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BBC News
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China has already overtaken the US as the world's "biggest polluter", a report to be published next month says.
The research suggests the country's greenhouse gas emissions have been underestimated, and probably passed those of the US in 2006-2007...
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BBC News
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The preliminary report into the latest outbreak of bird flu in Suffolk concludes that wild birds "may have been" the main source of infection.
But no evidence has yet been found to support this theory.
The report also found that poor biosecurity was..
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BBC News
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Climate change will reverse decades of social and economic progress across Asia, campaigners claim.
A report by a coalition of environment and aid agencies calls for urgent action to avert the threat.
The Working Group on Climate Change and Developm..
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CNN
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The world faces increased hunger and water shortages in the poorest countries, massive floods and avalanches in Asia, and species extinction unless nations adapt to climate change and halt its progress, according to a report approved Friday by an internat..
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Time
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The debate on global warming is over. That's the ultimate message from the report released in Paris today by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the U.N. body of leading researchers charged with analyzing climate science and producing t..
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New York Times
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Scientists from across the world gathered Monday to hammer out the final details of an authoritative report on climate change that is expected to project centuries of rising temperatures and sea levels unless there are curbs in emissions of carbon dioxide..
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BBC News
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The power generated by the proposed Severn Barrage could be produced more cheaply using other green technologies, a report says.
The �15bn dam across the Severn estuary from Cardiff to Weston-Super-Mare in Somerset could supply 5% of the UK's electri..
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BBC News
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Nations should avoid planting biofuel crops that have a high risk of becoming invasive species, a report warns.
A study by the Global Invasive Species Programme (GISP) said only a few countries have systems in place to assess the risk or contain an out..
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BBC News
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The case for nuclear power as a low carbon energy source to replace fossil fuels has been challenged in a new report by Australian academics.
It suggests greenhouse emissions from the mining of uranium - on which nuclear power relies - are on the rise...
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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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Two plants that were thought to have been extinct since the late 1800s have been rediscovered in far northern Australia, according to a report released Saturday.
The Queensland state government's State of the Environment report said the two species wer..
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BBC News
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By 2020 the terms "interface" and "user" will be obsolete as computers merge ever closer with humans.
It is one prediction in a Microsoft-backed report drawn from the discussions of 45 academics from the fields of computing, science, sociology and psyc..
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BBC News
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UK home-owners are not prepared to make the changes needed to live in "zero carbon" homes, according to a report.
People felt the eco-friendly buildings would require extra maintenance and that they would have to cut back on certain appliances, it adde..
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BBC News
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The UK needs a "modal shift" from road to rail if greenhouse gas emissions from transport are to be curbed, a report concludes.
The Institution of Mechanical Engineers (IMechE) says changes are needed to government policies on transport pricing, energy..
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BBC News
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MPs have backed calls for a limited cull of badgers to help prevent the spread of TB in cattle.
A report by the environment select committee says the action should be focused on TB hotspots and form part of a package of control measures.
About 4,000..
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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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A second public consultation into whether new nuclear stations should be built has "failed", a report suggests.
The Nuclear Consultation Working Group said key issues had not been addressed "in any meaningful way" and it had been designed to "provide l..
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BBC News
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Nations must agree an action plan to curb climate change or face an "unprecedented reversal" in human development, a UN assessment warns.
The UN Human Development Report said the poorest nations risked a downward spiral of malnutrition, water scarcity..
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CNN
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Floods, droughts and other climate disasters will rob millions of children of the decent meals and schools they need unless rich nations pony up $86 billion by 2015 to help the poor adapt to global warming, an expert panel has warned. The U.S. government..
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BBC News
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United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has challenged governments to act on the findings of a major new report on climate change.
Launching the latest report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, he said real and affordable ways to..
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