Climate change and forest health news
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3 December 2009
AFP - Nepalese ministers arrived Thursday in Lukla, one of the main towns in the Everest region, ahead of a high-altitude cabinet meeting to stress the impact of global warming on the Himalayas. [more...]
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3 December 2009
AP - A group of Nepalese ministers reached the Mount Everest region Thursday for a Cabinet meeting being billed as the highest ever — a stunt meant to highlight the threat global warming poses to Himalayan glaciers. [more...]
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3 December 2009
AFP - China's top meteorologist has warned climate change could cause "incalculable" damage to the country and that efforts should focus on adapting to global warming rather than slowing it. [more...]
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3 December 2009
AFP - Australia's Prime Minister Kevin Rudd warned there was no "magic pudding" solution to climate change on Thursday as he lashed out over the defeat of his flagship carbon-trading scheme. [more...]
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3 December 2009
McClatchy Newspapers - WASHINGTON — Promises by the U.S. and other industrialized countries to cut the emissions causing global warming are insufficient to avoid the worst effects of climate change, the United Nations climate chief said Wednesday. [more...]
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2 December 2009
An exclusive study for New Scientist shows that westerners can radically cut carbon emissions and keep their lifestyles [more...]
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2 December 2009
Modelling suggests these cuts will not be enough to head off dangerous climate change – Europe may have to take up the slack [more...]
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1 December 2009
A review of Antarctic climate change forecasts that by 2100 the world's seas will have risen to levels previously thought too extreme to be realistic [more...]
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30 November 2009
New Scientist asked leading scientists, politicians and business people to tell us if the imminent climate change talks can deliver [more...]
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25 November 2009
The US president has given a major boost to next month's Copenhagen talks by offering firm targets for cuts in US greenhouse gas emissions [more...]
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25 November 2009
The release of hundreds of personal emails sent by climate researchers has proved extremely embarrassing [more...]
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25 November 2009
Cutting back on the amount of animal produce we consume would help us meet our emissions reduction targets, and make us healthier into the bargain [more...]
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25 November 2009
The Copenhagen Diagnosis argues that the environment is in a worse state than predicted as recently as 2007 and calls for drastic action [more...]
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24 November 2009
Climate scientists are reeling from the discovery that someone has hacked into the email archive of one of their most prestigious research centres [more...]
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24 November 2009
The East Antarctica ice sheet, which was thought to be stable, is losing billions of tonnes of ice a year – climate change may be the culprit [more...]
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last updated: Monday, February 9, 2009