Climate Change: latest news and comment
The best of selected climate change news and comment from around the world
20.09.2004
The ozone layer of the Earth's atmosphere, assailed for decades by chemical products used in industry and agriculture, could begin to regenerate itself in the years ahead, predicts Rajendra Shende, director of the United Nations Environment Programme's Energy and Ozone Action Unit.
more...From: Inter Press Service Related topics/regions: [Climate change] Image: Planet Earth © Michael Klare / MediaChannel
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20.09.2004
The presidential campaign has briefly touched on issues of science, with President George W. Bush and Democratic challenger John Kerry answering questionnaires compiled by the journals "Nature" and "Science."
more...From: Environment News Service (ENS) Related topics/regions: [United States] [Climate change] [Politics] |
16.09.2004
Countries are today being urged to re-double efforts to assess the quantities of an ozone-damaging chemical being used to kill pests on shipments of rice, maize, nuts and other big commodity export crops.
more...From: Environmental News Network Related topics/regions: [Agriculture] [Trade] [Climate change] [Pollution] Image: Grain © Consumers International
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16.09.2004
NAIROBI, Kenya Iraqi scientists will assess pollution ranging from oil spills to scrap metal from destroyed military vehicles in an effort to tackle environmental damage in the war-ravaged country, the United Nations said this week.
more...With violence gripping Iraq, environmentalists are struggling to draw attention to damage caused during last year's U.S.-led invasion, the 1991 Gulf War, and waste discharged by industry struggling with years of sanctions. From: Environmental News Network Related topics/regions: [Iraq] [Environment] [War and peace] |
10.09.2004
MOSCOW Russia has not decided if it will support the Kyoto Protocol, the landmark environmental treaty it can sink or save, and the government has asked to delay making an official report to President Vladimir Putin until December.
more...From: Environmental News Network Related topics/regions: [Russian Federation] [Climate change] [Politics] |
10.09.2004
Climate change will soon make the Arctic regions of the world nearly unrecognisable, dramatically disrupting traditional Inuit and other northern native peoples' way of life, according to a new report that has yet to be publicly released.
more...From: Inter Press Service Related topics/regions: [Climate change] [Indigenous rights] |
06.09.2004
Scientists and humanities researchers in China have launched a new coordinating body intended to increase Chinese involvement in international discussions on the impact of global climate change.
more...From: SciDev.Net Related topics/regions: [China] [Climate change] |
06.09.2004
Thailand's energy-conservation scheme, due to start in September amid rising oil prices, will run right into this country's love affair with cars.
more...From: Inter Press Service Related topics/regions: [Thailand] [Energy] [Economy] [Consumption] [Climate change] Image: Congestion and skyrocketing oil prices © Centre for Science and Environment
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Renewable Energy Remains Elusive
03.09.2004
Jimmy Carter put solar heating panels on the White House during his first year in office to promote energy conservation. Ronald Reagan took them off and ushered in the era of market deregulation shortly after he was elected. How are the current presidential candidates responding to renewable energy?
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Environmental News Network
Related topics/regions: [United States] [Renewable energy] |
01.09.2004
The area burned by wildfires in 11 US states could double by the end of the century if summer climate warms by slightly more than a degree and a half, say researchers with the U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service and Pacific Northwest Climate Impacts Group at the University of Washington.
more...From: Environment News Service (ENS) Related topics/regions: [United States] [Climate change] [Forests] Image: Forest fire © Centre for Science and Environment
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