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Greenpeace protests as Russia tries to muzzle its own experts on environmental impact of world's biggest oil pipeline

Last edited 1 February 2006 at 9:00am
1 February, 2006

Greenpeace activists protested at the headquarters of a Russian government agency today, accusing it of trying to silence its own environmental experts who are opposed to plans for the world's biggest oil pipeline, scheduled to be built through a World Heritage Site around Lake Baikal.

Over 80% of the experts, commissioned to assess the environmental impact of building the 4,200 km pipeline, rejected the proposal because of its proximity to one of the world's most fragile ecosystems, Lake Baikal - which has been a World Heritage Site since 1996.

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2005 hottest year on record, says NASA

Last edited 25 January 2006 at 9:00am
25 January, 2006

NASA researchers have calculated that 2005 was the hottest year on record.

Last year produced the highest annual average surface temperature worldwide since instrument recordings began in the late 1800s, according to NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies. The previous hottest year was 1998.

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Pumping Poverty

Last edited 17 March 2005 at 9:00am
Publication date: 
17 March, 2005

Britain's Department for International Development and the oil industry

Summary

While the Department for International Development recognises that climate change hits the poor hardest, it refuses to address the effect of its promotion of oil development in contributing to climate change and locking poor countries into unsustainable development.

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Polar bears dream of a white Christmas

Posted by bex — 30 November 2004 at 9:00am - Comments
Polar bears

Polar bears

The Arctic is experiencing some of the most rapid and severe climate change on the planet. Diminishing ice is pushing polar bears, caribou and reindeer towards extinction. And as their snowy world melts, ours begins to shrink as sea level rise will have devastating affects in the UK and around the globe.

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Earth Summit delivers nothing for the poor or the climate

Posted by bex — 4 September 2002 at 8:00am - Comments
Mozambique river bed

A dried up river bed in Mozambique

The Johannesburg Earth Summit will go down in history - as a missed opportunity to deliver energy to the 2 billion people on this planet with no access to energy services, and as a failure to kick-start the renewable energy revolution that is required to protect the climate.

Article tagged as: business and political unit, climate change, impacts, renewable energy, worldwide

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