Copyright (c) 2009 Yahoo! Inc. All rights reserved. http://news.yahoo.com/i/3486 science Environment News en-us Sat, 07 Nov 2009 18:58:33 GMT 5 142 18 http://news.yahoo.com/i/3486 http://l.yimg.com/a/i/us/nws/th/main_142b.gif http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/environment/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20091107/ts_afp/financeeconomyg20britain afp/20091107/financeeconomyg20britain AFP science Sat, 07 Nov 2009 18:58:33 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/environment/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20091107/ts_afp/financeeconomyg20britain"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20091107/capt.photo_1257611124546-1-0.jpg?x=130&y=86&q=85&sig=mUp8wwsE1vwtmSGdouaL7A--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="Chancellor Alistair Darling attends a G20 Finance Ministers group photograph outside the Fairmont Hotel, in St Andrews. G20 countries committed to work for an "ambitious outcome" at next month's vital UN climate change conference after meeting Saturday, but fell short of agreeing a figure on climate funding.(AFP/Derek Blair)" border="0" /></a>AFP - G20 countries committed to work for an "ambitious outcome" at next month's vital UN climate change conference after meeting Saturday, but fell short of agreeing a figure on climate funding.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/environment/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20091107/ts_afp/financeeconomyg20britain"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20091107/capt.photo_1257611124546-1-0.jpg?x=130&y=86&q=85&sig=mUp8wwsE1vwtmSGdouaL7A--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="photo" title="Chancellor Alistair Darling attends a G20 Finance Ministers group photograph outside the Fairmont Hotel, in St Andrews. G20 countries committed to work for an "ambitious outcome" at next month's vital UN climate change conference after meeting Saturday, but fell short of agreeing a figure on climate funding.(AFP/Derek Blair)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AFP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/environment/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091107/ap_on_bi_ge/g20_finance_ministers ap/20091107/g20_finance_ministers AP science Sat, 07 Nov 2009 18:58:23 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/environment/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091107/ap_on_bi_ge/g20_finance_ministers"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20091107/capt.b71857aa60a844f8a940a5f40deb333f.britain_g20_finance_ministers_meeting_gcc115.jpg?x=130&y=89&q=85&sig=qixb7buWS3yvqfFC101vwQ--" align="left" height="89" width="130" alt="German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble, left, U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner, center, and British Treasury chief Alistair Darling, right, are seen during a group photo session at the G20 Finance Ministers meeting in St. Andrews, Scotland, Saturday, Nov. 7, 2009. (AP Photo/Chris Clark)" border="0" /></a>AP - Finance officials from rich and developing countries pledged Saturday to maintain emergency support for their economies until recovery is assured, but failed to reach a clear agreement to bear the cost of fighting climate change.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/environment/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091107/ap_on_bi_ge/g20_finance_ministers"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20091107/capt.b71857aa60a844f8a940a5f40deb333f.britain_g20_finance_ministers_meeting_gcc115.jpg?x=130&y=89&q=85&sig=qixb7buWS3yvqfFC101vwQ--" align="left" height="89" width="130" alt="photo" title="German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble, left, U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner, center, and British Treasury chief Alistair Darling, right, are seen during a group photo session at the G20 Finance Ministers meeting in St. Andrews, Scotland, Saturday, Nov. 7, 2009. (AP Photo/Chris Clark)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/environment/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20091107/ts_nm/us_g20 nm/20091107/us_g20 Reuters topstories Sat, 07 Nov 2009 19:48:16 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/environment/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20091107/ts_nm/us_g20"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/rids/20091107/i/r220737385.jpg?x=130&y=87&q=85&sig=E0qnXwhkuXld7Kx5vE7Hrw--" align="left" height="87" width="130" alt="Chancellor of the Exchequer Alistair Darling speaks at a Thomson Reuters newsmaker event in London October 21, 2009. REUTERS/Andrew Winning" border="0" /></a>Reuters - Britain pressed the G20 on Saturday to come up with a plan to make banks pay for any future bailouts but one idea of imposing a global financial transactions tax was immediately shot down by the United States.