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Growth of Emissions Predicted in the U.S. for the Next Decade |
...According to the delayed United States Climate Action Report emissions of gases in the US will grow during the next decade just as much as they did previously.
Despite its negative side this document, developed for the United Nations, shows that the emissions of gases causing global warming grow, but with a slower pace as the economy does. This trend corresponds completely with the goal set by the president 5 years ag... |
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Scientist's call upon policy makers on global warming |
...Scientists gathered at Arctic Science Summit Week, which started on Wednesday in New Hampshire to make up their mind on crucial changes in the North Pole that highlights global warming more than ever before.
Ross Virginia, one of the organizers of the Arctic Science Summit on global warming, pre-opened the summit with a speech that was to make everyone realize the problem of the environment. She asked everyone to join... |
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River Drying Up to Lead to Freshwater Crisis |
...Due to the changes in climate, pollution and bad planning some of the largest and well-known rivers in the world are currently at risk of drying up. An environment group called WWF made a study that pays attention to ten best-known rivers that can dry up in case people won't take certain measures. The report states that indifference towards these rivers might lead to "fresh water emergency."
Among the ten rivers that the... |
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Ten Unnoticed Effects of Global Warming |
...The LiveScience Magazine has published a Top 10 global warming side-effects that not everyone knows about. Global warming is, actually, not only about ice melting in the Arctic and temperature rising. It could turn into very strange things. Here they are:
10. More aggravated and aggressive allergies (the "MAAAA")
People are experiencing more aggravated and aggressive allergy fits and, partly, experts blame the global wa... |
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Second Smallest Country on Earth is Disappearing |
...Deputy Prime Minister of a tiny South Pacific island of Tuvalu calls to the rest of the world to take urgent action as his nation is at danger of disappearing due to global warming. Experts claim that island can sink in less than 50 years.
The country,measuring a mere 26 km2 and its 10,500 people could be the first to sink due to the current rising sea level. Tuvalu island is a part of atolls and reefs that are no mo... |
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Antarctic Microbes to Tell about Past and Future of Climate Change |
...ringtails and worms.
A team of scientists from Britain and New Zealand, outline that the history of the terrestrial plants and animal species living in Antarctica may not have links to current reconstructions of the former glacial ice extent, the roots of which go back more than 23 million years.
The Antarctica of today, due to global warming, is less than 1 percent ice-free. Scientists believe that throughout ice... |
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One Million of 100-Year-Olds by 2050, Half of Them to Face Dementia |
...More and more people live to 100 and beyond in Britain, yet the fight against age-related diseases assumes the same importance as global warming and terrorism, according to a leading scientist.
Dr Guy Brown, a neuroscientist from the Cambridge University, is warning that gradual increase in lifespan implies that more and more elderly people have to spend the last decades of their life in the struggle against disabilit... |
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The Nobel Prize 2007 Has Been Given Away |
...the Ig Nobel Prize Awards has taken place, serious people from Stockholm have come into play.
It is a fact that the most renown and prestigious scientific award is the Nobel Prize, which takes place once a year in the Swedish capital. The Nobel Prize is awarded in five nominations: Medicine, Physics, Chemistry, Peace and Economics (the latter only since 1969).
This year's first Nobel Prize was awarded for medical achiev... |
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Divorces Cause Global Warming, Study Says |
...Environmentalists warn that increasing number of divorces causes global warming and people should think twice before making a decision that has a crucial impact on our environment.
As experts from Michigan State University explain, the use of natural resources becomes less efficient if woman moves out to a new place after divorce. As a result, more land of housing is needed with increased expenditure on utilities.
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Biggest Fears Worldwide Revealed |
...According to a latest survey people worldwide believe that our planet becomes the worst place to live.
The poll conducted by Wall Street Journal Europe, included 18 countries worldwide with more than 1000.
Terrorism was the biggest fear in all countries, with war being on the second place. Britons said that the biggest threat to the planet was global warming, followed by natural disasters that also were named among the... |
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Global Warming will Launch the Global Wars |
...Global warming is likely to cause political and social conflicts worldwide, the UN officials declared.
Climate changes may result in global civil war, Hans Joachim Schellnhuber, a leading climate specialist reported on UN climate change conference on Bali Island, Indonesia.
The fight against global warming requires a lot of cooperation from countries around the world but it may as well increase the rivalry for signif... |
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Earth Hour Will be Marked Worldwide |
...As much as 13 cities around the world will turn off the lights for an hour on Saturday March 29 next year to deliver a message to all people about making some action against global warming.
Earth Hour is a campaign that urges people worldwide to express their concern for global warming. The fist city that took part in the campaign was Sydney, Australia to reduce the greenhouse emissions by five percent in 2007. The e... |
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Fox Interactive Media Purchased Strategic Data Corp. |
...On Thursday Fox Interactive Media, owned by News Corporation, stated that it has acquired Strategic Data Corp., a company that deals with interactive advertising technology. This step was made to improve Fox's advertising, and mainly the way marketers perform it.
MySpace's officials stated that the technology used by Strategic Data is to help Fox Interactive Media automatically match advertisements with those users that ... |
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DNA research approaches the origins of human beings |
...Enthusiasts of genografic project unite to collect the DNA database all over the world so to make every person aware of the place where his or her ancestors come from.
The National Geographic Society together with IBM initiate a global project where more than 10,000 inhabitants will have their DNA tested to make up a huge database. Efforts of well-known scientists in geography and genetic medicine will reside in 10 wor... |
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Microsoft to Connect Xbox 360 and PC Gamers |
...On Wednesday, the software giant Microsoft Corp. announced the opening of its Live on-line service that will connect users of both Xbox 360 console and PCs. The company stated that the service will open in May. It is to be reminded that Live has attracted about six million Xbox 360 console gamers and now Microsoft looks forward to launch it on new Windows Vista system.
The software giant decided to make this step after i... |
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