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KONIN, Poland (Reuters) - Poland's addiction to high-polluting coal contrasts sharply with its hosting of U.N. talks on a global climate treaty to promote clean energy, but its government says it is doing its best to break the habit.
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A UN expert has blamed meat eaters for environmental mayhem as demand for beef drives deforestation, water scarcity, air pollution and climate change. Robin McKie and Caroline Davies report
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LONDON (Reuters) - A United Nations panel has for the first time approved greenhouse gas cuts made by an eastern European clean energy project registered under the Kyoto Protocol, the panel said on Wednesday.
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Antony Lo is one happy biker. He is 60 but looks younger, with a body buffed by commuting 130 miles a week on his bike. He is also president of Taiwan-based Giant, the world's largest bicycle company, where sales are soaring, helped along by global anxiety...(more)
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Top Senate Democrats on Thursday said they would introduce major global warming legislation early next year, saying Barack Obama's election meant a "sea change" in the battle against climate change.
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(WARSAW ) - Poland's Prime Minister Donald Tusk will meet his British counterpart Gordon Brown on Monday in London for talks on the EU's planned climate package and the global financial crisis, a Tusk aide said.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. greenhouse gas emissions rose 1.4 percent last year on unfavorable weather that boosted demand for heating and cooling and as generation from hydropower sources declined, the Energy Information Administration said on Wednesday.
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Talk about a field of dreams. Cornell bioenergy plant experts are learning which field grasses are the best candidates for "dedicated energy" crops in the Northeast, considering the region's climate and soil conditions.
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Hundreds of lightning-sparked wildfires have turned the air of Northern California into an unhealthy stew of smoke and ash, forcing the cancellation of athletic events and other outdoor activities.
Health advisories urging residents to stay indoors to limit exposure to the smokey air were issued Saturday from...(more)
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The thickness of sea ice in the Arctic dramatically declined last winter for the first time since records began in the early 1990s. The research by British scientists shows a significant loss in the thickness of the northern ice cap after the record loss of ice...(more)
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POZNAN, Poland (Reuters) - President-elect Barack Obama's goals for curbing greenhouse gases to 2020 are inadequate to fight global warming, Chinese and Indian delegates told Reuters at U.N. climate talks on Wednesday.
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Aimed at providing mankind with a Noah's Ark of food in the event of a global catastrophe, an Arctic "doomsday vault" filled with samples of the world's most important seeds will be inaugurated here Tuesday.
European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso and Nobel Peace Prize winning environmentalist...(more)
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