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G20 wants ambitious Copenhagen talks but gives no figures
AFP
(08 November 12:28) |
| AFP - G20 countries committed to work for an "ambitious outcome" at next month's vital UN climate change conference after meeting Saturday, but fell short of agreeing a figure on climate fun... |
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Taiwan breeders see big profits in rare shrimps
AFP
(08 November 12:06) |
| AFP - Taiwanese breeders said Saturday they are hoping to make huge profits from a rare species of ornamental shrimp after a pair sold for 8,500 US dollars at auction. |
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Storm Ida revives churns toward Gulf of Mexico
Reuters
(08 November 12:05) |
| Reuters - Tropical storm Ida regained strength off Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula on Saturday and spun north toward the Gulf of Mexico, where it could again become a hurricane. |
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Yemen joins gas exporters club
AFP
(07 November 10:14) |
| AFP - Yemen, one of the world's poorest countries, joined the international club of gas exporters Saturday with pumping starting at a newly built liquefied natural gas plant in the Gulf of A... |
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G-20 finance officials Too early to end stimulus
AP
(07 November 10:10) |
| AP - Finance officials from rich and developing countries pledged Saturday to maintain emergency support for their economies until recovery is assured and committed themselves to urgent acti... |
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G20 wants ambitious Copenhagen talks
AFP
(07 November 10:00) |
| AFP - G20 countries committed to work towards an "ambitious outcome" at next month's vital UN climate change conference after meeting on Saturday, but fell short of agreeing a figure on clim... |
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G20 wants ambitious outcome at climate talks
AFP
(07 November 09:52) |
| AFP - The G20 is committed to an "ambitious outcome" at December's UN climate change summit in Copenhagen, it said in a communique after talks Saturday, but did not agree a figure for climat... |
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Alaska island village hit by suspected swine flu
AP
(07 November 09:35) |
| AP - Suspected swine flu is sweeping a traditional Eskimo whaling village on a remote Alaska island — prompting an urgent medical mission to deliver help. |
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Yemen starts exporting LNG from new plant
AFP
(07 November 08:33) |
| AFP - Yemen began exporting liquefied natural gas (LNG) from its newly built LNG plant in Balhaf on the Gulf of Aden on Saturday, with the first shipment destined for South Korea. |
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The Many Mysteries of Neanderthals
LiveSciencecom
(07 November 07:21) |
| LiveScience.com - Editor's Note: This is Part 6 in a 10-part LiveScience series on the origin, evolution and future of the human
species and the mysteries that remain to be solved. |
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UK joins G20 push for world levy on banks
Reuters
(07 November 06:51) |
| Reuters - Britain threw its weight on Saturday behind proposals to impose a global levy on banks to fund future bailouts and called on the G20 to work toward a $100 billion deal to meet the ... |
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Prized mushroom collection returns to China
AP
(07 November 05:53) |
| AP - A Chinese scholar persecuted during the Cultural Revolution for smuggling a rare collection of mushrooms out of China before World War II was honored Saturday when the collection was re... |
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Britain rallies G20 on climate change
AFP
(07 November 05:43) |
| AFP - Hosts Britain urged G20 finance ministers to put aside their differences and strike a deal on climate funding on Saturday despite fading hopes for an accord at key UN talks next month. |
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Britain urges steps to insure financial system
AP
(07 November 05:38) |
| AP - Britain called Saturday for consideration of a tax on financial transactions to insure against another crisis and urged world finance officials meeting in Scotland to agree on bearing t... |
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British treasury chief urges climate agreement
AP
(07 November 03:35) |
| AP - British treasury chief Alistair Darling urged the world's top finance officials on Saturday to reach an agreement on bearing the cost of fighting climate change before a UN summit on gl... |
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Island village hit by suspected swine flu
AP
(07 November 03:32) |
| AP - Suspected swine flu is sweeping a traditional Eskimo whaling village on a remote Alaska island — prompting an urgent medical mission to deliver help. |
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Ida returns to tropical storm strength
AP
(07 November 03:30) |
