News on Geology

UN launches review of criticized climate panel

2010-03-10T12:00:39Z

<div><p>UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said on Wednesday that a group of national science academies would review U.N. climate science to restore trust after a 2007 global warming report was found to have errors.</p><p>The U.N. ANCHORAGE (Reuters) - The world has become far too hot for the aptly named Exit Glacier in Alaska.</p><p>Like many low-altitude glaciers, it's steadily melting, shrinking two miles over the past 200 years as it tries to strike a new balance with rising temperatures.</p><p>At the Chile; map locates the deadly earthquakes over the past year; includes map of plate tectonics and major earthquakes from past week

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EARTHQUAKE PLATES

2010-02-28T12:16:26Z

Map locates the deadly earthquakes over the past year; includes map of plate tectonics and major earthquakes from past week

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Europe eyes underground nuclear waste repositories

2010-02-19T20:15:27Z

<div><p>Three European countries will within 15 years begin disposing of their nuclear waste deep underground, even though the public is not solidly behind the move, officials said.</p><p>In Finland, a deep geological repository where spent nuclear fuel will be disposed of is due to come onstream in 2020, said experts who addressed a forum at the annual meeting of the United States. It's actually been around for some time, with numerous geothermal power plants in California, Nevada and a few other western states. There a...

Montserrat volcano shoots ash 9 miles into sky

2010-02-22T10:01:07Z

<div id="subtitle">Montserrat volcano shoots plume of ash 9 miles into sky, forces evacuation of village</div><div><p>A volcano on Montserrat shot ash some nine miles (15 kilometers) into the sky Thursday, one of its most dramatic events since a devastating 1997 eruption that drove away half the Caribbean island's population.</p&...

NV Energy to buy power from geothermal power plant

2010-02-22T10:17:35Z

<div id="subtitle">NV Energy signs 20-year deal to buy power from Nevada geothermal power plant</div><div><p>Utility NV Energy said Wednesday that it has signed a 20-year deal to buy power from a geothermal power plant being developed by Ram Power Corp. in central Nevada.&l...

Denham Capital invests $108M in Vulcan Power

2010-02-22T12:34:10Z

<div id="subtitle">Denham Capital invests $108 million in Vulcan Power for geothermal buildout</div><div><p>Private-equity firm Denham Capital said Tuesday that it has invested an additional $108 million in Vulcan Power Co., a developer of geothermal energy projects.</p><p>It's Denham's second investment in Vulcan, bringing the total to $166 million....

The StreetSignal Report

2010-02-22T12:50:12Z

<div id="subtitle">China interest focuses investor sights on junior uranium and potash stocks</div><div><p>Junior agriculture and uranium players may soon see signs of life as China tries to buy out a small TSX uranium player in Mongolia and BHP and Vale expand their hunt for potash and phosphates. &...

Indonesia cuts capacity of planned geothermal plants

2010-02-22T14:51:37Z

<div><p>JAKARTA (Reuters) - Indonesia has cut the planned capacity of geothermal power plants it will start building this year by 18 percent to 3,900 megawatts (MW), an official at the mines and energy ministry said on Tuesday.</p><p>Indonesia has established two programmes to incr...

U.N. climate chief rejects resigning over glacier gaffe

2010-02-22T16:04:27Z

<div><p>NEW DELHI (Reuters) - The head of the U.N.'s panel of climate scientists promised on Saturday to tighten research procedures but dismissed talk he should resign over an erroneous projection that Himalayan glaciers would disappear by 2035.</p><p>A 2007 report f...

Glacier alarm 'regrettable error': UN climate head

2010-02-22T16:05:30Z

<div><p>The head of the UN's climate science panel said Saturday a doomsday prediction about the fate of Himalayan glaciers was "a regrettable error" but that he would not resign over the blunder.</p><p>Addressing a press conference in New Delhi, Rajendra Pachauri, ch...

UN climate report riddled with errors on glaciers

2010-02-22T17:26:00Z

<div id="subtitle">Errors discovered in UN report on melting glaciers; scientists say main findings still hold</div><div><p>Five glaring errors were discovered in one paragraph of the world's most authoritative report on global warming, forcing the Nobel Prize-winning panel of climate scientists who wrote it to apologize and p...

UN climate panel regrets Himalaya glacier data in report

2010-02-22T17:42:40Z

<div><p>The UN's climate scientists said on Wednesday that an estimate on the fate of Himalayan glaciers which featured in a benchmark report on global warming had been "poorly substantiated" and was a lapse in standards.</p><p>Charges that the reference was highly inaccurate or overblown have stoked pressure on the

2010-02-22T18:42:23Z

<div><p>OSLO (Reuters) - The U.N. panel of climate scientists expressed regret on Wednesday for exaggerating how quickly Himalayan glaciers are melting in a report that wrongly projected that they could all vanish by 2035.</p><p>Leaders of the UN's top global warming body.</p><p>But Syed Hasnain did acknowledge making comments suggesting that many of the glaciers could disappear by the middle o...

UN: Himalayan glaciers warning not backed up

2010-02-22T17:48:49Z

<div id="subtitle">UN climate panel: Dire Himalayan glacier warning not backed up by scientific evidence</div><div><p>A U.N. warning that Himalayan glaciers were melting faster than any other place in the world and may be gone by 2035 was not backed up by science, U.N. climate experts said Wednesday — an admission that could energize climate change critics.</p>&lt...

UN examines dire Himalayas prediction from 2007

2010-02-22T17:50:19Z

<div id="subtitle">UN climate official cites unclear evidence in dire Himalaya glacier projection from 2007</div><div><p>A key U.N. climate change panel member says a projection by the group on how fast the Himalayan glaciers are melting appears to lack scientific evidence.</p><p>The U.N. UN's panel of climate scientists said on Monday it would probe claims its doomsday prediction for the disappearance of Himalayan glaciers was wrong as an expert said he had warned of the mistake.</p><p>The Nobel-winning Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change ...