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/environment/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20091107/ts_nm/us_g20"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/rids/20091107/i/r220737385.jpg?x=130&y=87&q=85&sig=E0qnXwhkuXld7Kx5vE7Hrw--" align="left" height="87" width="130" alt="photo" title="Chancellor of the Exchequer Alistair Darling speaks at a Thomson Reuters newsmaker event in London October 21, 2009. REUTERS/Andrew Winning" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (Reuters) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/environment/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20091107/wl_uk_afp/financeeconomyg20britainclimatecommunique afp/20091107/financeeconomyg20britainclimatecommunique AFP science Sat, 07 Nov 2009 16:22:06 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/environment/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20091107/wl_uk_afp/financeeconomyg20britainclimatecommunique"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20091107/capt.photo_1257589186577-1-0.jpg?x=130&y=61&q=85&sig=tMnMcQSzhI.M5TaZii.s7w--" align="left" height="61" width="130" alt="General view of the Fairmont Hotel, in St Andrews, Scotland, where the G20 Finance Ministers and Bank Governors Meeting is being hosted. The G20 is committed to an "ambitious outcome" at December's UN climate change summit in Copenhagen, it has said in a communique after talks, but has not agreed a figure for climate finance.(AFP/Derek Blair)" border="0" /></a>AFP - The G20 is committed to an "ambitious outcome" at December's UN climate change summit in Copenhagen, it said in a communique after talks Saturday, but did not agree a figure for climate finance.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/environment/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20091107/wl_uk_afp/financeeconomyg20britainclimatecommunique"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20091107/capt.photo_1257589186577-1-0.jpg?x=130&y=61&q=85&sig=tMnMcQSzhI.M5TaZii.s7w--" align="left" height="61" width="130" alt="photo" title="General view of the Fairmont Hotel, in St Andrews, Scotland, where the G20 Finance Ministers and Bank Governors Meeting is being hosted. The G20 is committed to an "ambitious outcome" at December's UN climate change summit in Copenhagen, it has said in a communique after talks, but has not agreed a figure for climate finance.(AFP/Derek Blair)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AFP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/environment/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20091107/wl_africa_afp/environmentclimatewarmingafricakenya afp/20091107/environmentclimatewarmingafricakenya AFP science Sat, 07 Nov 2009 16:12:13 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/environment/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20091107/wl_africa_afp/environmentclimatewarmingafricakenya"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20091107/capt.photo_1257610179489-1-0.jpg?x=130&y=97&q=85&sig=Q3mxZEI9Zsx2DZBAb4JIng--" align="left" height="97" width="130" alt="Kenyan Prime Minister Raila Odinga, seen here during an interview with AFP in Nairobi, has criticised a walkout by African states during climate talks in Barcelona as "grandstanding," and said it did not help developing countries' case.(AFP/Tony Karumba)" border="0" /></a>AFP - Kenyan Prime Minister Raila Odinga Saturday criticised a walkout by African states during climate talks in Barcelona as "grandstanding," and said it did not help developing countries' case.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/environment/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20091107/wl_africa_afp/environmentclimatewarmingafricakenya"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20091107/capt.photo_1257610179489-1-0.jpg?x=130&y=97&q=85&sig=Q3mxZEI9Zsx2DZBAb4JIng--" align="left" height="97" width="130" alt="photo" title="Kenyan Prime Minister Raila Odinga, seen here during an interview with AFP in Nairobi, has criticised a walkout by African states during climate talks in Barcelona as "grandstanding," and said it did not help developing countries' case.(AFP/Tony Karumba)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AFP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/environment/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20091107/wl_africa_afp/kenyafranceenergynuclear afp/20091107/kenyafranceenergynuclear AFP science Sat, 07 Nov 2009 15:03:17 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/environment/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20091107/wl_africa_afp/kenyafranceenergynuclear"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20091107/capt.photo_1257606150012-1-0.jpg?x=86&y=130&q=85&sig=6fVtj_r4Sqky4U7BgiDBjg--" align="left" height="130" width="86" alt="A nuclear power plant in South Africa in 2005. Kenya hopes to build its first nuclear power plant in the next five years with help from France, Prime Minister Raila Odinga has said.(AFP/File/Gian Luigi Guercia)" border="0" /></a>AFP - Kenya hopes to build its first nuclear power plant in the next five years with help from France, Prime Minister Raila Odinga said on Saturday.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/environment/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20091107/wl_africa_afp/kenyafranceenergynuclear"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20091107/capt.photo_1257606150012-1-0.jpg?x=86&y=130&q=85&sig=6fVtj_r4Sqky4U7BgiDBjg--" align="left" height="130" width="86" alt="photo" title="A nuclear power plant in South Africa in 2005. Kenya hopes to build its first nuclear power plant in the next five years with help from France, Prime Minister Raila Odinga has said.