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Compared to winters since 1864 this winter ist still warmest in Switzerland. Basel reports a mean temperature of 5°C over last record from 1916 - diference of 0°C. Zurich had only 2 Days with snow (12cm in total). Despite latest 2 cold and snowy ...>>

Davis Guggenheim (left center) wins the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature during the 79th Annual Academy Awards at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood, CA, on Sunday, February 25, 2007. 'I Need to Wake Up' written and performed by Melissa Etheridge g ...>>

The Black Sea forms an enclosed basin, located between south-eastern Europe and Asia Minor. In this satellite picture, captured by Daily Terra , 2007-02-24, cold wind from North-East condensates water vapour in warmer air over the sea and forms clouds. ...>>

The Rosetta mission is one of the most challenging ever attempted. Started 2nd March 2004 Rosetta will use fly-bys of Mars and Earth to accelerate and then rendezvous with comet Churyumov-Gerasimenko. It will land, take probes - some 4.6 billion years old - to ...>>

Signs and the Science 55 min 27 sec - uploaded Feb 14, 2007 to Google Video. Inspired by Lydia Dotto's work: 'Storm Warnings: 'Gambling with Climate of Our Planet'. With contributions of Paul Malewski, Thom Hartman, Klaus Lackner, Zhou Dadi, Larence ...>>

Cyclone Favio made landfall Thursday in southern Mozambique with powerful winds over 200kph, heavy rains and new misery to tens of thousands of people already forced from their homes by flooding. About 30 people were killed in Mozambique and nearly 90,000 ...>>

Imagine your home or your place of employment get flooded. Not only some days a year, but every day of the year. Will you sell your car and buy a boat to travel to work? What else will happen? Whole cities relocate from basement to attic, public transport regu ...>>

Latest GEO Year Book 2007 reveals the imbalance of CO2 emissions per capita from different regions. An average person in North America produces nearly same amount of greenhouse gas as twenty people from Africa. In comparison C02 emissions per capita have ...>>

This will become biggest party ever on our planet. At 07.07.07 for 24 hours on all 7 continents hundreds of top performers address Climate Change. MSN, NBC, BBC Network, hundreds of radio stations broadcast the event via television, radio, internet and wirel ...>>

Nearly a year after its launch, 28 April 2006, the French - U.S.A. mission CALIPSO collected numerous measurements of the structure of Earth's atmosphere in unprecedented detail. Equiped with a sort of optical radar, Calipso is designed to identify the imp ...>>

The international exhibition planned from 05 April 2007 to 09 April 2007 in Locarno, Switzerland, was canceled due to concerns regarding the quality of the event. Most camellias around Lago Maggiore are already bloomy and there is only little chance havin ...>>

On February 6, 2007, Terra satellite shot this impressive picture showing cloud streets caused by strong wind over the Sea of Okhotsk. During the winter this part of Siberia is frozen and large chunks of sea ice float on the water. More at Earth Observa ...>>

According to current issue of Financial Times London a series of concerts is planned in July this year. The event, scheduled for July 7, will feature co-ordinated film, music and television events in seven cities including London, Washington DC, Shanghai, ...>>

Speech was held 31.01.2007 at European Parliament in Brussels: Ladies and Gentlemen, Climate change is a reality. Scientists have been issuing warnings for a long time. And anyone who reads the newspapers attentively will have noticed that these warnings ...>>

The death toll from flood-related incidents in the archipelagonow stands at 46 according to officials and media reports. About 340,000 are displaced, many of them were staying with friends or family or at mosques and government buildings. Some places ar ...>>

Under present climate conditions, 609 out of the 666 (or 91%) Alpine ski areas in Austria, France, Germany, Italy, and Switzerland can be considered as naturally snow-reliable. The remaining 9% are already operating under marginal conditions. The number ...>>

Indonesia is very vulnerable to climate change. The country is tropical, poor, crowded and archipelago. It's capital Jakarta counts nearly 10 million inhabitants, has 12 rivers, is located directly to the coast and some 40 percent of the city's land area i ...>>

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