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The East African archipelago of Zanzibar is attempting to win “environmental independence” from Tanzania by joining an organisation that promotes the sustainable development of islands in the Indian Ocean.
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[Office of the President of Gabon]
London, 17th of May 2012 -
The President of the Gabonese Republic, Ali Bongo Ondimba delivered a speech entitled ‘Investing for the Future’ at the world-renowned foreign policy think tank, Chatham House. Over the course of an hour, he presented his vision for economic development for Gabon to an audience of researchers and business leaders.
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The planet is warming up, especially at the poles. How do organisms react to this rise in temperatures? Biologists have now shown that little auks, the most common seabirds in the Arctic, are adapting their fishing behavior to warming surface waters in the Greenland Sea. So far, their reproductive and survival rates have not been affected. However, further warming could threaten the species.
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Could Christiana Figueres have the world’s toughest job: getting all nations to agree how to tackle climate change? We talk to the UN’s climate chief

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Milk poured down Britain’s kitchen sinks each year creates a carbon footprint equivalent to thousands of car exhaust emissions, research shows.
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GENEVA (Reuters) – Biodiversity has decreased by an average of 28 percent globally since 1970 and the world would have to be 50 percent bigger to have enough land and forests to provide for current levels of consumption and carbon emissions, conservation group WWF said on Tuesday.
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Scaling-up adoption of renewable energy technology, such as solar home systems, to expand electricity access in developing countries can accelerate the …
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April’s wet weather brought respite from the prolonged airborne particle pollution that affected the UK in February and March. Pollution problems in April were mostly short-lived. Traffic caused moderate pollution close to busy roads in London, Glasgow and Dumfries. Both Port Talbot and Scunthorpe…
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The American public would pay extra to get green electricity, but partisan politics means their elected representatives still won’t adopt it

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The Filchner-Ronne Ice Shelf fringing the Weddell Sea, Antarctica, may start to melt rapidly in this century and no longer act as a barrier for ice streams draining the Antarctic Ice Sheet, new research shows.
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