Leading nations pledged about $200 million on Thursday towards a cover to encase the Chernobyl power plant's fourth reactor which exploded nearly two decades ago in the world's worst civil nuclear accident.
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Growing evidence of the negative economic consequences of climate change has prompted an alliance of institutional investors managing US$3.22 trillion to demand that capital market regulators require more rigorous corporate disclosure of climate risks.
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Conservationists are confident golden eagles will successfully breed in Ireland after a pair laid an egg in Donegal for the first time in almost a century.
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The global trade in carbon dioxide (CO2) is starting to boom as the European Union's market in carbon emissions gets off the ground, the World Bank reported on May 11.
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A federal judge has ruled that a Southern California clean-air agency may impose its antismog rules on city buses, waste haulers and other public fleet vehicles.
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A team of scientists working in Southeast Asia has discovered a new mammal resembling a rat, but in a rare move they had to create a new scientific family to categorize it.
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European Union states must clean up their polluted beaches four years earlier than planned, the parliament said on Tuesday.
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"I find out what the world needs, and then I proceed to invent," said Thomas Edison, father of General Electric. On Monday afternoon in Washington DC, Jeffrey Immelt, GE's chairman and chief executive, will make a historic bet: that "what the world needs" today, as much as it once needed the light bulb, is green technology.
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A newborn abandoned in a Kenyan forest was reportedly saved by a dog that nestled the child among her own litter of puppies.
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Jordan, Israel and the Palestinian Authority Monday signed an agreement to conduct a feasibility study on building a canal linking the Dead and Red seas.
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US power company Exelon Corp. Friday said it plans to voluntarily cut its greenhouse gas emissions by 8 percent from 2001 levels by the end of 2008.
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Two young British men sit shirtless on a Phi Phi beach, wearing surfer shorts, leather thong necklaces and Indian bracelets -- an iconic image of one of the great party-hard destinations on the hippie-backpacker trail.
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Horn looks out across the tranquil waters off Panglao Island in the central Philippines and says: "It wasn�t always like this . . . quiet and peaceful."
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Several of America's largest corporations, two cities and three individuals were honored Wednesday for their efforts to protect the Earth's climate and stratospheric ozone layer.
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