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A Greenpeace campaigner walking through destroyed peatlands ...

(AFP) — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 16:25:00 GMT

(AFP) - A Greenpeace campaigner walking through destroyed peatlands in Pangkalan Bunut Riau province in 2009. Indonesia is hoping to raise hundreds of millions of dollars from foreign governments to fund 'green infrastructure' projects, a finance ministry official has said. Photo:Bay Ismoyo/AFP

Indian labourers unload waste from a tannery onto the banks ...

(AFP) — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 07:44:00 GMT

(AFP) - Indian labourers unload waste from a tannery onto the banks of the Ganges river in Kanpur in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh on January 13. For India's devout Hindus, the sacred Ganges river is always clean and always pure - even if its waters are a toxic stew of human sewage, discarded garbage and factory waste. Photo:Diptendu Dutta/AFP

Keiji Fukuda, Assistant Director-General for Health Security ...

(AFP) — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 18:41:00 GMT

(AFP) - Keiji Fukuda, Assistant Director-General for Health Security and Environment for the World Health Organization, speaks in Beijing in 2009. Fukuda will join a Council of Europe hearing next week to scrutinise if they had overreacted to the swine flu pandemic, an official said Friday. Photo:Frederic J. Brown/AFP

An environmental activist transports a snowman as part of a ...

(Reuters) — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 14:56:00 GMT

(Reuters) - An environmental activist transports a snowman as part of a climate change awareness action are pictured in front of the Berlin Cathedral (Berliner Dom) in Berlin January 22, 2010. Environmental activist are calling on Berliners this weekend to build their own snowman in a bid to form a 'Snowman Demonstration' in the heart of the German capital to raise awareness for climate change. REUTERS/Fabrizio Bensch (GERMANY - Tags: POLITICS ENVIRONMENT)

An environmental activist dressed as a snowman as part of a ...

(Reuters) — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 14:28:00 GMT

(Reuters) - An environmental activist dressed as a snowman as part of a climate change awareness action raises up his arm in Berlin January 22, 2010. Environmental activist are calling on Berliners this weekend to build their own snowman in a bid to form a 'Snowman Demonstration' in the heart of the German capital to raise awareness for climate change. The banners reads 'It has been fine with you people.' REUTERS/Fabrizio Bensch (GERMANY - Tags: POLITICS ENVIRONMENT)

Environmental activists dressed as a snowmen as part of a climate ...

(Reuters) — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 14:28:00 GMT

(Reuters) - Environmental activists dressed as a snowmen as part of a climate change awareness action, perform in Berlin January 22, 2010. Environmental activist are calling on Berliners this weekend to build their own snowman in a bid to form a 'Snowman Demonstration' in the heart of the German capital to raise awareness for climate change. REUTERS/Fabrizio Bensch (GERMANY - Tags: POLITICS ENVIRONMENT)

An environmental activist walks next to a snowman as part of ...

(Reuters) — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 14:20:00 GMT

(Reuters) - An environmental activist walks next to a snowman as part of a climate change awareness action in Berlin January 22, 2010. Environmental activist are calling on Berliners this weekend to build their own snowman in a bid to form a 'Snowman Demonstration' in the heart of the German capital to raise awareness for climate change. The banners reads 'it was fine with you people.' REUTERS/Fabrizio Bensch (GERMANY - Tags: POLITICS ENVIRONMENT)

An environmental activist walks past a snowman in front of the ...

(Reuters) — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 14:17:00 GMT

(Reuters) - An environmental activist walks past a snowman in front of the Berlin Cathedral (Berliner Dom) as part of a climate change awareness action in Berlin January 22, 2010. Environmental activist are calling on Berliners this weekend to build their own snowman in a bid to form a 'Snowman Demonstration' in the heart of the German capital to raise awareness for climate change. The banners read 'Help, the sun. I'm melting, help me.' REUTERS/Fabrizio Bensch (GERMANY - Tags: POLITICS ENVIRONMENT CIVIL UNREST)

Minister of the Environment Jim Prentice. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Sean ...

(The Canadian Press) — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 20:01:00 GMT

(The Canadian Press) - Minister of the Environment Jim Prentice. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Sean Kilpatrick

In this May 19, 2009 file photograph, mountaineers walk past ...

(AFP) — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 06:34:00 GMT

(AFP) - In this May 19, 2009 file photograph, mountaineers walk past the Hillary Step while pushing for the summit of Mount Everest as they climb the south face from Nepal. A group of top Nepalese climbers is planning a high-risk expedition to clean up Everest, saying decades of mountaineering have taken their toll on the world's highest peak. Photo:/AFP

Rex Tillerson, chairman and CEO of ExxonMobil, testifies about ...

