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July 30, 2009 | Posted by Seth Andre Myers, Joseph S. Nye, Jr. Research Intern - 8:17am | 0 Comments
- U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has warned that rich nations – including the United States, Australia, and the Netherlands – are likely to face an increasing number of water-related disasters in the coming years.
- Senator John Kerry believes that the United States and China’s progress on talks concerning climate change has been too slow.
- Two new British-built satellites designed to help monitor natural disasters have been launched.
- The European Union has sent a delegation to Turkmenistan in the hopes of forging better relations as the EU seeks to gain suppliers for the Nabucco pipeline.
- The New York Times examines the use of white roofs to help cut energy costs everywhere from Wal-Mart stores to Fort Irwin Army Base.
- The Financial Times examines public wariness about carbon capture.
- Scientific American examines how minor errors in data have been exploited by climate change skeptics.
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