Archive for ‘Events’
China’s climate challenge
March 20th, 2007
After more than two decades of breakneck economic expansion China is starting to see the environmental fallout. The nation last year missed its goals of cutting by 4 percent the amount of energy it uses to generate each unit of national income and of reducing emissions of key pollutants by 2
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World unites to save the planet
March 1st, 2007
The International Polar Year (IPY) will monitor changes to permafrost and the melting of polar ice sheets. Marine life in the regions will also be studied. The research will provide a baseline for understanding future environmental changes.
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Total in the Dock for French Oil Spill
February 12th, 2007
France’s first trial over a major environmental disaster opened on Monday to decide whether oil giant Total and other parties bear responsibility for the massive oil spill from the Erika shipwreck in 1999. A 25-year-old rusting tanker, Erika was carrying 30,000 tonnes of heavy fuel oil when it
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