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UN says climate finale may have happy ending
COPENHAGEN - Delegates converged Sunday for the grand finale of two years of tough, sometimes bitter negotiations on a climate change treaty, as U.N. officials calculated that pledges offered in the last few weeks to reduce greenhouse gases put the world within reach of keeping global warming under control.
Nations:Denmark China India South Africa U.K. U.S. People:Barack Obama George W. Bush Source:(AP)
2009-12-06
China poisoning Pearl River Delta: Greenpeace
HONG KONG (AFP) - Factories in southern China are poisoning the Pearl River Delta, an area where almost one-third of the country's exports are made, Greenpeace said in a report Wednesday.
Source:(AFP)
2009-10-28
Greenpeace activists arrested for banner on Mount Rushmore
CHICAGO (AFP) - Greenpeace activists were arrested Wednesday for scaling Mount Rushmore and hanging a banner next to the carved face of Abraham Lincoln urging President Barack Obama to get tough on climate change.
People:Barack Obama Source:(AFP)
2009-07-09
Group: Stronger warnings needed in Tenn. ash spill
NASHVILLE, Tenn. - Authorities need to more strongly warn residents that muck left from a major coal-ash spill in eastern Tennessee could pose health risks, a southern environmental group said Saturday.
Nations:U.S. Source:(AP)
2008-12-27
Climate change: Sci-fi solutions no longer in the margins
POZNAN, Poland (AFP) - With political efforts to tackle global warming advancing slower than a Greenland glacier, schemes for saving Earth's climate system that once were dismissed as crazy or dangerous are gaining in status.
Nations:Poland Greenland U.K. U.S. Canada Source:(AFP)
2008-12-07
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