Polar bears could be weeks from 'endangered' listing

Contra Costa Times, CA 
But officials acknowledge that climate change has led to the loss of vast expanses of polar sea ice, which the bears need. "We need to be doing something ...
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Tony Blair to advise Zurich Financial on climate change

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ZURICH (AFP) - Former British prime minister Tony Blair will advise Zurich Financial Services (ZFS) on a range of issues including climate change, ...
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Karunanidhi calls for joint effort to fight global warming

Hindu, India 
CHENNAI: Fighting global warming requires a joint global effort, Chief Minister M. Karunanidhi has said. Flagging off a world tour undertaken by two ...
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Climate change plan criticized

Canada.com, Canada 
The Stelmach government's new climate change plan doesn't go far enough to ensure the province has a sustainable energy future, opposition parties charged ...
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Media consign global warming to back burner

San Francisco Chronicle,  USA 
Of the more than 2900 questions asked, only four have mentioned the words "global warming." "It's stunning," said David Sandretti, the League of ...
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Scientists pinpoint warming forecasts

The Age, Australia 
Moving on from the risk of global warming, scientists are now looking for ways to pinpoint the areas set to be affected by climate change, to help countries ...
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Maldives Builds Barriers to Global Warming

NPR 
We are told that as a result of global warming and sea-level rise, my country, the Maldives, may sometime during the next century, disappear from the face ...
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Premiers meet this week to talk climate-change

Canada.com, Canada 
VANCOUVER -- When British Columbia Premier Gordon Campbell hosts Canada's provincial leaders on Monday, he'll be trying to find a climate-change consensus.
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College sets global warming teach-in

Boston Globe, United States 
North Shore Community College already has started making its campus environmentally friendly, but with the two-day National Global Warming Teach-in starting ...
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Iraq ratifies Kyoto Protocol on climate change

AFP 
BAGHDAD (AFP) - Iraq has formally ratified the UN's Kyoto Protocol on climate change, according to a government statement seen by AFP on Saturday.
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Proposed rules would exempt small oil, gas

Canada.com, Canada 
OTTAWA - The Harper government is proposing to exempt up to 10 million tonnes of greenhouse gas pollution from Canada's upstream oil and gas companies in ...
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Europe to Trade More Greenhouse Gases, Use More Biofuels

Environment News Service 
BRUSSELS, Belgium, January 24, 2008 (ENS) - The European Commission has released a set of proposals to expand the current greenhouse gas Emission Trading ...
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US likely to stand firm on greenhouse gas emissions at summit

Austin American-Statesman, TX 
The US, the world's biggest per-capita emitter of greenhouse gases, did not ratify that treaty. The Hawaii meeting is an important chance for the US to mend ...
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Gardening against global warming

KVAL, OR 
Senior Global Warming Specialist Patty Glick addressed a crowed of green-thumbed attendees. She talked about the findings of the National Wildlife ...
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Premiers meet this week to talk climate change

Canada.com, Canada 
Alberta accounts for one-third of all national greenhouse gases, mainly due to its tar sands and oil and gas sector. And it's the fastest-growing emitter.
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Tough road ahead to achieve Fukuda's vision

The Daily Yomiuri, Japan 
In his speech at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Fukuda proposed a plan under which each country would cut greenhouse gas emissions by a ...
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Global Warming: Time Lapse Photography Slideshow

Pacific University, OR 
He covers environmental issues, conservation, biodiversity, climate change and global warming. In 2000 he launched the World View of Global Warming, ...
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Global Warming...It Is Later Than We Think… But Not Too Late!

The New York Academy of Sciences, NY 
Now, climate experts reporting for the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) say with more than 90% certainty that global warming is caused by ...
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France, India to fight against global warming jointly

Economic Times, India 
In a joint declaration on the fight against global warming, France and India on Friday emphasised on checking greenhouse gas emissions to levels prescribed ...
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BC to set up climate-change institute with $94.5-million endowment

The Canadian Press 
The BC government plans to spend $94.5 million to set up a Pacific Institute for Climate Solutions to spark ideas for adapting to climate change and lessen ...
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Is The Economy Distracting Us from Climate Change?

BusinessWeek 
I just hope our preoccupation with the current financial situation does not distract us from climate change. Today, the atmospheric concentration of CO2 is ...
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Fowler, Wyatt join Global Warming Commission

Bizjournals.com, NC 
Ted Kulongoski announced appointments Friday to the Oregon Global Warming Commission, a 25-member advisory group created by the 2007 Legislature.
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Oregon governor plans 'cap and trade' greenhouse gas market

KTVZ, OR 
They include a proposal to reduce greenhouse gases through a "cap and trade" system. Such a system would aim to reduce pollution by requiring utilities to ...
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Japanese PM pledges initiatives on climate change, development

AFP 
LONDON (AFP) - Japan's Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda pledged Tokyo-led initiatives on climate change and economic development in the near future in a comment ...
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Climate change affecting health

The Press Association 
Climate change is putting global human health at risk and requires an "urgent response". The health risks include those from heat waves, ...
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EPA Inaction on Greenhouse Gas Ruling Angers States

