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Palm Oil: the Biofuel of the Future Driving an Ecological Disaster Now |
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Wednesday, 04 April 2007 |
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(The Guardian) -- The numbers are damning. Within 15 years 98% of the rainforests of
Indonesia and Malaysia will be gone, little more than a footnote in
history. With them will disappear some of the world's most important
wildlife species, victims of the rapacious destruction of their habitat
in what conservationists see as a lost cause.
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Global Warming Driving Australian Fish South: Report |
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Wednesday, 04 April 2007 |
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SYDNEY (Reuters) - Global warming is starting to have a
significant impact on Australian marine life, driving fish and
seabirds south and threatening coral reefs, Australia's premier
science organization said on Wednesday.
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Poor Nations to Bear Brunt as World Warms |
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Wednesday, 04 April 2007 |
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(NY Times) -- The world’s richest countries, which have contributed by far the most to the atmospheric changes linked to global warming, are already spending billions of dollars to limit their own risks from its worst consequences, like drought and rising seas.
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Report to Project Climate Impact |
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Wednesday, 04 April 2007 |
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BRUSSELS, BELGIUM (AP) -- A U.N. conference on climate change opened Monday
with the EU's top environment official calling on the United States to
join efforts to curb global warming.
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US 'Must Regulate Car Pollution' |
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Monday, 02 April 2007 |
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(BBC News) -- The highest court in the US has ruled that the
government was wrong to say it did not have the power to regulate
exhaust gases from new cars and trucks.
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Castro Criticizes U.S. Biofuel Policies |
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Thursday, 29 March 2007 |
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HAVANA (AP) -- Fidel Castro lashes out against U.S. biofuel plans in an
op-ed piece published Thursday, a sign Cuba's 80-year-old leader may be
taking a more active role in public affairs after months sidelined by a
still undisclosed illness.
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Senate Seeks Energy Pacts with India, China |
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Thursday, 29 March 2007 |
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WASHINGTON (Times of India) --
The US Senate Foreign Relations Committee has approved two measures seeking
formal agreements with India and China on international energy crisis response
mechanisms and engaging them in a dialogue on climate
change.
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If We Want to Save the Planet, We Need a Five-Year Freeze on Biofuels |
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Tuesday, 27 March 2007 |
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(Guardian Unlimited) -- It used to be a matter of good intentions gone awry. Now it is plain
fraud. The governments using biofuel to tackle global warming know that
it causes more harm than good.
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Africa: Is Africa Ready for Nuclear Energy? |
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Tuesday, 27 March 2007 |
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(The Herald) -- Southern Africa is facing energy shortages as climatic changes
intermittently turn off the switch on hydroelectric power generation
and oil prices remain exorbitantly high.
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Norway Strikes Deal with China on Climate |
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Tuesday, 27 March 2007 |
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BEIJING (Reuters) -- Chinese leaders are concerned about global
warming, but tying rising temperatures to more pressing concerns over
local pollution could be the best way to encourage Beijing to act,
Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg of Norway said.
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NASA Finds Sun-Climate Connection in Old Nile Records |
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Saturday, 24 March 2007 |
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(NASA) -- Long-term climate records are a key to understanding how Earth's
climate changed in the past and how it may change in the future. Direct
measurements of light energy emitted by the sun, taken by satellites and other modern scientific techniques, suggest variations in the sun's
activity influence Earth's long-term climate. However, there were no
measured climate records of this type until the relatively recent
scientific past.
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Climate Change, a Threat to Developing Economies |
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Saturday, 24 March 2007 |
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CHENNAI (The Hindu) -- The rise in global temperature levels is emerging as a serious
threat to the economies of all countries, especially the poor and
developing ones, according to Dmitri Zenghelis, U.K. Government
Economic Advisor and lead author of the Stern Review on the Economics
of Climate Change.
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Secretary Bodman in Mumbai to Highlight Civil Nuclear Energy Cooperation |
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Friday, 23 March 2007 |
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MUMBAI, INDIA (PressZoom) -- U.S. Secretary
of Energy Samuel W. Bodman today met with Dr. Anil Kakodkar, Secretary
of the Department of Atomic Energy, in Mumbai to address the United
States and India’s nuclear cooperation and highlight the countries’
ongoing partnership to advance global energy security. Earlier today,
Secretary Bodman met with U.S. and Indian venture capitalists to
discuss opportunities for investment in clean energy technologies.
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Climate Expert Nicholas Stern To Visit Australia |
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Friday, 23 March 2007 |
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SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA (AHN) -- Sir Nicholas
Stern, former World Bank economist and author of the climate change
Stern Report will visit Australia next week to deliver his message on
global warming.
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Antarctic Melting May Be Speeding Up |
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Friday, 23 March 2007 |
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HOBART (Reuters) - Rising sea levels and melting polar ice-sheets are
at upper limits of projections, leaving some human population centers
already unable to cope, top world scientists say as they analyse latest
satellite data.
