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Jun 25, 2010
CALGARY, Alberta (Reuters) - Canada will phase out older coal-fired power plants to cut the country's greenhouse gas emissions, Environment Minister Jim Prentice said on Wednesday, as it moves to make natural-gas fired plants the new clean-power standard.
Jun 25, 2010
AGADIR, Morocco (Reuters) - Greenland has won back the right to hunt humpback whales for the first time in a quarter-century after it threatened to leave the world's top whaling body if other nations reject its ancestral traditions.
Jun 25, 2010
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - California environmentalists opened fire on Wednesday on a measure approved for the state's November ballot that would roll back a landmark law regulating greenhouse gas emissions.
Jun 25, 2010
AGADIR, Morocco (Reuters) - A whale population once thought extinct faces a fresh challenge to its survival as oil companies step up exploration efforts in its main feeding ground off Siberia, delegates to the world's top whaling body said.
Jun 25, 2010
NEW YORK (Reuters) - A tropical disturbance over the western Caribbean Sea strengthened further on Friday, the U.S. National Hurricane Center said, giving it a high 80 percent chance of developing into a tropical depression later in the day or Saturday.
Jun 25, 2010
(Reuters) - Contract driller Rowan Cos said Apache Corp declared a force majeure for one of its rigs in the troubled Gulf of Mexico zone, citing delays in drilling permit due to new offshore drilling regulations.
Jun 25, 2010
CALGARY, Alberta (Reuters) - Canada will phase out older coal-fired power plants to cut the country's greenhouse gas emissions, Environment Minister Jim Prentice said on Wednesday, as it moves to make natural-gas fired plants the new clean-power standard.
Jun 25, 2010
AGADIR, Morocco (Reuters) - Greenland has won back the right to hunt humpback whales for the first time in a quarter-century after it threatened to leave the world's top whaling body if other nations reject its ancestral traditions.
Jun 25, 2010
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - California environmentalists opened fire on Wednesday on a measure approved for the state's November ballot that would roll back a landmark law regulating greenhouse gas emissions.
Jun 25, 2010
AGADIR, Morocco (Reuters) - A whale population once thought extinct faces a fresh challenge to its survival as oil companies step up exploration efforts in its main feeding ground off Siberia, delegates to the world's top whaling body said.
Jun 25, 2010
NEW YORK (Reuters) - A tropical disturbance over the western Caribbean Sea strengthened further on Friday, the U.S. National Hurricane Center said, giving it a high 80 percent chance of developing into a tropical depression later in the day or Saturday.
Jun 25, 2010
(Reuters) - Contract driller Rowan Cos said Apache Corp declared a force majeure for one of its rigs in the troubled Gulf of Mexico zone, citing delays in drilling permit due to new offshore drilling regulations.
Jun 25, 2010
CALGARY, Alberta (Reuters) - Canada will phase out older coal-fired power plants to cut the country's greenhouse gas emissions, Environment Minister Jim Prentice said on Wednesday, as it moves to make natural-gas fired plants the new clean-power standard.
Jun 25, 2010
AGADIR, Morocco (Reuters) - Greenland has won back the right to hunt humpback whales for the first time in a quarter-century after it threatened to leave the world's top whaling body if other nations reject its ancestral traditions.
Jun 24, 2010
HOUSTON/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - BP Plc said on Wednesday it had reinstalled an oil-siphoning cap on its blown-out well in the Gulf of Mexico and resumed collecting crude while the Obama administration appealed a court ruling that blocked its six-month moratorium on deepwater drilling.
Jun 24, 2010
SYDNEY (Reuters) - New Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard said on Thursday she believed in climate change and would push for a national price on carbon but much more consultation with industry and voters was crucial.
Jun 24, 2010
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - California environmentalists opened fire on Wednesday on a measure approved for the state's November ballot that would roll back a landmark law regulating greenhouse gas emissions.
Jun 24, 2010
AGADIR, Morocco (Reuters) - More whales are being killed by chemical and noise pollution, entanglement in nets, climate change or collisions with ships than by whaling itself, delegates to the world's main whaling body said this week.
Jun 24, 2010
ATHENS (Reuters) - World investments in a greener economy are lagging despite some success even in poor nations and the G20 summit this weekend is a chance to catch up, the head of the U.N. Environment Program (UNEP) said.
Jun 24, 2010
AGADIR, Morocco (Reuters) - More whales are being killed by chemical and noise pollution, entanglement in nets, climate change or collisions with ships than by whaling itself, delegates to the world's main whaling body said this week.
Jun 24, 2010
AGADIR, Morocco (Reuters) - More whales are being killed by chemical and noise pollution, entanglement in nets, climate change or collisions with ships than by whaling itself, delegates to the world's main whaling body said this week.
Jun 24, 2010
AGADIR, Morocco (Reuters) - More whales are being killed by chemical and noise pollution, entanglement in nets, climate change or collisions with ships than by whaling itself, delegates to the world's main whaling body said this week.
Jun 24, 2010
AGADIR, Morocco (Reuters) - More whales are being killed by chemical and noise pollution, entanglement in nets, climate change or collisions with ships than by whaling itself, delegates to the world's main whaling body said this week.
Jun 23, 2010
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Private forecaster Weather Services International (WSI) said on Tuesday its latest forecast called for a more active 2010 Atlantic hurricane season.
Jun 23, 2010
LONDON (Reuters) - Scientists and international health organizations from around the world called on Europe's food safety watchdog on Wednesday to regulate against exposure to a potentially harmful chemical found in plastic containers.
Jun 23, 2010
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Hurricane Celia, the first hurricane of the 2010 eastern Pacific season, weakened on Tuesday as it continued on a westward path out to sea and away from Mexico, the U.S. National Hurricane Center said.
Jun 23, 2010
NEW ORLEANS/WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The Obama administration scrambled on Tuesday to resurrect a ban on deepwater oil drilling after a U.S. judge declared that its six-month moratorium was too broad and arbitrary, despite the massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.
Jun 23, 2010
SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Birds use their bills to regulate body heat, meaning climate plays a role in the size of their beaks, scientists say.
Jun 23, 2010
AGADIR, Morocco (Reuters) - Talks on replacing a moratorium on whaling with a controlled cull have reached an impasse, delegates at a meeting of the International Whaling Commission said on Wednesday.
Jun 23, 2010
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Obama administration said on Tuesday it postponed a meeting with senators set for Wednesday to discuss the process for passing comprehensive energy and climate legislation this year.
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