(Reuters) — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 18:22:00 GMT

(Reuters) - Rex Tillerson, chairman and CEO of ExxonMobil, testifies about the company's acquisition of XTO Energy before the House Energy and Environment Subcommittee on Capitol Hill in Washington January 20, 2010. U.S. Democratic lawmakers on Wednesday expressed concern that the merger of Exxon Mobil and XTO Energy would reduce competition in the oil and gas markets and increase the use of a controversial drilling technique. REUTERS/Joshua Roberts (UNITED STATES - Tags: POLITICS BUSINESS ENERGY)

Marco Nisticò, top, appears on stage at New York City's Hayden ...

(The Canadian Press) — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 14:40:00 GMT

(The Canadian Press) - Marco Nisticò, top, appears on stage at New York City's Hayden Planetarium's Rose Center for Earth and Space at the American Museum of Natural History. (THE ASSOCIATED PRESS/The Gotham Chamber Opera, Richard Termine)

France's Culture Minister Frederic Mitterrand uses a handset ...

(Reuters) — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 18:18:00 GMT

(Reuters) - France's Culture Minister Frederic Mitterrand uses a handset while wearing a pair of 3D glasses for use in a virtual environment during a presentation at Dassault Systemes in Velizy near Paris January 18, 2010. REUTERS/Charles Platiau (FRANCE - Tags: POLITICS SCI TECH)

German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle (front row L) talks ...

(Reuters) — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 13:57:00 GMT

(Reuters) - German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle (front row L) talks to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (front R 2nd L) as they pose for pictures with German Chancellor Angela Merkel (front row R), German Education and Research Minister Annette Schavan (top row L) and German Environment Minister Norbert Roettgen at the Chancellery in Berlin January 18, 2010. REUTERS/Thomas Peter (GERMANY - Tags: POLITICS)

European Environment Ministers pose for family picture of the ...

(AFP) — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 20:07:00 GMT

(AFP) - European Environment Ministers pose for family picture of the Informal meeting of Ministers of Environment in Seville. The EU has remained firm on its push to move to a 30% cut in carbon dioxide emissions by 2020 despite the failure of last month's UN climate summit to secure a legally-binding deal. Photo:Cristina Quicler/AFP

Spain's State Secretary for Environment Teresa Ribera (R) and ...

(AFP) — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 20:07:00 GMT

(AFP) - Spain's State Secretary for Environment Teresa Ribera (R) and Belgium Minister of Climate and Energy Paul Magnette (L) give a press conference during the Informal meeting of Environment Ministers in Seville. The EU on Saturday stood by its offer to move to a 30 percent cut in carbon dioxide emissions by 2020 despite the failure of last month's UN climate summit to secure a legally-binding deal. Photo:Cristina Quicler/AFP

Protestors hold a banner during a protest outside the EU Informal ...

(Reuters) — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 18:39:00 GMT

(Reuters) - Protestors hold a banner during a protest outside the EU Informal meeting of Ministers of Energy and Environment in the Andalusian capital of Seville January 15, 2010. The banner reads 'The climate is not for sale'. REUTERS/Marcelo del Pozo (SPAIN - Tags: CIVIL UNREST ENERGY POLITICS)

A protestor holds a banner and a placard during a protest outside ...

(Reuters) — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 18:29:00 GMT

(Reuters) - A protestor holds a banner and a placard during a protest outside the EU Informal meeting of Ministers of Energy and Environment in the Andalusian capital of Seville January 15, 2010. The placard reads 'Change your life, not your climate'. REUTERS/Marcelo del Pozo (SPAIN - Tags: CIVIL UNREST ENERGY POLITICS)

A protestor holds a placard during a protest outside the EU ...

(Reuters) — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 18:25:00 GMT

(Reuters) - A protestor holds a placard during a protest outside the EU Informal meeting of Ministers of Energy and Environment, in the Andalusian capital of Seville January 15, 2010. REUTERS/Marcelo del Pozo (SPAIN - Tags: CIVIL UNREST ENERGY POLITICS)

Demostrators holds a banner during a protest outside an EU Informal ...

(Reuters) — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 18:19:00 GMT

(Reuters) - Demostrators holds a banner during a protest outside an EU Informal meeting of Ministers of Energy and Environment in the Andalusian capital of Seville January 15, 2010. The banner reads 'Stop climate change'. REUTERS/Marcelo del Pozo (SPAIN - Tags: CIVIL UNREST ENERGY POLITICS)

Environmentalists arrive for a tree planting session at the ...

