SINGAPORE (Reuters) – Scientists studying tree rings to reconstruct the past have found that major volcanic eruptions can boost rains in Southeast Asia, challenging a common perception of volcanoes as purely destructive forces.
The well-defined track is still marshy in places from earlier rain, even though the day is sunny and fine. Cows lift their heads from grazing and watch unblinking as we pass – the only sounds are the squelching of our footsteps and the thin tseep-tseep of meadow pipits from the fenceline. A short walk brings [...]
A dramatic manifestation of climate change is the reduction of ice cover in the Arctic. The extent of the ice has always varied with the seasons and from year to year, creating a challenge for cartographers. Early navigators speculated about the existence of the Northwest Passage, a permanently ice-free route around the North American coast [...]
Libya: The Stolen Children | Unreported World | David Attenborough’s First Life | The Event | Natalie Cassidy: Becoming Mum | The Walking DeadLibya: The Stolen Children7pm, Sky NewsAny programme about bitter custody battles is going to make for uncomfortable viewing but this one is particularly harrowing. Tracey, Anita and Lisa are British women whose [...]
Sir David Attenborough has shaped television, and led the world on an intellectual voyage of discoveryIt is a great thing to have shaped a medium, and it is a great thing to have led the world on an intellectual voyage of discovery. Sir David Attenborough has done both. Tonight, only mildly inconvenienced by age (85 [...]
DENVER, Nov. 4, 2010 /PRNewswire/ — Affordable and Reliable Energy Colorado (AREC) remains concerned about the continued bias shown by certain members of the Colorado Public Utilities Commission (PUC) regarding Xcel’s efforts to implement key provisio…
NEW YORK (Reuters) – As Dow Chemical prepares to launch its solar shingle in 2011, Wall Street is hopeful the product will push the largest U.S. chemical maker into an entirely new, lucrative market.
VANCOUVER, Nov. 4 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ – Westport Innovations Inc. (TSX:WPT / NASDAQ:WPRT) announced today that it is offering to sell, subject to market and other conditions, 5,500,000 of its common shares in the United States and Canada pursuant to…
JAKARTA/SINGAPORE (Reuters) – When U.S. President Barack Obama flies over the vast Indonesian archipelago next week, he will see first hand the size of two of the nation’s greatest and most threatened resources: its forests and seas.
LONDON (Reuters) – A widely agreed international target to avoid dangerous global warming must take account of local impacts and may need to change, said the chief scientist at the MetOffice Hadley Center, Britain’s biggest climate research center.
OTTAWA (Reuters) – Canadian Environment Minister Jim Prentice confirmed on Thursday that he will leave that post and politics to take a senior position at Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A U.S. judge on Thursday asked the Obama administration to clarify whether polar bears are endangered, a listing that ultimately could be used to force polluters to reduce emissions of greenhouse gases.
The Institute of Economic Affairs has attacked the fair trade movement, denouncing it as ‘froth’. But what’s so wrong about tackling global trade inequities from the bottom up?Free market thinktanks usually launch their ideological attacks on “fair trade” in the early spring. That’s when the growing social movement, which tries to apply a little common [...]
CROIX-DES-BOUQUETS, Haiti (Reuters) – Angry earthquake survivors in Haiti disrupted an attempted evacuation on Thursday of a resettlement camp as Tropical Storm Tomas bore down on the poor Caribbean country already reeling from a cholera epidemic and d…
ST. LOUIS (Reuters) – Monsanto Co could start field testing genetically modified wheat within one to two years, but remains cautious about future commercialization, according to one of the company’s…