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Fear and insecurity etched in her desperate eyes; she is even hesitant to open the bamboo door just a crack to see her visitors. "My husband is away. He has left the village," she then says quietly. "What else could he do?"...At Chokoria's fishermen's...
Tags: Pia Rani, Ranjan Jaladash, climate changing, Kartik, Sushil Jaladash, India, Kakdwip
With the world losing the battle against global warming so far, experts are warning that humans need to follow nature's example: Adapt or die. That means elevating buildings, making taller and stronger dams and seawalls, rerouting water systems, restricting...
Tags: global warming, flood control, climate changing, Chris Hope, rises sea, sea level, United Kingdom, Cambridge, Environment, Carbon finance, Economics of global warming, Climate change, Adaptation to global warming, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, International Institute for Environment and Development
What attracted the glitterati, and pollies past and present, to Heide?...Yesterday's launch of Shannon Bennett's Cafe Vue at the Heide Museum of Modern Art went a bit further, pulling radio hosts, celebrity chefs, a minister and a former premier.
Tags: Shannon Bennett, Heide, climate changing, Denmark, Copenhagen, Sᅢᄀndor Ziffer, Rod Quantock, Corporate Average Fuel Economy, Environment, Heide Museum of Modern Art, Lynne Kosky, Sunday Reed
We all know the ice caps are melting, but who gets control of the gas, oil and minerals emerging from underneath all that water? Alun Anderson, author of a new book, ‘After the Ice’, seeks to find out He is a calm man, but his message is one of alarm.
Tags: Alun Anderson, says anderson, Greenland, New Arctic, bigger picture, polar bears, climate changing, Inuit Circumpolar Council, Nuuk, Hunter-gatherers, Indigenous peoples of North America, Arctic, Inuit, Aboriginal peoples in Canadian territories, Aboriginal peoples in Quebec, Eskimos, Environment
We are talking about lack of dry land and people will move to wherever there is land and there is resources and livelihood available. We are talking about billion or so people, especially around India and in South Asia and Asia that will have to be moving...
Tags: climate changing, India
Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change Ed Miliband Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change Ed Miliband speaks to The Independent's Steve Richards about the trials and tribulations of being a Labour MP in what is the party's most difficult...
Tags: Ed Miliband, Labour, climate changing, United Kingdom, London
UNITED NATIONS: China's leaders told U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon that Beijing really wants to reach a new agreement on combating climate change in Copenhagen in December, Ban said on Wednesday. "I was pleased that President Hu Jintao and Premier...
Tags: China, climate changing, U.S, global warming, United States, Greenpeace, Copenhagen
China should shift from export-led growth, increase its exchange rate flexibility, and open its markets more, Locke said in remarks prepared for a speech to the American Chamber of Commerce. Locke, who will visit Beijing and Shanghai, plans to promote...
Tags: China, Gary Locke, American Chamber of Commerce, clean energy, climate changing, U.S, global warming, United States, Shanghai, commerce secretary
The leading Democratic lawmaker's visit is part of a flurry of contacts between Washington and Beijing that highlight their wide-ranging cooperation on issues including North Korea's nuclear program and combatting the global economic slump. Next week,...
Tags: U.S.-China Clean Energy Forum, Nancy Pelosi, Pelosi Greeted, house speaker, human rights, climate changing, speaker nancy
There is a positive note to the country's economic woes and last summer's $4-per-gallon gasoline: The nation in 2008 had a record decline in the amount of climate-changing carbon dioxide released into the atmosphere. The government reported Wednesday...
Tags: carbon dioxide, dioxide emissions, greenhouse gas, climate changing, The House, US House, related carbon, emissions decline, White House, gas pollution