AFP - Despite China's
pledges to improve energy
efficiency, its carbon
emissions could double by
2020 as compared with
2005 levels, surpassing
limits seen as key to
fighting global warming,
experts say.
AP - Solar technology is
going where it has never
gone before: onto the
shelves at retail stores
where do-it-yourselfers
can now plunk a panel
into a shopping cart and
bring it home to install.
AP - A gigantic storm
dumped more than a foot
of snow across much of
the Midwest and New
England as it marched
eastward Wednesday,
creating blizzard
conditions, burying cars
under huge drifts and
providing ammunition for
a massive campus snowball
fig...
AP - Officials believe
that ice plugged up a
pipeline and likely
caused a rupture that
sent 46,000 gallons of
crude oil and water
gushing onto snow-covered
tundra on Alaska's North
Slope late last month.
AFP - A major rift
surfaced at UN climate
talks between emerging
giants and countries most
exposed to the ravages of
global warming as top
polluter China took aim
at rich nations for
failing to act.