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LOS ANGELES - The lunar dud for space enthusiasts has become a watershed event for NASA. Full Story »

If Friday the 13th is unlucky, then 2009 has been an unusually unlucky year. But your luck is about to change. Today is the last of three Friday the 13ths you'll have to endure this year. Full Story »

SINGAPORE (AFP) - China can become the world's top exporter of "green technology" if it carries out crucial energy and ecological reforms, leading environmental campaigners said here Saturday. Full Story »

BEIJING (AFP) - Greenpeace, the global environmental group, called Friday on US President Barack Obama to become more engaged on climate change at home and abroad, just two days ahead of his visit to China. Full Story »

BEIJING (Reuters) - China will insist the main principles of the Kyoto Protocol are retained in any new global climate change pact, even though others are seeking to abandon them, a high-ranking climate official on Saturday. Full Story »

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - NASA remains on track for a Monday launch of space shuttle Atlantis. Even the weather is looking great. Full Story »

TOKYO - President Barack Obama is calling on all nations to accept responsibility for fighting climate change. Full Story »

CHIMOIO, Mozambique (AFP) - Nico Strydom probably knows as much as anyone about jatropha, the poisonous tree whose oily black seeds just might sprout a green energy revolution. Full Story »

It's official: There's water on the moon, and lots of it. Full Story »

Editor's Note: This is Part 9 in a 10-part LiveScience series on the origin, evolution and future of the human species and the mysteries that remain to be solved. Full Story »

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Scientists who crashed two spacecraft into a crater on the moon said on Friday they found water in the dust they kicked up, just as they had hoped. Full Story »

LA PAZ, Bolivia - Evaporation blamed on global warming has reduced Lake Titicaca, one of the world's highest navigable lakes, to its lowest level since 1949, authorities said Thursday. Full Story »

RIO DE JANEIRO, Nov 13 (IPS) - Deforestation in Brazil's Amazon jungle was reduced more than expected between August 2008 and July 2009 -- 45 percent compared to the previous 12 months, the National Institute for Space Research (INPE) reported. Full Story »

BRASILIA, Brazil - Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon dropped nearly 46 percent from August 2008 to July 2009 — the biggest annual decline in two decades, the government said Thursday. Full Story »

Hopes, dreams and practical plans to colonize or otherwise exploit the moon as a source of minerals or a launch pad to the cosmos got a boost today with NASA's announcement of significant water ice at the lunar south pole. Full Story »

CALGARY, Alberta (Reuters) - Canadian Environment Minister Jim Prentice said on Friday that the United States and other big greenhouse gas emitters will need to agree on steps to cut emissions, and said Canada would harmonize its policies with its big southern neighbor. Full Story »

THE HAGUE (AFP) - The Dutch government said Friday it wants to introduce a "green" road tax by the kilometre from 2012 aimed at cutting carbon dioxide emissions by 10 percent and halving congestion. Full Story »

SAO PAULO (AFP) - Brazil said Friday it would offer a "voluntary" cut of at least 36 percent in greenhouse gas emissions at the UN conference on climate change in Copenhagen next month. Full Story »