UN: Mangroves need carbon finance mechanisms 11/12/2014

Removing mangrove forests that protect tropical coastlines is costing countries $42bn in damages each year and creating millions of tonnes of CO2 emissions, according to a UN report. ...more

Storing hydrogen underground could boost transportation and energy security 11/12/2014

Large-scale storage of low-pressure, gaseous hydrogen in salt caverns and other underground sites for transportation fuel and grid-scale energy applications offers several advantages over above-ground storage, says a recent Sandia National Laboratories study sponsored by the US Department of Energy's Fuel Cell Technologies Office. ...more

Rosetta: Comets did not bring water to Earth 11/12/2014

Results from Europe's Rosetta mission, which made history by landing on Comet 67P in November, shows the water on the icy mass is unlike that on our planet. ...more

Australia pledges $200 million to Green Climate Fund but named worst-performing industrial country on climate change 10/12/2014

Australia will contribute A$200 million over four years into a U.N. fund to help poor nations cope with global warming, Prime Minister Tony Abbott said on Wednesday, despite earlier having said it did not intend to contribute to the fund. ...more

Facing Typhoon Hagupit: Philippines Pushes Developing Countries to Cut Their Emissions 10/12/2014

As the torrential rains of Typhoon Hagupit flood the Philippines, driving millions of people from their homes, the Philippine government urged the United Nations climate change summit meeting in Lima, Peru, to push hard ...more

Abandoned U.S. oil wells still spewing methane, study find 10/12/2014

Some of the millions of abandoned oil and natural gas wells in the United States are still spewing methane, marking a potentially large source of unrecorded greenhouse gas emissions, according to a study released on Monday. ...more

Lava flows toward Hawaii village, threatens major intersection 10/12/2014

Slow-moving lava from an erupting volcano on Hawaii's Big Island continued to flow toward a small village, and threatened to reach a major traffic intersection before year's end. ...more

AFED announces its 7th annual conference recommendations: Food security supports political stability 9/12/2014

The Arab Forum for Environment and Development (AFED) released today the recommendations of its seventh annual conference held in Amman, which addressed food security in Arab countries. The recommendations were finalized by a high-level committee of experts and officials who participated in the conference. ...more

New Mexico fines the US energy agency with $54 million 8/12/2014

New Mexico regulators on Saturday hit the U.S. government with more than $54 million in fines for violations at a nuclear waste facility where a fire broke out and radiation was released in two mishaps earlier this year. ...more

Lord Stern calls for "dynamic" international climate change treaty 8/12/2014

Lord Stern urged world leaders to deliver an ambitious climate change treaty at next year's Paris Summit. Speaking yesterday at the start of the second week of the UN Climate Summit in Lima, Stern, who authored the influential Stern Review on the economics of climate change, said the final treaty should be "dynamic" and as such it is not necessary to ensure the emissions targets nations agree to are legally-binding. ...more