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Rich World Must
Back 80 Percent Carbon Cuts: Stern
by Jeremy Lovell, ENN
LONDON (Reuters) - Rich countries must
commit to cutting carbon emissions by 80 percent by 2050 and
developing nations must agree that by 2020 they too will set their
own targets, leading economist Nicholas Stern said on Wednesday.
He said the only way the world could defeat the climate crisis was
by ensuring that global carbon emissions peaked within 15 years,
were then halved from 1990 levels to 20 billion tonnes a year by
2050, and cut to 10 billion thereafter.
"There is a real hurry for this. The developed world must lead by
example," Stern told a meeting to publish his latest work on global
warming, "Key Elements of a Global Deal on Climate Change..."
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Many Asian Vultures
Close to Extinction, Survey Finds
National Geographic News
Several species of Asian vulture will
be extinct within a decade, new research warns.
The carrion-eating birds have been on the decline due to exposure to
a common livestock drug.
Now a survey of vultures in northern
and central India has found the birds' populations have plunged to
near-extinction levels—one species is down 99.9 percent since
surveys began in the 1990s.
"These species are in trouble," said Todd Katzner, director of
conservation and field research at the National Aviary in
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. "Ten years? It may be sooner..."
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CLEANER, GREENER U.
Students are driving the campus climate
movement, fighting Big Coal and putting legislators on notice
by Brita Belli, emagazine
Climate change is our generation’s
civil rights movement,” says Brianna Cayo Cotter, communications
director for the Energy Action Coalition, swilling from a tall cup
of coffee. Cotter talked fast and raked her fingers through her
thick, wavy hair, staring intently, as though she’d been on a steady
diet of nothing but caffeine for the last few days. This was
PowerShift 2007, held at the University of Maryland, the largest
gathering of college students ever assembled to fight climate
change, a weekend of non-stop workshops and speakers and rallies
brought together by Energy Action staff. The previous week, the
group’s server had crashed as college students across the nation
logged on to register. On Halloween night, they hit 5,500
registrants, sending up a cheer in Energy Action offices. Cotter was
literally buzzing with enthusiasm. “We’re at a crucial moment in
history,” she said. “Climate change is an issue that’s already
impacting us, from the destruction of the Appalachian Mountains to
the wildfires in California. We get that the resource wars and super
storms are connected. And we get that the steps taken today will end
up being the future for tomorrow...”
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First Lungless Frog
Found
by John Roach, National Geographic
The first recorded species of frog
that breathes without lungs has been found in a clear, cold-water
stream on the island of Borneo in Indonesia.
The frog, named Barbourula kalimantanensis, gets all its oxygen
through its skin.
"Nobody knew about the lunglessness
before we accidentally discovered it doing routine dissections,"
study lead author David Bickford, a biologist at the National
University of Singapore, said in an email...
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