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Caradache, a site for nuclear reactor
France chosen as site for nuclear reactor By VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER PARIS -- France was chosen Tuesday as the home for an experimental $13 billion nuclear fusion project scientists say will produce a boundless source of clean and...
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Deforestation in Amazonia
Amazon destruction accelerating By Steve Kingstone BBC News, The Amazon rainforest is being destroyed at near record levels, according to new figures released by the Brazilian government . The environment ministry said 26,000 sq km of forest were chopped...
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Climate change in Britain
Coastline faces a new enemy - climate change By Steve Connor, Science Editor Climate change has replaced pollution and overfishing as the biggest threat to the coasts of Britain, a study by the government's Environment Agency has found. Higher temperatures...
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news update: bird flu
Bird flu: news update : Video http://news.bbc.co.uk/media/avdb/news_web/video/9012da680028d30/nb/09012da680029079_16x9_nb.asx EU foreign ministers are meeting in on Tuesday to discuss bird flu after confirmed a case of the virus. and are affected and...
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The drop of lapwings, redshanks and snipes in UK
Wetland birds hit hard by drought Wading birds in south-east look set to be amongst the casualties of this year's drought, the RSPB has said . The numbers of lapwing, redshank and snipe have dropped by about 80% at five reserves around and . The birds...
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Elephant culling
Experts question science of elephant culls By Ed Stoddard JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - Experts questioned the wisdom of using culls to contain swelling populations of African elephants Wednesday, saying the science was dubious. South African authorities are...
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Farm -raised salmons
Limit portions of farm-raised salmon, experts say Alison McCook NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - People should avoid eating too much farm-raised salmon, which contains significantly more of the chemical dioxin than is found in fish caught in the wild, new...
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Food shortage in Africa
One in six countries facing food shortage John Vidal and Tim Radford One in six countries in the world face food shortages this year because of severe droughts that could become semi-permanent under climate change , UN scientists warned yesterday. In...
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Hurricanes and global warming
Global Warming Making Hurricanes Stronger Is global warming making hurricanes more ferocious? New research suggests the answer is yes. Scientists call the findings both surprising and "alarming" because they suggest global warming is influencing storms...
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Global warming 1
JOINT STATEMENT ON CLIMATE Key points in a joint statement on global warming issued last week by 11 leading international science bodies, including the U.S. National Academy of Sciences: Significant global warming is occurring. It has caused increases...
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Environmental disaster in Spain
Environmental disaster stares in the face The deserts of Africa are poised to jump the Mediterranean and up to a third of could soon become desert, according to a United Nations report. Of equal concern, a Spanish Government study has found that rapid...
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The USA & global warming
U.S. Pressure Weakens G-8 Climate Plan Global-Warming Science Assailed By Juliet Eilperin Washington Post Staff Writer Bush administration officials working behind the scenes have succeeded in weakening key sections of a proposal for joint action by the...
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The Olive Ridley sea turtle in danger
Poachers massacre protected turtles on beach By Alistair Bell MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexican poachers bludgeoned and chopped some 80 protected Olive Ridley sea turtles to death for their eggs , believed to be an aphrodisiac, and left their shells scattered...
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New US climate plan 1
U.S.-led climate plan won't supplant Kyoto –experts By Alister Doyle, Environment Correspondent OSLO (Reuters) - A U.S.-led Asian-Pacific accord on spreading technology to fight global warming has hazy targets and is unlikely to end up supplanting the...
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Deforestation in Brazil
Rainforest loss shocks Brazil John Vidal Deforestation in the Amazon rainforest last year was the second worst ever, figures released by the Brazilian government have shown. Satellite photos and other data showed that ranchers, loggers and especially...
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Environmental damage
Environmental damage seen from shuttle By Jeff Franks HOUSTON (Reuters) - Commander Eileen Collins said astronauts on shuttle Discovery had seen widespread environmental destruction on Earth and warned on Thursday that greater care was needed to protect...
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The USA & global warming
US close to climate change concessions Ewen MacAskill and agencies The United States is edging towards important concessions on climate change at this week's G8 summit, it has been revealed. US President George Bush is now ready to concede that climate...
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Impact of global warming on human health
Climate change linked to rise in malaria, asthma By Timothy Gardner NEW YORK (Reuters) - Climate change may promote the spread of deadly diseases like malaria and asthma in both rich and poor countries by increasing the range of parasitic insects and...
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Dennis breakthrough
Dennis Brings Wind, Flooding to Cuba as Storm Heads to Florida July 8 (Bloomberg) -- Hurricane Dennis struck Cuba with 150 mph winds as it moved toward the Florida Keys and the Gulf of Mexico, forcing evacuations in communities along the coast. The storm's...
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The melting of glaciers
Greenhouse effect could melt nearly all world's glaciers, says UN-backed report 4 August 2005 – Dramatic scenarios from man-made global warming can no longer be excluded, including the complete disappearance of glaciers from entire mountain ranges, leading...
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Speculation about oil supplies
We are not at the end of the oil age: New developments soon will increase the world’s supply WE are not running out of oil - not yet. "Shortage" is certainly in the air - and in the price. Right now, the oil market is tight , even tighter than it was...
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Implementation of Kyoto Protocol
Kyoto gets the 'green' light Global warming accord takes effect Wednesday, February 16, 2005 Posted: 1337 GMT (2137 HKT) TOKYO, Japan (AP) -- After years of delays, the Kyoto global warming pact is now in effect, requiring dozens of industrial nations...
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The Olive Ridley sea turtle 1
Mexico vow after turtle killings Mexico is to increase protection for its sea turtle population after about 80 were found slaughtered. The remains of the Olive Ridley turtles were found - in the middle of nesting season - on Escobilla beach in the southern...
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Earthquakes
A NEW DISCOVERY HELPS US TO UNDERSTAND THE COMPLEX NATURE OF EARTHQUAKES Alvaro Corral , a physicist at the Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, has discovered that the structure of the recurrence time of earthquakes, which is the time interval between...
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climate sensitivity
How Hot Will the Greenhouse World Be? Richard A. Kerr S cientists know that the world has warmed lately, and they believe humankind is behind most of that warming . But how far might we push the planet in coming decades and centuries? That depends on...