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Global warming is the focus of at least seven bills on Capitol Hill, but whether any of them will become law before President Bush leaves office in 2009 is a matter of keen debate.

Seceta de anul acesta va fi mai mare chiar decit cea din 1946. Au inceput restrictiile la folosirea apei. Ministrul Mediului ne recomanda sa scurtam dusurile. Continue reading Apa se rationalizeaza in jumatate de tara

Guvernul Republicii Moldova şi Cabinetul Miniştrilor al Ucrainei, numite în continuare Părţi  contractate,  remarcînd importanţa rîului Nistru şi a resurselor naturale coerente pentru dezvoltarea statelor din bazin, Continue reading Proectul Acordului privind colaborarea în domeniul protecţiei şi dezvoltării durabile a bazinului raului Nistru

Seceta, inundatiile si vintul pun in pericol fertilitatea terenului agricol.
Cea mai mare parte din solul Romaniei este pe cale sa devina neproductiv din cauza schimbarilor climatice, a poluarii si a practicarii agriculturii haotice. Continue reading Jumatate din soluri se desertifica, alta jumatate sint macinate de ape si vint

Icebergs that break off Antarctica and drift away turn out to be hotspots of life in the cold southern ocean, researchers report. Climate warming has led to an increase in the number of icebergs breaking away from the Antarctic in recent years, and a team of researchers set out to study the impact the giant ice chunks were having on the environment.

It celebrates tree-sitters like Julia Butterfly Hill, who spent two years on top of a giant redwood to prevent it from being chopped down. And its laws protect geckos, yellow-billed cuckoos and the Mohave ground squirrel.

China has overtaken the United States as the top emitter of carbon dioxide, the main greenhouse gas, because of surging energy use in its economic boom, a Dutch government-funded agency said on Wednesday.

The heavily forested, mountain town of Flagstaff has grown to 62,000 people from 45,000 in 1990, straining its water resources. Upper Lake Mary, a man-made reservoir that provides up to 40 percent of the town’s water needs of 11 million gallons a day, is down to 18 percent of normal levels.

Extracting salt from seawater to make it drinkable is the wrong way to handle water shortages around the world and could exacerbate climate change, a leading conservation group said Tuesday.

Google Inc. aims to voluntarily cut or offset all of its greenhouse emissions by the end of the year, the Web search leader said Tuesday.
Google is one of a number of companies, including News Corp., and Yahoo Inc. that are attempting to cut emissions of gases scientists link to global warming.