Venture to Use Sea to Fight Warming Runs Out of Cash
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Planktos, a California company that is trying to turn a profit by fertilizing the ocean with iron dust, canceled planned field tests on Wednesday, citing a lack of funds.
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Scientists say there has been a worrying drop in the amount of CO2 soaked up by the world's oceans.
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Soaring oil prices are forcing many Hong Kong fishermen to stay ashore, and some say they may have to give up a business that has been all their families have known for generations.
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JUNEAU, Alaska  -- A team of scientists is traveling a 600-mile stretch of the Inside Passage this month to study the effects of cruise ship waste and other contaminants in Southeast Alaska waters.    The $450,000 project is part of a nationwide look at the environmental health of coastal waters...
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East China province invests 3.6 bln yuan in sea water desalination    JINAN, Feb. 22 (Xinhua) -- East China's Shandong Province, a coastal region that suffers from a shortage of fresh water, will invest 3.6 billion yuan over the next four years to build 21 sea water desalination plants.
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The $1.8 billion facility will demonstrate a novel technology to fight global warming.
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By Joel Lang, The Hartford Courant, Conn.  Feb. 28--One of Gov. M. Jodi Rell's major budget initiatives -- to keep Connecticut waters free of pollution -- is well-intentioned but too small by half, an alliance of environmental, municipal and economic interests declared Tuesday.
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A quick global warming fix using pipes in the oceans is proposed by scientists James Lovelock and Chris Rapley.
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The cap of floating sea ice on the Arctic Ocean this year shrank more than one million square miles below the average minimum area reached in recent decades.
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As global warming melts the Arctic ice, dreams of a short sea passage to Asia - and riches beneath the surface - have been revived. But who will win the world's new Great Game?
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Britsol boffins answer Branson's challenge Somebody call Al Gore and tell him he can leave the lights on in his house for as long as he likes: some academics in Bristol have solved the climate change crisis. Oh yes, and they want their $25m prize money from Richard Branson, thankyewverymuch.â¦
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By PATRICIA FARRELL AIDEM  SANTA CLARITA -- Local water suppliers are urging conservation as summer approaches in this driest year on record -- and as the region's main water supply is reduced to a trickle because of a threatened fish 300 miles away.
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After years of delays, a world plan  to fight global warming goes into force on Wednesday, feted by  its backers as a lifeline for the planet but rejected as an  economic straitjacket by the United States and Australia.
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Islanders on tiny Tuvalu in the South Pacific last week saw the future of global warming and rising sea levels, as extreme high tides caused waves to crash over crumbling sea-walls and flood their homes.
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Bloomberg - Feb. 6 (Bloomberg) -- The European Union's plan for capturing pollution to combat global warming lacks as much as $18 billion in needed funding, according to Alstom SA, the largest coal-fired power plant maker.
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It is redoubling efforts to promote its product as a climate-friendly alternative to fossil fuels.
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Rising seas, an inevitable result of global warming, will almost certainly inundate those important historical sites located along coastlines. And at this point, there's very little to be done about it.