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World may Get Much Wetter With Global Warming Than Believed

...at as the globe heats up, "the wetter areas on the planet are going to get wetter and the drier areas are going to get drier, which is a gloomy prediction," Wentz said. The satellite data showed slight support for that prediction, but not enough to convince the authors that it will continue to hold true. ...

Global Warming Disaster Closer Than Thought, Says NASA

...e and snow, whose reflectivity has helped cool the planet by bouncing warm sunlight straight back into space. The disappearance of that bright sea ice and snow is uncovering more and more dark water and bare ground creating another dangerous feedback loop. These feedbacks all produce more heat, thus al...

DiCaprio Bites Back Over Eco 'Hypocrisy'

...e world. We are the most powerful democracy on the planet and we're also the largest polluters simultaneously," he said. While Gore's film was an account of his personal crusade to change American public opinion about the urgency of the pollution crisis one audience at a time, The 11th Hour attempts to ta...

Climate Talks Reach Consensus in Bangkok

...Many climate experts claim the costs of saving the planet are miniscule compared with global warming's potential damages, but it is important that politicians also acknowledge this in the IPCC's third report of 2007. The Bangkok meeting has attracted 30 of the world's leading climate experts and more than...

Live Earth Will Make the World More Aware of the Crisis Facing the Earth, Hopes Al Gore

...t huge attention in both. The biggest issue on the planet ever requires the biggest media event ever.' The seed was planted less than two years ago at the Beverly Hills Hotel in California, when Wall, a veteran concert producer, attended a slide show about global warming presented by Gore, as featured in t...

Galapagos on UN Endangered List

...theory of evolution. It is the first place on the planet officially designated as a World Heritage site. Ecuador's Galapagos Islands is in danger as booming tourism and immigration threaten giant tortoises and blue-footed boobies unique to the archipelago. The 5,000 species of plants and animals create a ...

New Research to Make Science and Technology Work for the Poor

...llions of people in ways compatible with a livable planet is a moral imperative but a huge challenge to our standard ways of thinking and working, in both North and South. Research which challenges assumptions underpinning failed, outmoded and unsustainable models of development is crucial to making the f...

Motorists Getting Greyer, Greener, Thriftier: Nissan's Ghosn

...ad, the average age of a human being living on the planet is going to be higher," said Ghosn, who heads both Japan's Nissan Motor Co. and its French partner Renault. "The average consumer on earth is going to be much older. We know also that usually the purchasing power is with older people. (That means) ...

MEN as Partners to MEND Maternal Health A World Population Day Initiative

...s probably one of natures worst follies, which the planet has lived to regret! In a remote town in Uttar Pradesh, a man allegedly threw his six year old daughter in a river with a motive to kill; the little girl was battling a kidney ailment for 3 years. The father of six children was burdened with medi...

Live Earth: How Global Warming Became Cool

...e New Ice Age," which conjured fears of a snowball planet where survivors eked out a troglodytic life in beaver skins. But evidence for the greenhouse effect was already trickling out. By the end of the 1970s, warming had tipped the balance over cooling in the battle for expert opinion as to which way t...

Live Earth Will Make the World More Aware of the Crisis Facing the Earth, Hopes Al Gore

...t huge attention in both. The biggest issue on the planet ever requires the biggest media event ever.' The seed was planted less than two years ago at the Beverly Hills Hotel in California, when Wall, a veteran concert producer, attended a slide show about global warming presented by Gore, as featured in t...

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