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Global Warming Triggers an International Race for the Arctic
October 10, 2008 09:41 AM - Thomas Omestad, US News

A new epoch is beginning at the top of the Earth, where the historic melting of the vast Arctic ice cap is opening a forbidding, beautiful, and neglected swath of the planet. Already, there is talk that potentially huge oil and natural gas deposits lie under the Arctic waters, rendered more accessible by the shrinking of ice cover. Valuable minerals, too.

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Green alarm as EU ministers mull climate opt-outs
October 10, 2008 09:55 AM - Reuters

France, Germany and Austria called on Friday for an easing of EU climate ambitions to help industries facing an economic downturn, causing green groups to warn that the battle against climate change was in jeopardy.

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Burma Bans Nine Imported Milk Powder Products

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Myanmar's junta has banned nine dairy products found to be contaminated with melamine, state-run newspapers reported Friday. The official government announcement published in all three state- run newspapers said the nine brands of milk powders were contaminated with melamine and the government "hereby prohibited" their import, processing, distribution and use.
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Carbon traders or corporate raiders?

Sena Christian , newsreview.com
California’s environmentalists don’t always see eye to eye. That’s especially true when it comes to the best way to reduce the state’s carbon emissions, as required by the landmark Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006, better known as Assembly Bill 32. Some environmentalists argue that carbon-trading programs offer the best compromise between free enterprise and government regulation. But environmentalists who oppose so-called “cap-and-trade”ť programs claim that compromise comes at the expense of the poor and minorities, whose communities are often the hardest hit by air pollution.
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