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MEP clashes with bishop over 'climate alarmism'
A controversial Conservative Euro MP has careered into a clash with a bishop over his claim that the Church of England has "abandoned religion" to preach the gospel of climate change. > >
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What's The Catch? Is Albacore Tuna truly sustainable?
Silver-blue and shaped like a miniature torpedo, the albacore tuna is one of nature's great migrants. Fast and tough, it spends life on a constant journey, covering thousands of miles each year to gorge on anchovy, squid, and small crustaceans that ...
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Rail travel that hits the heights with carbon footprint site
What does Snowcarbon provide for the traveller? Everything you need to know in terms of getting from the UK to a ski resort by train. If you take the carbon footprint of a typical Alpine ski resort, 73 per cent of it is made up of how people ...
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Cyclo-therapy: Unleashing thousands of bikes on terror vortexes like the Elephant and Castle could be, well, messy
I'm the cycle snob who looks down his nose at hapless riders and their rubbish bikes. But during a recent trip to Montreal I was the one eliciting scornful glances from local pedal pushers. Not because my bike was rubbish – it wasn't bad – but ...
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Green Grid
Obama and Jintao focus net attention on the environment
President Barack Obama's November 17 meeting with Chinese President Hu Jintao ahead of December's UN Climate Change Conference drove an increased worldwide interest in environmental topics, according to the Nielsen Company's Blogpulse analysis. ...
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Barack Obama
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Permafrost thaw threatens Russia oil and gas complex: study
Thawing permafrost caused by global warming is costing Russian energy firms billions of dollars annually in damage control and shrinking Russia's territory, Greenpeace warned in a new study Friday.
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Dutch build more dunes against rising seas
On the beach at Monster, bulldozers painstakingly turn sand dredged from the bottom of the North Sea bed into dunes in an ambitious effort to safeguard the Netherlands from flooding.
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Netherlands
Fossil-fuel emissions up 2 percent in 2008, tracking worst trends
Carbon emissions from fossil fuels rose two percent last year to an all-time high, leaving Earth on a worst-scenario track for global warming, scientists reported on Tuesday.
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Climate change survey says 83% willing to make sacrifices
More than 80 per cent of people believe climate change is a serious threat and are willing to make sacrifices to combat it, a survey by the Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE) showed today. > >
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Climate Change
Dr Ego vs The Elements in climate change video
A video explaining climate change by presenting it as a good versus evil battle of superheroes is being released ahead of the Copenhagen summit to try to educate people about the problem. > >
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Climate Change
Eco-bulbs grow dimmer over their lifetime
Energy-saving light bulbs lose a fifth of their brightness over their lifetime, according to reports. > >
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Eco Goats
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Portraits of Peru: Why supermodel Helena Christensen returned to her roots
When I imagine the horrible effects of climate change, I think of icebergs shrinking in Antarctica. But last month, I travelled to tropical Peru to see a hidden side of a global crisis. > >
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Norway and Guyana sign rainforest deal
Guyana and Norway yesterday hailed a historic agreement that will see the Scandinavian country invest $250m (£150m) to preserve the rainforests of the Latin America nation. With world leaders warning that no legally binding agreement will be ...
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Earthcasts offer a pre-COP15 primer on climate change
The publishing group Earthscan has a way to brush up on your understanding of climate change before December's COP15 conference. On November 25, the Earthscan website will air "An Economy Fit for a Low Carbon World -- The Pre-COP Earthcast" -- a ...
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Climate Change
Fishing: Skate on the brink thanks to species mislabelling
Due to an 83-year-old error of classification, a species of European skate could become the first marine fish driven to extinction by commercial fishing, according to a study released Wednesday.
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'Hopenhagen' a rallying point for COP15 supporters
The Hopenhagen campaign is seeking to rally supporters for the UN COP15 Climate Change Conference, which begins December 7. On Hopenhagen.org, visitors are invited to "become citizens of Hopenhagen" by signing a Climate Change petition that will be ...
