User: subbu Topic: Climate Change
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'Town in US could disappear due to climate change' (Cached) 2.9.2010 Rediff: News
Jamestown, a historic town in Virginia, where first permanent European settled in what became the American colonies and the United States could disappear due to rising water levels, researchers have said.
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'Historic town in US could disappear due to climate change' (Cached) 2.9.2010 Doordarshan
Jamestown, a historic town in Virginia, where first permanent European settled in what became the American colonies and the United States could disappear due to rising water levels, researchers have said.
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Historic town in US could disappear due to climate change 2.9.2010 Deccan Herald: International
Historic town in US could disappear due to climate change
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Spectre of food crisis looms 1.9.2010 NIE: Op-Ed
The worst floods in Pakistan’s history already have swept through the nation’s most important breadbasket provinces, destroying co..
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Tea Party seeks candidates who say no to global warming and gay marriage 31.8.2010 The Guardian -- World Latest
Tea Party email to political candidates in Ohio seeks their views on the teaching of global warming in schools The Tea Party movement in the US is a constant source of fascination to outsiders, not least because it is shaping up to be a major, possibly pivotal, political force ahead of the mid-term elections in November. Therefore, any insight into the mindset and machinations of this group should prove to be both educational and revealing. Well, prepare yourself for a hearty serving of insight with a side order of jaw drop. A local Ohioan newspaper called the Sandusky Register has unearthed an email sent out last week by a local Tea Party group called The Freedom Institute of Erie County to the representatives of candidates seeking ...
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Tuvalu disaster relief exercise shows a shift in New Zealand's aid strategy 31.8.2010 Guardian: Environment
Operation Tropic Twilight tests improved co-ordination between government and development agencies in the Pacific He likened it to the landing of the Americans during the second world war when suddenly, as if the sea had changed colour, the island was swamped by white men in military uniforms. Some 67 years later, like hundreds of other residents of Funafuti , Fakasoa Eutelu dropped everything he was doing to watch as the New Zealand navy unloaded the amphibious support vessel Canterbury at the tiny port of Tuvalu's capital. "This is the biggest ship to dock here since the war," he said. "But that time, people here thought they were being invaded." The Canterbury's crew emerged from the bowels with timber, piping, cable, concrete, water ...
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State's climate change action plan gathering (Cached) 31.8.2010 TOI: Calcutta Times
Nearly 5 million people in the Sunderbans and other places along the 250-km coastline forced to abandon their homes. Largescale casualties in Darjeeling as residents fall pray to malaria and dengue.
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Why is India nurturing dengue? (Cached) 31.8.2010 Deccan Chronicle: Op Ed

Mahatma Gandhi’s dismissal of Katherine Mayo’s book, Mother India, as a “report of a drain inspector” reflected the squeamishness most Indians feel when it comes to drains. We don’t discuss drains at the dinner table, nor, unfortunately, in political or policy circles unless a crisis erupts. The price of that disdain is now being felt across much of urban India.

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'Global warming, greenhouse gas pollution may have triggered Pak floods' (Cached) 30.8.2010 New Kerala: India News
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Genetic documentation battling livestock extinction (Cached) 30.8.2010 Financial Express: Front Page
With the country's rich pool of livestock resources facing threat from extinction due to loss of habitat and shortage of green fodder, a unique initiative to retain and register genetic characteristics through documentation has helped in reviving many breed.
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Probing the deep seas in new and exciting ways (Cached) 30.8.2010 Financial Express: Front Page
Ocean research in the country is all set to get a boost with the deployment of electronics and high computing IT solutions, thus joining the bandwagon of developed countries.
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New Orleans: Are the new defences tough enough? 27.8.2010 New Scientist: Health
New Orleans: Are the new defences tough enough?
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Not climate, we must change (Cached) 27.8.2010 TOI: All Headlines
Not climate, we must change
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Asia under the weather (Cached) 25.8.2010 Hindustan Times: News
Across Asia weather disturbances are playing havoc, but experts are not linking these to overall climate change in the absence of evidence, reports Zia Haq.
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Time to blame climate change for extreme weather? 25.8.2010 New Scientist: Focus on America
Time to blame climate change for extreme weather?
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Clinton sparks debate by linking Pak floods with global climate change (Cached) 22.8.2010 Oneindia.in: News
Washington, Aug.22 (ANI): Linking devastating Pakistan floods with global climate change, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has said that the deluge and other extreme weather events in the recent past clearly points towards climate change getting worse.
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Clinton sparks debate by linking Pak floods with global climate change (Cached) 22.8.2010 New Kerala: India News
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Recommendations of New York green building codes 22.8.2010 DNA: Recent Columns
Environment, health, Costs & savings being the major criteria, the recommendations have been generated in ten major themes in response to climate change.
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Natural disasters can linked to climate change: Hillary! (Cached) 20.8.2010 Zee News : World
The US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has said that the increase in natural disasters across the globe in recent years could be linked to climate change.
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New software enhances climate change research (Cached) 19.8.2010 DNA: Top News
The Community Earth System Model (CESM) will be one of the primary climate models used for the next assessment by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).
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