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	<title>The Japan Times &#187; Environment</title>
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		<title>IPCC report may be ditched</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Sep 2013 13:49:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Ingham  and Anthony Lucas</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Top U.N. experts have just delivered the first volume of a massive new climate change report, but already whispers are starting to be heard: Will it be the last such review? By the end of 2014, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) should have delivered all three tomes, plus a synthesis of the trio, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Trail from Swiss glacier&#8217;s ever-faster melting is evidence of warming</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Sep 2013 13:47:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The hourlong walk from the local railway station to the Morteratsch glacier is a winding trek through a valley littered with rocks that the retreating ice left behind. The walk was not always this long. In the mid-19th century, the Morteratsch glacier stretched all the way to the station in Morteratsch, a hamlet in southeastern [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Aquaculture advances are leading to more eco-friendly farmed salmon</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Sep 2013 14:16:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tamar Haspel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Come dinner time, wild salmon is an excellent choice. Many of the Pacific fisheries are well managed, and the fish itself is healthy and delicious. The problem is that there isn&#8217;t very much of it left. Worldwide, our annual wild salmon harvest comes to about 2 billion pounds (907 million kg), which sounds like a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Farmed salmon beats wild salmon in taste test</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Sep 2013 14:14:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Read a story about salmon, and the odds are that, somewhere, it&#8217;ll tell you that wild salmon tastes better than farmed. But does it? We decided to find out in a blind tasting, and assembled a panel that included noted Washington seafood chefs and a seafood wholesaler. The fish swam the gamut. We had wild [...]]]></description>
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		<title>IPCC &#8217;95% certain&#8217; climate change is man-made</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Sep 2013 13:12:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Top scientists have a better idea of how global warming will shape the 21st century: In a new report, they predict sea levels will be much higher than previously thought and pinpoint how dangerously hot it&#8217;s likely to get. In its most strongly worded report yet, an international climate panel said it was more confident [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sands of time running out for rare Canada desert</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Sep 2013 13:09:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As desertification creeps into parts of the world, a rare stretch of sand in Canada&#8217;s vast western plains is oddly doing the reverse &#8212; slowly sprouting vegetation. Tufts of prairie grasses are emerging throughout Spirit Sands, a stretch of dunes steeped in local lore in a popular nature park in Manitoba province. The sands only [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What does 95% certainty of warming mean?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Sep 2013 13:08:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Seth Borenstein</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Top scientists from a variety of fields say they are about as certain that global warming is a real, man-made threat as they are that cigarettes kill. They are as sure about climate change as they are about the age of the universe. And they are more certain about climate change than they are that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Killer Sao Paulo pollution highlighted</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Sep 2013 12:34:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Air pollution kills more people annually than road accidents in Sao Paulo, Brazil&#8217;s most populous city and host of the opening game of the 2014 World Cup, a study found. The survey by the Health and Environment out Tuesday said at least 4,655 people died from pollution-related ailments in the city &#8212; home to 11 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Global warming &#8216;pause&#8217; gives ammo to skeptics&#8217; argument</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Sep 2013 12:07:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A slowdown in warming that has provided fuel for climate skeptics is one of the thorniest issues in a report to be issued by U.N. experts on Friday. Over the past 15 years, the world&#8217;s average surface temperature rose far slower than many climate models have predicted. According to projections, global warming should go in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hong Kong braces for Typhoon Usagi</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Sep 2013 12:20:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[After killing two people in the Philippines and unleashing landslides in Taiwan, Typhoon Usagi barreled toward Hong Kong on Sunday, shutting down one of the world&#8217;s busiest seaports and throwing flight schedules into disarray. On Saturday Usagi — which means rabbit in Japanese — was downgraded from a super typhoon, when its sustained winds fell [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Upgrading from four wheels to two or three</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/life/2013/09/21/environment/upgrading-from-four-wheels-to-two-or-three/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=upgrading-from-four-wheels-to-two-or-three</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Sep 2013 14:23:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen Hesse</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Careening through the winding streets of Chennai, India, in the back of black and yellow auto-rickshaws, I am always amazed by the drivers&#8217; audacity — or perhaps a better term would be &#8220;death wish.&#8221; These are the subcontinent&#8217;s equivalent of New York&#8217;s exuberant cabbies, but these drivers are much more likely to be found traveling [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Arctic sea ice melt temporarily eases</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Sep 2013 13:34:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The amount of ice in the Arctic Ocean shrank this summer to the sixth-lowest level on record, but that left much more ice than last year&#8217;s all-time low. The ice cap at the North Pole melts in the summer and grows in winter. Its general shrinking trend is a sign of global warming. The U.S. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Latest scientific report unlikely to sway deniers of man-made change</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Sep 2013 13:33:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The upcoming U.N. report on man-made climate change is not likely to rattle U.S. deniers of global warming who hold sway in the halls of power, experts say. A hefty analysis of the latest science on global climate change, the report is packed with recommendations for policymakers. It will be released by the Intergovernmental Panel [...]]]></description>
