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submitted by Robby for team staff news 6 weeks 18 hours 26 minutes ago
The EUshould prepare to respond with more swift and ambitious climate change policies as global warming is accelerating at a faster pace than previously thought,a new scientific report states.
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submitted by Jazz 12 weeks 6 days 23 hours 13 minutes ago
A chunk of ice shelf nearly the size of Manhattan has broken away from Ellesmere Island in Canada's northern Arctic, another dramatic indication of how warmer temperatures are changing the polar frontier, scientists said Wednesday.
Derek Mueller, an Arctic ice shelf specialist at Trent University in...(more)
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submitted by Micca 21 weeks 3 days 5 hours 32 minutes ago
We may dream of quitting the rat race and moving to the countryside, but the reality is that we are overwhelmingly an urban population. In the UK more than 80 per cent of us live in urban areas. Globally, it's the same story, with the UN...(more)
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submitted by Robby for team staff news 11 hours 26 minutes ago
POZNAN, Poland (Reuters) - A group of 43 small island states called on Wednesday for tougher goals for fighting global warming than those being considered at U.N. climate talks, saying that rising seas could wipe them off the map.
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submitted by pbl 20 weeks 2 days 6 hours 55 minutes ago
Russian scientists are evacuating a research station built on an Arctic ice floe because global warming has melted the ice to a fraction of its original size, a spokesman said.
The North Pole-35 station, where 21 researchers and two dogs live in huts, will be taken off...(more)
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submitted by pbl 19 weeks 6 days 3 hours 27 minutes ago
Climate change will have a "substantial" impact on human health in the coming decades, making wildfires and hurricanes more likely, cooking up more smog, and making summer heat waves longer, hotter and deadlier, according to a new report today from the Environmental Protection Agency.
The report details...(more)
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submitted by Mr X 8 weeks 1 day 7 hours 19 minutes ago
Britain must abandon using almost all fossil fuels to produce power in 20 years' time, the government's climate change watchdog will warn today.
The independent Climate Change Committee will publish its advice to the government that the UK should set a 2050 target of cutting all greenhouse...(more)
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submitted by Will Montgomery for team Bicyclism 65 weeks 2 days 5 hours 3 minutes ago
Biking, whether it is for leisure or getting to work, is becoming a heated debate in Israel. Bike-lovers demonstrated against the government recently in the hopes that a new helmet law will be struck down by the Powers-That-Be. We enjoy us some cruising around Tel Aviv...(more)
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submitted by Robby for team staff news 1 week 3 days 7 hours 26 minutes ago
Britain is poised to expand its coal mining industry, despite fears that the move will lead to a rise in climate change emissions and harm communities and the environment.
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submitted by Robby for team staff news 1 week 3 days 4 hours 26 minutes ago
Water, Water, everywhere; nor any drop to drink. The plight of the Ancient Mariner is about to be alleviated thanks to a firm of eco-inventors from Canada who claim to have found the solution to the world's worsening water shortages by drawing the liquid of life...(more)
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submitted by Robby for team staff news 1 week 3 days 12 hours 26 minutes ago
A review of studies projecting the impact of climate change on air quality, including effects on morbidity and mortality, indicates that adverse health effects will likely rise with changes in pollutant creation, transport, dispersion, and deposition. However, reducing greenhouse gas emissions could go far in mitigating...(more)
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submitted by Robby for team staff news 12 weeks 3 days 6 hours 26 minutes ago
For the first time in generations, more people are moving to the countryside than are leaving, chicken keeping is the UK's fastest-growing hobby and for many self-sufficiency is no longer a pipe dream. Louise France meets four families who've gone in search of the good life...(more)
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