Category: RT Newswire

USE ME! Essentially, this is a catch all for everything. This is probably the ONLY category where things that are not directly related to Rising Tide affiliates/allies should go. For example if a coal company goes out of business (and we didn’t directly cause it) it should probably only go here.

Accu-Weather: Expect Severe Winter in US East

  By

Expect Severe Winter in US East 
 
US: October 9, 2008

HOUSTON – The winter of 2008-09 will be the coldest and snowiest in years in the eastern United States, threatening homeowners with back-breaking heating bills, private forecaster AccuWeather predicted on Wednesday.

“Given this economic environment, the winter will push some homeowners to the brink,” AccuWeather long-range forecaster Joe Bastardi said, noting the credit crisis and high fuel prices.
Winter elsewhere in the nation should be easier this year than last, with the Midwest getting less snow and the West being mostly warmer but possibly getting more snow, AccuWeather predicted. (Reporting by Bruce Nichols; Editing by John Picinich)

REUTERS NEWS SERVICE 

————————————————————

FALSE SOLUTION: US Seen Open to Forestry Offsets in Climate Fight

  By

US Seen Open to Forestry Offsets in Climate Fight
 
US: October 9, 2008
 
NEW YORK – As it inches toward forming climate policy, the United States is more open to attempting to slow global warming through investments in tropical forests than the European Union is, a broker that works on forestry deals said.
 
“There’s been this kind of predisposition against forestry on the part of the EU,” Ross MacWhinney, a carbon markets analyst at energy brokers Evolution Markets LLC said at the Reuters Global Environment Summit in New York. “But I think that in the US legislators are looking at forestry as a lower-cost option.”
Clearance of forests to create farmland in developing countries emits nearly 20 percent of greenhouse gases blamed for climate change, according to the UN’s climate science panel. Trees store the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide when they grow and release it when they rot or are burnt.

Continue reading

Cities Should Do More to Protect Nature – UN

  By

Cities Should Do More to Protect Nature – UN

SPAIN: October 9, 2008
 
BARCELONA, Spain – The world’s burgeoning cities must do more to safeguard animals and plants by increasing parkland, planting trees and recycling resources, the UN’s top biodiversity official said on Wednesday.
 
“The battle for life on earth will be won or lost in cities,” Ahmed Djoghlaf, executive secretary of the UN Convention on Biological Diversity, told Reuters.
Cities cover just two percent of the planet’s land area but dictate 75 percent of the use of the world’s natural resources, he said. City dwellers have an impact far into the countryside, with rising demand for water and food.

Continue reading

Indonesia Papua Forests Seen Under Palm Oil Threat

  By

Indonesia Papua Forests Seen Under Palm Oil Threat 
  
INDONESIA: October 9, 2008
 
JAKARTA – Indonesia must do more to save pristine rainforests in Papua from destruction, particularly with plans to open up huge tracts of land to develop palm oil plantations, environmentalists said on Wednesday.
 
The rapidly expanding palm oil industry in Southeast Asia has come under attack by green groups for destroying rainforests and wildlife, as well the emission of greenhouse gases.
“Although the deforestation rate in Papua is still low, the threat is very high, for instance, with palm oil plantation expansion,” Bustar Maitar of Greenpeace said.

Continue reading