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 'Per-capita' approach to emissions urged
| New Delhi: India has reiterated its position that there can be no question of developing countries agreeing to mandatory caps on their greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, e... (photo: WN / Renzelle Mae Abasolo) Gulf News
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 Scientists gather to watch Sask. fires go 'pyro'
| Scientists say the wildfires in Northern Saskatchewan could go "pyro" this weekend, sending ash, smoke and gases soaring more than 10 kilometres up into Earth's upper a... (photo: U.S. Marine Corps taken by Lance Cpl. Grant T. Walker) Canada Dot Com
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 High oil prices worry Riyadh
| Adam Plowright | AFP | FUELING ANGER: French taxi drivers block traffic Thursday in front of the prefecture in Chalons-en-Champagne in fresh protest against high fuel p... (photo: WN) Arab News
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 Utah is going to a 4-day workweek to save energy
SALT LAKE CITY -- Starting next month, it will be "TGIT" for Utah state employees. As in: "Thank God It's Thursday." | In a yearlong experiment aimed at reducing the stat... (photo: WN / Janice Sabnal) The Miami Herald
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 Mustafa Kamal launches Green Karachi project
Questions arise on modalities; eyebrows raised on claims so far | Friday, July 04, 2008 | By our correspondent | Karachi | After chopping down thousands of trees in the c... (photo: AP / David Guttenfelder) The News International
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 Bulgaria army depot explodes near Sofia
SOFIA, Bulgaria -- A series of powerful explosions erupted Thursday at two army ammunition depots near Sofia, shattering windows in hundreds of buildings, spewing smoke a... (photo: U.S. Army/Michael Tolzmann) The Miami Herald
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 Brown quizzed by senior MPs - live
Minute-by-minute coverage of the PM's appearance before the Commons liaison committee | This one's not for the faint-hearted. is giving evidence to the liaison committee ... (photo: Creative Commons / Andrew Gee) The Guardian
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 Pesticides: a poisoned chalice?
The proposed EU pesticide ban has provoked a predictable backlash from the "conventional" farmers unions and industry representatives | The pro-pesticide lobby is claimin... (photo: USDA / ) The Guardian
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 Iraq oil deals fulfill Cheney's goals
| Two years before the invasion of Iraq, oil executives and foreign policy advisers told the Bush administration that the United States would remain "a prisoner of its en... (photo: White House/David Bohrer) Infowars
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 Group warns against air-quality reversals
| News Sentinel | The sun sets over the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Area environmentalists said they have seen incremental air-quality improvements in the park i... (photo: GFDL / Brian Stansberry) Knox News
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 Environment: Climate risk from flat-screen TVs
| The rising demand for flat-screen televisions could have a greater impact on global warming than the world's largest coal-fired power stations, a leading environmental ... (photo: creative commons / langsdalelibrary) The Guardian
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 Treasury stands firm on raising car tax on high pollution vehicles
| The Treasury last night refused to back down over controversial plans to increase car tax on the most polluting vehicles bought since 2002, despite backbench rebels' cl... (photo: WN) The Guardian
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 Need to know: HSBC; E.ON; Amstrad; Eurostar
| Economics | Mortgage equity withdrawal, when homeowners extract cash against the value of their property, fell in the first quarter to a seven-year low as the housing m... (photo: WN / deniseyong) The Times
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 Global warming concerns may blunt India's coal edge
| MUMBAI: The coal advantage that India and China have, would be offset by global warming concerns over the u... (photo: WN / Periasamy) The Times Of India
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 Isuzu launches new eco-friendly turbo-diesel engine
WE have a vehicle-related crisis in our midst, and this crisis is two-fold. First, there's the matter of environment protection. Vehicles todayâ€"especially those with la... (photo: WN / Janice Sabnal) Journal Online
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 Atienza eyes applying Singaporean experience in restoring Pasig River to its pristine glory
| 07/03/2008 | Environment and Natural Resources Secretary Lito Atienza is seriously considering the possibility of applying the Singaporean experience in restoring the P... (photo: WN / Renzelle Mae Abasolo) The Daily Tribune
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 Fireworks delivering a toxic charge
Scientists seek more environmentally friendly chemical mixture | The smoke lingering in the air after a fireworks show doesn’t just obstruct views of the spectacular py... (photo: WN / RTayco) Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
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 Algae bloom is China's latest Olympic nightmare
| QINGDAO, China (AP) China's latest Olympics nightmare is a vast algae bloom that covers one-third of the sea where the world's best sailors are supposed to be competing... (photo: Washington DC Library) Fresno Bee
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 A clean break from the fossil fuel age
| EVERYWHERE WE turn, Massachusetts residents are feeling the sting of high energy costs. With crude oil more than $140 a barrel and gasoline more than $4 a gallon, the p... (photo: creative commons photo / Rico Shen) The Boston Globe
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 France’s EU presidency hits rocky start
| PARIS, July 1: France’s presidency of the European Union got off to a rocky start on Tuesday with Poland balking at a key treaty and President Nicolas Sarkozy in a publ... (photo: AP/Jim Cole) Dawn
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