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‘Stagnation’ Made Brazil's Environment Chief Resign (New York Times)

Fri, 16 May 2008 02:09:10 GMT

Marina Silva, the environmental minister who resigned this week, acknowledged that governors in Amazon states were pressing the president to rescind measures intended to check deforestation.

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‘Stagnation’ Made Brazil's Environment Chief Resign (OTB News)

Fri, 16 May 2008 02:51:21 GMT

Marina Silva, the environmental minister who resigned this week, acknowledged that governors in Amazon states were pressing the president to rescind measures intended to check deforestation. Share This

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Green Economics: How Do You Value the Environment? (Environmental Capital)

Thu, 15 May 2008 15:10:35 GMT

Is the environment best servedor served at allby economics? Strange as it sounds, especially when the Republican presidential candidate is offering climate-change stump speeches that appear cribbed from an environmental economics syllabus, that debate is rattling around politics, academia and the blogosphere these days. The gist of the argument boils down to this: Are environmental goodsbe they...

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Major Study: World's Wildlife And Environment Already Hit By Global Warming (Free Internet Press)

Thu, 15 May 2008 07:57:51 GMT

Global warming is disrupting wildlife and the environment on every continent, according to an unprecedented study that reveals the extent to which climate change is already affecting the world's ecosystems. Scientists examined published reports dating back to 1970 and found that at least 90% of environmental damage and disruption around the world could be explained by rising temperatures driven by...

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Where’s the Beef? It Doesn't Matter, It's Bad for the Environment, Says ABC (NewsBusters)

Wed, 14 May 2008 19:07:54 GMT

It's the sort of thing you would see on propaganda passed out by animal rights activists at a global warming rally, but somehow the message has infiltrated the mainstream. ABC's "World News with Charles Gibson" told viewers on May 13 to curb beef consumption to lower greenhouse gas emissions. "You are staring into the face of one thing scientists say you can do to fight climate change," ABC correspondent...

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Environment - Care2 News Network (Www.OSIR.org.in) (www.OSIR.org.in)

Thu, 15 May 2008 08:45:29 GMT

Top Environmental News stories on global warming, wildlife, sustainable development, animals, nature, health, and more!Source: www.care2.com Environmental News | Reuters.comEnvironment. Fire managers predict bad year for blazes 2:37pm EDT. SALMON, Idaho (Reuters) - U.S Source: www.reuters.com Environment Canada - Environment Canada’s Home PageMain page of Environment Canada’s website. Environment Canada...

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Fears for Amazon rainforest as Brazil's environment minister resigns (An Inconvenient Blog)

Thu, 15 May 2008 06:59:03 GMT

Deforestation in the Amazon rainforests of Brazil. Photograph: Stephen Ferry/Getty Fears for the future of the world's largest tropical rainforest grew yesterday, after the sudden resignation of Brazil's environment minister, Marina Silva. Environmentalists saw Silva, a 50-year-old native of the Brazilian Amazon, as a key ally in the fight against the destruction of the country's rainforest, 20% [...]...

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Peru creates environment ministry (IOL)

Wed, 14 May 2008 17:05:50 GMT

President Alan Garcia has created the first environment ministry in Peru.

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Environment - As Senate Considers Climate Bill (All Africa)

Wed, 14 May 2008 13:53:09 GMT

The Committee on Environment and Ecology of the Senate will tomorrow open a debate on a bill for an act to establish a National Climate Commission; in a public hearing scheduled to hold at the National Assembly.

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McCain talks environment in state stop (Seattle Post-Intelligencer)

Wed, 14 May 2008 04:36:00 GMT

Nuclear power should be part of the nation's strategy to reduce global warming, Republican presidential candidate John McCain said Tuesday during a campaign trip to Washington state that emphasized environmental issues.

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He Shoots, He Misses (Queer Conservative)

noreply@blogger.com (Kevin) — Fri, 16 May 2008 01:54:00 GMT

Apparently McCain's vision speech is going over like a lead balloon. Couple that with his slap in the face to the North Carolina GOP, and his imitation of Al Gore on global warming and you've got anything but a calm and unified conservative base: There's me (of course) who finds it uninspiring unless you're a Obama supporter: Get it? Senator F. U. doesn't care about you. Never has. The GOP was a means...

