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- World Climate Deal Faces Hurdles for '09 Deadline
OSLO - A growing sense of urgency is pushing world leaders to agree a new treaty to fight climate change but the US presidential election might still foil hopes of a deal by the end of 2009, experts told a Reuters summit.
Wed, 10 Oct 2007 07:35:11 EDT - Smog traps California community.
This small farming community at the southern end of the San Joaquin Valley has a distinction that often brings tears to the eyes of its residents. It is the smoggiest place in the United States.
Wed, 10 Oct 2007 07:35:11 EDT - 1,250 Israelis die each year from pollution-related cancer.
Environmental pollution causes death by cancer of 1,250 Israelis every year, according to the draft of a Health Ministry Report released yesterday.
Wed, 10 Oct 2007 07:35:11 EDT - Back to nature: £12m plan to let sea flood reclaimed land and recreate lost habitats in UK.
Conservation experts are to reverse five centuries of British history and deliberately allow rising sea levels to flood a huge stretch of reclaimed Essex coastline.
Wed, 10 Oct 2007 07:35:11 EDT - UN: Climate change disaster upon us
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Wed, 10 Oct 2007 07:35:11 EDT - Dragonflies, open water reveal rapid Arctic change.
Pierre Tautu doesn't know whether it's global warming or something else, but over the summer he noticed strange things happening around his home at the top of Hudson Bay. Changes are happening a decade ahead of the worst-case scenario.
Wed, 10 Oct 2007 07:35:11 EDT - Melting ice cap brings diamond hunters and hopes of independence to Greenland.
Ministers hope potential mineral wealth and hydro-electricity will allow nation to break free from Denmark.
Wed, 10 Oct 2007 07:35:11 EDT - Australian fires add to fears on climate change.
As the first bush fires of the year rage through Australiaâs national forests, concern over climate change and its effects is intensifying among Australians.
Wed, 10 Oct 2007 07:35:11 EDT - U.S. lawmakers seek ban on lead in children's toys.
Lead would be virtually banned from toys and other goods used by children younger than six, under bills introduced by Democrats in both chambers of the U.S. Congress on Wednesday following a rash of recalls of lead-contaminated products.
Wed, 10 Oct 2007 07:35:11 EDT - Philippines Bans Fishing to Revive Biggest Reef
MANILA - The Philippines has tightened laws banning fishing and collecting of species on the country's largest coral reef to help it recover from near destruction, the World Wildlife Fund for Nature said on Tuesday.
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