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  • January 2008

    • Island Paradise Battles Global Warming

      NPR  |  Jan 28, 08 4:18 PM CST

      Island Paradise Battles Global Warming

      (Newser) - The Republic of Maldives has a lot to fear from rising sea levels, but the chain of tiny islands in the Indian Ocean is doing something to protect itself. The nation has built a concrete wall around the capital, Male, and constructed an entirely new island 7 feet higher than the rest of the country—which the president wants carbon-emitting nations to pay for. NPR pays a visit. More »

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      climate change  • global warming  • tsunami  • polar ice caps  • Maldives  • sea level  • Maumoon Abdul Gayoom

    • Ancient Antarctic Volcano May Be Linked to Warming

      BBC  |  Jan 21, 08 4:03 AM CST

      Ancient Antarctic Volcano May Be Linked to Warming

      (Newser) - The discovery of what scientists are hailing as the first evidence of a volcanic eruption under Antarctica’s massive ice sheet may be linked to climate change, the BBC reports. British researchers, who discovered evidence of a volcano by analyzing radar data from an air survey, believe the eruption likely happened some 2,000 years ago and ripped through its ice ceiling, spouting steam and rocky debris into the air. More »

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      climate change  • environment  • Antarctica  • glacier  • volcano  • sea level  • western Antarctic ice sheet  • Nature Geoscience  • volcanic ash

  • November 2007

    • Dutch Try New Strategies as Tides Rise

      Christian Science Monitor  |  Nov 18, 07 9:52 AM CST

      Dutch Try New Strategies as Tides Rise

      (Newser) - The most famous dike-builders in the world are reconsidering their strategy for holding out against climate change, the Christian Science Monitor reports. Instead of tightly controlled and engineered dikes, the Netherlands is trying out a so-called "soft approach" that breach dikes and allow large areas to flood, while protecting large cities from the brunt of the sea's ever-rising wrath. More »

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      climate change  • global warming  • Netherlands  • sea level

  • April 2007

    • EPA Must Regulate Greenhouse Gases

      New York Times  |  Apr 3, 07 7:52 AM CDT

      EPA Must Regulate Greenhouse Gases

      (Newser) - Carbon dioxide must be regulated by the federal government unless it can provide a scientific reason not to, the Supreme Court ruled Monday. The 5-4 decision, which ordered the EPA to consider CO 2 an "air pollutant" as defined by the Clean Air Act, was a blow to the Bush administration's policy of refusing to regulate factory and automobile emissions.  More »

  • March 2007

    • Global Warming: Who Wins?

      Atlantic Monthly  |  Mar 21, 07 10:13 AM CDT

      Global Warming: Who Wins?

      (Newser) - Global warming is a looming planetary disaster, but there will be winners along with the losers, writes Brookings Institute Fellow Gregg Easterbrook. While arable regions turn into arid wasteland and coastal communities sink beneath rising oceans, climate change could trigger a real estate and mineral resources boom in balmier Alaska, Canada, Scandinavia, Russia and newly-thawed Greenland, three times the size of Texas. More »

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      climate change  • environment  • global warming  • energy  • green energy  • drought  • Greenland  • Siberia  • sea level

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