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China’s Shenzhen Sets June 17 as Start of Carbon Emissions Trading
China's Shenzhen, a Special Economic Zone, will start its carbon emissions trading on June 17, its Mayor Qin Xu said in an interview with a local newspaper. | International Business Times |
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In Sign of Warming, 1,600 Years of Ice in Andes Melted in 25 Years
Glacial ice in the Peruvian Andes that took at least 1,600 years to form has melted in just 25 years, scientists reported Thursday, the latest indication that the recent spike in global temperatures has thrown the natural world out of balance. | NY Times |
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Climate change will increase extreme precipitation levels
Rainfall or snowfall dumped by the most intense storms could grow significantly heavier in most of the United States by the final decades of the century, according to a new climate change study. | LA Times |
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Solar Energy and Briquettes Make Headway in Haiti
While Jean Reniteau mulls over the idea of using solar panels to light his house, Frantz Fanfan is wondering how to expand production of biomass briquettes to replace the use of charcoal in the cooking stoves of most of the Haitian people, who lack electricity. | IPS |
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Global Insight: Sequestration’s slow burn will not mitigate effects
Some of the hardest policy problems are those that happen so slowly that people do not notice the change: like the frog, we boil to death without realising. | Financial Times |
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Tanzania Wind Energy Potential Fairly High
RECENTLY, the German embassy in Dar es Dar es Salaam, in collaboration with the Dar es Salaam Institute of Technology (DIT), organised renewable energies technology exhibition. | Tanzania Daily News (Dar es Salaam) |
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Climate challenges undermine a fragile Maasai culture
Pastoral Maasai have thrived for centuries in East Africa's Savannah. But western pressures are undermining that semi-nomadic lifestyle, and increasingly erratic weather – droughts one year, downpours the next – threaten to erode their culture. | The Daily Climate |
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