U.N. Warns of Ecology Threats
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Damage to the environment could soon pass a point of no return, according to a major report from the U.N.
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Desertification represents the "greatest environmental challenge of our times", the UN warns in a report.
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North Korea&#39;s environment faces a stark future unless urgent action is taken, the United Nations said on Friday in a first report on the communist state&#39;s environment compiled with unprecedented help from Pyongyang.
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UN Secretary General Kofi Annan warned of the danger of a "cascade" of nuclear proliferation unless new steps are taken to prevent it and called for help to stop killings in Darfur.
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UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon says global warming poses at least as big a threat to the world as war.
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Findings of UN panel on global warming put African and Asian regions among those most at risk.
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Hundreds of millions of livelihoods will be affected by the world's declining ice and snow cover, the UN warns.
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Nobel Peace Prize laureate Wangari Maathai was today set to warn that the planet is under attack from a litany of threats, ranging from disease, deforestation and war, and urge a shift in human thinking to save the earth.
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5 October 2004 - Law enforcement experts are urging stronger action against poachers or smugglers of endangered species, but warn that many countries lack the ability to fight wildlife crimes, the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) said today.
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UN scientists have delivered their starkest warning yet about global warming, saying fossil fuel pollution would raise temperatures this century, worsen floods, droughts and hurricanes and melt polar sea ice.
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GENEVA Oct 21, 2004 - Humanity&#39;s reliance on fossil fuels, the spread of cities, the destruction of natural habitats for farmland and over-exploitation of the oceans are destroying Earth&#39;s ability to sustain life, the environmental group WWF warned in a
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Britain's foreign secretary   warned at the United Nations on Friday that climate change was   a growing threat to international security and the world   economy, saying the next 10 years would be crucial.
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The U.N. secretary-general warned that violence against women has reached "hideous" levels in some countries trying to recover from conflict, and the U.N. Security Council demanded an end to impunity for rape and other sexual abuse.
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Within the Global Monitoring for Environment an
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By Steve Bloomfield  Climate change has become a major security issue that could lead to "a world going up in flames", the United Nations' top environment official has warned.
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The Arctic Barents Sea is under threat from overfishing, oil and gas exploration and Soviet-era radioactive waste, the U.N. Environment Program said on Tuesday.
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With governments at a global warming summit divided, the United Nations released an alarming new report.