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Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter said on Tuesday Washington's support for the Palestinian Fatah group and the blocking of aid to Gaza were part of a mistaken policy aimed at dividing Palestinians. By Jonathan Saul

Canon Electronics Inc. (7739.T: Quote, NEWS , Research), athletic gear leader Nike Inc. (NKE.N: Quote, Profile , Research) and food and consumer goods giant Unilever Plc (ULVR.L: Quote, Profile , Research) topped a list rating climate-friendly companies released on Tuesday. By Deborah Zabarenko

Algeria plans to make use of its hot southern desert to develop solar power for export and domestic consumption, the OPEC member country said on Monday.

Svitlana Nadich is almost beyond hoping that even a little rain will fall on her brittle, parched wheatfields in southern Ukraine. By Pavel Polityuk

Deadly heat waves around the Mediterranean, like those that killed some 18,000 people in 2003, could become the norm this century if current trends in greenhouse emissions continue, researchers reported on Friday.

Environment officials from 28 nations meeting in Sweden agreed on Thursday that December's United Nations climate conference should be used to craft a firm timetable for talks on a pact to replace the Kyoto agreement.

Nuclear power would only curb climate change by expanding worldwide at the rate it grew from 1981 to 1990, its busiest decade, and keep up that rate for half a century, a report said on Thursday. By Lisa Lambert

It's summer in Paris and the French capital is preparing to offer bikes for anyone who wants to take a ride. By Alexandra Steigrad

If the "human cost" of climate change is calculated, countries will be forced to sit up and take notice, according to a former senior United Nations official.

Almost a third of the US corn crop will be used in five years to produce fuel ethanol, possibly raising animal feed costs for farmers and meat prices for consumers, a new government report warned Monday. By Tom Doggett

Huge seas beached a 40,000 tonne coal ship in Australia on Friday, sparking a major rescue operation that saw all 22 crew members airlifted off the stricken vessel in gale force winds. By Michael Perry

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Los Angeles residents were urged on Wednesday to take shorter showers, reduce lawn sprinklers and stop throwing trash in toilets in a bid to cut water usage by 10 percent in the driest year on record.

Bombs in Iraq, better commutes in Ireland and melting ice caps are threatening the world's architectural and cultural gems, a nonprofit group said on Wednesday as it named 100 endangered monuments. By Tim McLaughlin

The chief executive of California's largest electric utility said cutting global warming greenhouse gases will take more effort than the United States put into landing a man on the moon in the 1960s. By Bernie Woodall

A prolonged drought in China's mountainous southwestern province of Sichuan has left nearly 4 million people and 4.46 million livestock short of drinking water, Xinhua news agency said on Tuesday.

Global warming that is melting ice and snow will affect hundreds of millions of people around the globe by disrupting rivers in Asia, thawing Arctic ice and raising ocean levels, a U.N. report said on Monday. By Alister Doyle

Thousands of protesters wearing gas masks and holding banners marched through a city in southeast China on Friday, demanding the government scrap, not just put off, plans to build a chemical plant, witnesses said. By Benjamin Kang Lim

Floods after days of prolonged rainstorms have brought down about 2,000 houses in China's eastern province of Jiangxi, news agency Xinhua said on Sunday.

Rep. Nancy Pelosi, speaker of the US House of Representatives, said on Friday she wanted Congress to pass mandatory caps on heat-trapping carbon dioxide emissions this year.

A winter of unusually little snow has brought five times the normal level of forest fires to parts of Central Canada, prompting other provinces to fly in extra help, and bringing small scale evacuations of rural settlements. By Jonathan Spicer

As Chancellor Angela Merkel seeks to convince world leaders to cut greenhouse gases at a G8 summit this week, one of the biggest brown coal-fired power plants ever built is taking shape in this depressed town.

China will release its first national plan to tackle climate change next week, seeking to rebut international criticism that it is not doing enough to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, officials said on Thursday. By Alan Wheatley

A once-majestic pine forest in Belize is struggling to recover from a devastating plague of beetles that scientists say was caused by climate change. By Mica Rosenberg

Collapsing bridges, bursting sewer pipes and crumbling roads caused by global warming could cost Alaska up to US$10 billion over the next few decades, researchers said. By Mica Rosenberg

India said on Monday its existing energy policy would cut its greenhouse gas emissions by over 25 percent by 2020, but warned pressure to set mandatory targets to curb global warming would hurt economic growth.

After years of high-stakes legal wrangling, a lawsuit stemming from the gruesome deaths of four U.S. contractors in Iraq is moving behind closed doors in an action seen as an important precedent for the booming private security industry. By Bernd Debusmann

A U.S. navy show of force on Iran's doorstep is "greatly alarming" for the region and the United States risked a bloody quagmire if it invaded Iran, a state-run Afghan newspaper said on Saturday. By Sayed Salahuddin

British Prime Minister Tony Blair plans to push through a new anti-terrorism law before he steps down next month giving "wartime" powers to police to stop and question people, a newspaper reported on Sunday.

The United States is battling to stop next month's Group of Eight summit in Germany from pushing for urgent talks on a new deal to fight global warming after the Kyoto Protocol lapses in 2012. By Jeremy Lovell