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Island states stake bold claim at UN climate talks - Yahoo! NewsIsland nations threatened by rising seas demanded at UN talks Friday that the world commit to preventing global temperatures from rising more than 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 Fahrenheit). In an 18-page draft accord obtained by AFP, the 43-member Association of Small Island States (AOSIS) also ...
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In India, Anxiety Over the Slow Pace of Innovation - NYTimes.comIn the United States and Europe, people worry that their well-paying, high-skill jobs will be, in a word, “Bangalored” — shipped off to India. Even as the rest of the world has come to admire, envy and fear India’s outsourcing business and its technological prowess, many Indians are ...
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Al Gore talks about global warming, those e-mails, and his new book. - By John Dickerson - Slate MagazineThe role of campaign contributions in our political system and the role of lobbyists have now reached levels that are quite unhealthy for the operations of our democracy. But the antidote, as in past eras of lobbyist excess, is for more involvement by citizens to build pressure on members of the ...
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UN: 2000-2009 likely warmest decade on record - Yahoo! Newshis decade is on track to become the warmest since records began in 1850, and 2009 could rank among the top-five warmest years, the U.N. weather agency reported Tuesday on the second day of a pivotal 192-nation climate conference. Only the United States and Canada experienced cooler conditions ...
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BBC News - 'Fake fingerprint' Chinese woman fools Japan controlsA Chinese woman managed to enter Japan illegally by having plastic surgery to alter her fingerprints, thus fooling immigration controls, police claim. Lin Rong, 27, had previously been deported from Japan for overstaying her visa. She was only discovered when she was arrested on separate charges. ...
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India, Russia sign deals on nuclear energy, defence - Yahoo! NewsIndia and Russia signed deals on nuclear energy and arms sales on Monday as Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh held talks in the Kremlin with Russian President Dmitry Medvedev. "We welcome Russia's participation in the broadening of our nuclear energy programme," Singh told reporters after ...
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U.S. charges Chicago man in '08 Mumbai attack - Yahoo! NewsU.S. prosecutors on Monday charged a Chicago man, David Headley, with helping plan the 2008 attacks in Mumbai that killed 166 people, including six Americans. Headley, the first American charged in the plot, was accused of receiving training from the Pakistani militant group Lashkar-e-Taiba, ...
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Bhopal, 25 years later Boing BoingDespite a quarter of a century having passed the factory site has not been cleaned up. More than 100,000 people continue to suffer from health problems. Efforts to provide rehabilitation - both medical care and measures to address the socio-economic effects of the leak - have fallen far short of ...
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Enabling JavascriptWith ten days to go for the Copenhagen conference, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh met French President Nicolas Sarkozy and British Prime Minister Gordon Brown to push for "a balanced, equitable and ambitious outcome" at the 192-nation UN convention on climate change next month. In his separate ...
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IEEE Spectrum: Biofuels Aren't Really GreenBoth the biofuel and solar scenarios are carbon neutral by definition—solar for obvious reasons, biomass because carbon emitted in combustion is reabsorbed when plants regrow. (Admittedly, biofuels are carbon neutral only if crops are planted in existing tilled fields and the emissions connected ...
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