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19/6/2013
The World Bank is beginning to commit billions of dollars to flood prevention, water management and other projects to help major Asian cities avoid the expected impact of climate change, a dramatic example of how short the horizon has become to ...
19/6/2013
Climate change is just one of the factors behind recent unusual weather patterns in the UK.
That was the conclusion from a Met Office summit of climate scientists convened on Tuesday to investigate the underlying causes of a series of ...
19/6/2013
China launched its first pilot carbon emissions exchange on Tuesday, though plans for a nationwide rollout and efforts to apply the scheme to some polluting heavy industries could be undermined by a slowdown in the world's No.2 ...
19/6/2013
If Chancellor Angela Merkel comes to power after elections in September, Germany may become the latest European country to curb support for renewable energy infrastructure. Amidst the poor economic environment in Europe, a number of countries ...
19/6/2013
G8 leaders have reaffirmed their commitment to cutting levels of greenhouse gases and agreeing a climate change deal in 2015.
Syria and the parlous state of the world economy ensured climate issues were relegated to a G8 foreign ...
19/6/2013
Singaporeans reduced military training exercises, kept cough-stricken children indoors and wore protective masks to work after a smoky haze triggered by forest fires in neighbouring Indonesia caused air pollution to hit its worst level in nearly ...
19/6/2013
First: the story so far. For a few days in July 2012, almost 97% of the surface of Greenland began suddenly to thaw. This was a melt on an unprecedented scale.Greenland carries a burden of three million cubic kilometres of ice and even in ...
19/6/2013
Millions of people around the world are likely to be pushed back into poverty because climate change is undermining economic development in poor countries, the World Bank has warned.
Droughts, floods, heatwaves, sea-level rises and ...
18/6/2013
California state legislators on Tuesday told regulators and oil industry lobbyists they wanted more information about the use of acid to increase flows in wells in a technique that is used more often in the state than the controversial fracking ...
18/6/2013
The United Nation’s Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation (REDD+) program garnered conflicting opinions at the recent UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues (UNPFII), held May 20-31 in New York City.Under REDD+, in return ...
18/6/2013
BERLIN--President Obama on Wednesday will call for the reduction of the number of deployed U.S. strategic nuclear warheads by one-third if the Russian government agrees to similar cuts, reviving a goal outlined early in his presidency to work ...
18/6/2013
The number of homes destroyed by a Colorado wildfire rose above 500 on Tuesday as rain dampened the flames and allowed damage assessment teams to enter charred neighborhoods, and other threatening blazes grew in Alaska and elsewhere in the ...
18/6/2013
When we talk about combating climate, the most obvious issues that come to mind are policies to prevent carbon dioxide emissions - cap-and-trade programs and carbon taxes and environmental regulations. Then there are the technological solutions ...
18/6/2013
The most destructive fire in Colorado state history is being reined in and some evacuation orders are being rescinded, with officials reporting the Black Forest fire 75 percent contained after one week of burning in and around the city of ...
18/6/2013
Cutting our overall use of fossil fuels has proved a daunting challenge, but it might be possible to get some relief from the effects of climate change by selectively reducing the particulate pollution we produce. Recent research suggests that if ...
18/6/2013
A study, based on 149,000 U.S. men and women, has found that eating a diet high in red meat increases risks of developing type-2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM).The study was conducted by An Pan, Ph.D., National University of Singapore, and ...
18/6/2013
The world is on track to see temperature rises of up to 5.3C by the end of the century, the International Energy Agency has warned as it set out swift action governments must take to curb climate change.A global average temperature rise ...
18/6/2013
The final report of a cross-party inquiry into Australia's biodiversity and climate change produced only "weak and ineffective" recommendations and was a missed opportunity to act, the Australian Conservation Foundation said.The House of ...
18/6/2013
Enbridge Inc. has rejected the national energy regulator’s demand to have almost $1-billion in liability coverage set aside for the Northern Gateway project, and is calling for the creation of an industry-bankrolled fund that would help pay for ...
18/6/2013
Gardendale, Texas, sits on the Permian Basin, the largest oil province in the United States. That makes it an unlikely site of anti-fracking protests and an even more unlikely bellwether for shale gas drilling activity in Europe and Asia. And yet ...
18/6/2013
For honey bees, promiscuity leads to genetic diversity which determines the survivability of the colony, according to a new study.The study was conducted by researchers from North Carolina State University, the University of Maryland and ...
18/6/2013
Authorities in Chad have arrested a suspected member of a poaching gang accused of slaughtering nearly 200 elephants and killing five Cameroonian park rangers, the environment minister said on Tuesday.Rising demand for ivory among Asia's ...
18/6/2013
Senior members of the German government have warned EU member states that German automakers could scale back or scrap production plans in their countries unless they support weakened carbon emissions rules, according to diplomatic ...
18/6/2013
China is set to launch its first carbon trading scheme Tuesday in the southern city of Shenzhen. It’s one of seven pilot cities for emissions trading before a national rollout.In the spot light, but compared with Shenzhen government ...
17/6/2013
The Pipeline ProposalThe Great Basin stretches from Utah’s Great Salt Lake to the Sierra Nevada Mountains and from southern Idaho to southern California. About seven inches of rain falls in Nevada a year, and some areas receive less than ...