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New Zealand glaciers melting away, survey shows
Wellington - New Zealand's glaciers are melting away, according to an annual survey of the snowline on 50 glaciers in the South Island, the National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research (NIWA) announced Monday. They have lost half of their sno...

[Posted on : 2009-11-23 ] Category : [ Nature (Environment) ]

Three-Mile-Island nuclear plant leaks radioactivity
Washington - Nuclear safety officials moved Sunday to quell worries about a leak of radioactivity from Three Mile Island nuclear plant, saying that human safety was never endangered. The incident happened Saturday, when the Pennsylvania plant - the s...

[Posted on : 2009-11-23 ] Category : [ Environment ]

The heat is on as forest fires rage in Australia
Sydney - More than 1,000 volunteer firefighters backed by 70 aircraft were tackling more than 100 forest blazes in Australia's parched south-east Sunday. Temperatures topped 40 degrees in Sydney and across New South Wales as emergency services warned...

[Posted on : 2009-11-22 ] Category : [ Nature (Environment) ]

German technology cleans up Hanoi turtle's lake - Feature
Hanoi - Hanoi's Hoan Kiem Lake at the heart of the old city, is stagnant, thick with green algae and choked with sludge. It is also a historical treasure and the heart of Vietnamese nationalism. According to legend, 15th-c...

[Posted on : 2009-11-22 ] Category : [ Nature (Environment) ]

Greenpeace accuses Taiwan tolerating overfishing tuna stocks
Taipei - International environment protection group the Greenpeace on Saturday accused the Taiwan government of tolerating illegal fishing and overfishing of tuna by the country's fishermen. At a news conference held in Taipei together with the Envir...

[Posted on : 2009-11-21 ] Category : [ Nature (Environment) ]

Australians warned of 'catastrophic' fire danger
Sydney - More than 1,000 of Australia's volunteer firefighters were in action Saturday as crews battled 60 of forest blazes in the sweltering south-east where a decade of drought has left tinderbox conditions. A total ban on open fires was declared i...

[Posted on : 2009-11-21 ] Category : [ Environment ]

ElBaradei: Iran has not totally rejected nuclear fuel plan
Berlin - International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Chief Mohamed ElBaradei said Friday that he believes that Iran has not totally rejected his agency's nuclear fuel plan, but that time was running out. The ball is now in Iran's court. I hope they wi...

[Posted on : 2009-11-20 ] Category : [ Energy (Environment) ]

Heavy rainfalls mean flooding in northern Britain - officer missing
London - Hundreds of people have been evacuated from their homes in Scotland and northern Britain and one police officer is missing following severe flooding after torrential rain, the Environment Agency said Friday. In the worst-hit regions of Cumbr...

[Posted on : 2009-11-20 ] Category : [ Nature (Environment) ]

UN offers rescue targets for troubled climate summit in Copenhagen
New York - Faced with prospects of failure in Copenhagen's climate change summit next month, the United Nations on Thursday cited key targets that could improve the chance of success in the talks on reducing greenhouse gas emissions blamed for global...

[Posted on : 2009-11-19 ] Category : [ Environment ]

Not much expected from Copenhagen, Indian environment minister says
New Delhi - Not much was expected from the climate change summit in Copenhagen except for a mandate to continue negotiations, Indian Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh said Thursday. We need to be proactive, aggressive and ruthless in our domestic o...

[Posted on : 2009-11-19 ] Category : [ Environment ]

 

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