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 Tokyo (AFP) Sept 7, 2009 
Japan's next prime minister on Monday vowed tough greenhouse gas cuts for the world's number two economy while pushing ahead with efforts to form a coalition government due to take power next week. While Yukio Hatoyama is set to become Japan's leader on September 16, his Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) remained in closed-door talks with its two coalition partners and on Monday delayed naming ... read more 
Paris (AFP) Sept 7, 2009Japan's announcement Monday of a 25-percent cut in its greenhouse gas emissions could be a game-changer at the UN showdown on climate change in Copenhagen in December, observers said. It could sweep away the who-jumps-first obsession that has bedevilled the world climate talks for nearly two years, they said. "For a long time, everybody has been waiting for everybody else to move in the ... more |
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London (UPI) Sep 4, 2009 The ancestors of modern-day Europeans likely were farmers and not hunter-gatherers, British researchers said. DNA analysis taken from burial grounds suggests early farmers migrated into Europe with plants and domesticated animals and replaced Stone Age hunter-gatherers, geneticist Mark Thomas of University College London said in a release Friday. There is little evidence of a ... more  
Paris (AFP) Sept 7, 2009Most of sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia are facing extreme or high risk of food shortages, according to a ranking of 148 nations obtained by AFP on Monday. The United States is least at risk followed by France, Canada, Germany and the Czech Republic, according to the Food Security Risk Index, calculated from dozens of variables that determine a country's capacity to feed its people. ... more 
Male (AFP) Sept 7, 2009The Maldives, whose fight against rising sea levels has become a cause celebre for environmentalists, said Monday it would have to skip UN climate change talks in Copenhagen this year to save money. "We can't go to Copenhagen because we don't have the money," President Mohamed Nasheed told reporters, adding that he was staying away to set an example of cost-saving to the rest of the ... more |
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Geneva (AFP) Sept 4, 2009The World Health Organisation said Friday that at least 2,837 people had died from swine flu since the new A(H1N1) virus was uncovered in April. "There are now at least 2,837 deaths attributable to pandemic H1N1," said Gregory Hartl, spokesman for the UN health agency. The data mark an increase of 652 deaths from the last toll of 2,185 published a week ago. Hartl said the increase in ... more  
Paris (AFP) Sept 6, 2009Climate change will disrupt Earth's precious ozone layer, boosting ultraviolet (UV) radiation in the deep southern hemisphere and reducing UV in far northern latitudes, a study warned on Sunday. By century's end, UV levels in Antarctica could rise by up to 20 percent at seasonal peaks while average exposure in northern Scandinavia, Siberia and northern Canada could fall by almost a tenth. ... more  
Seoul (AFP) Sept 7, 2009South Korea protested to North Korea Monday after a wall of water was suddenly released from a dam in the North, creating a flash flood that swept away six people south of the border. The floodwaters hit five campers and a fisherman early Sunday after water was released from the dam into the Imjin River that crosses the frontier, briefly swelling it to twice its normal depth. ... more |
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