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Headline	Author	Published	Section
A pain of a gas: Has runaway climate change begun? Methane releases from under the Arctic seabed could jeopardize GHG stabilization	Joseph Romm	24 Sep 2008	Gristmill
The U.K.'s Independent reported today some pretty shocking news in 'Exclusive: The methane time bomb': The first evidence that millions of tons of a greenhouse gas 20 times more potent than carbon dioxide is being released into the atmosphere from beneath the Arctic seabed has been discovered by scientists ...The Independent has been passed details of preliminary findings suggesting that massive deposits of sub-sea methane are bubbling to the surface as the Arctic reg ...
Topics: greenhouse-gas emissions, Arctic, Russia, climate change impacts, climate science, climate (all these topics)

Bona Biden Why Biden is such an important pick for those who care about the climate	Joseph Romm	25 Aug 2008	Gristmill
Catastrophic climate change is the primary preventable threat to the health and well-being of all Americans -- as readers of this blog already understand and as pretty much everyone else will figure out in the coming years. Keeping total planetary warming as low as possible -- ideally below 2°C, which it turn requires keeping atmospheric concentrations of CO2 below 450 ppm -- will become the central organizing principle for all U.S. energy, environmental, economic, ...
Topics: China, climate, international politics, politics, presidential race 08, Russia (all these topics)

Go With the Floe Russian researchers abandon shrinking ice floe		15 Jul 2008	News
Posted at 3:33 PM on 15 Jul 2008 Russian scientists are evacuating early from their research base on a shrinking Arctic ice floe. Last April, the floe was sturdy enough to build an air strip on. In September, 21 researchers and two dogs arrived, at which point their ice abode measured 1.2 by 2.5 miles. The researchers meant to leave in late August, but will evacuate this week from a floe that has shrunk to a mere 1,000 by 2,000 fee ...
Topics: Arctic, climate, climate change impacts, news, Russia, scientific research (all these topics)

The Polar Excise U.S. Interior edited document relating climate change to polar-bear fate		16 Apr 2007	Daily Grist
The Polar Excise U.S. Interior edited document relating climate change to polar-bear fate Remember when U.S. Interior Secretary Dirk Kempthorne announced that the agency would propose listing polar bears under the Endangered Species Act? And he said that, while the bears' home was indeed melting, "that whole aspect of climate change is beyon ...
Topics: climate, climate change impacts, climate science, Department of Interior, endangered species, news, Russia (all these topics)

Blue Monday Russia's going nuclear, the U.S. is going nowhere, and Cambodia's going wild		19 Mar 2007	Daily Grist
Blue Monday Russia's going nuclear, the U.S. is going nowhere, and Cambodia's going wild We hope you had a chance to relax this weekend, to cast aside your cares and spend hours soaking in the jasmine-scented bubble bath of life. Because now it's back to the putrid mudbath of reality. From Russia comes news that the country is planning to build two nuclear reactors a year through 20 ...
Topics: Cambodia, climate, energy, G8, news, nuclear power, Russia, wildlife (all these topics)

Guess It's Not So Perma After All Melting Siberian permafrost could release billions of tons of CO2		16 Jun 2006	Daily Grist
Guess It's Not So Perma After All Melting Siberian permafrost could release billions of tons of CO2 As it melts, Siberian permafrost could release up to 500 billion tons of carbon dioxide from ancient plant roots and animal bones into the atmosphere -- twice what scientists had previously expected, says a new study in Science. It's a (woolly) mammoth amount: at present, the atmosphere contains about 800 billion tons of greenhouse gas ...
Topics: climate, news, Russia (all these topics)

The Peat Is Gone Siberia's fast thaw alarms scientists		11 Aug 2005	Daily Grist
The Peat Is Gone Siberia's fast thaw alarms scientists Siberia is melting. Meeelllting! Ahem. Of particular concern is a 386,000 square-mile expanse of western Siberian permafrost that's been icy cold for about 11,000 years and sits atop billions of tons of methane, a greenhouse gas 20 times more potent than carbon dioxide. If the permafrost melts, the methane could escape, global climate change could pass a tipping point after which ...
Topics: climate, news, Russia (all these topics)

Da! Russian government approves Kyoto; treaty now likely to go into effect		30 Sep 2004	Daily Grist
Da! Russian government approves Kyoto; treaty now likely to go into effect After years of mixed messages, coy feints, and internal drama, the Russian government at last approved the Kyoto Protocol today, virtually ensuring that the treaty will go into force worldwide by the end of the year. After the U.S. (responsible for 25 percent of global greenhouse-gas emissions) rejected the treaty, its success or failure fell into Russia's hands: T ...
Topics: climate, Russia (all these topics)

Putin: His Foot in His Mouth? Russia Might Ratify Kyoto Protocol, After All		04 Dec 2003	Daily Grist
Putin: His Foot in His Mouth? Russia Might Ratify Kyoto Protocol, After All Mark Twain once famously commented that rumors of his death had been greatly exaggerated. Much the same could be said of the Kyoto Protocol on global climate change, which was pronounced dead by gun-jumping news sources (Grist among them, we regret to say) when Andrei Illarionov, chief economic advisor to ...
Topics: climate, energy, international government agencies, Russia, United States (all these topics)

The Reports of Kyoto's Death are Greatly Exaggerated The Inside Scoop on Milan, Mercury, and More		03 Dec 2003	Daily Grist

Topics: climate, Italy, Russia, United Nations, United States, US EPA (all these topics)

CF-Seized Illegal Trading of CFCs Imperils Ozone Layer		11 Nov 2003	Daily Grist
CF-Seized Illegal Trading of CFCs Imperils Ozone Layer Smuggling of CFCs and other ozone-depleting chemicals is on the rise, interfering with efforts to repair the Earth's protective ozone layer, the London-based Environment Investigation Agency said in a report released yesterday. As deadlines approach for phasing out CFCs, which are used in ...
Topics: air pollution, Cambodia, China, climate, Nepal, pollution and waste, Russia, toxics, United States, Vietnam (all these topics)

Not Russian to Judgment Russia Still Undecided on Kyoto Protocol		29 Sep 2003	Daily Grist
Not Russian to Judgment Russia Still Undecided on Kyoto Protocol Russia still has not decided whether to ratify the Kyoto Protocol, President Vladimir Putin said today. The nation has the power to make or break the climate-change treaty, which cannot go into effect until it is ratified by nations accounting for 55 percent of global greenhouse-gas emissions. The treaty would likely be a good deal for Russia because ...
Topics: air pollution, climate, politics, Russia (all these topics)

Proto-cool Russian Industries Back Kyoto Protocol		05 Sep 2003	Daily Grist
Proto-cool Russian Industries Back Kyoto Protocol Here's an unlikely ally in the battle to combat global climate change: industrial polluters. A number of Russia's largest gas and electric companies, steel mills, and metal smelters have begun lobbying their government to ratify the Kyoto Protocol, the international treaty on climate change. The companies are so interested in getting their h ...
Topics: business, climate, commercial and industry organizations, Russia (all these topics)

Pro-fusion		25 Feb 2003	Daily Grist
Pro-fusion The U.S. and China have officially joined the quest to develop fusion power, which proponents say could be an affordable, eco-friendly alternative to existing energy sources. The International Thermonuclear Energy Reactor is the largest global science project after the International Space Station. China, the U.S., Canada, the ...
Topics: Asia, Canada, China, climate, energy, European Union, green living, Japan, nuclear power, Russia, United States (all these topics)

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