Reuters
No end in sight to floods in China
23 Temmuz 2007
Storms are expected to batter large swathes of China again on Monday after floods, landslides and lightning killed more than 150 people...
French GMO Area May Keep Rising Sharply - Growers
20 Temmuz 2007
The French area sown with genetically modified maize could continue increasing fourfold annually because it resists insect attacks and...
More Than 50 People Killed in Sudanese Flooding
20 Temmuz 2007
More than 50 people were killed and 20 injured in Sudan's worst floods in living memory which have partially or completely destroyed 18,000...
Beware Melting Glaciers This Century - Study
20 Temmuz 2007
Don't worry too much, for now, about rising seas caused by melting ice in Greenland and Antarctica. The big threat this century could come...
Drought Threatens to Halve Hungary's Maize Crop
20 Temmuz 2007
Hungary's maize crop may be halved due to drought and a record heat wave which is forecast to continue next week, the Hungarian Grain...
Weeks of Heavy Rain Show No Let-Up in China
20 Temmuz 2007
Weeks of heavy rain show no sign of let-up in China where another round of storms hit an eastern city, killing 31 people and injuring 171....
German Luxury Cars Damaged by Climate Activists
18 Temmuz 2007
Berlin police said on Tuesday that the tyres of some 50 luxury cars were damaged overnight by unknown assailants who left leaflets with...
Taliban growing stronger in Afghanistan: UK report
18 Temmuz 2007
The British-led NATO force in Afghanistan does not have enough troops to carry out its mission and the Taliban show worrying signs of...
China officials deny flood rats on the menu
17 Temmuz 2007
Chinese officials have denied media reports that truckloads of live rats rounded up near a flooded lake in eastern China were ending up in...
Activists Hope To Start Bike-Sharing in New York
13 Temmuz 2007
New York City may seem like an unlikely place to leave bicycles out for people to ride for free, but some activists are hoping residents...
European Climate Exchange trades 1 bln tons CO2
12 Temmuz 2007
The European Climate Exchange, Europe's largest carbon market, has traded more than one billion tons of carbon dioxide (CO2) credits since...
Live Earth transmission fails to light up globe
11 Temmuz 2007
The global Live Earth pop extravaganza fell flat for television viewers in the United States and Britain, drawing far smaller audiences...
White House denies Iraq policy rethink
10 Temmuz 2007
President George W. Bush has no plans to withdraw troops from Iraq now, the White House said on Monday, despite increasing pressure from...
UN official says biofuels raise food supply risk
6 Temmuz 2007
The head of the U.N. Environment Program said on Wednesday Cuban leader Fidel Castro and others are justified in raising concern about the...
World Bank Says Pollution Kills 460,000 Chinese a Year
4 Temmuz 2007
About 460,000 Chinese die prematurely each year from breathing polluted air and drinking dirty water, according to a World Bank study.
Global warming could increase U.S. death rate
3 Temmuz 2007
An increase in summertime heat waves from global warming could mean more deaths among Americans each year, a study by Harvard researchers...
World cannot afford nuclear climate solution-report
28 Haziran 2007
The world must start building nuclear power plants at the unprecedented rate of four a month from now on if nuclear energy is to play a...
Drought Develops in China's Corn, Soybean Areas
28 Haziran 2007
Drought in China's northeast, the country's top corn and soybean region, is likely to last for another week at least and could seriously...
Wildlife, Crops Hit by Southeast Europe Heatwave
28 Haziran 2007
A heatwave that has killed more than 30 people in parts of southeast Europe has hit wildlife and crops, from the humble toad in Greek...
NATO backs U.S. missile plan on eve of Russia talks
26 Haziran 2007
NATO's secretary-general mounted a stout defense of Washington's missile shield plan on Monday, the day before meeting Russian President...
Armies must ready for global warming role -Britain
26 Haziran 2007
Global warming is such a threat to security that military planners must build it into their calculations, the head of Britain's armed...
Solar power costs dropping, nearing competition
22 Haziran 2007
Solar energy is fast closing the price gap with conventional U.S. power sources and is likely to drop to near even in cost in many regions...
Missing: Large lake in southern Chile
21 Haziran 2007
A lake in southern Chile has mysteriously disappeared, prompting speculation the ground has simply opened up and swallowed it whole.
Global warming to multiply world's refugee burden
20 Haziran 2007
If rising sea levels force the people of the Maldive Islands to seek new homes, who will look after them in a world already turning warier...
