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Climate pact process stumbles as countries bicker in BonnBonn (AFP) May 25, 2012 Less than six months after the world agreed to craft a new global climate pact by 2015, talks stumbled at a crucial preparatory meeting Friday as rich and poorer countries butted heads. With the mood still strained by the fractious 2009 Copenhagen climate summit, negotiations in Bonn showed developed and developing nations split on apportioning responsibility for tackling global warming. Fast-growing countries like China and India insisted the West, which has been polluting more for longer, must ... read more |
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 For Qatar, climate forum offers a test but also a chance As the world's biggest emitter per capita of greenhouse gases, Qatar faces a test of credibility but also an opportunity when it hosts the UN forum on climate change in December, say veteran watchers of the process. ... more | .. |
  Ship's captain jailed over New Zealand oil spill The captain and second officer of a ship that caused New Zealand's biggest sea pollution disaster when it ploughed into an offshore reef were both jailed for seven months on Friday. ... more | .. |
  Hurricane Bud weakens on approach to Mexico Mexican authorities put its Pacific coastline on alert Friday as Hurricane Bud was set to make landfall later in the day after being downgraded to a category one storm, officials said. ... more | .. |
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  Dalai Lama urges real autonomy for Tibet The Dalai Lama and the prime minister of Tibet's government-in-exile Lobsang Sangay on Friday said they were open to dialogue with China and called for real autonomy for the region. ... more | .. |
  Brazil leader vetoes parts of law opening up Amazon Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff Friday vetoed parts of a new forestry code that environmentalists say would lead to further deforestation in the Amazon, home to the world's largest collection of plants and animals. ... more | .. |
 Italy ditches plan for rubbish dump near Hadrian's villa The Italian government on Friday ditched plans to build an emergency rubbish dump near Hadrian's Villa, the famous emperor's summer residence near Rome, which had sparked outrage in Italy. ... more | .. |
  Guinea police in massive ivory bust, six arrested Guinea police seized over 800 pieces of ivory, including sculptures and elephant tusks, in the capital Conakry during a raid that led to six arrests, police said Friday. ... more |
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UK lab promises air-con revolution without polluting gases
EU considers new anti-dumping action against Chinese tyres
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  Outside View: Refugees forever? Palestinian identity is founded in on three parts. One is that resistance to Israel is permanent and holy. Another is that Palestinians are, individually and communally, refugees, made so at the hands of Israel. The third part is that the world, specifically the United Nations and Western countries, must support these refugees until they can return to a future Palestine and to homes in what is now Israel. ... more | .. |
 China calls US rights report 'prejudiced' China on Friday strongly criticised a US report accusing it of human rights violations, calling the document "fraught with prejudice", and issued a scathing critique of the United States' own record. ... more | .. |
  New speaker can recreate dolphin sounds A new device that can mimic the sound of dolphins could one day help humans talk with the remarkably intelligent creatures, scientists say. ... more | .. |
  City's population is counted from space The population of an entire city has been estimated from space to speed up medical and disaster relief efforts, British researchers say. ... more |
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 China's Chen, in US, pledges to keep speaking out Blind activist Chen Guangcheng has vowed to keep speaking out against rights abuses in China as he settles into a new life in New York following his dramatic escape from illegal detention. ... more | .. |
 Cambodian forest campaigners fight rampant logging Frustrated by government inaction, Cambodian citizen patrollers are risking their lives to take on the country's illegal loggers in a bid to save their shrinking forests. ... more | .. |
 Earthquake rattles New Zealand's Christchurch Nervous shoppers fled into the streets when a 4.7-magnitude earthquake rattled the New Zealand city of Christchurch Friday, halting rebuilding work following last year's tremor that killed 185. ... more | .. |
 Marine reserves boost fish: Australian study Australian researchers tracking life on the Great Barrier Reef said Friday they have proven a long-debated theory that fish born in marine reserves boost overall ocean stocks by dispersing widely. ... more |
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Trump's 'Golden Dome' US missile defense plan faces major challenges
Iran lawmakers ratify partnership treaty with Russia
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 Japan tsunami bones to wash up in US: oceanographer Shoes containing human bones from people killed by the 2011 Japanese tsunami are likely to begin washing up on the US West Coast later this year, an expert said Thursday. ... more | .. |
 Indonesia's rapid deforestation continues? Indonesia needs to address loopholes in its moratorium on deforestation, Greenpeace said. ... more | .. |
 Spain cuts aid to Caribbean, S. America All but the poorest of Caribbean and Latin American countries are set to lose Spanish development aid because of the European nation's severe credit crunch and urgent financial requirements in a hard-pressed domestic economy. ... more | .. |
  EP report urges women's rights in Turkey The European Parliament this week adopted a report urging Turkey to follow up on its recent work toward securing gender equality and women's rights. ... more |
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 NOAA: 2012 sees normal hurricane season The National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration Thursday predicted a near-normal 2012 Atlantic hurricane season. ... more | .. |
China at heart of ivory plunder surge, US Senate told Chinese-backed crime groups are leading a surge in African elephant poaching to meet China's thirst for ivory, and terror groups are elbowing in on the lucrative trade, US lawmakers heard Thursday. ... more | .. |
 China hits back at claims it is blocking climate talks China hit back Thursday at claims it was holding up global climate talks in Germany, saying the United States, Europe and other rich states were the ones applying the brakes. ... more | .. |
 Germany, India in talks over treating Bhopal waste A German development aid organisation said Thursday it was in talks with the Indian government to dispose of 350 tonnes of toxic waste from the 1984 Bhopal gas disaster. ... more |
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Do photons wear out? An astrophysicist explains light's ability to travel vast cosmic distances without losing energy
Tracing ancient cyanobacteria reveals early origins of circadian clocks
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Mexico on alert as hurricane Bud gathers force Mexican authorities were on stand-by Thursday as the first eastern Pacific hurricane of the 2012 season, named Bud, strengthened to a category two storm off the southwestern coast. ... more | .. |
 Sahel food crisis to remain critical in coming months: UN UN aid chief Valerie Amos said Thursday that a humanitarian crisis arising from food shortages in the drought-stricken Sahel would remain critical in the next few months. ... more | .. |
 Rousseff under pressure to veto Brazil's new forest code Activists on Thursday said they handed Brazil's president a petition with nearly two million signatures urging her to veto a new forestry code that could result in increased Amazon rainforest deforestation. ... more | .. |
 US says rights in China deteriorating The United States said Thursday that China's human rights record was getting worse as authorities step up efforts to stifle dissent, even though Beijing let a top activist leave for New York. ... more |
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 Romney in new China dig at Obama Mitt Romney fired a fresh jab at President Barack Obama Thursday over his China policy, in a new web video vowing to make China "play by the rules" of global trade on his first day in the White House. ... more | .. |
  Geological record shows air up there came from below The influence of the ground beneath us on the air around us could be greater than scientists had previously thought, according to new research that links the long-ago proliferation of oxygen in Eart ... more | .. |
  Iran navy saves US freighter from pirates: report Iran's navy said Thursday it saved an American-flagged cargo ship that was being attacked by pirates in the Gulf of Oman. ... more | .. |
  Ancient giant turtle fossil revealed Picture a turtle the size of a Smart car, with a shell large enough to double as a kiddie pool. Paleontologists from North Carolina State University have found just such a specimen - the fossilized ... more |
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