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BBC News
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The global demand for energy is set to grow inexorably through to 2030 if governments do not change their policies, warns a top energy official.
Nobuo Tanaka, executive director of the International Energy Agency (IEA), said such a rise would threaten..
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BBC News
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Turning salt water into drinking water is not a solution to tackle global water scarcity, the WWF has said.
A report by the environmental group said a growth in the energy intensive technology would increase emissions and damage coastal and river habit..
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Live Science
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The same volcanic eruptions that sundered Greenland from Western Europe and created Iceland also triggered intense global warming 55 million years ago, scientists say.
“There has been evidence in the marine record of this period of global warming, an..
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CNN
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While governments grapple with the politics of global warming, some of the world's greatest treasures already are being damaged and threatened with destruction.
Conservationists have drawn up priorities for action to salvage some of nature's wonders th..
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CNN
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Some climates may disappear from Earth entirely, not just from their current locations, while new climates could develop if the planet continues to warm, a study says.
Such changes would endanger some plants and animals while providing new opportunitie..
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www.canadafreepress.com
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Global Warming, as we think we know it, doesn't exist. And I am not the only one trying to make people open up their eyes and see the truth...
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Spiegel.de
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Trumping all previous estimates, one German climatologist believes global sea levels could rise as much as 140 centimeters by the end of the century. That could mean catastrophic hurricanes and floods. But other experts discount the significance of the ne..
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CNN
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Air pollution may be just the thing to fight global warming, some scientists say...
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Reuters
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Unchecked climate change could drive up to 72 per cent of the world's bird species into extinction but the world still has a chance to limit the losses, conservation group WWF said in a report on Tuesday...
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Forbes
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The United States is doing better lately than some countries in restraining growth of global warming gases, and it isn't likely to change its stand against mandatory controls, a U.S. negotiator said Monday as 5,000 delegates opened the annual U.N. climat..
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BBC News
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Climate change is "significantly amplifying" the threats facing the world's bird populations, a global assessment has concluded.
The 2008 IUCN Bird Red List warns that long-term droughts and extreme weather puts additional stress on key habitats.
Th..
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BBC News
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Major changes in the Earth's natural systems are being driven by global warming, according to a vast analysis.
Glacier and permafrost melting, earlier spring-time, coastal erosion and animal migrations are among the observations laid at the door of man..
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BBC News
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The global agriculture system will have to change radically if the world is to avoid future environmental and social problems, a report has warned.
The study, commissioned by the UN and World Bank, concluded that while recent advances had increased foo..
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MSNBC
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While natural cycles remove roughly half of human-emitted carbon dioxide from the atmosphere within a hundred years, a significant portion persists for thousands of years. Some of this carbon triggers deep-sea warming, which keeps raising the global avera..
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BBC News
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Unique marine life in Antarctica will be at risk from an invasion of sharks, crabs and other predators if global warming continues, scientists warn.
Crabs are poised to return to the Antarctic shallows, threatening creatures such as giant sea spiders a..
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BBC News
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Only about 4% of the world's oceans remain undamaged by human activity, according to the first detailed global map of human impacts on the seas.
A study in Science journal says climate change, fishing, pollution and other human factors have exacted a h..
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BBC News
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The risk of a fatal heatwave in the UK within five years is high, but overall global warming may mean fewer deaths due to temperature, a report says.
A seriously hot summer between now and 2012 could claim more than 6,000 lives, the Department of Healt..
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BBC News
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The president of the European Commmission has threatened to impose carbon tariffs on imports unless the US agrees to a global climate change deal.
Jose Manuel Barroso wants to protect energy-intensive sectors such as aluminium, steel and cement.
He..
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BBC News
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The first global map of magnetic peculiarities - or anomalies - on Earth has been assembled by an international team of researchers.
Magnetic anomalies are caused by differences in the magnetisation of the rocks in the Earth's crust.
Many years of n..
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BBC News
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Carbon dioxide (CO2) levels in the atmosphere have risen 35% faster than expected since 2000, says a study.
International scientists found that inefficiency in the use of fossil fuels increased levels of CO2 by 17%.
The other 18% came from a decline..
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