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Article from: Reuters Font size: Decrease Increase : Email : Print From correspondents in Wellington THE search for a Japanese whaler who fell overboard in freezing waters south of New Zealand has been called off, with the man now presumed dead, Hajime


AFP/File ? Nepalese lodge owner Rinjin Dorje Lama (centre) talks to a tourist and a guide at Kyangjin Gompa in the ? Play Video Climate Change Video: Lawmakers: Infrastructure, alternative energy should get stimulus money WRAL Raleigh Play Video


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A crew member of Japan?s controversial whale-hunting fleet is missing and presumed dead after he apparently fell overboard in freezing Antarctic waters south of New Zealand, officials said. Japan?s coast guard requested New Zealand?s help after


US president-elect Barack Obama reiterated again at the weekend that strategic investments in renewable energy will be an integral part of his plan to create three million new jobs over the next two years. 'To put people back to work today and reduce our


THE search for a Japanese whaler who fell overboard in freezing waters south of New Zealand has been called off, with the man now presumed dead, Hajime Shirasaki, a 30-year-old engine room oiler, was reported missing from the Kyoshin Maru No. 2 early


Japan's whaling hunts attract regular international criticism Rescuers are searching for a Japanese sailor reported missing from a whaling ship in the Antarctic. Hajime Shirasaki, 30, is believed to have fallen overboard in freezing conditions south of


By Earth's Newsdesk, a project of Ecological Internet (Seattle, WA) -- The Climate Ark Climate Change Portal at http://www.climateark.org/ turned ten years old this New Year. Tens of millions of users have and continue to enjoy the Internet's best


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THE search for a Japanese whaler who fell overboard in freezing waters south of New Zealand has been called off, with the man now presumed dead, Hajime Shirasaki, a 30-year-old engine room oiler, was reported missing from the Kyoshin Maru No. 2 early


Reef and Rainforest Tours, the operator who specialises in tailor-made wildlife and nature-based holidays to some of the world?s most exotic long haul destinations, has added Brazil and Panama to their 2009 ?Family Wildlife Adventures? brochure,


The economic meltdown has put a damper on a lot of things, but it seems to have been less of a wet blanket for investors in startups in the green technology and renewable energy in 2008 - if you exclude the final quarter of the unusually dismal year.


Outbound traffic is backed up from the West Gate Bridge to the Domain Tunnel after an oil spill from a truck on the Bolte Bridge. Oil began to leak from the truck as it crossed the Bolte Bridge about 11am and made its way to the West Gate Freeway, a


Contact: Stephen R. Carpenter MADISON ? Economists use leading indicators ? the drivers of economic performance ? to take the temperature of the economy and predict the future. Now, in a new study, scientists take a page from the social science


Contact: Professor Robert Stavins A new way to reduce carbon dioxide emissions and tackle climate change had been unveiled by leading economists. Under the proposals, companies would buy what are in effect permits to pollute, but the price of those


U. S. Senate Minority Report: More Than 650 International Scientists Dissent Over Man-Made Global Warming Claims Scientists Continue to Debunk ?Consensus? in 2008 Over 650 dissenting scientists from around the globe challenged man-made global warming


ScienceDaily (Jan. 5, 2009) A new way to reduce carbon dioxide emissions and tackle climate change had been unveiled by leading economists. See also: Environmental Policy Global Warming Climate Resource Shortage Funding Policy Land Management


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January 2009 The Iowa Climate Change Advisory Council has come to a consensus on two greenhouse gas (GHG) reduction scenarios and 56 policy options in its 469-page final report to the governor and general assembly. Charged with this task in 2007, the


New technology may help resorts stave off the effects of global warming. Photo: Eiger Internationl Last summer, three Colorado ski resorts?Aspen, Vail, and Telluride?signed on to test a new product that claims to slow the process of snow melting. The


Premier Inn, the budget hotel chain, has launched ?Britain?s greenest hotel? in Tamworth, Staffordshire.


A health alert has been issued for some Sydneysiders to avoid outdoor exercise because of high pollution levels. The Bureau of Meteorology says today's air quality in Sydney is poor. Children and those with breathing difficulties, such as asthma, are


A new way to reduce carbon dioxide emissions and tackle climate change had been unveiled by leading economists. Under the proposals, companies would buy what are in effect permits to pollute, but the price of those permits would be controlled because the


Heaving with heavy goods, the A67 from Eindhoven barrels through the flat, featureless fields of the south-eastern Netherlands on its way to the German border. On a frozen December morning, nothing very much moves beyond the road's edge; a horse stamps


We came down from the high ground as the first lights were twinkling in the frosty air over Macclesfield. We could just make out the black whale-back silhouette of Alderley Edge but, in general, the Cheshire plain seemed lightless and lifeless. Along the


Editor's Note: You can watch an incredible photo slideshow of the effects of the coal ash sludge spill at the bottom of this story. Harriman, TN - On December 26, 2008, the Roane County Codes Enforcement Office condemned three homes along Swan Pond


The collapse in demand for recycled material is forcing local councils to change private finance initiative contracts. According to local press reports, Northumberland County Council has allowed its PFI partner, waste specialist Sita UK, to recycle 2%


The Philippines has paved the way for further development of its renewable energy resources with the passing of new legislation. The Renewable Energy Bill was signed into law by president Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo in mid-December, some 20 years after it


ScienceDaily (Jan. 5, 2009) ? Climate researchers have shown that big volcanic eruptions over the past 450 years have temporarily cooled weather in the tropics?but suggest that such effects may have been masked in the 20th century by rising global