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Climate Change, Nature, Politics, Jun 8th, 2010,
The UN climate talks taking place in Bonn, Germany this week are not proving to be a source of positive news for the global environment. An binding agreement to limit greenhouse gas emissions sufficiently enough to avoid the risk of runaway global warming and climate change were meant to be the goal of last December’s climate talks in Copenhagen. But according to the outgoing UN climate chief, this will probably take at least 10 more years. Yvo de Boer, executive secretary of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) is quoted in an AFP report: I don’t see the…
Tags: 10, Bonn, climate, Climate change, copenhagen, countries, emissions, logging, nations, rich, talks, years
Climate Change, Wildlife & Flora, Mar 2nd, 2010,
A wildfire is currently raging in Western Australia, some 170 miles (275 km) north of the state capital, Perth. Though the area is mostly farmland and not densely populated, Australian Fire Emergency Services have urged residents to leave the area with ‘survival kits’ in tow. According to a Press Association report on the situation in Western Australia, wildfires are a common threat during hot Australian summers and this summer is particularly blazing, with Tuesday’s temperature predicted to hit 41 C (106 F). Last year, 173 people were killed and more than 2,000 homes destroyed in one day as hundreds of…
Tags: australia, fire, forest, logged, logging, Western, wildfires
