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 New York (UPI) Sep 22, 2009 
As the U.N. summit on climate change was set to open today in New York -- the largest gathering of world leaders on the issue -- India and China were still standing firm against setting binding targets on emissions. U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has characterized the summit as "the defining challenge of our time." It leads up to the December climate change conference in Copenhagen ... read more
United Nations (AFP) Sept 22, 2009The leaders of China and Japan pledged Tuesday to take stronger action to fight climate change, but US President Barack Obama warned prospects for a global warming deal faced tough political realities. Leaders of some 100 nations huddled at the largest-ever climate summit, as the clock ticks to a high-stakes December conference in Copenhagen meant to draft a successor to the landmark Kyoto ... more |
UK court cuts longest jail terms on activists, rejects 10 appeals
Protections drop for wolves in most of Europe S.Sudan heatwave 'more likely' due to climate change: study US 'vital' for forecasting global weather extremes: UN Greenpeace, locals protest over gas leak off Senegal, Mauritania UK court cuts longest jail terms on climate activists, rejects 10 appeals Australians told 'prepare for worst' as tropical cyclone nears Japan wildfire evacution orders partially lifted UK appeal court to rule over jail terms for environment activists Goodall, Shatner to receive environmentalist awards from Sierra Club 
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Hong Kong (AFP) Sept 22, 2009The World Health Organization said Tuesday it was worried that up to a quarter of the fatal swine flu cases in the Western Pacific were patients with no underlying medical condition. By September 19, an estimated 25 percent of the 352 death cases reported in the region had no prior medical problems, the WHO announced at its Western Pacific annual conference in Hong Kong. "That worries ... more  
Kinshasa (AFP) Sept 22, 2009Separate lightning strikes killed three women in the same region of the Democratic Republic of Congo, after torrential rains began, a local chief said Tuesday. A 26-year-old cook at a convent in the Tshimbulu district died in hospital after being struck by lightning on Friday, chief Laudes Nkashama told AFP. A second woman was killed at her home in Tshidimba, five kilometres from Tshimbu ... more  
Beijing (AFP) Sept 22, 2009Chinese archaeologists have discovered a new section of the Great Wall, showing that it stretched at least 11 kilometres further east than previously thought, state media said on Tuesday. The newly discovered section, built during the Qin (221-206 BC) and Han (206 BC to 220 AD) dynasties, was found in northeastern Jilin province, Xinhua news agency said. A state-sponsored study team ... more |
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Dakar (AFP) Sept 22, 2009Flash floods have claimed 187 lives and affected 635,273 people in west Africa since the rainy season started in June, the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs announced Tuesday. The nation with the highest death toll, including people struck by lightning, is Sierra Leone, with 103 people, followed by Ghana (24), Mali (20), Ivory Coast (19), Burkina Faso (eight), Niger ... more 
Chicago (UPI) Sep 22, 2009 About 100 people possibly exposed to plague-related bacteria blamed for a Chicago scientist's death have been given antibiotics as a precaution, officials say. Federal health officials are at the University of Chicago, where they have sealed off the laboratory of geneticist Malcolm Casadaban, who died Sept. 13, while they investigate what happened. Initial autopsy results revealed the ... more 
Paris (AFP) Sept 22, 2009Competing ways of calculating a country's carbon burden are looming as a sticking point ahead of a UN conference in Copenhagen in December tasked with crafting a landmark deal on climate change. Rich countries and developing giants favour different yardsticks for judging efforts to curb the "greenhouse" gases that are blamed for disrupting the climate system and driving up sea levels. ... more |
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