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Climate Change
World on course for catastrophic 6° rise, reveal scientists
The world is now firmly on course for the worst-case scenario in terms of climate change, with average global temperatures rising by up to 6C by the end of the century, leading scientists said yesterday. Such a rise – which would be much higher ...
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EU aims for greener buildings by 2020
The majority of new buildings constructed in the European Union and those undergoing significant renovation must prove their high energy efficiency as of December 31, 2020, the EU agreed Tuesday.
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Michael McCarthy: 'Tis the season for 'berry baskers'
In New England, such is the breathtaking beauty of the autumn foliage, people make special trips to gaze open-mouthed on the leaves turning russet and crimson, and they've even been given a name: "leaf-peepers". They have their own hotlines. ...
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Michael Bloomberg
Greens urge tuna ban
Environmentalists called for a global ban on the trade in Atlantic bluefin tuna, after the body responsible for managing stocks cut quotas but did not suspend fishing of the threatened species. > >
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Conservationists fight for 'Galapagos of plants'
Leading conservationists have drawn up a blueprint to save one of the world's most important sites for conservation known as the "Galapagos for plants" because of its exceptionally rare native plants. > >
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Why Robinson Crusoe island is at risk
It takes about two hours by light aircraft to fly to the remote Pacific islands of the Juan Fernández Archipelago, 414 miles off the coast of Chile. That's all it takes to destroy the 4 million-year isolation that has protected this oceanic jewel ...
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Japanese manufacturers raise their green profiles
The growing importance of the green sector is underlined by the enlarged footprint of this year's Eco-Manufacture 2009, which opens Wednesday at the Tokyo Big Sight exhibition centre. One company will be demonstrating its technologies for ...
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Green Grid
British consumers throw away $20 billion of food per year, study finds
A study by Britain's Waste and Resources Action program (WRAP) indicates that more than $20 billion (£12 billion) of food and drink are thrown away in the country every year. According to the November report, British consumers create an estimated ...
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Douglas Alexander & Bert Koenders: The moral imperative behind a Copenhagen deal
Next month's climate change meeting in Copenhagen is even more important in the fight against poverty than the 2005 G8 meeting at Gleneagles. > >
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Nick Herbert: Meat-free Mondays won't save the planet
Sir Paul McCartney arrives in Brussels today to recruit support for his ‘meat free Mondays’ campaign. The argument seems so easy: cut down meat consumption, slaughter methane-belching cattle, and the planet will be saved. > ...
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Dutch first in Europe to adopt green tax for cars
The Dutch government is to become the first country in Europe to introduce a green tax to replace annual road tax on cars. > >
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Green Grid
Leaders plan a 'two-step' environment deal
President Barack Obama joined other leaders of the Asia-Pacific nations yesterday in accepting that a long-planned summit in Copenhagen next month on climate change will be unable to forge a new global treaty on cutting greenhouse emissions and will ...
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Barack Obama
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Conservationists do 'deal with the devil' to save orang-utans
Wildlife campaigners have made "a deal with the devil" in a bid to save the orang-utan from being driven into extinction. They have teamed up with the palm-oil industry, widely condemned by conservationists for causing devastation to orang-utans. ...
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Countdown to Copenhagen: The President's lonely dilemma
Can the world reach a new deal to combat climate change without the world's richest country, the world's sole superpower? Such is the question looming over the Copenhagen climate change summit, now only three weeks away, as the international ...
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Barack Obama
United States
Climate Change
Major Asian cities face climate disaster: WWF
Low-lying and impoverished Asian coastal cities such as Dhaka, Manila and Jakarta are vulnerable to "brutal" damage from climate change without global action, environmental group WWF warned Thursday.
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Climate Change
CORRECTED: Bluefin tuna quota cut not enough: environmentalists
Environmentalists on Sunday warned bluefin tuna was on its way to extinction after a international meeting of fishery ministry officials trimmed catch quotas but upheld continued hauls of the fish, prized in sushi dishes.
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Copenhagen in the balance
The UN is to hold a conference in Copenhagen next month that it hopes will lead to a dramatic shift in the world's attitude to climate change. > >
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Will carbon dioxide give Miliband the slip?
