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China refutes British official's "hijack" attack over Copenhagen talks
Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Jiang Yu early Tuesday morning refuted a British official who said China "hijacked" the climate negotiations in Copenhagen, Denmark.
The remarks against China by "an individual British politician "contained
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China, India, South Africa vital for climate deal
Chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Rajendra Pachauri, arrives for a press conference in New Delhi, India, Wednesday, Dec. 23, 2009. The emergence of China, India, South Africa and Brazil as a grouping was the most significant
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Greenpeace will keep up pressure on global warming
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JOHANNESBURG -- Greenpeace says it will keep pressuring world leaders on global warming.
Greenpeace executive director Kumi Naidoo spoke in an interview in Johannesburg on Thursday on a visit to his home country after attending the
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Mexico wants binding climate accord at 2010 summit
Mexico will push for a binding international agreement to cut greenhouse gas emissions when it hosts the next climate change summit in Mexico City in the coming year.
Mexico seeks to accomplish what the recent Copenhagen conference failed to do _
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Obama faces another hard sell in Senate with Copenhagen deal
WASHINGTON — By brokering a climate deal in Copenhagen a week ago, President Barack Obama has committed himself to a more daunting task: pushing for comprehensive climate legislation in the Senate next year.
Although many senators, especially key
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Poet, anti-apartheid activist Dennis Brutus dies
NEW YORK—South African poet and former political prisoner Dennis Brutus, who fought apartheid in words and deeds and remained an activist well after the fall of his country's racist system, has died. He was 85.
Brutus' publisher, Chicago-based
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Hard times have dairy farmers calling help lines
With milk selling for less than it cost to produce this year, a lot more dairy farmers turned to NY FarmNet, the Ithaca-based not-for-profit agency that employs Heintz. Others called agricultural help lines with their personal and professional
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China, Britain clash over heroin case execution
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British citizen Akmal Shaikh who was executed in China is seen in this undated handout made available by the organization Reprieve in London December 29, 2009.
URUMQI, China -- British Prime Minister
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Politicians outline aims for 2010
Scotland's political leaders have published their hopes, aims and predictions for the coming year. First Minister Alex Salmond said Scotland needed the power to manage its own natural resources so it could become the energy powerhouse of Europe. He
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Goodbye 2009! World ready for a more hopeful 2010
PARIS — Fireworks exploded over Sydney's famous bridge and the Eiffel Tower prepared for its own colored-light spectacle as the world celebrated a New Year that many hope will be more prosperous and peaceful than 2009.
Revelers across the globe at
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Endangered species to have a day in the spotlight this year
ENDANGERED species from polar bears to giant salamanders, great white sharks to beluga whales and Namibian quiver trees to Cuban crocodiles will have their day on the internet throughout 2010.
The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN)
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Attempt to kill Danish cartoonist fails
Copenhagen, Jan. 2 (Reuters): A Somali man armed with an axe and suspected of links with al Qaida broke into the home of a Danish cartoonist whose drawings of the Prophet Muhammad had caused global Muslim outrage and was shot and wounded by
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Somali charged in ax attack on Danish cartoonist
death threats, has been under round-the-clock protection by Danish police since February 2008.
FILE- In this Oct. 27, 2009 file photo, Danish cartoonist Kurt Westergaard, sits in the offices of Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten in Aarhus, Denmark.
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Copenhagen protester released from jail
An Australian held in a Danish prison for three weeks for organising a protest during the Copenhagen climate change conference has been released.
Natasha Verco was arrested on December 15, a day before the biggest protest march during the United
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Copenhagen deal was 'disappointing', says Miliband
Mr Miliband told MPs the Copenhagen Accord, agreed late on the last day of the
talks, made ''important steps forward'' on fighting climate change -
including getting developing countries to commit to action on their
emissions.
The accord also laid out
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$90b gas megadeal with Japan
AUSTRALIA has cemented its biggest trade deal with a $90 billion agreement to export liquefied natural gas to Japan.
