India stood firm Sunday with US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton over carbon emission cuts, but she insisted their differences could be bridged before a high-stakes climate change summit in December.

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Southland continues to shake following last week’s big earthquake.

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An earthquake rumbled across Hawkes Bay just after midday – measuring 4.3 on the Richter scale and centred 40-kilometres south of Hastings.

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U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton kicked off a three-day visit to India on Saturday by urging India not to make the same mistakes the U.S. has on climate change and emphasizing the nations’ mutual interest in fighting global terrorism.

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At least three people were killed and nearly 100,000 displaced in the Philippines by Typhoon Molave, as the storm gained strength before rolling away from the country Saturday, officials said.

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David Eugene Thomas was being held without bond Friday at the Orange County Jail after he was charged with molesting a 13-year-old boy

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With the El NiñoSouthern Oscillation ENSO on the horizon and concerns over food shortages crops are locked in a bull market.

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The Army Corps of Engineers’ road map for protecting coastal Louisiana from a Category 5 hurricane is substantially flawed be…

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What do you come out with’ BSc or MEnv at Leeds Why do it’ Because you care about the environment and you’re worried about global warming and pollution. It’s a broad subject incorporating earth sciences, population, international development, ecology, geography and geology.

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Tasmania Police have suggested an automated warning system could be used in the event of a land threatening tsunami.

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TURKMENISTAN has begun channelling water across hundreds of miles to create a lake in a barren desert, in a Soviet-style engineering feat that some experts fear might unleas

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Sokoto — Sokoto State NYSC Coordinator, Alhaji Usman Mohammed, said the Scheme plans to plant one thousand assorted economic trees across the state, as part of its contribution towards curbing desertification in the North West region.

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Long-term declines of elephants, giraffe, impala and other animals in Kenya are occurring at the same rates within the country’s national parks as outside of these protected areas, according to a study released this week.

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WELLINGTON, New Zealand – Water pipes were broken and fallen power lines lay on the ground Thursday in Invercargill, the southern New Zealand city closest to an earthquake that struck off the coast the night before.

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Drivers on Interstate 880 in the San Francisco Bay area were startled to find a baby sea lion waddling on the motorway just before the morning rush hour — but the year-old pup is only one of hundreds rescued along the Californian coast this summer.

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New Zealand and Australia canceled tsunami warnings on Wednesday after an earthquake struck the south of New Zealand, causing minor damage but no injuries.

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Music star Moby will kick off a series of concerts across Europe next month aimed at raising climate change awareness among young people, the European Union’s executive arm said on Wednesday.

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COINCIDENCE, synchronicity, phases of the moon, or what’ New CDs generally arrive on my desk unobtrusively enough, demurely clad in Jiffy bags. Twice last week, however, they

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Hurricane Carlos strengthened to a Category 2 storm and had a distinct small eye Tuesday as it moved farther out into the open Pacific.

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Hunter Valley mining giant Coal and Allied blames a changed classification system for a 20 per increase in environmental incidents at its coal mines last year.

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The BBC make a lot of lovely programs about wildlife and the natural world in Africa, but not one of them mentions climate change — odd no’

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An oil pipeline company plans to resume shipments from its terminal near the base of an Alaskan volcano that has sent hot boulders, huge ice chunks and mud flowing toward the terminal on several occasions since becoming active again in March.

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Seven-story condominium built atop ’shake table’ in Japan to test new methods of wood-frame construction.

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St Swithin warned that showers on July 15 would herald 40 days of rain, whereas sunshine meant a blissful 40 days. Though the 9th-century Bishop of Winchester had a good reputation for long-range weather forecasting, he never got his prediction quite correct. He hadn’t factored in El Niño.

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Europe’s Venus Express orbiter suggests that some of the planet’s surface is made of granite, which on Earth needs water and plate tectonics to form

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The West African Economic and Monetary Union (UEMOA) on Tuesday announced a 146 million euro (205 million dollar) plan to study and fight coastal erosion in the region.

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Another free weekend is coming up at national parks and monuments.

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Taiwanese authorities say a 6.3-magnitude earthquake has struck off the east coast of the island, rattling buildings in Taipei, but causing no casualties or damage.

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A European Union report says grasslands, wetlands and butterflies are threatened in Europe.

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High-profile climate change campaigner Al Gore on Monday backed Australia’s environmental policies and said this year’s devastating brushfires were a savage reminder of the need to act.

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Serengeti — President Jakaya Kikwete is concerned about the increasing number of hotels in national parks. He said yesterday the construction of “too many” hotels in the State-run parks posed a serious threat to tourism and should be stopped.

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Asmara — In an interview he conducted with the Eritrean news agency, the Coordinator of Communal Forestation at the Ministry of Agriculture (MOA), Mr. Fikreyesus Gilay said that the ministry is executing various forestation projects to combat the expansion of desert areas.

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MEXICO CITY – Hours after being downgraded from a hurricane, Tropical Storm Carlos weakened further Sunday night as it headed west over the open waters of the Pacific Ocean.

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Family First Senator Steve Fielding has written to senators on both sides of politics urging them to demand more proof from the Government that carbon emissions are the main driver of climate change.

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A magnitude 5.1 earthquake has rocked a remote area of the East Cape of the North Island today.

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When Ferdinand Magellan made the first voyage around the world, he may have been helped by the Pacific phenomenon of El Niño.

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Hurricane Carlos swirled far off Mexico’s Pacific coast on Saturday and was headed farther out to sea.

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An effort on the scale of the Apollo mission that sent men to the Moon is needed if humanity is to have a fighting chance of surviving the ravages of climate change. The stakes are high, as, without sustainable growth, “billions of people will be condemned to poverty and much of civilisation will collapse”.

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The same paleontologist who made the Montana discovery of the first known dinosaur burrow has now found the trace fossil of a burrow in Australia almost identical to the one he identified in the US. His growing evidence of dinosaur burrows provides clues to climate change and how dinosaurs may have survived extreme environments — throwing a wrench in some extinction theories.

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Tropical Storm Carlos has formed far off Mexico’s Pacific coast and is expected to reach hurricane strength in the next few days as it moves further out to sea.

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In the first ecological study of its kind in the world, a researcher has uncovered the unique finding that groundwater and airborne manganese in North Carolina correlates with cancer mortality at the county level.

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There is a 70 per cent probability that a devastating earthquake will strike California in the next 30 years scientists have said after recording an increase in tremors along the San Andreas fault.

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David Attenborough joined scientists today to warn that carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is already above the level which condemns coral reefs to extinction, with catastrophic effects for the oceans and the people who depend upon them. Coral reefs support a quarter of all marine life, including more than 4,000 species of fish. They also provide spawning, nursery, refuge and feeding areas for …

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VAL MARIE, Sask. – New exhibits at Grasslands National Park tell stories of the region’s unique ecosystem and of 10,000 years of prairie peoples, Parks Canada says.

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SCIENTISTS say the Philippines’ most active volcano is rumbling again while emitting steam and a strong glow at the summit crater that can be seen with the naked eye.

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An earthquake in a sparsely populated region of southwest China killed one person, injured hundreds and flattened more than 10,000 houses overnight.

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Companies once operated by Gurmeet Singh Dhinsa, who was convicted of murder, agreed to pay $1.4 million for gas leaks from 21 gasoline storage tanks.

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Around 50,000 fingerlings will be introduced to Canberra waterways this year.

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As President Barack Obama encouraged world leaders meeting in Italy to intensify the fight against global warming, legislation to cut U.S. emissions of greenhouse gases suffered a delay in the Senate on Thursday.

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