Archive for the ‘Have Your Say’ CategoryOSLO (Reuters) - Greenhouse gas emissions in many industrialised nations are still rising, especially in the former Soviet bloc, despite agreements to cut back, the U.N. Climate Change Secretariat said on Monday. The BBC’s famous Natural World series breaks new ground when it shows the world’s biggest fish - having a poo. A trust wins funding to help in its fight to save fragile woodlands in the far north of Scotland. THOUSANDS of people have been displaced by floods in Moyo district, Obongi county MP Hassan Kaps Fungaroo has said. The partial leg bone of a sabretoothed tiger which was the size of a horse has been dredged from the seabed by a trawler in the North Sea. Toxic cane toads are poisoning alarming numbers of Australia’s freshwater crocodiles. Aggressive plants forcing traditional wild flowers out of hedgerows. THOUSANDS of people have been displaced by floods in Moyo district, Obongi county MP Hassan Kaps Fungaroo has said. (Bonn, 17 November 2008) - Two weeks ahead of the UN Climate Change Conference in Poznan, Poland, the UN Climate Change Secretariat in Bonn has reported that greenhouse gas emissions in industrialized countries continue to rise. Emissions of greenhouse gases by industrialised nations rose 2.3% from 2000 to 2006, the UN climate change agency says. |
