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FROM VOLUME 10, NUMBER 11, NOVEMBER 1997

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Item #d97nov91

Canadian impacts and adaptation are the focus of a cooperative study organized by Environment Canada. (See REPORTS/CANADA, this Global Climate Change Digest issue--Nov. 1997.) Key findings were released at a late November conference.

Item #d97nov92

Energy R&D spending in the U.S. on efficient and renewable technologies should be boosted by $1.1 billion over six years, according to a report released in October by an advisory committee to President Clinton. (See Science, p. 216, Oct. 10, 1997.)

Item #d97nov93

Rainforest fires: The recent forest fires of Indonesia are the result of climatic conditions caused by El Niño combined with governmental policies on land clearing. (See New Scientist, pp. 3-4, Oct. 4, 1997.) A team of scientists have concluded that the burning of Indonesian peat bogs could release more CO₂ into the atmosphere over the next six months than all the power stations and cars of Western Europe emit in a year (ibid., p. 22, Oct. 18). The same El Niño conditions are also increasing fires in South America (ibid., p. 10, Oct. 11).

Item #d97nov94

Coal mine fires in northern China could be contributing up to three percent of worldwide emissions of CO₂. (See New Scientist, p. 14, Aug. 9, 1997.) The Netherlands Organization of Applied Scientific Research is providing technical assistance in controlling the fires.