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2008-10-05 20:34:00

BARCELONA (AFP) - The world must act quickly if it is to brake an unprecedented die off of the Earth's animal and plant life that could have dire consequences for humans as well, top conservationists warned on Sunday. "There is a clear sense of urgency,"

2008-10-05 06:57:00

PARIS (AFP) - Wall Street's sickness and its contagiousness for the world economy are bad news for the already faltering effort to craft a new pact to tackle climate change. Tighter budgets, shrinking corporate profits and worries about jobs could crimp m

2008-10-05 05:06:00

CAPE TOWN (AFP) - Africa's rich abundance of life seems inexhaustible, but growing pressure on animals and plants could lead to greater poverty, more wars and migration to other continents, experts warned. From fish in Burkina Faso, to Ethiopian wild coff

2008-10-04 23:12:00

MOSCOW (AFP) - The orbital path of the International Space Station (ISS) was successfully adjusted Saturday to accommodate the landing of the world's sixth space tourist in eight days time, Interfax reported citing Russian space programme officials. "The

2008-10-03 18:14:28

LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's new minister for energy and climate change must balance efforts to combat global warming against the country's energy security needs, environment and business groups said on Friday. They cautiously welcomed Prime Minister Gord

2008-10-03 16:34:06

GENEVA (Reuters) - CERN, the world's biggest particle physics laboratory and creator of the Worldwide Web, on Friday unveiled a new computer network allowing thousands of scientists around the world to crunch data on its huge experiments. Some 7,000 scien

2008-10-03 16:22:00

KAMPALA (AFP) - A new family of mountain gorillas, one of the world's most endangered species, is ready for interaction with tourists, the Uganda Wildlife Authority (UWA) told AFP Friday. "There is a new group of 13 members that has been habituated," UWA

2008-10-03 15:55:00

MOSCOW (AFP) - Russian environmental groups launched Friday legal action against an oil and gas project led by US energy giant Exxon for threatening critically endangered whales in Russia's far east. The Russian government last month gave the consortium t

2008-10-03 15:50:00

BRUSSELS (AFP) - Europe's plan of action to tackle climate change is being undermined by pressure from industry and may no longer achieve its original green goals, the environmental group WWF said Friday. The compromise with industry, particularly German

2008-10-03 15:43:00

GENEVA (AFP) - The European Organisation for Nuclear Research (CERN) on Friday unveiled a massive computing grid aimed at analysing millions of gigabytes of data set to be generated by the world's largest atom-smasher. The data manager of the Large Hadron