Dr. Tom Battin, a scientist at the University of Vienna, announced recently that the world's rivers also emitted carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, and not only played the role of pipelines, carrying carbon trapped by rain, soil and plants to the oceans. The discovery was inconceivable a few years ago, but lately... |
2 December 2008
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The Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard University, in the United States released four proposals for next week's international climate conference, scheduled to take place in Poznan, Poland. One of these suggestions said that developing countries, including China and India, should be al... |
25 November 2008
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Obama's promises to the UN didn't go unnoticed, as Yvo de Boer, the executive director of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, said that the US president's attitude on the matter was very encouraging and promising, in the light of the fact that neither America nor China are includ... |
20 November 2008
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The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) estimates that 2050 will see some 2 billion people deprived of access to drinking water, and that the numbers will increase to 3.2 billion by 2080. But also keep in mind that, by that time, the world population will have increased from 6.1 billion to 10+ billion. S... |
18 November 2008
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Over the past few years, opponents to the idea that pollution and human activities are causing global warming and climate change have been using the situation in the Antarctic as their most solid argument. They said that the ice spreads in Eastern Antarctica were growing and that this was enough proof that people had... |
18 November 2008
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