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New Statesman: In 1996, when you travelled through the mountains of Chiapas, Mexico, soldiers would get on the buses every half an hour or so to check on the passengers. They'd look at papers, search random bags and occasionally take people off for a chat. Some did not get back on. There was an ...
Environment
United Kingdom
Climate Change
Inter Press Service: As Vietnam's big cities are increasingly deluged by floods, the infrastructure cannot keep up. At the end of October last year Hanoi suffered the worst floods in over 50 years. Some streets were under more than two metres of water, resulting in a death toll of 20, many as a ...
Environment
Water Conservation
Vietnam
Inter Press Service: The idea of wilderness is "an interesting concept; it is a Western concept. Our people have always lived and interacted in the environment," said Illion Merculieff, an environmental activist from the Aleut community in the north-western U.S. state of Alaska. The ...
Environment
Time Magazine: But a new paper published in the Nov. 19 issue of Nature demonstrates that the oceans' ability to absorb man-made carbon may be dwindling -- and that has worrying ramifications for future climate change. While the ocean is now absorbing more carbon in total than ever before, the ...
Environment
Inter Press Service: Future firefighters have their work cut out for them. Perhaps nowhere does this hit home harder than in Australia, where in early 2009 a persistent drought, high winds, and record high temperatures set the stage for the worst wildfire in the country's history. On Feb. 9, now ...
Environment
Climate Change
Special Broadcasting Service: There's a 'high chance' a heatwave sweeping Australia's southern and eastern states is related to climate change, a scientist at the Bureau of Meteorology says. Climate Meteorologist Harvey Stern says the scorching weather effecting parts of South Australia, ...
Environment
Australia
Climate Change
Independent (UK): The prospect of a hungry century looms. On our present course, we are caught in a pincer. Climate change is likely to turn much farmland around the globe into desert. And the growth of the global population will increase demand for food. Yields will fall and prices will rise. ...
Environment
Food Shortage
New Kerala: Expressing apprehension that the coming Copenhagen meet for hammering out a Climate Change agreement was heading towards a flop, Minister of State for Environment and Forests Jairam Ramesh today said India must take aggressive and proactive domestic measures to cut its greenhouse gas ...
Environment
India
Reuters: ndia's prime minister and U.S. President Barack Obama meet next week to strengthen ties, with the emerging Asian power increasingly playing a bigger role on global issues such as climate change and trade. Manmohan Singh's three-day state visit starting on November 23 is seen by New ...
Environment
India
Barack Obama
Climate Change
United States
Pakistan
Business Green: Wind farms will account for 20 per cent of Australian power projects coming online in the next few years, according to a government report thast credits the introduction renewable energy laws as the main driver by the recent surge in new low carbon energy projects. The study ...
Environment
Australia
ScienceDaily: The oceans play a key role in regulating climate, absorbing more than a quarter of the carbon dioxide that humans put into the air. Now, the first year-by-year accounting of this mechanism during the industrial era suggests the oceans are struggling to keep up with rising emissions ...
Environment
Telegraph: The Energy Bill will introduce a £9.5 billion levy on electricity suppliers to fund the building of coal-fired power stations fitted with a new technology that takes carbon dioxide and stores it underground. The Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) Incentive is likely to be passed onto ...
Environment
Green Grid
George Will
United Kingdom
Agence France-Presse: Braking the rise in Earth's population would be a major help in the fight against global warming, according to an unprecedented UN report published on Wednesday that draws a link between demographic pressure and climate change. "Slower population growth... would help ...
Environment
Climate Change
Colbert Report
Agence France-Presse: World Bank chief Robert Zoellick said Wednesday it was critical for indigenous people to be included in climate change talks, saying they were among groups most affected by global warming. Two weeks before the opening of a major United Nations conference on climate change ...
Environment
Climate Change
Washington
Times of India: Leave aside a binding agreement on climate change, the 190-country Copenhagen conference on December 7 is unlikely to throw up even a political statement of high-sounding sentiments on the need to save the planet -- a statement, which countries were hoping, would give the ...
Environment
Climate Change
Kyoto Protocol
India
Times (UK): Investing in birth control to reduce population growth could be more effective in cutting greenhouse gas emissions than building wind turbines or nuclear power stations, according to a United Nations report. Taking action to prevent one billion births by 2050 would save as much ...
Environment
Methane Gas
Climate Change
New York Times: The Earth's oceans, which have absorbed carbon dioxide from fuel emissions since the dawn of the industrial era, have recently grown less efficient at sopping it up, new research suggests. Emissions from the burning of fossil fuels began soaring in the 1950s, and oceans largely ...
Environment
Australian: BARACK Obama will attend climate-change talks in Copenhagen next month with no domestic US laws in place to back his position, after Senate leaders confirmed yesterday that debate on legislation would be delayed until next year. The decision to put off debate on a climate-change bill ...
Environment
Climate Change
United States
Agence France-Presse: Japanese whaling ships left port Thursday for Antarctic waters for the annual hunt of the ocean giants, Greenpeace said, setting the stage for high-seas confrontations with anti-whaling activists. The factory ship Nisshin Maru and the smaller Yushin Maru 2 and 3 left the ...
