China is scrambling to build massive hydropower dams to curb pollution and slake its thirst for energy, but scientists warn that reservoirs can also worsen global warming by emitting a powerful greenhouse gas.
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BEIJING (Reuters) - China is scrambling to build massive hydropower dams to curb pollution and slake its thirst for energy, but scientists warn that reservoirs can also worsen global warming by emitting a powerful greenhouse gas.
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U.S. researchers travel to Canada next spring to study simulated global warming involving about 2,000 sugar maple tree seedlings.
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AP - Hurricane Katrina evacuees have been victims or suspects in less than half as many Houston homicides as they were at this point last year, a drop that officials say corresponds to fewer evacuees living in local housing.
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European officials encouraged U.S. senators on Tuesday to move quickly to pass legislation that would commit the United States to mandatory reduction of carbon emissions to slow global warming.
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AP - Nearly 2,000 pages spell out in excruciating detail something that is plain to Virgil Tiller but not the Federal Emergency Management Agency: His school was destroyed and needs to be rebuilt.
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Reuters - Tropical Storm Karen formed in the
eastern Atlantic Ocean early Tuesday, the eleventh named storm
of the 2007 hurricane season, the U.S. National Hurricane
Center said in an advisory.
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AP - This southwestern Louisiana town may have dried out and cleaned up since getting flattened by Hurricane Rita, but its recovery is moving in slow motion: Nearly everyone still lives in temporary housing.
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Whenever the UK experiences “freak” weather conditions such as the tornadoes which hit England, forecasters like myself are inevitably asked two questions: is global warming to blame, and are such events becoming more commonplace?
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AFP - The world's corporate giants are increasingly focused on climate change and many see it as an opportunity for profit but US firms tend to view it as a risk to their bottom line, a new study has said.
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