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2007-12-12 13:38:00

NUSA DUA, Indonesia (AFP) - Talks on halting the juggernaut of climate change swung into top gear here Wednesday with a blunt warning from UN chief Ban Ki-moon that the world was counting on a breakthrough. Amid beefed-up security at the conference venue

2007-12-12 13:15:00

NUSA DUA, Indonesia (Reuters) - U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon urged the world on Wednesday to agree to work out a new climate treaty by 2009 but said it might be "too ambitious" to set goals for greenhouse gas cuts in Bali. China said it was disappoi

2007-12-12 12:41:52

MOSCOW, November 12 (RIA Novosti) - Russia's rocket and space corporation Energia has developed six projects for new manned spacecraft, two of which will be submitted to Russia's space agency in the near future, a source said Wednesday. "Two of the most

2007-12-12 11:40:25

By Jonathan Amos Science reporter, BBC News, San Francisco Arctic summer melting in 2007 set new records More details Scientists in the US have presented one of the most dramatic forecasts yet for the disappearance of Arctic sea ice. Their latest modelli

2007-12-12 09:53:01

NUSA DUA, Indonesia (Reuters) - U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon urged the world on Wednesday to agree to work out a new climate treaty by 2009 and said detailed greenhouse gas cuts can be worked out after U.N. talks in Bali. Entering a dispute pitting

2007-12-12 08:58:00

(Reuters) - Following are quotes from world leaders and senior officials at the opening of the high-level segment of December 3-14 U.N.-led climate talks in Bali or at press briefings. U.N. SECRETARY-GENERAL BAN KI-MOON:"This is the moral challenge of our

2007-12-12 08:45:17

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Scientists searching for fossils high in the Andes mountains in Chile have unearthed the remains of a tank-like mammal related to armadillos that grazed 18 million years ago. "It looks different than almost anything out on the

2007-12-12 07:00:00

WERKENDAM, The Netherlands (AFP) - For centuries the low-lying Netherlands has fought to reclaim land from water by creating polders. Now, with flood risk increasing thanks to climate change, it is giving the land back. As politicians and experts from aro

2007-12-12 06:53:00

WASHINGTON (AFP) - NASA will test next week the faulty fuel tank sensors that grounded the Atlantis' mission to the International Space Station until January, space shuttle program manager Wayne Hale said. The results of the tests to be conducted December

2007-12-12 06:41:00

NUSA DUA, Indonesia (Reuters) - U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon urged the world on Wednesday to agree a sweeping treaty to fight climate change by 2009, telling U.N.-led talks in Bali to act now on "the moral challenge of our generation". Ban also told