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/ 14 December 2009
The UN climate summit hit major turbulence on Monday when developing nations walked out of key negotiations and China accused the West of trickery.
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/ 14 December 2009
The marathon United Nations climate summit entered its second week on Monday as environment ministers readied closed-door meetings.
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/ 12 December 2009
Major players fired the first shots in a three-way battle on climate change on Friday, wrangling over a document proposed as the blueprint of a pact.
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/ 8 December 2009
Negotiators at the UN climate talks in Copenhagen got down to the nitty-gritty on Tuesday.
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/ 14 December 2008
After a year in which it nearly lost its compass, the campaign against climate change heads into 2009 needing top-level political commitment.
Former United States president Bill Clinton was to take centre stage at the International Aids Conference in Mexico on Monday.
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/ 17 October 2007
Archaeologists have uncovered the earliest known remains of human habitation at the coast, a finding that may explain how humans ventured beyond Africa at the start of their planetary odyssey. Mussel shells and stone micro-tools found in a sea cave in South Africa suggest that Homo sapiens headed for the beach quite soon after emerging from the savannah.
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/ 12 September 2007
Gorillas, China’s baiji dolphin, Asian vultures and Pacific corals on Wednesday joined the list of species hurtling to oblivion as the World Conservation Union (IUCN) warned of a fast-track ”global extinction crisis”. In an update of its famous Red List of biodiversity, the Swiss-based IUCN said it had identified 41 415 species at threat.
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/ 17 November 2006
Environment ministers ground their way towards the end of a 12-day climate summit on Friday, squabbling over a blueprint for negotiating the next round of carbon pollution curbs under the United Nations’s Kyoto Protocol. The talks gathered members of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change.
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/ 1 September 2006
Only a week after Pluto was stripped of its status as a full-fledged planet of the solar system, rebel astronomers have launched a campaign to have it restored in pomp and glory. A petition already signed by more than 300 researchers is attacking the International Astronomical Union decision to expel Pluto from the solar system’s A-list and doom it to the status of ”dwarf planet”.