Economic Times: Is this a price blip? No. A food shortage?
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Uganda: Batwa face uncertain future
BBC: Just after dawn, as the fog slowly leaves the slopes of the Muhabura volcano, some Batwa people make their way to the neighbouring farms hoping to get a job for the day.
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Japan eyes new emissions cut goal for 2050 - media
Reuters: Japan, the world's fifth biggest polluter, will announce a target next month for cutting domestic greenhouse gas emissions by 60-80 percent from current levels by 2050, media reported on Sund
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How the world's oceans are running out of fish
Guardian: It is early morning in Barcelona's La Boqueria market and the fish stallholders are setting out their wares.
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Malaysia: No more clearing of mangrove forest
New Straits Times: There will be no more clearing of mangrove swamps in Sabah for development.
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United States: Ban on ATVs brings quiet to forest, few complaints
Boston Globe: It's a quiet afternoon in the Georgetown-Rowley State Forest, and that's not a bad thing.It has been a little more than a year since state officials banned the use of all-terrain vehicle
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United States: White House vs white bear: Judge says Bush must decide whether to save the polar bear as the ice melts
Independent: It's a classic stand-off between one of the world's best loved animals and one of its most unpopular leaders, between the planet's largest bear and its most powerful man.
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Economist urges more action on global food shortages
Australian Broadcasting Corporation: An influential economist is among those troubled by the rapid rise in food prices and the social unrest it has caused.
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Russia may hold on to emission rights: expert
Reuters: Russia may decide to hold onto its greenhouse gas emissions rights under the Kyoto Protocol, at least until the details of a successor treaty are clearer, a Russian expert said.
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Fire managers predict bad year for blazes
Reuters: U.S. fire managers are forecasting a grim year for blazes in drought-plagued Western states, just weeks after a premature start to the Southwest's wildfire season.
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Brazil unveils new plan to curb Amazon logging
Associated Press: Brazil has unveiled its plan to encourage farmers in the Amazon region to develop sustainable sources of income and turn their backs on the illegal logging that is ravaging the rainf
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Climate change plea from tribe of herders who face extinction
Independent: Olav Mathias-Eira is a reindeer-herder. So was his father. And his father's father.
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Australia: Parched forests get an overdue drink
Age: THOUSANDS of red gums on the brink of death have been saved – temporarily at least – after 17 billion litres of water were released from dams to boost Victoria's ailing Murray wetland
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From Bountiful to Barren: Rainfall Decrease Left the Sahara Out to Dry
Scientific American: In a finding that may help scientists better predict the pace of climate change, research published in Science shows how the Sahara Desert, a region as big as the U.S.
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Indonesia: Palm oil wiping out key orangutan habitat: activists
Agence France-Presse: One of the biggest populations of wild orangutans on Borneo will be extinct in three years without drastic measures to stop the expansion of palm oil plantations, conservationist
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Acquittal appealed in nun's slaying
Miami Herald: A Brazilian prosecutor has appealed the controversial acquittal of a rancher who had been convicted last year of ordering the murder of U.S.
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Enviro-Celebs Big Fuel Fiends
New York Post: THE world's top celebrities are total hypocrites when it comes to saving the environment and stopping global warming .
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Sahara made slow transition from green to desert: study
Agence France-Presse: The Sahara became the world's biggest hot desert some 2,700 years ago after a very slow fade from green, according to a new study which clashes with the theory that desertificati
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Australian scientists study impact of climate change on Southern ocean
Radio Australia: Australian scientists in Hobart are researching one of the smallest marine animals to find out what impact climate change is having on the southern ocean.
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European Commission backs Kyoto CO2 trading reform
Reuters: The European Commission says it is standing by a call to overhaul U.N.-led carbon trading rules to make it more difficult for developing nations to earn offset credits from cutting greenhouse
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