Maldives: for us climate change is a matter of survival
February 10th, 2012 - 5:32 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, Feb 10 (IANS) The Maldives, the tiny Indian Ocean archipelago that underwent a tumultuous regime change, says the "mistrust" between rich and poor nations on climate change ... Read more...
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UN chief hopes change in Maldives will bring peace
February 8th, 2012 - 1:39 pm ICT by IANS
United Nations, Feb 8 (IANS) UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon expressed "strong hope" that a shift in power in the Maldives will help quell the violence and tensions the island ... Read more...
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Maldives President Nasheed resigns after public protests, mutiny
February 8th, 2012 - 3:25 am ICT by BNO News
MALE, MALDIVES (BNO NEWS) -- Maldives president Mohamed Nasheed on Tuesday announced his resignation after weeks of opposition protests and a mutiny by some police officers. Vice president Waheed Hassan was sworn ... Read more...
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Alarm bells over Greenland ice melt
October 26th, 2011 - 7:08 pm ICT by IANS
Washington, Oct 26 (IANS) Greenland ice sheet can experience extreme melting even when temperatures don?t hit record highs, say scientists.
A new analysis by Marco Tedesco, assistant professor in earth ... Read more...
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India, China record world’s highest urbanisation
September 16th, 2011 - 1:17 pm ICT by IANS
Washington, Sep 16 (IANS) Cities in India, China and Africa are recording the world's highest rates of urbanisation, according to a new study.Population growth is driving urbanisation, especially in developing ... Read more...
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Brazilian economist new chief of UN food agency
June 27th, 2011 - 12:43 am ICT by IANS
Rome, June 26 (IANS) Former Brazilian food security minister Jose Graziano da Silva was elected Sunday as the new director general of the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), Xinhua ... Read more...
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Glaciers account for half of rising sea levels
May 29th, 2011 - 3:16 pm ICT by IANS
Washington, May 29 (IANS) Glaciers and ice caps make up for a mere three percent of ice on our planet, yet they account for about half of rising sea levels.
... Read more...
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Maldives planning $500m floating golf course
April 29th, 2011 - 7:36 pm ICT by ANI
A Dutch company has announced its plan to build a 500 million dollar floating golfcourse in the Maldives.Dutch Docklands, who is handling the project, claim that it will be a ... Read more...
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Rising seas to affect major US coastal cities by 2100
February 16th, 2011 - 3:50 pm ICT by IANS
Washington, Feb 16 (IANS) Rising sea levels could threaten an average nine percent of the land within 180 US coastal cities by 2100, a new study says.
The research, led by University ... Read more...
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Water flowing into Arctic warmest in 2,000 years
February 1st, 2011 - 5:26 pm ICT by IANS
London, Feb 1 (IANS) Water flowing from the North Atlantic Ocean into the Arctic Ocean is at its warmest level for more than 2,000 years.
The sea in the Gulf Stream between ... Read more...
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‘Ark Hotel’: a ’self-contained haven’ in case of climate change disaster
January 11th, 2011 - 6:01 pm ICT by ANI
London, Jan 11 (ANI): A futuristic Ark Hotel has been designed to withstand floods caused by rising sea levels.The floating hotel is a 'biosphere' conceived as a safe, self-contained haven in case ... Read more...
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Mayans converted wetlands to farmland: Study
November 8th, 2010 - 6:33 pm ICT by ANI
London, Nov 08 (ANI): A new research has found that the ancient Maya civilization coped with tough environmental conditions by developing ingenious methods to grow crops in wetland areas."The work shows that ... Read more...
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‘Water mining’ prime culprit in rising sea levels
October 11th, 2010 - 4:59 pm ICT by IANS
London, Oct 11 (IANS) Global warming is not the only villain in raising sea levels. Much of the swelling seas come from "water mining", the pumping of vast amounts of groundwater from ... Read more...
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Sea level monitoring ‘best way to predict impacts of climate change’
October 10th, 2010 - 3:05 pm ICT by ANI
New Delhi, Oct 10 (ANI): An Australian leading ocean scientist has said that more thorough sea level monitoring is needed to protect one trillion dollars (0.98 trillion U.S. dollars) worth of the ... Read more...
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Climate change will undermine progress of development goals: WHO
October 5th, 2010 - 6:37 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, Oct 5 (IANS) Climate change threatens to increase the disease burden of the poorest populations in developing countries and will undermine the progress of UN Millennium Development Goals, the World ... Read more...
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ADB to help protect coastal areas in three vulnerable Indian states
September 29th, 2010 - 4:35 pm ICT by ANI
Manila (Philippines), Sept.29 (ANI): The Asian Development Bank (ADB) is helping India protect its coastline affected by severe erosion.The ADB's Board of Directors today approved a multitranche financing facility of up ... Read more...
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Concerns raised over the rapidly melting ice in the Arctic region
September 17th, 2010 - 10:26 pm ICT by Aishwarya Bhatt
Sep 17 (THAINDIAN NEWS) New figures by NASA has listed this year as the hottest one in over 130 years and this is leading to record quantities of ice melting away. ... Read more...
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Sea levels to rise upto 70 cm by 2100
August 25th, 2010 - 5:56 pm ICT by IANS
London, Aug 25 (IANS) Sea levels are likely to rise by 30 to 70 centimetres by 2100, even if the most aggressive geo-engineering schemes are undertaken to curb global warming and greenhouse ... Read more...