The contract, signed on the eve of the international climate change conference in Copenhagen, comes as big Asian countries scramble to
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New York Red Bulls hire Hans Backe as coach
SECAUCUS, N.J. — The New York Red Bulls have hired Hans Backe as their new coach.
The Major League Soccer team made the announcement Thursday. Backe will
retain assistant coach Richie Williams and goalkeeper coach Des McAleenan.
The team also hired
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EU to pursue climate deal through G-20
Van Rompuy spoke in Madrid, where he was meeting with the bloc's two other top executives: Spanish Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero, who is assuming the rotating EU presidency, and Jose Manuel Barroso, the European Commission chief.
"We
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China won't accept Copenhagen checks
CHINA was never going to accept outside reviews in Copenhagen of its efforts to slow greenhouse gas emissions, a top official said today after critics accused Beijing of blocking the talks.
Xie Zhenhua, deputy head of the powerful National Development
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Emission targets under Copenhagen pact; BASIC to meet in Delhi
NEW DELHI: With Copenhagen Accord
setting a January 31 deadline for the nations to specify 2020 emission targets
and other steps, India will hold discussion with other BASIC group members
comprising China, South Africa and Brazil in New Delhi to
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Pope denounces failure at Copenhagen
Pope Benedict XVI denounced the failure of world leaders to agree to a new climate change treaty in Copenhagen last month, saying Monday that world peace depends on safeguarding God's creation.
He issued the admonition in a speech to ambassadors
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No sign of warming off Antarctic shelf
SEA water under an East Antarctic ice shelf showed no sign of higher temperatures despite fears of a thaw linked to global warming that could bring higher world ocean levels, first tests showed yesterday.
Sensors lowered through three holes drilled in
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Ecuador minister resigns over Amazon oil project
Correa blasted them Saturday, calling their conditions an "unacceptable" and "embarrassing" affront to Ecuador's sovereignty.
"If they don't accept our conditions, they can keep their money and we'll drill," Correa said in his weekly radio
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Taiwan, Tibet, and trade loom over U.S.-China ties
BEIJING (AP) -- Barely two weeks into the new year, U.S.-China relations are being roiled by old tensions over Taiwan, Tibet and trade, along with new irritations including Google's charges it had been hacked and Pentagon concerns over the People's
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Indictment alleges Headley coconspirator
CHICAGO - Two Chicago men were indicted yesterday in the 2008 extremist attack in Mumbai, India, and a plot to attack a Danish newspaper. The superseding indictment formally links Tahawwur Rana, 49, to the Mumbai attacks for the first time. Rana's
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Key events during Obama's first year in office
Timeline of important events during President Barack Obama's first year in office:
-Jan. 20: Obama is sworn in as the 44th president of the United States.
-Jan. 22: He signs executive orders to close the Guantanamo detention center, ban secret CIA
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Obama Puts Prestige On Line For Senate Candidate
BOSTON -- His agenda potentially imperiled by the outcome of a close U.S. Senate race, President Barack Obama focused his attention and prestige Sunday on Massachusetts Democrat Martha Coakley, whose bid to succeed the late Sen. Edward M. Kennedy has
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Key events during Obama's first year in office
Timeline of important events during President Barack Obama's first year in office:
--Jan. 20: Obama is sworn in as the 44th president of the United States.
--Jan. 22: He signs executive orders to close the Guantanamo detention center, ban secret CIA
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2000s warmest decade on record, government reports
WASHINGTON - The 2000-2009 decade was the warmest on record, easily surpassing the previous hottest decade - the 1990s - researchers said Tuesday in a report providing fresh evidence that the planet may be warming at a potentially disastrous rate.
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Immigration 'will fuel greenhouse gas growth'
A HIGH level of immigration means Australia won't be able to cut its greenhouse gas emissions, an academic paper claims.
