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Mon, 6 Oct 08
Australia: Fish stock at risk in climate change
http://www.smh.com.au/news/environment/fish-stock-at-risk-in-climate-change /2008/10/05/1223145175347.html
Sydney Morning Herald: CLIMATE change is likely to hit supplies of many of Australia's favourite eating fish, including barramundi, salmon, rock lobster and prawns, the most extensive study on the subject yet undertaken by the Federal Government has warned. The CSIRO study, commissioned by the Department of Climate Change and to be released today, reports the overall impact of global change "will pose some very significant risks to the sustainability of fisheries and aquaculture in ...

Mon, 6 Oct 08
Unilever comes out against worldwide rush to biofuels
http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2008/oct/06/unilever.biofuels
Guardian: Unilever, the food and consumer goods group, has thrown its weight behind moves to scrap mandatory biofuel targets and subsidies. It is backing recommendations being made today to Commonwealth finance ministers at their annual meeting in St Lucia to improve food security and prevent famine. Unilever is concerned that subsidies for biofuels are driving up food prices and the cost of its products. The group is a member of the Commonwealth Business Council (CBC), which is presenting the ...

Mon, 6 Oct 08
'Quit Coal' - Greenpeace takes action against coal ship in Spain
http://www.greenpeace.org/international/press/releases/coal-ship-action-spa in-06102008
Greenpeace: At 2am this morning, four Greenpeace activists boarded the Windsor Adventure, a coal cargo ship importing coal from Colombia into Spain. Others painted "Quit Coal" in English and Spanish on the ship. The action was in protest against the Spanish government for causing climate change by relying so heavily on coal, the most polluting of all fossil fuels, for the country's energy supply. The protest is part of Greenpeace's four-month "quit coal" ship tour across Europe. A report ...

Mon, 6 Oct 08
Australia: Climate change could devastate fishing industry: CSIRO
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/10/06/2382768.htm
Australian Broadcasting Corporation: The CSIRO has detailed the devastating effects it believes climate change will bring to Australia's commercial fishing and aquaculture industries. A new report says changes in ocean temperatures, currents and rainfall could affect fish and shellfish numbers. The industries are worth more than $2 billion annually to Australia's economy. Federal Climate Change Minister Penny Wong says Australia's fisheries industries need to get ready. "We have to avoid as much ...

Mon, 6 Oct 08
Energy firms threaten poor - Oxfam
http://ukpress.google.com/article/ALeqM5hrucPO-r-v18f75WMQhEfO7qAwRw
Press Association: Energy giants Shell and E.ON are threatening the lives of millions of poor around the world, a charity said. Their "high-polluting policies" have been attacked in an Oxfam report 'Forecast for Tomorrow' that says they are contributing "to the UK pushing global emissions to dangerous levels for the world and catastrophic levels for the poor." The controversial Kingsnorth coal-fired power station, proposed by E.ON, attracted particular criticism, with Oxfam warning it will have ...

Mon, 6 Oct 08
Australia: Frogs come face to face wih extinction
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,24450461-2702,00.html
Australian: ARMAGEDDON is approaching for frogs throughout the world, warns internationally renowned primatologist Jane Goodall. The 74-year-old conservationist visited Adelaide Zoo yesterday to discuss the potential mass extinction of frogs and how an international breeding program, dubbed the Amphibian Ark, might be the only hope for hundreds of species. Frogs are "the canary in the coalmine", Dr Goodall told The Australian yesterday. "When you see frogs disappear at this rate, ...

Mon, 6 Oct 08
Global warming set to shake our eating habits
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,24450474-2702,00.html
Australian: CLIMATE change is likely to deprive us of the pleasures of eating beef and lamb, instead forcing us to contemplate platefuls of kangaroo meat and threatening another Australian table staple -- seafood. A report to be released by the CSIRO today says changes in temperature, ocean currents, rainfall and extreme weather events could cost Australian fisheries tens of million of dollars. Hardest hit could be stocks of Tasmanian salmon, estimated to be worth $221million in 2005-06 ...

Mon, 6 Oct 08
New charges on shipping could help climate
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2008/oct/06/climatechange.pollution
Guardian: Billions of dollars could be raised to help the poorest countries cope with and tackle climate change under proposals to be floated in London this week for new charges on international shipping. Opponents fear the charges - in the form of a fuel tax or selling permits to pollute - will raise the cost of food imports, especially for small island states that depend on trade to feed their populations. However, a report for the environmental campaign group WWF estimates that price ...

Mon, 6 Oct 08
China: Shanghai highrises could worsen threat of rising seas
http://www.reuters.com/article/GlobalEnvironment08/idUSTRE49502K20081006
Reuters: Shanghai, China's most populous city and an aspiring global financial center, is also among the world's most vulnerable urban areas to a rise in sea levels as global warming melts polar ice. Its location on a low-lying alluvial plain near the mouth of Asia's longest river, the Yangtze, had already left it prone, but researchers warn that forests of skyscrapers sprouting across the ambitious metropolis could compound the threat by causing its marshy ground to sink. "Shanghai ...

Mon, 6 Oct 08
Tinge of green as China becomes top polluter
http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/eo20081006a2.html
Japan Times: The latest tally of greenhouse-gas emissions blamed for warming the world shows that China has emerged as the top polluter, ahead of the United States, by an increasingly big margin. Released last month, the scientific findings of the Global Carbon Project show that, in 2007, over half the world's emissions came from high-growth developing economies led by China and India, and that this share is rising because emissions from developed economies are growing less fast. The ...