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Brazil, Alarmed, Reconsiders Policy on Climate Change - New York Times

Wed, 08/01/2007 - 8:10am — nina_brooks
Link:
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/31/world/ameri...
Alarmed at recent indications of climate change here in the Amazon and in other regions of Brazil, the government of President Luiz In�cio Lula da Silva has begun showing signs of new flexibility in the tangled, politically volatile international negotiations to limit human-caused global warming.

Smog to accelerate global warming

Thu, 07/26/2007 - 7:51am — nicholasperry
Link:
http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,22136579...
OZONE smog will accentuate global warming this century, for it will damage plants and trees that help soak up carbon emissions, a study to be published today said. Its authors fear a major factor in the climate-change equation has been badly overlooked.

Palm Oul FIrms Burning Indonesia's Forests

Thu, 07/19/2007 - 7:45am — Nina Brooks
Link:
http://www.enn.com/energy.html?id=1651
Palm oil companies are burning peat forests to clear land for plantations in Indonesia's Riau province, despite government pledges to end forest fires, environment group Greenpeace said on Thursday.

The Effects of Deforestation and Global Climate Change on Species Extinction

Mon, 07/16/2007 - 8:01am — Victoria_Cheng

It is a tragedy that species all around the world are dying as a result of human carelessness and recklessness, but what is even more sad is the fact that although we are aware of the negative consequences of our actions, we have failed to make extreme changes to our ways and practices to reverse current trends.

The biofuel myths

Wed, 07/11/2007 - 7:31am — Nina Brooks
Link:
http://iht.com/articles/2007/07/10/opinion/ed...
The term "biofuels" suggests renewable abundance: clean, green, sustainable assurance about technology and progress.

A milestone on the road to green fuel

Tue, 07/10/2007 - 7:31am — Nina Brooks
Link:
http://news.independent.co.uk/business/analys...
BP is leading a project to make ethanol from wheat at a 200m plant in Hull that may fullfil a third of Britain's requirements from 2009. Sean O'Grady looks at the future for biofuels

African forest under threat from sugar cane plantation

Tue, 07/10/2007 - 7:17am — nicholasperry
Link:
http://environment.independent.co.uk/article2...
Conservationists in Uganda are fighting a last-ditch battle to stop the destruction of a forest reserve by a sugar corporation friendly with the government.

China deserts spread with warming's help

Thu, 06/21/2007 - 8:33am — Nina Brooks
Link:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19232648/
Half a century after Mao Zedong’s “Great Leap Forward” brought irrigation to the arid grasslands in this remote corner of northwest China, the government is giving up on its attempt to make a breadbasket out of what has increasingly become a stretch of scrub and sand dunes.
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