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The United Nations (UN) Summit, which ends today in New York, has been criticised by Friends of the Earth for failing to agree any firm action on climate change. The final outcome document of the Summit does not recognise the immense challenge to stabilise the world?s climate, and the threat that climate change poses upon reaching the UN Millennium Development Goals by 2015. The Summit text being put forward today reveals that no progress has been made on climate change. Circulation of previous drafts demonstrates that the outcome document has been significantly weakened through the negotiation process.


The hole in the ozone layer above Antarctica has grown to near record size this year, suggesting 20 years of pollution controls have so far had little effect, the United Nations said on Friday.


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SANTA FE— Global climate change is affecting water supplies in New Mexico and across the West, and action is needed now to minimize future impacts, according to a report released Friday.


The 2003 heatwave turned Europe's plants from absorbers to producers of carbon dioxide, a new study finds.


ANCHORAGE, Alaska — Global warming research in Alaska has centered largely on its warmer winters. But a new paper concludes that summer warming in arctic Alaska also has had a strong effect on high latitude climate change.



THE growing ferocity of hurricanes hitting the United States is probably caused by global warming, a British scientist says. Sir John Lawton, chairman of the Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution, which advises the British Government,
yesterday criticised what he termed US climate loonies. The Independent newspaper called his comments a thinly disguised attack on the stance of US President George Bush's Administration on climate change. "The increased intensity of ...



Spain has suffered the driest year on record and meteorologists do not forecast enough rain in the coming months to top up drained reservoirs, the National Institute of Meteorology said on Monday.


"..of any of these tropical forests, Amazonia, Central Africa or Southeast Asia policies, especially since deforestation rates in tropical Africa, Southeast Asia.."


The hurricanes devastating the American coast are the wake-up call the world needs. Do nothing about climate change, and the collapse of civilisation is "inevitable", according to Dr Tim Flannery. Do too little, the Australian scientist says, and society will "hover on the brink for decades or centuries". Action needs to be taken now to slow global warming, says Flannery, the director of the South Australian Museum. "The delay of even a decade is ...


If growth in air travel is not curbed UK homes and firms will have to cut CO2 emissions to zero, a report says.


Climate change threatens to put far more people at risk of hunger over the next 50 years than previously thought, according to new research.


Global warming has been blamed for increased cycles of drought across Africa, where millions this year face hunger and starvation.


Organisations with millions of supporters have today united to demand action on climate change. Eighteen campaign groups, including some of Britain?s best known organisations, have joined forces to launch the biggest climate change coalition
this country has ever seen. 500 volunteers formed a giant human banner on London?s South Bank to mark the launch of the unique new movement.


Records over 35 years show that hurricanes have got stronger in recent times, according to a global study.


The Australian Medical Association (AMA) and the Australian Conservation Foundation (ACF) are calling for a national response to one of the world's most significant environmental threats - climate change and its effect on human health.
Speaking today at the launch of their joint report, Climate Change Health Impacts in Australia: Effects of Dramatic CO2 Emission Reductions, ACF President, Professor Ian Lowe, and AMA President, Dr Mukesh Haikerwal, said global warming is already ...


Rising world temperatures could cause a significant increase in disease across Asia and Pacific Island nations, leading to conflict and leaving hundreds of millions of people displaced, a new report said on Thursday. Global warming by the year 2100 could also lead to more droughts, floods and typhoons, and increase the incidence of malaria, dengue fever and cholera, the report into the health impact of rising temperatures found. Compiled by the Australian Medical Association (AMA) and the Australian Conservation Foundation, the country's leading medical and environment groups, the study predicts average temperatures will rise by between 1 degree Celsius (1.8 Fahrenheit) and 6 degrees by 2100. "We're not just talking about a longer summer or a shorter ski season," AMA president Mukesh Haikerwal told reporters. "Climate
change will damage our health.


The Scottish crossbill may be going; the black kite may be coming. Climate change appears to be widely affecting Britain's wild birds, a study show


“The greatest fear is that the Arctic has reached a ‘tipping point’ beyond which nothing can reverse the continual.."Now that global warming is irreversible, we don’t have to modify our behaviour! No more Kyoto treaty, I can buy that giant SUV I’ve always wanted, and it doesn’t matter! Yay! No more guilt!


Hurricane Catarina hit Brazil in March 2004 and was the first and only hurricane ever recorded in the South Atlantic - global warming may be to blame


Climate predictions may have to be rethought, following the discovery that warming may have a bigger effect on air pressure than realised