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Metal pollution is toxic for endangered eels.
One of the world's most bizarre creatures is vanishing. Freshwater eel populations began crashing worldwide in the 1980s. New research finds that cadmium acts as an endocrine disrupter in European eels during their 6000 kilometer migration.
Environmental Science&Technology
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Amazon doomed by too much clean air.
The vast rainforest, so crucial to the Earth's climate, is coming under threat from attempts to curb the pollution that causes acid rain, warn UK and Brazilian climate scientists.
London Daily Telegraph
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Petrify, liquefy: new ways to bury greenhouse gas.
Turn greenhouse gases to stone? Transform them into a treacle-like liquid deep under the seabed? The ideas may sound far-fetched, but scientists are pursuing them as countries prepare to bury greenhouse gases to fight against global warming.
Reuters
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Meat in a low-carbon world.
Feel-good food just got tricky. No one noticed at first, still concentrating their fire on the obvious targets like 4x4s, long flights and coal power stations; but our meaty diet is laden with greenhouse gases, and trying to reduce them throws up some unpalatable choices.
BBC
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Burma death toll could reach 100,000.
Fears were growing last night that as many as 100,000 people may have died in the catastrophic cyclone in Burma, even as the military junta continued to restrict access to aid workers waiting to enter the country.
London Guardian
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Diesel racket chokes India as drivers fill up with cooking fuel .
Adulterated fuel is costing the government $6.5 billion a year in wasted subsidies and lost taxes, says an advisor to the U.S. Agency for International Development, and is undermining efforts to improve air quality.
Bloomberg News
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Myanmar frustrates would-be aid suppliers.
World leaders expressed growing frustration over Myanmar's reluctance to open the country wide to aid after Saturday's cyclone, which a U.S. diplomat said may result in more than 100,000 deaths.
Wall Street Journal
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Scant aid reaching Burma's delta.
Small quantities of drinking water, food, tents and other vital supplies reached Burma's devastated Irrawaddy Delta region Wednesday, as bodies floated uncollected in swollen rivers and sea-flooded rice paddies five days after a cyclone roared through.
Washington Post
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Brittlestars can survive acid oceans.
As carbon dioxide levels rise, increasingly acidic oceans compromise the calcification processes of ocean organisms. New results show that one species bumps up shell production - but at a steep cost.
Nature
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Cod fall may speed 'toxic tide'.
Declining fish stocks could be partly responsible for algal blooms in the oceans, researchers have found. The main cause of the blooms has been thought to be increasing levels of nutrients in the sea, and sea temperatures driven higher by climate change.
BBC
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Sunny year sped Arctic ice melt.
Summer sunshine is starting to play a more important role in the melting of Arctic sea ice, according to new research. As Arctic sea ice shrinks, it becomes more vulnerable to sunny weather.
Environmental Science&Technology
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Forecast: More shrinking North Pole ice.
Polar experts are starting to place their bets on the fate of the thin veneer of sea ice on the Arctic Ocean, and quite a few are forecasting even more open water this summer than last.
New York Times
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Climate change in Nova Scotia to bring agricultural challenges.
There are many challenges, and perhaps opportunities, for agrarians to consider as people in Nova Scotia experience climate change over the next century.
Hants Journal
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A rising tide.
According to a marine scientist, Thailand's coral reefs, which have attracted tourists since the 1960s, could be lost in 50 years if carbon dioxide emissions continue at current rates over the next eight to 10 years.
Bangkok Post
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Scientists find toxic chemicals in penguins.
An alphabet soup of toxic chemicals may be seeping into the oceans as glaciers melt through global warming.
London Daily Telegraph
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Koalas up a gum tree as turns eucalyptus poisonous.
One of Australia's most iconic creatures is under threat because its food is being poisoned by growing levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, research has shown.
Edinburgh Scotsman
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Echinoderms wasted by acid.
Brittlestars pay a high price to keep from being dissolved by rising ocean acidity.
Science
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Breaking the ice.
Scientists are becoming increasingly open to using local knowledge to understand how climate change could affect the world's most vulnerable, and often inaccessible, regions. But how useful are these data to science?
Nature
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Global climate models have overstated warming in Antarctica.
A new research by scientists at the National Center for Atmospheric Research and Ohio State University has determined that computer analyses of global climate have consistently overstated warming in Antarctica.
Asian News International
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Cleaner air may threaten Amazon rainforest.
Cleaner air may actually threaten the Amazon rainforest, according to Brazilian and British climate scientists.
HealthDay News
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Climatic volcanoes.
The Vatnajökull ice cap in Iceland lost about a tenth of its mass during the twentieth century. As a result, the crust around its edges has risen and this, according to new research, has led to the rapid build-up of significant volumes of magma.
Nature
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Koalas' future: hot, hungry.
Koalas are under threat from climate change because rising temperatures and carbon dioxide levels will affect the availability of their food, an Australian scientist has warned.
Sydney Morning Herald
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Cleaner air to worsen droughts in Amazon: study.
Curbing a notorious form of industrial pollution may ironically harm Amazonia, one of the world's natural treasures and a key buffer against global warming, a study released Wednesday has found.
Agence France-Presse
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Poorer nations care more for the environment.
Poorer people living in developing countries care more about the environment than those living in more prosperous countries, a global survey has revealed.
London Daily Telegraph
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ICE says Climate to dominate carbon trade.
London-based Climate Exchange Plc, on track to become the dominant carbon trade market, will face competition from a New York-based venture that launched in March, the head of the IntercontinentalExchange said on Wednesday.
Reuters
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Dreamliner may be the way to go.
Airlines say they are throwing their weight behind research to increase fuel efficiency, looking at replacements for fossil fuels and funding the development of hi-tech aircraft.
Adelaide Advertiser
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What a waste: Britain throws away£10bn of food every year.
Global food shortages, soaring prices and alarm over the environment. But every day, Britain throws away 220,000 loaves of bread, 1.6m bananas, 550,000 chickens, 5.1m potatoes, 660,000 eggs, 1.2m sausages and 1.3m yoghurts.
London Independent
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Plight of the pines.
Under attack from pine beetles that are thriving in a warmer climate, Canada's boreal forests could become a sizeable source of emissions in the coming decade.
Nature
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Website defends decision to ID scientists as climate sceptics.
The Heartland Institute has published a list of 500 scientists whose research, the institute claims, supports the theory that most recent global warming is natural. Many of the scientists have reacted angrily.
Aukland New Zealand Herald
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Brazil, India's citizens are greenest, survey finds.
A new global survey reveals which country's citizens have the most environmentally friendly lifestyles by examining the impact of individual consumer behavior.
National Geographic News
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