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Active Planet: Earthquakes rock the world; small tsunami; storms kill dozens

The earthquake in Haiti would have flattened the country if there was much to flatten; as it is the devastation to the poor has been unimaginable - made worse by the spectacularly bizarre decision this week to charge those who sent aid import duties. A larger earthquake in Chile yesterday had much less obvious effect but set off Tsumani alerts around the Pacific Rim; and at 20:14 local time, buildings in Malaysia's capital Kuala Lumpur began to sway, usually an indication of a large earthquake in Indonesia. Across in Europe, in the past 48 hours, winds of 175kph have driven storms that have killed dozens over a wide area.




 
Active Planet: agreement to reduce wasted fish

The Fisheries Council of the European Commission has agreed to a proposal by the UK Government to take action to reduce the number of fish caught, killed and thrown away by commercial fishermen....

Active Planet: Talking to GE: their take on business needing a framework

Thinking about business’ desire for a framework as an excuse to act slowly and inefficiently on climate change adaptation and mitigation, I gave these questions to General Electric (GE), who prov...

Active Planet: Getting to the Meat of Climate Change

Copenhagen Diary: Present meat consumption in industrialized countries is unsustainable. Taking meat as a case-study, this session will discuss how far governments can go in influencing lifestyle...

Active Planet: HP’s video conferencing studio set to ground work-related air travel

You might be reading this article with a Hewlett Packard (HP) computer. If you are, well done, you bought the ECO choice.

Active Planet: New Yorker indicted for breaching Clean Air Act

Anyone who watched The Sopranos would have thought the air in New York to be permanently blue. Apparently not, and charges have been laid against David Vega and Francis Rowe alleging failures in...

Active planet: Asia-Pacific rocks as earthquakes rumble around region

Shortly before 3:40 yesterday afternoon, the coffee in the cup alongside my keyboard started to "tide" back and forth, the front of my head began to sense motion, like being on a boat i...

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