Nature and the Environment

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Spain UN Climate Talks

AP News 18 hours ago

Activists of the environmental group Avaaz wearing costumes representing an alien delegation mingled with UN delegates during UN climate talks in Barcelona, Spain, Friday, Nov. 6, 2009. Barcelona is hosting the final round of climate talks before December's Copenhagen UN climate summit. ...

Spain Climate

AP News 18 hours ago

An activist of the environmental group Avaaz wearing costume representing an alien delegation mingles with UN delegates during the UN climate talks in Barcelona, Spain, Friday, Nov. 6, 2009. Barcelona hosts the final round of climate talks before December's Copenhagen UN climate ...

Wyoming hunter bags deer, then hungry lion

AP News 19 hours ago

Wyoming archer bags deer, then mountain lion, when big cat stakes claim on kill Retired orthopedic surgeon Chris Smith thought his hunt was over when he bagged a white tail deer with a bow and arrow near Sheridan. Because the light was ...

China says studying weaker framework climate deal

Reuters Environmental Online Report 19 hours ago

BEIJING (Reuters) - China is weighing the prospect of reaching only a framework agreement at U.N. climate talks this December, but would want guarantees that principles laid out in previous deals would be retained, a top diplomat said on Friday. Vice Foreign ...

Australia attacks Copenhagen critics

Reuters Environmental Online Report 19 hours ago

CANBERRA (Reuters) - Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd launched a spirited attack on climate skeptics on Friday, saying a vocal minority is powerful enough to threaten a global deal at next month's Copenhagen climate summit. Rudd said climate skeptics, deniers and opponents ...

Climate bill to force refinery closures: Petroplus

Reuters Environmental Online Report 19 hours ago

LONDON (Reuters) - An international pact and U.S. legislation to tackle climate change will hit oil refiners' profits and may force some to shut some capacity, Thomas O'Malley, chairman of Swiss refiner Petroplus, said on Thursday. Leaders from 190 nations will meet ...

Low-carbon farms can raise food output, food agency says

Reuters Environmental Online Report 19 hours ago

BARCELONA, Spain (Reuters) - Low-carbon farming can both curb climate change and boost food output in developing nations and so must be rewarded under a global climate deal due in December, the U.N.'s food agency said on Thursday. Steps to cut carbon ...

Senator Baucus says opposes Kerry-Boxer climate bill

Reuters Environmental Online Report 19 hours ago

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Senator Max Baucus, an influential moderate Democrat, announced his opposition on Thursday to a climate change bill crafted by fellow Democrats John Kerry and Barbara Boxer. Baucus said he would vote against the bill being considered by the ...

California water plan aims change Gold Rush thinking

Reuters Environmental Online Report 19 hours ago

OAKLAND, California (Reuters) - California legislators on Wednesday struck a truce in their water wars that could set off the biggest spending spree on water in half a century and aims to satisfy environmentalists, unemployed farmers and the cities of Los Angeles ...

U.S. climate envoy takes aim at developing nations

Reuters Environmental Online Report 19 hours ago

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - As a top American diplomat accused developing countries of inaction on global warming, a coalition of senators on Wednesday stepped up efforts to break a political deadlock that has choked U.S. steps on climate change. Todd Stern, President Barack ...

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