Greenhouse Effect

Studies: Fighting Global Warming Reduces Diseases

Studies Say Cutting Global Warming Gases Also Has Health Benefit Of Saving Millions Of Lives (AP) WASHINGTON (AP) - "Reducing greenhouse gases not only helps save the planet in the long term, but it's going to improve our...

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Fewer Americans believe in global warming, poll shows

The percentage of Americans who believe global warming is happening has dipped from 80 to 72 percent in the past year, according to a new Washington Post-ABC News poll, even as a majority still support a national cap on...

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Country Needs to Pool Climate Efforts With Norway

IT IS Norway's view that the increase in global mean temperature must be limited to a maximum of 2°C compared with the pre-industrial level. In order to avoid serious damage, greenhouse gas emissions will have to be reduced by...

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Gambia: Climate Change Justice Hearing Confab Ends

The Global Call for Action against Poverty (GCAP), on Saturday organised a day's conference on climate change, dubbed 'the climate change justice hearing' at the President's International Award conference hall, in Bakau.

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N.Zealand passes climate change emissions law (AFP)

AFP/File – New Zealand's has parliament approved a scheme aimed at curbing greenhouse gas emissions, but critics … WELLINGTON (AFP) – New Zealand's parliament Wednesday approved a scheme aimed at curbing greenhouse gas...

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A Closer Look at Global Warming (Part 1)

While looking at some old copies of Life Magazine in an antique store in the spring of 2008, I came across a very interesting article from August1956 about the fear of global warming. It reviewed many possible causes for the...

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Cutting greenhouse pollutants could directly save millions of lives worldwide

Six international studies published this week in the British journal the Lancet show that cutting greenhouse gases, in particular ozone and black carbon, can quickly save millions of lives worldwide in addition to slowing...

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Intensive Land-Management Leaves Europe Without Carbon Sinks

Jena, Germany (SPX) Nov 25, 2009 - Of all global carbon dioxide emissions, less than half accumulate in the atmosphere where it contributes to global warming. The remainder is hidden away in oceans and terrestrial ecosystems...

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COP15: The United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen

The upcoming COP15 meeting in Denmark—so named because it is the 15th such international gathering of the Conference of the Parties (COP) under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change—is the world's next big...

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Climate expert testifies about climate impacts on vulnerable regions, people to House

Anthony C. Janetos, director of the Joint Global Change Research Institute, will testify before the House Committee on Foreign Affairs and the Subcommittee on Asia, the Pacific, and the Global Environment about climate change...

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