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Praxair to sell gases to Chinese solar cell maker

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 18:03:40 GMT

AP - Praxair Inc.'s Chinese unit has signed a multiyear agreement to sell gases that MAGI Solar Energy Technology Co. will use to make solar cells and modules, Praxair announced Monday.

Three Mile Island radiation caused by pipe cutting

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 16:49:04 GMT

AP - Officials are trying to determine how workers cutting a pipe stirred up radioactive dust at the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant.

Feds, Pa. county sue company over slag dumping

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 15:52:02 GMT

AP - The federal government and the Allegheny County Health Department have sued Allegheny Ludlum Corp. and a contractor for alleged air pollution violations at a slag dump near Pittsburgh.

UN climate chief expects 'specific' climate deal

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 14:46:14 GMT

AFP - The UN's top climate negotiator voiced optimism Monday that a deal can be salvaged next month at world talks on global warming, but said US President Barack Obama must offer a target and financing.

Scientist: Leak of climate e-mails appalling

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 14:38:41 GMT

AP - A leading climate change scientist whose private e-mails are included in thousands of documents that were stolen by hackers and posted online said Sunday the leaks may have been aimed at undermining next month's global climate summit in Denmark.

Sting warns of hydroelectric project in Amazon

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 13:11:36 GMT

AP - British pop star Sting says Brazil's government should listen to the voices of local indigenous groups before building a massive hydroelectric dam in the Amazon rain forest.

Radiation leak investigated at Three Mile Island

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 13:09:04 GMT

Reuters - Federal officials are investigating a radiation leak at Three Mile Island, scene of the worst U.S. nuclear power accident, but said on Sunday there was no threat to public health or safety.

Melting icecaps to damage major port cities: WWF

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 06:56:34 GMT

AFP - Flooding in the world's major port cities caused by melting icecaps could cause up to 28 trillion dollars (18 trillion euros) in damage in 2050, environmental group WWF said in a report Monday.

Warming's impacts sped up, worsened since Kyoto

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 05:00:46 GMT

AP - Since the 1997 international accord to fight global warming, climate change has worsened and accelerated — beyond some of the grimmest of warnings made back then.

Brown warns leaders on climate change

Sun, 22 Nov 2009 20:28:59 GMT

AFP - Prime Minister Gordon Brown warned fellow world leaders on Sunday that they "cannot afford to fail" to strike a substantial deal on climate change in Copenhagen next month.

Antarctic ice loss vaster, faster than thought: study

Sun, 22 Nov 2009 18:33:37 GMT

AFP - The East Antarctic icesheet, once seen as largely unaffected by global warming, has lost billions of tonnes of ice since 2006 and could boost sea levels in the future, according to a new study.

Denmark says 65 leaders enrolled for climate talks

Sun, 22 Nov 2009 15:38:44 GMT

Reuters - Sixty-five world leaders have confirmed they will attend next month's U.N. climate conference in Copenhagen which Danish officials hope will bring strong political commitment for a new treaty to combat global warming.

China harnesses mountain wind power

Sun, 22 Nov 2009 07:25:13 GMT

AFP - In the mountains above the southwestern Chinese town of Dali, dozens of new wind turbines dot the landscape -- a symbol of the country's sky-high ambitions for clean, green energy.

EPA: Uranium from polluted mine in Nev. wells

Sat, 21 Nov 2009 23:31:10 GMT

AP - Peggy Pauly lives in a robin-egg blue, two-story house not far from acres of onion fields that make the northern Nevada air smell sweet at harvest time.

Central America demands billions in climate damages

Sat, 21 Nov 2009 19:41:30 GMT

AFP - Central American nations will demand 105 billion dollars from industrialized countries for damages caused by global warming, the region's representatives said on Friday.

Hackers leak e-mails, stoke climate debate

Sat, 21 Nov 2009 19:34:51 GMT

AP - Computer hackers have broken into a server at a well-respected climate change research center in Britain and posted hundreds of private e-mails and documents online — stoking debate over whether some scientists have overstated the case for man-made climate change.

Greenpeace rallies to stop deforestation in Indonesia

Sat, 21 Nov 2009 19:29:40 GMT

AFP - Hundreds of Greenpeace activists rallied Saturday in support of a commitment by Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono to reduce greenhouse gas emissions caused by deforestation.

Tree-eating bugs threaten Monarch butterfly in Mexico

Sat, 21 Nov 2009 16:47:17 GMT

AFP - The mysterious Monarch butterfly, which migrates en masse annually between Canada and Mexico, is now facing a new peril: another insect thriving in Western Mexican forests.

Trafigura waste victims waiting for compensation

Sat, 21 Nov 2009 16:35:00 GMT

AFP - Thousands of victims of toxic waste dumped in Ivory Coast are still waiting for compensation two months after a settlement was agreed because of a dispute over who should distribute the money.