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Firm uses recycled paper in shoemaking

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 21:03:48 GMT

Confronted with an ever-growing pile of old newspapers, Taiwanese fashion designer Colin Lin came up with the idea of using them to make shoes and tote bags for her environmentally friendly footwear company.

Obama prods China to take global role

Mon, 16 Nov 2009 18:16:20 GMT

President Barack Obama declared Monday in his first visit to China that the U.S. and the Chinese carry a "burden of leadership" as he meets with President Hu Jintao to confront climate change, nuclear proliferation and other urgent global problems.

Denmark asks leaders to climate talks

Thu, 12 Nov 2009 22:06:48 GMT

Denmark's premier sent invitations Thursday asking 191 world leaders to attend next month's U.N. climate conference in Copenhagen, saying their presence was "pivotal" to its success.

Russia launches program to save tigers

Wed, 11 Nov 2009 19:30:35 GMT

Russia hopes to hold a "tiger summit" in the Far East city of Vladivostok in September to coordinate multinational efforts to protect the Amur tiger, its habitats and increasingly scarce food sources.

Carbon storage? Not under my house!

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 15:44:00 GMT

The people of a small Dutch town are not against pumping tons of carbon dioxide into the ground to fight global warming. They just wish it wasn't right beneath their houses.

New ocean forming in Africa

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 18:16:32 GMT

Scientists from several countries have confirmed that a 35-mile-long rift in the desert in Ethiopia will eventually become a new ocean, according to LiveScience.

17,000 species threatened by extinction

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 13:51:03 GMT

A rare Panamanian tree frog, a rodent from Madagascar and two lizards found only in the Philippines are among over 17,000 species threatened with extinction, a leading environmental group said Tuesday.

Chavez tells Venezuelans: Save energy

Tue, 27 Oct 2009 19:53:51 GMT

Chavez has sprung into action in the past week, announcing a contingency plan to conserve electricity and appointing a new Cabinet minister to oversee the electrical sector. Chavez says rationing may be in order and he'll set an example by turning down the air conditioning and turning off more lights at the presidential palace.

Experts: Tigers fast dying out

Tue, 27 Oct 2009 11:56:27 GMT

The world's tiger population is declining fast despite efforts to save them, and new strategies are urgently needed to keep the species from dying out, international wildlife experts said Tuesday.

UN: Warming emissions grew for 7th year

Wed, 21 Oct 2009 19:56:34 GMT

The industrialized world again in 2007 boosted, rather than reduced, its emissions of global-warming gases, the U.N. reported Wednesday, as international negotiators looked ahead to crucial climate talks in December.

Mixed reaction for dolphin-hunting film

Wed, 21 Oct 2009 14:42:43 GMT

Viewers expressed mixed reactions Wednesday to "The Cove," a covertly filmed movie about a Japanese dolphin-hunting village that was shown to the Japanese public for the first time.

Tokyo film fest opens with green carpet

Mon, 19 Oct 2009 18:19:28 GMT

The Tokyo International Film Festival opened with stars including Hollywood actress Sigourney Weaver strolling a "green" carpet made of recycled plastic bottles.

Landmark backdrop for climate protest

Fri, 16 Oct 2009 15:13:24 GMT

Environmental activists have hung a giant banner from a prominent Berlin landmark, the Victory Column, urging Germany's leader to take the lead in combatting climate change.

Maldives plans underwater gov. meeting

Wed, 07 Oct 2009 21:13:33 GMT

Maldives government ministers are taking scuba lessons and learning underwater signs in preparation for an unprecedented Cabinet meeting at the bottom of the ocean intended to highlight the threat global warming poses to the low-lying nation.

Report: Climate change to cause hunger

Wed, 30 Sep 2009 20:59:55 GMT

Scientists fear climate change will mean 25 million more hungry children over the next four decades, with subsistence farmers in Africa and Asia particularly hard hit by global warming, according to a report issued Wednesday.

Stress disease kills Australian koalas

Tue, 29 Sep 2009 20:21:50 GMT

The koala, Australia's star symbol, is dying of stress.

Obama: End fossil fuel subsidies

Wed, 23 Sep 2009 20:45:10 GMT

President Barack Obama is calling on the world to end massive government subsidies that encourage the use of fossil fuels blamed for global warming.

Obama addresses UN climate summit

Tue, 22 Sep 2009 15:35:53 GMT

President Barack Obama on Tuesday declared that the United States is a serious partner in combating global warming, telling world peers "we are determined to act."

How to start an energy revolution?

Tue, 22 Sep 2009 12:29:13 GMT

In the highest-level conference yet on climate change, 100 world leaders come to the United Nations on Tuesday to decide how to start an energy revolution.

Polar bear is symbol of changing Arctic

Mon, 21 Sep 2009 18:22:01 GMT

Further chapters in the polar bear story may unfold in the coming months, as northern nations consider how to protect an animal whose world is melting around it.

EU presses Obama on bonuses, climate

Fri, 18 Sep 2009 19:47:49 GMT

EU leaders issued a joint plea to U.S. President Barack Obama on Thursday to back their call for rich and developing nations to cap bankers' pay and to impose deeper cuts on emissions for a new global climate change pact.

UN climate chief: Emissions cuts needed

Fri, 11 Sep 2009 21:24:04 GMT

Rich countries must commit to deeper cuts in greenhouse gas emissions if they want China and India to sign onto an accord to curb global warming, the top U.N. climate official said Friday.

New Japan leaders: 25% emissions cut

Tue, 08 Sep 2009 19:35:12 GMT

apan's incoming prime minister promised Monday to aim for a 25 percent reduction in greenhouse gas emissions by 2020.

Chunk of space junk misses space station

Fri, 04 Sep 2009 20:40:30 GMT

A big piece of space junk safely sped by the international space station and shuttle Discovery, missing by less than a mile.

Study: Pacific bigeye tuna under threat

Thu, 03 Sep 2009 18:31:41 GMT

Environmentalists want tougher restrictions on the industrial-scale fishing of bigeye tuna in the Pacific Ocean after new research showed current measures are failing.

1,000 ice men melt in Berlin

Wed, 02 Sep 2009 18:21:35 GMT

A thousand miniature people have slowly melted away in a Berlin square in an effort by the World Wildlife Fund to draw attention to melting ice caps in Greenland and Antarctica.

EU phasing out standard lightbulbs

Mon, 31 Aug 2009 18:26:45 GMT

The EU will start making the transition from power-draining lightbulbs to more energy efficient ones Tuesday, the European Commission said.

Pacific trash patch worries researchers

Fri, 28 Aug 2009 19:58:21 GMT

During their August fact-finding expedition, a group of University of California scientists found much more debris than they expected. The team announced their observations at a San Diego press conference Thursday.

Climate change creates carbon crooks

Fri, 21 Aug 2009 18:42:48 GMT

Customs agents this week arrested nine people in the London area suspected of a multimillion dollar fraud in trading carbon permits.

World sets ocean temperature record

Thu, 20 Aug 2009 19:17:58 GMT

July was the hottest the world's oceans have been in almost 130 years of record-keeping.