Brazilian state targets global warming
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The governor of Brazil's largest Amazon jungle state signed into law Tuesday legislation aimed at curbing global warming in an area bigger than France and Spain combined.
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Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger on Wednesday signed into law a sweeping global warming initiative that imposes the nation's first cap on greenhouse gas emissions, saying the effort kicks off "a bold new era of environmental protection."
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More than 100 corporate heads, international organizations and experts set out a plan on Tuesday to cut greenhouse gas emissions, calling on governments to act urgently against global warming.
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(90 sec.) U.S. states are crafting policy to contain company carbon emissions.
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By Clarissa Aljentera, The Monterey County Herald, Calif.  Jun. 13--Efforts to stem global warming took a leap to the head of the  class Tuesday at CSU-Monterey Bay.   CSUMB, along with a consortium of U.S.
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BRASILIA -- Burning of the Amazon and other forests accounts for three quarters of Brazil's greenhouse gas emissions and has made the country one of the leading polluters in the world, a long-delayed government report said yesterday.
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Vast tracts of rainforest in Brazil are to get a new status to protect them from unsustainable logging.
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BRASILIA, Jan. 24 -- Brazil said Thursday that it would send additional federal police and environmental agents to the Amazon following an announcement that illegal clearing of the rain forest had jumped dramatically last year.
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RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil  - Brazil's uraniumenrichment plant in Resende will start working before the endof the year after getting a go-ahead from the United Nations'nuclear watchdog, the country's Science and Technology Ministersaid on Wednesday.
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Our South American neighbor expands its production of ethanol and biodiesel. Partnering with Brazil would benefit the economy of a democracy and clean our skies. In Autopia.
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URUCU, Brazil  - A tower of orange flame rises  above the Amazon jungle, firing the energy goals of the  Brazilian government.
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The burning and deforestation of Brazilâs vast Amazon rain forest causes nearly 3% of the worldâs greenhouse gas emissions, according to a government report released yesterday.
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California will become the first state to impose a universal cap on greenhouse gas emissions Wednesday when Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger signs into law a sweeping effort to curb global warming.
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By Andrew Hay BRASILIA, Brazil  - Brazil wants a seat at the toptable of world nations.
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BRASILIA, Brazil  - Brazil made progress in its  ambitious plan to hand out land to poor peasants in 2004, but  still fell short of goals aimed at narrowing chronic wealth  inequality, government data released on Wednesday show.
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California Gov. Arnold   Schwarzenegger's environmental adviser said his mission to   change federal policy on global warming by getting vast regions   of the United States to regulate greenhouse gas emissions will   start with states on the Mexican border.
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By Mario Osava/IFEJ *  RIO DE JANEIRO, Dec. 12, 2006 (IPS/GIN) -- The impoverished population of the Brazilian Northeast is preparing for long-term coexistence with drought.