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| The Verge Book Club Podcast: 'Ship Breaker' with Paolo Bacigalupi Friday, Oct 25, 2013 03:30 PM PDT  September's book club was Ship Breaker, a young adult novel set in a world ravaged by the effects of global warming. It's a fast-paced, thoughtful story about family, environmental disaster, and parasailing clipper ships. A month later, Adi and Laura sat down with the book's author, Paolo Bacigalupi. Among other things, Bacigalupi is known for The Windup Girl, which won the Hugo and Nebula awards for best novel in 2009 and was named one of the top ten fiction books of the year by Time magazine. Full Story | Top |
| Poland could halve demand for coal by 2030, study says Friday, Oct 25, 2013 03:09 AM PDT  By Environment Correspondent Alister Doyle OSLO (Reuters) - Poland could halve its demand for coal by 2030 with a shift to renewable energies that would end its image as a laggard in European Union efforts to slow climate change, a study showed on Friday. The report, by researchers in Germany and Poland, renewable energy groups and environmental group Greenpeace, included a foreword by ex-Polish Environment Minister Maciej Nowicki who called it a "feasible, realistic scenario". ... Full Story | Top |
| Australia PM: Climate change not causing wildfires Friday, Oct 25, 2013 12:05 AM PDT  CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — The government staunchly rejected arguments that climate change is causing the wildfires ravaging parts of eastern Australia following a record hot start to the spring season. Full Story | Top |
| Australia: wildfires not linked to climate change Thursday, Oct 24, 2013 10:15 PM PDT CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — The Australian government has staunchly rejected arguments that wildfires ravaging parts of the country's east following a record hot start to the current spring season are the result of climate change. Full Story | Top |
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