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Divers finish retrieval of toxic pesticide from sunken ferry
Manila - Divers from two salvage firms finished on Sunday retrieval of 10 tons of hazardous pesticide endosulfan from a sunken ferry in the central Philippines, a senior official said. Transportation Undersecretary Elena Bautista said the recovery of...

[Posted on : 2008-10-05 ] Category : [ Environment ]

Nearly 800 confirmed dead in Haiti in August/September storms
Port-au-Prince - The number of deaths in Haiti in the wake of four major storms in August and September has more than doubled to at least 793, reports said Saturday. A further 300 people were still missing, Haitian civil defence director, Marie Alta ...

[Posted on : 2008-10-04 ] Category : [ Environment ]

Floods kill at least 33 in Algeria
Algiers/Paris - At least 33 people were killed and 48 injured this week in southern Algeria in flooding caused by heavy rains, local media reported on Saturday. The flooding affected eight desert cities in the valley of M'Zab, the largest of which is...

[Posted on : 2008-10-04 ] Category : [ Environment ]

European carmakers to seek multibillion loan for greener vehicles
London - Europe's carmakers are to ask the European Commission to lend the industry up to 40 billion euros (55.4 billion dollars) to help them develop more environmentally friendly vehicles, the Financial Times reported on Saturday. The move comes da...

[Posted on : 2008-10-04 ] Category : [ Environment ]

Rain leaves 10 dead, great damage in Nicaragua
Managua - At least 10 people died in heavy rains in the past 48 hours in Nicaragua, which also caused serious damage to housing and infrastructure in the Central American country, civil defence authorities said Friday in Managua. Many rivers overflow...

[Posted on : 2008-10-03 ] Category : [ Environment ]

Arctic sea ice at second lowest level, data shows
Washington/Boulder, Colorado - Arctic sea ice melted to its second-lowest level since measurements began in 1979, the Colorado- based National Snow and Ice Data Center said Thursday. The ice coverage of 4.67 million square kilometres had only recover...

[Posted on : 2008-10-02 ] Category : [ Environment ]

Russia's Putin and Ukraine's Tymoshenko in energy talks
Moscow/Kiev - Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin met Thursday with Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko for talks on natural gas and other energy issues. Putin and Tymoshenko held the discussions in a Russian government country mansion in the...

[Posted on : 2008-10-02 ] Category : [ Energy (Environment) ]

Earthquake rattles southern Spain - no injuries
Seville, Spain - An earthquake of 3.8 degrees on the Richter scale rattled five southern Spanish provinces on Thursday, a spokesman for the National Seismic Network said. No injuries or important damage were reported. ...

[Posted on : 2008-10-02 ] Category : [ Environment ]

Google plans 4.4-trillion-dollar green energy plan
San Francisco - Web giant Google unveiled a new national energy plan for the US Wednesday that it said would largely wean the country of fossil fuels by 2030. The 4.4-trillion-dollar plan was developed by Google's philanthropic arm Google.org, which ...

[Posted on : 2008-10-02 ] Category : [ Energy (Environment) ]

Schwarzenegger orders end to car-centric building in California
San Francisco - California, the homeland of urban sprawl and the-hundred mile commute, is getting a makeover in the name of global warming. Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger has signed a bill to crack down on car-centric new developments as part of a pl...

[Posted on : 2008-10-01 ] Category : [ Environment ]

 

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