(AFP/File/Gian Luigi Guercia)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AFP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/environment/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20091107/wl_uk_afp/britainenergynuclearpolitics afp/20091107/britainenergynuclearpolitics AFP science Sat, 07 Nov 2009 09:13:06 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/environment/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20091107/wl_uk_afp/britainenergynuclearpolitics"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20091107/capt.photo_1257569608343-1-0.jpg?x=130&y=96&q=85&sig=hHBqD6CNeYVXT9T8raLlaA--" align="left" height="96" width="130" alt="File picture shows barrels containing high level radioactive nuclear waste in a coolant tank at Sellafield nuclear plant. The country could face a serious energy crisis unless plans to build new nuclear power stations are implemented, the energy secretary revealed in an interview Saturday.(AFP/File/Odd Andersen)" border="0" /></a>AFP - The country could face a serious energy crisis unless plans to build new nuclear power stations are implemented, the energy secretary revealed in an interview Saturday.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/environment/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20091107/wl_uk_afp/britainenergynuclearpolitics"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20091107/capt.photo_1257569608343-1-0.jpg?x=130&y=96&q=85&sig=hHBqD6CNeYVXT9T8raLlaA--" align="left" height="96" width="130" alt="photo" title="File picture shows barrels containing high level radioactive nuclear waste in a coolant tank at Sellafield nuclear plant. The country could face a serious energy crisis unless plans to build new nuclear power stations are implemented, the energy secretary revealed in an interview Saturday.(AFP/File/Odd Andersen)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AFP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/environment/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091106/ap_on_bi_ge/us_shell_oil_environmental_fine ap/20091106/us_shell_oil_environmental_fine AP science Fri, 06 Nov 2009 23:37:33 GMT AP - Shell Oil Co. has been ordered to pay $19.5 million to the state for environmental violations at gas stations around California. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/environment/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091106/ap_on_bi_ge/us_coal_ash_wva ap/20091106/us_coal_ash_wva AP science Fri, 06 Nov 2009 21:37:57 GMT AP - The West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection may change its policy for inspecting coal ash impoundments after a survey uncovered more problems &mdash; and dams &mdash; than expected. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/environment/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/mcclatchy/20091106/sc_mcclatchy/3350825 mcclatchy/20091106/3350825 McClatchy Newspapers science Fri, 06 Nov 2009 19:31:00 GMT McClatchy Newspapers - WASHINGTON &mdash; As an evangelical Christian living in Texas, climate scientist Katharine Hayhoe found that many conservatives had questions about climate change based on things they'd heard on talk radio. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/environment/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20091106/wl_sthasia_afp/indiaeuclimatechange afp/20091106/indiaeuclimatechange AFP science Fri, 06 Nov 2009 17:05:32 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/environment/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20091106/wl_sthasia_afp/indiaeuclimatechange"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20091106/capt.photo_1257524640582-1-0.jpg?x=130&y=98&q=85&sig=kScVzjTydjnxIhnDYGxnPg--" align="left" height="98" width="130" alt="Swedish Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt (L) shakes hands with Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh at the European Union Summit in New Delhi. Reinfeldt, acting as president of the EU, warned Friday of the impact of climate change on India unless a new emissions pact was reached in upcoming UN climate talks.(AFP/Raveendran)" border="0" /></a>AFP - Sweden's Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt, acting as president of the EU, warned Friday of the impact of climate change on India unless a new emissions pact was reached in upcoming UN climate talks.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/environment/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20091106/wl_sthasia_afp/indiaeuclimatechange"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20091106/capt.photo_1257524640582-1-0.jpg?x=130&y=98&q=85&sig=kScVzjTydjnxIhnDYGxnPg--" align="left" height="98" width="130" alt="photo" title="Swedish Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt (L) shakes hands with Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh at the European Union Summit in New Delhi. Reinfeldt, acting as president of the EU, warned Friday of the impact of climate change on India unless a new emissions pact was reached in upcoming UN climate talks.