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Turning Over an Old Reef Great Barrier Reef Is Doomed, Says Report |
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23 Feb 2004 |
Daily Grist |
| Turning Over an Old Reef Great Barrier Reef Is Doomed, Says Report Australia's Great Barrier Reef -- the world's largest chain of living coral and one of the seven wonders of the natural world -- will be almost completely destroyed by rising sea temperatures by 2050, predicts a new report released by Queensland University's Center for Marine Studies. "Coral c ... |
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| Topics: air pollution, Australia, climate, international government agencies, marine life, oceans (all these topics) |
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Hail to the Reef Australia to Protect One-Third of Great Barrier Reef |
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05 Dec 2003 |
Daily Grist |
| Hail to the Reef Australia to Protect One-Third of Great Barrier Reef In a major boon to Down Under ecology, fully one-third of the Great Barrier Reef will receive protection, the Australian government announced this week. The move will increase the protected areas of the reef by 40,000 square miles, thereby establishing the lar ... |
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| Topics: Australia, climate, energy, international government agencies, marine life, oceans, outdoor recreation, pollution and waste (all these topics) |
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Putin: His Foot in His Mouth? Russia Might Ratify Kyoto Protocol, After All |
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04 Dec 2003 |
Daily Grist |
| Putin: His Foot in His Mouth? Russia Might Ratify Kyoto Protocol, After All Mark Twain once famously commented that rumors of his death had been greatly exaggerated. Much the same could be said of the Kyoto Protocol on global climate change, which was pronounced dead by gun-jumping news sources (Grist among them, we regret to say) when Andrei Illarionov, chief economic advisor to ... |
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| Topics: climate, energy, international government agencies, Russia, United States (all these topics) |
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From Russia, Without Love Russia Rejects Kyoto Protocol, Likely Killing Climate Change Treaty |
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02 Dec 2003 |
Daily Grist |
| From Russia, Without Love Russia Rejects Kyoto Protocol, Likely Killing Climate Change Treaty The Kyoto Protocol on climate change received a presumably fatal blow today, when Russia announced that it will not ratify the agreement in its current form. Without Russia or the U.S. on board, the treaty will not have buy-in from at least 55 countries that account for 55 percent of the developed world's 1990 carbon diox ... |
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| Topics: climate, international government agencies (all these topics) |
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Tony Tony Tony!
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25 Feb 2003 |
Daily Grist |
| Tony Tony Tony! In a speech that compared the danger of environmental degradation to the threat of terrorism, British Prime Minister Tony Blair yesterday outlined a sweeping plan to combat global warming. Blair called on his country, the European Union, and would-be E.U. members in Eastern Europe to cut carbon dioxide emissions 60 percent ... |
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| Topics: air pollution, climate, European Union, international government agencies, politics, United Kingdom, United States (all these topics) |
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