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Marco Villa, Connecticut
The Eurocrats have themselves a new summit where world leaders will meet once again and engage in alarmist rhetoric about “global warming” and Big...
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Fernando, Caracas
On the steep, dusty slopes of the Chacaltaya mountains, thousands of meters above sea level in the Bolivian Andes, the hardy farmers tending root crops or herding...
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Roger, Berne
The World Council of Churches on Thursday called on churches around the world to ring their bells 350 times during the Copenhagen climate change summit on December 13...
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Chad, Tempe
German Chancellor Angela Merkel, in a rare address to both houses of Congress, has called on the US to join European efforts on global warming. She also said Iran must...
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Alexis, Paris
Bike-sharing programs are gaining momentum throughout Europe and even in car-loving US cities, but vandals and thieves are doing a bang-up job of chipping away at that...
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Nirav, Birmingham
Britons should turn vegetarian to help beat global warming, according to one of the world’s top experts on climate change. Lord Stern said methane emissions from...
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Michael Kerjman, The Earth
Palms flourished in the Arctic about 50 million years ago as some profiting from carbon tax...
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Robert, Copenhagen
No one who saw it will ever forget Severn Suzuki’s six-minute address to the United Nations Earth Summit in Brazil in 1992. The 12-year-old Canadian schoolgirl...
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Global Report, Shimla
Environmentalists in Kenya and Africa, want to push for compensation from developed countries that are the major polluters. Through carbon trading, Kenya could claim a...
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Rose Ng'ang'a, Nairobi
I was going through my emails and came along a photo of a dying kid who has gone for days without food and is short of some energy to even cry, the only reachable...
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Byron Clark, Christchurch
In an article published in the New Zealand Medical Journal today a number of of senior health professionals call for New Zealand to halve its greenhouse gas emissions...
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Brandon, Rochester
The United States came under pressure to show leadership in U.N. climate talks on Wednesday with Mexico saying its neighbor is a stumbling block in efforts to try to...
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Shane, Kansas City
It has been one of the elusive goals of seafaring nations almost since the beginnings of waterborne trade, but for nearly 500 years the idea has been dismissed as an...
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Erick, Los Angeles
José Marcolini, a farmer here, has a permit from the Brazilian government to raze 12,500 acres of rain forest this year to create highly profitable new soy...
made popular Aug 24 2009
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Byron Clark, Christchurch
Pacific Forum logo Oxfam is calling for a new approach to negotiations on the Pacific Agreement on Closer Economic Relations (PACER) which are likely to be launched at...
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Nirav, Birmingham
Acontest between competing needs of conservation and economic growth is threatening the future of large parts of Europe’s last ancient forest. The 380,000-acre...
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Rodrigo, Brasilia
As the naked, painted young men of the Kamayurá tribe prepare for the ritualized war games of a festival, they end their haunting fireside chant with a blowing sound...
made popular Jul 25 2009
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Matt Wendus, Arlington
I’ve had it with going green. I’m sick of the obsessive drive I’ve had for years to reduce my impact on the earth to zero. Does that mean I’m...
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Anthony, Kampala
Millions of people in East Africa face climate-related hunger as seasons shift and change, a new report published by aid agency Oxfam International said on Monday. ...
made popular Jul 6 2009
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Tobin, Ottawa
If you were doing worse on climate action than Russia and the United States after eight years of Bush’s environmental policies, you’d know you had a problem. So it...
made popular Jul 4 2009
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In this undated photo provided by the University of Papua New Guinea, a logging truck carries its load through the forests of Papua New Guinea. The rainforest of Papua New Guinea is being destroyed so quickly by logging, fires and encroaching farming...