Human Activities Increasing Carbon Sequestration In Forests

Human-caused nitrogen deposition has been indirectly “fertilizing” forests, increasing their growth and sequestering major amounts of carbon, a new study in the journal Nature suggests. The findings create a more complex view of the carbon cycle in forests, where it was already known that logging or other stand-replacement events – whether natural or not – […]

The Government Attacks Biodiesel And Its Users!

There have been a few different stories in the news recently showing how the government is giving biodiesel and its users a very hard time, from actually banning it all together in one state to giving out $2000 in fines to biodiesel users. neutralexistence

The Impact of Climate Change Measured as a Percent of GDP

Drag the slider to change decades. Point to a country to see its projected percent change in GDP. Click a country to zoom in. Click on water to zoom out. yale

Power firms

A TOP academic has accused energy companies of profiteering, saying they have hiked prices by over 25% more than can be justified by increases in the wholesale market. In a report commissioned by Which?, the consumer watchdog, Philip Wright, professor of energy policy and economics at the University of Sheffield, says that competition in the […]

Qatar plans to invest $20bn in oil and LNG projects abroad

QATAR PETROLEUM (QP) will invest or is negotiating investments abroad worth $20bn, including a $7bn oil refinery in Panama with Occidental Petroleum, Qatar gulf-times

New Seismic Technology Improves Pre-Drill Diagnostics for Deep Oil and Gas Reser

New technology developed through a cost-shared project managed by the Office of Fossil Energy’s National Energy Technology Laboratory is improving industry’s ability to identify commercially viable deep oil and gas targets prior to drilling. Applications of this groundbreaking technology will help to accelerate future development of deep oil and gas resources in the United States. […]

Oil dependence spells economic disaster for Ireland, Lee warns

Ireland is on course for an economic recession in the coming years if we do not reduce our dependence on oil, according to warnings from a new RTE television programme. The programme, Future Shock: End Of The Oil Age, explores the challenges that Ireland faces when global oil reserves have been depleted. The central message […]

Saudi Aramco to join $5b projects in China

Officials at Saudi Aramco said that two joint ventures, with a total investment of about $5 billion, the first fully integrated refining, petrochemicals and fuels marketing project with foreign participation in China, are to come on stream by early 2009. The Fujian refining and ethylene joint venture project, located in Quanzhou, will expand the existing […]

The Middle East

The region between Egypt and Pakistan is a cauldron of five discrete, explosive components: Iraq jordantimes

Call for Spain to switch fully to renewables

Some 4,000 environmental campaigners gathered in Barcelona on Saturday to press the government to commit Spain to switch fully to renewable energy sources by 2050, Greenpeace said. Greenpeace in February began a campaign to urge Spain to boost use of renewables, although the country is already a European leader in the field. yahoo

Three Eras of Urbanism

Major, starting with rail in the 1840’s, accelerating around 1880 with vertical integration of firms. yale

U.S. subsidy for ethanol could shift

The change is designed to encourage production of fuel from crop residue. The subsidy for fuel ethanol could be trimmed to help pay for new incentives to promote the next generation of biofuels. The Senate Finance Committee is proposing to reduce the 51-cent-per-gallon tax credit for ethanol by a nickel. The reduction would likely kick […]

Ten Forces of Development that Centralize or Disperse Urban Development

FIELDS OF ACTIVITY | TRANSPORT
TECHNOLOGIES | HOUSING

PUBLIC SPACE | ENERGY TECHNOLOGIES | COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGIES

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Nuclear doesn’t have power to halt global warming

WASHINGTON: Nuclear power would only curb climate change by expanding worldwide at the rate it grew from 1981 to 1990, its busiest decade, and keep up that rate for half a century, a report said this week. That would require adding on average 14 plants each year for the next 50 years, all the while […]

Australia: Car lobby calls for road-use charging

ALL motorists should carry a GPS-type transponder in their vehicles and, instead of paying fuel taxes, they should pay for every kilometre they drive, in varying amounts depending on what time they use the road. This is the ambitious plan of the Royal Automobile Club, which is pushing the Federal Government and the Labor Party […]

