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Beijing set to meet Games pledge on water recycling
October 24th, 2007
Beijing will meet its Olympic commitments on sewage treatment and water recycling by the end of the year, officials said on Wednesday. Organisers who made “Green Olympics” one of the three central pillars of the 2008 Summer Games are keen to emphasise their environmental credentials with the seventh world forum on Sport and the Environment being held in the city …
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U.S. sees world on track for 2009 UN climate deal
October 24th, 2007
the world seems on track to launch negotiations on a new treaty to fight climate change this year with an end-2009 deadline for a deal, the United States said on Wednesday. “I would say consensus…emerged around 2009″ as a deadline, Paula Dobriansky, U.S. Under Secretary of State for Democracy and Global Affairs, told Reuters from a meeting of 40 …
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Australian farmers face bankruptcy from drought
October 24th, 2007
Farmer John Ridley won’t be harvesting so much as a bag of wheat this season from fields that stretch to the horizon as Australia’s worst drought in 100 years takes its toll on the country’s grain belt. Beneath a cloudless sky, 60-year-old Ridley, a descendant of one of Australia’s pioneering farming families, pulls a clump of brittle stubble from …
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Five facts about California wildfires
October 24th, 2007
Facts you should know about California wildfires.
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California wildfires force historic evacuation
October 24th, 2007
Fierce wildfires raged across Southern California Tuesday, threatening more than 60,000 homes as night fell and forcing half a million people to flee in the state’s largest evacuation. California’s worst fires in four years, driven by hot Santa Ana winds that have not relented for three days, tormented the San Diego area in the south and threatened mountain communities …
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Wildfires swirl through Southern California for 4th day
October 24th, 2007
More residents in San Diego County, California, were ordered to leave their homes Wednesday, but others got permission to return as wildfires swirled through smoke-choked Southern California for a fourth day, CNN reported.
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climate change growing threat to peace
October 23rd, 2007
Climate change is a growing threat to world peace and has led to rival territorial claims in the Arctic that could turn into a Cold War, German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier said on Tuesday. Political solutions are needed now to problems posed by climate change that threaten peace in areas ranging from Africa to the Middle East and even …
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Caribbean urged to face warming risks
October 23rd, 2007
The Caribbean tourism industry, the lifeblood for many island economies, needs to brace itself for stronger hurricanes, more frequent droughts and rising sea levels resulting from global warming, scientists said Monday. The Caribbean, where more than half the population lives within a mile of the coast, faces some of the greatest risks from climate change, according to the expert …
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A PROBLEMATIC THIRST
October 23rd, 2007
Turn off the tap, Las Vegas, and save the Great Basin. Although simple, that is the nub of two nonprofit groups’ argument in a report released last week about the potential environmental consequences of a project to bring ground water from northeast Nevada to Las Vegas.
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When Man Is Endangered
October 23rd, 2007
The burgeoning metro Atlanta area is being hit hard by the severe drought in the Southeast. Is it too much to ask that a few protected species make a sacrifice for humans? Lying just north of the metropolitan area is Lake Lanier, a man-made reservoir that provides water for a region of 5 million. It was created when the …
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New Orleans dries out after flooding
October 23rd, 2007
With a shake of the head, Richie Stevens looked at the brownish, oil-streaked water surrounding his property Tuesday and wondered how so much of the city could be swamped by a rainfall not even associated with a hurricane. “This was a little rain flood,” Stevens said. “What happens if we get a big storm?”
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Carbon dioxide in atmosphere increasing
October 23rd, 2007
Just days after the Nobel prize was awarded for global warming work, an alarming new study finds that carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is increasing faster than expected. Carbon dioxide emissions were 35 percent higher in 2006 than in 1990, a much faster growth rate than anticipated, researchers led by Josep G. Canadell, of Australia’s Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial …
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Carbon dioxide levels up faster than thought-study
October 22nd, 2007
Humans are pumping carbon dioxide into the atmosphere at an increasingly quicker pace while natural reservoirs such as oceans and trees are soaking up less and less of the greenhouse gas, researchers said on Monday. Carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere have grown 35 percent faster than expected since 2000 due to increased greenhouse gas emissions in rapidly developing …
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Flooding leads to closing of N.O. canal
October 22nd, 2007
The Army Corps of Engineers closed a gate on a suburban canal as heavy rains lashed the flood-prone city, raising fears that climbing waters threatened to top the walls holding them back. After more than 8 inches of rain fell on parts of New Orleans by late afternoon, Mayor Ray Nagin shut City Hall early, and schools also closed. People …
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Working On The Railroads
October 22nd, 2007
Solar power, private equity and other wave-of-the-future industries have been getting attention lately. But much of Wall Street’s big money has been flowing into a Victorian-era standby: railroads. In May, Warren Buffett revealed that his company, Berkshire Hathaway, has been buying stakes in rail stocks, especially giant Burlington Northern Santa Fe BNI. Other big guns buying rail include Carl …
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