/Science/Environment/index.html Science / Environment zh-cn Use Chinese Information to find breaking news, current events, the latest headlines, news photos, analysis & opinion on top stories, world, business, politics, entertainment, sports, technology, and more. admin@soulflying.com /Science/Environment/20080227/678.html DENVER - The Environmental Protection Agency said it could be a month or two before crews pump water from a crumbling tunnel where officials fear more than a billion gallons of trapped water could cause a potentially catastrophic flood in a historic 2008-02-27 Environment P. SOLOMON BANDA ap.org /Science/Environment/20080227/677.html NEW DELHI (AFP) - More than 60 survivors and victims of the 1984 Bhopal gas leak began a trek to New Delhi on Wednesday to press for a clean-up of the toxic waste still surrounding the plant, activists said. Forty more people are expected to join th 2008-02-27 Environment Unknown AFP.com /Science/Environment/20080227/676.html BRASILIA, Brazil - Encouraged that all major U.S. presidential candidates vow to protect the environment, lawmakers from industrialized nations and big emerging economies met Wednesday to craft solutions to global warming and rising deforestation. S 2008-02-27 Environment ALAN CLENDENNING ap.org /Science/Environment/20080227/675.html SYDNEY (AFP) - The economic rise of China and India means climate change is occurring faster than previously thought, making efforts to fix the problem more urgent, an official Australian report found Thursday. The government-commissioned report cal 2008-02-27 Environment Neil Sands AFP.com /Science/Environment/20080227/674.html TOKYO (AFP) - Japan will study introducing a cap-and-trade system for greenhouse gas emissions, officials said Thursday, as the business community hinted it will back down on its opposition amid global pressure. Japan, despite its advocacy of the Ky 2008-02-27 Environment Kyoko Hasegawa AFP.com /Science/Environment/20080227/673.html BRASILIA (AFP) - President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, on closing the GLOBE forum on climate change Thursday, called on the Group of Eight (G8) developed nations to meet greenhouse-gas reduction targets set out in the Kyoto Protocol. It's important t 2008-02-27 Environment Unknown AFP.com /Science/Environment/20080227/672.html BILLINGS, Mont. - Gray wolves in the Northern Rockies will be removed from the endangered species list, following a 13-year restoration effort that helped the animal's population soar, federal officials said Thursday. An estimated 1,500 wolves now r 2008-02-27 Environment MATTHEW BROWN ap.org /Science/Environment/20080227/671.html BEIJING, Feb 22, 2008 (AFP) - The port city of Tianjin has joined neighbouring Beijing in the fight to clean the air for the Olympics by cutting vehicle traffic in half, state media reported Friday. The industrial city of 10 million people 100 kilom 2008-02-27 Environment Unknown AFP.com /Science/Environment/20080227/670.html PARIS - 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. Environment Program report details new research on how rising ocean surfac 2008-02-27 Environment ANGELA CHARLTON ap.org /Science/Environment/20080227/669.html LONGYEARBYEN, Norway (AFP) - Aimed at providing mankind with a Noah's Ark of food in the event of a global catastrophe, an Arctic doomsday vault filled with samples of the world's most important seeds will be inaugurated here Tuesday. European Commi 2008-02-27 Environment Pierre-Henry Deshayes AFP.com /Science/Environment/20080227/668.html Since I bike pretty much everywhere, I spend a fair bit of time sandwiched behind garbage trucks, city buses, and whatever other pollution-spewing monstrosities come my way. Just yesterday, for instance, a delivery truck pinned me in between the cur 2008-02-27 Environment Adam Voiland USNews.com /Science/Environment/20080227/667.html CORDOVA, Alaska - For many in this coastal town, the 1989 Exxon Valdez disaster was an event so crushing that hard-bitten fishermen still get teary-eyed recalling ruined livelihoods, broken marriages and suicides. But mostly, people in Cordova talk 2008-02-27 Environment RACHEL D'ORO ap.org /Science/Environment/20080227/666.html LONDON (AFP) - Four activists from environmental campaigners Greenpeace breached security at London Heathrow to stage a protest on top of a jet against the airport's planned expansion, the group said Monday. The activists climbed on top of a British 2008-02-27 Environment Unknown AFP.com /Science/Environment/20080227/665.html NEW YORK - The U.N. climate chief on Monday welcomed statements by Bush administration officials that the United States would accept a binding international commitment to reduce global-warming gases. But he said their insistence that China and other 2008-02-27 Environment CHARLES J. HANLEY ap.org /Science/Environment/20080227/664.html PHOENIX - For the third time since 1996, officials plan to unleash a manmade flood in the Grand Canyon next month in an effort to restore an ecosystem that was altered by a dam constructed on the Colorado River decades ago. The Glen Canyon Dam, comp 2008-02-27 Environment Unknown ap.org