for Americans who believe ... http://www.delawareonline.com/article/20100313/LIFE/3130310 http://www.ecoearth.info/shared/reader/welcome.aspx?linkid=154994 13 Mar 2010 11:00:00 PST climate debate evanglicals | North America | United States info@ecologicalinternet.org (News Journal: Gary Soulsman) Daily Comet: The combined forces of climate change and land loss pose a major threat to Louisiana bird species, especially those that depend on the disappearing coast, according to a report released Thursday by a partnership of university bird researchers, federal agencies and environmental groups. The State of the Birds: 2010 Report on Climate Change," released Thursday by U.S. Interior Secretary Ken Salazar, was prepared by a partnership of university bird researchers, federal agencies and ... http://www.dailycomet.com/article/20100313/ARTICLES/100319729/1026?p=1&tc=pg http://www.ecoearth.info/shared/reader/welcome.aspx?linkid=154993 13 Mar 2010 11:00:00 PST climate birds endangered | North America | United States info@ecologicalinternet.org (Daily Comet: Nikki Buskey) redOrbit: Using green algae to produce hydrocarbon oil for biofuel production is nothing new; nature has been doing so for hundreds of millions of years, according a Texas AgriLife Research scientist. "Oils from the green algae Botryococcus braunii can be readily detected in petroleum deposits and coal deposits suggesting that B. braunii has been a contributor to developing these deposits and may be the major contributor," said Dr. Timothy Devarenne, AgriLife Research scientist with the Texas ... http://www.redorbit.com/news/science/1836011/genetic_mapping_of_algae_biofuel_species/index.html?source=r_science http://www.ecoearth.info/shared/reader/welcome.aspx?linkid=154984 13 Mar 2010 11:00:00 PST algae biofuel genetic mapping | Worldwide/General | info@ecologicalinternet.org (redOrbit: Robert Burns) New York Times: Changes in the global climate are imposing additional stress on hundreds of species of migratory birds in the United States that are already threatened by other environmental factors, according to a new Interior Department report. The department's annual State of the Birds report shows that nearly a third of the nation's 800 bird species are endangered, threatened or suffering from population decline. For the first time, the report adds climate change to other factors threatening bird ... http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/13/science/earth/13brfs-CLIMATECHANG_BRF.html http://www.ecoearth.info/shared/reader/welcome.aspx?linkid=154976 13 Mar 2010 11:00:00 PST climate birds stress | North America | United States info@ecologicalinternet.org (New York Times: John M. Broder) Today Online: As a global agreement on climate change gets closer to becoming reality, and Singapore gears up to deliver on its domestic commitments, a single body will now coordinate two key aspects - the international and the domestic - of the country's climate change policies. The Inter-Ministerial Committee on Climate Change will be reorganised to focus both on formulating and implementing mitigation measures at home, and on international negotiation strategies. Its National Climate ... http://www.todayonline.com/Singapore/EDC100313-0000077/One-body-to-coordinate-Singapores-climate-change-policies http://www.ecoearth.info/shared/reader/welcome.aspx?linkid=154969 13 Mar 2010 11:00:00 PST climate policy coordination | East/South-East Asia | Singapore info@ecologicalinternet.org (Today Online: none given) Inter Press Service: As climate change transforms the acidity and oxygen levels of the world's waters with devastating effects for some marine species, others are facing an even more immediate threat from human consumption. To reverse that unsustainable trade, an unprecedented number of aquatic species have been proposed for listing on the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora in order to prohibit or significantly curtail international trade in those ... http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=50646 http://www.ecoearth.info/shared/reader/welcome.aspx?linkid=155017 12 Mar 2010 11:00:00 PST shark trade | Worldwide/General | info@ecologicalinternet.org (Inter Press Service: Matthew Berger) Reuters: Hungary is selling 2 million U.N.-backed carbon emissions permits which have already been surrendered by companies, it said on Friday, raising concern that their buyers could use them again to comply with the EU's Emissions Trading Scheme ETS. The Environment Ministry said late on Thursday that it has signed an agreement to sell the permits to a trading firm which could probably resell them to Japan. "The units are certified emission reductions (CERs) previously surrendered by ... http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE62B3UE20100312 http://www.ecoearth.info/shared/reader/welcome.aspx?linkid=155006 12 Mar 2010 11:00:00 PST carbon permits sale | Europe | Hungary info@ecologicalinternet.org (Reuters: none given) Living on Earth: YOUNG: Thirteen years ago, the negotiators of the Kyoto Climate Accord decided there should be some way for rich countries to pay for clean, low-carbon development in poor countries. The CDM or Clean Development Mechanism was born. Now the World Bank helps polluters in wealthy countries purchase things like