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Pollution tax stokes Australian inflationSydney (AFP) Oct 24, 2012 Australian inflation came in ahead of forecasts Wednesday, rising a seasonally adjusted 1.2 percent in the September quarter as electricity prices jumped following the introduction of a pollution tax. The Australian Bureau of Statistics said the consumer price index was 2.0 percent higher on-year as power prices rocketed 15.3 percent. Analysts had expected quarter-on-quarter inflation of 1.1 percent, and 1.7 percent over the year. The spike in electricity prices followed the introduction on ... read more |
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  Australia's Antarctic runway melting Australia said Wednesday it was searching for a new aircraft landing site for planes supplying its three bases in Antarctica because the current runway is melting due to global warming. ... more | .. |
  Chinese city to ban plastic surgery for minors A Chinese city is set to ban minors from having cosmetic surgery under draft rules aimed at tackling the country's growing obsession with going under the knife, an official statement said. ... more | .. |
  China blames Dalai Lama for self-immolations Beijing blamed exiled Tibetan Buddhist leader the Dalai Lama on Wednesday for inciting a spate of self-immolations in China's Tibetan-inhabited regions. ... more | .. |
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 EU on track for Kyoto and 2020 emissions targets The European Union (EU) will go beyond its targets to cut greenhouse gases by 2012 under the UN's Kyoto Protocol and is on course for meeting its goal for 2020, it reported on Wednesday. ... more | .. |
  Outside View: I wish someone had said that More than a century ago, the eccentric writer Oscar Wilde overheard George Bernard Shaw make a particularly witty remark. Wilde slyly muttered, no doubt with malice aforethought, the compliment "I wish I had said that!" Shaw, a literary competitor and no friend of Wilde's sensed a plagiarism in the making and retorted, "You will, Oscar. You will." ... more | .. |
  New images could crack ancient writings British researchers say new technology may soon allow historians to crack the world's oldest as-yet undeciphered system of writing. ... more | .. |
  Flooding cut Nigerian oil output by around 20 percent Severe flooding temporarily cut Nigeria's oil output by around 500,000 barrels per day, or some 20 percent of total production in Africa's largest crude producer, an industry regulator said Wednesday. ... more |
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China exports beat forecasts ahead of US tariff talks
Greenpeace Denmark launches fake tourism ad to highlight pollution
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  Italy bans use of three Novartis flu vaccines The Italian health ministry said on Wednesday it has banned the sale and use of several flu vaccines produced by Swiss drugs group Novartis pending tests into possible side-effects. ... more | .. |
 China hits out at money-making religious sites China's religious affairs ministry has lashed out at the rampant commercialisation of sacred places and temples in the country, including the practice of employing "fake monks" and fortune-tellers. ... more | .. |
  EU keeps fishing subsidies, attacked by environmentalists The EU agreed on Wednesday to maintain controversial fishing subsidies, sparking a sharp response from environmental groups who say the payments contribute to overfishing of already stressed stocks. ... more | .. |
  Study: Heat prolonged ancient extinctions European scientists say they've discovered why a "dead zone" following the worst extinction of all time lasted so long - it was simply too hot to survive. ... more |
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 Arctic seafloor said littered with plastic The seabed in the arctic deep ocean is increasingly strewn with litter and plastic waste, a German researcher says, with twice as much debris as ten years ago. ... more | .. |
  Britain postpones controversial badger cull Britain on Tuesday delayed controversial plans to cull thousands of badgers in a bid to fight bovine tuberculosis, in the latest U-turn by Prime Minister David Cameron's coalition government. ... more | .. |
 Zimbabwe weighs cost of too many elephants A herd of elephants hobbles past a cluster of acacia trees to a water-hole deep in Zimbabwe's vast Hwange game reserve, attracted by the drone of generators pumping water round the clock into the pool. ... more | .. |
 Leonardo DiCaprio urges Antarctic ocean sanctuary Leonardo DiCaprio urged a high-level Antarctic conservation meeting in Australia Tuesday to approve a sweeping Southern Ocean marine sanctuary to protect thousands of polar species. ... more |
