Get rid of coal and use trees instead, urges Hansen
Source: Treehugger
Nasa climate scientist James Hansen has suggested that humans should grow more trees and burn them to produce electricity, capturing and storing the carbon dioxide generated during the process to further mitigate the environmental of rising carbon dioxide levels.
China mulls green tax to curb pollution: report
Source: Reuters
China is studying whether to impose an environmental tax on polluters to cut their emissions, the official China Daily reported on Saturday. The newspaper quoted Pan Yue, a deputy minister for environmental protection, as saying several government agencies had formed a team of experts to research the issue.
Grasshoppers are recruited as climate change scouts
Source: Times Online
The rasping summer sound of grasshoppers chirping in fields and meadows is to be used to help to track climate changes. Grasshoppers, along with bush crickets, have been identified as the ideal insects for a public monitoring system.
Wind-power politics
Source: New York Times
I was having lunch with Mandelstam last fall to discuss offshore wind in general and how he and his tiny company, Bluewater Wind, came to focus on Delaware as a likely place for a nascent and beleaguered offshore wind industry to establish itself.
Antarctic winter ice gets bigger; Arctic shrinks
Source: Reuters
The amount of sea ice around Antarctica has grown in recent Septembers in what could be an unusual side-effect of global warming, experts said on Friday.
Largest owls in the world threaten British birds
Source: The Independent
Several pairs of eagle owls, the largest owls in the world, are now breeding in the wild in Britain, according to a new study. But it is unlikely they will ever be considered British birds as they escaped from a large pool of birds kept in captivity.
