Headlines: Global Warming
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- Saving the Planet One Dorm at a Time
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Dont kill polar bears. Take the stairs. The message, found on fliers next to elevators across the Phillips Academy campus, is part of the schools new push to save electricity and reduce global warming.
- British to Show Al Gore Movie in Schools
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Former U.S. Vice President Al Gores global warming documentary will be sent to every secondary school in England as part of a campaign to tackle climate change, the government said Friday.
- Scientists’ Urgent Climate Warning Underscores Need for Swift Action
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The most definitive climate science report to date was released today in Paris, underscoring the urgency to act here in Washington, according to the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC). The consensus report amplifies warnings that have been coming for some time, and suggests costly and difficult problems if steps are not taken soon to prevent them.
- Trees Take on Greenhouse Gases at Super Bowl
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Its red mangrove trees versus greenhouse gases at the Super Bowl in Miami on Sunday.
- Australia Temperatures to Soar in 65 years
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Average temperatures in Sydney will rise by about 9 degrees during the next 65 years, with devastating consequences including 1,300 more heat-related deaths per year, according to a government study released Wednesday.
- Eiffel Tower to Switch off Lights as Scientists Finish Major Report on Global Warming
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On Thursday evening, as scientists and officials put finishing touches on a long-awaited report about global warming, the Paris landmark will switch off its 20,000 flashing light bulbs that run up and down the tower and illuminate the French capitals skyline.
- Waxman Seeks Climate Inquiry Evidence
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The Democratic chairman of a House panel examining the governments response to climate change said Tuesday there is evidence that senior Bush administration officials sought repeatedly to mislead the public by injecting doubt into the science of global warming.
- Polar Bears Having Land Births
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Pregnant polar bears in Alaska, which spend most of their lives on sea ice, are increasingly giving birth on land, according to researchers who say global warming is probably to blame.
- Global warming, Development Causing Waterbird Populations to Decline
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A global survey reports that nearly half of the worlds waterbird species are in decline, blaming it mostly on rapid economic development and the effects of climate change.
- Report Has 'Smoking Gun' on Climate
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Human-caused global warming is here — visible in the air, water and melting ice — and is destined to get much worse in the future, an authoritative global scientific report will warn next week.
- Global Warming: The Final Verdict
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A study by the worlds leading experts says global warming will happen faster and be more devastating than previously thought.
- A Warning From the Garden
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Well, so much for our daffodils! They all bloomed in our front yard last week. They now form a nice bright yellow cluster at the bottom of our driveway. Temperatures of 65 degrees in Washington in January will do that. Frankly, daffodils in January do brighten up the lawn. Maybe next year we'll try for roses in February.
- A Coalition for Firm Limit on Emissions
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Ten major companies with operations across the economy — utilities, manufacturing, petroleum, chemicals and financial services — have banded together with leading environmental groups to call for a firm nationwide limit on carbon dioxide emissions that would lead to reductions of 10 to 30 percent over the next 15 years.
- Scottish Schools to Show Climate Change Film
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The film about climate change, An Inconvenient Truth, made by the former US vice-president Al Gore, is to be shown in secondary schools in Scotland as part of a new learning initiative unveiled today.
- Science + Religion = New Alliance to Save the Planet
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A coalition of scientists and religious leaders often at fundamental odds over the issue of the planets age and how it came to be are now pledging to set aside their disagreements over the origin of life in pursuit of a common goal: protecting the world from global warming, pollution, extinctions, and other reckless human activity.
- The Warming of Greenland
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All over Greenland and the Arctic, rising temperatures are not simply melting ice; they are changing the very geography of coastlines.
- Balmy, Snowless Winter Worries Mainers
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The unseasonably mild weather Maine has been experiencing is making some people nervous.
- Winter's Worrisome Warmth
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When winter finally shows up in parts of the nation that basked in oddly springlike temperatures through much of December and January, itll be tempting to forget all about the news that 2006 was the warmest on record in the continental USA. Not so fast.
- A Day at the Movies Is Quite an Eye-Opener
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The environmental agenda in the Maryland House of Delegates yesterday led off with popcorn and a front-row view of rising sea levels and melting glaciers spelling disaster for the planet.
- Schwarzenegger Orders Cuts in Emissions
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Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger said Tuesday that he would ask regulators to require the state's petroleum refiners and gasoline sellers to cut by 10 percent the emissions of heat-trapping gases associated with the production and use of their products.
