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Canada wants more study on polar bear protection
INUVIK, Northwest Territories (Reuters) - Canada, criticized by environmentalists for not adequately protecting polar bears from the effects of climate change, said on Thursday it will take more time study its next step.
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Endangered Sumatran elephants and tigers get boost
GENEVA (Reuters) - Sumatra's endangered elephants and tigers should get a boost from an Indonesian government move to expand one of their last havens, a four-year-old national park on the island, conservation body WWF said on Thursday.
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Business asks Australia to ease carbon trade
CANBERRA (Reuters) - Environment groups demanded on Friday that Australia ignore the "greenhouse mafia" as major energy and mining companies met the government to demand greater compensation for a coming emissions trading regime.
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EU lawmakers urge caution on bloc's carbon curbs
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The European Union's response to global warming could be watered down to cut the impact on heavy industry and ensure the bloc takes a cautious approach to tougher goals, a document seen by Reuters shows.
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E.ON to appeal over Scottish wind farm rejection
LONDON (Reuters) - E.ON UK is to appeal against a local government refusal to grant planning permission for a wind farm at Auchencorth Moss in Scotland, the German-owned utility said on Thursday.
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UK minister says energy comes before climate: report
LONDON (Reuters) - The battle against climate change must not take precedence over the need to guarantee energy security, British industry minister John Hutton was quoted on Thursday as saying in an apparent policy change.
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Arctic ice second-lowest ever; polar bears affected
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Arctic sea ice shrank to its second-lowest level ever, U.S. scientists said on Wednesday, with particular melting in the Chukchi Sea, where polar bears were recently seen swimming far off the Alaskan coast.
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Ghana climate talks make progress to save forests
ACCRA (Reuters) - The world has made progress on ways to save tropical forests as part of a planned new U.N. pact to slow global warming, the U.N.'s top climate official said at 160-nation talks in Ghana ending on Wednesday.
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Vietnam to move thousands from Mekong flood zone
HANOI (Reuters) - Vietnam will spend nearly 2.4 trillion dong ($145 million) between now and 2010 to build dykes and relocate thousands of rice farmers because of heavy seasonal flooding in its fertile Mekong river delta, the government said.
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Cut greenhouse gases to save coral reefs: scientists
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - To keep coral reefs from being eaten away by increasingly acidic oceans, humans need to limit the amount of climate-warming greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, a panel of marine scientists said on Wednesday.
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