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Environment News tagged with Climate Change

Plan to Boost UK Woodland to Tackle Climate Change
Environment  (tags: News, UK, plantations, Climate Change )

Katie
- 6 hours ago - news.bbc.co.uk
Millions of trees should be planted to cover an extra 4% of the UK in woodland in order to tackle climate change, the Forestry Commission has recommended.
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Oceans' Ability to Absorb Carbon & Protect Against Climate Change Weakening
Environment  (tags: environment, climate, climate change, oceans, nature, protection )

Cher
- 4 days ago - ecoworldly.com
Oceans regulate our climate. They play a key role in keeping the world's "homeostasis" in tact. However, their ability to absorb carbon & keep the climate in balance is dwindling, a new report shows.
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Himalayan People Feel Heat of Climate Change
Environment  (tags: climate change, heat, Himalayan people, winter )

Sophie
- 4 days ago - timesofindia.indiatimes.com
"There has hardly been any rain or snow in winter since 2006, and there was very little rain this year even during monsoon.
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Greenland Ice Loss 'Accelerating'
Environment  (tags: News, environment, globalwarming, Climate Change, ice melting, greenland )

Katie
- 12 days ago - news.bbc.co.uk
The Greenland ice sheet is losing its mass faster than in previous years and making an increasing contribution to sea level rise, a study has confirmed.
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Deep-Sea Ecosystems Affected By Climate Change
Environment  (tags: Climate Change, sea, Water, Sea ecosystem )

Katie
- 21 days ago - sciencedaily.com
The vast muddy expanses of the abyssal plains occupy about 60 percent of the Earth's surface and are important in global carbon cycling.Based on long-term studies of two such areas shows that animal communities on the abyssal seafloor are affected...
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Climate Worries to Send Nepal Cabinet to Everest Base
Environment  (tags: environment, global warming, nepal, Climate Change )

Katie
- 22 days ago - uk.reuters.com
Nepal's cabinet plans to meet at the base camp of Mount Everest this month to highlight the impact of global warming on the Himalayas ahead of next month's U.N. negotiations on climate change, a minister said on Monday.
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China Outperforms US on Green Issues
Environment  (tags: environment, Energy, Alternative energy, Climate Change )

Katie
- 26 days ago - newscientist.com
China is often accused of not doing enough to reduce the carbon dioxide and other pollution pouring from its factories and coal-fuelled power stations. But a new report suggests the country is doing more to tackle climate change than it gets credit for...
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Bid to Jump-Start Climate Talks
Environment  (tags: Climate Change, CO2emissions, United Nations )

Ben
- 63 days ago - news.bbc.co.uk
About 100 world leaders are due to gather at the UN in New York to try to revitalise talks on climate change. Talks, talks, talks, talks, talks, talks... Results...??????
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The Age of Stupid! : The Global Premiere!
Environment  (tags: environment, film, climate change, protection, nature, habitat, humans, wildlife )

Cher
- 77 days ago - ageofstupid.net
The Age of Stupid is the new movie from Director Franny Armstrong (McLibel) and producer John Battsek (One Day In September). Pete Postlethwaite stars as a man living alone in the devastated future world of 2055, looking at old footage from 2008 and
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India Emissions 'Triple By 2030'
Environment  (tags: India, CO2 emissions, Climate Change )

Ben
- 81 days ago - news.bbc.co.uk
India's greenhouse gas emissions will more than triple over the next two decades, a report has projected. But the document, compiled by experts for the government, also says India's per-capita emissions will be much lower than major industrialised...
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Drought, Death Grips Kenyan Heartland
Environment  (tags: Kenya, drought, death, World Food Program (WFP), Kenyan government, climate change, failedcrops, UN, massive shortfalls, emergency programs, economic crisis )

Rosemary
- 81 days ago - cnn.com
MOUNT KENYA, Kenya (CNN) -- For as long as anyone cares to remember, the pastoralists of Kenya's Rift Valley have fled with their herds to the fertile slopes of Mount Kenya when times are tough. Hundreds of dead cattle litter the slopes> Continued
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Australia Senate Rejects Carbon Trading Plan
Environment  (tags: climate change, climate-change, environment, carbon trading bill, rejected, australian senate )

Simone
- 103 days ago - ft.com
Australia's parliament rejected a plan for the world's most ambitious emissions trade regime on Thursday, bringing the nation closer to a snap election as early as November. Kevin Rudd, the Labor prime minister, won power in 2007 after promising to
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Project to 'Grow Carbon Sinks'
Environment  (tags: environment, Ghana, rainforest, logging, deforestation, seedlings, climate change, carbon dioxide, nature, carbon emissions, protection, conservation, destruction, prevention, endangered )

Dee
- 136 days ago - news.bbc.co.uk
Ambitious plans to grow 24 million trees to soak up carbon dioxide and restore the rainforest have got underway in Ghana. The first million seedlings are being planted in a pilot scheme in an area that has been heavily logged in recent years.
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Ask the Senate to Save Our Natural World From Climate Change ! TAKE ACTION !
Environment  (tags: environment, natural world, protection, climate change, habitat, nature, humans, wildlife )

Cher
- 147 days ago - change.org
Climate change is already impacting our communities, our health and safety and our natural resources. Global warming is threatening wildlife, fish and plants who are already on the brink of extinction. Melting sea ice, warming ocean and river waters,
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ALERT! Protect Burrowing Owls From Climate Change (and Other Birds Too!) ! TAKE ACTION !
Environment  (tags: animals, burrowing owls, birds, climate change, AnimalWelfare, environment, protection, wildlife, globalwarming )

Cher
- 154 days ago - animalrights.change.org
The recently-released State of the Birds report warns that "birds are at grave risk from habitat changes caused by climate change, especially in arctic tundra, alpine meadows, sea ice and glaciers, coastal wetlands, marine atolls, and ocean ecosystems."
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