Climate news from the last 30 days is listed below.
16.05.2012
Nunatsiaq News
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Arctic climate change can affect food security, suggests a new study that looked at how unseasonably warm weather during the winter of 2010-2011 affected country food supplies in Iqaluit.
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BBC
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Scientists are beginning a month-long experiment in Scottish waters to study the impact of a possible leak from an undersea carbon dioxide storage site.
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15.05.2012
Science Fair
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Hundreds of species of mammals in the Western Hemisphere may not be able to migrate with the projected speed of climate change, according to a new study released Monday.
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IPS
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The new WWF Living Planet Report warns of a significant decline in biodiversity, particularly in low-income countries, and a huge increase in the ecological footprint of high-income countries.
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14.05.2012
The Guardian
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Ultra-conservative climate sceptic thinktank continues to lose mainstream support, damaging its prospects of expansion.
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Science Daily
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If the world's nations ever sign a treaty to limit emissions of climate-warming carbon dioxide gas, there may be a way to help verify compliance: a new method developed by scientists from the University of Utah and Harvard.
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Economic Times
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COPENHAGEN: Leading economists have ranked how to best and most cost-effectively invest to solve many of the world's seemingly insurmountable problems, a Danish think-tank said today, calling for a shift in global priorities.
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13.05.2012
Climate Central
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They seldom meet on the cricket or football fields, but the world's small island developing states are informally competing with each other to be the first to ditch fossil fuels and embrace clean energy.
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11.05.2012
The energy collective
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Nissan recently sent out a release to the automotive press touting the fact that the company had sold 1,000 Nissan Leafs in Norway in just six months. The company went on to claim that the Leaf became the second-best selling Nissan in Norway and the ninth-best selling passenger car overall in February, claiming almost 2 percent of the total car market in February.
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The Guardian
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CCS has been hobbled by the economic crisis, and Europe is far behind the US – but a new Norwegian plant provides hope
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The Guardian
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They seldom meet on the cricket or football fields, but the world's small island developing states are informally competing with each other to be the first to ditch fossil fuels and embrace clean energy.
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Planet Ark
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Scientists from 15 countries are calling for a better political response to the provision of water and energy to meet the challenge of feeding a world of 9 billion people within 30 years.
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Planet Ark
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From record floods to crippling droughts and wildfires, a natural swing in Pacific Ocean temperatures can trigger climate chaos around the globe.
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10.05.2012
Bloomberg
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Conergy AG is on the verge of selling a 30 percent stake to a Chinese solar company, the Financial Times Deutschland reported in a preview of an article.
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e24.no
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The government has not done its job, says the Conservative's environmental policy spokesman, Nicolai Astrup.
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09.05.2012
Recharge
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Natural gas is viewed with suspicion bordering on hostility by the renewables industry. But in Europe, the natural-gas business has embarked on a charm offensive to soften that sentiment. Its message is clear: you need us to get to the next level of maturity.
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JyllandsPosten
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The European Commission is now considering a proposal that can actually close the biodiesel industry in Europe.
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Offshore.no
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The growth in investment in carbon capture projects to a halt, according to World Watch Institute.
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Gjengangeren
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- You can't go on a diet to save the world, said Nobel laureate Ivar Giaever for science students in Horten.
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08.05.2012
PlanetArk
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EU nations have yet to come up with a plan on how to fill a multi-billion euro fund to help tackle climate change.
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Klima- og forurensningsdirektoratet
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Norwegian emissions of greenhouse gases was 52.7 million tonnes of CO2 equivalents in 2011, i.e. 2.3 percent less than the year before.
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Aftenposten/NTB
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The liberals wants to close down the Ministry of Environment and replace it with a new super-ministry for climate and energy.
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USA Today
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From gas-mileage standards to tax breaks for windmills, public support for "green" energy measures to tackle global warming has dropped significantly in the past two years, particularly among Republicans, a new poll suggests.
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07.05.2012
Teknisk Ukeblad
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Statnett CEO Auke Lont fears that the market is about to unfold its role.
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Energi og Klima
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At first glance, it may seem that Sarkozy and Hollande have much the same views on energy policy and nuclear matters, but if we study the details, we find important differences, writes Terje Osmundsen.
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Calgary herald
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The densest waters of Antarctica have reduced dramatically over recent decades, in part because of man-made effects on the climate, Australian scientists said Friday.
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NPR
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A new study has some reassuring news about how fast Greenland's glaciers are melting away.
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04.05.2012
opb News
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From the outside, the white clapboard structure at Columbia University’s Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, across the Hudson River and 10 miles north of Columbia’s main campus in Manhattan, looks like it could be a suburban dentist’s office. It’s a modest, two-story, barnlike structure with a white metal awning over the entrance. Only a small, homemade sign beside the door, with the words “Tree Ring Lab” hand-painted on an inch-thick slice of tree trunk, betrays the building’s true purpose.
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Climate Desk
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Apple’s iCloud is at the vanguard of personal computing. But is it too reliant on dirty energy?
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03.05.2012
Voice of America
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One of the world’s most complex experiments on the impact of rising levels of carbon dioxide is taking shape in eastern Australia, where giant steel frames nine stories high have been built on native woodland. The project near Sydney will mimic future climatic conditions by simulating higher atmospheric concentrations of carbon dioxide.
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The Guardian
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You loved the iPhone app, built by Taptu and powered by Guardian content, so now an Android version is launched for easy access to the latest green news and comment on the move
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Reuters
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(Reuters) - Plants are flowering faster than scientists predicted in response to climate change, research in the United States showed on Wednesday, which could have devastating knock-on effects for food chains and ecosystems.
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02.05.2012
Ingeniøren
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Dong, Denmark's largest energy company has its way: Receives money to roll out smart electricity meters.
