Browsing Tag: Global warming

U.N. chief: Major climate deal unlikely

An all-encompassing climate deal "may be beyond our reach for now," the U.N. chief said Tuesday as China and India delivered a setback to European plans to negotiate a new treaty that would bind all parties to their pledges on greenhouse gas emissions.
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Pacific shows climate change a reality: UN chief

"For those who believe climate change is about some distant future, I invite them to visit Kiribati or the Solomon Islands and most of the Pacific island countries," he said in a speech at Auckland University. "Climate change is not about tomorrow. It is lapping at our feet...
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Polar ice loss quickens, raising seas

"That ice sheets will dominate future sea level rise is not surprising - they hold a lot more ice mass than mountain glaciers," said lead author Eric Rignot from Nasa's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, California. "What is surprising is this increased contribution by the ice sheets is already happening."
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UN issues severe climate warning ahead of summit

All the pledges of the nations which have agreed to cut or limit their emissions of greenhouse gases, when added together, still leave the world far short of what is needed to halt the coming rise in global average temperatures to 2C, generally regarded as the danger threshold...
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Report predicts major climate changes in India by 2030

Malaria, downpours and drought: Report predicts major climate changes in India by 2030
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Around-the-world bicyclists make way through NJ

The two men have never met. Yesterday both bicycled through Central Jersey, each halfway through their separate journeys around the world. As they travel tens of thousands of miles across dozens of countries on all of the continents, they hope to fulfill their own spiritual missions...
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Global warming 'undeniable,' it's getting hotter every year

Melting glaciers, more humid air and eight other key indicators show that global warming is undeniable, scientists said on Wednesday, citing a new comprehensive review of the last decade of climate data.
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How fruit trees in Indian village save girls' lives

"This is our way of meeting the challenges of dowry, global warming and female foeticide. There has not been a single incident yet of female foeticide or dowry death in our village," he says.
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On Earth Day's 40th anniversary, a different world

Today's issues — global warming, ocean pollution, carbon-based energy systems — are more abstruse and remote. And environmentalists' opponents are far better organized than in the past.
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EcoSikh in Action

UN and Sikh Leaders to Launch Sikh Response to Global Warming and Climate Change at India Habitat Center in Delhi
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