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climate change stories: 472 news summaries

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CA Tosses Global Warming Suit v. Automakers

Judge dismisses California's charges against carmakers

Sep 19, 07 11:26 AM CDT
(Newser) - A federal judge has thrown out California's attempt to hold automakers liable for the environmental implications of vehicle emissions, the LA Times reports. The judge who rejected the much-watched lawsuit Monday called global warming a "political question" for legislators, rather than courts. The suit had blamed carmakers for Sierra... More »

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climate change • California • greenhouse gases • global warming • General Motors • Honda • automaker • Ford • carbon emissions

11,000 People With No Place to Go... Yet

Global warming will put Polynesian island underwater in 50 years

Sep 16, 07 6:03 PM CDT
(Newser) - Legal experts are debating what to do with the people of Tuvalu, a Polynesian island state which will be underwater in 50 years if the globe keeps warming. Many residents have found homes in New Zealand but others have met resistance in Australia, where immigration is an election issue. International... More »

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climate change • United Nations • global warming • island • Tuvala • Polynesia

Ancient Texts Fill Blanks in Climate History

Accounts by monks, soldiers, doctors help track global warming

Sep 16, 07 11:50 AM CDT
(Newser) - Scientists are poring over the diaries of 17th century Swiss monks and Parisian physicians for data to help judge changes in Europe’s climate, the AP reports. Piecing together records from things as disparate as military campaigns and cherry blossom festivals dispels any doubt that the Earth is heating up,... More »

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climate change • weather • global warming • Europe • history

Earth Flunks Its Annual Physical

Most vital signs bad as planet suffers from greenhouse gas 

Sep 14, 07 4:15 AM CDT
(Newser) - Most of the Earth's vital stats are "pronouncedly bad," according to a research institute that tracks 44 indicators of the world's health. Only six were positive. More wood was harvested this year than ever before, meat production and consumption hit record highs, people ate 156 million metric tons... More »

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climate change • global warming • Earth • consumption • carbon emissions

Sailors Find Iceless NW Passage

As ice thaws, yachts glide through Northwest Passage

Sep 13, 07 8:40 PM CDT
(Newser) - It's smooth sailing in the Arctic nowadays. Even in recent years, the ice was apt to claim adventurers who dared navigate the Northwest Passage. This year the passage has no ice. And with global warming claiming some 38,000 square miles of ice a year, the Journal reports, the Arctic... More »

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climate change • Arctic • boat • Arctic race • polar ice caps • Northwest Passage • ice melt

'Extinction Crisis' Threatens 40% of Species

Watchdog group sees serious danger to one
in four mammals

Sep 12, 07 1:46 PM CDT
(Newser) - More than 16,000 species are in serious danger of extinction, including one in four mammals and one in three amphibians being monitored by a global conservation group. With 40% of 40,000 surveyed species facing the highest levels of threat, “We’re at code red,” a top... More »

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climate change • endangered species • environment • endangered species list • extinction • El Nino • gorilla • species • Western Lowland Gorilla • Mauritius Echo Parakeet • World Conservation Union • biodiversity • animal

Climate Change Can Even Muck Up Deepest Sea Creatures

Ocean life in the dark still relies on sunlight

Sep 10, 07 3:27 AM CDT
(Newser) - Scientists have discovered that even the bizarre creatures that live on chemical ooze in the blackest, deepest parts of the ocean aren't safe from environmental disasters. It turns out that larvae of tiny deep-sea shrimp live on microscopic plants that rely on sunlight and filter down from the surface. More »

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climate change • environment • ocean • sunlight • shrimp • larvae

Bad News Plagues Bears

As ice caps melt, trophy hunters take aim, polar bears belong on endangered list

Sep 9, 07 3:09 PM CDT
(Newser) - It's bad enough when 40% of your habitat will disappear by mid-century, but add trophy hunters taking advantage of a loophole in US law, and it's not a good time to be a polar bear, the Independent on Sunday reports. The bears are not listed as endangered so 950 pelts... More »

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climate change • endangered species • John Kerry • global warming • Arctic • Endangered Species Act • hunting • polar bear • species

APEC Leaders Agree to Take on Global Warming

But pact isn't ambitious enough, critics say

Sep 8, 07 11:24 AM CDT
(Newser) - Leaders of 21 Pacific Rim nations yesterday pledged to “slow, stop, and then reverse” greenhouse emissions, at the annual APEC summit. The group—which includes developing nations and top emitters Russia, China, Japan, and the US—could influence UN climate change negotiations. But critics call the pact unambitious, citing... More »

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China • climate change • Russia • Australia • global warming • Japan • APEC

Arctic Thaw Set at 40% by 2050

Researchers put 40% of Arctic underwater by 2050

Sep 7, 07 6:47 PM CDT
(Newser) - At least 40% of the polar icecap will be gone by 2050, Seattle scientists predicted today, putting the meltdown way ahead of earlier predictions that so much ice would take a century to vanish. Greenhouse gases, which linger in the atmosphere for up to 50 years, are primarily responsible for... More »

