23 hours ago From The Irrawaddy News Magazine  View Original Article

Chiang Mai, THAILAND - Indonesia has deported two foreign journalists covering a Greenpeace demonstration against forest destruction on the western island of Sumatra — bringing to 15 the number of people kicked out of the country over the protest.

Kumkum Das ...

24 hours ago From guardian.co.uk  View Original Article

London, U K - The political chatter ahead of the Queen's speech was all about Labour using its final throw of the legislative dice to draw clear battle lines with the Tories. If that is the case elsewhere in the bills announced today, there is precious little elec ...

24 hours ago From National Business Review  View Original Article

Auckland, NEW ZEALAND - The technology sector could reduce carbon emissions by 25% if implemented correctly, IDC says in the lead up to the climate change conference in Copenhagen next month.

IDC together with leading industry partners have identified areas w ...

24 hours ago From SolveClimate  View Original Article

New York, NEW YORK - On Nov. 16, two Greenpeace activists from Germany and Italy and two members of the press from India and Italy, all of whom were traveling on valid business and journalist visas, were picked up and detained by Indonesian police.

They w ...

24 hours ago From Reuters  View Original Article

New York, NEW YORK - LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - California regulators gave final approval on Wednesday to the first mandatory U.S. energy curbs on television sets, a growing but often overlooked power drain that accounts for 10 percent of home electric bills in the state.

24 hours ago From guardian.co.uk  View Original Article

U K - Opposite the old town hall in Burslem, Stoke-on-Trent, down the road from the Red Lion (aka "the pub where Robbie Williams was born"), round the corner from the Methodist Mission and next to a now sadly shuttered jewellery shop called What Women Want ...

24 hours ago From Denver Post  View Original Article

Denver, COLORADO - Colorado air-quality regulators will face orchestrated pressure at a hearing tonight on whether to renew a pollution permit for Denver's biggest coal-fired power plant — just as new studies show nitrogen- oxide emissions are turning once-clear mounta ...

24 hours ago From 89.3 KPCC  View Original Article

Pasadena, CALIFORNIA - Conservationists worried about overfishing on the Pacific island of Kiribati persuaded fishermen to pick coconuts instead. The strategy backfired: Coconut oil production increased, but so did fishing. It turns out, fishermen who earned more money in ...

24 hours ago From Sky News  View Original Article

London, U K - As she opened an exhibition of her work, Christensen said December's climate change conference in Copenhagen provided a genuine opportunity to alter the course of the world.

"I think the conference is going to be one of the most import ...

24 hours ago From DutchNews.nl  View Original Article

Zwolle, NETHERLANDS - The government has given the green light to a controversial experiment to store greenhouse gases in an empty natural gas chamber under a housing estate south of Rotterdam.

Economic affairs minister Maria van der Hoeven and environment ...

24 hours ago From Hour.ca  View Original Article

Montreal, CANADA - The oil sands by the numbers, quick and dirty

Close to home: Montreal and the Athabasca oil sandsThere are several proposals in the works to reverse and extend pipelines from the oil sands to our front doorstep (or at least to a refine ...

25 hours ago From Diamondback Online  View Original Article

College Park, MARYLAND - Sustainability is more than a fad.

That was the consensus among students, educators and national policy makers who participated in a teleconference yesterday to discuss the National Wildlife Federation’s Generation E report, a study of ...

25 hours ago From Moneycontrol.com  View Original Article

New York, NEW YORK - Russia toughened its plans to curb harmful greenhouse gas emissions on Wednesday in a rare encouraging development before United Nations climate talks next month.

European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso said President Dmitry ...

26 hours ago From Media Newswire  View Original Article

New York, NEW YORK - The cargo ship Happy Ranger made port in Finland today, carrying its cargo of steam generators from France, intended for a nuclear reactor under construction at Olkiluoto. In addition, it is also carrying a protest camp, complete with eight Greenpeac ...

26 hours ago From Contra Costa Times  View Original Article

Contra Costa , CALIFORNIA - It was just the beginning, the start of discussions on a new state law that targets reducing greenhouse gas emissions from passenger vehicles for 2020 and 2035.
Local government and planning officials on Wednesday gathered at the Ontario Conv ...