The population is forecast to rise by 6 million people to 25 million between 2000 and 2020.
Over that time the Federal Government
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David Headley, Tahawwur Rana to be arraigned next week!
Chicago: Terror suspects David Coleman
Headley and Tahawwur Rana, indicted on charges of being
involved in the 26/11 Mumbai attacks, will be arraigned in a
court here next week.
The arraignment of Rana and Headley was initially
scheduled for today
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Past Decade Was Warmest Ever On Earth: NASA
According to James Hansen, who heads NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies, global temperatures change due to variations in ocean heating and cooling.
"When we average temperature over five or 10 years to minimize that variability, we find
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Pachauri admits 'regrettable' error in IPCC report
New Delhi, Jan 23: The Inter-governmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) chief, RK Pachauri finally spoke to the media and filed his response on the controversy stirred by the 2007 report on early disappearance of Himalayan glaciers.
"The statement on
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China To Rich Nations: Hand Out Climate Money Now
NEW DELHI -- Brazil, China, India and South Africa called Sunday for developed countries to quickly begin handing over the $10 billion pledged in Copenhagen to poor countries to help them deal with the effects of climate change.
The first funds should
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Health at risk as climate aid spending increases, warns Bill Gates
Bill Gates has expressed concern that focusing aid money on climate change at the expense of health could lead to hundreds of thousands of deaths.
In the 2010 annual letter from his charitable foundation, Gates notes that the Copenhagen Summit talked
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Earnings Preview: Altria Group Inc.
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RICHMOND, Va. — Altria Group Inc. reports its fourth-quarter results on Thursday. The following is a summary of key developments and analyst opinion related to the period.
OVERVIEW: The Richmond, Va.-based owner of the biggest U.S.
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Turnbull to cross the floor on climate
FORMER Opposition leader Malcolm Turnbull plans to defy his party and cross the floor of Parliament over climate change next week.
And he may not be the only Liberal MP to revolt, potentially launching another round of the climate wars which have twice
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University 'broke law' over disclosure of climate data
« Previous « Previous Next » Next » View Gallery Published Date: 28 January 2010 The Norwich-based university embroiled in a climate change row over stolen emails broke the law by refusing to comply with requests for scientific data, the Information
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Social forum ends with vows to fight capitalism
The social forum "projects another vision of the world, not the Washington consensus or the Davos view that free markets are the solution," said Leonardo Dahmer, a member of Brazil's ruling Workers Party and a city councilman in Esteio. "Even Davos
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Climate chief was told of false glacier claims before Copenhagen
The chairman of the leading climate change watchdog was informed that claims about melting Himalayan glaciers were false before the Copenhagen summit, The Times has learnt. Rajendra Pachauri was told that the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
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Britain's Climate Secretary Declares War On Climate Change Skeptics
British Climate Secretary Ed Miliband warned Saturday night of the danger of a public backlash against the
science of global warming in the face of continuing claims that experts
have manipulated data.
In an exclusive interview with the Observer,
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PM hails emissions 'turning point'
As countries responsible for more than 80% of the world's emissions inscribe their commitments to the Copenhagen Accord, the Prime Minister labelled the step a "turning point" in leading to a peak in emissions by 2020 and the target of keeping
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Copenhagen pledges fall short of 2C target, says UN climate chief
Delegates at the UN climate change conference in Copenhagen in December. Photograph: Olivier Morin/AFP/Getty Images
Goals on reducing greenhouse gases announced by major industrialised nations are a step forward, but not enough to forestall the
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Himalaya glacier error cost us dear: Pachauri
The embattled chief of the UN climate change panel admitted on Wednesday that a mistake in a landmark 2007 report had damaged the body's credibility, in an interview with a British newspaper.
But Rajendra Pachauri, chairman of the Intergovernmental
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Review: The moody noir of `Terribly Happy'
Years of moviegoing have familiarized us with tales of city folk waylaid in country towns -- quirky Southern backwaters and dusty desert holes. It turns out that the convention works especially well in, of all places, rural Denmark.