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Russia, China slam Trump's plan for 'Iron Dome' missile shield
Pakistan says India has brought neighbours 'closer to major conflict'
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 China petition urges fair treatment of Bo Xilai Hundreds of backers of disgraced Chinese leader Bo Xilai have urged parliament in an online petition not to expose him to a potentially unfair trial over alleged abuse of power and other charges. ... more | .. |
 Japan hopes medical tourists immune to China row As relations between Tokyo and Beijing appear increasingly in need of major surgery, officials in the far north of Japan are hoping the infant industry of medical tourism can thrive unscathed. ... more | .. |
 Jamaica, Cuba issue hurricane warnings Hurricane warnings were issued Tuesday for Jamaica and parts of Cuba as Tropical Storm Sandy gained strength in the southern Caribbean. ... more | .. |
  Japan's radiation monitoring unreliable: Greenpeace Government radiation monitoring in areas near Japan's crippled Fukushima nuclear plant is unreliable, Greenpeace charged on Tuesday, with heavily populated areas exposed to 13 times the legal limit. ... more |
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 Top Italy scientists resign in protest at quake ruling The head of Italy's top disaster body quit in protest Tuesday after seven of its members were sentenced to jail over a deadly earthquake in a shock ruling that the global science community warned dealt a dangerous blow to scientific freedom. ... more | .. |
 Clinton hails Haitian post-quake reconstruction US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Monday hailed Haitian reconstruction since the massive 2010 earthquake, drawing parallels between the "American dream" and the "Haitian dream." ... more | .. |
  Somali pirates free ship after nearly two years: NATO Somali pirates have released a cargo ship they hijacked almost two years ago, with the crew "very relieved" to see their NATO rescuers, the military alliance said Tuesday. ... more | .. |
 A sharper look into the past for archaeology and climate research By using a new series of measurements of radiocarbon dates on seasonally laminated sediments from Lake Suigetsu in Japan, a more precise calibration of radiocarbon dating will be possible. In combin ... more |
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Rocket Lab Secures U.S. Air Force Contract for Neutron Re-Entry Mission
Martian Seismic Data Suggests Potential Liquid Water Reserves at Depth
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 A Mississippi River diversion helped build Louisiana wetlands The extensive system of levees along the Mississippi River has done much to prevent devastating floods in riverside communities. But the levees have also contributed to the loss of Louisiana's wetla ... more | .. |
 Improving effectiveness of solar geoengineering Solar radiation management is a type of geoengineering that would manipulate the climate in order to reduce the impact of global warming caused by greenhouse gasses. Ideas include increasing the amo ... more | .. |
 New understanding of Antarctic's weight-loss New data which more accurately measures the rate of ice-melt could help us better understand how Antarctica is changing in the light of global warming. The rate of global sea level change is r ... more | .. |
 Climate change threatens marine environment in the Baltic Sea At the end of the 21st century, the temperature in the Baltic Sea will be higher and the salt content lower than at any time since 1850. If no action is taken to alleviate the effects of climate cha ... more |
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 Sweden's only coral reef at risk of dying Sweden's only remaining cold-water coral reef, the Sacken reef in the Koster Fjord, is under threat of extinction. Because of that, researchers from the University of Gothenburg have started a resto ... more | .. |
 Leisure boats threaten the Swedish West Coast archipelago The number of leisure boats along the Swedish West Coast has risen dramatically over the last 20 years, resulting in a risk that the inner archipelago might be destroyed. These are the findings of n ... more | .. |
 Clinton hails Haitian post-quake reconstruction US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Monday hailed Haitian reconstruction after the devastating 2010 earthquake, drawing parallels between the "American dream" and the "Haitian dream." ... more | .. |
Italian scientists sentenced to jail in quake trial Six Italian scientists and a government official were found guilty on Monday of multiple manslaughter for underestimating the risks of a killer earthquake in the town of L'Aquila in 2009. ... more |
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