clean furnaces in Vietnam and pollution control equipment in Brazil. The CDM also pays people in poor countries to plant and protect forests. Reporter Beth Hoffman visited the first place ... http://www.loe.org/shows/segments.htm?programID=10-P13-00011&segmentID=4 http://www.ecoearth.info/shared/reader/welcome.aspx?linkid=154999 12 Mar 2010 11:00:00 PST carbon tree planting | Africa | Uganda info@ecologicalinternet.org (Living on Earth: none given) Reuters: Kenya Friday underlined its strong opposition to any move to lift a ban on trading ivory ahead of a meeting on endangered species. The Convention of International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) is due to meet on March 13 in Qatar. A nine-year ban on ivory sales was agreed in 2007 under the Convention of International Trade in Endangered Species. Kenya relies heavily on tourism to earn foreign exchange and many visitors come to the country to visit its numerous game ... http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE62B3UV20100312?feedType=RSS&feedName=environmentNews&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+reuters%2Fenvironment+%28News+%2F+US+%2F+Environment%29 http://www.ecoearth.info/shared/reader/welcome.aspx?linkid=154961 12 Mar 2010 11:00:00 PST ivory trade resumption oppose | Africa | Kenya info@ecologicalinternet.org (Reuters: none given) National Public Radio: Wildlife experts convene next week in the city of Doha in Qatar to consider how to control the trade in rare animals and plants. Their means to that end is the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES), a treaty that most of the world's government have signed onto, though not always happily. Trade in elephant ivory continues to be a contentious issue. And this year sees a brand new effort to move offshore and protect some of the ocean's most charismatic -- and ... http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=124592439&ft=1&f=1025 http://www.ecoearth.info/shared/reader/welcome.aspx?linkid=154931 12 Mar 2010 11:00:00 PST wildlife ivory tuna | Worldwide/General | info@ecologicalinternet.org (National Public Radio: Christopher Joyce) Agence France-Presse: China's coastal waters are increasingly polluted by everything from oil to pesticides, contaminating the nation's marine life including the shellfish supply, state press reported Friday. Most shellfish in offshore areas contained "excessive harmful chemicals" such as lead, cadmium and the insecticide DDT, the China Daily said, citing a new report released by the State Oceanic Administration. Levels of lead detected in shellfish were 50 percent higher than normal, while cadmium ... http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100312/wl_asia_afp/chinaenvironmentoceansfood http://www.ecoearth.info/shared/reader/welcome.aspx?linkid=154929 12 Mar 2010 11:00:00 PST ocean pollution shellfish | East/South-East Asia | China info@ecologicalinternet.org (Agence France-Presse: none given) Economist: SOME time in 2014 natural gas will be condensed into liquid and loaded onto a tanker docked in Kitimat, on Canada's Pacific coast, about 650km (400 miles) north-west of Vancouver. The ship will probably take its cargo to Asia. This proposed liquefied natural gas (LNG) plant, to be built by Apache Corporation, an American energy company, will not be North America's first. Gas has been shipped from Alaska to Japan since 1969. But if it makes it past the planning stages, Kitimat LNG will be one ... http://www.economist.com/business-finance/displaystory.cfm?story_id=15661889 http://www.ecoearth.info/shared/reader/welcome.aspx?linkid=154896 12 Mar 2010 11:00:00 PST natural gas glut energy politics | Worldwide/General | info@ecologicalinternet.org (Economist: none given) Christian Science Monitor: Nearly three years after the US Supreme Court found that carbon dioxide was a pollutant that fell under the purview of the Clean Air Act, the US Environmental Protection Agency has agreed to explore approaches for tightening its regulations dealing with ocean acidification under the Clean Water Act. Ocean acidification results from the ocean's uptake of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. Maine scientists have become increasingly concerned about the effect industrial emissions of CO2 ... http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/2010/0312/Ocean-acidification-another-path-to-EPA-rules-on-carbon-emissions http://www.ecoearth.info/shared/reader/welcome.aspx?linkid=154894 12 Mar 2010 11:00:00 PST ocean acidification carbon emissions | North America | United States info@ecologicalinternet.org (Christian Science Monitor: Peter N. Spotts) New York Times: Changes in the global climate are imposing additional stress on hundreds of species of migratory birds in the United States that are already threatened by other environmental factors, according to a new Interior Department report. The latest version of the department's annual State of the Birds report shows that nearly a third of the nation's 800 bird species are endangered, threatened or suffering from population decline. For the first time, the report adds climate change to ... http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/13/science/earth/13birds.html http://www.ecoearth.info/shared/reader/welcome.aspx?linkid=154860 12 Mar 2010 