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Artic depths teeming with life
Artic depths teeming with life, say explorers By David Ljunggren OTTAWA (Reuters) - The remotest depths of the Arctic are surprisingly full of life, including species of jellyfish and worms believed to be previously unknown, explorers who just finished...
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G8 summit in Gleneagles on climate change
Leaders of the Group of Eight countries have concluded their summit in Gleneagles with a series of communiqués, despite the London terrorist attacks that disrupted the meeting. Though the declarations are not as bold as activists had hoped, they nonetheless...
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Global warming & hurricanes
VIDEO Is Global Warming Fueling Hurricanes? “The higher temperatures of the ocean and atmosphere are probably enhancing the intensity and possibly the frequency,” said Dr.Mark Jacobson, associate professor of civil and environmental engineering at Stanford...
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Fluoride and bone cancer
Fluoride & Bone Cancer Harvard Doctoral Thesis Confirms Fluoride-Bone Cancer Link Over the past ten years a large body of peer-reviewed science has raised concerns that fluoride may present unreasonable health risks, particularly among children, at levels...
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Deforestation & economic issues in Amazonia
http://news.bbc.co.uk/media/avdb/news_web/video/9012da680021030/nb/09012da680021266_16x9_nb.ram It seems that the Brazil nut may hold the key not only to economic prosperity but to saving the Amazon rainforest. Deforestation is accelerating but in , farmers...
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oil depletion
Is There Plenty Of Oil? First came Holstein , then Mad Dog, and soon, Thunder Horse. Atlantis will join them next year. The four giant oil fields, operated by BP PLC and located under thousands of feet of water off the coast of Louisiana , are just beginning...
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Global warming & storm
Global warming 'has doubled storm threat' Weather expert finds destructive power worse than models predict Paul Brown, environment correspondent Tropical storms have doubled in destructive potential in the past 30 years because ocean surfaces have become...
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Adaptation to global warming
ADAPTATION is the key to combating GW MANILA, (AFP) - After decoding the rice genome, keeping one of the world's most important cereals productive despite chronic droughts is now a key focus of global research, the International Rice Research Institute...
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The impact of wolves on Canadian ecosystem
Loss of wolves changes Canadian ecosystem – study By Maggie Fox, Health and Science Correspondent WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The loss of once-plentiful wolves in a part of 's west allowed the elk population to mushroom, pushing out beavers and songbirds and...
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Katrina & contamination
Oil spills along Miss. River contained: Coast Guard By Frank McGurty BATON ROUGE, Louisiana (Reuters) - All the oil spilled in six major Louisiana incidents after Hurricane Katrina has been contained and almost none of it flowed directly into the Mississippi...
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The melting of glaciers
Fast-moving glaciers surprise research team By CLARKE CANFIELD, Associated Press Two University of Maine scientists studying the effects of climate change in the Arctic have discovered that two glaciers in Greenland are moving at a not-so-glacial pace....
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Wildfires in Portugal
Wildfires rage across parched , three villages evacuated LISBON (AFP) - Nearly 2,800 firefighters battled 31 blazes which raged out of control across drought-hit , forcing the evacuation of three central villages and the closure of several roads, emergency...
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Animal rights
Animal rights group in new campaign An animal rights group has launched a new campaign aimed at firms which trade with a pharmaceutical testing company. Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty (SHAC) has published the names of 50 firms which, it says, trade with...
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Global dimming
Global dimming is a gradual reduction in the amount of sunlight reaching the Earth's surface since the 1950s. The effect varies by location but globally is of the order of a 5% reduction over the three decades 1960-1990. This cooling effect may have led...
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The position of Blair on climate
Blair may snub US on climate Leaked papers reveal huge gulf between Europe and Bush as PM ponders political gamble Paul Brown, environment correspondent Tony Blair is contemplating an unprecedented rift with the US over climate change at the G8 summit...
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Glacier cover-up in Europe
Glacial Cover-Up Won't Stop Global Warming By GEORGE JAHN, Associated Press Writer EISGRAT, - It gets so cold up at this Alpine skiing station that the locals call it Eisgrat — "Icy Spine." But Eisgrat's spine is melting. A sign on a sheer cliff wall...
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climate change & risk of hunger
Climate change raises risk of hunger - scientists By Patricia Reaney DUBLIN (Reuters) - About 50 million more people, most of them in Africa, could be at risk of hunger by 2050 due to climate change and reduced crop yields, scientists predicted on Monday....
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British groups against global warming
British Groups Mass Millions of Members to Halt Global Warming LONDON, UK , September 1, 2005 (ENS) - Some of the largest British campaign organizations, united their millions of supporters today to demand action on climate change. Eighteen groups have...
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Social impact of global warming
Climate food crisis 'to deepen' By Jonathan Amos BBC News science reporter, Dublin Climate change threatens to put far more people at risk of hunger over the next 50 years than previously thought, according to new research. Scientists say expected shifts...
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Gases and high temperatures
Gases could raise temperatures 19.8 degrees-study By Patricia Reaney (REUTERS) LONDON (Reuters) - Greenhouse gas emissions could cause global temperatures to rise by up to 19.8 degrees Fahrenheit, according to first results from the world's largest climate...
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The impact of global warming on the oceans
Ocean, Arctic Studies Show Global Warming Is Real A parcel of studies looking at the oceans and melting Arctic ice leave no room for doubt that it is getting warmer, people are to blame, and the weather is going to suffer, climate experts said on Thursday....
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Giant tortoises of the Galapagos Islands
Darwin 's Tortoises More Diverse Than He Knew By Robert ROY BRITT LiveScience Senior Writer The giant tortoises of the Galapagos Islands inspired Charles Darwin to formulate his theory of natural selection to describe the evolutionary diversity of species....
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New species in Sri Lanka's rainforests
Dozens of new frogs, snails, crabs found in Sri Lanka CBC News Researchers say they have discovered 50 new species of snails and 35 new frogs in Sri Lanka 's rainforests, but their announcement this week came with a warning about the potential loss of...
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Speculation on oil supplies 2
How to Live Without Oil New energy sources and efficiency could make petroleum obsolete. By Amory B. Lovins Newsweek International Aug. 8, 2005 issue - In 1850, most homes in the were lit by lamps that burned whale oil. As demand rose, supply dwindled—whales...
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The melting of glaciers
Fluctuations of Glaciers’ Report Launched Geneva , 3 August 2005 - Supported by UNEP and other agencies, the World Glacier Monitoring Service has launched the next edition of the Fluctuations of Glaciers report (1995-2000). The series ‘Fluctuations of...