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		<title>Records show record high temps now twice as likely as record lows</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2009 17:41:14 +0000</pubDate>
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Temperature records: More highs than lows
WASHINGTON — Record high temperatures are occurring more than twice as often as record lows.

According to a new study, between Jan. 1, 2000 and Sept. 30, this year the continental United States set 291,237 record highs and 142,420 record lows at various locations.
&#8220;Climate change is making itself felt in terms [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Off New England, warming ocean drives fish away from shore _ and market bins</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2009 08:05:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Clarke Canfield</dc:creator>
		
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Warming drives off Cape Cod&#8217;s namesake, other fish

PORTLAND, Maine — Fishermen have known for years that they&#8217;ve had to steam farther and farther from shore to find the cod, haddock and winter flounder that typically fill dinner plates in New England.
A new federal study documenting the warming waters of the North Atlantic confirms that they&#8217;re [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Study: Airborne nitrogen pollution producing junk food for fish in Rocky Mountain Park lakes</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 21:49:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Judith Kohler</dc:creator>
		
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Study: Nitrogen pollution worsens in Rockies lakes

DENVER — Airborne nitrogen pollution from vehicle exhaust and farm fertilizer is turning algae in the alpine lakes of Rocky Mountain National Park into junk food for fish, a study says.
A similar phenomenon is occurring in Sweden and Norway, according to the study of about 90 high-elevation lakes set [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Beyond bison and bears: Scientists seeking Yellowstone&#8217;s hidden species find more than 1,200</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 18:35:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Stark</dc:creator>
		
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Scientists look for Yellowstone&#8217;s hidden species

HELENA, Mont. — Scientists searching for Yellowstone National Park&#8217;s lesser-known life forms — beyond its famed bison, bears and wolves — found more than 1,200 species, including several never known before to exist in the park.
A one-day study of the park in late August found microscopic worms, mushrooms, a bluish-green [...]]]></description>
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		<title>GOP senators boycott climate bill deliberations as Democrats agree to more analysis</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2009 15:14:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>H. Josef Hebert</dc:creator>
		
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GOP senators absent at start of climate debate
WASHINGTON — Republicans boycotted the start of committee debate Tuesday on a bill to curb greenhouse gases, protesting that the bill&#8217;s costs have not been fully examined. The action put a spotlight on the difficulties Democratic leaders face in moving climate legislation this year.
Republican Sen. George [...]]]></description>
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		<title>GOP senators plan boycott of committee votes on climate change, want more economic studies</title>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/n/gop-senators-plan-boycott-of-committee-votes-on-climate-change-want-more-economic-studies-215635/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2009 00:18:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>H. Josef Hebert</dc:creator>
		
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GOP senators talk of boycotting climate bill

WASHINGTON — A threatened Republican boycott of a Senate committee&#8217;s consideration of climate legislation is exposing the sharp partisan divide over a Democratic proposal to combat global warming.
Republicans for the most part plan to stay away from a meeting of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee on Tuesday [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Military experts say failure to address climate change brings national security risks</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2009 21:05:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>H. Josef Hebert</dc:creator>
		
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Turmoil from climate change poses security risks
WASHINGTON — An island in the Indian Ocean, vital to the U.S. military, disappears as the sea level rises. Rivers critical to India and Pakistan shrink, increasing military tensions in South Asia. Drought, famine and disease forces population shifts and political turmoil in the Middle East.
U.S. defense [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Scientists: Global warming may hinder timber output in low-level Northwest forests</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Oct 2009 14:46:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff Barnard</dc:creator>
		
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Study: Warmed NW forests may yield less timber

GRANTS PASS, Ore. — A new study suggests warming temperatures predicted over the next century could boost tree growth on Northwest forests, but less so at lower elevations where most of the timber is and temperatures are already warm.
Researchers from Oregon State University and the U.S. Forest Service [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Utah lawmakers get differing views on climate change, root causes of warming at hearing</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2009 21:34:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Stark</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[SALT LAKE CITY — Utah lawmakers heard competing views on climate change Wednesday: one emphasizing the vast scientific consensus about warming trends and humanity&#8217;s influence and another raising doubts about the root causes.

University of Utah scientist James Steenburgh told the state&#8217;s Public Utilities and Technology Interim Committee that temperatures are rising and people are very [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tsunamis obliterate coral in some areas, damage others in American Samoa</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Oct 2009 18:02:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Audrey Mcavoy</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[HONOLULU — Scientists surveying American Samoa&#8217;s coral reefs say Sept. 29&#8217;s tsunami obliterated some corals and damaged others to the point that they may not recover.