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Geoengineering ‘can’t just slam on the brakes’ on rising sea levels
August 24th, 2010 - 5:01 pm ICT by ANI
London, Aug 24 (ANI): Geoengineering techniques such as space mirrors or volcanic blasts won't help curb rising sea levels unless they employ extreme measures, says a new study.The reason is that sea ... Read more...
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Scientists unearth Great Barrier Reef’s 169,000-year-old great grandmother
August 20th, 2010 - 4:21 pm ICT by ANI
London, Aug 20 (ANI): Scientists have discovered a more ancient reef than the Great Barrier Reef - just 600 metres away from it.This year, an international team extracted 34 sediment cores from ... Read more...
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Adapting to warming could worsen climate change
August 7th, 2010 - 5:17 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, Aug 7 (ANI): A new study has concluded that the way humanity reacts to climate change may do more damage to many areas of the planet than climate change itself unless ... Read more...
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Scientists create nano-materials to trap record amounts of CO2
July 16th, 2010 - 1:14 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, July 16 (ANI): Scientists have achieved world records for creating both porosity and carbon dioxide storage capacity in an important class of materials known as MOFs, or metal-organic frameworks.MOFs are ... Read more...
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Rising Indian Ocean levels may worsen flooding in India
July 14th, 2010 - 2:14 pm ICT by IANS
Washington, July 14 (IANS) Rising levels in parts of the Indian Ocean may worsen monsoon flooding in India and Bangladesh.
According to a study led by Weiqing Han, the associate professor in atmospheric ... Read more...
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TERI to work with Seychelles on enhancing knowledge base
June 3rd, 2010 - 5:37 pm ICT by ANI
New Delhi, June 3 (ANI-Business Wire India): The Republic of Seychelles and The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI) would be working jointly towards a series of activities in the areas of climate ... Read more...
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Pacific Islands are growing, not sinking
June 3rd, 2010 - 5:35 pm ICT by ANI
Melbourne, June 3 (ANI): Scientists have discovered that many low-lying islands in the Pacific are growing and not sinking.Islands in Tuvalu, Kiribati and the Federated States of Micronesia are among those that ... Read more...
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Welcome change for Indians amid climate worries in Bhutan
April 27th, 2010 - 8:06 pm ICT by IANS
By Sarwar Kashani
Thimphu, April 27 (IANS) From a scorching 40 degrees Celsius or more at home to below 15 in this idyllic Himalayan kingdom, it was a welcome change of climate ... Read more...
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Earth’s ‘missing’ heat impacting climate change
April 16th, 2010 - 6:03 pm ICT by IANS
Washington, April 16 (IANS) Current observational tools like satellite sensors and ocean floats are inadequate to track roughly half of the heat believed to have built up on the earth in recent ... Read more...
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Scientists create synthetic DNA-like crystals for CO2 capture
February 12th, 2010 - 4:13 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, Feb 12 (ANI): Chemists at University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) have created a synthetic DNA-like crystals that could capture heat-trapping carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions, which contribute to global warming, rising ... Read more...
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Synthetic ‘gene’ may trap carbon dioxide emissions
February 12th, 2010 - 2:51 pm ICT by IANS
Washington, Feb 12 (IANS) A synthetic 'gene,' developed by scientists, could trap carbon dioxide emissions, which contribute to global warming, rising sea levels and ocean acidity.
"We created three-dimensional, synthetic DNA-like crystals," ... Read more...
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World leaders rally in support of Pachauri
February 5th, 2010 - 4:36 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, Feb 5 (IANS) World leaders Friday rallied to the defence of beleaguered UN climate change panel co-chair R.K. Pachauri and asserted that the disclosures about the mistakes in the ... Read more...
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Cuban high priests predict tumultuous 2010
January 4th, 2010 - 5:58 pm ICT by ANI
Havana, Jan. 4 (ANI): Cuba's high priests have predicted massive social upheaval and internal conflict in the year 2010. "We can reach all we aspire to, but we can also destroy it ... Read more...
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Chaos and deadlock mar climate summit (Second Lead)
December 16th, 2009 - 7:11 pm ICT by IANS
Copenhagen, Dec 16 (DPA) Procedural chaos and a deep rift over substance among the 192 participating nations marred Wednesday's round of talks at a UN Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen.
"The world ... Read more...
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Climate Summit: New compromise text expected shortly
December 16th, 2009 - 6:51 pm ICT by IANS
Copenhagen, Dec 16 (DPA) A new compromise text aimed at overcoming deadlock at UN climate change talks was due to be presented shortly, diplomats in Copenhagen said Wednesday.
The proposal is to come ... Read more...
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Negotiators struggle to overcome climate talks deadlock (Lead)
December 16th, 2009 - 6:50 pm ICT by IANS
Copenhagen, Dec 16 (DPA) The chair of the UN climate change talks in Copenhagen sought to overcome deadlock Wednesday as thousands of protesters planned to storm the conference's venue.
A restricted group ... Read more...
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Money the key to solve climate crisis: UN chief
December 16th, 2009 - 2:44 am ICT by IANS
By Joydeep GuptaCopenhagen, Dec 16 (IANS) Financing will be the key to success at the climate summit, particularly for the world's poorest countries, UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said here.Opening the High ... Read more...
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