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Jakarta - Indonesian police on Wednesday arrested 14 Greenpeace activists for blocking the export facilities of a major pulp mill company in eastern Sumatra. The activists were in police custody in Pekanbaru, the capital of Riau in eastern Sumatra, f...
Apps offering services like audio tours, cheap international calls and the wait time for a Disney ride are become an integral part of travel.
Environmentalists are questioning the legal justification offered for what would be the only active oil well inside the nation's first national forest.
POST-ABC NEWS POLL | Percentage of U.S. that believes in global warming dips from 80 to 72.
The same agencies rescued Charles Hill, 53, and Karen Hill, 48, on Nov. 19. The Alabama couple had followed a GPS navigational system in an attempt to go from Gold Beach to Grants Pass.
Companies could buy and sell allowances under plan to reduce pollutants 15%. California officials on Tuesday issued the nation's first blueprint for a broad-based cap-and-trade plan, an innovative and controversial effort to use market forces to control global warming.
Cutting global warming pollution would not only make the planet healthier, it would make people healthier too, newly released studies say.
President Barack Obama will go to Copenhagen next month, a White House official said Wednesday, to participate in a long-anticipated, high-stakes global climate summit.
Ships are on alert and maritime authorities are monitoring the movements of hundreds of menacing icebergs drifting toward New Zealand in the southern Pacific Ocean, officials said.
Iranian leader Mahmoud Ahmadinejad won support for his country's nuclear ambitions and expanded his reach in Latin America in a three-country goodwill tour that took him to close ally Venezuela for his final stop.
Nov. 25 (Bloomberg) -- President Barack Obama will join at least 65 other world leaders in Copenhagen next month during United Nations talks on combating climate change, an administration official said today.
Hoppily ever after: Tiana encounters Prince Naveen in Disney's “Princess and the Frog.”
Nov. 25 (Bloomberg) -- Oil traded little changed before a report forecast to show that crude inventories accumulated last week in the U.S., the world’s biggest energy user.
The Bureau of Land Management's Carson City District Office, and the Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest, Carson Ranger District, recently announced the availability of Christmas tree cutting permits for the general public, The agencies conduct tree permit sales to thin small trees in overstocked areas and to provide recreational experiences for area residents.
Nov. 25 (Bloomberg) -- Shares of the following companies may have unusual moves in Canadian trading . Stock symbols are in parentheses. The Standard & Poor’s/TSX Composite Index fell the most since Oct. 30, losing 84.39 points, or 0.7 percent, to 11,539.63 yesterday.
The United States has firmed up plans to impose up to 15 percent tariffs on imported Chinese steel pipes targeted for wideranging sanctions for alleged unfair subsidies.
Nov. 25 (Bloomberg) -- Cutting the greenhouse gases blamed for global warming can be a boon to human health by reducing deaths from cancer, strokes and heart disease, The Lancet journal said.
Visitors to South Africa's premier holiday destination who are worried about becoming victims of the country's high crime rate could find themselves instead robbed by a more furry kind of felon: baboons.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 25 (UPI) -- The percentage of Americans believing global warming is occurring dropped from 80 percent to 72 percent in the last year, a Washington Post poll indicates.
Deere swings to a fourth-quarter loss, as the company significantly devalues its landscaping business and shows the effects of a sharp decline in demand for farming, construction and forestry equipment.
Nov. 25 (Bloomberg) -- The European Union will require automobile tires to have fuel-efficiency labels in three years under new environmental legislation in the world’s biggest consumer market.
