Red Sky News | The Global Meltdown
Month: April 2008
China calls for help on climate change
BEIJING - China called on the international community Thursday to increase the flow of technology to developing countries to
New Zealand’s largest glacier will disappear: scientists
WELLINGTON (AFP) - New Zealand's largest glacier is shrinking fast due to climate change and will eventually disappear altogether,
Pine beetle outbreaks turn forests into carbon source
DENVER - An outbreak of mountain pine beetles in British Columbia is doing more than destroying millions of trees:
Russian forest fires spreading
Russia is experiencing its worst forest fires in thirty years. Two people have been killed and hundreds of families
Response to climate security threats ‘slow and inadequate’
LONDON (AFP) - The international response to security threats posed by climate change has been "slow and inadequate", according
U.S.-Brazilian venture to turn cane into biodiesel
SAO PAULO (Reuters) - U.S. company Amyris Biotechnologies and Brazilian sugar and ethanol group Crystalsev have formed a joint
Germany hopes for car emissions accord with France by June
BERLIN (AFP) - France and Germany are close to an agreement on reducing carbon dioxide emissions from cars, as
Drought exposes sunken town
Water levels are so low in Spain that a medieval village that was flooded to make a reservoir, has
Maldives president seeks help for ‘paradise drowning’
SINGAPORE (AFP) - Maldives President Maumoon Abdul Gayoom made an impassioned plea Tuesday for a cut in global greenhouse
Drought hits millions in Thai rice region
More than 10 million people in parts of Thailand's rice bowl region have been hit by drought, the government