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Scientists say warming threatening Fla.
AP   Thursday, 01 June 2006

NASA handout satellite image shows Hurricane Ophelia, in September 2005. US researchers said human-induced climate change could be fueling increasingly active and deadly hurricane cycles.(AFP/NASA/File)AP - Florida's governor cautiously entered the debate Wednesday over whether rising global temperatures are to blame for an increase in the number of strong hurricanes, meeting with two researchers who say global warming is threatening Florida with a long-term future of more bad storms.
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EPA holds course on utility mercury rules
Reuters   Thursday, 01 June 2006
Reuters - The Bush administration on Wednesday reaffirmed contentious rules that aim to cut toxic mercury emissions from coal-fired utilities by 70 percent by 2018 by letting plants swap pollution rights.
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Climate change could fuel fiercer hurricane cycles
AFP   Thursday, 01 June 2006

NASA handout satellite image shows Hurricane Ophelia, in September 2005. US climatologists said Caribbean and US coastlines are under greater threat in this year's tropical storm season with five out of nine projected hurricanes expected to rank as intense storms.(AFP/NASA/File)AFP - Human-induced climate change could be fueling increasingly active and deadly hurricane cycles, US researchers said, a day ahead of the official Atlantic hurricane season's start on Thursday.
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Landing Sites Debated for Next Mars Rover
SPACE.com / LiveScience.com   Wednesday, 31 May 2006
SPACE.com / LiveScience.com - PASADENA, California - When NASA's next wheeled robot--the Mars Science Laboratory--rockets skyward in 2009, the mega-rover will carry the largest, most sophisticated array of science gear ever shot to the martian surface.
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Competition Heats Up for NASA's Space Cargo Contract
SPACE.com / LiveScience.com   Wednesday, 31 May 2006
SPACE.com / LiveScience.com - With NASA's shuttle fleet to retire and a looming gap before a new spaceship debuts, the stage is set for private firms hoping to offer commercial cargo and crew services to the International Space Station (ISS).
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China growth unsustainable on all counts, must change: economist
AFP   Wednesday, 31 May 2006

Director of US-based Earth Policy Institute Lester Brown, seen here during a March 2005 presentation in Beijing, said China's growth model, based on the West's economic model with its massive appetite for resources and increasing environmental degradation is unsustainable and will have to change.(AFP/File)AFP - China's growth model, based on the West's economic model with its massive appetite for resources and increasing environmental degradation is unsustainable and will have to change, a leading environmentalist said.
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NASA swaps shuttle motors for new rocket
Reuters   Wednesday, 31 May 2006

A Boeing Delta 4 rocket lifts off from the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Cape Canaveral, Florida May 24, 2006. NASA is dumping plans for a throw-away version of the space shuttle's main engines for its planned cargo launcher and will instead buy existing rocket engines used on Boeing Co.'s Delta 4 boosters, U.S. space agency officials said on Tuesday. (Joe Skipper/Reuters)Reuters - NASA is dumping plans for a throw-away version of the space shuttle's main engines for its planned cargo launcher and will instead buy existing rocket engines used on Boeing Co.'s Delta 4 boosters, U.S. space agency officials said on Tuesday.
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The Tricky Task of Aerobraking at Mars
SPACE.com / LiveScience.com   Wednesday, 31 May 2006
SPACE.com / LiveScience.com - DENVER, Colorado--Round and round it goes, and where it ends up is a matter of aerobraking for the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, NASA's newest spacecraft to explore the red planet.
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Dueling Drawing Boards: Sizing up the CEV Designs
SPACE.com / LiveScience.com   Friday, 26 May 2006
SPACE.com / LiveScience.com - Leading aerospace contractors are eagerly awaiting NASA's multi-billion dollar decision on who'll build the space agency's follow-on to the space shuttle now set for retirement in 2010.
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Kyoto states to discuss post-2012 cuts
Reuters   Friday, 26 May 2006

A cyclist rides past a wall of paintings outside the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Montreal, November 30, 2005. Countries that are signed up to the Kyoto Protocol reaffirmed plans on Friday to set new, tougher caps on greenhouse gas emissions after 2012, despite spreading skepticism about the environmental pact. (Christinne Muschi/Reuters)Reuters - Countries that are signed up to the Kyoto Protocol reaffirmed plans on Friday to set new, tougher caps on greenhouse gas emissions after 2012, despite spreading skepticism about the environmental pact.
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Funding deficit threatens Kyoto CO2 trade: UN body
Reuters   Friday, 26 May 2006

A man looks at a pamphlet left behind by the environmental group 'Friends of the Earth' outside the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Montreal, November 29, 2005. A lack of funding could stall a key plank in the Kyoto Protocol helping Western countries to meet their greenhouse gas emission targets, UN officials overseeing the process said on Thursday. (Christinne Muschi/Reuters)Reuters - A lack of funding could stall a key plank in the Kyoto Protocol helping Western countries to meet their greenhouse gas emission targets, UN officials overseeing the process said on Thursday.
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