U.N. Warns of Rapid Decay of Environment
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The human population is living far beyond its means and inflicting damage to the environment that could pass points of no return, according to a major report from the U.N.
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U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said  on Thursday the world is on the cusp of "the age of green  economics" and called on nations to cooperate to fight global  warming and promote the transformation.
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Areas hit by the Asian tsunami could take up to 10 years to recover, UN secretary general Kofi Annan warns.
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LONDON, Oct 20 (IPS) - Environmental and development groups have come   together to warn that global warming threatens the Millennium  Development  Goals.
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The world must act against natural disasters as well as climate change , the United Nations says.
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United Nations experts called on governments around the world to build early-warning systems that can cut death tolls from natural disasters like the Indian Ocean tsunami that has killed nearly 40,000.
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Melting glaciers, ice sheets and snow cover could speed the rate at which the planet heats up, causing rising sea levels, flooding and water shortages that impact as many as 40 percent of the world's population, a U.N. report said Monday.
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The U.N. climate panel issued its toughest warning yet on Friday that human activities are to blame for global warming and projected a damaging, accelerating rise in temperatures in the 21st century.
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Natural disasters are affecting more and more people, the UN says ahead of a  conference on reducing the risks.
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The United Nations warned on Monday of epidemics within days unless health systems in south and southeast Asia can cope after some 12,000 people were killed and tens of thousands left homeless by giant tsunami waves.
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Climate change poses as much danger to the world as war, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said on Thursday as he pledged to make global warming the focus of talks with world leaders in June.
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NAIROBI, Kenya -- Urgent investment is needed in North Korea to deal with severe environmental problems that have depleted the country's forests, contaminated water supplies, and polluted the air, the head of the UN Environment Program said yesterday.
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By Andrews, Richard N L  In 2005, the United Nations-commissioned Millennium Ecosystem Assessment reported that over the past 50 years, rapid and extensive change in human ecosystems has resulted in a substantial and largely irreversible loss in the diversity of life on Earth.
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As the US population rises, environmental problems that were once pushed aside may get worse, experts say.
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Asia's greenhouse gas emissions will treble over 25 years, a report for the Asian Development Bank warns.
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UNITED NATIONS -- To head off the worst of climate change, governments must pour tens of billions of dollars more than they are into clean-energy research and enforce sharp rollbacks in fossil-fuel emissions, an expert scientific panel reported to the United Nations on Tuesday.The U.N.
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The U.N. climate panel agreed in its starkest warning yet on Thursday that human activities are causing global warming that may bring more droughts, heatwaves and rising seas, delegates said.