By Jason Dearen The Associated Press / January 7, 2010 Methane gas produced in California landfills fuels garbage and recycling trucks, reducing the state’s carbon emissions.

9 November 2009

New data show that the balance between the airborne and the absorbed fraction of carbon dioxide has stayed approximately constant since 1850, despite emissions of carbon dioxide having risen from about 2 billion tons a year in 1850 to 35 billion tons a year now. This suggests that terrestrial ecosystems and the oceans have a much greater capacity to absorb CO2 than had been previously expected.

Boreal Forests Store More Carbon than Tropical Forests

Ottawa, Ontario—When the world thinks of forests and their value to offset global warming, tropical forests come to mind. A report released today shows that the global impact of Canada’s boreal forest, which stores nearly twice as much carbon per hectare as tropical forests, has been vastly underestimated.

November 12, 2009, By John Lorinc

Location

There is a book launch for Canadian author Mike Nickerson’s book Life, Money and Illusion, Living on Earth as if we want to stay.

Is it true that unchecked growth has brought us to the brink of economic and environmental collapse? Mike Nickerson has been studying the issue for almost 40 years and New Society Publishers has published the second edition of his latest book, Life, Money and Illusion; Living on Earth as if we want to stay, to help answer the question.

Come join us for the book launch and discussion. It’s 7 p.m. on November 10 at The Old Church Theatre, 940 Bonisteel Road, Trenton (Quinte West) Ontario. There is no charge for the evening. Hope you can join us.

David Adam, environment correspondent, The Guardian, Monday 28 September 2009 Unchecked global warming could bring a severe temperature rise of 4C within many people’s lifetimes, according to a new report for the British government that significantly raises the stakes over climate change.

By Juliet Eilperin Washington Post Staff Writer Friday, September 25, 2009

Climate researchers now predict the planet will warm by 6.3 degrees Fahrenheit by the end of the century even if the world’s leaders fulfill their most ambitious climate pledges, a much faster and broader scale of change than forecast just two years ago, according to a report released Thursday by the United Nations Environment Program.

Two-thirds of the world’s major deltas, home to nearly half a billion people, are caught in the scissors of sinking land and rising seas, according to a study published Sunday.

The new findings, based on satellite images, show that 85 percent of the 33 largest delta regions experienced severe flooding over the past decade, affecting 260,000 square kilometres (100,000 square miles).

Major shale gas depositshave been identified in Pennsylvania and elsewhere in the US. Tom Gjelten, for NPR, describes how new drilling techniques makes extraction economically viable:

Sonia Verma Fresno, Calif. — Saturday’s Globe and Mail July. 25, 2009

For a perfect view of California’s economic ruin, Todd Allen’s front porch is a pretty good place to stand.