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HATTERAS ISLAND, North Carolina (Reuters) – Hurricane Earl began to strafe North Carolina’s barrier islands with dangerous surf and winds on Thursday as it spun parallel to the U.S. East Coast on a northward trek toward New England and Canada.
GENEVA (Reuters) – About 45 nations met on Thursday to seek ways to raise billions of dollars in aid to help the poor combat climate change as the United Nations warned them of a long haul to slow global warming.
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Tropical Storm Gaston, the seventh named storm of this Atlantic hurricane season, on Thursday was churning west in the central Atlantic on a path that could take it into the Caribbean Sea.
HONG KONG (Reuters) – With the climate set to get warmer from greenhouse gases, Chinese scientists predicted on Thursday that freshwater for agriculture will shrink further in China, reducing crop yields in the years ahead.
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – Hurricane Frank powered along Mexico’s Pacific on Thursday and could turn into the Baja California peninsula as a storm but is expected to weaken quickly, the U.S. National Hurricane Center said.
CER prices soared to hit a four-month high on Thursday on news that European companies could be banned from using carbon credits from controversial offset projects, according to ICIS Heren data.
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Tropical Storm Earl in the eastern Atlantic Ocean strengthened slightly early Thursday as it moved west-northwest toward the northern Leeward Islands, the U.S. National Hurricane Center said in its latest advisory.
CANBERRA (Reuters) – The government of an Australian territory said on Thursday it will enact tough carbon cutting laws, a step that comes after a national election that punished the ruling Labor party over lack of action on climate change.
HOUSTON (Reuters) – BP Plc aims to retrieve a failed blowout preventer atop its ruptured Macondo well in the Gulf of Mexico on Thursday, the top U.S.
STAVANGER, Norway (Reuters) – Norway’s oil safety watchdog said on Thursday it was seeking improvements from the petroleum industry to prevent offshore blowouts and leaks in the wake of BP’s damaging U.S. oil spill.
SINGAPORE (Reuters) – Nations face an uphill battle to reach agreement on a tougher climate pact by the end of 2011, a senior Indonesian climate change official said on Thursday, describing progress to date as bleak.
Tom Young, BusinessGreen , Thursday 19 August 2010 at 09:49:00 Minister says that recently introduced trading scheme is working Farmers in New Zealand have started planting forests on land previously used to graze livestock in response to the nation’s new emissions trading scheme, according to a minister. In a speech given to the Australia-New Zealand Climate Change And Business Conference …
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on Thursday proposed new rules to ensure factories and power plants will be able to obtain permits they will need to emit greenhouse gases starting next year
Asian markets ended the trading session Thursday in negative territory, following sharp sell-off in Wall Street in the previous session, on concerns about slowdown in global economic recovery. The unexpected rise in unemployment rate in Australia to 5.3% in July and the decision of Bank of Korea to keep interest rates unchanged at 2.25% also impacted market sentiment. Traders preferred to stay …
TAGANROG, Russia (Reuters) – President Dmitry Medvedev on Thursday canceled a state of emergency in three out of seven Russian regions affected by forest fires.
James Murray, BusinessGreen , Thursday 12 August 2010 at 11:03:00 Downbeat economic data drives price of carbon below €14.30 The flurry of weak economic data released yesterday affected the EU carbon market this morning as the price of EU Allowance (EUA) futures for December delivery slipped towards €14.35 (£11.79) a tonne. EUA futures on the European Climate Exchange (ECX) were €14.36 in early …
HOUSTON (Reuters) – BP finished pumping cement into its ruptured oil well in the Gulf of Mexico on Thursday to seal off the source of the world’s worst offshore spill, paving the way to permanently plug the blow-out later this month.
SALMON, Idaho (Reuters) – A U.S. judge in Montana on Thursday ordered federal protection under the Endangered Species Act restored to the entire gray wolf population of the Northern Rocky Mountains
MIAMI (Reuters) – U.S. government scientists on Thursday reduced their forecast for the 2010 Atlantic-Caribbean hurricane season, but said they were still predicting a very active year of eight to 12 hurricanes
MOSCOW (Reuters) – A forest fire destroyed at least 13 hangars containing aircraft and equipment at a navy base outside Moscow last Thursday, Russia’s Prosecutor General’s office disclosed on Tuesday.