11:00:00 PST climate birds migratory threatened | North America | United States info@ecologicalinternet.org (New York Times: John M. Broder) Agence France-Presse: Climate change is pushing some bird species "towards extinction," US Interior Secretary Ken Salazar warned Thursday as a new report on the threats facing North American birds was released. "For well over a century, migratory birds have faced stresses," Salazar said. "Now they are facing a new threat -- climate change -- that could dramatically alter their habitat and food supply and push many species towards extinction." Birds that depend upon the ocean for survival "are among ... http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100312/ts_alt_afp/environmentclimateusbirds http://www.ecoearth.info/shared/reader/welcome.aspx?linkid=154856 12 Mar 2010 11:00:00 PST climate birds extinction | Worldwide/General | info@ecologicalinternet.org (Agence France-Presse: none given) Associated Press: Major European polluters are buying their way out of making big cuts to greenhouse gas emissions by purchasing carbon offsets that pay for environmental programs in developing nations, a nonprofit group said Friday. To avoid the high cost of becoming greener, power companies and steel makers are using offsets to meet emissions-reduction requirements, and thus undermining the EU's cap-and-trade program that would otherwise punish them financially for not cleaning up their operations, ... http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100312/ap_on_sc/eu_climate_carbon_offsets http://www.ecoearth.info/shared/reader/welcome.aspx?linkid=154854 12 Mar 2010 11:00:00 PST carbon offset avoid cuts | Worldwide/General | info@ecologicalinternet.org (Associated Press: Gretchen Mahan) Telegraph: The "kings of the forest" have been spotted on roundabouts, in cemeteries and on golf courses as the population explodes across the UK. The animals not only damage trees and spread disease but are responsible for causing more than 74,000 road accidents every year, including up to 20 fatalities. The problem is so bad that a major conference is being held this weekend in Warwickshire, Deer Management 2010, to work out the best way to deal with "urban deer". Experts from ... http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/wildlife/7429164/Urban-deer-a-growing-problem-for-UK.html http://www.ecoearth.info/shared/reader/welcome.aspx?linkid=155023 12 Mar 2010 11:00:00 PST wildlife deer trade | Europe | United Kingdom info@ecologicalinternet.org (Telegraph: Louise Gray) Reuters: Coming not so soon and probably not to a house near you is the home solar hydrogen refueling station -- Honda Motor Co's latest idea in its drive to make hydrogen the fuel of choice for zero emission cars. The Japanese auto giant believes hydrogen fuel-cell vehicles offer the best long-term alternative to fossil fuels and the company showed on Friday a refueling breakthrough that it says points to a home version down the road. Most major automakers have spent billions of ... http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE62C01Z20100313 http://www.ecoearth.info/shared/reader/welcome.aspx?linkid=155007 12 Mar 2010 11:00:00 PST solar hydrogen refueling | Worldwide/General | info@ecologicalinternet.org (Reuters: Mary Milliken) Greenwire: U.S. EPA settled a lawsuit yesterday by agreeing to use the Clean Water Act to address ocean acidification, a move that some see as opening a side door to federal curbs on greenhouse gases that scientists link to problems in the marine environment. The settlement with the nonprofit Center for Biological Diversity directly addresses EPA's failure to require Washington state to list its marine waters as impaired by rising acidity. The deal requires EPA to begin a rulemaking aimed at ... http://www.nytimes.com/gwire/2010/03/12/12greenwire-some-see-clean-water-act-settlement-opening-new-4393.html http://www.ecoearth.info/shared/reader/welcome.aspx?linkid=155002 12 Mar 2010 11:00:00 PST water greenhouse gas curbs | North America | United States info@ecologicalinternet.org (Greenwire: Allison Winter) Living on Earth: YOUNG: It's Living on Earth, I'm Jeff Young. Recent discoveries on the floor of the Arctic Ocean have raised interest and concern about methane and its role in climate change. A study in the journal Science found permafrost under the East Siberian Arctic Shelf is not so permanent. Some of it is melting and as it does, it leaks methane into the atmosphere. Previous studies found a similar phenomenon in the waters off of Norway. This raises a troubling scenario, because methane is a ... http://www.loe.org/shows/segments.htm?programID=10-P13-00011&segmentID=3 http://www.ecoearth.info/shared/reader/welcome.aspx?linkid=154998 12 Mar 2010 11:00:00 PST Arctic methane sea floor | Arctic/Antarctic | info@ecologicalinternet.org (Living on Earth: none given) Reuters: New York environmental regulators this week released a plan to protect aquatic life in the state's rivers that could cost power generators billions to upgrade their facilities. The plan, which still needs final approval, would affect most of the state's six nuclear power plants and several facilities powered by fossil fuels that use water for cooling. The state Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) wants the facilities to recycle and reuse the water in a closed-cycle cooling ... http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE62B4N320100312?feedType=RSS&feedName=environmentNews&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+reuters%2Fenvironment+%28News+%2F+US+%2F+Environment%29 http://www.ecoearth.info/shared/reader/welcome.aspx?linkid=154983 12 Mar 2010 11:00:00 PST river life power generation | North America | United States info@ecologicalinternet.org (Reuters: Scott DiSavino) Independent (UK): A type of degradable plastic bag that was supposed to be better for the environment may not be completely biodegradable, a Government-commissioned study has found. The bag is made with metal salts that are supposed to accelerate degradation, but scientists found the material was not fully biodegradable and might contaminate the way plastics are recycled. Hundreds of millions of plastic bags and packaging items have been produced by the process, and they are widely used by some of the ... http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/climate-change/green-plastics-may-be-worse-for-environment-1920707.html http://www.ecoearth.info/shared/reader/welcome.aspx?linkid=154979 12 Mar 2010 11:00:00 PST plastic green bad environment | Europe | United Kingdom info@ecologicalinternet.org (Independent (UK): Steve Connor) BBC: More than 50 people have been charged after a climate change protest on the roof of the Houses of Parliament. Fifty-four are accused of trespassing on land designated a protected site, while the other person is charged with helping to plan a trespass. Several dozen Greenpeace activists spent the night on top of the Palace of Westminster in October 2009. Yellow banners were unfurled with the slogan: "Change the politics, save the climate". The demonstration ... http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/london/8565359.stm http://www.ecoearth.info/shared/reader/welcome.aspx?linkid=154968 12 Mar 2010 11:00:00 PST climate protest Parliament rooftop | Europe | United Kingdom info@ecologicalinternet.org (BBC: none given) Reuters: British Columbia has given the green light to 19 private-sector clean energy projects that will generate enough power to supply nearly 218,000 homes in Canada's Pacific Coast province. The approvals, announced late on Thursday by BC Hydro, the government-owned electricity utility, mark the first phase in the provincial government's long-delayed push to generate more green power. Fourteen of the 19 proposals are 14 run-of-river hydroelectric projects, in which river water is ... http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE62B3U020100312?feedType=RSS&feedName=environmentNews&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+reuters%2Fenvironment+%28News+%2F+US+%2F+Environment%29 http://www.ecoearth.info/shared/reader/welcome.aspx?linkid=154962 12 Mar 2010 11:00:00 PST hydro energy clean | North America | Canada info@ecologicalinternet.org (Reuters: none given) Associated Press: Climate change is here and scientists need to do a better job of explaining it to the public, the director of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said Friday. "We are no longer constrained by talking about some possible future. Climate change is happening now and it's happening in people's back yards," Jane Lubchenco told reporters at a briefing. "Scientists have seriously underestimated the importance of explaining what we know about climate in a way people can ... http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5izQWR3jqOcjYYhQoCW_2NWYSAGtgD9ED90P80 http://www.ecoearth.info/shared/reader/welcome.aspx?linkid=154960 12 Mar 2010 11:00:00 PST climate science explain public | Worldwide/General | info@ecologicalinternet.org (Associated Press: Randolph E. Schmid) BBC: Eleven rare Siberian tigers have died over the last three months at a zoo in north-eastern China. The local authorities believe that a lack of food contributed to their deaths, according to media reports. The news is bound to raise concerns about the treatment of captive tigers in China, which is this year celebrating the year of the tiger. China has only about 50 tigers left in the wild, but it has about 5,000 in captivity. The tigers died at the Shenyang Forest ... http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/8563673.stm http://www.ecoearth.info/shared/reader/welcome.aspx?linkid=154953 12 Mar 2010 11:00:00 PST tigers Siberian zoo die | East/South-East Asia | China info@ecologicalinternet.org (BBC: Michael Bristow) Telegraph: Despite restrictions on taking the species from European waters, the spiny dogfish is still imported into the UK and other EU countries. Most of the meat in Britain ends up in fish and chips without consumers knowing what they are eating. But a meeting of 175 countries next week is expected to crack down on trading of the shark meat meaning it will no longer be appearing in the nation's favourite dish. Spiny dogfish is one of eight species of shark to be considered at the ... http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/earthnews/7422802/No-more-shark-in-UK-fish-and-chips.html http://www.ecoearth.info/shared/reader/welcome.aspx?linkid=154942 12 Mar 2010 11:00:00 PST shark fish chips | Europe | United Kingdom info@ecologicalinternet.org (Telegraph: Louise Gray)