ENVIRONMENT:  Cities Given an Attitude Warning
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LONDON, Sep 14 (IPS) - Migration is leading to a new colour-coding that   can be dangerous for city life, a new report warns.
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A report scheduled to be released Monday found that people who live in areas with a high degree of sprawl are more likely to report chronic health problems such as high blood pressure, arthritis, headaches and breathing difficulties compared to residents
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Cities are the future of the world, and slums are the future of the city.
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Environmentalists have cautioned that four wheeled drives designed for use in the deserts or the open countryside should now come with cigarette packet-style statutory warnings.
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By Jonathan Owen  More than 40 countries are backing calls for an international organisation to police governments that fail to act against climate change. It would also fight threats such as global warming, water shortages and the loss of species.
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Technology firms and gadget lovers are urged to think more about the environment as new regulations come into force.
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Modern urban growth means rethinking the modern city if city life is to remain comfortably sustainable, leading British architect Norman Foster has warned here.
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Urbanisation and population growth are threatening the goal of improving water access, UN bodies warn.
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The world's top polluting  nations were told on Wednesday to prepare for decades of  weather turmoil, even if they act now to curb emissions and  pursue green energy sources.
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Councils are advised to begin fortnightly rubbish collections in autumn, winter or early spring to avoid complaints.
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I've written about weather alarmism and terrorphobia as examples of availability cascades, but there's an important distinction between these cascades. The environmentalists promoting fear of climate change sometimes use dubious tactics in exploiting images like Hurricane Katrina, but they can legitimately point to longer trends showing that the planet has warmed and is projected to [...].
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Three days after California regulators adopted tough rules to cut car pollution, San Francisco's mayor unveiled a plan on Monday to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, saying cities must take action because the Bush administration is ignoring global warming.
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Think the inexorable spread of cities is a bad thing? Think again.
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SACRAMENTO -- This city believes an answer for global warming is growing on trees.
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A plan to install bike lanes citywide has met resistance from environmentalists and others who question its wisdom.
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Politicians in the nation's capital have been reluctant to set limits on the carbon dioxide pollution that is expected to warm the planet by 4 to 7 degrees Fahrenheit during the next century, citing uncertainty about the severity of the threat. But that uncertainty may have shrunk somewhat with the release last week of two scientific reports suggesting that global warming is not just a hypothetical possibility, but a real phenomenon that has already started transforming especially sensitive parts of the globe.
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LONDON, Oct 23 (IPS) - Addressing people's rights to the places they  inhabit is one of the new challenges of growing urbanisation,  both in developed and developing countries.