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Coal fires up India farmers against power plants

Rajni Ramakan Patil has a message for the energy companies that want to build coal-based power stations on the

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Wild Winds whip up fierce forest fires on Spain’s Canary Islands

LA PALMA, Canary Islands -- Strong winds fanned forest fires for a second day Sunday on the Spanish Canary

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Man dies from black plague in China, 11 others infected

BEIJING -- Thousands of people have been placed under quarantine in a town in northwest China after a man

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Australia’s deadly wildfires will be worse next year

Australian officials have warned the country could be hit by even worse wildfires next summer than the deadly blazes

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WHO watching China plague cases ‘closely’

Video: A town in far western Qinghai province of China has been sealed off after pneumonic plague killed three

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Climate change: ‘Feedback’ triggers could amplify peril

PARIS (AFP) – New studies have warned of triggers in the natural environment, including a greenhouse-gas timebomb in Siberia

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Global warming seen worse than predicted

CHICAGO (Reuters) – The climate is heating up far faster than scientists had predicted, spurred by sharp increases in

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8,000 evacuated as Galeras erupts

PASTO, Colombia (AFP) - - Galeras volcano in southern Colombia, near the border with Ecuador, began erupting and some

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UN urges world to tackle mercury health threat

NAIROBI (AFP) – The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) on Sunday urged environment ministers meeting this week in Nairobi

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Clinton leaves for Asia vowing to strengthen US ties

WASHINGTON (AFP) – US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton left for Asia on Sunday, on her maiden mission as

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