AP - China announced
plans Thursday to sharply
boost its energy
efficiency by slowing the
growth of carbon
emissions as part of its
contribution to the fight
against global warming.
AP - Police broke up a
protest by the
environmental group
Greenpeace against
deforestation on the
Indonesian island of
Sumatra on Thursday,
arresting 12 foreign and
six Indonesian
demonstrators, an
activist said.
AP - President Barack
Obama will commit the
United States to
substantial cuts in
greenhouse gas pollution
over the next decade
— despite
resistance in Congress
over higher costs —
when he travels to a
major climate conference
in Copenhage...
AFP - Chinese Premier Wen
Jiabao will attend the
global climate change
summit in Copenhagen next
month, the foreign
ministry announced here
on Thursday.
AFP - Barack Obama is
leading a "significant"
change in US policy
towards global warming,
Nobel Peace Prize winner
Al Gore said, days ahead
of the US president's
trip to the global
climate summit in
Copenhagen.
AP - State authorities
plan to corral about
6,000 wild camels with
helicopters and gun them
down after they overran a
small town in Australia's
Outback in search of
water, trampling fences,
smashing tanks and
contaminating supplies.
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