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Teknisk Ukeblad
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You must pay, while the oil companies get away. Conservatives fear that this weakens the renewable initiative's legitimacy.
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United Press International
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To slow climate change the world will either have to put the brakes on economic growth or change the way the world's economies work, U.S. scientists say.
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VG
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Let me put it this way: Per Willy Amundsen should not lead the Norwegian climate policy, said Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg in his Labour Day speech.
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Reuters/Planet Ark
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Polar bears are capable of swimming vast distances, a potential survival skill needed in an Arctic environment where summer sea ice is vanishing, a study led by the U.S. Geological Survey showed on Tuesday.
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IPS
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Just before the 1992 Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro, some of the industrial nations, and specifically the United States, were lambasted for their obscenely high consumption of the world's finite resources, including food, water and energy.
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UPI
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A 10-year research plan outlined by the White House will focus on how human economic activity influences climate change, the administration said.
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01.05.2012
UPI
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To slow climate change the world will either have to put the brakes on economic growth or change the way the world's economies work, U.S. scientists say.
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30.04.2012
Forbes
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Shifting the world’s reliance on fossil fuels to renewable energy sources is important, certainly. But the world’s best chance for achieving timely, disaster-averting climate change may actually be eating less meat, according to a recent report in World Watch Magazine.
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The Independent
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April might have been a washout but the drought actually got worse
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27.04.2012
ABC Science
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The greenhouse effect is accelerating the global water cycle almost twice the rate predicted by climate change models, say researchers.
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26.04.2012
Washington Post (opinions)
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In an interview that Rolling Stone published Wednesday, President Obama said that he thinks climate change will be a big issue in the coming election and that he will be "very clear" about his "belief that we’re going to have to take further steps to deal with climate change in a serious way."
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BBC News
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Over-consumption in rich countries and rapid population growth in the poorest both need to be tackled to put society on a sustainable path, a report says.
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25.04.2012
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Ministers attending clean energy summit in London to be gravely warned about continuing global addiction to fossil fuels
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24.04.2012
MSNBC
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Lovelock, 92, is writing a new book in which he will say climate change is still happening, but not as quickly as he once feared.
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21.04.2012
Los Angeles Times
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After Germany last year committed to closing its nuclear reactors, it's relying more on coal and importing power from neighbors that use nuclear energy.
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The Guardian
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Consumers set to pay the price as electricity companies are forced to import more gas, damaging prospects for green jobs
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Mercury News
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In a visit to Silicon Valley earlier this month, U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein issued a timely warning about the potentially catastrophic effects of sea-level rise throughout the Bay Area and the need to act now to control the damage. She knows that water issues are likely to dominate California politics for the next decade.
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20.04.2012
BBC News
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Scientists say the notoriously dry continent of Africa is sitting on a vast reservoir of groundwater.
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Morgenbladet
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If national politicians take into account the climatic effects of increased housing construction, it becomes obvious that they must engage more actively in the planning of new neighborhoods, Aslak Bonde writes in a comment.
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The Guardian
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This week ministers from across Europe met to tackle a threat to our shared prosperity: the crashing price of carbon. It is crucial that Europe implements a 30 percent cut in carbon by 2020, they conclude.
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The Independent
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Endangered predator may be particularly vulnerable to rapid climate change in Arctic, experts fear.
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Nettavisen
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The fresh advisors to the new SV-ministers are former sharp critics of the government.
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19.04.2012
Energi og Klima
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We economists should listen attentively if politicians use the word leadership in the white paper on climate, writes Gunnar Eskeland.
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Ingeniøren
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Insurance companies now raise a climate alarm and require a plan of action after the heavy torrential rains in Denmark last summer.
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Teknisk Ukeblad
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Focus on technological solutions can curb climate change.
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Forskning.no
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Sea level changes will vary from place to place. A global forecast is therefore not representative of the Norwegian areas, researchers from the Norwegian Mapping Authority comments.
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Rogalands Avis
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EU's climate policy is unclear and inadequate but still receives far better credentials of Norwegian environmental organizations than Norway does. How exactly is the situation? Odd Handegård asks.
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Energy Live News
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The US has reclaimed its leading spot in a clean energy investment table from rival China.
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18.04.2012
Namdalsavisa
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A typical power client has saved several thousand NOK on the wet and warm autumn and winter. Some people have «earned» NOK 5,000 since last year.
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VG
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The North is more valuable than ever, NATO is weakened, and Russia is on the warpath. This is the situation in 2030 in the Norwegian-developed strategy game, «Naval War: Arctic Circle».
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NRK
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Several of the Labour Party's parliamentary politicians demand that the government intervenes and forces Statoil to withdraw from its controversial oil sand project in Canada.
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Teknisk Ukeblad
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After the financial crisis, energy prices have been so low that the power produced by Norwegian gas has become unprofitable in Europe.
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BusinessGreen
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McKinsey report predicts $1 per watt solar technologies will be widely available by 2020.
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17.04.2012
Pakistan Observer
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Islamabad: At a time when glacier melting is a burning issue in Pakistan, concerned experts met here on Monday to highlight the emerging climate-change challenges and to reduce threats of floods in Northern Pakistan. To mitigate the risks caused by sudden discharge of a huge volume of water from glacial lakes, a first of its kind project titled. Reducing Risks and Vulnerabilities from Glacier Lake Outburst Floods” in Northern Pakistan (GLOF Project) was launched
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Live Science
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As the Arctic warms, meltwater lakes on the Greenland ice sheet are draining to sea more frequently — potentially lubricating the slide of the ice sheet into the ocean.
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16.04.2012
Forskning.no
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Researchers provoke steam explosions to break down the bacteria easier, as a method to extract as much biogas from different raw materials as possible.
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