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.
AFP - Estimates vary
widely on the costs of
damage from climate
change, easing these
impacts and taming the
carbon gas stoking the
problem, but economists
agree the bill is likely
to be in the trillions of
dollars.
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.
Reuters - Roads,
buildings and pipelines
in Canada's north are at
risk from global warming
and the government must
do more to protect
infrastructure in the
remote frozen region, an
official panel said on
Thursday.
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