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Global Warming Makes International Dispute a Moot Point
For thirty years, India and Bangladesh have contested ownership of a tiny rocky outcrop of an island in the Sunderbans known as New Moore Island to the Indians and South Talpatti Island to the Bangladeshis. Now just call it sunk beneath the waves, as rising seas has ended the dispute and claimed the island for itself.
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Researchers confirmed last week the combined emissions targets of the 55 nations that have submitted pledges under the Copenhagen Accord fall far short of the stated goal of limiting global average temperature increase to 2 degrees Celsius above preindustrial levels by 2100.
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EarthTalk® is a weekly environmental column made available to our readers from the editors of E/The Environmental Magazine
Dear EarthTalk: Are there any conservation efforts focused on animal species endemic to islands likely to be submerged by rising sea levels? – H. Wyeth, Anahola, HI
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Maldives president Mohamed Nasheed has asked his cabinet members to take scuba lessons and learn underwater signs in preparation for a cabinet meeting he has called for October 17 – the reason for the lessons and sign language is because the meeting will be held 20 feet underwater.
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Researchers studying fossil corals show that climate change can cause much more rapid and significant sea level rise than previously thought.
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The International Scientific Congress on Climate Change concluded this week in Copenhagen. Convened to assimilate the latest observations and research in climate change since the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change released their Fourth Assessment Report, the resulting findings and report will help prepare global negotiators meeting this December in Copenhagen for the COP15.
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In a run-up to the United Nations COP 15 Climate Change Conference this December, the Scientific Congress on Climate Change: Global Risks, Challenges, and Decisions got under way today in Copenhagen.
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