Global warming
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Shrinkage of Caspian Sea Is Not Slowing
EghtesadOnline: The Caspian Sea has been shrinking since 1995 and the trend is not expected to end in the foreseeable future due to a variety of reasons, namely rising temperatures linked to…
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Trump Administration Issues Report Confirming Global Warming
EghtesadOnline: The Trump Administration released a sweeping federal climate report concluding that the Earth is warming at an alarming rate due to human activity.
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Pope implicitly criticizes U.S. for leaving Paris climate accord
EghtesadOnline: Pope Francis implicitly criticized the United States on Monday for pulling out of the Paris agreement on climate change, praising it as a means to control the devastating effects…
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Davos Elite Focus on Climate Change, Ignoring Trump’s Skepticism
EghtesadOnline: Donald Trump has often ridiculed global warming and promised to withdraw the U.S. from the global accord signed in Paris in 2015. Yet despite the change of political weather in…
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Teens’ Lawyers Plan to Question Tillerson on His Knowledge of Climate Change
EghtesadOnline: Lawyers for teenagers claiming the U.S. government failed to protect the environment from global warming plan to question under oath President-elect Donald Trump’s pick for secretary…
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Earth's temperature to dip but still sizzle in 2017
EghtesadOnline: World temperatures are likely to dip next year from a sizzling record high in 2016, when man-made global warming was slightly boosted by a natural El Nino event in the Pacific…
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Global Warming, Fight Advances Despite Trump’s Skepticism
EghtesadOnline: More than 190 nations including the U.S., China and Saudi Arabia vowed to step up their efforts to fight global warming despite concerns that U.S. President-elect Donald Trump…
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Rich Countries Told to Close Coal Plants by 2030 to Save Climate
EghtesadOnline: Rich countries must close all their coal-fired power plants by 2030 to have a chance of holding global warming to tolerable levels, a report from an environmental research group…
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How Trump Could Walk Away From Decades of Climate Deals
EghtesadOnline: It took more than two decades for nations around the world to forge an agreement to save the planet from global warming. Within one year, Donald Trump could leave it in tatters.
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Clean Power Just Turned Back the Clock on Global Warming Gases
EghtesadOnline: It looks as if all those wind and solar farms in the U.S. are making a dent in greenhouse gases that cause global warming.
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Severe Weather to Cost World Economy $2t p.a. by 2030
EghtesadOnline: Global warming will cost the world economy more than £1.5 trillion ($1.97 trillion) a year in lost productivity by 2030 as it becomes too hot to work in many jobs, according to…