New Green Ideas

AFP - The government Tuesday announced the appointment of a new chief negotiator and ambassador for climate change whose mandate will be to try implement agreements made at the talks in Copenhagen.

Renewable energy touted at Nevada policy 'summit'

AP - With clean-energy legislation trapped in a political deadlock, renewable-energy advocates called big business the new leader in the nation's green revolution during a national summit meeting Tuesday.Report: BP probe to spread blame for spill

Reuters - BP Plc's internal probe of the deadly April 20 blowout that unleashed the massive Gulf of Mexico oil spill will assign blame to BP as well as other companies involved in the well's operations, The Wall Street Journal reported on Tuesday.

The Down Side to Downsizing Your Waistline

LiveScience.com - Weight loss may have an unwanted side effect, according to a new study in the journal Nature: It may send a flood of environmental pollutants into the bloodstream.DOE giving $575 million in carbon capture grants

AP - The Energy Department said Tuesday it was awarding $575 million for carbon capture research-and-development projects in 15 states.BP to publish oil spill report on Wednesday: company

AFP - BP has announced it will publish an eagerly awaited report on the causes of the Gulf of Mexico oil spill on Wednesday.

NIH to use BP cash to study spill health effects

Reuters - The U.S. National Institutes of Health said on Tuesday it would use $10 million from BP to start a multiyear study to look at the potential health effects from the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.

Access to clean water down due to urbanisation: UN

AFP - Global efforts to improve access to drinking water have been hampered by rapid urbanisation, with the proportion of people in urban areas with access actually declining, according to UN figures presented at a conference in Stockholm this week.

Climate: New study slashes estimate of icecap loss

AFP - Estimates of the rate of ice loss from Greenland and West Antarctica, one of the most worrying questions in the global warming debate, should be halved, according to Dutch and US scientists.

Scientists Drill into Ancient, Underwater Coral Reef

LiveScience.com - A voyage to the outer edges of Australia's Great Barrier Reef has brought back pieces of an ancient, fossilized ancestor to the vast, living ecosystem.