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There’s a narrative starting to build that the repudiation of the New South Wales ALP last Saturday is a result of the federal ALP’s announcements this year regarding a price on carbon.
LONDON (Reuters) – People will have to cut meat from their diets if the world is to stay within safer limits of planet-warming greenhouse gases, nitrate pollution and habitat destruction, according to a journal article published on Monday.
BRUSSELS (Reuters) – The European Commission wants European motorbikes to come with advanced braking systems, cleaner engines and daytime headlights from 2013 as part of a phased crackdown on road deaths and pollution.
OSLO (Reuters) – Scientists completed a 10-year census of marine life on Monday after finding thousands of exotic new species in a project that will help assess threats to the oceans ranging from climate change to BP’s oil spill.
BRUSSELS (Reuters) – Europe has yielded to Canadian pressure by delaying possible green trade barriers to Canada’s highly polluting oil sands, but only for one year, a leaked document shows.
KATHMANDU (Reuters) – India’s environment minister said on Monday the country could not have high economic growth and a rapid rise in carbon emissions now that the nation was the number three emitter after China and the United States.
LONDON (Reuters) – Britain is still committed to developing carbon capture and storage (CCS) technology as part of its efforts to reduce carbon emissions, Britain’s energy and climate change minister said on Monday.
TIANJIN, China (Reuters) – The U.N. climate change chief urged governments on Monday to make real steps toward a new treaty to fight global warming or risk throwing negotiations into doubt.
Acting PM Wayne Swan says the voting knife edge in federal parliament means the government has gone back to the carbon drawing board
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (Reuters) – Move over, polar bear.
A senior federal government MP has insisted that a carbon tax is by no means a done deal – a shift that could threaten the alliance between Labor and the Australian Greens.
Minister for Regional Australia Simon Crean insists Australia will not necessarily adopt a carbon tax.
SALMON, Idaho (Reuters) – Across the northern Rocky Mountains, bighorn sheep are dying by the hundreds from pneumonia and alarmed wildlife officials are hunting and killing the majestic animals to halt the spread of the disease.
Up to 26 million hectares of agricultural land could become attractive for forestry under land-use changes promoted by carbon trading, an ABARE study has found.
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (Reuters) – A planned study of possible new wilderness protections for the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge has sparked a furor in Alaska, where energy companies have long dreamed of tapping oil reserves beneath its vast coastal plain home to herds of migrating animals.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Interior Secretary Ken Salazar is reviewing an agency report that may pave the way for the end of the department’s deepwater drilling moratorium.
LONDON (Reuters) – The International Maritime Organization (IMO) failed to reach agreement on proposals to cut carbon emissions from new ships, delegates said on Friday, adding that further talks would be held in March.
BOSTON (Reuters) – Tropical storm Nicole lashed the eastern United States with heavy rain and high winds again on Friday, causing more flooding and leaving one Pennsylvania woman dead in a weather-related traffic accident.
OSLO (Reuters) – Norway favors more international action to slow deforestation in developing nations as the quickest and cheapest way to fight global warming, Prime Minister Jen Stoltenberg said on Friday.