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 Paris (AFP) Oct 6, 2009 
Remember what it was like, a dozen years or so ago, when you tried to communicate with someone on the other side of the world? The truncated conversations down crackly copper wires? The chore of sending papers or pictures by post -- by "snail mail"? The insane costs of long-distance contact of almost any kind? It's no surprise why we have embraced digital technology with such passion ... read more 
Bangkok (AFP) Oct 7, 2009The global economic crisis will slash carbon emissions in 2009, opening a narrow opportunity to take decisive action on global warming, the International Energy Agency said Tuesday. The predicted three percent fall in energy-related CO2 pollution compared with a year earlier would be the steepest drop in 40 years, chief IEA economist Fatih Birol said at a press conference in Bangkok. ... more |
Two dead in northern Italy mudslide: firefighters
'In it to win it': Australia doubles down on climate hosting bid New research measures how much plastic is lethal for marine life COP30 by the numbers One dead in northern Italy mudslide: firefighters EU defends carbon tax as ministers take over COP30 negotiations South Korea pledges to phase out coal plants at COP30 Record support in Norway for fossil fuel drilling: study EU defends carbon tax at COP30, urges quick adoption COP30 talks enter homestretch with UN warning against 'stonewalling' 
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Bangkok (UPI) Oct 6, 2009 The World Wildlife Fund called for Asia's first regional climate change adaptation agreement in the Greater Mekong region. The area -- which comprises Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand, Vietnam, and southwest provinces of China -- is already strongly affected by climate change, and a lack of immediate action will come at great cost to the Mekong nations, states a WWF report released ... more  
Conakry (AFP) Oct 6, 2009Guinea's opposition said Tuesday it would only hold talks with the junta after its leader Moussa Dadis Camara steps down and those responsible for a massacre of protesters are arrested. Burkina Faso president Blaise Compaore, the regional mediator in the conflict, on Monday invited the junta and the opposition parties for talks in Ouagadougou to ease the tension in the west African country. ... more  
Washington (UPI) Oct 6, 2009 Some say it's a "tax," while others say it's a "penalty." U.S. President Barack Obama, during a blustery exchange with ABC's George Stephanopoulos, insisted it is a "responsibility." And U.S. Sen. Olympia Snowe has proposed calling it a "defined minimum contribution." The cause of all the verbal volleyball on Capitol Hill is one section of the Senate Finance Committee's healthcare bill ... more |
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Bunga Pasang, Indonesia (AFP) Oct 6, 2009Indonesian housewife Edib Mulyati stands in the ruins of her quake-hit house and smiles bitterly at the government's promises of aid, saying most of it will be lost to corruption. Married to a low-ranking civil servant, she knows how the system works and expects nothing more than a trickle of funds to reach those most in need after the money passes through the various levels of government. ... more  
London (AFP) Oct 6, 2009British drugmaker GlaxoSmithKline said on Tuesday it had orders for 440 million doses of its swine flu vaccine ahead of the northern hemisphere's winter that could bring a second wave of the virus. "GSK is committed to supporting governments and health authorities around the world respond to the pandemic (H1N1) 2009 influenza strain," the company said in a statement. ... more 
Washington (AFP) Oct 6, 2009Computing giant Apple has decided to leave the US Chamber of Commerce in protest over the organization's opposition to tough climate change rules, according to a letter published on Tuesday. The firm "supports regulating greenhouse gas emissions, and it is frustrating to find the Chamber at odds with us in this effort," according to Apple vice president Catherine Novelli. "We would ... more |
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