Australia delays carbon-trading scheme

September 11th, 2009 SYDNEY - Australia has overtaken the US as the country that produces more carbon dioxide per person than any other, the British risk assessment company Maplecroft Ltd said Friday. Canada, the Netherlands and Saudi Arabia rounded out Maplecroft's list of the top five per-capita emitters of greenhouse gases from fossil fuels.

July 31st, 2009 SYDNEY - Following the closure of a Sydney college where many Indians were studying, the Australian government has assured foreign students that they will be granted "a comparable place to complete their course" or a refund in fees. Financial troubles forced the Sterling College here to suddenly close down, jeopardising the futures of more than 500 people, including many Indians.

July 27th, 2009 SYDNEY - The changing climate could generate 75 million refugees in the Asia-Pacific region in the next 40 years, a report released Monday said. The report, by the aid agency Oxfam Australia and the think tank the Australia Institute, said the consequences of unbridled greenhouse gas emissions should be discussed next week when Pacific leaders convene in Australia for the annual Pacific Island Forum.

June 21st, 2009 SYDNEY - Scientists in Australia are getting closer to identify the mystery light that lit up the universe. The universe was covered in a thick fog of neutral hydrogen gas thirteen billion years ago.

June 17th, 2009 SYDNEY - A new study has found that mountain ash forests in Australia are the best in the world at locking up carbon. According to a report by ABC News, the study has been carried out by environmental scientist Professor Brendan Mackey of the Australian National University and colleagues.

June 10th, 2009 Feds accuse 2 Calif. men of conducting $85M schemeSAN FRANCISCO — Federal regulators have accused two Northern California men of conducting an $85 million Ponzi scheme that targeted Korean-Americans, pledging to deliver spectacular returns from foreign currency trading.

May 11th, 2009 Mumbai, May 11, 2009: Delhi Stock Exchange (DSE), the second largest stock exchange in India in terms of listed scrips, has announced the extension of its amnesty scheme. The amnesty scheme, which is  aimed at reviving the inactive scrips, will also help the companies to waive off full amount of reinstatement fees along with waiving of condonation fees for non-publication or filing of various notices and quarterly results, and waiving of processing fees..

April 29th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Indian sugar industry has the potential to save millions of dollars annually by engaging in carbon credit trading and focussing on ethanol production, a top government official said here Wednesday. 'Given the scale of the sugar enterprises in India, the industry should come up in a big way to encash the potential of Certified Emission Reductions (CERs) trading,' Heavy Industries Secretary S.N.

April 24th, 2009 Calif. approves nation's 1st low-carbon fuel ruleSACRAMENTO, Calif. — California air regulators have adopted the nation's first mandate for low-carbon fuels, a major step in the state's effort to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

March 14th, 2009 WASHINGTON - Carbon dioxide released from the Antartic Ocean due to shifting wind patterns may drastically increase global warming, say scientists. Many scientists think that the end of the last ice age was triggered by a change in earth's orbit that caused the northern part of the planet to warm.

March 14th, 2009 NEW DELHI - The government will provide energy-efficient compact fluorescent lamps (CFL) at Rs.15 each all over the country, says the head of India's Bureau of Energy Efficiency (BEE). The decision follows the success of two pilot projects to distribute these lamps at a small fraction of their cost and get the rest of the money from developed countries through a UN-mediated scheme called the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM), BEE Director General Ajay Mathur said here.

February 24th, 2009 WASHINGTON - Scientists hope to get a clearer picture of how the Earth reacts to carbon dioxide with the launch Tuesday of a new spacecraft designed to collect data on the climate-changing gas. The Orbiting Carbon Observatory is set for launch early Tuesday from California and will take about eight million measurements every 16 days for the next two years.

February 23rd, 2009 RAIPUR - Chhattisgarh provided employment of just 35 days per household on an average in fiscal 2007-08 under the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS) that ensures 100 days of employment in a financial year to any registered rural household. 'Employment is to be provided within 15 days of demand under the NREGS.

February 14th, 2009 SYDNEY - Australians are already doing more than their share of heating up the world, with average greenhouse gas emissions near the top of the table. Now the continent's worst forest fires on record have bumped up the size of Australia's carbon footprint.

January 26th, 2009 LONDON - Scientists will seek ways to reduce global warming with help from two new satellites that will measure carbon dioxide (CO2) in Earth's atmosphere. Researchers at Edinburgh University are to study data from the instruments launched by the US space agency NASA and Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency.