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New Zealand jails ships officers for reef wreck

WELLINGTON (Reuters) - The captain and the navigation officer of a container ship which smashed into a reef off a popular New Zealand holiday spot were jailed on Friday for causing the countrys worst...

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Hurricane Bud takes aim at Mexicos Pacific coast

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Hurricane Bud, the first Pacific hurricane in the 2012 season, strengthened into a major Category 3 storm on Thursday as it headed toward Mexicos coast, the U.S. National Hurr...

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Three-quarters of Japanese firms oppose nuclear power

TOKYO (Reuters) - Nearly three-quarters of Japanese companies support abandoning nuclear power after last years Fukushima disaster, although a majority set the condition that alternative energy resou...

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Nuclear waste expert tapped as top nuclear regulator

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama said on Thursday he will nominate Allison Macfarlane, an expert in nuclear waste, as the nations top nuclear safety cop, seeking to turn the page on a pe...

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Sen. Murkowskis fresh energy plan to look beyond 2012

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Frustrated by the gridlock that has stalled Congress leading into the 2012 presidential elections in November, the top Republican on the Senate Energy Committee is drafting wha...

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Hurricane Bud takes aim at Mexicos Pacific coast

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Hurricane Bud was strengthening off Mexicos Pacific coast on Thursday, threatening to hit land on Friday near the shipping port of Manzanillo, the U.S. National Hurricane Cent...

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Gevo starts up first new plant, shares jump

(Reuters) - Gevo Inc started production at a converted ethanol plant in Minnesota, bringing on line the worlds first commercial-scale facility to make advanced biofuels and renewable chemicals. Share...

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Sea breezes aid fight to curb Southwest wildfires

PHOENIX (Reuters) - Winds bringing a blast of damp Pacific Ocean air cut firefighters a break on Thursday as they battled to stamp out several dangerous forest and brush fires burning in five Southwe...

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NOAA expects 4 to 8 Atlantic hurricanes in 2012

MIAMI, Florida (Reuters) - The 2012 Atlantic hurricane season will be "near normal" with nine to 15 tropical storms and four to eight of those will strengthen into hurricanes, the U.S. govern...

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Analysis - U.N. Doha climate talks risk sinking "like Titanic"

BONN, Germany (Reuters) - Hopes are fading that climate talks in Qatar late this year will make even modest progress towards getting a new globally binding climate deal signed by 2015, as preliminary...

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U.N. risks investor stand-off on REDD by delaying work: green groups

BONN, May 24 (Reuters Point Carbon) - Countries risk delaying much-needed private sector investment in slowing deforestation by dodging tricky issues such as how to protect the rights of forest dwell...

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Global CO2 emissions hit record in 2011 led by China: IEA

PARIS (Reuters) - China spurred a jump in global carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions to their highest ever recorded level in 2011, offsetting falls in the United States and Europe, the International Energ...

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Elephant tusks seized in Sri Lanka came from Kenya

NAIROBI (Reuters) - A shipping container filled with hundreds of elephant tusks seized in Sri Lanka this week came from the Kenyan port of Mombasa, Kenyan wildlife authorities said on Thursday.

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Countries doing too little on warming: researchers

BONN, Germany (Reuters) - Greenhouse gas emissions in 2020 could rise to nine billion metric tons (9.92 billion tons) above what is needed to limit global warming as some countries look set to miss t...

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Fukushima radiation higher than first estimated

TOKYO (Reuters) - The radiation released in the first days of the Fukushima nuclear disaster was almost 2-1/2 times the amount first estimated by Japanese safety regulators, the operator of the cripp...

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Hurricane Bud forms off Mexicos Pacific coast: NHC

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Hurricane Bud formed off Mexicos Pacific coast early on Thursday, and could threaten parts of southwestern Mexico with heavy rainfall and flooding on Friday, the National Hurr...

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Suntech says Europe could deal lethal blow

SHANGHAI (Reuters) - Chinas Suntech Power Holdings Co Ltd, the worlds biggest solar panel maker, said Europe could follow the United States in levying punitive tariffs on Chinese solar panel imports,...

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Germany puts deeper carbon cut back on EU agenda

BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Germany has asked for discussion on deeper EU carbon emissions cuts to be put on the agenda at a meeting of environment ministers in June, EU sources said.

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Japans hotter weather to boost power demand

TOKYO (Reuters) - Western Japan will see normal to hotter weather from June to August, the countrys weather forecaster said on Thursday, boosting demand for power at a time when the areas users are b...

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Brazilian president likely to veto parts of new forest bill

SAO PAULO/BRASILIA, May 24 (Reuters Point Carbon) - Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff is likely to veto some controversial aspects of a forest bill passed by the Congress last month as pressure moun...

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Los Angeles to become largest U.S. city to ban plastic bags

(Reuters) - The Los Angeles City Council voted on Wednesday to ban the use of plastic bags in grocery stores, setting the stage to become the largest American city to date to implement such a measure.

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CO2 cut review could raise Kyoto ambition-EU

BONN (Reuters) - A yearly review of countries greenhouse gas emissions cut pledges under an extension to the global climate pact the Kyoto Protocol could be a way to raise climate ambitions, the Euro...

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BP, EPA reach deal on Canada crude at U.S. refinery

HOUSTON (Reuters) - BP Plc on Wednesday said it will spend $400 million to install pollution controls at its giant Whiting, Indiana refinery, to allow it to process heavy crude oil from Canada, in a ...

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Goldman sets $40 billion clean energy investment plan

(Reuters) - Goldman Sachs Group Inc plans to channel investments totaling $40 billion over the next decade into renewable energy projects, an area the investment bank called one of the biggest profit...

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150,000 more US heat deaths projected by 2100

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Killer heat fueled by climate change could cause an additional 150,000 deaths this century in the biggest U.S. cities if no steps are taken to curb carbon emissions and improve...

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BP, EPA reach deal on Canada crude at U.S. refinery

HOUSTON (Reuters) - BP Plc on Wednesday said it will spend $400 million to install pollution controls at its giant Whiting, Indiana refinery to allow it to process heavy crude oil from Canada, in a d...

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Peru dolphin death mystery deepens, algae eyed

LIMA (Reuters) - The mystery surrounding the deaths of at least 877 dolphins in Peru deepened on Wednesday as the government said human activity was not to blame but failed to pinpoint a natural caus...

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CO2 cut review could raise Kyoto ambition - EU

BONN (Reuters) - A yearly review of countries greenhouse gas emissions cut pledges under an extension to the global climate pact the Kyoto Protocol could be a way to raise climate ambitions, the Euro...

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WHO releases mixed Fukushima radiation report

GENEVA (Reuters) - Spikes in radiation caused by the Fukushima nuclear disaster were below cancer-causing levels in almost all of Japan, but infants in one town appear to be at a higher risk of devel...

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World experts agree on cattle breeding rules

PARIS (Reuters) - Members of the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) agreed on Wednesday on cattle breeding rules, its first ever deal on livestock production.

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