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Scientists Consider Funky Plans to Avert Climate Change Plans to slow global warming once dismissed as, well, loopy need to be taken seriously, concluded scientists at a conference on climate […]

Hot in Herre

2003 Tied for Second-Warmest Year Ever The year 2003 tied with 2002 for the dubious distinction of being the second-hottest year since 1880 (when such records started being kept), according […]

Flu Dunnit

Enviro Disruptions Will Cause More Animal Diseases to Jump to Humans In coming years, diseases — primarily viruses — passed from animals to human beings pose one of the principal […]

Viscous Cycle

In Ironic Twist, Thawing Tundra Causes Trouble for Alaska’s Oil Industry Global warming — brought about in part by the burning of fossil fuels — has raised temperatures in Alaska […]

Salt Water Daffy

Climate Change Alters Salt Levels in Atlantic Ocean, to Europe’s Dismay The Atlantic Ocean seems so vast that it’s almost impossible to imagine fundamentally altering it — and yet, its […]

Death Warmed Over

Climate Change Tied to 150,000 Deaths a Year, WHO Says How’s this for classic gloom and doom: Climate change led to 150,000 premature deaths in 2000, and the annual number […]

Oil and World Bank Shouldn’t Mix

Report Recommends That World Bank Stop Backing Oil, Coal Projects The World Bank should phase out all investments in oil and coal projects by 2008 because the environmental risks are […]

His Park Is Bigger Than His Bite

Chile Dedicates New Nature Park on Land Purchased by Rich American Some 738,000 acres of pristine rainforest in southern Chile will get official billing as a nature sanctuary today, thanks […]

Yeah, I’m the Tax, Man

British Think Tank Proposes a “Kyoto Tax” for the U.S. With Europeans none too happy about the U.S. having ditched the Kyoto Protocol, a British think tank has come up […]