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Kenya PM blasts African tactics at climate talks

AFP - 4 hours 32 mins ago

NAIROBI (AFP) - Kenyan Prime Minister Raila Odinga Saturday criticised a walkout by African states during climate talks in Barcelona as "grandstanding," and said it did not help developing countries' case. More »

Darling urges G20 to act on climate change
ITN - Yesterday, 01:45 pm
Chancellor Alistair Darling has urged finance ministers from the world's leading economies to "get on" with tackling climate change. More »
U-turn by MP who said she would quit
ITN - Yesterday, 12:37 pm
A Conservative MP who said she would stand down because of the expenses row now wants to be considered as a candidate again. More »
Bluefin tuna on edge of extinction, environmentalists warn
AFP - Thursday, November 5 10:05 pm
WASHINGTON (AFP) - An international fisheries group set up to protect Atlantic tuna has done the opposite and driven one species of the fish, the bluefin, to the edge of extinction, environmentalists said Thursday. More »
Australia launches inquiry into major oil spill
AFP - Thursday, November 5 05:06 pm
SYDNEY (AFP) - Australia launched an inquiry on Thursday into a major oil spill off its coast which has been described as one of the country's worst environmental disasters. More »
Great Whites hang out in Pacific's 'shark cafe'
AFP - Thursday, November 5 08:54 am
PARIS (AFP) - Great Whites may be loners, but the ocean's most feared predators also hang out together between Mexico and Hawaii at a deep sea watering hole known as the "White Shark Cafe," a study reveals. More »
Amazon deforestation slows: Brazil
AFP - Wednesday, November 4 07:54 pm
BRASILIA (AFP) - Brazil lost 400 square kilometers (154 square miles) of Amazon jungle in September, but deforestation slowed by a third compared with the same month last year, according to official data released Wednesday. More »
Australian oil spill recovery plan could take 7 years
AFP - Wednesday, November 4 08:00 am
SYDNEY (AFP) - Monitoring the clean-up of a huge oil spill in pristine Australian waters could take as long as seven years, an official said Wednesday as environmentalists urged a wide-ranging inquiry into the disaster. More »
Taiwan coral reefs need 100 years to recover: scientists
AFP - Tuesday, November 3 05:11 pm
TAIPEI (AFP) - Coral reefs off Taiwan will need up to 100 years to recover from Typhoon Morakot, which lashed the island in early August killing more than 600 people, a scientist said Tuesday. More »
Over 1,000 fish species 'threatened with extinction'
AFP - Tuesday, November 3 04:39 pm
GENEVA (AFP) - More than 1,000 freshwater fish species are threatened with extinction, reflecting the strain on global water resources, an updated global "Red List" of endangered species showed Tuesday. More »