(AFP/Raveendran)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AFP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/environment/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091106/ap_on_bi_ge/us_biofuels_initiative_tennessee ap/20091106/us_biofuels_initiative_tennessee AP science Fri, 06 Nov 2009 16:39:15 GMT AP - Gov. Phil Bredesen says a legislative staff member who attacked a state-backed initiative to turn switchgrass into ethanol is playing politics and endangering chances to land a large investment for East Tennessee. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/environment/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091106/ap_on_re_eu/climate ap/20091106/climate AP science Fri, 06 Nov 2009 15:53:59 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/environment/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091106/ap_on_re_eu/climate"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20091105/capt.9a0d1f6d752d43ad9bbce1a35eacfc32.spain_un_climate_talks__mf104.jpg?x=130&y=83&q=85&sig=kMOOtp3ZXeOfac1chhhKhg--" align="left" height="83" width="130" alt="Activists of anti-poverty group Oxfam wearing masks of world leaders fron left to right: British Prime Minister Gordon Brown, French President Nicolas Sarkozy, US President Barack Obama, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, Spain's Jose Luiz Rodriguez Zapatero and Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, perform during the Climate Change Talks in Barcelona, Spain, Thursday, Nov. 5, 2009. Barcelona is host the final round of climate talks before December's Copenhagen UN climate summit. (AP Photo/Manu Fernandez)" border="0" /></a>AP - U.N. climate negotiators said Friday that, despite low expectations for setting legally binding emissions targets next month, it is still possible to conclude a strong, 192-nation deal to define future work in fighting global warming.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/environment/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091106/ap_on_re_eu/climate"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20091105/capt.9a0d1f6d752d43ad9bbce1a35eacfc32.spain_un_climate_talks__mf104.jpg?x=130&y=83&q=85&sig=kMOOtp3ZXeOfac1chhhKhg--" align="left" height="83" width="130" alt="photo" title="Activists of anti-poverty group Oxfam wearing masks of world leaders fron left to right: British Prime Minister Gordon Brown, French President Nicolas Sarkozy, US President Barack Obama, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, Spain's Jose Luiz Rodriguez Zapatero and Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, perform during the Climate Change Talks in Barcelona, Spain, Thursday, Nov. 5, 2009. Barcelona is host the final round of climate talks before December's Copenhagen UN climate summit. (AP Photo/Manu Fernandez)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/environment/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20091106/sc_afp/unclimatewarmingunfcccus afp/20091106/unclimatewarmingunfcccus AFP science Fri, 06 Nov 2009 15:20:11 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/environment/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20091106/sc_afp/unclimatewarmingunfcccus"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20091106/capt.photo_1257519588320-8-0.jpg?x=100&y=130&q=85&sig=wAP7jVAaDrEZQfr0vlTeNQ--" align="left" height="130" width="100" alt="Activists of the environmental group Greenpeace hang a banner reading "Climate Chaos, Who is to Blame?" from the Cristobal Colon statue in Barcelona. The United States said it could still present proposals for curbing its carbon emissions at next month's climate change meeting in Copenhagen, even if Congress was still debating global warming legislation.(AFP/Lluis Gene)" border="0" /></a>AFP - The United States said on Friday it could still present proposals for curbing its carbon emissions at next month's climate change meeting in Copenhagen, even if Congress was still debating global warming legislation.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/environment/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20091106/sc_afp/unclimatewarmingunfcccus"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20091106/capt.photo_1257519588320-8-0.jpg?x=100&y=130&q=85&sig=wAP7jVAaDrEZQfr0vlTeNQ--" align="left" height="130" width="100" alt="photo" title="Activists of the environmental group Greenpeace hang a banner reading "Climate Chaos, Who is to Blame?" from the Cristobal Colon statue in Barcelona. The United States said it could still present proposals for curbing its carbon emissions at next month's climate change meeting in Copenhagen, even if Congress was still debating global warming legislation.(AFP/Lluis Gene)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AFP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/environment/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20091106/ts_afp/apecsummitclimatewarmingeconomy afp/20091106/apecsummitclimatewarmingeconomy AFP science Fri, 06 Nov 2009 07:03:02 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/environment/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20091106/ts_afp/apecsummitclimatewarmingeconomy"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20091106/capt.photo_1257478973237-3-0.jpg?x=130&y=84&q=85&sig=bTnBB59yLj3AJyfyWasw5g--" align="left" height="84" width="130" alt="View of the Syncrude oil sands extraction facility near the town of Fort McMurray in Alberta Province, Canada on October 25. Greenpeace is calling for an end to oil sands mining in the region due to their greenhouse gas emissions and have recently staged sit-ins which briefly halted production at several mines.