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U.N. WARNS OF EFFECTS OF GLOBAL THAW, June 04
(AP) -- Melting glaciers, ice sheets and snow cover could speed the rate at which the planet heats up, causing rising sea levels, flooding and water shortages that impact as many as 40 percent of the world's population, a U.N. report said Monday.
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HIMALAYAN GLACIERS COULD BE GONE IN 50 YEARS: EXPERTS, June 04
Himalayan glaciers are retreating fast and could disappear within the next 50 years, experts warned Monday at a conference in Nepal's capital looking at the regional effects of global warming.

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CHINA RELEASES STRATEGY TO FIGHT GLOBAL WARMING, June 04
China released on Monday its first national strategy on global warming, saying it was committed to fighting climate change but insisting the main responsibility rested with rich nations.
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U.S. CUTS BACK CLIMATE CHECKS FROM SPACE, June 04
(AP) -- The Bush administration is drastically scaling back efforts to measure global warming from space, just as the president tries to convince the world the U.S. is ready to take the lead in reducing greenhouse gases.
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BLAME COAL: TEXAS LEADS CARBON EMISSIONS, June 02
(AP) -- America may spew more greenhouse gases than any other country, but some states are astonishingly more prolific polluters than others - and it's not always the ones you might expect.
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AUSTRALIAN PM PROMISES GREENHOUSE TARGET, June 03
(AP) -- Prime Minister John Howard ditched his long-standing opposition to a greenhouse gas reduction target for Australia with a pledge Sunday to set a national pollution limit next year.
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AIRLINE SECTOR PUTS GLOBAL WARMING HIGH ON MEETING AGENDA, June 02 The world's airline industry opens its annual meeting in the Canadian city of Vancouver Sunday with the link between increased air traffic and global warming front and center on its radar screen.
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SCIENTISTS CONNECT CLIMATE CHANGE, ORIGINS OF AGRICULTURE IN MEXICO, June 01
New charcoal and plant microfossil evidence from Mexico's Central Balsas valley links a pivotal cultural shift, crop domestication in the New World, to local and regional environmental history. Agriculture in the Balsas valley originated and diversified during the warm, wet, postglacial period following the much cooler and drier climate in the final phases of the last ice age. A significant dry period appears to have occurred at the same time as the major dry episode associated with the collapse of Mayan civilization, Smithsonian researchers and colleagues report in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences online.
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