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Dirty Air Becomes Divisive Issue in Hong Kong Vote |
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Friday, 23 March 2007 |
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HONG KONG (NY Times) -- Worsening air pollution has become one of the most contentious issues
in the vote on Sunday for Hong Kong’s next chief executive, with the
incumbent blaming emissions drifting across the border from mainland
China for the problem while his challenger contends that Hong Kong is
not doing enough to address the issue.
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Climate Change Conference of Key Nations Achieves 'Important Progress' - UN Official |
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Wednesday, 21 March 2007 |
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(United Nations) -- Government ministers from key industrialized and developing nations
attending a climate change conference in Germany at the weekend
achieved “important progress” on a series of issues, a senior United
Nations environmental official has said.
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Cars Bear Brunt of Green Taxation |
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Wednesday, 21 March 2007 |
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(BBC News) -- Drivers of the biggest and most polluting vehicles
are to see car tax almost double to £400 by April 2008, Chancellor
Gordon Brown has said.
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Meteorologists Say Sure Humans Cause Climate Change |
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Wednesday, 21 March 2007 |
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MADRID (Reuters) - Some of the world's leading
meteorologists said on Wednesday they had no doubt that humans
were responsible for global warming.
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007: Licence to Kill the Planet |
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Tuesday, 20 March 2007 |
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(Guardian Unlimited) -- It's official: James Bond is no role model for environmentalists. His
car of choice in Casino Royale is a variation of Aston Martin's DB9,
which ranks among the top 10 worst performers in the Environmental
Transport Association's (ETA) 2007 Car Buyer's Guide, launched this
morning.
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House Panel Spars Over Changes White House Ordered in Climate Studies |
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Tuesday, 20 March 2007 |
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(CQ) -- The White House selectively made several hundred changes in scientific
reports to exaggerate uncertainty about the human contribution to
global warming, a House committee reported Monday, citing newly
released administration documents.
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Environ Meet Ends without Reaching Agreement on Climate Change |
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Tuesday, 20 March 2007 |
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(Zee News) -- Berlin, March 20: With the US and China refusing to
specifiy to what extent they will reduce their greenhouse gas
emissions, leaders of G-8 countries and five threshold nations
including India ended an environment meet without reaching an
agreement on how to combat the climate change issue.
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Using Solar Energy to Keep Homes Cool |
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Tuesday, 20 March 2007 |
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(CNET) -- SolCool One has developed what many people would expect to already be commonplace: An air conditioner that runs off the sun. Later this week, the California-based company will launch the SolCool Millennia version 4, which it calls a hybrid solar air conditioner.
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G8 + 5 Environment Ministers Confer on Climate, Biodiversity |
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Friday, 16 March 2007 |
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POTSDAM (ENS) --
The environment ministers of the eight leading
industrialized countries, the G8, opened their annual meeting in
Potsdam on Thursday. The two days of consultation are focused on ways
to preserve biological diversity and combat climate change.
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Arctic Ocean May Lose All Its Ice by 2040, Disrupting Global Weather |
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Friday, 16 March 2007 |
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(Guardian Unlimited) -- Rapidly thinning Arctic sea ice may have reached a tipping point that
threatens to disrupt global weather patterns, bringing intense winter
storms and heavier rainfall to western Europe, scientists warn today.
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Push to Fix Ozone Layer and Slow Global Warming |
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Friday, 16 March 2007 |
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HONG KONG (NY Times) -- An unusual coalition of industrial and developing
countries began pushing Wednesday for stringent limits on the world’s
most popular refrigerant for air-conditioners, as evidence mounts that
the refrigerant harms the earth’s ozone layer and contributes to global warming.
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Russia: Pipeline Deal Raises Energy Dependence Concerns |
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Friday, 16 March 2007 |
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MOSCOW (RFE/RL) -- Russia,
Greece, and Bulgaria have signed a long-awaited deal to build a
trans-Balkan pipeline that will boost oil supplies to Western markets.
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Radar 'Saves Bats at Wind Farms' |
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Thursday, 15 March 2007 |
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(BBC News) -- Bats at risk of being killed by the growing number of wind farms could be saved with the use of radars.
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SA Must Lead Movement for Climate Change: Stern |
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Thursday, 15 March 2007 |
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(SABC News) -- Nicholas Stern, the author of Stern review on the Economic of Climate Change,
has called on South Africa to take the lead in Africa in pushing
climate change to the top of the international agenda. The government
has also spelled out its "Climate Roadmap" in a bid to mitigate the
effects of global warming.
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Gore Calls on Pension Funds to Consider Climate Change |
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Thursday, 15 March 2007 |
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(London Stock Exchange) -- Speaking at the National Association of Pension
Funds investment conference in Edinburgh this week, former US vice
president Al Gore urged pension fund trustees to consider global
warming when making investment decisions.
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