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China and US blame each other in climate stand-offTianjin, China (AFP) Oct 9, 2010 The United States and China clashed on the final day of climate change talks on Saturday, accusing each other of blocking progress ahead of a major summit next month on global warming. The world's two biggest greenhouse gas polluters sparred throughout the six-day United Nations talks in China, triggering anger from environmentalists who said countries were acting in self-interest and not to save the planet. US climate envoy Jonathan Pershing warned progress at the UN's annual climate summit in ... read more |
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Ajka, Hungary (AFP) Oct 10, 2010Fed up and exhausted, residents evacuated from Kolontar spent the weekend in shelters wondering when they will be able to return home, as fears grew of another toxic spill in their village. They milled around their temporary abode in the nearby town of Ajka on Sunday, waiting for news about progress on a new dam being built should the reservoir of industrial waste fail again. "Unfortunat ... more  
New York (AFP) Oct 10, 2010Liu Xiaobo, the first Chinese citizen to win the Nobel Peace Prize, has dedicated his award to the "lost souls" who died in Tiananmen Square, an international rights group said on Sunday. The US-based group Human Rights in China (HRIC) quoted Liu Xiaobo's wife Liu Xia, which said she spoke to him shortly after learning that he had been awarded the prestigious honor. "This award is for th ... more  
Huntsville AL (SPX) Oct 08, 2010Using data from several research satellites, scientists will spend the next three years trying to understand the climate impacts of about 770 million tons of dust carried into the atmosphere every year from the Sahara Desert. Some Saharan dust falls back to Earth before it leaves Africa. Some of it streams out over the Atlantic Ocean or Mediterranean Sea, carried on the wind as far away as ... more |
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France's GDF Suez signs China LNG supply dealShanghai (AFP) Oct 9, 2010 French energy giant GDF Suez on Saturday signed a deal to sell 2.6 million tonnes of liquefied natural gas to China between 2013 and 2016 as the energy-hungry nation steps up gas imports. The agreement was signed with China's overseas energy firm China National Offshore Oil Corporation (CNOOC) in the presence of GDF Suez's chairman, Gerard Mestrallet. No sale price was published. The contract "represents a major step for our presence in China's energy sector," said Mestrallet. It comes after ... read more |
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