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Geoengineering Debate Intensifies

As our planet becomes increasingly warmer, climate change poses a considerable number of threats to the Earth's population, shorelines, precipitations, arid lands, and so on. Mitigating the effects of global warming is only possible through a combined action taken by the world's leaders, but the officials s...

11 February 2010
02:21 GMT

ESA Leader Wants Decisions on the Future of the ISS

Jean-Jacques Dordain, the Director General of the European Space Agency (ESA), recently said that he wants a firm decision on the International Space Station (ISS) to be taken this year. He argued that, until now, there are no clear plans by any space agency involved in the programs to extend the functionality of the...

15 January 2010
09:52 GMT

No Armed Conflict Over the Arctic

Over recent years, a war of statements concerning the Arctic region broke out, with numerous countries bordering the area claiming large swaths of it for their own. With the effects of global warming making themselves felt more and more, new shipping lanes are opened in northern waters, and maritime companies and gov...

4 January 2010
14:01 GMT

Climate Summit Reaches 'Agreement'

In a move that developing nations called the “death of the African continent,” representatives of the countries that attended the 2009 UN Climate Summit, held in Copenhagen, decided to adopt a draft proposal for a new treaty. The document is the same we were telling you about on Saturday. Even then, it dr...

21 December 2009
03:19 GMT

UN States in a Row over Climate Funding

Officials representing the 190+ countries that are attending the 2009 UN Climate Change conference, held in Copenhagen, have worked through the night, in an attempt to come to a decision about how to fund poorer nations in the international struggle against global warming and climate change. At the forefront of the d...

11 December 2009
02:37 GMT

Earth Still Lacks Unified Asteroid-Threat Response

At a recent conference, entitled “Near-Earth Objects: Risks, Responses and Opportunities-Legal Aspects,” experts around the world accurately pinpointed some of the most important factors that would, in the event of an imminent asteroid collision, make any efforts of stopping it fruitless. The experts, inc...

30 April 2009
03:59 GMT


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