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Key Senate panel approves climate bill; Republicans boycott
Washington - A key Senate committee approved a landmark climate bill Thursday that would force US companies to curb greenhouse-gas emissions blamed for global warming. But the 11-1 vote in the Senate Environment Committee was boycotted by opposition ...

[Posted on : 2009-11-05 ] Category : [ Environment ]

EXTRA: Hurricane Ida makes landfall on Nicaragua's Caribbean coast
Managua - Hurricane Ida hit Nicaragua's Caribbean coast with heavy rain Thursday and led to the evacuation of several villages in the area, Nicaraguan authorities said. General Mario Parez-Cassar, head of the Central American country's Civil Defence,...

[Posted on : 2009-11-05 ] Category : [ Nature (Environment) ]

EU's Barroso urges Ukraine to avoid disruptions in gas supplies
Brussels - European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso on Thursday urged Ukraine to do everything in its power to prevent a repeat of last winter's gas crisis, in which a fight with Russia over money cut off supplies to much of Europe. Europea...

[Posted on : 2009-11-05 ] Category : [ Energy (Environment) ]

Ida becomes a hurricane en route to Nicaragua - Summary
Managua/Miami - Tropical Storm Ida became a hurricane as it continued to approach Nicaragua Thursday, the US National Hurricane Centre in Miami said. Ida - with maximum sustained winds of 120 kilometres per hour with higher gusts - was expected to ma...

[Posted on : 2009-11-05 ] Category : [ Nature (Environment) ]

UN: Developed countries need to cut gas emissions by 25-40 per cent
Athens - UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon called on developed countries to cut greenhouse gas emissions by 25 to 40 per cent in an address to the Greek parliament Thursday. With just over a month remaining before a key UN climate change conference in...

[Posted on : 2009-11-05 ] Category : [ Environment ]

US does not expect binding climate deal in Copenhagen
Barcelona - December's Copenhagen climate conference will produce a real but probably not binding agreement, a US climate change negotiator said Thursday. Jonathan Pershing made the comments in Barcelona, Spain, where UN climate negotiators are try...

[Posted on : 2009-11-05 ] Category : [ Environment ]

Storm death toll in Vietnam rises to 98
Hanoi - The death toll from Tropical Storm Mirinae has risen to 98 in central Vietnam, the country's Steering Committee for Storm and Flood Control said Thursday. The authority said 20 people were missing and it expected the death toll to continue to...

[Posted on : 2009-11-05 ] Category : [ Nature (Environment) ]

UN expects US to commit to fight against climate change - Summary
Barcelona - The United Nations' top climate change official said Wednesday he expected the United States to table concrete proposals against global warming at December's Copenhagen climate conference. The US Senate was expected to reach an agreement ...

[Posted on : 2009-11-04 ] Category : [ Environment ]

UN: Climate deal necessary to prevent migration
Athens - A deal at the climate change conference in Copenhagen next month is critically needed in order to curb migration UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said Wednesday. We are in a critical period...populations will relocate due to more extreme we...

[Posted on : 2009-11-04 ] Category : [ Environment ]

Quake shakes southern Iranian port, 700 injured - Summary
Tehran - An earthquake with a magnitude of 4.9 on the Richter scale shook the southern Iranian port town of Bandar Abbas Wednesday and injured at least 700 people, state media reported. The quake occurred in the early morning hours of Wednesday and l...

[Posted on : 2009-11-04 ] Category : [ Nature (Environment) ]

 

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