Drought in Australia food bowl worsens (1)
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CANBERRA (Reuters) - Drought in Australia's main food growing region of the Murray-Darling river system has worsened, with water inflows over the past two years at an all-time low, the government's top water official said on Tuesday.
Republicans break with Bush on ethanol (1)
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ST. PAUL (Reuters) - U.S. Republicans called on Monday for an end to a controversial requirement that gasoline contain a set amount of ethanol, a policy backed by the Bush administration that critics say has helped drive up world food prices.
Almost Half of Australia Untouched by Humans (15)
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CANBERRA (Reuters) - More than 40 percent of Australia, an area the size of India, remains untouched by humans, making the country as critical to the world's environment as the Amazon rainforests, a study said on Wednesday.
Cut greenhouse gases to save coral reefs: scientists (1)
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - To keep coral reefs from being eaten away by increasingly acidic oceans, humans need to limit the amount of climate-warming greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, a panel of marine scientists said on Wednesday.
Denmark's approves 400 MW offshore windmill park (1)
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COPENHAGEN (Reuters) - Denmark's parliament on Monday approved the construction of a 400 megawatt (MW) offshore wind turbine park in the Kattegat arm of the North Sea between Jutland and the island of Anholt in 2012.
Hydrogen-powered cars meet in championship race (1)
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ROTTERDAM (Reuters) - Six international university teams competed in the Dutch city of Rotterdam on Saturday in what was billed as a motor racing championship for hydrogen-powered vehicles.
Critics says air travel carbon offsetting too crude (1)
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LONDON (Reuters) - Air travelers may be fooling themselves with a feel-good green glow from offsetting their carbon emissions, according to critics of the system.
Flat-screen TV gases may be added to climate fight (2)
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ACCRA (Reuters) - New greenhouse gases emitted in making flat-screen televisions or some refrigerants might be capped under a planned U.N. treaty to combat global warming, delegates at U.N. talks in Ghana said on Friday.
U.N. climate talks split over deforestation funds (1)
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ACCRA (Reuters) - A 160-nation U.N. climate conference in Ghana split on Friday over ways to pay poor countries to slow deforestation, blamed for producing up to 20 percent of the greenhouse gases caused by human activities.
Scientists urge U.S. to protect economy from climate (1)
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Eight scientific organizations urged the next U.S. president to help protect the country from climate change by pushing for increased funding for research and forecasting, saying about $2 trillion of U.S. economic output could be hurt by storms, floods and droughts.
This year so far coolest for at least 5 years: WMO (1)
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LONDON (Reuters) - The first half of 2008 was the coolest for at least five years, the World Meteorological Organisation (WMO) said on Wednesday.
Australian rangers put down orphan baby whale (1)
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SYDNEY (Reuters) - A baby whale which has been trying to suckle from a yacht in a Sydney bay in a futile bid to find its missing mother was given a lethal dose of anesthetic on Friday as its condition deteriorated, Australian wildlife officers said.
MIT develops way to bank solar energy at home (1)
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CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts (Reuters) - A U.S. scientist has developed a new way of powering fuel cells that could make it practical for home owners to store solar energy and produce electricity to run lights and appliances at night.
Giant chunks break off Canadian ice shelf (1)
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OTTAWA (Reuters) - Giant sheets of ice totaling almost eight square miles broke off an ice shelf in the Canadian Arctic last week and more could follow later this year, scientists said on Tuesday.
U.S. blacks face harsher climate change impact (1)
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - American blacks are likely to suffer disproportionately from climate change and they are willing to pay to combat it, a commission aimed at raising awareness about global warming said on Tuesday.
U.S. Army works to cut its carbon "bootprint" (1)
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - What if cutting greenhouse emissions could also save the lives of soldiers in Iraq, where fuel-laden convoys make them targets? The U.S. Army says it is happening now in a push to reduce its carbon "bootprint."
U.S. Army works to cut its carbon "bootprint" (1)
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - What if cutting greenhouse emissions could also save the lives of soldiers in Iraq, where fuel-laden convoys make them targets? The U.S. Army says it is happening now in a push to reduce its carbon "bootprint."
Top EU court backs citizen rights in air pollution (1)
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BRUSSELS (Reuters) - A German environmental activist has won backing from the European Union's top court to force local authorities in the home city of BMW to tackle car pollution.
Climate report calls for leaders with vision (1)
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LONDON (Reuters) - The world needs leaders with the vision to forge New Deal-type policies to tackle the potentially disastrous combination of climate change, high inflation and economic slowdown, a British think-tank said on Monday.
Gore: Make all U.S. electricity from renewable sources (1)
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Al Gore, the Nobel Prize-winning crusader on climate change, challenged the United States on Thursday to commit to producing all U.S. electricity from renewable sources like solar and wind power in 10 years.
