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10.01.2011
Climate change prompts debate among experts about spread of tropical diseases
The room where 10,000 Anopheles stephensi mosquitoes hatch each week is hot and humid and smells like the tropics - an appropriate surrogate for a warming world. The Johns Hopkins Malaria Research Institute in Baltimore, where the insects are raised, was created with a billionaire's anonymous donation a decade ago, after a map printed in Scientific American suggested that by 2020 malaria could be breaking out in Baltimore, and across the eastern United States and Europe.
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09.01.2011
Warming to devastate glaciers, Antarctic icesheet - studies
PARIS — Global warming may wipe out three-quarters of Europe's alpine glaciers by 2100 and hike sea levels by four metres (13 feet) by the year 3000 through melting the West Antarctic icesheet, two studies published on Sunday said.
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06.01.2011
A year in the hot seat
Commissioner vows to push for climate deal and praises ‘balanced' agreement at Cancún.
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04.01.2011
New Congress Could Roll Back Environmental Progress
DENVER - The 112th U.S. Congress gets to work in Washington today, and there could be some big changes in the way the nation approaches energy policies. Nearly every state has a representative or senator who denies the science of climate change, and that includes Colorado freshman Congressman Cory Gardner. Gardner has said while he doesn't doubt that the earth is warming, he questions whether the condition is caused by human activities.
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03.01.2011
Political Battle Brewing over the EPA's New Emissions Regulations
All in all, 2010 was a year to forget for environmentalists — carbon cap-and-trade legislation died, international climate talks sputtered and even the clean-tech market took a hit — and 2011 isn't looking much better. The incoming class of Republicans taking over the House in January features no shortage of members who deny the connection between man-made greenhouse-gas emissions and a warming planet — let alone think it's worth trying to lower those emissions.
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02.01.2011
Review: The silver lining of climate change
An ancient Chinese curse says, “May you live in interesting times.” This utterly absorbing book, subtitled Four Forces Shaping Civilization’s Northern Future, forecasts interesting times indeed, especially for the eight nations that comprise the Arctic Rim countries: Canada, the U.S., Russia, Iceland, Greenland (Denmark), Norway, Sweden and Finland.
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01.01.2011
World natural disasters
2010 may go down in history as a year that set an absolute number of records in terms of natural cataclysms. The eruption of the Eyjafjallaökull volcano in Iceland actually paralyzed air traffic in Europe; there were hurricanes in America, snowstorms in Europe, earthquakes and volcano eruptions in Indonesia and Haiti, inundations in Pakistan, and drought in Russia.
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29.12.2010
Climate Talks Bring Progress in the Fight Against Global Warming
The annual United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change conference came to an end recently with some small signs of progress. The event was held in Cancun, Mexico, and although there were no giant leaps made, the members left feeling more confident that they can work together in the future and eventually come to a binding global agreement on climate change.
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22.12.2010
ANALIZA 2Celsius Cancun, o promisiune sud-africana
Ceva e mai mult decat nimicul de la Copenhaga, era truismul indeobste murmurat de reprezentantii si expertii statelor, de activisti ori de jurnalistii acreditati la Palatul Lunii din Cancun, Mexic. Dupa doua saptamani de negocieri si conferinte dure al caror subiect ce aluneca obositor si usor penibil doar catre fondurile mondiale privind combaterea si adaptarea la schimbarile climatice, la a 16-a Conferinta a Partilor Conventiei Cadru a Natiunilor Unite privind Schimbarile Climatice (UNFCCC), in ultimele clipe, statele au semnat un acord salvator.
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21.12.2010
UN climate chief urges quick follow up of Cancun agreements
The agreement achieved at the climate summit in Cancun was a "big step" that exceeded expectations, a top UN official on climate change has said, asking nations to get to the task of quickly implementing the measures with credible accountability systems. All nations, particularly the industrialised
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21.12.2010
Germany Grows Tired of Leading Europe on Climate Change
For the Cancun climate change agreement to be effective, the European Union would have to further cut greenhouse gas emissions. Germany, though, no longer wants to be the model EU pupil and is asking others in the club to step up.
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20.12.2010
Global warming linked to harsh winters
CLIMATE CHANGE: THE COLD spell Ireland and the rest of northern Europe has been experiencing may, paradoxically, be the result of global warming, rather than evidence it is not happening, according to the most recent scientific research.
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20.12.2010
2010's world gone wild: Quakes, floods, blizzards
Earthquakes, heat waves, floods, volcanoes, super typhoons, blizzards, landslides and droughts killed at least a quarter million people in 2010 - the deadliest year in more than a generation. More people were killed worldwide by natural disasters this year than have been killed in terrorism attacks in the past 40 years combined.
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