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Miami Herald - 8 minutes ago
Should Florida's electric companies be required to reward customers who install energy-efficient light bulbs, buy energy-saving appliances, replace inefficient windows or make other investments that save electricity?
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Bloomberg - 11 minutes ago
Nov. 10 (Bloomberg) -- Chancellor of the Exchequer Alistair Darling said banks will offer up to 1.4 billion pounds ($2.3 billion) in loans to spur development of wind farms that generate electric power.
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The Vail Trail - 13 minutes ago
Vail Daily letter: Warming's just a media hoax Tavius Sims Vail, CO, Colorado newsroom@vaildaily.com OK, Dennis Jones, let me put it to you in simple terms. I'm not a scientist, either, and I didn't even read Butch Mazzuca's column. All I had to do was to read yours and instantly disagree with you. It's easy to regurgitate what the media spits out of the television ...
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New York Times - 31 minutes ago
The International Energy Agency said energy costs would quickly escalate unless an agreement to limit greenhouse gas emissions is adopted.
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Summit Daily News - 45 minutes ago
Baxter Pharr: Facts support human-caused climate change Baxter Pharr Silverthorne In response to Dr. Hertzberg's editorial: "The greatest scientific hoax of this century," Dr. Hertzberg claims Al Gore, the IPCC, and Jim Hansen are trying to perpetrate a hoax on the rest of us by convincing us that global warming is a reality. Al Gore and the IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change ...
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Lifehacker - 55 minutes ago
Delayed flights and hold-overs won't tempt you with $10-a-day Wi-Fi this holiday season. That's because Google has bought out web service at 47 airports through Jan. 15, 2010, and offers it free,...
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Reuters via Yahoo! News - 57 minutes ago
The pickers working their way along the hillside, clipping bunches of small, dark purple grapes from the rows of vines and dropping them into plastic buckets are harbingers of a warmer planet.
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The Pakistan Link - 1 hour 0 minutes ago
NEW DELHI: A study released by the Indian Ministry of Envireonment and Forests said on Monday the Himalayan glaciers were not shrinking at the rate that scientists led the world to believe and that global warming was not the cause of the melting of any glacier in the mountain range.
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Sun-Sentinel - 1 hour 2 minutes ago
BERLIN (AP) — Next month's climate summit in Copenhagen must produce a substantial agreement, and failure would set back by years efforts to fight global warming, German Chancellor Angela Merkel said Tuesday.
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Gizmodo - 2 hours 3 minutes ago
Holiday season air travel just got a little less crappy—freebie access starts today, and runs through to January 15. Read on for the full list of airports, and info on free Wi-Fi promos from...
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Geek.com - 2 hours 8 minutes ago
Google is giving travellers an early Christmas present this year by rolling out free Wi-Fi access at 47 airports across the U.S. The free service is available from today and forms both a promotional tool for Google’s services and a way of raising money for charity. The participating airports are listed below: The offer forms an extension [...]
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AFP via Yahoo! News - 2 hours 12 minutes ago
Lack of action on the climate change bill bogged down in the US Senate will not stop Washington from seeking a framework to curb carbon emissions at next month's summit in Copenhagen, experts say.
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EARTHtimes.org - 2 hours 31 minutes ago
New Delhi - The Indian government has published a discussion paper which says there is no conclusive evidence to prove that the Himalayan glaciers are melting due to climate change, news reports said Tuesday. The paper, released by the federal Enviro...
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Kansas City InfoZine - 2 hours 34 minutes ago
Developing countries can shift to lower-carbon paths while promoting development and reducing poverty, but this depends on financial and technical assistance from high-income countries, says a new World Bank report.
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AFP via Yahoo! News - 2 hours 34 minutes ago
India's environment minister came under fire Tuesday from scientists for denying climate change was causing Himalayan glaciers to melt and disputing the work of the UN's top global warming body.
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INO News - 2 hours 39 minutes ago
LONDON (Dow Jones)--A climate change deal in Copenhagen in December is crucial to encourage investment into low-carbon energy and technology or the world will face a dramatic rise in greenhouse gas emissions, the International Energy Agency said Tuesday.
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Bloomberg - 2 hours 41 minutes ago
Nov. 10 (Bloomberg) -- The global economic crisis has opened “a relatively narrow window of opportunity” to halt the increase in greenhouse gases released by power plants, factories and cars through 2020, the International Energy Agency said.
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EARTHtimes.org - 2 hours 46 minutes ago
Madrid - Spain on Tuesday continued seeking a solution to a piracy drama off Somalia, where pirates holding 36 fishermen are demanding the release of two of their accomplices who were captured and flown to Madrid for trial. A lawyer representing one ...
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EARTHtimes.org - 2 hours 46 minutes ago
Harare - The head of Zimbabwe's national trade union federation has spent two nights in a prison cell following his arrest for allegedly holding an illegal meeting, lawyers representing him said Tuesday. Lovemore Matombo, president of the Zimbabwe Co...
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EARTHtimes.org - 2 hours 47 minutes ago
Oslo - Norway's government pension fund has seen a third-quarter gain of 13.5 per cent to 325 billion kroner (57 billion dollars) on the back of rising share prices, fund managers Norges Bank said Tuesday. The Norwegian Government Pension Fund - Glob...