Friday October 31st 2008, 10:34 pm
China's newly-released white paper on climate change demonstrates that China has a strong "political will" to tackle global warming, said Miranda Schreurs, a German professor on climate policy. "Developed countries have a historical responsibility for climate change and they should take the lead and I think that's actually pretty well accepted by Europe, Canada, Australia and the United States ...
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German expert praises China’s will to tackle climate change (People’s Daily)
A last push to deregulate.
Friday October 31st 2008, 6:00 pm
The White House is working to enact a wide array of federal regulations, many of which would weaken government rules aimed at protecting consumers and the environment, before President Bush leaves office in January.
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Polar warming ’caused by humans’.
Friday October 31st 2008, 6:00 pm
The rise in temperatures at Earth's poles has for the first time been attributed directly to human activities, according to a study.
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State of the Arab environment 2008: A lot has been achieved, but much more is still needed.
Friday October 31st 2008, 6:00 pm
Global warming compounds the critical situation now facing the Arab environment, according to a new report by the Arab Forum for Environment and Development.
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Climate change to help short-lived creatures.
Friday October 31st 2008, 6:00 pm
Climate change is likely to disrupt food chains by favoring animals with short lifespans over often bigger rivals that are worse at tolerating temperature swings, scientists said on Thursday.
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Are rising sea levels a bigger threat here than hurricanes?
Friday October 31st 2008, 6:00 pm
Hilton Head Island's deputy director of community development warns that rising sea levels threatens area beaches with erosion now, a problem many simply don't recognize.
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Expert: Amazon may lose 50 pct of tree species.
Friday October 31st 2008, 6:00 pm
Global warming could kill off half of the tree species in Brazil's vast Amazon jungle by 2050, a leading international climate change expert said Wednesday.
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World without frogs: combined threats may croak amphibians.
Friday October 31st 2008, 6:00 pm
New evidence shows that the herbicide atrazine—widely sprayed on crop fields throughout the region—is killing the frogs by helping the parasitic worms that feast on them.
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China hopes for step-by-step progress of low carbon economy.
Friday October 31st 2008, 6:00 pm
Developing the Low Carbon Economy (LCE), a strategic option to cope with global warming, should follow a step-by-step pattern in accordance with a country's situation, China's Vice Environment Minister Zhou Jian said here Thursday.
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Climate ideas put under spotlight.
Friday October 31st 2008, 6:00 pm
From the twilight zone of science fiction, the idea of "geo-engineering" is emerging into the harsher daylight of science fact - and I'm going to risk the prediction that we'll hear a lot more about it in the coming years.
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Engineering climate change.
Friday October 31st 2008, 6:00 pm
Britain's de-facto academy of sciences said on Thursday it is launching a major study into geo-engineering, the term covering a variety of weird and wonderful ideas for the fight against climate change.
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