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What You Should Know Before the Copenhagen Summit
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...
global warming, Barack Obama, climate change
made popular Nov 20 2009
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In Bolivia, women bearing brunt of climate change
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...
Bolivia, Climate change, Women
made popular Nov 19 2009
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Church to ring 350 bells to remind leaders leave rhetoric, take action
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...
Church, Ringing bells, 350 bells
made popular Nov 13 2009
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Merkel's US address:Tear down mental walls on climate
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...
Angela Merkel, Merkel's US address, Climate change
made popular Nov 4 2009
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French Bike-Sharing: an urban ethos for the era of climate change
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...
French Bike sharing, Vandalism, theft
made popular Nov 2 2009
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Britain's Climate change chief urges to give up meat to save the planet
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...
Meat, Cows, Pigs
made popular Oct 27 2009
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Palms in Arctic
Michael Kerjman, The Earth
Palms flourished in the Arctic about 50 million years ago as some profiting from carbon tax...
climate change, carbon tax, Copenhagen, kerjman
made popular Oct 26 2009
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Copenhagen Summit: Children get a say on climate change
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...
Copenhagen Summit, Climate change, global warming
made popular Oct 20 2009
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Kenyan environmentalists for trading in carbon market
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...
environment, pollution, carbon emissions
made popular Oct 15 2009
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Who will save the dying kid?
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...
climate change, Africa, industrialised countries
made popular Oct 14 2009
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Cut greenhouse emissions- for the good of our health
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...
Climate and Health Group, PHA, climate change
made popular Oct 9 2009
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US stumbling block in UN climate talks: Mexico
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...
US, Climate change, Climate talks
made popular Oct 7 2009
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First commercial navigation through Arctic – A triumph for man, a disaster for mankind
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...
Arctic, Climate change, commercial navigation
made popular Sep 12 2009
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In Brazil, Paying Farmers to Let the Trees Stand
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...
Brazil, Rain forests, Amazon
made popular Aug 24 2009
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Oxfam: 'New approach' to Pacific trade negotiations needed
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...
Oxfam, Pacific Forum, PACER
made popular Aug 5 2009
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Battle for Europes last ancient forest
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...
Forests, Bialowieza Primeval Forest, Bison
made popular Aug 4 2009
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Amazon Culture Withers as Food Dries Up
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...
Amazon Culture, Food Shortages, Deforestration
made popular Jul 25 2009
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I'm Green Enough!
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...
going green, climate change, global warming
made popular Jul 15 2009
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Millions face climate related hunger in East Africa
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. ...
Climate Change, Shift in seasons, Hunger
made popular Jul 6 2009
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Canada Sucks When It Comes to Climate Change
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...
Climate change, Kyoto protocol, Environment
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...

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