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AFVI 2008: Meeting the ZeroTruck face-to-face (AutoblogGreen)

Fri, 16 May 2008 01:09:24 GMT

Filed under: EV/Plug-in , AutoblogGreen Exclusive , AFVI Expo click to enlarge We first heard about the ZeroTruck , a Class 4 delivery truck powered by nothing but good old electrons, towards the end of April. Electrorides, Inc. brought the prototype ZeroTruck to the AFVI Expo in Las Vegas this week, trying to get fleet operators to sign up for an upcoming national tour the truck will make later this...

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GM Launches two new turbocharged engines (AutoblogGreen)

Fri, 16 May 2008 00:03:23 GMT

Filed under: MPG , GM , Natural Gas At a Powertrain technology event in Europe, General Motors has announced a pair of new small displacement turbocharged engines. The 1.4L turbo is gasoline fueled and will be used globally in cars like the Opel/Saturn Astra starting in 2010. Depending on the application, the engines will generate 120-140hp and use eight percent less fuel than a comparable output...

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Toyota has sold 100,000 Prius hybrids in Europe (AutoblogGreen)

Fri, 16 May 2008 00:03:21 GMT

Filed under: Hybrid , Toyota , European Union , UK Click above for a high-resolution gallery of the 2007 Toyota Prius Touring. Of the one million Prius hybrids that Toyota has sold since its introduction in 1997, one-hundred-thousand of them have been registered in Europe . Toyota introduced the second-generation Prius in Europe and North America in the year 2000. While a hundred thousand units is...

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New Zealand Prime Minister goes for a ride in an i MiEV, falls in love (AutoblogGreen)

Thu, 15 May 2008 22:58:44 GMT

Filed under: EV/Plug-in , Pacific Region , Japan There's nothing like a real-life introduction to get the love sparks flying. Helen Clark, Prime Minister of New Zealand happened to be in Japan the other day when she was invited to take a ride in the all-electric i MiEV from Mitsubishi. She found the ride through the Tokyo streets "smooth" and thought it was the perfect automotive solution for her...

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For those with a death wish: pulse jet powered bicycle (AutoblogGreen)

Thu, 15 May 2008 22:58:43 GMT

Filed under: Etc. , On Two Wheels There's a crazy underground community which focuses on the pulse jet, which history buffs may remember as the powerplant of the German Buzzbombs of World War II. As you could probably guess, the buzz name comes from the sound that the engine makes. As you can see in the video seen here , the buzzing bomb jet engine attached to a retro-style bicycle frame is capable...

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Subsidize my love (Gristmill)

Thu, 15 May 2008 22:34:23 GMT

By Kate Sheppard John McCain hosted a call-in with bloggers today following his address in Columbus, Ohio, in which he outlined his priorities for a first term in office. Grist got in a couple of questions: You mentioned climate and energy in your speech today, that they would be among your top priorities, and that has also been the focus of several speeches this week. You say in general that you're...

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Cereal Killer: Climate Change Could Result in “Killer Cornflakes” (Truemors)

Thu, 15 May 2008 21:21:03 GMT

Attendees at the World Congress on Environmental Health received some scary news about breakfast recently when Australian researchers revealed that global warming could create an outbreak of “killer cornflakes.” A fungus that thrives in hot and damp environments and can cause liver failure and death when consumed in large quantities has begun attacking cereals like [...]

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Warning! Obesity can lead to heavy weather (IOL)

Fri, 16 May 2008 05:40:08 GMT

Obesity contributes to global warming, says a team at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine.

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Scrapheap Challenge motorcycles pit electricity against gasoline (AutoblogGreen)

Thu, 15 May 2008 21:53:04 GMT

Filed under: EV/Plug-in , On Two Wheels , UK We love the British show Scrapheap Challenge . Reruns of the old Junkyard Wars episodes sometimes appear on satellite TV, and we've seen all of them. The show still runs in the U.K., and the latest episode featured junkyard-derived motorcycles, which the show charitably describes as superbikes. One rule in particular made the challenge rather difficult:...

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