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Do We Tourists Accept Moral and Political Responsibility for People and Places We Visit?
This is for the '...camera-toting, garishly dressed, vociferous, culturally insensitive tourist, who is disconnectedly shunted, sheep-like, from destination to destination on a package tour.' Tourism is a big industry and various steps are necessary an
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Burying Greenhouse Gases Will Help Britain Meet Kyoto Obligations Easily
Scientists are hoping the best for saving the world from global warming. The wonderful technology, 'carbon capture and storage', still in its infancy, involves taking carbon dioxide before it is released at power stations and burying it in disused oil..
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Q#5: What is There Beyond Kyoto?
189 nations meet in Montreal to discuss how to combat global warming. The 10-day UN Climate Control Conference is considered the most important gathering on global warming since Kyoto, bringing together thousands of experts from 180 nations to...
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Ice Core Air Bubbles Reveal Earth's Early Atmosphere
History of Earth's atmosphere is revealed by the longest ice-core record of climate history ever obtained. Levels of greenhouse gases are once again proved to be proportional to changes in temperature. Record of Earth's early atmosphere was obtained...
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The Climate Change Story: PART I
What is Climate Change? "Climate change" means a change of climate which is attributed directly or indirectly to human activity that alters the composition of the global atmosphere and which is in addition to natural climate variability observed over...
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What Cause Global Warming?
True, scientists are determined that a number of human activities are contributing to global warming by adding excessive amounts of greenhouse gases to the atmosphere. But, with researchers coming up with results, scientists say that, it was also during..
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Climate Change May Rise Malaria, Asthma
As climate change is claimed to have cleaned the earth of several species in the prehistoric era, it has the power even to increase dominant species, specially a wide range of parasitic insects. This resulting increase in the insects and the whipping up.
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Vermont Fosters Stricter Rules To Reduce Car CO2 Emissions
Vermont seems to have geared up to reduce greenhouse gases in a concrete way. It approved stricter standards for vehicle emissions, a major source of greenhouse gases. The standards led five other Northeastern states working on the same rules. All 2009...
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Japan Wants All Nations in Post-Kyoto Deal
Japan wants all nations -- including the United States and especially China -- to be bound by the next framework aimed at fighting global warming, Environment Minister Yuriko Koike announced this last Friday. To discuss taking the Kyoto Protocol beyond...
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