Apr
27
AFP - Cases of diarrhoea in Dhaka are reaching epidemic levels, according to a health expert, as the Bangladeshi capital is facing record temperatures, a severe water shortage and power cuts.
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Apr
27
AFP - Climate change could “seriously hinder” Southeast Asia’s development and efforts to reduce poverty, a new study released by the Asian Development Bank said Monday.
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Apr
27
Reuters - Diplomats from the world’s biggest greenhouse gas polluters including the United States, China and India are set to take part in a forum on Monday at the U.S. State Department aimed at getting a U.N. agreement to curb global warming.
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Apr
27
AP - Southeast Asia will be hit particularly hard by climate change, causing the region’s agriculture-dependent economies to contract by as much as 6.7 percent annually by the end of the century, according to a study released Monday.
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Apr
26
AP - The operator of the nation’s oldest nuclear power plant has manually shut down its reactor after equipment failed on one of its two transformers.
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Apr
25
AP - To drill or not drill for new oil and gas.
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Apr
25
AP - North Korea has restarted its nuclear facilities to harvest weapons-grade plutonium, an official said Saturday, in an escalation of the communist state’s standoff with the international community over its nuclear and missile programs.
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Apr
25
AP - North Korea has restarted its nuclear facilities to harvest weapons-grade plutonium, an official said Saturday, in an escalation of the communist state’s standoff with the international community over its nuclear and missile programs.
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Apr
25
AFP - North Korea announced it has started reprocessing spent fuel rods from a pilot nuclear power plant, in protest at international condemnation of its controversial rocket launch this month.
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Apr
25
Investor’s Business Daily - Former VP Al Gore urged lawmakers to overcome partisan differences and take action to reduce greenhouse gases, but Dems and Republicans sparred even more vigorously over the cost of dealing with global warming. Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, R-Ga., argued that the Democrats’ proposal to reduce greenhouse gases would “punish the American people” by imposing higher energy costs.
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