Topic: Europe
SINGAPORE (Reuters) - A two-year ban on new licenses to clear peatlands and primary forests in Indonesia risks being undermined by the small area protected by the scheme and a host of exemptions, shows a review that calls for the program to ...
Iceland and France are looking into the possibility of taking French trees endangered by global warming and planting them in Iceland to safeguard them for the future, officials said."The main emphasis (in the collaboration) is on research and finding ways to ensure ...
LONDON (Reuters) - The Earth's natural resources like food, water and forests are being depleted at an alarming speed, causing hunger, conflict, social unrest and species extinction, experts at a climate and health conference in London warned Monday.Increased hunger due to food ...
With nations facing gaping shortfalls meeting pledges on climate change, several governments and activist groups are pushing to put a price on shipping emissions to fund aid to poor countries.Commercial ships virtually always run on fossil fuels and produce nearly three percent ...
Elected president of the Maldives after spending 20 years leading a pro-democracy movement against a cruel dictatorship, Mohammed Nasheed believes it will have all been for naught if his nation of 1,200 islands is swallowed up by the ocean.His campaign to enlist ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A newly discovered deep, cold current flowing off Iceland's coast may reveal that the North Atlantic is less sensitive to climate change than previously thought, researchers reported on Sunday.The new current, the North Icelandic Jet, feeds the Atlantic Meridional ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A newly discovered deep, cold current flowing off Iceland's coast may reveal that the North Atlantic is less sensitive to climate change than previously thought, researchers reported Sunday.The new current, the North Icelandic Jet, feeds the Atlantic Meridional Overturning ...
US airlines took their battle against the European Union's emissions cap to court Tuesday, arguing that charging foreign companies for carbon permits violates international agreements.Starting on January 1, the EU will force foreign airlines flying to and from Europe to buy carbon ...
Fires, felling and agriculture are whittling Europe's forests down into isolated patches, threatening to speed up desertification and deplete wildlife, a UN report warned Tuesday.Isolated forest patches, caused through what is called fragmentation, are more vulnerable to climate change and threaten biodiversity, ...
Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono on Thursday signed a decree authorising a two-year moratorium on new logging concessions, under a billion-dollar climate deal with Norway."He signed it this morning," Agus Purnomo, presidential advisor on climate change, told AFP.No details were immediately released ...
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