NEW YORK (Reuters) - Nobel Peace Prize winner and environmental crusader Al Gore urged young people on Wednesday to engage in civil disobedience to stop the construction of coal plants without the ability to store carbon.
SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Global carbon emissions rose rapidly in 2007, an annual study says, with developing nations such as China and India now producing more than half of mankind's output of carbon dioxide, the main gas blamed for global warming.
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The European Union banned on Thursday all exports of mercury from the 27-nation bloc from 2011 in a bid to cut global supplies of the toxic metal.
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Rhode Island picked Deepwater Wind to develop an offshore wind farm expected to cost more than $1 billion and provide about 15 percent of the state's electricity, state Gov. Donald Carcieri said in a release Thursday.
SOFIA (Reuters) - The Bulgarian government decided on Thursday to revive communist era projects to build several hydro-power plants with Romania on the river Danube with total capacity of over 1,000 megawatts.
