Seaweed on French beaches 'emitting lethal fumes'

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Yahoo News 20 Aug 09; PARIS (AFP) – Mounds of rotting seaweed clogging beaches across northwestern France are emitting a toxic and potentia...

In hot water: World sets ocean temperature record

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Seth Borenstein, Associated Press Yahoo News 20 Aug 09; WASHINGTON – Steve Kramer spent an hour and a half swimming in the ocean Sunday — i...

Global warming could change Earth's tilt

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Rachel Courtland, New Scientist 20 Aug 09; Warming oceans could cause Earth's axis to tilt in the coming century, a new study suggests....

Putin calls for mass checks after dam tragedy

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Alissa De Carbonnel Yahoo News 20 Aug 09; CHERYOMUSHKY, Russia (AFP) – Prime Minister Vladimir Putin on Thursday called for checks on all R...

Germany's biggest solar park inaugurated

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Yahoo News 20 Aug 09; BERLIN (AFP) – Germany's largest solar park, and the world's second biggest, was inaugurated on Thursday on t...

World youth tell leaders to clean up

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Reuters 20 Aug 09; SEOUL (Reuters) - An international gathering of youth and children, billed as the largest ever of its type on climate ch...

Global pact to push China to low-carbon economy: Blair

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Yahoo News 20 Aug 09; BEIJING (AFP) – China's efforts to build a low-carbon economy would accelerate if world powers agree to a "p...

Best of our wild blogs: 20 Aug 09

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Scene City: Singapore - Wednesdays 8.30pm on Channel News Asia from Deadpoet's Cave East Coast - Worms in the walls from Singapore Natu...

Otters just out to have fun

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Jogger spots otters frolicking in sun at Pasir Ris Park Teh Jen Lee, The New Paper 20 Aug 09; HE HAD never seen wild otters before but jogg...

Green week gets pedal power

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Liaw Wy-Cin, Straits Times 20 Aug 09; EAST will meet West on Saturday when about 100 cyclists push off from opposite ends of the island to ...

Rehashing plan for 49 km Malacca,-Sumatra bridge

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But prospect of bridge linking Malacca, Sumatra still doubtful S Jayasankaran, Business Times 20 Aug 09; A 14-year old plan to build a US$1...

Sugar stocks hit by weather woes

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Shortfalls in India and Brazil pushing up prices for commodity globally Ravi Velloor, Straits Times 20 Aug 09; NEW DELHI: The unpredictable...