For once, Miliband the younger grabbed the headlines. Brother and cabinet colleague David had for weeks dominated the news pages over speculation that he would snaffl e the position of the European Union's first foreign secretary. But last week it ...
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David Paterson
George Will
Climate Change
In a recession, they shoot horses, don't they?
Hundreds of horse owners may have their mounts shot this winter as the recession hits owners who can no longer cope with the financial burden of feeding and stabling. > >
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Dover closed as winds hit 100mph
Prolonged and, at times, torrential rainfall, as well as gales that reached a top speed of 100mph, gave southern England and Wales a tempestuous Saturday. A respite is promised today, before the storms return tomorrow. The Environment Agency has ...
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'Angry Mermaid' joins fight against climate change
A new environmental award will be launched tomorrow with some of the biggest corporations and lobbying outfits in the world in contention for the top prize. But the winner will have nothing to celebrate. > >
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Climate Change
Green jobs: Meet the movers and shakers at the vanguard of the eco revolution
Green jobs. They sound good, don't they? First off, any job in a recession is welcome. Then you get the satisfaction of, well, let's not be shy about it, getting paid to save the planet. And finally there's the prospect of meeting all sorts of ...
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Green Grid
Eco Goats
Demand for illegal ivory soars in booming China
Tucked into a grimy building in Guangzhou, a small band of Chinese master carvers chip away at ivory tusks with chisels, fashioning them into the sorts of intricate carvings once prized by the Chinese emperors. A passion for ornaments such as these ...
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China
Warming brings early demise to Bolivian glacier
Once home to the highest ski resort in the world and now reduced to a rocky mountainside, Bolivia's Chacaltaya range bears powerful witness to the precipitous melting of glaciers.
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Bolivia
Indonesian forests on frontline of climate debate
With the approach of global climate talks in Copenhagen, activists are hoping to draw world attention to their fight to save the last tropical forests on Indonesia's Sumatra island.
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Indonesia
Climate Change
Senegal's dream of a 'Green Wall' against the desert
There is little to show for it apart from small acacia shrubs, but Senegal's leader believes in a Great Green Wall that will stem desertification across Africa from coast to coast.
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Senegal
Green Grid
Koalas could be extinct in 30 years: conservationists
Australia's koalas could be extinct in 30 years, conservationists warned Tuesday, calling for the iconic creatures to be declared an endangered species.
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Australia
Danish family run large home using single backyard wind turbine
For anyone considering wind power as a viable source of energy, the Jeppesen family from the Thisted area in northwestern Denmark have shown just how productive it can be, with a 18.5m (60ft) tall wind turbine in their back garden.
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'Kyoto principles' crucial in climate talks - China
China will insist the main principles of the Kyoto Protocol are retained in any new global climate change pact, even though others are seeking to abandon them, a high-ranking climate official on Saturday. > >
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China
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Fierce storms forecast to bring 80mph winds
Britain has been warned to batten down the hatches today after forecasters predicted "the first storms of the season", with fierce winds and flooding in some areas. > >
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Climate change challenging China's Yangtze: report
Rising temperatures will expose China's Yangtze River basin to extreme weather such as severe floods, drought and storms that could threaten cities such as Shanghai, a new report has said.
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China
Colbert Report
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New life for Croatia's griffon vultures
Rescued and nurtured for nearly a year, then fitted with a satellite transmitter, Letricia appeared reluctant at first to leave its island sanctuary and embark on its long, uncertain migration.
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Croatia
250,000 Australian homes at climate risk: report
Rising sea levels caused by global warming could inundate up to 250,000 homes in Australia, according to a study released Saturday that warned airports, hospitals and power stations were at risk.
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Australia
Colbert Report
Climate Change
Netherlands to levy 'green' road tax by the kilometre
The Dutch government said Friday it wants to introduce a "green" road tax by the kilometre from 2012 aimed at cutting carbon dioxide emissions by 10 percent and halving congestion.
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