Each Friday we’ll bring you a round-up of the week’s green news from around the web. Please drop us a line if you know of a story we should include in the next round-up.
Australian bushfires pump out millions of tonnes of carbon
From The Guardian
The deadly bush fires in Australia have released millions of tonnes of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, equivalent to more than a third of the country’s CO2 emissions for a whole year, according to scientists. [full article]
On the origin (and fate) of species
From The New York Times
It is interesting to contemplate an entangled bank, clothed with many plants of many kinds, with birds singing on the bushes, with various insects flitting about, and with worms crawling through the damp earth, and to reflect that these elaborately constructed forms. [full article]
Samsung unveils Blue Earth solar-powered phone
From Pocket-Lint
Samsung Electronics has unveiled a solar-powered full touchscreen phone called “Blue Earth”. Ir’s the first such phone to the market and charges up via the solar panel on the back of the phone, apparently generating enough electronic power to make a call anytime. [full article]
British pork adverts banned
From CIWF
A major advertising campaign for British pork has been banned from further use for misleading the public with claims of ‘very high welfare’ following a complaint made by Compassion in World Farming. [full article]
Climate Camp to target the City in summer protest
From The Guardian
The organisers of Climate Camp, a protest group that has previously demonstrated at coal power stations and Heathrow airport, have chosen London’s financial centre as the target of their main summer protest this year. [full article]
UK and China work on carbon capture
From The Telegraph
It is estimated that China builds around one coal power station a week, causing millions of tonnes of carbon dioxide to be pumped into the atmosphere. In an effort to tackle the problem, the Department of Energy and Climate Change has invested more than £3 million in developing Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) in China, a new technology that will take the CO2 and store it underground. [full article]
Green economic stimulus creates jobs and saves money
Green components of an economic recovery effort can both create jobs now and offset costs to taxpayers through future energy savings. Well-tailored policies can create jobs and stimulate the economy while achieving significant energy cost savings for businesses, consumers, and the government. [full article]
Road to rapprochement
From ChinaDialogue
In a new report released by the Asia Society’s Center on US-China Relations and the Pew Center on Global Climate Change, a group of more than 50 experts on China, politics and business aim to provide Barack Obama’s new US administration with a policy roadmap for cooperation with China. [full article]
Hartlepool to break up France’s toxic flagship Clemenceau
From TimesOnline
An asbestos-laden French aircraft carrier that was too toxic for Indian breakers’ yards is to be towed to the UK for dismantling, it was announced yesterday. The agreement to send the Clemenceau, once the flagship of the French navy, to Able UK, near Hartlepool, ends an embarrassing five-year saga that saw the toxic vessel wander the high seas in a vain search for a final resting place. [full article]
Sea Shepherd returns from the whale wars
From Sea Shepherd
The Sea Shepherd ship the Steve Irwin and her crew have withdrawn from the Japanese whaling fleet to begin preparations to return with a faster and longer range ship. “I have always said that we would do everything we can short of hurting people to end illegal whaling in the Antarctic Whale Sanctuary” said Captain Paul Watson. [full article]
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