A long-awaited report by an international scientific network will offer much stronger evidence of how man is changing Earth's climate, and should prompt balky governments into action against global warming, the group's chief scientist said Monday.The upcoming, multi-volume U.N. assessment — on melting ice caps and rising seas, with authoritative new data on how the world has warmed — "might provide just the right impetus to get the negotiations going in a more purposeful way," Rajendra K. Pachauri said in an interview midway through the annual two-week U.N. climate conference. http://www.commondreams.org/headlines06/1113-07.htm
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The degradation of China's environment is reaching a critical point where health and social stability are under threat, China's top government official on the environment has said. http://www.commondreams.org/headlines06/1113-04.htm
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