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No excuse to neglect U.N. climate fight: delegates
December 1, 2008 04:08 PM - Reuters

POZNAN, Poland (Reuters) - The economic slowdown is "no excuse" to neglect a fight against global warming that could widen water shortages to half of humanity by 2050, delegates told the opening of U.N. climate talks in Poland on Monday. U.S. President-elect Barack Obama also won praise at the December 1-12 talks of 10,700 delegates from 187 nations for setting "ambitious" U.S. goals for cutting greenhouse gas emissions to slow climate change.

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US Beef Back on Shelves of South Korean Supermarkets
December 1, 2008 09:32 AM - , Organic Consumers Association

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) - South Korea's supermarket chains resumed selling U.S. beef Thursday, nearly five months after the government lifted an import ban imposed over fears of mad cow disease. South Korea banned American beef in 2003 after a case of mad cow disease was discovered in the U.S. The government lifted that ban in June - a move that sparked weeks of violent protests by South Koreans concerned about the health risks of eating U.S. meat.

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CO2 removing mechanism resumes in North Atlantic Ocean after a decade

Britain News
London, Dec 1 : Scientists have determined that due to a dramatic loss of sea-ice in the Arctic during the summer of 2007, convective mixing in the North Atlantic Ocean, a mechanism that helps to remove carbon dioxide (CO2) from the atmosphere, has returned after a decade of near stagnation.
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How the Rich Are Destroying the Earth

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There is an emergency. In less than a decade we will have to change course -- assuming the collapse of the U.S. economy or the explosion of the Middle East does not impose a change through chaos. To confront the emergency, we must understand the objective: to achieve a sober society; to plot out the way there; to accomplish this transformation equitably, by first making those with the most carry the burden within and between societies; to take inspiration from collective values ascribed to here in France by our nation's motto: "Liberty, ecology, fraternity."
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