Today's big stories from the nuclear industry:
New Greenpeace Chief Calls for Sustainable, Nuclear-Free Power Supply
âKumi Naidoo was appointed executive director of the environmental campaign group Greenpeace International this month after two decades leading civil society groups in Africa and internationally. Mr. Naidoo, 44, who is from South Africa, [...]
Pratt & Whitney and Saudi Arabian Airlines signed an agreement expanding Pratt & Whitney’s EcoPower engine wash service network to The Middle East / North Africa. The agreement provides for Saudi Arabian Airlines to wash its own engines and provide engine wash services to other commercial airlines that fly [...]
Kumi Naidoo, the new Executive Director of Greenpeace International, writes:
In several African languages we have the proverb âI am, because you areâ. This means that your sense of being a human being is determined by the relationships you have with other people. This proverb has informed not only my [...]
Living on the roof of Africa, the Ethiopian wolf is one of the world's rarest carnivores, if not the rarest! Trapped on a few mountain islands rising over 4,000 meters above sea level on either/both sides of the Great Rift Valley, this unique canid has so far survived [...] 
Giraffes are the world’s tallest creatures and are well known around the world. A decade ago, there were 140,000 giraffes in Africa, today there are less than 100,000. The reasons are varied but essentially boil down to human interference. Poaching, increasing human populations, numerous wars [...]
Jeff Tollefson; cross-posted from In the Field
And now I'll take a look at the major developing countries, as promised both yesterday and today. A new analysis of climate commitments by the six biggest emerging economies - Brazil, China, India, South Africa, Mexico and South Korea - suggests that their' [...]
Jeff Tollefson; cross-posted from In the Field
Following up on yesterday's agreement, the leader of the African Group said during an afternoon press conference he is "guardedly optimistic" about the talks going forward.
But Sudan's Lumumba Di-Aping refused to give any ground on developing countries' demands that rich countries curb' [...]
UN climate change talks in Barcelona have stalled as African countries say the world's rich nations must do more to cut emissions.
Talks over how to cut back global carbon emissions to ease the effects of climate change have broken down, with African nations arguing that rich nations [...]
Today's big stories from the nuclear industry:
Niger Leader rewrites rules to keep power
âThe cause of democracy in Africa could have done without this latest affront. Barely six months after giving the French president an undertaking that he would leave power at the [...]
Cross posted from Grist
African negotiators at the U.N. climate talks in Barcelona just refused to continue formal discussions about all other issues until wealthy countries live up to their legal and moral responsibility to commit to deep emissions reductions. Rich countries (also called “Annex 1 countries”) have ground negotiations [...]
The most recent survey among the ice fields atop Mount Kilimanjaro found that the ice atop Africa's most famous mountain could be gone in twenty years—and maybe even sooner. Published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science the study was conducted by a team of researchers [...] Climate Change and Malaria in Africa: Limiting carbon emissions won't do much to stop disease in Zambia
When he first got sick, Samson Banda didn't realize he had malaria. Only after he came down with a serious fever did he end up at a clinic in [...]
For a group of 20th-century leaders called the Elders -- whose members include Archbishop Tutu of South Africa, former President Jimmy Carter and Mary Robinson, a former Irish [...]
The role forests play in the overall existence on this planet should never be underestimated. Forests are home to millions of species, absorb carbon dioxide, produce their own microclimates and play a vital role in water systems. However, deforestation is destroying many forests around the [...]
As the clock ticks towards the climate change talks in Copenhagen, Africa has now declared that it will not accept a new pact to replace the Kyoto Protocol.
The African negotiators have also stated that neither will they accept a merger of the protocol that [...]
