Maldives to hold cabinet meeting underwater to highlight threat of global warmingOctober 7th, 2009 Maldives to hold cabinet meeting underwaterCOLOMBO, Sri Lanka — Maldives government ministers are taking scuba lessons and learning underwater signs in preparation for an unprecedented Cabinet meeting at the bottom of the ocean intended to highlight the threat global warming poses to the low-lying nation. Since taking office last year, President Mohammed Nasheed has emerged as an important international voice on the impact of climate change amid fears that rising ocean levels could swamp this Indian Ocean archipelago within a century.
Chef Spike's Michelle Melt: new DC burger has first lady's name on it and turkey in the bunSeptember 24th, 2009 DC's new Michelle Melt: Turkey burger with a causeWASHINGTON — There's a new burger in town, and it's got Michelle Obama's name on it. The "Michelle Melt" turkey burger at Good Stuff Eatery was unveiled Thursday by chef Spike Mendelsohn, a former contestant on Bravo's "Top Chef" competition.
Fake NY Post draws attention to global warming 1 day before UN summitSeptember 21st, 2009 Fake NY Post draws attention to global warmingNEW YORK — A day before a U.N. summit on climate change, an activist prankster group distributed copies of a fake newspaper mimicking the New York Post to draw attention to global warming.
40-foot sand Ganesha spreads global warming messageAugust 23rd, 2009 BHUBANESWAR - A 40-foot foot sand sculptor of Hindu god Ganesh holding a small tree with a message to check global warming is the main attraction on Puri's beach in Orissa Sunday. The artist, Sudarsan Pattnaik, claims that it is the world's longest sand sculpture of the elephant-headed god.
University of Colorado study calculates global warming threat to Colorado River reservoirsJuly 22nd, 2009 Study calculates warming threat to Colorado RiverBOULDER, Colo. — University of Colorado researchers say global warming increases the chances that the Colorado River system's reservoirs could be depleted by mid-century.
Global warming could raise sea level by five metres: ScientistJuly 2nd, 2009 WELLINGTON - New evidence shows that if global warming melts the West Antarctic ice sheet, sea levels around the world could rise by up to five metres, a New Zealand scientist said Thursday. Tim Naish, director of Victoria University's Antarctic Research Centre in Wellington, said the ice sheet was Antarctica's most vulnerable element and was expected to melt first, along with Greenland.
Obama says Europe moving more quickly than America on confronting global warmingJune 26th, 2009 Obama: US lags behind Europe on climate changeWASHINGTON — President Barack Obama says European nations have moved faster than the United States on global warming and that he'd like to see America play a greater leadership role. Obama told reporters at the White House Friday that he has been "very frank and blunt" with Chancellor Angela Merkel in explaining the obstacles that have gotten in the way of climate change efforts at home.
Rural, urban lawmakers strike agreement on how to best limit global warmingJune 24th, 2009 Rural, urban lawmakers strike agreement on climateWASHINGTON — Rural members of Congress have won key concessions from urban lawmakers to limit the pollution blamed for global warming. Democratic leaders can now move forward with the legislation this week.
Air Nostrum revealed as launch customer for Bombardier's CRJ-1000, firm orders for 35 planesJune 15th, 2009 Air Nostrum 1st customer for Bombardier's CRJ-1000PARIS — Spanish carrier Air Nostrum was confirmed Monday as the launch customer for Bombardier Inc.'s CRJ-1000 jet, with firm orders for 35 planes worth $1.75 billion at list prices. Airlines often negotiate substantial discounts to the catalog price, particularly in tough economic times.
BMW planning mass production of e-vehicles by 2015June 11th, 2009 MUNICH - BMW has no plans for forming a partnership with other manufacturers on battery powered electric vehicles and has its own plans to mass-produce "megacity" e-vehicles by the year 2015, BMW CEO Norbert Reithofer has announced. The car maker will decide by the end of the year whether to establish a subsidiary for the "megacity vehicles" alongside the current BMW, MINI and Rolls-Royce labels, according to Reithofer.
Fashion collection inspired by the murals of the Berlin Wall makes its debutJune 9th, 2009 Berlin Wall murals inspire fashion collectionBERLIN — Twenty years after the fall of the Berlin Wall some of its enduring murals, like one depicting East Germany's Erich Honecker engaged in a fraternal kiss with Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev, are inspiring a different sort of art. Images from the East Side Gallery — a surviving stretch of the wall that artists decorated with colorful paintings after the 1989 opening of the border — are the inspiration for a fashion collection unveiled Tuesday called Mauerkleider, or "Wall Clothes."
Daniel Rodan has reproduced some of the images from the East Side Gallery on leather clothes ranging from evening gowns and trench coats to T-shirts and jackets.
Nobel laureate Al Gore says unchecked global ice melt could push planet toward "tipping pointApril 28th, 2009 Al Gore calls for prompt action on melting iceOSLO — Al Gore said Tuesday the world must act quickly to slow the melting of the world's polar ice packs and glaciers before it reaches a critical rate for global warming. "We have to act and we have to act quickly because we don't want to cross this tipping point," the Nobel peace laureate and former U.S.
Contractor apparently commits suicide in US Embassy in BerlinApril 24th, 2009 Apparent suicide at US Embassy in BerlinBERLIN — The U.S. Embassy in Berlin says a German contractor apparently has committed suicide inside the embassy building.
Ashley Judd, TV host Jeff Corwin call on Congress to help wildlife survive global warmingApril 23rd, 2009 Ashley Judd urges Congress to fight global warmingWASHINGTON — Actress Ashley Judd and TV personality Jeff Corwin are urging Congress to spend $7 billion a year to help safeguard America's wildlife from the impact of global warming. Judd is a longtime environmental activist.
Indian scientists conduct anti-warming experiment in Antarctic OceanJanuary 27th, 2009 BERLIN - Indian and German scientists began strewing iron powder on hundreds of square kilometres of the Antarctic ocean in a momentous experiment that may yield a solution to the global warming crisis. Some environmentalists have opposed the work of Indian and German scientists aboard the Polarstern, a German research icebreaker, but Berlin ruled Monday the project is safe and breaks no laws.
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