Plans to build a working nuclear fusion reactor in southern France are in jeopardy because of rising costs and technical challenges. The Iter project, in effect a fusion-generation experiment backed by the US, Russia, the EU, Japan, China, India and South Korea, is under review and may about to be ... keep reading
Written by Bruce Bisset in June 2009, about Clean Technologies, Climate Change, Coal & Oil, Environment & Wildlife, Poverty & Development
There is enough wind energy at high-altitude (1600 to 40,000 feet) to meet global power demand a hundred times over, a new study suggests, with the most intense windstreams over the densely populated US east coast and the coastline of China. The challenge now is to design technology to ... keep reading
Written by Bruce Bisset in June 2009, about Action, Protest, & Activism, Agriculture & Food, Art & Culture, Clean Technologies, Climate Change, Coal & Oil, Deforestation, Green energy, Organic, Solar
Wind-borne bacteria make clouds produce rain, by acting as “ice nucleators” so that water freezes at relatively warm temperatures. This theory, 25 years in the proving, leads to another big question: if the bacteria are products of agriculture, does it follow that agriculture influences precipitation? Ireland may be closer to ... keep reading
Written by Bruce Bisset in June 2009, about Agriculture & Food, Clean Technologies, Climate Change, Deforestation, Earth, Soil, & Landscape, Organic, Politics & Government, Transport, Weather
China has spat its predictable dummy and refused to accept binding emissions cuts, claiming that as a developing country its focus is on raising the standard of living, so a "natural" increase in emissions must occur. Reindeer and caribou numbers are plummeting almost everywhere they live, with 34 of 58 ... keep reading
Written by Bruce Bisset in June 2009, about Climate Change, Earth, Soil, & Landscape, Emissions, Environment & Wildlife, Industry & Business, Politics & Government
Particulate emissions from traffic concentrate at around the height of a child, and as a result the lung capacity of urban 8- and 9-year olds is 5 percent lower than the national average, a British study has found, with 7 percent of surveyed children showing lung function reduced to hazardous ... keep reading
Written by Bruce Bisset in June 2009, about Air Quality, Children and Families, Climate Change, Emissions, Health, Politics & Government, Transport
Royal Dutch Shell has agreed to pay $15.5m in compensation to relatives of nine anti-oil campaigners - including writer Ken Saro-Wiwa - hanged in Nigeria in 1995, a week before a case for damages was to go to trial. The plaintiffs reacted with joy, though Shell continues to deny any complicity ... keep reading
Written by Bruce Bisset in June 2009, about Action, Protest, & Activism, Coal & Oil, Computing, Emissions, Health, Industry & Business, Politics & Government, Solar, Transport (1 comment)
Guess where the money goes if it's not spent fighting climate change? Right: fighting each other. A massive $1,464 billion was spent last year on military hardware, up 4% over 2007 despite the recession, and some 45 percent more than in 1999. Norway has launched the world's ... keep reading
Written by Bruce Bisset in June 2009, about Biofuels & Alternative Energy, Clean Technologies, Climate Change, Environmental Disasters, Green energy, Industry & Business, Politics & Government, Pollution, Poverty & Development, Transport, War (1 comment)
Good news for World Environment Day: the UN announces total British greenhouse gas emissions will be some 23 percent below 1990 levels next year, almost double the UK's Kyoto target. And later today the British government's new low-carbon industrial strategy will be previewed. Salmon, trout, sturgeon and other ... keep reading
Written by Bruce Bisset in June 2009, about Action, Protest, & Activism, Agriculture & Food, Biofuels & Alternative Energy, Coal & Oil, Earth, Soil, & Landscape, Emissions, Environment & Wildlife, Rivers, Lakes, and Oceans, Water
Clean energy is finally mainstream: last year, 4 out of every 10 GW of new capacity came from renewable sources, with wind and solar the two biggest portions of a $US155 billion sector investment. But in order for the world to meet projected targets in addressing climate change, that sum ... keep reading
Written by Bruce Bisset in June 2009, about Agriculture & Food, Carbon Trading, Clean Technologies, Climate Change, Deforestation, Earth, Soil, & Landscape, Economics, Environment & Wildlife, Finance & Money, Green energy, Poverty & Development, Rivers, Lakes, and Oceans (2 comments)
The Soviet Union's environmental legacy is one of mismanagement and neglect which has left countries from Poland to Siberia more vulnerable to climate change, the World Bank says. Dangerous toxins are being unlocked from soils right across this vast region as temperatures rise, and floods and droughts threaten to ... keep reading
Written by Bruce Bisset in June 2009, about Climate Change, Earth, Soil, & Landscape, Emissions, Energy Saving, Environment & Wildlife, Rivers, Lakes, and Oceans (1 comment)
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