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Nations pledge global support for clean energy

The United States and dozens of other countries have pledged hundreds of millions of dollars toward clean energy initiatives to help battle climate change, U.S. Energy Secretary Stephen Chu said on Tuesday. Meeting in Washington, D.C., for a two-day conference, delegations from 24 countries representing 80 percent of global energy consumption promised 11 initiatives that would mean building fewer power plants and using more clean energy

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How Animals Change Due to Climate

What makes an animal large or small?

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How Animals Change Due to Climate

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Health or Climate Spending, Can we have both?

Bill Gates, the world’s richest man and a leading philanthropist, said on Sunday spending by rich countries aimed at combating climate change in developing nations could mean a dangerous cut in aid for health issues. Gates, the Microsoft Corp co-founder whose $34 billion foundation is fighting malaria, AIDS, tuberculosis and other diseases in developing countries, expressed concern about the amount of spending pledged at December’s Copenhagen global climate meeting.

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Health or Climate Spending, Can we have both?

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NASA: 2009 second warmest year on record

According to NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS), last year was tied for the second warmest year on record after 2005, the warmest year on record. If just looking at the southern hemisphere, however, 2009 proved the warmest yet recorded since record-taking began in 1880.

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Brazil Announces National Policy on Climate Change

Brazil’s President introduced national legislation that will guide efforts to reduce projected emissions by 36.1 to 38.9 percent by 2020. This legislation comes on the heels of the COP-15 climate change conference held in Copenhagen earlier this month, and demonstrates Brazil’s eagerness to make significant and immediate progress against global climate change.

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Industry Agrees to Phase Out DecaBDE Flame Retardant

Following negotiations with the U.S.

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U.S. Sees Robust Climate Talks, But Will Not Pay "Reparations"

President Barack Obama’s top aides promised on Wednesday “robust” negotiations toward a global climate change deal this month, but firmly stated the United States does not owe the world “reparations” for centuries of carbon pollution.

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New Research Suggests Conservation Biologists are Setting Minimum Population Size Targets Too Low to Prevent Extinction

A new study by University of Adelaide and Macquarie University (Australia) scientists has shown that populations of endangered species are unlikely to persist in the face of global climate change and habitat loss unless they number around 5,000 mature individuals or more.

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Book Review: GREEN, Your Place in the New Energy Revolution

In the last decade or so, Americans have been bombarded by a environmentalist media that is relentless when it comes to highlighting the causes, dangers, and perpetrators of carbon- fueled global climate change.

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Book Review: GREEN, Your Place in the New Energy Revolution