(AFP/File/Mark Ralston)" border="0" /></a>AFP - Asia-Pacific powers including the United States, China and Russia are expected to call next week for sweeping cuts in greenhouse gas emissions on the final countdown to a crunch climate meeting.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/environment/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20091106/ts_afp/apecsummitclimatewarmingeconomy"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20091106/capt.photo_1257478973237-3-0.jpg?x=130&y=84&q=85&sig=bTnBB59yLj3AJyfyWasw5g--" align="left" height="84" width="130" alt="photo" title="View of the Syncrude oil sands extraction facility near the town of Fort McMurray in Alberta Province, Canada on October 25. Greenpeace is calling for an end to oil sands mining in the region due to their greenhouse gas emissions and have recently staged sit-ins which briefly halted production at several mines.(AFP/File/Mark Ralston)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AFP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/environment/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20091106/wl_uk_afp/climatewarmingunbritain afp/20091106/climatewarmingunbritain AFP science Fri, 06 Nov 2009 08:41:11 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/environment/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20091106/wl_uk_afp/climatewarmingunbritain"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20091106/capt.photo_1257496569160-1-0.jpg?x=130&y=84&q=85&sig=KYrIZN1cI31Gsj4viINwfQ--" align="left" height="84" width="130" alt="The world's largest offshore windmill farm located just outside Copenhagen harbour. Negotiations ahead of the crucial UN climate talks in Copenhagen are "not going well", Climate Change Secretary Ed Miliband has warned.(AFP/File/Soeren Bidstrup)" border="0" /></a>AFP - Negotiations ahead of the crucial UN climate talks in Copenhagen are "not going well", Climate Change Secretary Ed Miliband has warned.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/environment/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20091106/wl_uk_afp/climatewarmingunbritain"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20091106/capt.photo_1257496569160-1-0.jpg?x=130&y=84&q=85&sig=KYrIZN1cI31Gsj4viINwfQ--" align="left" height="84" width="130" alt="photo" title="The world's largest offshore windmill farm located just outside Copenhagen harbour. Negotiations ahead of the crucial UN climate talks in Copenhagen are "not going well", Climate Change Secretary Ed Miliband has warned.(AFP/File/Soeren Bidstrup)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AFP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/environment/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20091106/sc_afp/apecsummitclimatewarming afp/20091106/apecsummitclimatewarming AFP science Fri, 06 Nov 2009 03:43:20 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/environment/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20091106/sc_afp/apecsummitclimatewarming"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20091106/capt.photo_1257490872733-3-0.jpg?x=130&y=83&q=85&sig=CiWyV8Nf4nFIYOeJY.NZSA--" align="left" height="83" width="130" alt="File photo shows a man riding his tricycle past a coal-fired power station on the outskirts of Beijing. Asia-Pacific powers including the United States, China and Russia are expected to call next week for sweeping cuts in greenhouse gas emissions on the final countdown to a crunch climate meeting.(AFP/File/Frederic J. Brown)" border="0" /></a>AFP - Asia-Pacific leaders plan to call for sweeping cuts in global greenhouse gas emissions by 2050 at a summit here next week, according to a draft communique obtained by AFP Friday.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/environment/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20091106/sc_afp/apecsummitclimatewarming"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20091106/capt.photo_1257490872733-3-0.jpg?x=130&y=83&q=85&sig=CiWyV8Nf4nFIYOeJY.NZSA--" align="left" height="83" width="130" alt="photo" title="File photo shows a man riding his tricycle past a coal-fired power station on the outskirts of Beijing. Asia-Pacific powers including the United States, China and Russia are expected to call next week for sweeping cuts in greenhouse gas emissions on the final countdown to a crunch climate meeting.(AFP/File/Frederic J. Brown)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AFP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/environment/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20091106/ts_afp/unclimatewarmingunfccc afp/20091106/unclimatewarmingunfccc AFP topstories Fri, 06 Nov 2009 17:10:25 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/environment/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20091106/ts_afp/unclimatewarmingunfccc"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20091106/capt.photo_1257522849371-3-0.jpg?x=86&y=130&q=85&sig=j_MdRK95nFhWC.Id.uxNXw--" align="left" height="130" width="86" alt="This handout picture by the environmental group Greenpeace shows activists hanging a banner reading "Climate Chaos, Who is to Blame?" hanging from the Cristobal Colon statue in Barcelona. Talks on a new UN climate pact headed for a wrap in Barcelona, leaving a roster of bitterly divisive issues to be hammered out at next month's showdown in Copenhagen.