Saturday June 23rd 2012, 5:55 PM
Four climate change activists were arrested in London on Saturday after they scaled the gates of Queen Elizabeth II's Buckingham Palace residence and chained themselves to the railings.
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Climate change protesters arrested outside Buckingham Palace
Green ‘drivel’ exposed
Saturday June 23rd 2012, 3:50 PM
Two months ago, James Lovelock, the godfather of global warming, gave a startling interview to msnbc.com in which he acknowledged he had been unduly “alarmist” about climate change.
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Climate change activists scale the gates of Buckingham Palace in protest
Saturday June 23rd 2012, 3:18 PM
Four climate change activists scaled gates at Queen Elizabeth II's Buckingham Palace home on Saturday and locked themselves to railings in a protest demanding more urgent action to cut greenhouse gas emissions.
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Species Interactions Could Be Affected By Global Warming
Saturday June 23rd 2012, 1:08 PM
Yale and University of Connecticut researchers report that more extinctions will take place due to global warming should "scientists fail to account for interactions among species in their models." According to Phoebe Zarnetske, primary author and postdoctoral fellow at Yale’s School of forestry & Environmental Studies department, “Currently, most models predicting the effects of climate change ...
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VM calls for private partners for climate change programs
Saturday June 23rd 2012, 11:33 AM
CLARK FREEPORT — Vice Mayor Vicky Vega Cabigting called on private sector representatives and local government officials to entertain public Public-Private-Partnership (PPP) projects that are geared towards climate change mitigation. This was Cabigting’s statement during the recent 4th...
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Climate change protest at Palace
Saturday June 23rd 2012, 11:16 AM
A group of climate change activists have scaled the gates of Buckingham Palace and secured themselves to the railings.
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Climate change protest at Palace
Saturday June 23rd 2012, 10:41 AM
A group of climate change activists have scaled the gates of Buckingham Palace and secured themselves to the railings.
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Rio+20 Earth Summit results in nonbinding declaration with moderate goals.
Saturday June 23rd 2012, 10:00 AM
The global environment summit concluding Friday, which drew nearly 100 world leaders and more than 45,000 other people to Rio de Janiero and cost tens of millions of dollars, may produce one lasting legacy: Convincing people it’s not worth holding global summits.
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California faces more serious risk of sea-level rise than other areas.
Saturday June 23rd 2012, 10:00 AM
As the world continues to warm, oceans will rise up to 4 feet by 2100, causing increasing threats from flooding, according to a new study. California will see even more sea-level rise because much of the state's coastal area is subsiding, due to geological forces.
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‘Rio+20 has become the summit of futility.’
Saturday June 23rd 2012, 10:00 AM
Twenty years ago, the United Nations summit held in Rio de Janeiro paved the way for landmark agreements on the climate and the environment. This year's meeting, on the other hand, has been widely criticized for its lack of vision in the face of accelerating degradation of the planet.
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Climate refugees – today’s new reality.
Saturday June 23rd 2012, 10:00 AM
The continued exodus of Somalis to Kenya and Ethiopia has fuelled the debate on a new issue of global concern: climate refugees, driven from their homes and across borders by extreme weather events.
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