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Scientists to review climate body

BBC News reports here: UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has asked the world’s science academies to review work of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).

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Growing low-oxygen zones in oceans worry scientists

The McClatchy Newspapers reports here at Yahoo News: WASHINGTON — Lower levels of oxygen in the Earth’s oceans, particularly off the United States’ Pacific Northwest coast, could be another sign of fundamental changes linked to global climate change, scientists say.

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Methane bubbles in Arctic seas stir warming fears

Reuters reports here at Yahoo News: OSLO – Large amounts of a powerful greenhouse gas Methane are bubbling up from a long-frozen seabed north of Siberia, raising fears of far bigger leaks that could stoke global warming, scientists said.

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Food, Inc. (2008) Eric Schlosser (Actor), Robert Kenner (Director)

Food, Inc. (2008) Eric Schlosser (Actor), Robert Kenner (Director)

Food, Inc. lifts the veil on our nation’s food industry, exposing how our nation’s food supply is now controlled by a handful of corporations that often put profit ahead of consumer health, the livelihood of the American farmer, the safety of workers and our own environment. Food, [...]

Obama home upgrade program targets jobs, energy conservation

AFP reports here at Yahoo News: SAVANNAH, Georgia – President Barack Obama on Tuesday unveiled plans to give hefty reimbursements to US homeowners who make home improvements designed to conserve energy.

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Al Gore takes aim at climate change skeptics

Reuters reports here at Yahoo News: WASHINGTON – Former Vice President Al Gore took aim at skeptics who doubt the reality of human-caused climate change, saying he wished it were an illusion but that the problem is real and urgent.

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Whaling 'worsens carbon release'

BBC News reports here: A century of whaling may have released more than 100 million tonnes – or a large forest’s worth – of carbon into the atmosphere, scientists say.

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UN climate talks to resume in April in Germany

AP reports here at Yahoo News: BONN, Germany – The United Nations says formal negotiations on an international treaty to control global warming will resume in Bonn in April, four months after the failed climate change summit in Copenhagen.

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Study: Warming to bring stronger hurricanes

AP reports here at Yahoo News: WASHINGTON – Top researchers now agree that the world is likely to get stronger but fewer hurricanes in the future because of global warming, seeming to settle a scientific debate on the subject. But they say there’s not enough evidence yet to tell whether that effect has [...]

UN climate chief Yvo de Boer quits, leaves talks hanging

AP reports here at Yahoo News: AMSTERDAM – The sharp-tongued U.N. official Yvo de Boer who shepherded troubled climate talks for nearly four years announced his resignation Thursday, leaving an uncertain path to a new treaty on global warming.

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