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Palm oil clearing swathes of forest in Indonesia's Papua: Greenpeace

Palm oil clearing swathes of forest in Indonesia's Papua: Greenpeace

AFP - Friday, October 10 07:05 pm

JAKARTA (AFP) - Palm oil companies are clearing massive swathes of untouched forest in Indonesia's remote easternmost Papua region, environmental group Greenpeace said Friday. More »

  • Formula One teams have signalled their readiness to embrace eco-technology and other environmental initiatives being championed by the sport's governing body. Theissen, among others, has been supportive of the move to greener technology.

    F1 teams, drivers keen to embrace eco-technology

    AFP - Thursday, October 9 08:24 am

    FUJI SPEEDWAY, Japan (AFP) - Formula One teams and drivers have signalled their readiness to embrace eco-technology and other environmental initiatives being championed by the sport's governing body. More »

  • Formula One teams have signalled their readiness to embrace eco-technology and other environmental initiatives being championed by the sport's governing body. Theissen, among others, has been supportive of the move to greener technology.

    F1 teams keen to embrace eco-technology

    AFP - Thursday, October 9 08:13 am

    FUJI SPEEDWAY, Japan (AFP) - Formula One teams have signalled their readiness to embrace eco-technology and other environmental initiatives being championed by the sport's governing body. More »

  • Spanish Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero (R) speaks to his Polish counterpart Donald Tusk in the Alcazar castle in Cordoba during Tusk's visit to Spain. EU measures to cut CO2 emissions must be changed given the global financial crisis as nations cannot now afford higher energy, Tusk said Wednesday during a visit to Spain.

    EU must alter CO2 policy due to global financial crisis: Poland

    AFP - Wednesday, October 8 09:01 pm

    CORDOBA, Spain (AFP) - EU measures to cut CO2 emissions must be changed given the global financial crisis as nations cannot now afford higher energy, Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk said Wednesday during a visit to Spain. More »

  • EU MPs' climate package vote brings little joy for industry

    EU MPs' climate package vote brings little joy for industry

    AFP - Tuesday, October 7 07:56 pm

    BRUSSELS (AFP) - A European parliamentary committee on Tuesday broadly approved ambitious proposals to tackle climate change, refusing to bow to industry pressure to water down the measures. More »

  • EU MPs climate package brings little joy to industry

    EU MPs climate package brings little joy to industry

    AFP - Tuesday, October 7 06:03 pm

    BRUSSELS (AFP) - The European parliament environment committee on Tuesday refused to let the global financial crisis sway them to ease the polluter pays principle to battle global warming. More »

  • Biofuel boom threatens food security, UN agency warns

    Biofuel boom threatens food security, UN agency warns

    AFP - Tuesday, October 7 02:16 pm

    ROME (AFP) - The UN food agency cast doubt Tuesday on the potential of biofuels to help reduce greenhouse gas emissions while warning that their development threatens food security. More »

  • A file NASA image that the MESSENGER spacecraft took of Mercury's full crescent in January. A US space probe successfully flew by Mercury on Monday to photograph the solar system's smallest planet, in the second of three planned passes, the US space agency NASA said.

    NASA spacecraft soars past Mercury

    AFP - Tuesday, October 7 12:10 am

    WASHINGTON (AFP) - A US space probe successfully flew by Mercury on Monday to photograph the solar system's smallest planet, in the second of three planned passes, the US space agency NASA said. More »

  • The world's largest superconducting solenoid magnet (CMS), at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN)'s Large Hadron Collider (LHC) particule accelerator in Geneva. Human error was likely to blame for the breakdown of the world's largest atom-smasher, the European Organisation for Nuclear Research (CERN) said Monday.

    Human error likely caused atom-smasher breakdown: CERN

    AFP - Monday, October 6 11:46 pm

    GENEVA (AFP) - Human error was likely to blame for the breakdown of the world's largest atom-smasher, the European Organisation for Nuclear Research (CERN) said Monday. More »

  • The logo of the Asian Development Bank is pictured at the establishment's headquarters in Manila in September 2008. The Asian Development Bank (ADB) and Vietnam on Monday signed a 196-million-dollar loan for a hydropower plant, the country's first major dam project to be backed by a multilateral development agency.

    ADB backs Vietnam hydropower project

    AFP - Monday, October 6 08:33 pm

    HANOI (AFP) - The Asian Development Bank (ADB) and Vietnam on Monday signed a 196-million-dollar loan for a hydropower plant, the country's first major dam project to be backed by a multilateral development agency. More »

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