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Baltic leaders under pressure to save sick sea

Baltic leaders under pressure to save sick sea

AFP - Yesterday, 07:50 pm

HELSINKI (AFP) - Russia's Prime Minister Vladimir Putin and other leaders from around the Baltic Sea hold a summit in Helsinki on Wednesday under growing pressure to clean up one of the world's most polluted seas. More »

  • Errant gene may make some people age faster: study

    Errant gene may make some people age faster: study

    AFP - Monday, February 8 05:27 pm

    PARIS (AFP) - Certain people carry a genetic variant that could shave three or four years off their life, according to a new study. More »

  • UAE hospital offers treatment that's for the birds

    UAE hospital offers treatment that's for the birds

    AFP - Monday, February 8 06:58 am

    ABU DHABI (AFP) - Under the watchful eyes of a white-coated doctor, two orderlies in scrubs sedate the patient on a paper-covered stainless steel table, then begin the procedure -- trimming her vital hunting tools. More »

  • Activists, Japanese whalers clash in Antarctic waters

    Activists, Japanese whalers clash in Antarctic waters

    AFP - Sunday, February 7 07:42 am

    SYDNEY (AFP) - Anti-whaling activists and Japanese harpoonists have blamed each other for a collision between their ships in Antarctic waters, as the environmentalists warned Sunday of more clashes to come. More »

  • Anti-whalers claim hull pierced in Antarctic clash

    Anti-whalers claim hull pierced in Antarctic clash

    AFP - Saturday, February 6 05:06 pm

    SYDNEY (AFP) - Anti-whaling activists Saturday accused Japanese harpooners of intentionally ramming one of their ships and piercing its hull in a further escalation of hostilities in Antarctic waters. More »

  • Arctic melt to cost up to $24 trillion by 2050: report 

    Reuters - Friday, February 5 11:08 pm

    WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Arctic ice melting could cost global agriculture, real estate and insurance anywhere from $2.4 trillion to $24 trillion by 2050 in damage from rising sea levels, floods and heat waves, according to a report released on Friday. More »

  • Loss of species hits economy; new U.N. goals needed 

    Reuters - Friday, February 5 06:31 pm

    OSLO (Reuters) - Losses of animal and plant species are an increasing economic threat and the world needs new goals for protecting nature after failing to achieve a 2010 U.N. target of slowing extinctions, experts said Friday. More »

  • A green turtle lies on a bed of corals as scuba divers swim nearby off the Malaysian island of Sipadan in the Celebes Sea in this December 7, 2008 file photo.

    Loss of species hits economy 

    Reuters - Friday, February 5 06:23 pm

    OSLO (Reuters) - Losses of animal and plant species are an increasing economic threat and the world needs new goals for protecting nature after failing to achieve a 2010 U.N. target of slowing extinctions, experts said on Friday. More »

  • A road sign is seen in front of the Kharola glacier some 200km (125 miles), west of Lhasa Tibet Autonomous Region November 25, 2009. REUTERS/Nir Elias

    U.N. climate panel reviews Dutch sea level glitch 

    Reuters - Friday, February 5 04:33 pm

    OSLO (Reuters) - The U.N.'s panel of climate experts said on Friday it was reviewing whether it wrongly said that more than half of the Netherlands is below sea level in a new glitch after exaggerating the thaw of Himalayan glaciers. More »

  • A large iceberg is seen on the edge of a morning fog over Frobisher Bay, Nunavut in the Canadian Arctic August 21, 2009. REUTERS/Andy Clark

    Scant Arctic ice could mean summer "double whammy"

    Reuters - Thursday, February 4 09:02 pm

    WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Scant ice over the Arctic Sea this winter could mean a "double whammy" of powerful ice-melt next summer, a top U.S. climate scientist said on Thursday. More »

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