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US most important country for climate deal: UN Chief |
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Times of India , Friday, November 13, 2009 |
UNITED NATIONS: Stressing that failed action on climate change could have catastrophic consequences, UN Chief Ban Ki-moon has asked the United States to take a leading role in ensuring a successful ou ...More
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Greenpeace activists demand US action on deforestation |
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Times of India , Friday, November 13, 2009 |
JAKARTA: Greenpeace activists from around the world chained themselves to excavators in a logged peatland forest in Indonesia on Thursday to demand more US action to stop deforestation.
Fifty acti ...More
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Obama in 11th-hour climate bid with China, India |
AFP |
Times of india , Friday, November 13, 2009 |
WASHINGTON: With the clock ticking on the high-stakes Copenhagen climate summit, US President Barack Obama will try to salvage fading hopes for a deal as he meets this month with the leaders of China ...More
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Kolkata facing brutal future in warmer world |
IANS |
Times of India , Friday, November 13, 2009 |
NEW DELHI: Dhaka, Manila, Jakarta and Kolkata are topping a new list of major Asian cities vulnerable to the effects of climate change. Kolkata is the fourth most vulnerable Asian city but number thre ...More
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Greenpeace activists demand US action on deforestation |
AFP |
The Economic Times , Friday, November 13, 2009 |
JAKARTA: Greenpeace activists from around the world chained themselves to excavators in a logged peatland forest in Indonesia on Thursday to demand more US action to stop deforestation.
Fifty acti ...More
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World's churches urged to ring bells for climate change |
AFP |
Times of India , Friday, November 13, 2009 |
GENEVA: The World Council of Churches on Thursday called on churches around the world to ring their bells 350 times during the Copenhagen climate change summit on December 13 as a call to action on gl ...More
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Dalai Lama asks people to preserve environment |
PTI |
The Economic Times , Thursday, November 12, 2009 |
TAWANG (Arunachal Pradesh): Tibetan spiritual leader Dalai Lama today asked people to preserve environment and work for development of religion,health and education.
Expressing concern over climat ...More
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Sea and storm scare for city |
JAYANTA BASU |
The Telegraph , Thursday, November 12, 2009 |
Calcutta figures high on the list of Asian cities most vulnerable to climate change in a report to be released on Thursday by WWF-International in Gland, Switzerland.
On a day when all eyes were on ...More
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Tribal, Dalit women bear brunt of climate change |
IANS |
Times of India , Thursday, November 12, 2009 |
NEW DELHI: Marginalised groups, especially women, who are heavily dependent on natural resources for their livelihood are bearing the brunt of climate change that hardly affects those staying in citie ...More
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Climate change challenging China's Yangtze: Report |
AFP |
Times of India , Thursday, November 12, 2009 |
BEIJING: Rising temperatures will expose China's Yangtze River basin to extreme weather such as severe floods, drought and storms that could threaten cities such as Shanghai, a new report has said.
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Dalai Lama asks people to preserve environment |
PTI |
Times of India , Thursday, November 12, 2009 |
TAWANG (Arunachal Pradesh): Tibetan spiritual leader Dalai Lama today asked people to preserve environment and work for development of religion, health and education.
Expressing concern over clima ...More
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Nigeria to end hazardous practice of gas flaring |
Abuja, N (PTI): |
The Deccan Herald , Thursday, November 12, 2009 |
Nigeria will introduce a total ban on gas flaring, the environmentally hazardous practice of burning gas extracted together with oil, a top government official has said.
Nigeria's minister of stat ...More
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Climate change makes English winemakers see red |
REUTERS |
The Economic Times , Wednesday, November 11, 2009 |
DORKING, England: The pickers working their way along the hillside, clipping bunches of small, dark purple grapes from the rows of vines and dropping them into plastic buckets are harbingers of a warm ...More
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Koalas could be extinct in 30 years: Conservationists |
AFP |
The Economic Times , Wednesday, November 11, 2009 |
SYDNEY: Australia's koalas could be extinct in 30 years, conservationists warned on Tuesday, calling for the iconic creatures to be declared an endangered species.
The Australian Koala Foundation ...More
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