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Environment News tagged with Europe

Mini Ice Age Took Hold of Europe in Months
Environment  (tags: world, environment, climatechange, europe, Ice Age )

Katie
- 15 days ago - newscientist.com
JUST months - that's how long it took for Europe to be engulfed by an ice age. The scenario, which comes straight out of Hollywood blockbuster The Day After Tomorrow, was revealed by the most precise record of the climate from palaeohistory ever generated
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Solar Superpower: Should Europe Run on Sahara Sun?
Environment  (tags: environment, world, energy, Alternative Energy, Solar Power, europe )

Katie
- 31 days ago - newscientist.com
EVERY two weeks, the sun pours more energy onto the surface of our planet than we use from all sources in an entire year. It is an inexhaustible powerhouse that has remained largely untapped for human energy needs.
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Kiribati The Sinking Island-Take Action Against Climate Change.
Environment  (tags: globalwarming, CO2emissions, Injustice, China, USA, Europe, Kiribati, Islanders, Take Action )

Panda Eat
- 89 days ago - foe.co.uk
The islander's of Kiribati haven't done anything to quicken or cause climate change,they are quite green in fact..they don't drive Humvee's,they don't fly everywhere,they aren't like China or America..yet their island is sinking,and soon it will be gone.
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Lights Out for Old 100-Watt Bulbs in EU Next Week
Environment  (tags: environment, Energy Efficiency, light bulbs, new technology, Europe )

Michelle
- 92 days ago - france24.com
Old-style 100-watt light bulbs will be banned in Europe's shops from next week in favour of new energy-saving models, but consumers groups on Wednesday gave the move a guarded welcome.
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Europe Joins Forces In Battle To Turn Cities Green
Environment  (tags: european union, europe, green, climate change, world, humans, news, science, research, global warming, CO2Emissions, weather, climate, business, alternative energies, financial crisis, technology, energy, environment, government, nature )

SirRobert
- 318 days ago - media-newswire.com
An ambitious collaboration between eight European Union member states, is aiming to assist cities adapt to the effects of climate change.
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Ed Miliband: 2009 "Crucial" Year For Climate Change Action
Environment  (tags: world, news, politics, government, uk, europe, climate, climate-change, climatechange, CO2emissions, conservation, destruction, endangered, energy, environment, globalwarming, GoodNews, greenhousegases, humans, nature, oceans, pollution, protection )

SirRobert
- 327 days ago - newenergyfocus.com
The Energy Secretary Mr. Ed Miliband has labelled 2009 in a New Year message, as a "crucial year" in British and European action to tackle climate change.
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ACTION ALERT Fund Ecuador to Keep Oil Underground & Rainforests Standing
Environment  (tags: rainforest, Ecuador, Amazon, Europe, Funding )

Aba Offli
- 463 days ago - rainforestportal.org
It is time for the international community led by Europe to step up and finance large-scale Amazon rainforest preservation to protect the Earth's atmosphere, biodiversity, and life-giving ecosystems; while helping meet needs for national advancement
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EU 'Should Ban Inefficient Cars' - Europe/UK
Environment  (tags: europe, uk, cars, environment, oil, shell, pollution )

Chrissy
- 662 days ago - news.bbc.co.uk
The EU should ban the sale of cars that do under 35 miles to the gallon, the ex-chairman of oil giant Shell says. Sir Mark Moody-Stuart told BBC News the motor industry would adapt to cope with stricter environmental rules.
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Massive Wind Farm 'Turned Down' - Scotland
Environment  (tags: scotland, wind farms, objection, parliament, europe )

Chrissy
- 671 days ago - news.bbc.co.uk
Plans to build one of Europe's biggest wind farms on the Isle of Lewis are set to be turned down, BBC Scotland understands. The BBC's Gaelic news service, Radio nan Gaidheal, has learned that Scottish Government ministers are "minded to refuse" the 181
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EU Targets Could Force Britain to Build Thousands of Wind Turbines - Britain
Environment  (tags: britain, eu, wind power, tidal energy, europe, government, environment )

Chrissy
- 676 days ago - timesonline.co.uk
The British coastline is set for a dramatic increase in wind farms and tidal energy plants as the Government strives to meet a European target for renewable energy. The pressure to speed up plans for thousands of wind turbines and the controversial Severn
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Earth Hour 2008 Is a Global Movement
Environment  (tags: australia, energy, GoodNews, Europe, USA, globalwarming, bali, world )

Mimi
- 711 days ago - earthhour.org
Earth Hour 2007 was a Sydney event. Earth Hour 2008 is a global movement. Many cities from Canberra to Copenhagen, from Chicago to Tel Aviv will turn off lights for one hour in March.
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The Demand for Sushi = Bluefin Tuna Decline
Environment  (tags: bluefin tuna, tuna, Japan, US, Europe, China, overfishing, commercial fishing )

RC
- 747 days ago - washingtonpost.com
Not only do the Japanese insist on tuna for sushi and sashimi, but the US, Europe & China are buying ever-greater quantities. The commercial catch of bluefin tuna has risen more than ten times than 1950 levels, and the fleet is 70% larger in some areas.
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Help Make Europe GMO Free - Petition
Environment  (tags: GMO, Europe, petition, genetically modified )

Erika
- 754 days ago - greenpeace.org
On 25 October, Stavros Dimas stood up to big agribusiness - refusing to allow cultivation of two varieties of genetically modified maize (Bt 11 and 1507). But the chemical companies have powerful allies.
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Arctic Sea Route Opens as Ice Melts
Environment  (tags: Arctic Sea, Arctic route, Northwest Passage, melting ice, impassable route, Europe, Asia, European Space Agency )

ON VACATI
- 802 days ago - reuters.com
The Arctic's Northwest Passage has opened up fully because of melting sea ice, clearing a long-sought but historically impassable route between Europe and Asia, the European Space Agency said.
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World Trade Doomed Wild Buffalo
Environment  (tags: american bison, world trade, europe, habitatdestruction )

Simone
- 843 days ago - int.iol.co.za
Globalisation spurred the 19th-century near-demise of the North American wild buffalo, says a new study that partly deflects blame for this ecological disaster from Americans to Europeans. An estimated 30 million to 75 million buffalo (or bison) once
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