(Reuters) — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 17:43:00 GMT

(Reuters) - Environmentalists arrive for a tree planting session at the Kaptunga station of the Mau Forest complex in the Kenyan Rift Valley, January 15, 2010. Kenya's coalition government launched a tree planting exercise after relocating about 20,000 families from the Mau forest, the country's biggest closed-canopy forest and a vital water catchment area. REUTERS/Noor Khamis (KENYA - Tags: ENVIRONMENT POLITICS SOCIETY)

A group of environmentalists protest on a dyke as the newly ...

(Reuters) — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 16:29:00 GMT

(Reuters) - A group of environmentalists protest on a dyke as the newly built cruise ship 'AIDAblu' passes by on the Ems river in Leer January 15, 2010. The 352-metre-long and 32 metre wide cruise liner started its passage on the Ems river from the Meyer shipyard in Papenburg to the North Sea. Banners read 'Save the river Ems'. REUTERS/Christian Charisius (GERMANY - Tags: ENVIRONMENT SOCIETY TRAVEL CIVIL UNREST)

European Climate Action Commissioner-designate Connie Hedegaard ...

(Reuters) — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 08:54:00 GMT

(Reuters) - European Climate Action Commissioner-designate Connie Hedegaard of Denmark waits to address the European Parliament Environment, Public Health and Food Safety committee in Brussels January 15, 2010. Candidates for posts in the next European Commission will be closely questioned on policy and plans to pull Europe out of economic crisis when the European Parliament opens confirmation hearings next week. REUTERS/Thierry Roge (BELGIUM - Tags: POLITICS ENVIRONMENT)

European Health and Consumer Policy Commissioner-designate John ...

(Reuters) — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 16:33:00 GMT

(Reuters) - European Health and Consumer Policy Commissioner-designate John Dalli of Malta answers reporters' questions after his hearing before the European Parliament Environment, Public Health and Food Safety committee in Brussels January 14, 2010. Candidates for posts in the next European Commission will be closely questioned on policy and plans to pull Europe out of economic crisis when the European Parliament opens confirmation hearings next week. REUTERS/Thierry Roge (BELGIUM - Tags: POLITICS)

The 'spectacled flowerpecker' twists its head while perched ...

(Reuters) — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 06:28:00 GMT

(Reuters) - The 'spectacled flowerpecker' twists its head while perched beside mistletoe berries in a rainforest in Borneo in this undated handout. Scientists have found a new species of bird in Borneo, the 'spectacled flowerpecker', and expressed the hope on January 14, 2010 that the discovery would help spur conservation of the island's threatened forests. The small bird, grey with white stripes, was spotted in June 2009 on flowering mistletoe in the Malaysian part of Borneo by a group including biologist David Edwards of Leeds University in England. REUTERS/Courtesy Richard Webster/Handout (MALAYSIA - Tags: ANIMALS ENVIRONMENT SOCIETY) NO SALES. NO ARCHIVES. FOR EDITORIAL USE ONLY. NOT FOR SALE FOR MARKETING OR ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS

REFILE - CORRECTING YEAR Composting quality assurance manager ...

(Reuters) — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 02:04:00 GMT

(Reuters) - REFILE - CORRECTING YEAR Composting quality assurance manager Waylon Pleasanton stands at the computer monitoring controls for the Wilmington Organic Recycling Center in Wilmington, Delaware, January 7, 2010. Composting, long valued by gardeners, is just beginning to be adopted on the industrial scale exemplified by the Wilmington Organic Recycling Center, which claims to be the biggest of its kind on the East Coast of the United States. Picture taken January 7, 2010. To match Reuters Life! story ENVIRONMENT-COMPOSTING/ REUTERS/Tim Shaffer (UNITED STATES - Tags: ENERGY ENVIRONMENT SOCIETY BUSINESS)

European Environment Commissioner-designate Janez Potocnik of ...

(Reuters) — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 16:13:00 GMT

(Reuters) - European Environment Commissioner-designate Janez Potocnik of Slovenia answers reporters' questions after his address to the European Parliament Environment, Public Health and Food Safety committee in Brussels January 13, 2010. Candidates for posts in the next European Commission will be closely questioned on policy and plans to pull Europe out of economic crisis when the European Parliament opens confirmation hearings next week. REUTERS/Thierry Roge (BELGIUM - Tags: HEADSHOT POLITICS ENVIRONMENT)

A member of environmental group Friends Of The Earth looks at ...