Shell shelves oil-shale application to refine its research

The front-runner energy company in the effort to unlock oil shale in northwest Colorado has slowed down its research by withdrawing an application for a state mining permit. Shell spokeswoman Jill Davis said the withdrawal of a permit on one of its three oil-shale research and demonstration leases was done for economic reasons: Costs for […]

League of Conservation Global Warming Video Contest

The next president of the United States will have to lead the country in solving the climate crisis. What would you say to convince them? This is your chance to take make your case to the nation’s next president. Send us a 30 second video with your best message to compel the next president to […]

Betting On Oil? Pay Close Attention To The Facts

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Nigeria Militant Group Coalition Says it Will End Oil Attacks

A coalition of militia groups in the Niger Delta Friday said it was ending attacks it has waged on the oil industry, following the release Thursday of its detained leader, Mujahideen Dokubo-Asari. “We…wish to announce a complete cessation of hostilities against the Nigerian state and her perceived collaborators. We will work in line with the […]

Pump prices could plummet by July

Disputed legislation now on Hawai Senate Bill 990 would provide $1.2 million for the

Industry siphons roadwork funding

…Alabama And in a year of high gas prices, motorists are driving less and choosing smaller vehicles for better mileage, which shrinks the gasoline tax fund. Since the gasoline tax

Valero seeking bonds to expand refinery

Valero Energy Corp. is taking another step toward expanding its Norco refinery by seeking approval of $1 billion in Gulf Opportunity Zone bonds from the St. Charles Parish Council. Company officials stressed that they have not committed to the project to expand the refinery’s capacity from 220,000 barrels of crude per day to 380,000 barrels, […]

Doubt over climate change forecasts

TORSHAVN, Faeroe Islands – From the deck of a research ship moored in these gusty north Atlantic islands, workers are offloading three bright orange buoys whose sonar devices will help Bogi Hansen fill more gaps in an intriguing twist on climate change forecasts. For the past year, the Faeroese scientist’s sonar has been pinging the […]

Exxon Says it Never Doubted Climate Change Threat

LONDON – Oil company Exxon Mobil Corp. never in the past decade doubted the risk from climate change, its global spokesman Kenneth Cohen said on Thursday, in a latest attempt to improve its green credentials. Exxon had simply firmed up, or “evolved”, its understanding of the threat, said Cohen, the company’s head of public affairs.The […]

Global Grain Production Falls Behind Demand

Lowest Food Supplies in 50 or 100 Years: Global Food Crisis Emerging SASKATOON, Sask.-Today, the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) released its first projections of world grain supply and demand for the coming crop year: 2007/08. USDA predicts supplies will plunge to a 53-day equivalent-their lowest level in the 47-year period for which data […]

The inconvenient truth about the carbon offset industry

It is 20 months now since British Airways proudly announced a new scheme to deal with climate change: for the first time, passengers could offset their share of the carbon produced by any flight by paying for the same amount of carbon to be taken out of the atmosphere elsewhere. “I welcome warmly this move […]

Global pro-poor biofuel revolution now possible

The pioneering project to produce ethanol from sweet sorghum , being implemented jointly by the International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT) and Rusni Distilleries, has achieved a significant milestone with the first batch of ethanol flowing out of the distillery at Mohammed Shapur village in Andhra Pradesh, India. The ethanol produced at […]

China wants food first, not fuel

Disturbingly, this is the second time in seven months that the Chinese leadership has had to resort to the country’s strategic reserves to stave off politically dangerous increases in food prices. In December, Beijing ordered the auctioning of some of the state wheat reserves to halt the rise in crops prices and prevent panic among […]

Biofuel Condemns the Poor to Starvation Says UN Rapporteur

“The development of biofuels poses a great danger for the right to food,” said the UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food Jean Ziegler at a press conference on the sidelines of the UN Council on Human Rights. Ziegler accused the United States, the European Union and Japan of encouraging alcohol production to reduce […]

Green energy – Why small can be beautiful

Localised power generation, including companies’ own projects, could be the future of environmental energy production Cynics might say that switching to green power is merely a way of outsourcing the problem of curbing corporate carbon dioxide emissions, but for carbon-conscious companies, green energy can be a quick fix.Nationwide Building Society, for example, switched to green […]

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