Chilly Winter May Widen Ozone Hole Over Europe-EU
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Record cold temperatures this winter could create a bigger hole in the ozone layer over parts of northern Europe, leading to damaging ultraviolet rays that can cause skin cancer, the European Commission said on Monday.
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A small increase in ground-level ozone levels, still well below government thresholds, was linked to an increase in deaths the following week in large cities across the country, according to a study published today.
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The air in parts of London is so polluted that it exceeds European Union limits by up to 50 percent, according to a study.
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SCORCHING summers, hotter than that of 2003, could become more common in Europe by the middle of this century. The risk has more than doubled because of human activity producing increasing greenhouse gases in the atmosphere.
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The European Commission set targets Wednesday for EU member states to slash greenhouse gases, seeking to calm fears about the burden of fighting climate change and warning that the cost of dithering would be much higher.
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PARIS, March 9 -- European Union leaders agreed Friday to take the 27-country bloc beyond the targets of the 1997 Kyoto Protocol on global warming, agreeing to legally binding reductions in greenhouse gas emissions and increasing the use of renewable energy.
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"This is probably because of an increase in forest fires due to climate change. There are more fires in Siberia and North America and these bring more soot into the atmosphere."  FROM a remote, snow-capped mountain in the European Arctic, you can detect China in the haze In the apparently pure Arctic air, a research station on a Norwegian island mountain ridge finds chemical traces from ... via Scotsman.com News
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By Stephen Leahy* - Tierramrica  TORONTO, Sep. 20, 2006 (IPS/GIN) -- Another giant ozone hole has opened up over the Antarctic, while evidence mounts that 20 years of international efforts have finally helped the atmosphere to start to heal itself.
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European Union leaders gathered in Brussels on Thursday, seeking a landmark accord to fight climate change amid divisions over the best way to choke off greenhouse gases.
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The European Union is seeking new agreements with the US to slow climate change apart from the Kyoto Protocol that President George W. Bush withdrew from.
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The "ozone hole" over Antarctica this year has matched the record size of 11.4 million square miles, the U.N. weather agency said Friday.
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Strong winds in the upper atmosphere drew down a near-record amount of ozone-destroying gases last year, according to a new study, and such winds may become more frequent as Earth heats up.
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Oil futures prices rose in Europe Thursday amid concerns about heating oil supplies at the beginning of the Northern Hemisphere winter.
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It is unlikely that global temperature rise can be kept below the EU's target of 2C, a leading climate scientist says.
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Stockholm, Sweden- Hundreds of European cities and towns restricted auto traffic last month, part of the continent's annual campaign to lower air pollution by encouraging commuters to use public transportation, ...
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More snow is expected to fall in parts of England which could lead to further disruption for travellers.
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A study released Thursday predicts more bad air days in the summer for Cleveland, Columbus and eight other eastern U.S. cities if global warming continues unabated.