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New incident at world's largest nuclear plant in Japan
Tokyo - Smoke rose Thursday from a currently closed nuclear power plant in Japan, but the operator said there was no radiation leak and no one was injured. The smoke emerged from the brake of the hoisting function of a crane in the turbine room of a ...
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2009-11-19 ] Category : [
Energy (Environment) ]
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Japan hunting whales again for 'scientific purposes'
Tokyo - A Japanese whaling fleet left for the Antarctic on Thursday. Greenpeace activists said they displayed a banner in front of the Nisshin Maru factory ship bearing the slogan Yes We Can, from US President Barack Obama's election campaign, and ...
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2009-11-19 ] Category : [
Nature (Environment) ]
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Hong Kong shivers in coldest November in more than 120 years
Hong Kong - Hong Kong recorded its coldest November 18 in 120 years as a winter monsoon continued to send temperatures falling, weather experts said Thursday. Temperatures fell to 9.7 degrees Celsius in the sub-tropical city on Wednesday morning - th...
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2009-11-19 ] Category : [
Environment ]
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World population report links birth control to climate change
London - A slowdown in global population growth through contraception could help alleviate the rapid pace of climate change, the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) said in a report Wednesday. The 94-page State of the World Population Report 2009,...
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2009-11-18 ] Category : [
Environment ]
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India revises air quality standards after 15 years
New Delhi - In a move to check air pollution in the country, India on Wednesday revised its national ambient air quality standards after 15 years, a news report said. We have notified the ambient air quality standards in India which are equivalent t...
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2009-11-18 ] Category : [
Environment ]
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