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- Australian PM ratifies Kyoto Protocol
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Labor Party leader Kevin Rudd became Australia’s 26th prime minister Monday and immediately began dismantling the former government’s policies by ratifying the Kyoto Protocol on [...]
- UN kicks off Bali climate conference
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Faced with melting polar ice caps and worsening droughts, climate experts at a massive U.N. conference Monday urged quick action toward a new international pact [...]
- Japan urges China to sway global issues
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Japan urged China to use its growing influence to make an impact on key global issues such as climate change during summit talks Friday that [...]
- Natural catastrophes will grow with climate change: re-insurer
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Natural catastrophes in 2007 were more frequent and costlier than a year earlier and climate change will make them more expensive still, the world’s second-biggest [...]
- Cheney accused of blocking Californian bid to cut car fumes
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The US vice-president, Dick Cheney, was behind a controversial decision to block California’s attempt to impose tough emission limits on car manufacturers, according to insiders [...]
- Loss of sea ice could harm walrus
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Federal marine mammal experts in Alaska studying the effects of global warming on walrus, polar bears and ice seals warn there are limit to the [...]
- As Earth Warms Up, Tropical Virus Moves to Italy
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Panic was spreading this August through this tidy village of 2,000 as one person after another fell ill with weeks of high fever, exhaustion and [...]
- FAQ: The End of the Light Bulb as We Know It
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The incandescent light bulb, one of the most venerable inventions of its era but deemed too inefficient for our own, will be phased off the [...]
- Bush signs bill boosting fuel standards
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President Bush signed into law Wednesday legislation that will bring more fuel-efficient vehicles into auto showrooms and require wider use of ethanol, calling it “a [...]
- Norwegian artist unveils Antarctica ‘ice bridge’ at UN
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Norwegian artist Vebjorn Sand unveiled an ice bridge made of frozen Antarctic water at a ceremony on the UN headquarters grounds late Monday to highlight [...]
