Reuters: Environment

Japan may meet CO2 goals, but only due to recession

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 03:58:06 -0500

TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan is expected to report as early as this week that its greenhouse gas emissions sank last year, the first year of its Kyoto Protocol obligations.

G20 makes little progress on climate financing

Sun, 08 Nov 2009 14:14:07 -0500

ST ANDREWS, Scotland (Reuters) - Rich countries and developing nations fought over climate change on Saturday, failing to make progress on financing ahead of a major environmental summit in Copenhagen next month.

Hurricane Ida on path to Gulf of Mexico oil fields

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 02:01:32 -0500

SAN SALVADOR (Reuters) - Hurricane Ida headed toward oil and gas facilities in the central Gulf of Mexico on Monday on a path to the U.S. Gulf Coast after killing 124 people in El Salvador following floods and mudslides.

Pennsylvania lawsuit says drilling polluted water

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 01:54:53 -0500

AVELLA, Pennsylvania (Reuters) - A Pennsylvania landowner is suing an energy company for polluting his soil and water in an attempt to link a natural gas drilling technique with environmental contamination.

Genetic tests help track food web, climate change

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 03:41:27 -0500

BARCELONA, Spain (Reuters) - New uses of genetic testing can help track how animal diets may change due to global warming and are helping crack down on wildlife smuggling, experts said on Saturday.

Forty leaders plan to attend climate talks: U.N.

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 14:56:11 -0500

BARCELONA, Spain (Reuters) - About 40 world leaders plan to go to Copenhagen next month to boost the chances of clinching a U.N. climate deal, the United Nations said Friday as preparatory talks wound down with scant progress.

EU to fight for tuna protection at global talks

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 10:53:57 -0500

BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Fishing nations must cut the amount of Atlantic bluefin tuna they catch and protect porbeagle and thresher sharks, European fisheries commissioner Joe Borg said on Friday ahead of international talks.

Study suggests peat CO2 credits more valuable

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 14:03:29 -0500

JAKARTA (Reuters) - An Indonesia-based study shows carbon-rich tropical peat lands trap more greenhouse gases than first thought, driving up their potential value on the carbon market and strengthening a case for their protection.

Floods could threaten up to 750,000 in Kenya

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 10:26:37 -0500

GENEVA (Reuters) - Up to 750,000 people in Kenya, nearly half of them Somali refugees, could be caught up in flooding and landslides from heavy rains expected to peak in November, the United Nations warned on Friday.

Dry U.S. Midwest weather bodes well for harvest

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 11:11:47 -0500

CHICAGO (Reuters) - U.S. Midwest weather is seen mostly dry through the next week, ideal for the corn and soybean harvest, a forecaster said on Friday.