Leading scientists have complained that a <i>Wall Street Journal</i> article disputing climate change is akin to "dentists practising cardiology".
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/ 13 January 2012
Environmental groups have praised US President Barack Obama’s move to limit uranium mining near one of the world’s natural wonders, the Grand Canyon.
Scientists are urging Canada to end its commercial seal hunt after declining ice cover from climate change sends death rates among seal pups soaring.
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/ 16 November 2011
An Oceana report says most shark species are heading towards extinction, while many are still being caught and killed.
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/ 29 October 2011
The international community has "made a mistake" with the intensity of its focus on the global HIV/Aids epidemic and lost ground on family planning.
United States airlines are wrong to think that they can force the European Union to back down on plans to make carriers pay for emitting carbon.
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/ 13 September 2011
Nepal wants to lift itself out of poverty by expanding its tourism industry but there is no strategy for waste disposal
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/ 4 February 2011
The Empire State Building announced it would meet all its electricity need with wind power.
The White House energy and climate adviser is due to step down in the next few weeks, a departure seen as a collapse.
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/ 15 December 2010
China, cast as the wrecker of the UN climate negotiations last year, went some way towards rehabilitation.
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/ 18 November 2010
Magnificent and wild, the grizzly bear of the American West has a fearsome reputation.
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/ 29 October 2010
It looked like a pretty ordinary day on the water at the United States naval base in Norfolk, Virginia.
The US president gets tough over the oil spill crisis but still faces mounting criticism.
Industry bosses round on one another as senators turn up the heat.
The Obama administration has taken defensive action over early assurances that a sunken BP rig was not leaking crude oil into the Gulf of Mexico.
New fuel regulations will force carmakers to produce vehicles that get an average of 11.5kpl — more than required by the cash-for-clunkers programme
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/ 15 December 2008
Nato countries are scrambling for alternative routes as far afield as Belarus and Ukraine to supply their forces in Afghanistan.
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/ 18 October 2008
Despite strong words, the final debate is unlikely to be the game-changer McCain had hoped for.
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/ 13 October 2008
American voters have lost faith in the Republican party amid the economic meltdown, says a Republican strategist.
A romance novel about the child bride of the prophet Mohammed has been withdrawn because its publisher feared possible terrorist acts.
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/ 29 February 2008
Neither man has yet to secure his party’s nomination, but Barack Obama and John McCain have begun to lay down the battle lines for a possible confrontation in November’s presidential election. McCain, all but certain to lead the Republican ticket, is starting to plot election strategy, aides say.
The embattled Iraqi leader, Nouri al-Maliki, has said he no longer wants to be prime minister, underlining the United States’s loss of control over events just as President George W Bush is poised to announce his new strategy on the war. Bush is expected to announce early next week that he intends to increase the number of US forces in Iraq.
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/ 1 November 2004
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Officials in Zimbabwe hurled racial epithets at United States Secretary of State Colin Powell last week, including branding him an "Uncle Tom" after his attack on President Robert Mugabe in <i>The New York Times</i> the previous week.
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/ 19 January 2001
The eruption of anger against the assassination campaign follows the slaying on December 31 of Thabet Thabet.