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The view from the Arctic: on Sarah Palin and caribou soup

While the world gets ready for December’s climate meeting in Copenhagen, a group of native Arctic women traveled to Washington this week to talk about what climate change is doing right now in places like Arctic Village, Alaska, and Whitehorse, in ...

From DEBORAH ZABARENKO, Reuters,  12 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Sarah Palin,  Barack Obama

Record-high U.S. temps outpace record lows: study

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - In another sign of a warming planet, there were twice as many record-high temperatures in the United States as record lows over the last decade, climate scientists reported on Thursday. This does not mean there are no record lows, ...

From DEBORAH ZABARENKO, EcoEarth News,  12 Nov 2009

Related Topics: The Weather Channel,  National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

The golden, melting, re-freezing and ultimately disappearing snows of Kilimanjaro

When he wrote “The Snows of Kilimanjaro” in the 1930s, Ernest Hemingway described the summit of that African mountain as “wide as all the world, great, high, and unbelievably white in the sun.” It’s still wide, but may not be white much longer, ...

From DEBORAH ZABARENKO, Reuters,  4 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Ernest Hemingway,  National Academy of Sciences,  National Science Foundation,  Ohio State University

New polar bear rule sent to White House

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Protection for polar bears' shrinking icy habitat is the subject of a proposed rule sent to the White House by the Interior Department. The proposed rule, "Endangered and Threatened Wildlife and Plants; Critical Habitat ...

From DEBORAH ZABARENKO, EcoEarth News,  6 Oct 2009

Related Topics: White House,  Barack Obama,  George W. Bush,  Interior Department,  Ken Salazar

Better Than A Rainforest? Air Capture Climate Technology Gets A Closer Look

This technology is expected to help some of the world’s poorest countries capitalize on any global carbon market, which would put a price on carbon emissions and let rich companies that spew lots of carbon buy carbon credits from poor companies and ...

From DEBORAH ZABARENKO, Reuters Blogs,  5 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change,  United Nations

The First Draft: Could Obama’s Olympic sprint be a preview of a Copenhagen climate trip?

“Right now you’ve got a meeting that’s set up for a level not at the head of state level,” presidential spokesman Robert Gibbs told reporters on Air Force One last week. “If it got switched, we would certainly look at coming.” Climate negotiators ...

From DEBORAH ZABARENKO, Reuters,  5 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Barack Obama,  White House,  Robert Gibbs,  U.S. Congress,  George W. Bush

Endangered yellow taxi? US climate bill could turn them green

And it wouldn’t just be in New York. Boston, San Francisco, Seattle and other major U.S. cities would be able to create taxi fleets made up entirely of hybrid vehicles under the proposed Green Taxis Act of 2009. Offered by Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, who ...

From DEBORAH ZABARENKO, Reuters Blogs,  30 Sep 2009

Related Topics: Kirsten Gillibrand,  Hillary Rodham Clinton,  Deutsche Bank

U.S. reconsiders Bush-era smog pollution standards

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency said on Wednesday it would reconsider Bush-era standards for smog pollution that have been slammed by environmentalists for not being aggressive enough. The 2008 standards, approved during ...

From DEBORAH ZABARENKO, EcoEarth News,  16 Sep 2009

Related Topics: Environmental Protection Agency,  George W. Bush,  Lisa P Jackson,  Natural Resources Defense Council

Obama has world's confidence on climate

(For other news from the Reuters Global Climate and Alternative Energy Summit, click here) * Obama gets points for leadership on climate * Frustration apparent over slow pace of U.S. legislation * U.S. law not certain before Copenhagen meeting ...

From DEBORAH ZABARENKO, EcoEarth News,  11 Sep 2009

Related Topics: Barack Obama,  U.S. Congress,  U.S. Senate,  Yvo de Boer,  Joan Ruddock

Ecuador: Is Chevron scared of "Crude" the movie?

One of the stars of "Crude," a documentary about a $27 billion environmental lawsuit filed against the company on behalf of residents of Ecuador's Amazon, certainly thinks so. A spokesman for Chevron vehemently denies it. The film's New York opening on ...

From DEBORAH ZABARENKO, EcoEarth News,  9 Sep 2009

Related Topics: Chevron Corporation,  Trudie Styler

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