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Visa problems hamper climate change talks
Many developing country delegates were delayed or unable to attend the UN climate change negotiations in Poland due to strict visa policies.
Opinion: Water: forgotten in the food crisis
Australia is not the only country in the world whose economy and environment are threatened by water shortages, writes Colin Chartres.
EU wants end to old-style bulbs
An EU report recommends banning incandescent light bulbs by 2012 to save energy and cut greenhouse gas emissions.
Mexico: Glaciers 'disappearing' due to global warming
Important glaciers in Mexico could melt completely within the next 15-40 years, decreasing the availability of water resources, say studies.
Southern Ocean resistant to changing winds
Intensifying winds in the Southern Ocean have had little influence on the strength of the Southern Ocean circulation and therefore its ability to absorb carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, according...
Want to stop climate change? Put a fork in it, advocates say
Restoring local farms, creating more community gardens and planting more backyard vegetables are some of the simple ways people in St. John's can cut greenhouse gases, residents heard Sunday.
Some see energy future in old mill dams
(AP) -- More than 150 years after it helped power the industrial revolution, the waters of Mill Brook that spill over a series of dams past the old Armory...
Inside a surgical instruments workshop in Pakistan
Britain's NHS uses surgical instruments manufactured in appalling conditions in Pakistan
Water balance restored in Everglades
MIAMI, Dec. 7 (UPI) -- Florida officials say they have successfully moved water dumped by Tropical Storm Fay, ending flooding that threatened wildlife in one part of the...
Native hunters: Climate is thinning caribou herds
(AP) -- Chief Bill Erasmus of the Dene nation in northern Canada brought a stark warning about the climate crisis: The once abundant herds of caribou are dwindling, rivers...
Climate change: Sci-fi solutions no longer in the margins
With political efforts to tackle global warming advancing slower than a Greenland glacier, schemes for saving Earth's climate system that once were dismissed as crazy or dangerous are gaining in...
New York Observed: Finally, the Scent of the City
An accident stole her sense of smell. Then, one Sunday, a signature New York aroma rising from an oven told her she was healed.
Climate Change Wiped Out Cave Bears 13 Millennia Earlier Than Thought
Enormous cave bears, Ursus spelaeus, that once inhabited a large swathe of Europe, from Spain to the Urals, died out 27,800 years ago, around 13 millennia earlier than was previously...
Melting ice may slow global warming
Collapsing antarctic ice sheets, which have become potent symbols of global warming, m
NRL's P-3 aircraft support project to study tropical cyclones
The Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) has been hunting for tropical cyclones as part of a multi-national study to understand, observe, and predict the potential impacts of Pacific tropical cyclones. This...
Man-made chemicals found in drinking water at low levels
Low levels of certain man-made chemicals remain in public water supplies after being treated in selected community water facilities. Water from nine selected rivers, used as a source for public...
Two Spanish scientists among world's most productive in the field of reproductive biology
A bibilometric study has been carried out to evaluate the scientific activity of international researchers and institutions specialising in reproductive biology. The results reveal that two Spanish scientists, Antonio Pellicer...
Sarkozy to seek EU climate deal
French President Nicolas Sarkozy is to meet eastern European leaders to try to agree on an EU climate change package.
Review: The Emerald Planet: How Plant's Changed Earth's History by David Beerling
Review: The Emerald Planet: How Plant's Changed Earth's History by David BeerlingDavid Beerling's book is both fascinating and important, writes PD Smith
VIDEO: Iceland Puffin Threatened
In Iceland's remote Westman Islands, warming weather is threatening a beloved mascot: the Atlantic puffin.
Antarctic Cruise Ship Runs Aground; Oil Leak Spreading?
All 122 passengers and crew were rescued, but an unknown amount of oil leaking into the fragile waters may pose an environmental threat, says a National Geographic grantee near the...
Biodiversity Hotspots Are Also Major Carbon Sinks
New research shows how reducing emissions from deforestation can not only assist in combating climate change but can also help the conservation of biodiversity, from amphibians and birds to primates....
Blight-resistant American chestnut trees nearing reality
(PhysOrg.com) -- The demise of the American chestnut is one of the great ecological disasters of our time, according to a chestnut expert in Penn State's College of Agricultural Sciences,...
Scientist says ancient technique cuts greenhouse gas
POZNAN, Poland (Reuters) - An ancient technique of plowing charred plants into the ground to revive soil may also trap greenhouse gases for thousands of years and forestall global warming,...
Warning system could protect Europe's giant atom-smasher
Europe's giant atom-smasher, which broke down only days after being switched on with great fanfare, may restart in July or August with a new warning system to try to prevent...
Crimes to Climate History: Tiny Diatoms Offer Big Clues
A botanist studies microorganisms in lakes, oceans and other water sources that hold clues to climate and crimes.
Climate scientists say 2008 will be coolest year of the decade
This year is set to be the coolest since 2000, according to a preliminary estimate of global average temperature that is due to be released next week by the Met...
Between a rock and a hard place
What do the words Cambrian, Ordovician, Silurian, Devonian, Carboniferous and Permian mean to you?