Climate risk profile: Ethiopia
This profile provides an overview of climate risks facing Ethiopia, including how climate change will potentially impact agriculture and crop production, livestock, water resources and human health. The
Climate Change
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Global warming has hit the danger mark'
Global warming has hit the danger point and immediate steps are needed to reduce pollution to prevent extinction of the human race,'' R. Pachauri, the Indian origin chairman of the Intergovernmental
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Heading for extinction
The biggest mass extinction in the history of earth some 250 million years ago was caused by global warming and not by the impact of asteroid or comet as earlier believed, new evidence has indicated.
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US forests cost-effective against global warming, study concludes
The cost of using forests to remove greenhouse gases from the air could be about the same as cutting pollution with fuel switching or energy efficiency improvements, according to a new report from
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France to accelerate green diesel output
French output of biodiesel is set to accelerate sharply over the next three years but France will still be far behind EU targets, the head of the country's leading producer said. In a bid to reduce
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Global warming melts winter joy at top german resort
Global warming is more than just a theory to Germany's most famous winter resort, where a worrisome shortage of snow in recent decades has forced the Alpine village to reinvent itself.
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Bracing for germ attacks
The g7 has decided to establish a "bioterrorism crisis centre' and provide millions of shots to the World Health Organisation's international "vaccine bank' to counter any germ weapon attack by
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Is the climate you experience really changing?
In October 2004, Down To Earth carried out a survey on people's perception of climate change. We sought replies for the following questions: • What kind of local/regional changes in climate
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Polarised
Is global warming for real? Is it natural, or human caused? Who will benefit from its effects? Suffer? The scientific debate on climate change remains as political as ever
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Global warming is really happening
As climate is a complex system
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Why is global warming a myth for some
Scientists refuting climate change assert it is not human induced but a result of cosmic influences