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 London (AFP) Oct 18, 2009 
Representatives of the world's biggest carbon polluters began two days of informal talks in London on Sunday to map out common ground 50 days before a key UN climate conference in Copenhagen. The 17 powers that make up the so-called Major Economies Forum (MEF), along with developing nations and UN representatives, will try to iron out some of their differences before the crunch summit in Dec ... read more 
Manila (AFP) Oct 17, 2009The Philippine government announced Saturday that it successfully raised one billion dollars in 25-year global bonds amid a growing need for rehabilitation funds after two destructive storms. This marks the third international global bond issue for the Philippines this year and the first 25-year bond offer since January 2007, the finance department said in a statement. "We are very pleas ... more |
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' UN climate chief urges COP30 negotiators to not 'waste time on stonewalling' South Korea pledges to phase out coal plants Death toll from Indonesia landslides rises to 18 Press Release from Business Wire: Bureau Veritas 
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Moffett Field CA (SPX) Oct 19, 2009Haze in the early Earth atmosphere could have played a crucial role in the origin of life. By forming a protective shield, the haze would have safeguarded organic substances from harmful ultraviolet (UV) radiation. "Knowing more about the atmospheric conditions right before life began to develop could give researchers clues to how exactly life developed," says H. Langley DeWitt of the ... more  
Washington (AFP) Oct 16, 2009US health officials warned Friday that deliveries of swine flu vaccine may be delayed as influenza deaths climbed above epidemic levels in most states, hitting children particularly hard. Eleven more children were reported to have died of flu in a single week, with 10 of the pediatric deaths confirmed by laboratory tests as being from H1N1 flu, Anne Schuchat, a senior official at the Centers ... more  
Swoope, Virginia (AFP) Oct 16, 2009A diehard activist for some, a pioneer for others, Joel Salatin is fighting against America's genetically-modified foods and for local subsistence farming. Leading his crusade from the heart of the Shenandoah Valley in the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains, this anti-globalization messenger who dubs himself a "Christian Libertarian environmentalist capitalist lunatic farmer" has become ... more |
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Amsterdam (AFP) Oct 18, 2009About a hundred houses float on a lake in the Amsterdam neighbourhood of Ijburg -- a testament to how the Dutch are trying to turn their traditional enemy, water, into an ally against overcrowding. "There is a lot of water in the Netherlands, it is used for navigation and recreation. We want to see if it can also be inhabited," Ton van Namen, director of real estate company Monteflore, told ... more 
Loboro, Kenya (AFP) Oct 16, 2009The camel, its legs attached with branches, brays desperately, blood spurting from the cut artery; nomads in Turkana in Kenya's extreme north have been reduced to sacrificing their animals to survive a bruising drought. "I brought this dromedary to have it killed and make a little money after the other one died of hunger with the drought," Erkal Lorinyo, 65, later explained as he watched as ... more 
Manila (AFP) Oct 18, 2009More than a million flood survivors are getting antibiotics to help them resist a deadly bacterial outbreak, one of several diseases menacing crowded evacuation centres, Philippine officials said Sunday. After tropical storms Ketsana and Parma, which together killed 818 people according to the latest official count, the immediate threat is leptospirosis, caused by exposure to water contamina ... more |
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