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BBC News reports here: Climate change is raising the risk of diseases such as Schmallenberg in the UK and northern Europe, say scientists.

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Spiegel Online reports here: Almost a year after the Fukushima disaster, 52 of Japan’s 54 nuclear power plants have been shut down. The reactor explosion destroyed the population’s trust in nuclear energy. But the atomic lobby — and the country’s industrial needs — could block a possible phase-out.

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AFP reports here at Yahoo News: Scientists warn that by the end of this century, the sea level along North America’s west coast will rise by about a meter due to global warming and melting arctic glaciers.

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BBC News reports here: China, the US and other countries opposed to a new EU carbon tax on airlines meet in Moscow to consider possible retaliation.

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There’s no taking out the trash at restaurants in Steamboat Springs, Colorado. CNN’s Reynolds Wolf finds.

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‘I Feel Duped on Climate Change’. -  Will reduced solar activity counteract global warming in the coming decades? That is what outgoing German electric utility executive Fritz Vahrenholt claims in a new book. In this interview with SPIEGEL, he argues that the official United Nations forecasts on the severity of climate change are [...]

Spiegel Online reports here: China said on Monday it was forbidding its airlines from joining a European Union carbon emissions scheme to protect the climate. The companies now face fines or may even be barred from landing at EU airports. The dispute comes as the EU is looking to China to help tackle [...]