(AFP/HO/Pedro Armestre)" border="0" /></a>AFP - Talks on a new UN climate pact were wrapping up Friday, leaving a roster of bitterly divisive issues to be hammered out at a showdown in Copenhagen next month.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/environment/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20091106/ts_afp/unclimatewarmingunfccc"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20091106/capt.photo_1257522849371-3-0.jpg?x=86&y=130&q=85&sig=j_MdRK95nFhWC.Id.uxNXw--" align="left" height="130" width="86" alt="photo" title="This handout picture by the environmental group Greenpeace shows activists hanging a banner reading "Climate Chaos, Who is to Blame?" hanging from the Cristobal Colon statue in Barcelona. Talks on a new UN climate pact headed for a wrap in Barcelona, leaving a roster of bitterly divisive issues to be hammered out at next month's showdown in Copenhagen.(AFP/HO/Pedro Armestre)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AFP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/environment/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20091106/wl_asia_afp/usjapanmilitarydiplomacy afp/20091106/usjapanmilitarydiplomacy AFP science Fri, 06 Nov 2009 01:51:28 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/environment/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20091106/wl_asia_afp/usjapanmilitarydiplomacy"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20091106/capt.photo_1257472214286-1-0.jpg?x=130&y=85&q=85&sig=jpA2UT_fzi0D3LU3EeTcKA--" align="left" height="85" width="130" alt="File photo of US helicopters and planes at Futenma US Marine Base in Ginowan, Okinawa prefecture. Japan's Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama has said he does not plan to make a decision on the relocation of a controversial US military base before President Barack Obama visits Tokyo next week.(AFP/File/Toru Yamanaka)" border="0" /></a>AFP - The heads of two key Japanese prefectures called for US troops to toughen environmental protection as a goodwill gesture, as a row over bases brews ahead of President Barack Obama's visit next week.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/environment/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20091106/wl_asia_afp/usjapanmilitarydiplomacy"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20091106/capt.photo_1257472214286-1-0.jpg?x=130&y=85&q=85&sig=jpA2UT_fzi0D3LU3EeTcKA--" align="left" height="85" width="130" alt="photo" title="File photo of US helicopters and planes at Futenma US Marine Base in Ginowan, Okinawa prefecture. Japan's Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama has said he does not plan to make a decision on the relocation of a controversial US military base before President Barack Obama visits Tokyo next week.(AFP/File/Toru Yamanaka)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AFP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/environment/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20091105/sc_afp/climatewarminguspolitics afp/20091105/climatewarminguspolitics AFP science Thu, 05 Nov 2009 23:25:48 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/environment/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20091105/sc_afp/climatewarminguspolitics"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20091105/capt.photo_1257443669053-2-0.jpg?x=86&y=130&q=85&sig=SXcGd5pcEFHpO2L0DnpamA--" align="left" height="130" width="86" alt="US Senate Democrats on Thursday pushed through a sweeping climate change bill, maneuvering an end-run around opposition Republicans who continued their boycott of deliberations. "We are pleased that despite the Republican boycott we have been able to move this bill forward," said committee chair Democrat Barbara Boxer, pictured in October 2009, after the vote.(AFP/Getty Images/File/Chip Somodevilla)" border="0" /></a>AFP - US Senate Democrats on Thursday pushed a sweeping climate change bill through a key committee, shrugging off a boycott by Republicans who oppose the measure and mostly shunned the debate.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/environment/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20091105/sc_afp/climatewarminguspolitics"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20091105/capt.photo_1257443669053-2-0.jpg?x=86&y=130&q=85&sig=SXcGd5pcEFHpO2L0DnpamA--" align="left" height="130" width="86" alt="photo" title="US Senate Democrats on Thursday pushed through a sweeping climate change bill, maneuvering an end-run around opposition Republicans who continued their boycott of deliberations. "We are pleased that despite the Republican boycott we have been able to move this bill forward," said committee chair Democrat Barbara Boxer, pictured in October 2009, after the vote.(AFP/Getty Images/File/Chip Somodevilla)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AFP)