A report entitled "Getting a Grip on Cruise Pollution" released today by the Friends of the Earth (FOE) organization concludes that the billions of dollars earned by the cruise industry each year comes at a significant cost to our nation’s air and water.The...
The Alberta Oil Sands have been a bone of contention for environmentalists for some time. Greenpeace, Al Gore and even President Obama have thrashed the Alberta Oil Sands. A favorite name for...
The Copenhagen Climate Change Conference was the last great hope of environmentalists. The conference had great expectations that a binding climate change treaty would be signed. All of it went up in...
New Delhi: India should be overtake China in 2020 according to many analysts of India. In the past decades, India has been world number one in starvation deaths, foreign aid and bribery. In the 2000s, it was...
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COPENHAGEN: Deal in COP 15 in Copenhegen, but Developing nations specialy Africon and Island countries rejected this deal. " Several developing nations rejected on Saturday a climate deal worked out by US President Barack Obama and four major emerging economies, saying it...
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There being mentioned billions of people within this article and the rarely mentioned, made my hair stick up so to speak. Because there still seeming has been nothing said about growing populations, that will...
Its been a collecting of pledges, wishes and differing opinion. The problem that is worrying me is the fact that there will be many third world governments. Holding out their hand in the effort to take a...
Throughout America, but particularity in the North East, coal burning energy plants are being found as not only polluting the air but now also the water. It all started with the mainstream environmental...
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Japan's next prime minister has announced that the country will aim to slash carbon emissions by 25% by 2020, compared to 1990 levels. Democratic Party leader Yukio Hatoyama takes over as prime minister on September 16. His predecessor, Taro Aso, had previously stated that...
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" Arctic temperatures are now higher than at any time in the last 2,000 years, research reveals. Changes to the Earth's orbit drove centuries of cooling, but temperatures rose fast in the last 100 years as human...
" A UK Royal Society study has concluded that many engineering proposals to reduce the impact of climate change are "technically possible". Such approaches could be effective, the authors said in their report. ...
China has launched what they are calling a 'green revoultion', in a plan to use wind and solar power to reduce their carbon emissions by 20% by 2020, which would match the goal set by the western world. A fifth of China's energy needs would come from renewable energy sources...
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China has told other rich nations that they should cut their emssions by at least 40 percent by 2020, as part of the new climate change developments ahead of the Conference on Climate Change in Copenhagen this...
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Australia have announced that they are pushing back their planned carbon emissions trading scheme for one year as the global recession has made efforts like this just not possible within the current budget. This will mean that the date to begin would be July 2011. Prime...
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Reporting at their 31st annual end-of-winter survey, US-based organizations National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and the National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC), stated that over 90 percent of...
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