Tag: Global Warming

Australia: Highest-Ever Winter Water Temperatures Recorded

NOAA polar orbiting satellites obtain the data generating sea surface temperature images. This is a composite 15-day image showing

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Galapagos face ecological disaster due to tourism

Mosquitoes brought into the Galapagos on tourist planes and boats threaten to wreak "ecological disaster" in the islands, central

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Climate change an Australian security threat

Australia faces more intense and frequent heatwaves, wildfires, cyclones and floods, with climate change becoming a threat to national

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Rich nations offer 15-21 percent CO2 cuts by 2020: U.N.

Industrialized nations excluding the United States are planning cuts in greenhouse gas emissions of between 15 and 21 percent

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China shuts factory after lead poisons children

China has closed a factory in its northwest which is suspected of causing lead poisoning in more than 300

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Crops destroyed as Iowa farmers add up damage of massive weekend storms

Farmers began assessing the damage of a hailstorm that struck Sunday morning along U.S. Highway 20 from Webster and

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China landslide crushes buildings

Rescuers worked through the night to pull people from the rubble. At least six apartment blocks have collapsed following landslides

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Two very large Earthquakes Strike Indian Ocean Region, Japan

(Bloomberg) -- Two potentially destructive earthquakes struck minutes apart in the Indian Ocean and Japan today, generating tsunami alerts

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Severe Summer Wildfires claim 250,000 hectares of Europe’s forests

Europe has lost at least 250,000 hectares of forest to fires this summer, a higher rate of attrition than

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New Zealand sets greenhouse gas reduction at 10-20 pct

New Zealand has set a target of reducing its greenhouse gas emissions by between 10 and 20 percent from

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