"Terribly Happy,"
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Bacteria can be deadly to wound-treating maggots
Washington, Feb 05 : A new research has shown that bacteria that infect chronic wounds can be deadly to maggot ‘biosurgeons’ used to treat the lesions.
Experts at Copenhagen Wound Healing Centre, Statens Serum Institut and the University of Copenhagen
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IPCC chief stands firm on climate evidence
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'Climategate' scientist 'considered suicide'
LONDON: The beleaguered British
scientist at the centre of the "climategate" email scandal has admitted he
considered suicide in the wake of the global backlash.
57-year-old
Professor Phil Jones, the head of the Climatic Research Unit (CRU) at
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Philips riding the green wave
Amsterdam More than a century into its existence, Philips is once again betting heavily on semiconductors. This time the consumer electronics firm is looking to harness their potential as a source of light.
The producer of one in four of the world's
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Bolivia expects 5,000 foreigners at climate forum
Bolivian President Evo Morales announced in January that he would invite activists, scientists and government officials from around the world to an alternative conference following the failure of a climate change summit in Copenhagen to produce
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Even Ancient Man Had Baldness Issues
NEW YORK — Scientists have pieced together most of the DNA of a man who lived in Greenland about 4,000 years ago, a pioneering feat that revealed hints about his appearance and even an increased risk of baldness.
It's the first genome from an ancient
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Scientists seek better way to do climate report
WASHINGTON: A steady drip of
unsettling errors is exposing what scientists are calling "the weaker link" in
the Nobel Peace Prize-winning series of international reports on global warming.
The flaws, and the erosion they've caused in public
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UN Chief Looks to Jump-Start Funding for Mitigating Global Warning
The U.N. Secretary-General has announced the establishment of a high-level advisory group charged with finding the billions of dollars needed to help developing countries lessen and adapt to the effects of climate change. Ban Ki-moon said Friday the
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Industrialised nations CO2 cut plans are pathetic, says Indian Copenhagen negotiator
One of India's senior negotiators at the Copenhagen summit has said that industrialised nations have set "pathetic" targets to reduce carbon emissions.
According to BBC News, the Indian negotiator in question is Chandrashekhar Dasgupta.
One of the
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Copenhagen may be dead
Paris - Less than two months after it was hastily drafted to stave off a fiasco, the Copenhagen Accord on climate change is in a bad way, and some are already saying it has no future.
The deal was crafted amid chaos by a small group of countries, led
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Saudi Arabia preparing for oil demand to peak
Mohammed al-Sabban, lead climate talks negotiator, said the country with the world's largest proven reserves of conventional crude is working to become the top exporter of energy, including alternative forms such as solar power.
Saudi Arabia was among
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Abercrombie & Fitch 4Q profit slips on charges
NEW ALBANY, Ohio —
Abercrombie & Fitch Co.'s fiscal fourth-quarter profit dropped partly on costs to close its Ruehl stores, but adjusted results topped analysts' expectations.
The clothing retailer said Tuesday its net income fell 31 percent to $47.5
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Copenhagen climate accord an important document
The US will associate itself with the Copenhagen climate accord even if India and
China do not do so, top US Climate envoy said today, as he described it is an important document though it was not formally adopted.
"Copenhagen Accord, we think is a
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Top UN climate official resigning
AMSTERDAM (AP) — Top U.N. climate change official Yvo de Boer told The Associated Press on Thursday that he was resigning after nearly four years, a period when governments struggled without success to agree on a new global warming deal.
His departure
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Minister tells world to follow Scotland's climate change lead
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Sunday Perspective: Did snowstorms bury climate change legislation?
changing since its formation. Because of human activity, things are changing faster than nature or humans can adapt, and the sooner we take steps to slow the changes, the better off we will be.
