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Climate change is the biggest threat facing low-lying islands in the Pacific Ocean, a conference of regional agriculture ministers in the Marshall Is [ Read More ] »
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Global banking giant HSBC donated 50 million pounds (73.5 million euros, 98.8 million dollars) Wednesday to set up a "green task force" to tackle c [ Read More ] »
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AFP - The United States will call at the upcoming G8 summit for a new accord on climate change that binds only the countries that contribute most to [ Read More ] »
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US President George W. Bush said Thursday he would urge major industrialized nations at a summit next week to join a new global framework for fightin [ Read More ] »
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Climate change is making forest fires around the world bigger and more intense, increasing the threat to people and the environment and costing count [ Read More ] »
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Purdue University researchers have found evidence that tropical cyclones and hurricanes play an important role in the ocean circulation patterns that transport heat and maintain the climate of North [ Read More ] »
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The so-called thermohaline conveyor belt--a strong northward flow of warm water near the surface of the Atlantic balanced by a southward flow of cold water near the bottom--carries heat from warm equatorial regions to the frigid north, keeping Europ [ Read More ] »
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President Bush this week called on the world's top emitters of greenhouse gases warming the world to set a "long-term goal" for reducing such pollution, but was vague on how to complete the task. [ Read More ] »
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Global negotiations on stabilizing greenhouse gas emissions in the period after 2012 will commence in Bali in December 2007. The main emitting nations--including Brazil, Canada, China, the European Union, India, Mexico, South Africa and the U.S.--ha [ Read More ] »
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Global negotiations on stabilizing greenhouse gas emissions in the period after 2012 will commence in Bali in December. The main emitters--including Brazil, Canada, China, the European Union, India, Mexico, South Africa and the U.S.--have recently a [ Read More ] »
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The enormity of global warming can be daunting and dispiriting. What can one person, or even one nation, do on their own to slow and reverse climate change? But just as ecologist Stephen Pacala and physicist Robert Socolow, both at Princeton Univers [ Read More ] »
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The preponderance of scientific evidence makes clear that the earth is warming as a result of human activity. Now policy makers are faced with the question of what to do about it. Scientific American spoke with three leading economic policy thinkers [ Read More ] »
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