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PARIS (AFP) — British art rockers Radiohead bring their
environmental message to continental Europe on Monday with a series of
low-carbon but sold-out shows to promote their new album, In Rainbows.

After
breaking all the music industry's rules by giving away their seventh
studio album for as much or as little as fans wanted to pay for it, the
five-piece band from Oxford have decided their latest tour will also
set new standards in green awareness.

Prime Minister Kevin Rudd says the government will await the outcome of the Garnaut report on climate change, before it decides whether it will include petrol in its emissions trading policy.

Mr Rudd has criticised the opposition for changing its stance on the issue of a carbon trading scheme, saying it contradicts the opposition's views prior to the last election.

But its feared the introduction of petrol into an emissions trading scheme would put further pressure on petrol prices.

ELLINGTON, NEW ZEALAND -- Over thousands of years of evolution, sheep, cattle and other cud chewers developed a nasty habit. They burp and break wind a lot.

That gives New Zealand a distressing gas problem.

The country's 4 million people share two islands in the South Pacific with 40 million sheep, 9 million beef and dairy cattle and more than a million farmed deer, all producing the methane that many climate scientists say is one of the worst culprits behind global warming.

Planet Earth is on a roll!
GPP is way up. NPP is way up. To the surprise of those who have been bearish on the planet, the data shows global production has been steadily climbing to record levels, ones not seen since these measurements began.

GPP is Gross Primary Production, a measure of the daily output of the global biosphere -- the amount of new plant matter on land. NPP is Net Primary Production, an annual tally of the globe's production. Biomass is booming. The planet is the greenest it's been in decades, perhaps in centuries.

Campaigners have joined forces to wipe out potentially harmful landfill sites.

Zero Landfill has been set up by actions groups in Thakeham and Washington, near Storrington, and Small Dole, near Steyning.

The campaigners hope to end the practice of burying rotting rubbish underground.

They say landfill is harmful to the environment because the break-down of waste produces greenhouse gases. Landfill sites could also damage the health of people living close by them by polluting local water supplies.

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Professor Ross Garnaut, author of the Australian government's climate change review, has warned that the world will face severe consequences, if policy makers ignore the economic impact of global warming.

In an article published in the Australian National University's biannual, Asian-Pacific Economic Literature, Professor Ross Garnaut likened the shocking economic impacts of unexpected climate change events could rival the Great Depression of the 1930s.

Notre Dame RC Girls' School is reducing its carbon emissions by 106 tonnes a year thanks to a donation which will also offset 50 per cent of the sponsor's emissions.

Notre Dame Roman Catholic Girls' School has cut its emissions by installing improved heating controls, lighting controls, motion sensors and insulation around exposed pipes.

Climate Change Minister faces fierce lobbying from fossil fuel companies as she draws up plans to reduce carbon emissions, write Marian Wilkinson and Ben Cubby.

Barossa winery waste water is being used to water vineyards at Nuriootpa.

Senator Penny Wong, Federal Minister for Climate Change and Water, was in the Barossa last week to open a water recycling plant.

"Waste water from wineries is now being recycled at the North Para Environmental Control Waste Water Treatment Plant and piped to seven Barossa vineyards for reuse in irrigation," Senator Wong said.