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Environment
Hundreds of mayors, CEOs and trade groups from around the world are submitting their ideas for reducing global warming to the French government as it prepares to host a major...
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Environment
Police in Paris detained five Greenpeace activists on Monday after they dangled from a bridge and unfurled banners on the Seine River that call for cuts in nuclear power, the...
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Environment
The United States is cracking down on the sale and purchase of ivory in hopes of curbing a surge in illicit poaching that's threatening to wipe out elephants and other species...
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Americas
Six people admitted to a hospital in central Mexico for radiation testing are suspects in the theft of a truck containing potentially deadly cobalt-60, a government official...
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Europe
A leaked report revealing the archeological significance of an ancient Roman gold mine in Romania is reigniting a battle between profit seekers who want to exploit the area,...
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Global Regulation
Japan's nuclear regulator has upgraded the rating of a leak of radiation-contaminated water at its tsunami-wrecked nuclear plant to a "serious incident" on an international...
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Environment
Each summer, microscopic dust particles kicked up by African sandstorms blow thousands of miles (kilometers) across the Atlantic to arrive in the Caribbean, limiting airplane...
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Americas
Canada's Senate called for a full safety review of pipelines, railroads and other means of transporting crude oil, in a report Thursday that also urges better responses to...
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Europe
China, the United States and Qatar were accused of environmental plunder on Tuesday as green activists marked "Earth Overshoot Day," the date at which mankind has exhausted a...
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Europe
Spanish fishermen say their catch has been ruined by Gibraltar's decision to drop concrete blocks in waters surrounding the tiny British outpost.
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World
President Rafael Correa said Thursday that he has abandoned a unique and ambitious plan to persuade rich countries to pay Ecuador not to drill for oil in a pristine Amazon...
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World
Brazil's environment minister says the government has increased the number of its inspectors in the Amazon rainforest to help halt a rise in illegal deforestation.
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World
Officials from the Pew Charitable Trusts and one of famed underwater explorer Jacques Cousteau's grandsons were in Bermuda on Thursday calling for the creation of the...
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World
A Chilean appeals court has annulled the construction permit for the $1.4 billion Punta Alcalde thermoelectric plant.
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World
A fire has raged across an ecological reserve in the capital of Argentina, just a few blocks from the city's political and financial center.