Wednesday October 08th 2008, 6:00 pm
Climate change will allow wildlife diseases to spread more easily, a new report warns.
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Climate change will allow tropical disease to spread to Europe.
WFD focusses on climate change.
Wednesday October 08th 2008, 6:00 pm
World Food Day provides an occasion to highlight the plight of 862 million undernourished people in the world; and now the challenges of climate change and bio-energy are making things worse.
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B.C. glaciers could be gone in 150 years, expert says.
Wednesday October 08th 2008, 6:00 pm
Climate experts are warning that if carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions aren't reduced, most of B.C's glaciers will be melted within 150 years.
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Penguins on thin ice as 2C increase threatens to halve emperor numbers.
Wednesday October 08th 2008, 6:00 pm
Half of the Emperor penguins in the Antarctic could vanish within 40 years due to climate change--according to a new WWF report.
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Global warming may ‘dry up the Mersey’.
Wednesday October 08th 2008, 6:00 pm
The River Mersey could almost run dry in just 40 years as hot summers trigger climate change, says a new report.
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Bumper season despite global warming fears.
Wednesday October 08th 2008, 6:00 pm
Australia's Ulladulla's fishing industry is experiencing a bumper season despite global warming fears and the Climate Change Minister's warnings.
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Climate change seen aiding spread of deadly diseases.
Wednesday October 08th 2008, 6:00 pm
A "deadly dozen" diseases ranging from avian flu to yellow fever are likely to spread more because of climate change, the Wildlife Conservation Society said on Tuesday.
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Flooding and drought mean water must be managed better, says National Trust.
Wednesday October 08th 2008, 6:00 pm
Water is a vital and dwindling resource which has to be better managed and protected, a new National Trust report claims.
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Mitigating climate change with trees.
Wednesday October 08th 2008, 6:00 pm
After decades of scepticism about global warming and its after effects, the world has come face-to-face with the realities of that danger.
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Storm study to model warming effects.
Wednesday October 08th 2008, 6:00 pm
A new study announced today will attempt to predict whether the number and intensity of future hurricanes will increase in the Gulf of Mexico as a result of global warming.
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Antarctica warming.
Wednesday October 08th 2008, 6:00 pm
If there is a "canary in the coal mine" in Antarctica, it is the Adelie penguin, and global warming is rapidly reducing the species' population, according to a National Geographic photojournalist who has specialized in the coldest continent.
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