13 of the Best Climate Change News Stories This Week - 17th July 2009

Posted on 17. Jul, 2009 by Ross in Best Climate News

Energy-Saving News brings you the most important and informative climate change, clean technology and energy efficiency news from the top news, business and science sites of the World Wide Web. This week’s best climate change stories include Europe’s progress on the Nabucco gas pipeline which will circumvent Russia, the UK’s Low Carbon Transition Plan which will result in higher energy prices, and oil giant Exxon teaming up with the brains behind the privately-funded human genome sequence project in order to produce genetically-optimised algae biofuels.

Monday:

BBC - Europe gas pipeline deal agreed

Times - Low-carbon strategy will raise household energy bills by £200 a year

Guardian - Twenty ideas that could save the world

Tuesday:

Gas 2.0 - Students build hydrogen vehicle that gets 1,336 mpg

PlanetSave - Proposed pesticide 5000 times more potent greenhouse gas than CO2

Wednesday:

Energy Saving News - UK Government Plans For A Low Carbon Future With Higher Energy Prices and Green Farming

Wall Street Journal - Biofuels bonanza: Exxon, Venter to team up on algae

Triple Pundit - Unrenewable renewable energy? Iceland may reach geothermal limits

All Africa - Namibia: climate change to strongly impact agriculture

Thursday:

BBC - UN tackles ‘climate harm’ ships

Xinhua - U.S. commerce, energy secretaries highlight co-op with China on climate change

Science - Ancient climate-change event puzzles scientists

Friday:

BBC - Are the deserts getting greener?

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