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Al Gore & IPCC Share Nobel Peace Prize For 2007Oslo, Norway - The Norwegian Nobel Committee has decided that the Nobel Peace Prize for 2007 is to be shared, in two equal parts, between the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and Albert Arnold (Al) Gore Jr. for their efforts to build up and disseminate greater knowledge about man-made climate change, and to lay the foundations for the measures that are needed to counteract such change. |
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Birds Can “See” Earth’s Magnetic FieldOldenburg, Germany - To find north, humans look to a compass. |
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Art for life’s sakeBudapest, Hungary - Precise information from an informer led an officer of the Arrow Cross militia to search for a Jewish man, who had slipped away from the ghetto, at the studio of painter Lajos Szentivanyi. |
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UNESCO adds 23 new sites to global network of biosphere reservesUnited Nations - Remote cloud forests in Viet Nam, hundreds of atolls in Micronesia and mangroves in El Salvador are featured in the 23 ecosystems which were added today to a United Nations network set up to fight biodiversity loss and promote sustainable development that helps local communities. |
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Clean, green cars roll outFrankfurt, Germany - Car makers wasted no time appealing to customers with more environmentally friendly cars at the International Auto Show. |
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Volvo Introduces Plug-in ConceptFrankfort, Germany - Volvo Cars is introducing the Volvo ReCharge Concept, a serial plug-in hybrid with four electric wheel motors based on the Volvo C30, at the Frankfort Auto Show, September 13 - 23, 2007. |
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Pupils set up own schoolFreiburg, Germany - A group of frustrated German pupils have opened their own school, employing teachers and setting up their own timetables. |
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McDonald’s has hedgehog problem lickedGermany - McDonald's in Germany is developing a new type of ice cream holder after they caused the deaths of large numbers of hedgehogs. |
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After Walking to New Orleans, BSU Junior Ready for SchoolNew Palestine, Indiana, USA - Ball State students head back to class Monday ... and for one junior, he will have quite a story to tell classmates. |
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German Ministers Agree to Cut CO2 Emissions 36 PercentBerlin, Germany - Germany's economy and environment ministers have agreed that Germany should reduce carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions by 36 percent by 2020 compared with the level of emissions in 1990, the environment minister said on Wednesday. |
news from Europe
- BMW Will Have All-Electric Mini Coopers for Lease by March
- Renowned Swedish retailer donates proceeds from toy sales to UNICEF projects
- Archaeologists Unearth Gold Coins in Jerusalem
- London’s red buses to go green in 2011
- Meet the Magical White Christmas Robin
- Italy’s poor to eat contraband caviar on Christmas
- 4,000-year-old Amber Necklace Has Been Unearthed In England
- Malaria vaccine trials show promise
- Top UN official upbeat as many Member States commit to emergency relief fund
- Climate bill ‘could lead world’
