Near-Bankrupt Italy Faces $60 Billion Solar Bill | JunkScience.com

Italy will move to reduce taxpayer subsidies to its renewable energy sector after last year’s boom in solar power, Industry Minister Corrado Passera says. Some estimates contend the feed-in tariffs paid to photovoltaic user/generators will amount to $59 billion over the next 20 years.

Roger Pielke Jr.'s Blog: An Interview with an Activist Journalist

In the CJR interview, Gillis is remarkably candid and in doing so he provides a clear sense of where he is coming from -- the perspective that he brings is not plain vanilla journalism that you might expect from the paper of record, but journalism colored with a heavy tinge of yellow.

Architects float answers to rising seas around the world | Lansing State Journal | lansingstatejournal.com

Around the world, architects and city planners are exploring ways mankind and water may be able to coexist as oceans rise and other phenomenon induced by climate change, including extreme, erratic floods, threaten land-rooted living.

VIDEO: Adelaide protest arrests 'climate criminals' | Green Left Weekly

Street theatre from the "Adelaide March 4 Survival" on March 31. The protest was organised by CLEAN (the Climate Emergency Action Network). The action connected the dots between extreme weather and climate change, and demanding solar thermal for Port Augusta.

Climate change sinks the Matterhorn | Northern Rivers Environment | Environmental News in Northern Rivers | Northern Rivers Echo

the mountain - one of Europe's tallest and most celebrated peaks - is falling to bits due to climate change, according to a new scientific report.