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Australian authorities were preparing Thursday to round up with helicopters a 6,000-strong herd of wild camels terrorising a remote Outback community and shoot them dead in the desert. Protracted drought had brought the camels into the Docker River township in search of water, leaving residents cowering in their homes as they smashed through water mains and invaded the airstrip, officials ... read more 
Paris (AFP) Nov 26, 2009US and Chinese proposals for tackling greenhouse gases were hailed Thursday while confirmation their leaders will attend next month's climate summit boosted hopes for a global-warming accord. Beijing unveiled its first targets for tackling its emissions and announced that Premier Wen Jiabao would take part in the Copenhagen summit, soon after Washington confirmed that US President Barack ... more |
Indonesia launches international carbon exchange
Australia earmarks $1.2 billion for 'green' aluminium Russians take Epiphany dip in waters hit by oil spill Indonesia's Mount Ibu erupts more than 1,000 times this month Rome shoppers take pot luck in 'blind sale' of unclaimed packages Companies slam delay on deep-sea mining rules Australia declares disaster in areas of storm-hit east Trump inauguration moved indoors due to extreme cold US Fed withdraws from global climate change initiative Clashes between police, gang leave 11 dead in Brazil 
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Paris (AFP) Nov 26, 2009Swine flu killed 22 more people over the past week in France, the health minister said Thursday, warning that the spread of the virus was speeding up here. "We have already said it, but this time, in a more brutal fashion, the H1N1 epidemic is accelerating," Roselyne Bachelot told reporters, adding that the death toll in mainland France now stood at 68. "We were on a rhythm of eight to ... more 
Beijing (AFP) Nov 26, 2009China unveiled on Thursday what it called an ambitious plan to boost energy efficiency and curb its carbon footprint in the most detailed indication yet of its stance heading into a world climate summit. The world's most populous country will cut the amount of carbon dioxide emitted per unit of gross domestic product in 2020 by between 40 and 45 percent, based on 2005 levels, a statement ... more 
Berlin (AFP) Nov 26, 2009Natural disasters linked to climate change could cost the insurance industry billions of dollars in extra settlement payments every year, German insurance giant Munich RE said Thursday. The company's statistics show that "globally, the average number of major weather-related catastrophes such as windstorms, floods or droughts is now three times as high as at the beginning of the 1980's." ... more |
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Bonn, Germany (UPI) Nov 25, 2009 The top U.N. climate official welcomed U.S. President Barack Obama's decision to attend the climate summit next month in Copenhagen, Denmark. Obama's decision to travel to Copenhagen on Dec. 9 before heading to nearby Norway to accept the Nobel Peace Prize was critical to a good outcome of the summit, Yvo de Boer, the United Nations' top climate negotiator, said Wednesday in the western ... more 
Blacksburg, Va. (UPI) Nov 26, 2009 U.S. scientists have secured funding to complete the genetic map of the North American domesticated turkey adorning millions of U.S. dinner tables Thursday. The Turkey Genome Sequencing Consortium -- made up of Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University researchers working with the University of Minnesota, the University of Maryland and the U.S. Department of Agriculture ... more  
Washington DC (SPX) Nov 27, 2009Much of our planet's mineral wealth was deposited billions of years ago when Earth's chemical cycles were different from today's. Using geochemical clues from rocks nearly 3 billion years old, a group of scientists including Andrey Bekker and Doug Rumble from the Carnegie Institution have made the surprising discovery that the creation of economically important nickel ore deposits was linked to ... more |
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