Massive fault found beneath Japan’s Mount Fuji

TOKYO | Fri May 11, 2012 7:13am EDT TOKYO (Reuters) – Japan’s Mount Fuji may be sitting on a large, active fault that could trigger a magnitude-7 earthquake, changing the shape of the mountain and devastating nearby communities, the education ministry said on Thursday. A survey commissioned by the ministry found a 30-km fault beneath [...]

Eastern rattlesnake slithers closer to U.S. endangered list

By Verna Gates BIRMINGHAM, Alabama | Fri May 11, 2012 4:27pm EDT BIRMINGHAM, Alabama (Reuters) – The eastern diamondback rattlesnake, North America’s largest venomous snake, may need its own antidote. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is considering adding the reptile to the Endangered Species List to restrict its hunting, killing and sale. “We are [...]

Analysis: Canada may seek to silence some foes of new pipeline

By Jeffrey Jones CALGARY, Alberta | Fri May 11, 2012 7:44am EDT CALGARY, Alberta (Reuters) – Some opponents of the proposed C$5.5 billion ($5.5 billion) Northern Gateway oil pipeline to Canada’s Pacific Coast may not get a chance to be heard as scheduled by the regulatory panel looking at the plan because of federal government [...]

Insight: Canada’s oil sand battle with Europe

BRUSSELS/OTTAWA (Reuters) – There’s a science to using science. On May 9, the government of Alberta released a study into the extra carbon emitted by crude produced using oil sands instead of more conventional sources. The study, by a unit of California-based Jacobs Engineering Group, found that emissions from oil-sand crude are just 12 percent [...]

Vermont poised to be first state to outlaw fracking

By Jason McLure Tue May 8, 2012 4:21pm EDT (Reuters) – Vermont will be the first state to outlaw a controversial oil and gas drilling method known as fracking when Governor Peter Shumlin signs a bill banning the practice, a largely symbolic move given the state’s apparent lack of energy reserves. Hydraulic fracturing has helped [...]

EU nations get cold feet over climate change fund

By Barbara Lewis BRUSSELS | Mon May 7, 2012 2:10pm EDT BRUSSELS (Reuters) – EU nations have yet to come up with a plan on how to fill a multi-billion euro fund to help tackle climate change, even as the region’s executive body hosts talks with countries likely to bear the brunt of extreme weather. [...]

Norway opens major facility to test carbon capture

By Nerijus Adomaitis MONGSTAD, Norway | Mon May 7, 2012 2:53pm EDT MONGSTAD, Norway (Reuters) – Norway on Monday launched the world’s largest facility of its kind to develop carbon capture and storage (CCS), the so-far commercially unproven technology that would allow greenhouse gases from power plants to be buried safely underground. A 5.8 million [...]

U.N. to rule on carbon offsets from coal plants

LONDON | Tue May 8, 2012 3:52am EDT LONDON May 8 (Reuters Point Carbon) – The main U.N.-appointed panel that regulates supply of global carbon offsets could this week decide whether to approve rules that would lead to the award of millions of CO2 credits to coal-fired power stations in developing countries, according to meeting [...]

European slump leads utilities to burn more coal

By Henning Gloystein and Jeff Coelho LONDON | Tue May 8, 2012 8:34am EDT LONDON (Reuters) – Europe’s economic slump is allowing utilities in some countries to burn increasing amounts of cheap, highly polluting coal for electricity generation and still meet legally binding targets to cut carbon dioxide emissions, Reuters research shows. The EU’s carbon [...]

Club of Rome sees 2 degree Celsius rise in 40 years

By Nina Chestney LONDON | Tue May 8, 2012 10:11am EDT LONDON (Reuters) – Rising carbon dioxide emissions will cause a global average temperature rise of 2 degrees Celsius by 2052 and a 2.8 degree rise by 2080, as governments and markets are unlikely to do enough against climate change, the Club of Rome think [...]

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