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climate change • greenhouse gases • global warming • Arctic • polar bear • polar ice caps

US, China Grow Closer Despite Touchy Issues

Bush accepts Olympics invitation; talks recalls, environment with Hu

Sep 6, 07 3:18 PM CDT
(Newser) - President Bush accepted an invitation today from China’s president to attend next summer’s Olympics, a gesture that will likely anger human rights activists but may increase pressure on Beijing, the Times reports. In a 90-minute meeting in the eve of the APEC summit, Hu Jintao and Bush... More »

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China • climate change • military • Australia • human rights • United States • Hu Jintao • APEC summit • toy recalls • Olympic Games • George W. Bush

Aussie Chief Pleads for
APEC Peace
on YouTube

Howard asks protesters for support, peace

Sep 3, 07 11:45 AM CDT
(Newser) - Australian Prime Minister John Howard has taken to the YouTube web waves in a bid to quell protests this week in Sydney at the summit on Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation. If demonstrators "really are concerned about poverty and climate change, they should support APEC not attack it," Howard pleads.... More »

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climate change • YouTube • Australia • protests • poverty • John Howard • APEC

Record Heat Fries Phoenix

Nearly a month’s
worth of temps
topping 110

Aug 30, 07 3:44 PM CDT
(Newser) - Phoenix citizens can’t blunt this hot spell with claims of “dry heat”: The city’s just marked its 29th day in a year of 110-degree temperatures. Urbanization and global warming are likely factors in the chart-topping season, though Phoenicians have been spared a highest-ever figure, the AP reports—... More »

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climate change • weather • global warming • Arizona • temperature • Phoenix • heat • urbanization

5 Last-Ditch Plans to Save Earth

Crank up your ingenuity and combat climate change the MacGyver way

Aug 22, 07 2:25 PM CDT
(Newser) - If reducing emissions was Plan A to save the earth from global warming, these plans from Popular Science would be more like Plan ... Z:
  1. Make more Arctic ice—out of saltwater.
  2. Cool the oceans, which feed storms with warm water, by sucking up cold water from the ocean
... More »

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climate change • environment • conservation • global warming • plastic • list • Earth • glacier • polar ice caps • wetlands

As Ice Shrinks, Islands Emerge

New, unclaimed territories raise fears of accelerated global warming

Aug 21, 07 7:44 AM CDT
(Newser) - The melting of ice in the Arctic Ocean has revealed previously undiscovered islands, one approximately the size of a basketball court. Reuters reports that the formerly submerged islands are unclaimed by any government but lie near Svalbard, the Norwegian territory north of the Arctic Circle. The discoveries raise fears that... More »

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climate change • global warming • Arctic • Norway • island • Svalbard • ice

Rodent Attacks Demolish Spanish Crops

As 750M voles enjoy the all-day buffet, farmers resort to their wits

Aug 20, 07 2:07 PM CDT
(Newser) - As many as 750 million voles have descended on farmland in central Spain, and with government response slow, farmers are taking matters into their own hands. The reason the number of rodents has exploded over the past few months is unclear, the Christian Science Monitor reports, but a likely explanation... More »

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climate change • Spain • farming • global warming • rodents • voles • farmer

Straw
Goes
Green

Eco-friendly building material branches out beyond fairy tales

Aug 20, 07 11:59 AM CDT
(Newser) - The newest surprise climate-saving tool is straw walls, and the Big Bad Wolf may have underestimated the First Little Pig’s shelter, the Washington Post reports. Instead of drywall or insulation, contractors stack the farm waste around buildings’ skeletons and then coat it with plaster. The eco-friendly result looks like... More »

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climate change • global warming • green building • environmentalism • construction • farms • ecology • straw

Iowa-Minded Candidates Learn to Love Ethanol

Doubts take back seat to politics

Aug 20, 07 11:18 AM CDT
(Newser) - To a presidential candidate who has an eye on Iowa—and who among them can afford not to?—ethanol is a political home run. The Hawkeye State hosts 28 refineries, and every one of the ’08 hopefuls has duly supported some form of ethanol subsidies. This despite the fact... More »

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climate change • Iowa • carbon dioxide • ethanol • presidential campaign • environmentalism • corn • biofuel • fossil fuel

(Newser) - Hundreds of naked people bared all on a Swiss glacier to protest global warming yesterday. The arresting demonstration was photographed by New York artist Spencer Tunick, known for his photos of nude gatherings, as temperatures hovered around 50 degrees. More »

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climate change • environment • Greenpeace • global warming • Spencer Tunick • Switzerland • glacier

Deserts Eat
Up China's Usable Land

In arid provinces, farms and families feel pinch of policy gone awry

Aug 16, 07 5:03 PM CDT
(Newser) - With China's deserts spreading another 950 square miles each year, the government is evicting families and replanting farms to stem the tide, the Christian Science Monitor reports from Gansu province. With 20% of the world's population but 7% of its arable land, China's decades-old problem has worsened due to overfarming,... More »

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China • climate change • environment • farming • global warming • deforestation • desert

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