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		<title>U.S. to curb emissions at power plants</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Sep 2013 13:32:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency proposed Friday to limit carbon dioxide emissions from new power plants in a bid to implement President Barack Obama&#8217;s plan to fight climate change. The move marks the &#8220;first milestone&#8221; of a major part of the Climate Action Plan announced in June by Obama, the agency said in a statement. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Massive typhoon rips past Taiwan, Philippines</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Sep 2013 13:32:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The most powerful typhoon of the year swept through the Luzon Strait separating the Philippines and Taiwan on Saturday, battering island communities and dumping rain as it eyes landfall in Hong Kong. Typhoon Usagi had maximum sustained winds of 222 kph and gusts exceeding 260 kph Saturday morning, and was 550 km south of Taipei, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>U.N. climate target imperiled</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Sep 2013 13:32:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Scientists will put pressure in the coming week on the U.N.&#8217;s troubled climate talks by releasing a report pointing to the dizzying challenge of meeting the international body&#8217;s global warming target. In the first volume of a massive trilogy, the Nobel Prize-winning Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change will publish its projections for warming by 2100. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New battery turns sewage into electricity</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Sep 2013 12:42:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[U.S. scientists may have found a new way to produce clean energy by way of dirty water, according to a new study. The engineers have developed a more efficient method to use microbes to harness electricity from wastewater. They hope their technique can be used in wastewater treatment facilities and to break down organic pollutants [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Storks find their paradise in Poland</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Sep 2013 12:26:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It is a success story of happy coexistence: outnumbered by storks, residents of the Polish hamlet of Zywkowo welcome the birds on their roofs in exchange for good luck &#8212; and, if you believe legend, newborns. Kept afloat by EU and nonprofit funding, the northern hamlet, a stone&#8217;s throw from the Russian exclave of Kaliningrad, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>H.K. bans shark fin at official events</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Sep 2013 11:37:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hong Kong&#8217;s government will stop serving shark fin at official functions as &#8220;a good example,&#8221; following years of lobbying by conservation groups. The southern Chinese city is one of the world&#8217;s biggest markets for shark fin, which is viewed by many Asians as a delicacy and is often served as a soup at expensive Chinese [...]]]></description>
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		<title>On the trail of the legendary Koryak reindeer herders</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Sep 2013 14:22:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Brazil</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The dark herd rushed at the slope like a massive wave crashing ashore. Hitting the base of the steep escarpment they were momentarily lost from my viewpoint; they surged upslope, reemerging into view on the upper terrace as a thundering horde, the vibration of their cloven hoof beats discernible through the tundra turf and clearly [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tiny German island gives power to the people</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Sep 2013 11:37:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The clock may tick a little slower on the remote German island of Pellworm, but residents are ahead of their time when it comes to renewable energy. Home to about 1,000 people and three times as many sheep, the windswept North Sea outpost of reed-roofed homes set amid vast tidal mud flats has for decades [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Could man-made clouds help lower the planet&#8217;s temperature?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Sep 2013 04:45:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lenny Bernstein</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[With the planet warming inexorably, some experts are wondering whether the time may have come to deliberately attempt "solar radiation management.]]></description>
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		<title>Pacific islands fighting for survival as sea levels rise</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Sep 2013 13:28:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Vidal</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Pacific islanders challenged world leaders this week to act on climate change, warning that their low-lying atolls are close to becoming uninhabitable because of rising seas and increasingly severe floods, droughts and storm surges. &#8220;The Pacific is fighting for its survival. Climate change has already arrived,&#8221; said Christopher Loeak, president of the Marshall Islands, which [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Scientists tracing ancestry of India&#8217;s large mammals</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Sep 2013 12:58:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gayathri Vaidyanathan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[About 120 million years ago, the supercontinent of Gondwana broke into a jigsaw puzzle of continents and isles in the Southern Hemisphere. One of those was a giant island forming what we now call India. About 55 million years later, an asteroid, perhaps, or a comet, hit Earth, and the dinosaurs died out. Mammals seized [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cattle ranching goes green in Brazil&#8217;s Amazon region</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Sep 2013 14:00:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In a remote corner of the Brazilian Amazon, farmer Lacir Soares is promoting sustainable cattle rearing that shuns deforestation and meets the environmental requirements of a new forestry law. His venture, supported by the cattle industry and environmentalists, illustrates how things are changing in the Amazon region. Over the past decade, cattle ranching has driven [...]]]></description>
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		<title>U.S. West faces crisis of too many wild horses</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Sep 2013 13:08:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The U.S. West is on the verge of a serious horse crisis, says a new paper in Science, which argues that the wild horse population is growing so fast that the government could soon be unable to manage the herds. There are currently some 33,000 wild horses roaming freely on public lands in the western [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hope blooms eternal for the Simien National Park</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Aug 2013 14:12:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>C.W. Nicol</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In 1967, Ethiopia was the last African country south of the Sahara still without any national parks &#8212; an embarrassment for a nation then entertaining ambitions to assume leadership of the continent. In September that year, after five months on Baffin Island working as a marine mammal technician for the Arctic Unit of the Fisheries [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Asian tuk-tuks filling niche in Paris</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Aug 2013 13:38:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The humble tuk-tuk, a fixture of Asian cities from Bangkok to Bangalore, is rapidly becoming a common sight in the touristy parts of Paris — and the bane of traffic police. The three-wheeled auto rickshaws, as well as human-powered pedicabs, first appeared in the French capital in 2011, and their numbers have since risen to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Red-Dead&#8217; plan by Jordan, Israel worries experts</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Aug 2013 13:36:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A plan to link the Red Sea with the shrinking Dead Sea could save it from total evaporation and bring desalinated water to thirsty neighbors Israel, Jordan and the Palestinians. But environmentalists warn that the &#8220;Red-Dead&#8221; project could have dire consequences, altering the unique chemistry of the landmark inland lake at the lowest point on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Otters surprise as sea grass saviors</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Aug 2013 13:34:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Otters can help rejuvenate sea grasses, a vulnerable natural resource that protects coastlines and provides habitats for fish, according to new research. Scientists examined how the sea grasses in one area of California rebounded when otters returned to the area, and found that the otters helped by eating crab populations. By keeping the crab numbers [...]]]></description>
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