Climos in the NewsClimos Hires Tetra Tech for Environmental Analysis [archive]by David Ehrlich, CleanTech, 3/28/2008 Cleantech.com's coverage of Climos' engagement with Tetra Tech for an environmental analysis of ocean iron fertilization. S.F. Entrepeneur Floats a Bold Idea to 'Fertilize' Ocean [archive] by Carrie Peyton Dahlberg, Sacramento Bee, 3/30/2008 The Sacramento Bee's recent coverage of Climos. Fertilizing the Ocean with Iron [archive] by Rachel Petkewich, Chemical & Engineering News, 3/31/2008 C&EN;'s recent piece on ocean iron fertilization, with extensive mention of Climos as the "front-runner" of ocean iron fertilization companies. | |
Climate Change/Global WarmingIce Shelf Collapse: What Does it Mean? [archive]by Marsha Walton, CNN, 3/29/2008 From krill to king crabs, the collapse of a 160-square-mile portion of the Wilkins Ice Shelf in Antarctica could mean many changes for wildlife at the bottom of the world. U.N. Human Rights Body Turns to Climate Change [archive] by Laura MacInnis, Reuters, 3/28/2008 Climate change could erode the human rights of people living in small island states, coastal areas and parts of the world subjected to drought and floods, the U.N. Human Rights Council said on Friday. Tensions Rise as World Faces Short Rations [archive] by Russell Blinch and Brian Love, Reuters, 3/30/2008 Plundered by severe weather in producing countries and by a boom in demand from fast-developing nations, the world's wheat stocks are at 30-year lows. Grain prices have been on the rise for five years, ending decades of cheap food. |
ScienceCorals Measure Climate Change [archive]from the Queensland University of Technology in ScienceAlert, 3/26/2008 A researcher from Queensland University of Technology has advanced the use of coral to measure the rate of climate change. Study Reports More Global Warming Evidence [archive] from UPI, 3/26/2008 U.S. researchers have used satellite imagery to determine a large part of the Antarctic ice shelf is disintegrating as result of climate change. New Approach to Measuring Carbon in Forests [archive] from physorg.com, 3/26/2008 CSIRO is collaborating in a NASA-funded project, using a CSIRO-designed instrument, to help develop new methods of measuring forest carbon stores on a large scale. |
Carbon MarketTrading Emissions to Sell Over 5 Million Offsets in '08 [archive]from Reuters, 3/27/08 Trading Emissions PLC expects to sell at least 5 million tonnes of carbon offsets this year as it tries to cash in on an expected shortage in 2008, the company said on the publication of its interim results on Thursday. Private Equity Firm Buys Rights to Ecosystem Services of Amazon Rainforest [archive] from mongabay.com, 3/27/2008 A private equity firm has purchased the rights to environmental services generated by a 371,000-hectare rainforest reserve in Guyana. The agreement is precedent-setting in that a financial firm is betting that the services generated by a living rainforest will eventually see compensation in international markets. For Carbon Emissions, Some Businesses Aim for Less Than Zero [archive] by Matthew L. Wald, International Herald Tribune, 3/26/2008 If the world is going to sharply reduce the amount of carbon dioxide pumped into the atmosphere by midcentury, then many businesses will have to go carbon neutral, bringing their net emissions of the greenhouse gas to zero. |
Politics/LegislationClimate Negotiators Start Work on 'Kyoto II' [archive]by Ed Cropley, Reuters, 3/30/2008 Scientists and officials from across the world meet in Thailand this week for the first formal talks in the long process of drawing up a replacement for the Kyoto climate change pact by the end of 2009. Government to Propose CO2 Rules This Spring [archive] by Chris Baltimore, Reuters, 3/28/2008 The Bush administration, which has resisted regulating carbon dioxide emissions, this spring will propose rules that could affect everything from vehicles to power plants and oil refineries, the top U.S. environmental official told Congress on Thursday. California State Air Board Demands More Low-Emissions Cars [archive] by Matthew Yi, San Francisco Chronicle, 3/28/2008 The California Air Resources Board, acknowledging that development of air pollution-free vehicle technologies such as hydrogen fuel cells is lagging, moved Thursday to require major automakers to produce more low-emission cars such as plug-in hybrids. |