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World Leaders Launch Initiative to Accelerate Work on Global Warming
Lawmakers from G8 nations and five major developing countries, plus officials from financial and business organizations, are backing an initiative to monitor global warming and force governments to act more decisively to control it.

El Niño, La Niña and Climate Change
What is the relationship between global warming and the El Niño and La Niña climate cycle that the Earth's atmosphere undergoes every few years? Are the two climate effects influencing global warming, or is global warming increasing the frequency and intensity of El Niño and La Niña?

Leonardo DiCaprio to Produce Documentary on Global Warming
Celebrated actor Leonardo DiCaprio is co-writing, producing and narrating a feature-length documentary film about global warming.

Greenhouse Gases at Highest Levels in 650,000 Years
Scientists working in Antarctica have confirmed that levels of key greenhouse gases that contribute to global warming are higher today than at any time in the past 650,000 years, and humans are responsible for the increase.

Scholars Predict 50 Million “Environmental Refugees” by 2010
Scholars are predicting that 50 million people worldwide will be displaced by 2010 because of rising sea levels, desertification, dried up aquifers, weather-induced flooding and other serious environmental changes.

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