By Alister Doyle, Environment Correspondent BONN (Reuters) - Tighter limits on soot and smog provide a quick and easy way to fight global warming while protecting human health and raising crop output, a U.N. study said on Tuesday.
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By Alister Doyle, Environment Correspondent BONN (Reuters) - Tighter limits on soot and smog provide a quick and easy way to fight global warming while protecting human health and raising crop output, a U.N. study said on Tuesday. [More]
Read More »World Off Course on Climate; Renewables Vital
By Alister Doyle, Environment Correspondent BONN, Germany (Reuters) - The world is off course in fighting climate change and governments need to boost green energies to build new momentum, the head of the U.N. panel of climate scientists said on Monday.
Read More »Rising Forest Density Offsets Climate Change – Study
By Alister Doyle, Environment Correspondent OSLO (Reuters) - Rising forest density in many countries is helping to offset climate change caused by deforestation from the Amazon basin to Indonesia, a study showed on Sunday. [More]
Read More »Seas Could Rise Up to 1.6 meters by 2100
By Alister Doyle, Environment Correspondent OSLO (Reuters) - Quickening climate change in the Arctic including a thaw of Greenland's ice could raise world sea levels by up to 1.6 meters by 2100, an international report showed on Tuesday. [More]
Read More »Obama urges oil producers to increase output
By Alister Bull and David Alexander WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama on Tuesday urged world oil producers to lift crude output as he sought to deflect public anger over high gasoline prices that is hurting his popularity among voters.
Read More »Recession cuts U.S. and Russia 2009 greenhouse emissions
By Alister Doyle, Environment Correspondent OSLO (Reuters) - U.S. and Russian greenhouse gas emissions fell in 2009, according to data submitted to the United Nations, as economic decline cut the use of fossil fuels
Read More »Carbon capture projects up in 2010, despite costs
By Alister Doyle, Environment Correspondent OSLO (Reuters) - The number of projects for capturing greenhouse gases from power plants and factories edged up in 2010 despite soaring costs and slow progress in U.N.-led efforts to slow climate change, a study showed on Tuesday. [More]
Read More »Lead and asbestos in homes need tighter control
By Alister Doyle, Environment Correspondent OSLO (Reuters) - The health risks from toxins such as lead in old paint or asbestos in walls are too often overlooked when homes are upgraded, according to a study on Sunday calling on governments to set tougher pollution rules. [More]
Read More »U.N. climate talks seen missing aid plan deadline
By Alister Doyle, Environment Correspondent OSLO (Reuters) - A plan by almost 200 countries to step up efforts to fight climate change is set to miss a March deadline for starting work on a green fund to help developing nations, delegates said on Wednesday. [More]
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