For energy-hungry Asian governments, the answer could literally be blowing in the wind.
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Volkswagen will start making hybrid cars by 2008 with its main Chinese partner and may kick off large-scale production of the energy-efficient vehicles by 2010, the Chinese company said on Thursday.
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Youngsters at Tarkington elementary started their first day of classes Tuesday at a school where flowering plants grow on the roof.
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In a bid to assess ways to save endangered apes around the world from extinction, governments and environmentalists kick off a week-long discussion Monday in Congo's capital of Kinshasa.
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The European Union agreed on Monday to give China the technology for a coal-fired power station designed to combat global warming as part of a wider accord on energy issues and climate change.
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A new UK organisation hopes to combat climate change through harnessing the political power of the church.
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Almost 90% of coral reefs hit by the Indian Ocean tsunami escaped severe damage, according to research.
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The ozone layer has stopped shrinking but it will take decades to start recovering, U.S. scientists reported Tuesday.
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via BBC | GNN staff |
Wed August 31, 2005
The marshlands of Iraq, which were drained during the early 1990s, are returning to their original state.
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A new coal-powered fuel cell may lead to a more efficient way of extracting energy from the fossil fuel than simply burning it.
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Migratory birds have only a low likelihood of being able to pass on a deadly strain of flu that has so far rampaged through six regions in Russia, the European Commission said on Monday.
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The western Indian state of Maharashtra on Friday said it is banning most plastic bags, blaming them for choking drains and causing floods a month ago that left more than 1,000 people dead, most in Bombay.
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Fears that the most fertile agricultural land in the Indonesian province of Aceh has been wrecked by seawater that swept inland from the December 26 tsunami are unfounded, scientists say.
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via ENN | GNN staff |
Thu August 25, 2005
The ancient Iraqi marshlands drained by Saddam Hussein as punishment against their occupants are back to almost 40 percent of their former level, the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) said on Wednesday.
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