http://news.spirithit.com/index/environment/ Religious and Spiritual News en leonid@spirithit.com admin@spirithit.com Copyright © 2005 SpiritHit.com hourly 2 2005-05-10T19:15:01-05:00 http://news.spirithit.com/images/rss/spirithit.gif http://news.spirithit.com/ 137 24 Oil production could peak next year. Just kiss your lifestyle goodbye. The one thing that international bankers don't want to hear is that the second Great Depression may be round the corner.… http://news.spirithit.com/index/environment/more/the_end_of_oil_is_closer_than_you_think/ 2005-04-22T01:47:01-05:00 The emergence of new diseases, sudden changes in water quality, creation of coastal “dead zones,” the collapse of fisheries and shifts in regional climate are just some of the potential… http://news.spirithit.com/index/environment/more/ecosystem_changes_threaten_development/ 2005-03-30T23:23:00-05:00 After years of debate, the Kyoto Protocol -- an international treaty aiming to drastically reduce the world's fossil fuel emissions -- takes effect Wednesday, but without U.S.… http://news.spirithit.com/index/environment/more/kyoto_protocol_takes_effect/ 2005-02-16T19:23:01-05:00 In a survey sure to disappoint environmentalists, not one of more than 1,600 participants in a recent Presbyterian Panel poll was able to correctly answer eight true-false questions on energy… http://news.spirithit.com/index/environment/more/few_presbyterians_ace_energy_quiz/ 2005-05-10T19:15:01-05:00 World church leaders heard on Friday from their counterparts in the Pacific that for them climate change is not a theoretical issue, but it is a matter of life and death. Responding to rising sea… http://news.spirithit.com/index/environment/more/world_churches_back_steps_to_save_pacific_from_submersion/ 2005-02-24T16:37:01-05:00 Global warming conversations have shifted from whether climate is changing to how we will deal with the inevitable consequences. And the price you pay will depend on where you live and how well… http://news.spirithit.com/index/environment/more/were_here_were_warming_can_we_get_used_to_it/ 2005-02-20T17:07:03-05:00 The United States has come in for harsh criticism at a United Nations event marking the entry into force of the Kyoto climate change treaty. The job of defending U.S. global warming policies fell… http://news.spirithit.com/index/environment/more/us_criticized_for_rejecting_kyoto_treaty_at_un/ 2005-02-18T21:39:01-05:00 With the Kyoto Protocol about to come into force, the Australian government has parried a last-ditch attempt to get the country to sign onto the treaty, whose stated aim is to counter climate… http://news.spirithit.com/index/environment/more/australia_resists_last_ditch_calls_to_ratify_kyoto/ 2005-02-15T16:40:00-05:00 The global warming danger threshold for the world is clearly marked for the first time in an international report to be published tomorrow - and the bad news is, the world has nearly reached… http://news.spirithit.com/index/environment/more/countdown_to_global_catastrophe/ 2005-01-24T13:20:01-05:00 While global attention is focused on the death toll from last month's earthquake and tsunami that swept across the Indian Ocean, some of the world's smallest states hope the disaster… http://news.spirithit.com/index/environment/more/worlds_smallest_nations_seek_voice_at_disaster_conference/ 2005-01-20T18:08:00-05:00