Archive for March, 2007

Report: Global warming to hit poor (EARTHtimes.org)

Saturday, March 31st, 2007

A new report by a United Nations committee finds that rich countries are spending billions of dollars to protect themselves from global warming.

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Global warming’s big divide (Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune)

Saturday, March 31st, 2007

The world’s richest countries, which have contributed by far the most to the atmospheric changes linked to global warming, are spending billions of dollars to limit their risks from its worst consequences, such as drought and rising seas. But despite long-standing treaty commitments to help poor countries deal with warming, these industrial powers are spending just tens of millions of dollars on …

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Post-tsunami violence against women on rise: report (Reuters)

Saturday, March 31st, 2007

A mother prays for her family members, who were killed during the Indian Ocean tsunami two years ago, at a mass cemetery in Banda Aceh December 26, 2006. Women who survived the 2004 Asian tsunami face heightened risks of violence, impoverishment and lack of privacy at relief camps in several nations, a report released on Saturday said. (Tarmizy Harva/Reuters)Reuters - Women who survived the 2004 Asian
tsunami face heightened risks of violence, impoverishment and
lack of privacy at relief camps in several nations, a report
released on Saturday said.

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Judge advances global warming lawsuit (AP)

Saturday, March 31st, 2007

The Sydney Opera house shines at night as the city turns off its lights to mark "Earth Hour." Australia's largest city was plunged into darkness for an hour Saturday night as Sydney underwent a self-imposed blackout to raise awareness of global warming.(AFP/Anoek de Groot)AP - A federal judge has advanced a lawsuit against the government over its funding of overseas projects that environmental groups claim contribute to climate change.

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Sydney blackout puts spotlight on global warming (AFP)

Saturday, March 31st, 2007

The Sydney Opera house shines at night as the city turns off its lights to mark "Earth Hour." Australia's largest city was plunged into darkness for an hour Saturday night as Sydney underwent a self-imposed blackout to raise awareness of global warming.(AFP/Anoek de Groot)AFP - Australia's largest city was plunged into darkness for an hour Saturday night as Sydney underwent a self-imposed blackout to raise awareness of global warming.

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Sydney blackout puts spotlight on global warming (AFP via Yahoo! News)

Saturday, March 31st, 2007

Australia’s largest city was plunged into darkness for an hour Saturday night as Sydney underwent a self-imposed blackout to raise awareness of global warming.

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Federal judge allows global warming lawsuit to advance (The Fresno Bee)

Saturday, March 31st, 2007

Citing Al Gore’s movie on global warming, a federal judge has advanced a lawsuit against the government for its financing of overseas projects that may contribute to climate change.

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Climate draft charts extinctions (AP)

Saturday, March 31st, 2007

Bees crowd on a beehive at an apiary in Chengdu, China. Almost half of beehives in Canada could be lost this year to climate change and disease, estimated beekeepers Friday, already stung by cheap honey imports and now facing ruin.(AFP/File/Liu Jin)AP - A key element of the second major report on climate change being released Friday in Belgium is a chart that maps out the effects of global warming with every degree of temperature rise, most of them bad.

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Panel: Warming will end some species (AP)

Saturday, March 31st, 2007

A polar bear sow and two cubs are seen on the Beaufort Sea coast within the 1002 Area of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in this undated handout photo provided by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Alaska Image Library. Researchers warn animals such as polar bears face risk of extinction by 2100 as climate zones change.  REUTERS/U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service/Handout   (UNITED STATES).  EDITORIAL USE ONLY. NOT FOR SALE FOR MARKETING OR ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS.AP - From the micro to the macro, from plankton in the oceans to polar bears in the far north and seals in the far south, global warming has begun changing life on Earth, international scientists will report next Friday.

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No foolin’: Storm loses steam Sunday (weather.com)

Saturday, March 31st, 2007

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