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SALMON, Idaho (Reuters) - Grizzly bears roaming the Northern Rockies still require protection under the Endangered Species Act, despite their growing numbers, because of changing climate factors the government failed to consider, a federal appeals court ruled on Tuesday.The decision by the ...
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - Climate change is likely to lead to increased average rainfall in the world's major river basins but weather patterns will be fickle and the timing of wet seasons may change, threatening farming and foodstocks, experts said Monday.Furthermore, some river ...
ERIE, Pa (Reuters) - Climate change and population growth in the United States will make having enough fresh water more challenging in the coming years, an expert on water shortages said on Wednesday."In 1985-1986 there were historical (water level) highs and now ...
CHICAGO (Reuters) - Crop scientists in the United States, the world's largest food exporter, are pondering an odd question: could the danger of global warming really be the heat?For years, as scientists have assembled data on climate change and pointed with concern ...
BEAUMONT, Texas (Reuters) - Two Democratic state senators from Texas accused the state's environmental agency of letting ideology trump science when it deleted information about the implications of global warming from a draft report.The leaders of the agency, the Texas Commission on ...
STRASBOURG, France (Reuters) - EU lawmakers recommended on Thursday including a call for global targets on renewable energy and energy efficiency in the European Union's negotiating position for next year's Rio+20 sustainability summit in June."We should aim at globally binding targets," said ...
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - The head of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on Wednesday said that the agency was reconsidering regulation for mercury emissions from industrial boilers and also expected to announce a new schedule soon for greenhouse gas regulation of power ...
CHICAGO (Reuters) - It can't happen here, can it?The United States, the breadbasket and supplier of last resort for a hungry world, has been such an amazing food producer in the last half-century that most Americans take for granted annual bounteous harvests ...
KANSAS CITY, Missouri (Reuters) - Climate and food production is a subject that needs more study in coming years but for now even the U.S. Agriculture Department finds it almost impossible to estimate the effects of one on the other."They are very ...
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.The report indicated that the size of trees in a forest -- rather than ...
