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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
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
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
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
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »