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From Renewable Energy World and National Bio Energy Coal, which started out as the cheapest of fuels, is a victim of its own success. The more coal we burn the more expensive it becomes as we are forced to deal with more and more unintended environmental consequences. A clean power plant requires expensive additions to Continue Reading →
From Science Daily (http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/05/090504171947.htm). It talks about newly discovered chorophyll molecules in green bacteria that exist in low-light conditions. It may have implications in the development of “artificial photsynthetic systems.”
ScienceDaily (May 5, 2009) — An international team of scientists has determined the structure of the chlorophyll molecules in green bacteria that are responsible for harvesting light energy. The team’s results one day could be used to build artificial photosynthetic systems, such as those that convert solar energy to electrical energy.
A research paper about the discovery will be published on 4 May 2009 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
From the Ecologist
Dan Box is on-site to witness the world’s first climate refugees being evacuated due to rising sea levels
The evacuation of the Carteret Islands have begun. This morning I stood on black volcanic sand, pressed up right against the jungle, and watched a small white boat powered by a single outboard engine run in against the shore. On board were five men from the Islands, the fathers of five families, who have come to finish building houses and gardens already begun in a cleared patch of jungle at Tinputz, on the east coast of Bougainville. When these homes are ready the five will return to the Carterets, to fetch their wives and children back. Life, they hope, will be better for them here. On the Carterets, king tides have washed away their crops and rising sea levels poisoned those that remain with salt. The people have been forced to move.
Barack Obama’s $1.8bn vision of greener biofuel? President takes on the powerful farming lobby? Switch from food crops to fight climate changeSuzanne Goldenberg, US environment correspondentWednesday May 6 2009The Guardian The Obama administration took on the powerful farming interests in America’s heartland today, making clear it does not see corn-based ethanol as part of the Continue Reading →
Help us fight climate change, Dame Elisabeth Murdoch asks first lady Stuart Rintoul | May 09, 2009 Article from: The Australian DAME Elisabeth Murdoch has written to Michelle Obama inviting her to join an environmental “call to arms” she is launching, called Influential Women for Climate Change Action. In the letter, the latest signal by Continue Reading →
Rocky start to coal emission talks Lenore Taylor, National correspondent | May 09, 2009 Article from: The Australian THERE has been an acrimonious start to negotiations between the coal industry and Greg Combet, the “troubleshooter” appointed to win its support for the Rudd Government’s delayed emissions trading scheme. The Australian Coal Association and executives Continue Reading →