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Green Oscars
Posted on March 8, 2010
Once again, a handful of green films will be competing for this year's Academy Awards.
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    • Are we really going to let ourselves be duped into this solar panel rip-off?
    Posted on March 2, 2010
    Those who hate environmentalism have spent years looking for the definitive example of a great green rip-off. Finally it arrives, and nobody notices. The government is about to shift £8.6bn from the poor to the middle classes. It expects a loss on this scheme of £8.2bn, or 95%. Yet the media is silent. The opposition urges only that the scam should be expanded.
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    Massive earthquake strikes Chile
    Posted on February 27, 2010
    A massive earthquake with an initial magnitude of 8.8 has struck central Chile. The quake struck at 0634 GMT about 91km (56 miles) north-east of the city of Concepcion and 317km south-west of the capital, Santiago.
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    A Baltic cesspool?
    Posted on February 10, 2010
    The organisers of the Baltic Sea Action Summit in Helsinki say they are trying to save the most polluted body of water in the world.
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    • 'Climate emails hacked by spies'
    Posted on February 1, 2010
    A highly sophisticated hacking operation that led to the leaking of hundreds of emails from the Climatic Research Unit in East Anglia was probably carried out by a foreign intelligence agency, according to the Government's former chief scientist.
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    Machu Picchu airlift rescues hundreds of tourists
    Posted on January 29, 2010
    About 1,400 tourists have been airlifted from near the Inca ruins of Machu Picchu in Peru following floods that destroyed road and rail links
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    We will find 'twins of Earth' this year, says astronomer Michel Mayor
    Posted on January 26, 2010
    Scientists will have detected the first truly Earth-like planet outside the solar system by the end of the year, one of the world’s leading astronomers predicted yesterday.
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    One quarter of US grain crops fed to cars - not people, new figures show
    Posted on January 23, 2010
    One-quarter of all the maize and other grain crops grown in the US now ends up as biofuel in cars rather than being used to feed people, according to new analysis which suggests that the biofuel revolution launched by former President George Bush in 2007 is impacting on world food supplies.
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    World misled over Himalayan glacier meltdown
    Posted on January 17, 2010
    A WARNING that climate change will melt most of the Himalayan glaciers by 2035 is likely to be retracted after a series of scientific blunders by the United Nations body that issued it.
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    SAN JOSE JOURNAL: In Latino Gardens, Vegetables, Good Health and Savings Flourish
    Posted on January 17, 2010
    The two-month-old vegetable garden, from which Mrs. Alarcon picks extravagant bursts of broccoli for breakfast with scrambled eggs, is both comforting and unfamiliar. It is one of 30 backyard vegetable gardens recently planted by a nonprofit group here called La Mesa Verde, or The Green Table, which makes house calls to help residents of the city’s low-income, predominantly Latino neighborhoods grow their own organic produce.
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    Who will pay for Amazon's 'Chernobyl'?
    Posted on January 10, 2010
    A film released this week in Britain recounts the 16-year battle by Ecuadorians for damages against Chevron for oil pollution
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    • Anti-whaling ship's bow sliced off by Japanese
    Posted on January 6, 2010
    Japanese whalers have sliced the bow off a high-tech anti-whaling boat in a dramatic escalation of the annual battle between the whaling fleet and environmental activists.
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    • Arctic freeze and snow wreak havoc across the planet
    Posted on January 5, 2010
    Arctic air and record snow falls gripped the northern hemisphere yesterday, inflicting hardship and havoc from China, across Russia to Western Europe and over the US plains.
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    • For Caring Consumers, the Gift of Carbon Dioxide
    Posted on December 25, 2009
    What says holiday cheer better than a ton of carbon dioxide? Carbon reduction certificates are the latest hot eco-gift, suitable for the environmentally aware, hard-to-shop-for loved one who already has an adopted humpback whale or some symbolic rainforest acreage.
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    China rejects UK claims it hindered Copenhagen talks
    Posted on December 22, 2009
    China has dismissed allegations made by a British minister that it was responsible for the near collapse of climate negotiations in Copenhagen.
