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Aboriginal fire management cuts CO2 in Australia From Our World, part of the Guardian Environment Network Dean Yibarbuk, from Our World, part of the Guardian Environment Network guardian.co.uk, Friday 11 September 2009 14.21 BST Article history A bushfire burns in Australia in February 2009. Photograph: Torsten Blackwood/AFP/Getty Images Fire has been used by Bininj (Aboriginal) Continue Reading →
Mountains in West Virginia show how mountaintop removal mining has flattened many mountain peaks. Photograph: Bob Bird/AP
The Obama administration took its strongest action to date against highly destructive mining practice today, putting a hold on dozens of mountaintop removal projects in the Appalachian region.
The Environmental Protection Agency said it was ordering a review of 79 permits in West Virginia, Virginia, Ohio and Kentucky to mine for coal by blowing the tops of mountains to assess the impact on water quality.
Mountaintop removal involves dynamiting the tops of mountains – leaving mounds of debris in neighbour rivers and waterways – razing forests and cutting off hundreds of feet of rock to reach narrow seams of coal.
As the UN climate summit in Copenhagen approaches, we must remember that 50% of climate change is caused by gases and pollutants other than CO2
A study estimates 26% of black carbon emissions come from stoves … a man loads a wood-burning stove in Elin Pelin, Bulgaria. Photograph: Petar Petrov/AP
Twenty years ago, governments adopted the Montreal protocol, a treaty to protect the Earth’s ozone layer from emissions of destructive chemicals. Few could have foreseen how far-reaching that decision would prove to be.
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Australia’s abundant methane gas reserves found in coal seams could help power the world, according to a gas industry consultant.
Addressing a major offshore oil and gas industry conference in Darwin this week, Tony Regan of Tri-Zen International says there are also rich reserves of methane gas within coal seams in the Gladstone and Bowen Basin region of Queensland.
Australia worse than the worst* Revelation that Australia is the worst polluter in the world Risk assessment company Maplecroft’s CO2 Energy Emissions Index hasrevealed that Australia has overtaken the United States as the worst percapita emitter of carbon pollution in the world. Australian Greens Leader Bob Brown said: “Australia has overtaken the USon Kevin Rudd’s Continue Reading →
The Blue Mountains Conservation Society was granted the right to have its court costs capped, allowing it to go ahead with a case against Delta Electricity, the operator of Wallerawang coal-fired power station. Delta Electricity obtained a two-week adjournment to consider whether to appeal the judgment.