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Climate Change Info Emerges in Advance of IPCC Release [1]

With climate change continuing to grow in news prominence, it'll be helpful to have access to the latest developments.

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Climate Change [3]

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Eco-Packaging for Wine: Bottles and Beyond [6]

Eco-friendly wine isn't just about what's in the bottle. It also IS the bottle — or, increasingly the box — plus the cork (or, increasingly screwtop), and more.

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Consumer [7]

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Greenwashing Claims are Pervasive [8]

In the past year or so, all things "green" have become a hot fad. Sorting through green claims remains a difficult task.

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Environmental Studies [9]

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IPCC To Release Climate Change Synthesis Report Nov. 16 [10]

The final installment of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's "Fourth Assessment Report on Climate Change" is expected to be released Nov. 16, 2007, during a Nov. 12-17 gathering in Valencia, Spain.

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TipSheet [2]

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Climate Change [3]

Laws & Regulations [11]

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International [4]

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The Road to Bali-Treaty Talks Dec. 3-14 [12]

The Valencia science meeting is just a prologue to a meeting of diplomats from some 180 countries in Bali, Indonesia, to hammer out a new international agreement to control climate change. The current Kyoto Protocol, which was signed in 1997 and took effect in 2005, expires in 2012.

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Climate Change [3]

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International [4]

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Report Distills Science for Legislative, Diplomatic Playoffs [13]

As Congress members and international diplomats roll up their sleeves for serious efforts at action in coming months, a final "synthesis" report from the top U.N. climate science body will brief them this week.

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SEJ To Offer More Resources for Reporters on Climate [14]

In January of 2007, the Society of Environmental Journalists added a special section to its Web site to help reporters cover climate change - which seems to be shaping up as one of the biggest environmental stories of the next decade.

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Climate Change [3]

Environmental Studies [9]

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TOOLBOX: Covering the Health Effects of Climate Change [15]

How health may be affected; accusation that Bush administration drastically altered CDC testimony to the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee on Oct. 23, 2007.

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Climate Change [3]

Health [16]

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Eco-Mapping the News With Google Earth [17]

One of the best parts of the environment beat is getting out in the field. Now you can bring "the field" (whether it's your town or the whole world) to your audience through interactive maps. In many cases, you can create great interactive and even collaborative online maps with basic technical skills, using free or cheap tools.

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Other or All [18]

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