Environment News Service 
The court ordered the EPA to revisit the states' rulemaking petition, to determine whether greenhouse gas emissions from vehicles cause harmful air ...
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Africa: Water as Critical as Climate Change

AllAfrica.com, Washington 
Global crises from escalating demand for fresh water and inadequate supply are as urgent as efforts to tackle climate change - yet are more vexing and ...
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Wind Shift

TIME 
But as the world's movers, shakers and wonkier celebrities meet in Davos, where climate change is high on the agenda, America may be closer to filling in ...
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‘Emission of greenhouse gases increasing at an alarming rate’

Hindu, India 
concern: Vehicles plying on badly laid roads in Bangalore are said to be the significant contributors for emission of greenhouse gases.
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Scientific Group Releases New Statement on Climate Change

LiveScience.com, NY 
By Andrea Thompson, LiveScience Staff Writer The world's largest society of Earth and space scientists has released a new statement on climate change that ...
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Alberta sets bar low in climate change plan

Canada.com, Canada 
Many influential oilpatch players have warned against overly aggressive measures to fight climate change, largely because the sector continues to expand.
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Gore, Bono Press West On Climate, Poverty

CBS News, NY 
At an early-morning session that drew several hundred attendees, climate change campaigner Gore warned that the world climate crisis was worsening, ...
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Poland may fight for concessions on EU climate change package

Forbes, NY 
WARSAW (Thomson Financial) - Poland is likely to fight to change the European Union's new plan to produce cleaner energy, which it says may hurt its ...
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Driven by mischief

Guardian Unlimited, UK 
... for India's new "People's Car", the Tata Nano), stand two rather forlorn-looking polar bears, an animal that has become the symbol of climate change.
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Nickels nudges Congress to reduce greenhouse gas emissions

Seattle Post Intelligencer 
The Kyoto Protocol would have required the United States to reduce greenhouse gases by 7 percent below 1990 levels by 2012. The United States refused to ...
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Climate change 'significantly worse' than feared: Al Gore

AFP 
DAVOS, Switzerland (AFP) - Climate change is occurring far faster than even the worst predictions of the UN's Nobel Prize-winning scientific panel on ...
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Davos meet opens with call for collaborative innovation

Sify, India 
"Within the meeting's main theme, I would like to see participants addressing the issues of peace and climate change, as well as the issue of inclusive ...
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Global warming question matters

Indiana Daily Student 
Leigh Boerner contends in the article "Is global warming real?" (Jan. 22 IDS) that we should tackle global warming to help the whole environment.
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Asia To Account For Two-Thirds Of Greenhouse Gas Emissions By 2010

AHN 
Manila, Philippines (AHN) - Easing greenhouse gas emissions cannot cope with overall energy growth in Asia, according to the Asian Development Bank (ADB).
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GTA to face grim future due to global warming

Toronto Star,  Canada 
"Building codes should have to take global warming into account." Yakabuski said insurance claims related to geological and weather events are 20 times ...
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EU comes up with plan to fight global warming

Times of India, India 
BRUSSELS: The European Commission on Wednesday unveils sweeping plans to fight global warming, which already face heavy criticism from industry and ...
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Keep climate change on agenda, pleads IPCC

Times of India, India 
DAVOS: The head of the UN's Nobel Prize-winning scientific panel on climate change warned on Wednesday that fears about the world economy could put climate ...
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EU Parliament targets intl accord on climate change to reach 30 ...

Forbes, NY 
The main result of the UN Climate Change Conference in Bali in December 2007 is a clear timetable. The deadline of December 2009 in Copenhagen for the ...
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Climate change ‘will lead to warfare over food

Times Online, UK 
Climate change will have a long-term impact on the nation's security as wars break out over food and water supplies around the world, a report said ...
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UN Climate Chief Rosy on 50pc Gases Cut

The Associated Press 
The comments came as the European Union unveiled plans to slash greenhouse gas emissions 20 percent by 2020, imposing costs on major polluters and rapidly ...
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Ulysses Spacecraft Flies Over Sun's North Pole

Science Daily (press release) 
Old magnetic fields sink beneath the polar surface 200000 kilometers deep (about 124000 miles), all the way down to the sun's inner magnetic dynamo, ...
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EU greenhouse gas tax date deferred

Financial Times, UK 
By Fiona Harvey in London Europe's heavy industries were relieved on Wednesday to find the date when they will have to start paying for their greenhouse gas ...
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Nationwide 'teach-in' planned to address climate change

Christian Science Monitor, MA 
Reporter Stacy Teicher-Khadaroo discusses how "Focus The Nation" organizers have been affected by climate change. In Springfield, Mo., college students are ...
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EU faces tough climate change road

BBC News, UK 
The climate change targets were never going to be easy to reach by 2020, but some EU countries have already suggested they might be too hard.
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Blair: Davos provides special opportunity to discuss Mideast ...

Xinhua, China 
Besides the Mideast peace process, which is likely to be a major theme, climate change, terrorism, nuclear proliferation and poverty and disease eradication ...
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