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Greenpeace rallies to stop deforestation in Indonesia

AFP Global Edition yesterday

Hundreds of Greenpeace activists rallied Saturday in support of a commitment by Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono to reduce greenhouse gas emissions caused by deforestation. About 200 people rallied in the capital displaying banners that said "Enough, stop destroying our forests" and ...

Italy FM warns leaders ahead of climate summit: reports

AFP Global Edition yesterday

Italian Foreign Minister Franco Frattini on Saturday warned world leaders their credibility could suffer if they failed to make concrete commitments at next month's Copenhagen climate summit. "Our credibility in the eyes of global public opinion is at stake," said Frattini at ...

Poland to sell Ireland 15 million euro carbon credits

AFP Global Edition yesterday

Poland is to sell 15 million euros' (22 million dollars) worth of carbon credits to Ireland, the Polish environment minister said Saturday. Maciej Nowicki said he expected an agreement for selling unused carbon dioxide emission rights to Ireland to be signed in ...

Hackers leak e-mails, stoke climate debate

AP News yesterday

Hackers leak climate change e-mails from key research unit, stoke debate on global warming Computer hackers have broken into a server at a well-respected climate change research center in Britain and posted hundreds of private e-mails and documents online — stoking debate ...

Switzerland Big Bang Machine

AP News yesterday

In this photo provided by the CERN/CERN PhotoLab on Saturday, Nov. 21, 2009, scientists jubilate in the CERN Control Centre during the restart of the Large Hadron Collider LHC at the the European Organization for Nuclear Research, CERN, in Geneva, Switzerland, on ...

"Big Bang" experiment advancing fast

Reuters US Online Report Top News yesterday

GENEVA (Reuters) - After a year's delay, scientists at the world's biggest accelerator have restarted an experiment to recreate "Big Bang" conditions that had sparked suggestions the earth would be sucked in by millions of black holes. Scientists at the European Organization ...

PARTICLE ACCELERATOR

AP News yesterday

UPDATES intro to reflect plan to restart CERN's Large Hadron Collider; graphic explains how the Large Hadron Collider works Copyright 2009 AP News

CERN atom-smasher restarts after 14-month hiatus: official

AFP Global Edition yesterday

The world's biggest atom-smasher, shut down after its inauguration in September 2008 amid technical faults, restarted on Friday, a spokesman for the European Organisation for Nuclear Research said. "The first tests of injecting sub-atomic particles began around 1600 (1500 GMT)," CERN spokesman ...

Wis. mulls Harley-Davidson, cheese microbe honors

AP News 2 days ago

Choppers and Cheese: Wisconsin state honors sought for Harley-Davidson, cheese microbe Choppers and cheese may soon become official Wisconsin symbols. Bills to honor Harley-Davidson motorcycles and Lactococcus lactis — a bacterium used in the making of cheese — with the state symbol ...

CERN atom-smasher restarts after 14-month breakdown: official

AFP Global Edition 2 days ago

The world's biggest atom-smasher, shut down after its inauguration in September 2008 amid technical faults, restarted on Friday, a spokesman for the European Organisation for Nuclear Research said. "The first tests of injecting sub-atomic particles began around 1600 (1500 GMT)," CERN spokesman ...

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