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Scientists Detail Cost of Global Warming
Wilting heat, deadly storms, flash floods, coastal erosion, more days with unhealthy air -- those are just some of the effects of rising temperatures on the Northeast, a group of scientists reported Wednesday. >> Read the Full Article
Vatican Agrees To Reforestation Project in Efforts To Promote Green Awareness
The Vatican is pushing its green agenda, joining a reforestation project aimed at offsetting its CO2 emissions for this year, officials said Thursday. >> Read the Full Article
Florida To Introduce Tough Greenhouse Gas Targets
Florida, the fourth most-populous U.S. state, will impose strict new air-pollution standards that aim to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions by 80 percent of 1990 levels by 2050, according to draft regulations released Wednesday. >> Read the Full Article
Solar Variations Not Behind Global Warming
The sun's changing energy levels are not to blame for recent global warming and, if anything, solar variations over the past 20 years should have had a cooling effect, scientists said on Wednesday. >> Read the Full Article
Canada To Increase Military Presence in the Arctic Despite U.S. Objections
Canada has announced plans to increase its Arctic military presence in an effort to assert sovereignty over the Northwest Passage -- a potentially oil-rich region the United States claims is international territory. >> Read the Full Article
Australia To Build Cross-Continent Climate Corridor
Australia will create a wildlife corridor spanning the continent to allow animals and plants to flee the effects of global warming, scientists said on Monday. >> Read the Full Article
Earth Underwhelmed by Environment Pop Extravaganza
They rocked the world, but as the clean-up at nine climate change gigs around the globe begins, many wonder if the galaxy of pop stars did much to change it. >> Read the Full Article
African Farmers Urged To Change Ways Because Weather Is Changing
The rainy season in this largely poor southern African nation, a study shows, has been getting shorter, more intense and more erratic, especially over the last 20 years, symptoms of the longer-term climatic changes occurring across Africa. >> Read the Full Article
EU Experts Urges Faster Implementation of Single European Sky Concept
A group of EU experts on Friday urged the union to speed up efforts to create a unified airspace over Europe in order to cut air travel costs, boost safety and improve the environmental efficiency of air traffic over the continent. >> Read the Full Article
Rock Stars Tackle Cynics as Well as Climate Change
More famous for Learjets and limousines than green living, pop stars performing at Saturday's Live Earth environmental concerts face widespread cynicism from fans, commentators and campaigners alike. >> Read the Full Article