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BBC News
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Scientists have found new evidence that the Earth's natural feedback mechanism regulated carbon dioxide levels for hundreds of thousands of years.
But they say humans are now emitting CO2 so fast that the planet's natural balancing mechanism cannot kee..
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CNET
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Greenland, that icy land that even the Vikings had trouble colonizing, plays a pretty crucial role when it comes to our planet's climate. Approximately 125,000 years ago, Earth was 3 to 5 degrees Celsius warmer on average than it is today, and sea leve..
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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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BBC News
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St Louis in Senegal is the city most threatened by rising sea levels in the whole of Africa, a senior United Nations official says.
"Climate change is the principal reason," UN Habitat's Alioune Badiane told a conference in St Louis, AFP news agency re..
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BBC News
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Higher atmospheric levels of the greenhouse gas methane noted last year are probably related to emissions from wetlands, especially around the Arctic.
Scientists have found indications that extra amounts of the gas in the Arctic region are of biologica..
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BBC News
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Levels of the greenhouse gas methane in the atmosphere seem to be rising having remained stable for nearly 10 years.
Data from the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration (Noaa) in the US suggest concentrations rose by about 0.5% between..
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BBC News
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Sea levels could rise by up to one-and-a-half metres by the end of this century, according to a new scientific analysis.
This is substantially more than the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) forecast in last year's landmark assessment of..
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BBC News
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Hormone surges among City traders could be partly responsible for driving "boom and bust" economics, say researchers.
A Cambridge University team found testosterone levels were directly linked to the profit they made.
The Proceedings of the National..
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BBC News
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Researchers have warned that winter sports tourism is raising stress levels among rare capercaillie birds.
The Swiss study found activities such as ski-ing, snow-shoeing and hill walking could harm the birds' fitness and their ability to breed.
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BBC News
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Rising sea levels and stormy weather may damage the Giant's Causeway and other coastal areas of Northern Ireland, the National Trust has warned.
A new Trust report says sea level rises of up to a metre this century will affect some of Northern Ireland'..
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BBC News
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The world's sea levels could rise twice as high this century as UN climate scientists have previously predicted, according to a study.
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change proposes a maximum sea level rise of 81cm (32in) this century.
But i..
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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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New Scientist
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Levels of the second most important greenhouse gas in the Earth's atmosphere have levelled off, report atmospheric chemists...
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