G-8 deal on global warming
The Group of Eight Environment Ministers reached a compromise today on how to declare their commitment to combating global warming, an issue that had divided European members and the US, French
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G-8 ministers renew plege to fight warming
Environment ministers from the Group of Eight Industrial countries renewed their commitment to fight global warming and vowed they will "strive to reach an agreement" on reducing gas emissions.
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Researchers trace evolving Pacific air chemistry
By studying the seasonal airflow from Asia across the Pacific, NASA scientists believe it is an ideal time to collect information used to study how natural and human-indused changes affect our global
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Japanese groups buy Australian carbon credits
Australia's Macquarie Generation made its first international sale of carbon credits, selling 2,000 tonnes worth of emissions savings to Japan's Chubu Electric Power Co and trader Tomen Corp .
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Canada sees no climate change progress at G8 meeting
Canada said on Wednesday that environment ministers from the world's leading industrialized nations had little chance of breaking a logjam over climate change talks when they hold a summit in Italy
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Oil, coal would be hit if carbon use cut - UN study
Oil and coal industries would be forced into decline if governments around the world took firm measures to halt global warming by limiting carbon emissions, according to a United Nations draft
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Climate change talks to resume in Bonn on July 16
International talks to limit the pollution blamed for global warming will restart on July 16 in Bonn, Dutch Environment Minister Jan Pronk said on Wednesday. The last round of talks in The Hague,
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G8 ministers to take environment's temperature
Environment ministers from the world's seven largest Western industrialised nations and Russia meet in Trieste on Friday to take the globe's temperature and examine how much the climate is changing.
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Volcano helps unravel mystery of variations in climate change
Different types of aerosols have varying effects on climate change, according to US scientists, who were assisted in their research by a volcanic eruption. Until now, scientists have tended to expect
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70pc cut in canal water from today
Punjab (Pakistan) is going to cut 70 per cent supplies to its perennial canals from Thursday because of the exhaustion of the reservoirs. Till Wednesday it was releasing 70 per cent supplies to the
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Bush weighs curbs on carbon dioxide
Calling global warming "a real phenomenon" the Environmental Protection Agency chief, Christe Whitman has said the Bush Administration is considering limits on carbon dioxide emissions as part of a
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Lukewarm
Japan was widely criticized for failing to provide strong leadership in the run-up to a United Nations summit on climate change that it hosted in Kyoto in 1997. Three years on, the lack of leadership
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Frog leap to oblivion
Pesticides are killing frogs and other amphibian species in the US
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Airways and bloodways
At Brazil's main airports leaflets will be distributed warning passengers of the danger of contracting potentially fatal blood clots on long-haul flights. The threat of suffering deep-vein thrombosis
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The sinking debate
The climate change negotiations have come to a halt over the issue of sinks. Neelam Singh discusses the associated complications
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Handle with care and prudence
Three eminent scientists express their opinion on the relevance of lulucf activities to developing countries
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Nature s whims and fancies
Early flowering of mango trees, rain constellations going haywire, disappearing nor'westers, shifting seasons all these unusual phenomena can no longer be brushed aside as one time occurrences. These are manifestations of gradual but sure changes in cli
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Hotter summers, colder winters
Down To Earth conducted a survey among people throughout the country to assess their perceptions of climate change in their respective regions. Some of the responses received
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A global warming
Scientists meeting in San Francisco a week ago heard a startling prediction: The seemingly indestructible snows of Kilimanjaro may well disappear in the next 15 years. To most mainstream scientists,
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Push to cut greenhouse gas
Less than a week after a United Nations report warned of the devastating effects of global warming, the Australian Government has called on the community to take shorter showers and wash clothes in