Melting permafrost ‘may speed global warming’

Agence France-Presse: Climate talks got down to the nitty-gritty in Doha on Tuesday as developing countries and the European Union (EU) staked out rival positions on the fate of the Kyoto Protocol. Separately, the UN's Environment Programme (UNEP) urged negotiators to heed the risk from melting permafrost, which could spew billions of tonnes of greenhouses gases into the air and accelerate global warming at a stroke. Pressing on the key issue at the 12-day annual parlay which began on Monday, poorer countries called......

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