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Manitoba studies bats fatal attraction to wind turbines

Aug 27, 2008 - Winnipeg Free Press

WINNIPEG - Ground-breaking research is underway across Western Canada into how wind turbines affect migratory bats, and how to save the furry mammals from being hurt as they fly around the Prairies.

Scrapping fuel subsidies can help climate: U.N. study

Aug 26, 2008 - Reuters

ACCRA - Abolishing subsidies on fossil fuels could cut world greenhouse gas emissions by up to 6 percent and also nudge up world economic growth, a U.N. report showed on Tuesday.

Big thaw of arctic soil may unleash runaway warming

Aug 26, 2008 - Scientifc American

"Drunken" trees listing wildly, cracked highways and sinkholes—all are visible signs of thawing Arctic permafrost. When this frozen soil warms, it releases carbon dioxide, methane and other greenhouse gases as microbes start to thrive on the organic material it contains—a potentially potent source of uncontrollable climate change.

Christians see climate change as moral issue

Aug 25, 2008 - Reuters

ACCRA - Morality should be a spur for stronger action to fight climate change, which threatens food and water supplies for the poorest in Africa, a group of Christian activists said on Saturday during U.N. climate talks.

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Last week

Who revived the electric car?

Aug 22, 2008 - Globe and Mail

VANCOUVER - The Vancouver Electric Vehicle Association's annual barbecue is just starting and already Harry Snalam's 25 lawn chairs are filled. Nearly as many people stand, paper plates in hand.

American public urge for climate change action

Aug 22, 2008 - Angus Reid Global Monitor

VANCOUVER - Two-thirds of adults in the United States think their country should tackle global warming regardless of what other countries do, according to a poll by TNS, ABC News, Stanford University and Planet Green. 68 per cent of respondents think their country should start combating climate change even if others do less.

World heading towards cooler 2008

Aug 21, 2008 - Associated Press

LONDON - Data from the UK Met Office shows that temperatures in the first half of this year have been more than 0.1 Celsius cooler than any year since 2000.

Climate negotiators reconvene this week in Ghana

Aug 21, 2008 - AP

GHANA - Negotiators meet in Ghana this week to resume work on a new climate change treaty and discuss ways to prod developing countries to join the fight against global warming. But the latest round of talks comes when the world's poor are more worried about the cost of food and fuel than the uncertain long-term effects of climate change.

Global climate change might trigger wars

Aug 21, 2008 - UPI

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. - A U.S. scientist is warning the effects of global climate change on ecosystems might increasingly serve as potential triggers for wars and other conflicts.

Manitoba Hydro offers $1M to turn pig poop into power

Aug 20, 2008 - Winnipeg Free Press

WINNIPEG - Manitoba Hydro wants hog farmers to turn pig poop into power and is offering companies more than a million dollars to do it.

Court says U,S, EPA air pollution rule is illegal

Aug 19, 2008 - Associated Press

WASHINGTON - A Bush administration rule barring states and local governments from requiring more air pollution monitoring is illegal, a federal appeals court ruled Tuesday.

Warming climate threatens Alaska's vast forests

Aug 19, 2008 - Reuters

ALASKA - Here in a 13,700-year-old peat bog, ecologist Ed Berg reaches into the moss and pulls out more evidence of the drastic changes afoot due to the Earth's warming climate.

Province sweetens pot to convert to geothermal systems

Aug 19, 2008 - Winnipeg Free Press

WINNIPEG - The province is handing out more cash goodies to green-minded Manitobans willing to go geothermal.

Slower Economy Saps Climate Action; Oil a Prop

Aug 18, 2008 - Planet Ark

OSLO - An economic slowdown is sapping enthusiasm for a costly drive to fight climate change but persistently high oil prices are a lifeline for a "green revolution" of renewable energy technology, experts say.

Record number of cruise ships in Canadian Arctic this summer

Aug 17, 2008 - Canadian Press

NUNAVUT - Polar bears and glaciers may be icons of northern climate change but they are also swelling the sails of Nunavut's tourism industry.

Ontario launching three offset pilot projects

Aug 17, 2008 - Canadian Press

TORONTO - Ontario farmers are being recruited for carbon offset testing as the province prepares to participate in a cap-and-trade system, which officials say is the best way to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and fight climate change.

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