Researchers say more assessments will be needed to get a full sense of how the disaster affected coral in the U.S. territory. But in at least one area, the damage [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Report: Climate change means more hungry children, greater investment in farming needed</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2009 10:27:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Donna Bryson</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[JOHANNESBURG — Scientists fear climate change will mean 25 million more hungry children over the next four decades, with subsistence farmers in Africa and Asia particularly hard hit by global warming, according to a report issued Wednesday.

The authoritative International Food Policy Research Institute said even without climate change, 113 million children under 5 years old [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rift opens between major utilities and US Chamber of Commerce over climate change</title>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/n/rift-opens-between-major-utilities-and-us-chamber-of-commerce-over-climate-change-179127/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Sep 2009 20:51:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Susan Montoya Bryan</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — A rift widened between the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and some utilities as another major power provider quit over the business group&#8217;s hard stance on pending climate regulation.

The Public Service Company of New Mexico, the state&#8217;s largest utility, quit the chamber Friday just days after California&#8217;s largest utility, Pacific Gas and Electric [...]]]></description>
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		<title>If greenhouse gases are cut as planned, Earth still gets 6 degrees hotter, update suggests</title>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/n/if-greenhouse-gases-are-cut-as-planned-earth-still-gets-6-degrees-hotter-update-suggests-178182/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Sep 2009 22:16:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Seth Borenstein</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON — Earth&#8217;s temperature is likely to jump nearly 6 degrees between now and the end of the century even if every country cuts greenhouse gas emissions as proposed, according to a United Nations update.

Scientists looked at emission plans from 192 nations and calculated what would happen to global warming. The projections take into account [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Government study: Many urban streams salty enough to hurt aquatic life, road salt blamed</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Sep 2009 22:14:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Karnowski</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[MINNEAPOLIS — Many urban streams have become salty enough to harm aquatic life, largely because of salt used for deicing roads in the winter, according to a new government study released Wednesday.

The U.S. Geological Survey studied urban streams and groundwater for levels of chloride, a component of salt, in 20 states spanning from Alaska to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Prepared text of President Barack Obama&#8217;s speech to school students on Tuesday</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Sep 2009 18:38:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>AP</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[The prepared text of President Barack Obama&#8217;s back-to-school address scheduled for Tuesdays, as released in advance by the White House:

Hello, everyone — how&#8217;s everybody doing today? I&#8217;m here with students at Wakefield High School in Arlington, Virginia. And we&#8217;ve got students tuning in from all across America, kindergarten through 12th grade. I&#8217;m glad you all [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mass. science center on Cape Cod to build ocean monitoring stations to research climate change</title>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/n/mass-science-center-on-cape-cod-to-build-ocean-monitoring-stations-to-research-climate-change-161314/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Sep 2009 20:14:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>AP</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[FALMOUTH, Mass. — A Massachusetts ocean studies institute is building underwater data collection stations to help researchers understand the ocean&#8217;s role in climate change.

The Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution on Cape Cod has received nearly $100 million in federal grants to help develop and operate the underwater observatories.
Underwater stations will be built in locales worldwide, from [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Study says climate change threatens water, food security for 1.6 billion people in South Asia</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Sep 2009 10:51:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Binaj Gurubacharya</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[KATMANDU, Nepal — Effects of climate change including the melting of Himalayan glaciers threaten water and food security for more than 1.6 billion people living in South Asia, according to a study released Wednesday.

India, Bangladesh, Afghanistan, and Nepal will be most vulnerable to falling crop yields caused by glacier retreat, floods, droughts and erratic rainfall, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Billions of beetles, wildfire spread imperil the northern forests of a warmer world</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 23 Aug 2009 23:32:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Charles J. Hanley</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[HAINES JUNCTION, Yukon Territory — A veil of smoke settled over the forest in the shadow of the St. Elias Mountains, in a wilderness whose spruce trees stood tall and gray, a deathly gray even in the greenest heart of a Yukon summer.

&#8220;As far as the eye can see, it&#8217;s all infested,&#8221; forester Rob Legare [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Beeps drown out croaks: Traffic noise may foil efforts by urban frogs to attract sex partners</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Aug 2009 15:14:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rod Mcguirk</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[CANBERRA, Australia — Traffic noise could be ruining the sex lives of urban frogs by drowning out the seductive croaks of amorous males, an Australian researcher said Friday.

