State of the Climate in Asia 2024
<p>The World Meteorological Organization’s State of the Climate in Asia 2024 report warns that the region is warming nearly twice as fast as the global average, driving more extreme weather and posing
Climate Change
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Environmental groups decry global warming negotiations
U.S. environmental activist groups yesterday criticised the negotiating stance taken by the Clinton administration at talks in Bonn, Germany, for settling an international treaty to reduce greenhouse
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Mediterranean shrinks while oceans rise
Sea levels have been rising around the globe for the past 40 years but the Mediterranean is shrinking, New Scientist magazine said. Global warming has increased ocean levels by more than one
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The facts of global warming don't need to be fudged
The Clinton administration's global warming report, released in draft this week, is a puzzling document. It touts assumptions far more pessimistic than those in mainstream climatology. And while
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More US droughts, floods seen from global warming
Popular vacation spots like the alpine meadows of the Rocky Mountains and barrier islands off Florida may shrink or even disappear in the coming century beacause of global warming, U.S. government
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Will global warming open Northwest Passage?
It is a theory as simple as it is seductive. In a centuries-old explorers' dream come true, global warming within a few decades will have melted enough of the ice clogging the Northwest Passage for
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The new rule
Of the people. By the people. But against the people?
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Draft report on climate change
Global warming brought on by greenhouse gas emissions will cause U.S. temperatures to rise by about 6 degrees Celsius over the next 100 years, according to a draft report released June 12 by a
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Ominous outlook for the climate
Global warming in the 21st century will likely cause drastic changes in the climate of the United States, including potentially severe droughts, increased risk of flooding, mass migrations of
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Experts try vainly to explain the ice that rained on Spain
An investigative team set up by Spain's Scientific Research Council (CSIC) say the ice blocks that rained on Spain could be a by-product of the greenhouse effect. In this month's Geotimes, the
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Drastic climate changes forecast
Global warming in the 21st century will likely cause drastic changes in the climate of the United States, including potentially severe droughts, increased risk of flood, mass migrations of species,