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    • Philippine volcano gets louder, could blow up soon
    Posted on December 21, 2009
    LEGAZPI, Philippines — The Philippines' Mayon volcano turned up the heat with lava fountains and loud rumbling sounds Monday, and officials said it was getting closer to a major eruption that could come at any time. Tens of thousands of villagers have been evacuated from the foothills as a precaution, but authorities are having trouble keeping them away from their homes and farms, said Gov. Joey Salceda of Albay province, about 210 miles (340 kilometers) southeast of Manila.
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    • Copenhagen was the MPs' expenses scandal writ large
    Posted on December 20, 2009
    The futile climate-change negotiations at Copenhagen revealed the same contempt for the public as the scandal over MPs' expenses, says Matthew d'Ancona.
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    Venezuela Sees US Threat in Dutch Islands
    Posted on December 19, 2009
    Venezuelan President Chavez has accused the Netherlands of planning what he calls 'aggression' by allowing US troops access to Dutch islands off Venezuela's Caribbean coast.
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    • Low targets, goals dropped: Copenhagen ends in failure
    Posted on December 19, 2009
    The UN climate summit reached a weak outline of a global agreement last night in Copenhagen, falling far short of what Britain and many poor countries were seeking and leaving months of tough negotiations to come.
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    • Obama Tries to Rally U.N. Climate Conference, but Deadlock Persists
    Posted on December 18, 2009
    COPENHAGEN -- President Obama exhorted world leaders today "not to talk, but to act" as they scrambled in the closing hours of a historic U.N. global warming summit to salvage an agreement to curtail greenhouse gas emissions.
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    • Obama Arrives in Copenhagen to Press for Climate Accord
    Posted on December 18, 2009
    COPENHAGEN — President Obama arrived here on Friday morning bent on applying a combination of muscle and personal charm to secure a climate change agreement involving nearly 200 countries.
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    CCTV cameras trebled in a year
    Posted on December 18, 2009
    Taxpayers are funding a CCTV camera for every 1,000 people, the most detailed breakdown of the surveillance state has revealed. In some parts of the country there is a camera for almost every 100 people after the Government and local councils spent hundreds of millions of pounds to treble their numbers in the last decade.
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    Temperature warning as Copenhagen climate deal emerges
    Posted on December 18, 2009
    A deal appears to be in sight for the final day of the UN climate change talks but there are fears it may not prevent a 3C (5.4F) temperature rise.
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    • Clinton arrives in Copenhagen to stake US claim in deal of the century
    Posted on December 17, 2009
    With Hillary Clinton's sudden appearance at the Copenhagen summit at its moment of crisis – and the prospect of billions in cash – America today lays claim to the role of lead broker in what could be the deal of the century.
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    • Danish police arrest 230 activists as world leaders arrive in Copenhagen
    Posted on December 16, 2009
    Danish police today arrested 230 people at various points around Copenhagen, where world leaders and officials are meeting for UN climate talks.
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    • Climate conference: 'Make bankers pay for deal'
    Posted on December 16, 2009
    Britain and France back tax on financial transactions to support poor countries while Ethiopian plan would also impose levies on airline and shipping industries
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    Copenhagen negotiators struggle to save talks
    Posted on December 15, 2009
    Climate change negotiators have been working through the night in Copenhagen to try to rescue plans for a global agreement from collapse.
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    'Get to work', urges Copenhagen climate summit head
    Posted on December 14, 2009
    The president of the UN climate summit has urged delegates to "get to work" after protests from developing nations forced a suspension of several hours.
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    • Hundreds arrested in Copenhagen as green protest march leads to violence
    Posted on December 13, 2009
    More than 900 campaigners were arrested in Copenhagen last night as police were accused of overreacting to sporadic street violence. The arrests came the day before an appeal in the Danish capital by the archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams, for people to start loving and caring for their world.
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    • 'Green Army' mulls carbon trading
    Posted on December 11, 2009
    The world's poorest are often the world's greatest recyclers. One activist, Albina Ruiz Rios, runs a waste collection scheme to clean-up the outskirts of the Peruvian capital, Lima.
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