THE WASHINGTON POST asked political and environmental
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George Will: Global warming faithful starting to sweat
WASHINGTON Science, many scientists say, has been restored to her rightful throne because progressives have regained power. Progressives, say progressives, emulate the cool detachment of scientific discourse. So, hear now the calm, collected voice of a
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George Will: A change of climate
Washington Post columnist George Will may be contacted at georgewill@washpost.com.
Science, many scientists say, has been restored to her rightful throne because progressives have regained power. Progressives, say progressives, emulate the cool
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UN climate talks to resume in April in Germany
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FILE -- In this Nov. 17, 2008 file photo, UNFCCC Executive Secretary Yvo de Boer talks to journalists in Bonn, Germany. De Boer said Thursday Feb. 18, 2010, that he is resigning after nearly four years. His resignation takes effect on
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Ovarian Transplant Recipient Gives Birth Twice
Feb. 24, 2010 -- A former cancer patient in Denmark who had an ovarian
transplant and gave birth to a daughter after IVF has had another child who was
conceived naturally.
Doctors in Denmark are hailing the case as a medical first.
''We performed IVF
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Official: Climate change treaty unlikely this year
U.N.climate c1hief Yvo de Boer talks to reporter during the 11th special session of the Governing Council/Global Ministerial Environment Forum in Nusa Dua, Bali, Indonesia on Thrusday, Feb. 25, 2010.
Industrialized and developing countries are not
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AP takes aim at consumers with new digital unit
The AP's chief executive, Tom Curley, announced the new business unit, called AP Gateway, during a speech Friday to the Colorado Press Association.
AP Gateway will focus on expanding such products as the AP Mobile news service for cell phones and the
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China, India back Copenhagen Accord: UN Climate chief
NUSA DUA, Indonesia: India and China
have demonstrated commitment to a climate accord struck in Copenhagen last year
and their refusal so far to "associate" with it should not be overblown, the
UN's climate chief said on Friday.
The Copenhagen Accord
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Other diplomats who saved lives
Georg Ferdinand Duckwitz: German naval attache in Copenhagen, Denmark, in 1943, he secretly alerted the Danish resistance that the Nazis were planning to deport Danish Jews. More than 6,000 Jews - more than 90 percent of the total in Denmark - were
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Should we be worried about antimony levels in juices?
Writing in the Journal of Environmental Monitoring, scientists at the University of Copenhagen studied antimony levels in 42 juice drinks and found antimony concentrations above EU limits for drinking water in eight of them.
This discovery is of
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Climate-gate head sorry for 'awful' emails
A BRITISH climate researcher at the centre of a row over global warming science has admitted he wrote some "pretty awful" emails to sceptics when he was refusing their requests for data.
But Phil Jones, of the University of East Anglia's Climatic
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Soccer reduces risk of falls and bone fractures
The observed improvements in bone mineral density, strength and postural balance due to recreational soccer are of particularly interest for a large group of women but also for elderly men, says project leader Associate Professor Peter Krustrup,
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Shipper A.P. Moller-Maersk posts annual loss
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COPENHAGEN -- Danish container shipping and oil group A.P. Moller-Maersk A/S on Thursday reported an annual loss of 7.0 billion kroner ($1.3 billion), citing a drop in global shipments of goods amid the economic crisis.
The company
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Ahluwalia on UN advisory panel
Deputy Chairman of Planning Commission, Montek Singh Ahluwalia [ Images ], is among 19 members chosen by UN chief Ban Ki-moon for a high-level advisory group on Climate Change Financing tasked with mobilising funds pledged during the Copenhagen meet to
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CHERYL COLE - Cheryl Cole wows Danish fans
Cheryl Cole wowed fans with her first solo performance since splitting with husband Ashley Cole.
The 26-year-old pop star - who dumped the 29-year-old sportsman two weeks ago, after it was claimed he had slept with several other women and sent them
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Copenhagen wins in style
FC Copenhagen went to the top of Denmark's SAS-Ligaen after crushing AGF Aarhus 5-0.
