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Curbs to ship pollution would stoke global warming, study says

OSLO (Reuters) - Shipping is slowing climate change by spewing out sunlight-dimming pollution but a clean-up needed to safeguard human health will stoke global warming, experts said Friday. "So far shipping has caused a cooling effect that has slowed ...

From ALISTER DOYLE, EcoEarth News,  21 Nov 2009

Antarctica’s wandering ice shelf

GPS markers usually pinpoint a spot on the earth’s surface to help everything from map-making to navigation. In fact, it wandered hundreds of miles (km) this year on an iceberg, blown by winds or carried by ocean currents in huge pirouettes off the ...

From ALISTER DOYLE, Reuters,  18 Nov 2009

Related Topics: David Vaughan

Greenland ice loss accelerating: study

G reenland's ice losses are accelerating and nudging up sea levels, according to a study showing that icebergs breaking away and melt water runoff are equally to blame for the shrinking ice sheet. The report, using computer models to confirm satellite ...

From ALISTER DOYLE, Globe and Mail,  12 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

REUTERS.COM: Genetic tests help track food web, climate change

BARCELONA, Spain (Reuters) - New uses of genetic testing can help track how animal diets may change due to global warming and are helping crack down on wildlife smuggling, experts said on Saturday. "There's been an extraordinary growth in the use of ...

From ALISTER DOYLE, EcoEarth News,  7 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Ahmed Djoghlaf

Poor urge deep climate cuts

BARCELONA, Spain (Reuters) – Developing countries said on Wednesday they risked "total destruction" unless the rich stepped up the fight against climate change to a level that even the United Nations says is out of reach. The top U.S. climate diplomat ...

From ALISTER DOYLE AND GERARD WYNN, EcoEarth News,  4 Nov 2009

Related Topics: United Nations,  European Union,  Yvo de Boer,  U.S. House of Representatives,  U.S. Senate

Poor urge deep climate cuts; U.N. says out of reach

BARCELONA, Spain (Reuters) – Developing countries said on Wednesday they risked "total destruction" unless the rich stepped up the fight against climate change to a level that even the United Nations says is out of reach. The top U.S. climate diplomat ...

From ALISTER DOYLE AND GERARD WYNN, EcoEarth News,  4 Nov 2009

Related Topics: United Nations,  European Union,  Yvo de Boer,  U.S. House of Representatives,  U.S. Senate

U.N. climate talks resume as time runs out for deal

BARCELONA, Spain (Reuters) - The United States came under pressure on Monday to follow other rich countries and set a 2020 goal for cutting greenhouse gases to rescue chances for a climate deal due next month in Copenhagen. The prospective Danish hosts ...

From GERARD WYNN AND ALISTER DOYLE, EcoEarth News,  2 Nov 2009

Related Topics: U.S. Senate,  Yvo de Boer,  Barack Obama,  White House,  European Union

Palms grew in ice-free Arctic 50 million years ago: study

OSLO (Reuters Life!) – Palms flourished in the Arctic during a brief sweltering period about 50 million years ago, according to a study on Sunday that hints at big gaps in scientific understanding of modern climate change. The Arctic "would have looked ...

From ALISTER DOYLE, EcoEarth News,  25 Oct 2009

Copenhagen…DOpenHAgen…DOHA?

So is there a risk – if negotiators are not smart — that the new U.N. accord to fight global warming will stall like the long-running Doha round on freeing world trade, launched in 2001? India’s Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh, for instance, said on ...

From ALISTER DOYLE, Reuters,  22 Oct 2009

Related Topics: United Nations,  Jairam Ramesh,  Alistair Darling,  U.S. Senate,  World Trade Organization

Space agencies, Google seek ways to save forests

OSLO (Reuters) – Space agencies and Google Inc are helping an international project to monitor forests by satellite to fight global warming, the head of an international earth observation group said on Tuesday. Deforestation from Brazil to Indonesia is ...

From ALISTER DOYLE, EcoEarth News,  20 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Google Inc.,  United Nations,  NASA

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