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March 26, 2008--Global warming: Just deal with it, some scientists say (LA Times)

The disastrous hurricanes of recent years have become the poster children of global warming. But Roger A.

March 23, 2008--Lack of political will impedes sanitation improvements (Environmental News Service)

A lack of political will remains the greatest obstacle to efforts to reduce the number of people without access to basic sanitation and clean, running water, UN Secretary-General Ba

March 17, 2008--World's water needs grow more urgent (Environmental News Service)

The international community needs to start creating strategies for using water more efficiently and sharing it more fairly, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said today, warning that

February 22, 2008--UN says warming threatens fish stocks (New York Times)

Major world commercial fish stocks could collapse within decades as global warming compounds damage from pollution and overfishing, U.N. officials said Friday. A U.N.

November 18, 2007--U.N.: Results of ignoring climate change are dire (Denver Post)

The world will have to end growth of carbon emissions within seven years and become mostly free of carbon- emitting technologies in about four decades to avoid killing o

September 24, 2007--U.N. chief urges quick climate action (New York Times)

Secretary General Ban Ki-moon opened a meeting of world leaders on climate change here today stating that the scientific evidence of its global impact was sound and the moment to act was now.

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