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Indonesia plans to deport seven foreign Greenpeace activists involved in a protest against deforestation, seen as a contributor to global warming, the group said Thursday.
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 official and an activist said.
Indonesia has rejected a push by the resort island of Bali for rare turtles to be legally slain in Hindu ceremonies, siding with conservationists of the protected reptiles against religious advocates, an official said Friday.
The U.S. Forest Service will be selling surplus vehicles and equipment by public Internet auction Nov. 30- Dec. 7. The Shasta-Trinity and Mendocino National Forests will be selling 130 items, including cars, trucks, heavy equipment and miscellaneous equipment to the highest Internet bidders.
More than 1,200 acres of scenic meadow land and a spectacular waterfall in California have been bought by the U.S. Forest Service.
Indonesia detained 14 mostly foreign Greenpeace activists Wednesday as they protested against a big pulp and paper company in this country known for its greenhouse gas emissions, the group said.
Cow pastures and cornfields are the milieu for trout angling in this hidden landscape of limestone valleys and cold-water streams.
Oil prices dipped below $74 a barrel Friday as Dubai's debt problems jolted world markets and raised concern about the prospects for global economic recovery.
The U.S. Forest Service (USFS), Bureau of Land Management (BLM), Tule River Reservation Fire Department (TIA) and Kern County Fire Department (KCFD) officially declared the end of the 2009 wildland fire season on Saturday, November 21st.
Gert Ignatiussen returns to this fjord-front Inuit town with the spoils of his hunting trip. Six seals, all killed with a single shot to the head.
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin held talks with French officials Friday on expanding cooperation in the energy, automotive, transportation and pharmaceutical sectors.
On what is more akin to a sunny winter's stroll, U.S. troops proudly tread on a newly asphalted road, past a refurbished mosque and a crowded market overflowing with produce. Children dance around the soldiers' boots and bearded men stop them for a casual chat.
An approaching global climate summit has raised the temperature at a typically low-key meeting of leaders from Britain's former colonial empire.
Democratic candidates to succeed Senator Edward M. Kennedy are trying to prove themselves his ideological twin, but the tactic might not be a winning strategy.
Five years ago Blairo Maggi would have been the jungle's least likely savior. Since then he has had a conversion.
Americans' day-to-day lives won't change noticeably if President Barack Obama achieves his newly announced goal of slashing carbon dioxide pollution by one-sixth in the next decade, experts say.
China's Communist Party leadership pledged during a meeting Friday to "actively" tackle climate change and stick to its current fiscal and monetary policies, state media reported.
India's Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh said in an interview published Friday that China's decision to unveil a carbon emissions target had put pressure on India to follow suit.
Australia's bid to pledge carbon cuts ahead of next month's global climate talks was in serious doubt Friday as an opposition revolt over the legislation threatened to trigger snap polls.
China set a firm target to control its emissions of greenhouse gases Thursday, an unprecedented step that bolsters the momentum of climate change talks at next month's United Nations summit in Copenhagen.
Drawing his .40-caliber pistol, Severiano Pontes dashes across the steaming, muddy jungle floor, a hunch telling him what he would find around a bend.
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