| AP - Ida has become a tropical storm again, with top winds of 45 mph (72 kph), as it swirls in the Caribbean on a track that could bring it to the U.S. Gulf Coast next week. |
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Storm-triggered landslide kills 13 in Vietnam
AFP
(07 November 11:45) |
| AFP - At least 13 people have been killed in a landslide in central Vietnam following storms and flooding that have now left almost 130 people dead, according to officials. |
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Dinosaur prints found on NZealands South Island
AFP
(07 November 11:28) |
| AFP - Scientists have discovered the first evidence that dinosaurs roamed the South Island of New Zealand with 70-million-year-old footprints found in six locations. |
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Sea lions killed but Columbia salmon toll rises
AP
(07 November 11:20) |
| AP - Killing or removing 25 California sea lions over the past two years has not reduced the toll on salmon at the base of Bonneville Dam in the Columbia River. |
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Tens of thousands of homes flooded in Mexico
AP
(07 November 11:19) |
| AP - A week of torrential rain has flooded the homes of more than 200,000 people along Mexico's Gulf coast, officials said Friday. Residents in some towns complained that no help had arrived... |
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Seattle team wins $900000 in Space Elevator Games
AP
(07 November 11:16) |
| AP - A space elevator may not be rocket science but it can be just as complicated — and rewarding. |
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Govt in push for new nuclear plants
AFP
(07 November 10:24) |
| AFP - The country could face a serious energy crisis unless plans to build new nuclear power stations are implemented, the energy secretary revealed in an interview Saturday. |
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Space Junk Buzzes Station as Astronauts Sleep
SPACEcom
(07 November 09:32) |
| SPACE.com - A small
chunk of space trash made an uncomfortably close pass by the
International Space Station late Friday, but not close enough to force the
astronauts aboard to take shelter ... |
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Seattle Team Wins $900000 in Space Elevator Contest
SPACEcom
(07 November 09:32) |
| SPACE.com - A
Seattle-based team has won $900,000 in this year's Space Elevator Games, a NASA-sponsored
contest to build machines powered by laser beams that can climb a cable in the
sky. |
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Dinosaur prints found in New Zealands South Island
AFP
(07 November 09:03) |
| AFP - Scientists have discovered the first evidence that dinosaurs roamed the South Island of New Zealand with 70-million-year-old footprints found in six locations. |
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Ida drenches Central America might approach US
AP
(07 November 08:30) |
| AP - Former Hurricane Ida drenched Central America as a tropical depression Friday and edged back out over the Caribbean, where forecasters said it had some chance of regaining force and hea... |
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Moons Friends Say No to Future Lunar Crashes
SPACEcom
(07 November 05:34) |
| SPACE.com - When a NASA
spacecraft rammed into the moon in October, it tossed up a hard-to-see plume of
lunar material. |
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Shell Oil to pay $195M in environmental fines
AP
(07 November 05:07) |
| AP - Shell Oil Co. has been ordered to pay $19.5 million to the state for environmental violations at gas stations around California. |
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Circus elephant that escaped and was hit by SUV OK
AP
(07 November 04:58) |
| AP - An animal rights group on Friday asked a U.S. Department of Agriculture agency to look into an owner's treatment of a circus elephant that escaped and was hit by a sport utility vehicle... |
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World leaders needed at talks to cut climate deal
AP
(07 November 03:55) |
| AP - After two years of tough U.N. climate talks often pitting the world's rich against the poor, negotiators said Friday a new global agreement now rides on industrial nations pledging prof... |
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Mercury probe fly-by maps mysterious inner planet
AFP
(07 November 03:19) |
| AFP - The US space probe MESSENGER's third and final fly-by of the planet Mercury in September revealed an almost complete view of the solar system's smallest planet, leaving only the polar ... |
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Potential problems at 20 WVa coal ash dams
AP
(07 November 03:07) |
| AP - The West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection may change its policy for inspecting coal ash impoundments after a survey uncovered more problems — and dams — than ... |
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Alps Grow and Shrink at Same Time
LiveSciencecom
(07 November 01:42) |
| LiveScience.com - The European Alps are both growing and shrinking, with two dynamic processes acting against each other for a net effect of ... nothing. |
