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News Greenpeace Blocks Shipment of Indonesian Palm Oil JAKARTA - Greenpeace has blocked a tanker carrying more than 30,000 tonnes of palm oil from leaving an Indonesian port to protest against forest destruction blamed on plantations, the environmental group said on Thursday. The protest came less than three weeks before a U.N. climate change meeting... Read more |
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News Greenhouse Gases Rising Faster Than UN Forecasts: Report SYDNEY -- Greenhouse gas emissions are rising faster than worst-case predictions by the United Nations' top climate change body, said a new Australian report issued Thursday. The report by the independent Climate Institute found emissions were rising faster than forecast by the UN's... Read more |
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News Researchers Name the World's Dirtiest Power Plants, Introduce Website NEW YORK -- A new study by an independent think tank names and shames the power companies responsible for high levels of carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions in the United States and abroad. Releasing its findings Wednesday, the Washington, DC-based Center for Global Development (CDG) said that... Read more |
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News Most Would Pay Higher Bills To Help Climate: poll LONDON - Millions of people around the world are willing to make personal sacrifices, including paying higher bills, to help redress climate change, a global survey said on Monday. The survey found 83 percent of those questioned believed lifestyle changes would be necessary to cut emissions of... Read more |
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News New York May Join Crackdown On Plastic Bags NEW YORK - New York City may follow an international trend and crack down on plastic shopping bags, seeking to cut their use with a plan officials hope will be a model for other cities. A proposal introduced on Monday requires stores larger than 5,000 square feet to set up an in-store recycling... Read more |
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Views While California Burns, Hurricane Giuliani Looms Katrina and California's wildfires fit into the wider pattern of freaky weather Read more |
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News Twelve Years and Counting for Burma's Suu Kyi CANBERRA - Australia slapped financial sanctions on Myanmar's generals and their families on Wednesday as supporters of opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi marked her 12 years in captivity with protests in 12 cities across the world. Foreign Minister Alexander Downer said the measures, in response... Read more |
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Views Homes Turned Into Toxic Zones Few people know that most chemicals used in everyday products have never been thoroughly tested for their long-term health effects and may never be. With more than 80,000 chemicals present worldwide, in everything from children's toys to furniture, and more than 1000 new chemical compounds... Read more |
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News Green Groups Condemn UK's Claim in Antarctica Plan To Exploit Region Seen As Huge Ecological Risk Read more |
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News Indigenous People See Common Ground in Struggles MELBOURNE - Indigenous people around the world are finding common cause in their struggles to retain their identities and their land. ''A Mapuche person without land can't be a Mapuche," said Cristian Qechupán Huenuñir, a Mapuche activist from Chile, at a plenary session on 'Indigenous Struggles... Read more |