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Feds warn climate change could harm giant sequoias (AP)

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AP - Federal researchers are warning that warming temperatures could soon cause California's giant sequoia trees to die off more quickly unless forest managers plan with an eye toward climate change and the impact of a longer, harsher wildfire season.

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India’s Tata Power buys 10 pct stake in Australia’s Geodynamics (AFP)

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Ratan Tata, chairman of Indian conglomerate Tata group, at a meeting in Mumbai in August, 2008. India's Tata Power Co plans to buy a 10 percent stake in Australian energy company Geodynamics Ltd as it seeks a presence in the country's expanding renewable energy market, a statement said.(AFP/File/Sajjad Hussain)AFP - India's Tata Power Co plans to buy a 10 percent stake in Australian energy company Geodynamics Ltd as it seeks a presence in the country's expanding renewable energy market, a statement said.


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Australian climate advisor urges 10 percent emissions cuts (AFP)

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Greenpeace activists during an underwater protest at the Great Barrier Reef. Australia's chief climate advisor Friday urged a 10 percent reduction in greenhouse gas emissions by 2020 but conceded this may not save the country's natural assets such as the Great Barrier Reef(AFP/File/Dean Miller)AFP - Australia's chief climate advisor Friday urged a 10 percent reduction in greenhouse gas emissions by 2020 but conceded this may not save the country's natural assets such as the Great Barrier Reef.


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Asian soot, smog may boost global warming in US (AP)

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Buildings are shrouded in haze and smog in Beijing's central business district, August 6, 2008. REUTERS/Jason Lee (CHINA)AP - Smog, soot and other particles like the kind often seen hanging over Beijing add to global warming and may raise summer temperatures in the American heartland by three degrees in about 50 years, says a new federal science report released Thursday.


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Alaska gas project hailed by Palin still embryonic (Reuters)

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Reuters - A long-delayed natural gas pipeline championed by Gov. Sarah Palin that would carry supplies from Alaska to Canada and then to the lower 48 states exists in concept only and is years away from fruition.

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Asian soot, smog may boost global warming in US (AP)

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AP - Smog, soot and other particles like the kind often seen hanging over Beijing add to global warming and may raise summer temperatures in the American heartland by three degrees in about 50 years, says a new federal science report released Thursday.

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Ethanol: energy’s golden child dodges more darts (AP)

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AP - Ethanol's wild ride has brought it quickly from political golden child to scapegoat for everything from soaring food prices and world hunger to pork-barrel spending.

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Experts offer scaled-back sea level rise forecast (Reuters)

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Chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Rajendra Pachauri from India, answers journalist's questions during a press conference prior to the closing of the 29th session of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), and its 20th anniversary in Geneva, Switzerland, Thursday, Sept. 4, 2008. (AP Photo/Keystone, Martial Trezzini)Reuters - Worldwide sea levels may rise by about 2.6 to 6.6 feet by 2100 thanks to global warming, but dire predictions of larger increases seem unrealistic, U.S. scientists said on Thursday.


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Why Disasters Are Getting Worse (Time.com)

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A Haitian man cuts up a tree felled by severe weather from Tropical Strom Hannah September 2 in Kenscoff, Haiti. Hannah left at least 19 dead in Haiti Tuesday as it turned its heavy winds and rains on the Bahamas and threatened to head toward the southeastern US coastline.(AFP/Thony Belizaire)Time.com - Hint: It's not really climate change. There's more destruction because humans have created more stuff to be destroyed


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Deal ends feud over BP’s Russia venture (AFP)

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British-Russian oil giant TNK-BP offices in Moscow. British and Russian shareholders on Thursday announced an end to a months-long feud for control of joint oil venture TNK-BP, in a move hailed by the Kremlin as a positive signal to foreign investors.(AFP/File/Natalia Kolesnikova)AFP - British and Russian shareholders on Thursday announced an end to a months-long feud for control of joint oil venture TNK-BP, in a move hailed by the Kremlin as a positive signal to foreign investors.


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