(Reuters) — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 17:27:00 GMT

(Reuters) - A member of environmental group Friends Of The Earth looks at a sinkhole that is starting to form on the southern shores of the Dead Sea January 12, 2010. Warnings continue that the Dead Sea is slowly but surely drying up, and could be gone completely in 50 years if no action is taken. The water level is dropping at close to one metre (three feet) per year. Environmentalists say more sinkholes are appearing as a result of the declining water levels. REUTERS/Ali Jarekji (JORDAN - Tags: ENVIRONMENT)

A member of environmental group Friends Of The Earth takes pictures ...

(Reuters) — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 17:05:00 GMT

(Reuters) - A member of environmental group Friends Of The Earth takes pictures of the Dead Sea January 12, 2010. Warnings continue that the Dead Sea is slowly but surely drying up, and could be gone completely in 50 years if no action is taken. The water level is dropping at close to one metre (three feet) per year. Environmentalists say more sinkholes are appearing as a result of the declining water levels. REUTERS/Ali Jarekji (JORDAN - Tags: ENVIRONMENT)

Members of environmental group Friends Of The Earth walk between ...

(Reuters) — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 16:44:00 GMT

(Reuters) - Members of environmental group Friends Of The Earth walk between sinkholes on the southern shores of the Dead Sea January 12, 2010. Warnings continue that the Dead Sea is slowly but surely drying up, and could be gone completely in 50 years if no action is taken. The water level is dropping at close to one metre (three feet) per year. Environmentalists say more sinkholes are appearing as a result of the declining water levels. REUTERS/Ali Jarekji (JORDAN - Tags: ENVIRONMENT)

Brussels' regional Environment Minister Evelyne Huytebroeck ...

(Reuters) — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 11:21:00 GMT

(Reuters) - Brussels' regional Environment Minister Evelyne Huytebroeck attends an hearing at the Environment Commettee of Brussels' region Parliament January 12, 2010. Raw sewage streamed into the river Zenne after a Brussels water purification station halted its activities following a technical fault, local media reported. REUTERS/Thierry Roge (BELGIUM - Tags: POLITICS ENVIRONMENT)

Toyota Motors North America President & COO Yoshimi Inaba (L), ...

(Reuters) — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 19:58:00 GMT

(Reuters) - Toyota Motors North America President & COO Yoshimi Inaba (L), Group Vice President of Environmental and Public Affairs Irving Miller (C), and Toyota President of Motor Sales USA Jim Lentz speak before their news conference at the 2010 North American International Auto Show during press days in Detroit, Michigan, January 11, 2010. REUTERS/Mark Blinch (UNITED STATES - Tags: TRANSPORT BUSINESS)

German Chanceller Anngela Merkel (C) German Environment Minister ...

(Reuters) — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 15:13:00 GMT

(Reuters) - German Chanceller Anngela Merkel (C) German Environment Minister Norbert Rottoegen (L) and Executive Director of the Enviromental Programme of the United Nations (UNEP) Achim Steiner (R) are pictured in front of a dinosaur skeleton at the official celebration to launch the United Nations' Year of Biodiversity at the museum of natural history in Berlin January 11, 2010. Merkel urged industrialised and emerging countries to invest more in protecting wildlife and said the U.N. should create a body to put forward the scientific arguments for saving species. Germany is chair of the U.N. Convention on Biodiversity and hands over to Japan later in the year. REUTERS/Micheal Gottschalk/Pool (GERMANY - Tags: POLITICS)

Alberta rancher and environmentalist Wiebo Ludwig makes his ...

(The Canadian Press) — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 19:37:00 GMT

(The Canadian Press) - Alberta rancher and environmentalist Wiebo Ludwig makes his way to court on in this Aug. 1, 2007 file photo in Grande Prairie, Alta.. Ludwig's lawyer says the convicted pipeline bomber has been arrested and will be charged with extortion after a series of bombings in British Columbia. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Rob Ganzeveld

Alberta rancher and environmentalist Wiebo Ludwig talks to reporters ...

(The Canadian Press) — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 03:56:00 GMT

(The Canadian Press) - Alberta rancher and environmentalist Wiebo Ludwig talks to reporters as he makes his way to court on in this Aug. 1, 2007 file photo in Grande Prairie, Alta. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Rob Ganzeveld

Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lisa P. Jackson ...

