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An international fisheries group set up to protect Atlantic tuna has done the opposite and driven one species of the fish, the bluefin, to the edge of extinction, environmentalists said Thursday.
On the eve of a 10-day meeting in Brazil of the International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas (ICCAT), environmentalists accused the group of ignoring the advice of its own scienti ... read more 
Johannesburg (AFP) Nov 5, 2009Waning international donor support for the fight against AIDS is a threat to a decade of progress in HIV treatment, Doctors Without Borders (MSF) warned on Thursday. "Some of the spotlight has come off of HIV largely due to the fact that there has been tremendous success in scaling up. There are four million people alive on ARVs (anti-retrovirals) that otherwise wouldn't have been," MSF spok ... more |
Death toll from Indonesia landslides rises to 18
Press Release from Business Wire: Bureau Veritas Carbon capture promoters turn up in numbers at COP30: NGO Landslides in Vietnam kill at least six Australia rejects offer to co-host UN climate summit with Turkey Turkey seeks to host next COP as co-presidency plans falter Greenpeace says French uranium being sent to Russia Iran begins cloud seeding operations as severe drought bites Ashfall warning in Japan as volcano erupts Ashfall warning in Japan as volocano erupts 
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Washington (AFP) Nov 5, 2009US Senate Democrats on Thursday pushed a sweeping climate change bill through a key committee, shrugging off a boycott by Republicans who oppose the measure and mostly shunned the debate. The Senate Environment and Public Works Committee approved the legislation by an all-Democratic 11-1 vote that forecasts a long, hard, road before the bill can clear the US Congress and President Barack Oba ... more 
Barcelona, Spain (AFP) Nov 5, 2009Green groups and activists for the developing world on Thursday accused rich nations of tiptoeing away from vows to seal a binding, far-reaching UN treaty on climate change in Copenhagen next month. Their bitter response came after European Union (EU) negotiators in Barcelona spelt out the likelihood that the much-trumpeted pact would be concluded in 2010, not at the December 7-18 meeting as ... more
Athens (AFP) Nov 5, 2009UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon praised the European Union Thursday for its "leadership" in offering financial aid to poorer countries to tackle global warming. "I commend the EU's leadership role in addressing climate change and I am encouraged by the recent EU summit meeting where leaders had detailed discussions on a climate financing package," Ban told Greek lawmakers during a visit to ... more |
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Jakarta (AFP) Nov 4, 2009Indonesia's new government has been badly shaken by a corruption scandal that has exposed fundamental flaws in its commitment to fight graft and damaged investor confidence, analysts said. Senior police and prosecutors stand accused of trying to frame two investigators from the watchdog Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) with accepting bribes, in a case that has transfixed the nation fo ... more  
Santa Cruz CA (UPI) Nov 5, 2009 A biomolecular engineer at the University of California-Santa Cruz is proposing the collection of genetic codes for 10,000 vertebrate species. UCSC biomolecular engineer David Haussler said if it receives funding, the "Genome 10K Project" would lead to a genetic code collection that could offer valuable insights into biological mysteries, The Oakland (Calif.) Tribune reported Wednesday. ... more 
Ankara (AFP) Nov 5, 2009Four more people have died of swine flu in Turkey, bringing the national death toll from A(H1N1) to 19, the health ministry said Thursday. A six-year-old girl, a 28-year-old man and two women, aged 32 and 33, were the latest victims of the disease, the ministry said in a brief statement. Turkey reported its first death from swine flu on October 24 and fatalities have sharply increased th ... more |
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