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G20 ministers to firm up global recovery climate funding
AFP
(07 November 01:24) |
| AFP - Hosts Britain told the G20 it had "no reason to give up" on a new climate change deal Friday, as finance ministers met for talks on bolstering the world economy and green finance. |
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G-20 officials to wrestle over economic imbalances
AP
(07 November 01:13) |
| AP - The world's top financial officials on Friday sought a blueprint for securing future global growth and worked to break a deadlock over who bears the cost of fighting climate change. |
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US Decades Behind on Space Debris Threat Official Says
SPACEcom
(07 November 01:04) |
| SPACE.com - The amount of junk floating in space is getting out of hand
and the United States must step up its effort to control orbital trash, experts
are saying. |
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A Simple Sneeze Raises Fear of Death
LiveSciencecom
(06 November 11:45) |
| LiveScience.com - In the current atmosphere of heightened concern over the H1N1 virus, the everyday sneeze can trigger fears of totally unrelated hazards, including heart attacks, new resear... |
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Former NASA official sentenced to probation
AP
(06 November 11:11) |
| AP - A former top NASA official was sentenced Friday to three years probation, six months of electronic monitoring and a $2,500 fine for steering contract money to a private client. |
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EU warns of climate change impact on India
AFP
(06 November 10:35) |
| AFP - Sweden's Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt, acting as president of the EU, warned Friday of the impact of climate change on India unless a new emissions pact was reached in upcoming UN ... |
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Tenn gov Biofuels project criticism outrageous
AP
(06 November 10:09) |
| AP - Gov. Phil Bredesen says a legislative staff member who attacked a state-backed initiative to turn switchgrass into ethanol is playing politics and endangering chances to land a large in... |
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G20 ministers mull global recovery climate funding
AFP
(06 November 09:03) |
| AFP - G20 finance ministers were meeting here on Friday to shore up the recovery from the global financial crisis and discuss funding for a still uncertain agreement on climate change. |
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US may still put emissions proposals at Copenhagen
AFP
(06 November 08:50) |
| AFP - The United States said on Friday it could still present proposals for curbing its carbon emissions at next month's climate change meeting in Copenhagen, even if Congress was still deba... |
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Stars May be Cosmic Road Signs to Intelligent Aliens
SPACEcom
(06 November 07:32) |
| SPACE.com - When scientists search the heavens for habitable worlds
beyond Earth, they don't necessarily know what to look for. A new study has found
that the most probable place to find int... |
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Delegates discuss way forward in UN climate talks
AP
(06 November 03:00) |
| AP - U.N. climate negotiators in Spain are discussing a formula for securing agreement among 192 nations on tackling global warming during a last day of talks before next month's major clima... |
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APEC seeks to slash emissions by 2050
AFP
(06 November 12:33) |
| AFP - Asia-Pacific powers including the United States, China and Russia are expected to call next week for sweeping cuts in greenhouse gas emissions on the final countdown to a crunch climat... |
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Man spends 3 days in tree during Vietnam storm
AP
(06 November 12:14) |
| AP - The 69-year-old watchman couldn't swim so when Tropical Storm Mirinae sparked a flash flood he ran, shimmied up a tree and hung on — for three nights and two days. |
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Obama Urged to Find Climate Money
OneWorldnet
(06 November 09:52) |
| OneWorld.net - WASHINGTON, Nov 5 (OneWorld.net) - Climate analysts are calling on the Obama administration to use an international finance meeting this week to press for a swift end to subsi... |
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APEC seeks sweeping world emission cuts by 2050
AFP
(06 November 09:13) |
| AFP - Asia-Pacific leaders plan to call for sweeping cuts in global greenhouse gas emissions by 2050 at a summit here next week, according to a draft communique obtained by AFP Friday. |
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Depression Ida dumps heavy rain on Nicaragua
Reuters
(06 November 08:51) |
| Reuters - Hurricane Ida weakened to a tropical depression as it churned through eastern Nicaragua on Thursday after cutting power and ripping roofs on little-developed Caribbean islands. |
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