Austria's glaciers getting smaller
All of Austria's 91 glaciers shrank significantly last year by an average of nearly 13 metres, according to a report by the Austrian Alps Organisation in Innsbruck. The record shrinkage of 50 metres
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Global carbon emissions to ease as economies slow
U.S. government forecasters said global carbon emissions from energy sources would ease by the year 2010 as economic growth in areas such as Eastern Europe slowed. In a report to be released on
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Fishing in Troubled Waters
Illegal fishing threatens populations of the Patagonian toothfish in the Southern Ocean, challenging Australia s commitment to marine conservation
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Biodiversity or Biotrade?
Competing goals of free trade and environmental protection puts the much awaited Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety indefinitely on hold
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Blessed are the meek
for they keep the rainforests' biodiversity high
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Better than the best
Organic fertiliser-based agricultural management systems
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Cooling system
German companies, EG Solar and Zeo-Tech have developed a new cooling system which is cheap, reliable and easy to maintain. The system consists of a refrigerator powered by solar energy, with a
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Germany turns up the heat on greenhouse gases
The European Union's German presidency will call an emergency meeting of environment ministers unless diplomats agree quickly on a common strategy to limit greenhouse gases, EU sources said. "They
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21st century to be hotter by over one degree
Scientist : The average global temperature has risen by half a degree this century and is estimated to rise between one and three degrees in the next century. According to climatologists, the sea
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Sticky problems solved with Japanese cedar bark
"Necessity is the mother of invention"--that old maxim proved correct in the case of a group of Kyushu-based researchers who made it their mission to come up with an effective countermeasure to oil
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World facing acute water shortage
The world is facing a global water crisis. People numbering 1.2 billion in developing countries lack access to safe drinking water; 2.9 billion do not have adequate sanitation and water related
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WHO warns that global warming will adversely affect human health
World Health Organization director Dr. Gro Harlem Brundtland has warned that the climate changes observed over the past several decades may already be adversely affecting human health. She alerted
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Manufacturers protest over energy tax plans
Manufacturers have protested to the UK government over proposals in the Budget programme announced 10 days ago for a tax on energy use to help meet Britain's international obligations on climate
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Atlantic's CO2 content rising, agency says
Carbon dioxide levels in the northwestern Atlantic Ocean have been steadily rising over a long period of time, according to a report released Wednesday by the Meteorological Agency. The report was
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Water scheme for Nagaur, Ajmer to be studied
With an ambitious target to bring the waters of Indira Gandhi Canal to the drought-hit Nagaur district and water of Chambal river to Ajmer, the Rajasthan Government has decided to conduct a survey in
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Clifftop erosion
An 850-tonne lighthouse was dragged back from a crumbling cliff edge near Beachy Head in Southern England two months after part of a nearby chalk cliff collapsed into the sea in the biggest UK
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Humans may follow
" a human being born of clonal reproduction will most likely appear on the Earth within the next 20 to 50 years, and even sooner if some nation should actively promote the venture,' said Nobel
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Freedom means death
The Delhi High Court ruling may free the animals from the cages of circuses, but will they find a new home?
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Ivory trade to resume
Zimbabwe will be able to sell stockpiles of ivory to Japan, earning US $4 5 million for community development
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Hittin the note
French company Sopro of Marseille has come up with an electronic device that helps singers improve their vocal techniques. The new gadget produces a musical note which the singers then try to