A well-projected and energetic croak is the male frog&#8217;s most important asset in the quest to attract mates to his pond, Melbourne University ecologist Kirsten Parris said.
But competition [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Report: Pandas face uncertain future because of earthquake damage in SW China</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Jul 2009 20:17:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chi-chi Zhang</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[BEIJING — About 35 pandas at a reserve in southwestern China face an uncertain future after nearly a quarter of their habitat was destroyed by last year&#8217;s powerful earthquake that killed nearly 70,000 people, according to a study published Monday.

Large parts of Sichuan province — where most of the world&#8217;s remaining wild pandas live — [...]]]></description>
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		<title>University of Colorado study calculates global warming threat to Colorado River reservoirs</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Jul 2009 02:53:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>AP</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[BOULDER, Colo. — University of Colorado researchers say global warming increases the chances that the Colorado River system&#8217;s reservoirs could be depleted by mid-century.

A study released this week says that if global warming cuts the river&#8217;s average flow by 10 percent, the chances of draining the river&#8217;s reservoirs by 2057 is 25 percent.
The researchers say [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Study says El Nino comes in two types, one encouraging more hurricanes, one with fewer</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2009 02:03:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Randolph E. Schmid</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON — El Nino may have a split personality.

The warming of the tropical Pacific Ocean has long been known to affect weather around the world, but researchers now say it may come in two forms with different impacts.
The traditional El Nino tends to reduce the number of Atlantic hurricanes. But a form Georgia Tech scientists [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Study: Weather, not pollution controls, had bigger role in cleaning Beijing air for Olympics</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Jun 2009 17:04:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tini Tran</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[BEIJING — Beijing&#8217;s notoriously dirty air was cleaner during last summer&#8217;s Olympic games, but pollution levels were still much worse than at recent Olympics, despite a massive Chinese cleanup campaign, a new report said.

Athletes in Beijing faced pollution levels that were up to 3.5 times higher than those in recent Olympic cities like Athens, Atlanta [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Study: Weather played larger role in cleaning air for Beijing Olympics than pollution measures</title>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/n/study-weather-played-larger-role-in-cleaning-air-for-beijing-olympics-than-pollution-measures-87443/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Jun 2009 11:29:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tini Tran</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[BEIJING — Beijing&#8217;s notoriously dirty air got cleaner during last summer&#8217;s Olympic Games, but the weather played a larger role than the government&#8217;s massive pollution control measures, a new report says.

The first major study on air pollution during the Olympics found that conditions in Beijing were far worse than at other recent Olympics, even with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>UN climate chief criticizes Japan&#8217;s CO2 emissions target, says rich countries short of goal</title>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/n/un-climate-chief-criticizes-japans-co2-emissions-target-says-rich-countries-short-of-goal-77596/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Jun 2009 01:36:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Arthur Max</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[BONN, Germany — Japan unveiled a new target Wednesday for reducing greenhouse gas emissions 15 percent by 2020, but the plan was slammed by environmentalists and the U.N. climate chief as leaving the industrial world dangerously short of its pollution goals.

Prime Minister Taro Aso said in Tokyo the plan was ambitious and in line with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The dying of the winds: Study hints at reduced wind speed in US, may be a problem for turbines</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Jun 2009 17:26:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Seth Borenstein</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON — The wind, a favorite power source of the green energy movement, seems to be dying down across the United States. And the cause, ironically, may be global warming — the very problem wind power seeks to address.

The idea that winds may be slowing is still a speculative one, and scientists disagree whether that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Obama administration revokes last-minute action by Bush to limit endangered species protection</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Apr 2009 04:25:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>H. Josef Hebert</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON — Federal agencies again will have to consult with government wildlife experts before taking actions that could have an impact on threatened or endangered species.

The Obama administration said Tuesday it was overturning a rule change made in the final weeks of the Bush presidency.
Officials at the Interior and Commerce departments said they have reimposed [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Study: Climate change to hit SE Asia harder than most of the world&#8217;s regions</title>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/n/study-climate-change-to-hit-se-asia-harder-than-most-of-the-worlds-regions-40235/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Apr 2009 11:42:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Casey</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[BANGKOK — Southeast Asia will be hit particularly hard by climate change, causing the region&#8217;s agriculture-dependent economies to contract by as much as 6.7 percent annually by the end of the century, according to a study released Monday.

The Asian Development Bank study focused on Indonesia, the Philippines, Thailand and Vietnam. Those countries are especially vulnerable [...]]]></description>
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