Apr 18 2010
The plan lays out the ways in which the EU’s 27 members will cut carbon emissions by 20% by 2020 and is intended to set an example for world efforts to tackle climate change. It includes various burden-sharing measures meant to ensure that the cost of curbing pollution will not impede economic growth. The cost [...]
Apr 18 2010
The complex package details how European industries, power generators, governments, and transport sectors are to effect the “triple 20″ deal of reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 20% by 2020 compared with 1990 levels, of cutting energy consumption by 20% by the same deadline, and of ensuring that 20% of the EU’s energy mix comes from [...]
Apr 18 2010
One of the most formidable predators in the Pacific ocean, the Humboldt squid, may become more vulnerable to attacks from other marine beasts as changing water conditions make them more sluggish swimmers, a study has found. As human activities increase the level of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, the level in the oceans also rise. [...]
