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This aren't images of smog in Beijing or even Hong Kong, but Singapore. Haze blanketed the city-state for a second consecutive day as a result of forest fires from the Indonesian island of Sumatra.
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Activists who believe climate change is the biggest challenge humans have ever faced mean to hit the fossil fuel merchants where it hurts—in their market cap.
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Floods that have devastated parts of Germany could briefly impede growth in Europe's biggest economy and result in an economic loss of 12 billion euros.
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ST. PAUL, Minn.-- Four Minnesota watersheds have been selected to test a first-in-the nation voluntary pilot project that offers farmers incentives to reduce water pollution from their operations in exchange for protection from tighter future regulations, federal and state officials announced Monday.
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LONDON, June 11- A new deal to curb carbon emissions could copy features from the Montreal Protocol, which the United States and China favoured over its Kyoto counterpart in an agreement on greenhouse gases at the weekend.
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STANARI, Bosnia, June 11- When China's Dongfang Electric Corp. bid to build the Stanari power plant in northern Bosnia, the strategy was simple: sacrifice profits for a toehold in emerging Europe. It's a trade-off increasingly occurring as Chinese firms take on discounts and risks in exchange for access to central and southeastern Europe.
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A group of United Airlines' most frequent flyers, including billionaire investor Tom Steyer, asked the airline to stop blocking climate change actions.
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*Rio is selling a 29 pct stake in its Coal& Allied. Partner Mitsubishi unlikely to exercise pre-emptive rights.
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Mark Tercek, President & CEO of The Nature Conservancy, discusses why investing in nature benefits business as well the environment.
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WASHINGTON, June 10- A group of United Airlines' most frequent flyers, including billionaire investor Tom Steyer, on Monday called on the big airline to stop blocking climate change actions. United Airlines Inc has opposed "multiple efforts to curb climate change pollution, at home and abroad," the group, Flying Clean, said in a letter to Chief Executive Jeff Smisek.
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MADISON, Wis.-- Wisconsin's big water users would have an easier time getting permits to drill high-capacity wells under legislation Republicans have tucked into Gov.
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*China's emissions offset falls in U.S. and Europe. LONDON, June 10- China led a rise in global carbon dioxide emissions to a record high in 2012, casting doubt over the chances of limiting global warming to what scientists regard as an acceptable level.
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Global spending on green cleaning products is expected to rise to $9.3 billion in 2017 from an estimated $2.7 billion in 2012, according to Global Industry Analysts Inc- albeit still a fraction of the relatively stable $150 billion market for all household cleaning products.
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LONDON, June 10- China led a rise in global carbon dioxide emissions to a record high in 2012, more than offsetting falls in the United States and Europe, the International Energy Agency said on Monday. China is the biggest emitter and made the largest contribution to the global rise, spewing out an additional 300 million tonnes.
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*Developers say barrage could provide 5 pct of UK electricity. LONDON, June 10- Plans to build one of the world's biggest tidal energy projects in the River Severn estuary between England and Wales do not look commercially viable, members of parliament said on Monday.
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LONDON/ MOSCOW, June 9- A swelling ocean of cheap and dirty fuel oil pouring out of Russian refineries and onto world markets tells the story of misaligned tax policies and perverse incentives that jeopardise President Vladimir Putin's campaign to modernise industry.
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President Barack Obama and his Chinese counterpart, Xi Jinping, agreed on Saturday to cooperate in fighting climate change by cutting the use of hydrofluorocarbons, or HFCs, the White House said a statement.
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President Barack Obama and his Chinese counterpart, Xi Jinping, agreed on Saturday to cooperate in fighting climate change by cutting the use of hydrofluorocarbons, or HFCs, the White House said a statement.
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President Barack Obama and his Chinese counterpart, Xi Jinping, completed two days of get-to-know-you talks on Saturday that covered disputes like cyber hacking and North Korea and may set the stage for U.S.-Chinese relations for years to come.
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Reliability regulators say California already faces "operational challenges" from the shutdowns and that a prolonged heatwave could lead to rolling blackouts in the San Diego and Los Angeles areas.
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On the site of a former military golf course where President Dwight Eisenhower once played, the future of U.S. warfare is rising.
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