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...effects of climate change in the Arctic may be a key part of understanding the puzzle of how climate change will affect the planet as a whole in the future,” she said, echoing many of the speakers...
...prices. And this is just in the near future. The longer-term picture looks even more daunting. If the world continues to guzzle oil and gas at its present pace, global temperatures will rise by an average of 6°C by 2030, causing "irreparable damage to the planet...
...intergovernmental energy watchdog based in Paris, could add extra weight to the negotiations leading up to the climate-change summit in Copenhagen next month, when leaders will attempt to come to an agreement on a successor to the Kyoto Protocol's limits on greenhouse-gas emissions. "Saving the planet cannot wait," reads the agency's annual World Energy Outlook report, which was released on Tuesday. "The time to act has arrived." (See pictures of new ways to boost energy efficiency...
...Japan consumes about 80% of the 60,000 tons of bluefin caught around the world each year - and local economies on both sides of the planet depend on it. Off the coast of the Spanish port of Cartagena, hundreds of seagulls swarm the same patch of water six days a week, waiting for a boat to arrive and uncoil a long, plastic tube into the water. As sardines and mackerel are pumped into the deep, the water begins to churn. Hundreds of bluefin tuna, circling in vast cages beneath the water's surface, duke it out for their daily meal...
...were to decide in the present generation that it was fine for us to take advantage of all of the work and sacrifices [done] by previous generations...that would be the single most immoral act of any generation of human beings to act on this planet,” Gore said. “But that is the decision that we face...