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Earl Fizzles As It Sweeps Through Maritime Canada
Photo: Paul Darrow
Date: 06-Sep-10
Country: CANADA
Author: Pav Jordan
Hurricane Earl made landfall in Canada on Saturday and fizzled after a series of scares along the U.S. East Coast, flooding roads, felling trees and cutting power to tens of thousands in the Atlantic province of Nova Scotia.
Dozens Still Missing As Guatemala Landslides Kill 22
Photo: Luis Lopez
Date: 06-Sep-10
Country: GUATEMALA
Author: Sarah Grainger
A massive landslide buried a crowd trying to dig out a bus from deep mud on Sunday, killing at least 22 people with dozens more feared dead, as torrential rains battered Guatemala.
SunOpta Sells BioProcess Unit To Mascoma For $51 Mln
Date: 06-Sep-10
Country: CANADA
Author: Gowri Jayakumar
Canadian organic food processor SunOpta Inc said it has sold its SunOpta BioProcess unit to Mascoma Corp for $51 million, to form a company focused on production of transportation fuels from non-food biomass.
India Says Sees Green Law Breach In Vedanta Refinery
Date: 06-Sep-10
Country: INDIA
Author: Krittivas Mukherjee
India's environment ministry has said it has found "serious violations" of green laws in Vedanta's existing alumina refinery in eastern India.
Paris Metro Body Heat To Help Warm Building
Photo: Benoit Tessier
Date: 06-Sep-10
Country: FRANCE
Author: Muriel Boselli
The warmth generated by human bodies in the Parisian metro will help heat a public housing project in the city center, the capital's largest owner of social housing said Friday.
U.N. Climate Panel Urged To Reform, Stick To Science
Photo: Marcos Brindicci
Date: 06-Sep-10
Country: UNITED NATIONS
Author: Louis Charbonneau
The U.N. climate panel should make predictions only when it has solid evidence and should avoid policy advocacy, scientists said in a report on Monday that called for thorough reform of the body.
Fuel Tanker Runs Aground In Canadian Arctic
Date: 06-Sep-10
Country: CANADA
Author: Jeffrey Jones
A fuel tanker loaded with 9 million liters (2.4 million gallons) of diesel fuel has run aground in Canada's Far North but none of the fuel has spilled, the Canadian Coast Guard said on Thursday.
Amazon May Be Headed For Another Bad Drought
Date: 06-Sep-10
Country: PERU
Author: Patricia Velez and Alfredo Loayza
Drought has cut Peru's Amazon River to its lowest level in 40 years and it is already below the minimum set in 2005, when a devastating dry spell damaged vast swaths of South American rainforest in the worst drought in decades.
Progress Seen On "Green Fund" For Climate Deal
Date: 06-Sep-10
Country: SWITZERLAND
Author: Alister Doyle
Almost 50 nations made progress on Friday toward a "Green Fund" to help poor countries fight global warming but hosts Mexico and Switzerland said a full U.N. climate treaty was out of reach for 2010.
Interior Chief Salazar Voices Doubt On Arctic Drilling
Date: 06-Sep-10
Country: ALASKA
Author: Yereth Rosen
Interior Secretary Ken Salazar said on Friday he cannot predict whether Royal Dutch Shell, which has invested $3.5 billion in an offshore Arctic oil-development program, will be allowed to drill the five wells it plans next year in Alaska's Chukchi and Beaufort Seas.
U.S. Reiterates Commitment To 2020 Climate Goal
Date: 06-Sep-10
Country: SWITZERLAND
Author: REUTERS
The United States reiterated on Friday that it was committed to cutting greenhouse gas emissions by 2020 even though the Senate has failed to pass legislation.
God Did Not Create The Universe, Says Hawking
Photo: REUTERS/NASA/Handout
Date: 03-Sep-10
Country: UK
Author: Michael Holden
God did not create the universe and the "Big Bang" was an inevitable consequence of the laws of physics, the eminent British theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking argues in a new book.
Analysis: German Coal Imports To Rise Despite Green Lobbying
Photo: Yusuf Ahmad
Date: 03-Sep-10
Country: GERMANY
Author: Vera Eckert and Jackie Cowhig
Germany's coal imports look set to increase until at least the middle of the decade, despite carbon pollution concerns and anti-coal lobbying that has succeeded in stopping many new coal-fired projects.
Nations Meet On Climate Cash, UN Sees Long Haul
Photo: Noor Khamis
Date: 03-Sep-10
Country: SWITZERLAND
Author: Alister Doyle
About 45 nations met on Thursday to seek ways to raise billions of dollars in aid to help the poor combat climate change as the United Nations warned them of a long haul to slow global warming.
EU Carbon Little Changed, Seeks Direction
Date: 03-Sep-10
Country: UK
Author: Nina Chestney
European carbon emissions futures hovered around 15.30 euros ($19.34) a tonne on Wednesday, recovering from early losses, but trading sideways as they sought direction.
