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Polar ice loss quickens, raising seas

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Polar ice loss quickens, raising seas
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Environment correspondent, BBC News

The Greenland ice sheet is losing its mass faster than its southern counterpart

Ice loss from Antarctica and Greenland has accelerated over the last 20 years, research shows, and will soon become the biggest driver of sea level rise.

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The World Resource Simulation Center is an immersive visualation center where we can literally "see" the critical trends of global and regional issues and project options and consquences of different strategies, enabling policy makers and business leaders to make more sustainable choices and act on them quicker.

China Overtakes Japan As World's Second-Biggest Economy

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14 February 2011 

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Japan's economy was worth $5.474 trillion (£3.414 trillion) at the end of 2010, figures from Tokyo have shown. China's economy was closer to $5.8 trillion in the same period.

Japan has been hit by a drop in exports and consumer demand, while China has enjoyed a manufacturing boom.

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Global Solar Power Growth Doubled In 2010: Study

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Feb-15-11
 



A general view of the new PS20 solar plant which was inaugurated last month at ''Solucar'' solar park in Sanlucar La Mayor, near Seville, October 7, 2009.
 

The world added about 16 gigawatts of new solar photovoltaic (PV) power in 2010, double the growth seen a year earlier, the European Photovoltaic Industry Association told Reuters on Monday.

Uncertainty about Italian figures made a precise figure difficult, after an end-of-year rush to qualify for a higher solar power price premium, called a feed-in tariff.

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Climate Change Drives Instability, U.N. Official Warns

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February 15, 2011,                                                             Christiana Figueres, in white blouse, met with children in Sehwan, Pakistan, who have been displaced by floods. 

In a speech to Spanish lawmakers and military leaders,

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Coal's hidden costs top $345 billion in U.S.: study

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BOSTON | Wed Feb 16, 2011 11:57am EST

 

 (Reuters) - The United States' reliance on coal to generate almost half of its electricity, costs the economy about $345 billion a year in hidden expenses not borne by miners or utilities, including health problems in mining communities and pollution around power plants, a study found. 

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Investments worth trillions at risk from climate change: study

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SINGAPORE | Wed Feb 16, 2011 2:33am EST

 Climate change could put trillions of investment dollars at risk over the next 20 years, a global study released on Wednesday said, calling for pension funds and other investors to overhaul how they allocate funds.

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Choke Point: China - Confronting Water Scarcity and Energy Demand in the World's Fastest Growing Industrial Economy

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By Keith Schneider, Circle of Blue
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Exploring an escalating confrontation over resources with global implications.

Water scarcity, rapid economic growth and soaring energy demand are forming a tightening noose that could choke off China's modernization.

Underlying China's new standing in the world, like a tectonic fault line, is an increasingly fierce competition between energy and water that threatens to upend China's progress. Simply put, say Chinese authorities and government reports, China's demand for energy, particularly for coal, is outpacing its freshwater supply.

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