(AFP) — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 22:53:00 GMT

(AFP) - Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lisa P. Jackson speaks during a news conference in December 2009. The EPA on Thursday proposed tougher standards for how much smog can be in the air, a move the US agency said would save money and protect health, especially in children. Photo:Mark Wilson/AFP

This image made from video provided by NASA shows an artist's ...

(The Canadian Press) — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 22:53:00 GMT

(The Canadian Press) - This image made from video provided by NASA shows an artist's rendition of what an Earth-like planet might look like. A top NASA official and other leading scientists say that within four or five years they should discover the first Earth-like planet located in a spot outside our solar system where life could develop, or may have already. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS/NASA

The spherical Hayden Planetarium sits within the Rose Center ...

(AFP) — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 22:13:00 GMT

(AFP) - The spherical Hayden Planetarium sits within the Rose Center for Earth and Space at the American Museum of Natural History in New York. A New York opera will have a few more stars this month when it performs at the planetarium in New York's Museum of Natural History. Photo:Stan Honda/AFP

A water quality team monitor the Sanmenxia reservoir for traces ...

(AFP) — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 06:32:00 GMT

(AFP) - A water quality team monitor the Sanmenxia reservoir for traces of diesel close to the Yellow River in Sanmenxia, northern China. Up to 150,000 litres (40,000 gallons) of diesel spilled into the Chishui and Wei rivers on Wednesday last week after a pipeline operated by China's largest oil producer, China National Petroleum, ruptured, state media said. Photo:/AFP

This image taken by the Kepler telescope and released by NASA ...

(AFP) — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 04:15:00 GMT

(AFP) - This image taken by the Kepler telescope and released by NASA in 2009 shows small portion of Kepler's full field of view -- an expansive, 100-square-degree patch of sky in our Milky Way galaxy. NASA's Kepler space telescope has discovered five new planets beyond the solar system, the US space agency said, just 10 months after Kepler launched into space to find Earth-like planets. Photo:/AFP

File photo of a Chilean rose tarantula is shown at the environment ...

(Reuters) — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 15:52:00 GMT

(Reuters) - File photo of a Chilean rose tarantula is shown at the environment reserve in Mexico state, August 15, 2003. REUTERS/Henry Romero

Pope Benedict XVI waves as he arrives to lead a solemn mass ...

(Reuters) — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 12:44:00 GMT

(Reuters) - Pope Benedict XVI waves as he arrives to lead a solemn mass in Saint Peter's Basilica at the Vatican January 1, 2010. REUTERS/Remo Casilli

The Canadian Coast Guard icebreaker Louis S. St-Laurent makes ...

(The Canadian Press) — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 16:13:00 GMT

(The Canadian Press) - The Canadian Coast Guard icebreaker Louis S. St-Laurent makes its way through the ice in Baffin Bay, Thursday, July 10, 2008. The big Arctic melt of 2007 which shocked scientists and served as an environmental wake-up call for the planet is the top weather story of the decade, if not the past 100 years, says one of Canada's leading climatologists.. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jonathan Haywar

A couple walks next to a giant poster promoting a clean environment ...

(Reuters) — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 09:04:00 GMT

(Reuters) - A couple walks next to a giant poster promoting a clean environment in downtown Shanghai December 30, 2009. REUTERS/Nir Elias (CHINA - Tags: BUSINESS CONSTRUCTION SOCIETY)

Activists from environmental group Greenpeace observe one minute ...

(AFP) — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 03:56:00 GMT

(AFP) - Activists from environmental group Greenpeace observe one minute of silence after placing 100 crosses at the Cenotaph memorial in central Hong Kong. The climate change conference held in the Danish capital ended last week with a non-binding agreement that the European Union has blasted as a Sino-US stitch-up which will do little to curtail global warming. Photo:Antony Dickson/AFP

Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh addresses media representatives ...

(AFP) — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 15:20:00 GMT

(AFP) - Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh addresses media representatives in New Delhi in October 2009. India hailed the lack of targets and legally binding measures in the Copenhagen climate accord and vaunted the united front presented by major emerging countries at the chaotic talks. Photo:Manan Vatsyayana/AFP

An activist from the environmental group Greenpeace walks past ...

(AFP) — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 03:28:00 GMT

(AFP) - An activist from the environmental group Greenpeace walks past some of the 100 crosses they placed at the Cenotaph memorial in downtown Hong Kong on December 21. Strains have emerged between London and Beijing over the UN climate conference, after British Prime Minister Brown accused a handful of countries, including China, of holding the summit to ransom. Photo:Antony Dickson/AFP