Africa's savannahs may all change into forests before the turn of the century due to excess CO2 in the atmosphere
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Is The Bushmeat Trade Transforming African Rain Forests?
From Tia Ghose, LiveScience Staff Writer: Bushmeat hunting, or the hunting of meat from wild animals, may be transforming the rain forests in Afric... Read more: Africa Bushmeat Hunting, Animal-Welfare, Video, Bushmeat Hunting Africa, Bushmeat Hunting, Rain Forests Bushmeat Hunting, Bushmeat, Africa Bushmeat, Hunting Bushmeat, Bushmeat Hunting Rain Forests, Green News
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Dramatic weather extremes 'will continue for another 25 years'
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Questions for Stewart
Questions for Stewart Published Apr 20, 2013 01:01AM MDT In “Be cautious on climate change” (Opinion, April 13), Rep. Chris Stewart has lots of concerns about whether man is causing the Earth to warm. I am concerned he only questions one side. Here are a few questions he might ask the skeptics: There has been a 40 percent increase in CO2 levels in our atmosphere. I’ve never...
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Richard Schiffman: Can Artificial Trees Help Take Carbon Dioxide Out of the Air?
In the wake of the hottest and driest summer in memory throughout much of North America -- and Superstorm Sandy, which flooded cities and ravaged large swaths of the Mid-Atlantic coast -- many now recognize that the climate change isn't just real, but already at our doorstep. As this realization continues to sink in, the political will may ripen to take more aggressive...
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Government's outgoing chief scientist says existing CO2 levels in the atmosphere will cause storms and droughts for...
Professor Sir John Beddington said the effects of climate change on the weather were already being felt in the UK.
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Dr. James Hansen: Doubling Down on Our Faustian Bargain
Co-written by Pushker Kharecha and Makiko Sato Humanity's Faustian climate bargain is well known. Humans have been pumping both greenhouse gases (mainly CO2) and aerosols (fine particles) into the atmosphere for more than a century. The CO2 accumulates steadily, staying in the climate system for millennia, with a continuously increasing warming effect. Aerosols have a...
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Chris Noth: My Plans This Valentine's Day Weekend
Did you know 46-58 million square miles of forest are lost each year -- equivalent to 36 football fields every minute? Why do I care so much about rainforests? Most people know that forests are the lungs of our planet, literally playing a critical role in every breath we take. And that they're also home to incredible animals like the orangutan and elephant, which will go...
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EU climate change policy in crisis after MEPs vote against high CO2 prices
The European Union's climate change policy is on the brink of collapse today after MEPs torpedoed Europe's flagship CO2 emissions trading scheme by voting against a measure to support the price of carbon permits.
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