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Whaling plan would OK hunts but seek fewer killsTokyo (AFP) Feb 24, 2010 The global body that regulates whaling has proposed giving the green light to Japan to keep hunting the sea mammals in return for reducing the number of animals killed. Greenpeace and the World Wide Fund for Nature harshly condemned the draft plan which aims to unlock stalled talks when the 85-nation International Whaling Commission (IWC) meets next month in Florida. While Greenpeace called it "a dangerous throwback to the 20th century when whales were hunted to near extinction", the WWF said it ... read more |
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Bonn, Germany (UPI) Feb 24, 2009 The United Nations will have an extra round of climate change talks this April in Germany to speed up stalled climate negotiations. "The decision to intensify the negotiating schedule underlines the commitment by governments to move the negotiations forward toward success" at a major climate conference in Mexico at the end of the year, Yvo de Boer, the United Nations' top climate change ... more 
Washington (AFP) Feb 23, 2010Senator John Kerry vowed Tuesday the United States would overcome the odds and approve action on climate change, as the United Nations set talks for April to help break a diplomatic logjam. Without offering a timetable, Kerry rejected assertions that it had become politically impossible for the Senate to finalize the first US nationwide plan to curb carbon emissions blamed for global warming ... more  
Leogane, Haiti (AFP) Feb 23, 2010When the earthquake ripped this Haitian town at its epicenter into pieces within seconds, Loockenson Bolivar ran to take cover in the unlikeliest of places: a cemetery. He slept for two days on an above-ground tomb that had collapsed after running to the graveyard from his destroyed house nearby, too afraid to venture into the streets. "It was like a bomb," the 26-year-old said. "I thoug ... more |
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Global Warming May Hurt Some Poor Populations But Benefit OthersStanford CA (SPX) Feb 24, 2010 The impact of global warming on food prices and hunger could be large over the next 20 years, according to a new Stanford University study. Researchers say that higher temperatures could significantly reduce yields of wheat, rice and maize - dietary staples for tens of millions of poor people who subsist on less than $1 a day. The resulting crop shortages would likely cause food prices to rise and drive many into poverty. But even as some people are hurt, others would be helped out of poverty, say ... read more |
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