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Several places distributed between restaurants, streets, cafes and institutions switched electricity off for one hour on Saturday, in response to the “Vote for Earth” initiative which calls for rationing energy use.
AP reported that“From an.
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No one who saw it will ever forget Severn Suzuki’s six-minute address to the United Nations Earth Summit in Brazil in 1992. The 12-year-old Canadian schoolgirl...
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French president, Nicolas Sarkozy, comes with a new measure to tax citizen for every ton of carbon dioxide they produce. The measure is to penalize not just...
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Environmentalists in Kenya and Africa, want to push for compensation from developed countries that are the major polluters. Through carbon trading, Kenya could claim a...
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Federal wildlife researchers report that up to 200 dead walruses were spotted from the air along the northwest coast of Alaska.
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It has been one of the elusive goals of seafaring nations almost since the beginnings of waterborne trade, but for nearly 500 years the idea has been dismissed as an...
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The president of the Maldives has said that, even though his country is under threat from climate change, he cannot afford to go to a summit on the issue.
President...
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In a beloved film from my childhood, “Flight of Dragons,” the scientist hero confronts the evil red magician on a dark crag. As menacing snakes sprout out...
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Oslo - Can the North Sea basin hold all of the carbon dioxide in Europe? Norway certainly hopes so.
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Even more proof that George W. Bush has no idea what he is talking about
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