Malaysia Uncovers Nearly 100 Live Reptiles In Bag
Date: 03-Sep-10
Country: MALAYSIA
Author: Royce Cheah
Malaysian airport security arrested a convicted wildlife smuggler after finding almost 100 live reptiles in his luggage, the country's Wildlife and National Parks Department said.
India Says Sees Green Law Breach In Vedanta Refinery
Date: 03-Sep-10
Country: INDIA
Author: Krittivas Mukherjee
India's environment ministry has said it has found "serious violations" of green laws in Vedanta's existing alumina refinery in eastern India.
EPA To Issue More Rules In Climate Fight
Date: 03-Sep-10
Country: USA
Author: Timothy Gardner
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency will roll out more regulations on greenhouse gases and other pollution to help fight climate change, but they will not be as strong as action by Congress, a senior administration official said.
Fuel Tanker Runs Aground In Canadian Arctic
Date: 03-Sep-10
Country: CANADA
Author: Jeffrey Jones
A fuel tanker loaded with 9 million liters (2.4 million gallons) of diesel fuel has run aground in Canada's Far North but none of the fuel has spilled, the Canadian Coast Guard said on Thursday.
U.S. Test Shows Water Problem Near Natgas Drill Site
Date: 03-Sep-10
Country: USA
Author: Jon Hurdle
U.S. government officials urged residents of a Wyoming farming community near natural gas drilling sites not to use private well water for drinking or cooking because of chemical contamination.
NHC Report: Gaston Still A Depression, Headed To Caribbean
Date: 03-Sep-10
Country: USA
Author: Joe Silha
Recently-downgraded Gaston remained a tropical depression on Thursday as it churned west-northwest in the central Atlantic on a path that will likely take it into the Caribbean Sea, the National Hurricane Center said Thursday.
Space-Based Detector Could Find Anti-Universe
Photo: Denis Balibouse
Date: 02-Sep-10
Country: SWITZERLAND
Author: Robert Evans
A huge particle detector to be mounted on the International Space Station next year could find evidence for the anti-universe often evoked in science fiction, physicists said on Wednesday.
Stronger Hurricane Earl Nears East Coast
Photo: Richard Clement
Date: 02-Sep-10
Country: HATTERAS ISLAND
Author: Gene Cherry
Looming Hurricane Earl strengthened and churned up dangerous swells on Wednesday, forcing evacuations on some of North Carolina's barrier islands and prompting storm alerts along much of the U.S. east coast.
Exelon To Buy Deere's Wind Power Unit For $860 Million
Photo: Stelios Varias
Date: 02-Sep-10
Country: USA
Author: Matt Daily
Electric utility Exelon Corp said it will buy Deere & Co's wind power business for about $860 million, expanding its portfolio of carbon-free electricity generation.
Bad Weather Delays Retrieval BP Blowout Preventer: US Gov't
Photo: Lee Celano
Date: 02-Sep-10
Country: USA
Author: Kristen Hays
BP Plc delayed retrieval of the failed blowout preventer atop its ruptured Gulf of Mexico oil well this week because of bad weather, the top U.S. official overseeing the oil spill said on Monday.
BP's Internal Probe Faults Its Own Engineers: Report
Photo: Reuters/U.S. Coast
Date: 02-Sep-10
Country: INDIA
Author: Sakthi Prasad
BP Plc's internal probe of the Gulf of Mexico oil spill has placed some of the blame on mistakes by its engineers while finishing the deep sea oil well, Bloomberg reported, citing a person familiar with the report.
Colombia's Galeras Erupts, Evacuation Ordered
Photo: Jaime Saldarriaga
Date: 02-Sep-10
Country: COLOMBIA
Author: Jaime Saldarriaga
Colombia's Galeras Volcano erupted on Wednesday, forcing authorities to order the evacuation of thousands, but only a few residents trickled from nearby villages to shelters, officials said.
Archaeologists Uncover 3,500-Year-Old Egypt City
Date: 02-Sep-10
Country: EGYPT
Author: REUTERS
Archaeologists have uncovered the remains of a 3,500-year-old settlement in one of Egypt's desert oases that predates earlier cities by a millennium, the Ministry of Culture said Wednesday.
EPA Disapproves Parts Of Texas Permit Program
Date: 02-Sep-10
Country: USA
Author: Erwin Seba
The Environmental Protection Agency said on Tuesday it had disapproved parts of Texas' program for permitting new industrial pollution sources.
Financing Said Vital For World Climate Change Deal
Date: 02-Sep-10
Country: SWITZERLAND
Author: Alister Doyle
A global fund to help poorer countries switch to green industrial technology is vital in any new international pact to battle global warming, Switzerland's top climate change negotiator said on Wednesday.