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Poland to sell surplus CO2 emission rights to Spain
Warsaw - Poland signed a deal Monday to sell surplus greenhouse gas emission rights to Spain in what is the first move for Warsaw of its kind. Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk said that the deal would give Warsaw funds for investments in lowering ca...
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2009-11-09 ] Category : [
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EU launches online pollution tracker
Brussels - European Union citizens are now able to check how bad for their health industrial plants near their homes are, after the EU's executive on Monday opened an online tracker for the main pollutants. The register will give citizens direct acc...
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2009-11-09 ] Category : [
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15 people die in flooding in southern Thailand
Bangkok - Floods caused by heavy rains have claimed 15 lives in southern Thailand, officials said Monday. Heavy rains sparked flash floods in Thailand's southernmost provinces of Songkhla, Narathiwat, Pattani and Yala over the weekend, affecting hund...
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2009-11-09 ] Category : [
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More than 90 dead in floods in El Salvador
Mexico City/San Salvador - At least 90 people were killed as heavy rains prompted mudslides and flooding rivers in El Salvador, rescue workers said Sunday. The rainfall, which was prompted by a cold front and the remainders of Caribbean hurricane Ida...
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2009-11-08 ] Category : [
Nature (Environment) ]
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Economic recovery, climate change tops G20 meeting - Update
St Andrews, Scotland - Finance ministers from the world's 20 leading economies were meeting Saturday in the Scottish golf resort of St Andrews in a bid to reinforce signs of a tentative recovery that have emerged in the global eoncomy. But coming in ...
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2009-11-07 ] Category : [
Environment ]
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