Cesar Santin grabbed a first-half hat-trick for the host with Martin Vingaard and Mathias Jorgensen completing the rout.
FCK moved a point ahead of Odense, which drew 2
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IMF suggests how to raise climate change funds
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NAIROBI, Kenya — The head of the International Monetary Fund on Monday proposed a plan for the world's governments to pool together to raise money needed to adapt to climate change, a rare step for an organization that normally does
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China, India sign on to Copenhagen climate change accord, but with reservations
AMSTERDAM, Netherlands - China and India have given their qualified approval to the Copenhagen climate accord calling for voluntary limits on greenhouse gas emissions.
More than 100 countries had earlier responded to a request to be "associated" with
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Gabon president ties U.N. peace costs to climate
UNITED NATIONS — Gabon's President Ali Bongo Ondimba said Tuesday that world leaders can reduce the costs of U.N. peacekeeping by doing more to prevent armed conflicts, notably through adopting long-range plans to reduce climate change.
Ali Bongo used
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Meeting on deforestation boosts morale, budget
PARIS — A conference bringing together more than 60 nations Thursday added $1 billion to the fight against deforestation and boosted the morale of those hoping to save the world's forests — a key defense against global warming.
Three months after a
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Obama delays Asia trip to deal with health care
A Muslim student kicks a banner of President Barack Obama during a protest against his planned visit in Medan, North Sumatra, Indonesia, Friday, March 12, 2010. Obama is scheduled to travel later this month to the world's most populous Muslim country
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Princess Mary 'scolded' over drug friend
Crown Princess Mary has suffered her worst week since becoming a member of the Danish Royal Family / Getty Images Source: Herald Sun
Rigmor Zobel, left, is known as Queen Jetset in Denmark and is a long-time friend of the Crown Princess's husband.
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China alleges diplomatic snub at Copenhagen summit
BEIJING—Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao said he was snubbed at last year's Copenhagen climate change conference and fired back Sunday at critics who accuse China of arrogance.
China was blamed by some for undermining efforts to reach a binding agreement at
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Britain's Miliband visits China amid rancor
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BEIJING — Britain's foreign secretary is in China to lobby for further nuclear sanctions on Iran and will seek to smooth rancor with Beijing over climate change talks and the execution of a British drug smuggler thought to be mentally
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China shows no sign of budging on Iran sanctions
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BEIJING — China showed no sign Tuesday of throwing its support behind new sanctions against Iran following talks with Britain's foreign minister, who had hoped to persuade Beijing to join a growing international consensus for more
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Americans suspected of terror-related activities
Americans who have been charged or suspected of terror-related activities over the past year include:
-Young Somali men from Minneapolis who left the U.S. in waves from December 2007 through November 2008 to join a Somalia-based terror group
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Females shut down male-male sperm competition in leafcutter ants
ScienceDaily (Mar. 18, 2010) Leafcutter ant queens can live for twenty years, fertilizing millions of eggs with sperm stored after a single day of sexual activity.
Danish researchers who have studied ants at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute
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Female Leafcutter Ants Halt Sperm Competition
Leafcutter ant queens can live for twenty years, fertilizing millions of eggs with sperm stored after a single day of sexual activity.
Danish researchers who have studied ants at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute in Panama since 1992
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India for joining hands with China on glaciological studies
India expects to finalise an agreement with China for studies in glaciology soon, said the Environment Minister, Mr Jairam Ramesh, today.
Speaking at the Asian Corporate Conference, organis ed by the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) and the Asia
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US-Russian deal on nukes could build momentum, trust on other key nuclear issues
On another level, it could bolster Obama's credibility overseas, which has been battered by the disappointing Copenhagen climate change conference, ongoing economic miseries, faltering Middle East peace efforts and growing skepticism about last year's
