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- 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.
- Big Coal's Dirty Move
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According to the American Heritage Dictionary, a suicidal act is one that is dangerous to oneself or to ones interests; self-destructive or ruinous. By this standard, the coal boom that is currently sweeping America is the atmospheric equivalent of a swan dive off a very tall building.
- 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.
- House Votes to Rescind Oil Drillers’ Tax Breaks
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House Democrats easily passed legislation on Thursday that would rescind $14 billion in tax breaks and subsidies for oil drillers and reserve the money to develop alternative energy projects and conservation technologies.
- 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.
- My Favorite Green Lump
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All environmentalists have their favorite green energy source that they think will break our addiction to oil and slow down climate change. Ive come out to Montana to see mine. Its called coal.
- 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.
- Agency Affirms Human Influence on Climate
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President Bush has said it. A lot of government scientists have said it. But until yesterday, it appeared that no news release on annual climate trends out of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration under the Bush White House had said unequivocally that a buildup of greenhouse gases was helping warm the climate.
- Dell Says Plant a Tree, Help the Environment
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Michael S. Dell, who made his name building computers, has a new goal: planting trees.
- Make Your Home Green and Save Greenbacks
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A Few Modifications to Your Home Can Help Save the Environment and Save You Money
- Warm December Pushes 2006 to Record Year
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Last year was the warmest on record for the United States, with readings pushed over higher than normal by the unusual and unseasonably warm weather during the last half of December.