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Fossil leaves buried 55 million years ago show, for the first time, that rapid warming not only changed animal communities, but plant communities as well; and that the ancient warm spell may be representative of global warming's effects in Earth's future, according to an international team of resear

One of the mysteries of American public morality is why there is so little public outcry about the Bush Administration's support for torture. It's not as if this is a big secret.

South and West Asia has the lowest adult literacy rate in this region (58.6%), followed by Sub-Saharan Africa (59.7%), and the Arab states (62.7%). Countries with the lowest adult literacy rates in the world are Burkina Faso (12.8%), Niger (14.4) and Mali (19%).

U.S. intelligence czar John Negroponte is declining to support Vice President Dick Cheney's effort to exempt the CIA from law banning mistreatment of detainees.

Hubert Reeves and David Suzuki sound warning call on climate change - 3,400 expected to attend climate change event at the Palais des Congrès de Montréal

Funds would help develop alternative energy, senator says

Alman otomobil üreticisi Mercedes, hidrojen yakıtla çalışan ilk konsepti F600 Hygenius'u gün ışığına çıkardı.

Bush: "He wore this outfit because it wasn't all that long ago if he had worn this outfit and was captured by Saddam Hussein's thugs, he would have been killed for wearing it.

Half of the world's coral reefs may die within the next 40 years unless urgent measures are taken to protect them from climate change, the World Conservation Union (IUCN) warns in a new report released today.

The average household will be paying about 2,100 yen more a year in taxes to combat global warming if a plan proposed Tuesday by the Environment Ministry is approved.

"I am 53 years old and I have never seen anything like this," said environmentalist Leoncio Menezes, describing the drought that has plagued the Jurúa River valley, in the extreme western part of Brazil near the Peruvian border, for several months. By Mario Osava

Global warming and the melting of the polar ice caps are sculpting more than the world's geographic future. They are shaping its global political and economic fate as well. By Sarah Howard

The group OMB Watch has issued an urgent appeal about a new Republican gag rule restricting the ability of non-profit organizations to do voter registration or lobbying and advocacy for their constituencies. By Doug Ireland

Millions of Iraqis believe that suicide attacks against British troops are justified, a secret military poll commissioned by senior officers has revealed. By Sean Rayment

While rivers are being polluted, rainforests cut down and the health of citizens severely threatened by the oil industry, this black gold continues to flow through Ecuador. By Karoline Nolsø Aaen

The earth is angry. Mankind persists in ignoring the messages.

By Andy Oram

Media smear ex-Marine for seeking answers on Iraq. By Antonia Zerbisias

An individual arrested in connection with Saturday's twin bombings in the south-western city of Ahwaz has confessed to have received British training in Iraq to carry out the attacks, the Iranian Majlis (Parliament) deputy for the oil-rich city announced on Monday.

Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice told Senators Wednesday the United States will deploy new civil-military reconstruction teams in Iraq as part of a strategy for victory over the insurgency there. By David Gollust

Ever since President Bush slipped him through the UN's backdoor via a recess appointment, John Bolton has been giving reporters the cold shoulder.

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Depletion of the ozone layer above Antarctica, caused by emissions of industrial chemicals, seems to have peaked, indicating that global environmental pacts were working, UN scientists said today.

While President George W. Bush continues to assert that Americans would be better off with Social Security in private hands, a new study shows that privatization of the country's 70-year-old benefit program would drive millions of people into poverty.

At least two dozen people were arrested on Saturday after a planned march by white supremacists in Toledo, Ohio, prompted a crowd to pelt police with rocks and bottles and set a fire, city officials said.

Toyota Motor Corp has developed a derivative of the Cherry Sage shrub that is optimized for absorbing pollutants from the air.

New evidence from climate records of the past provides some of the strongest indications yet of a direct link between tropical warmth and higher greenhouse gas levels, say scientists at the University of California, Santa Barbara.

New international climate data show that 2005 is on track to be the hottest year on record, continuing a 25-year trend of rising global temperatures.

British Prime Minister Tony Blair has sent his chief scientific adviser to Australia to convince the Federal Government to sign up to the Kyoto protocol on greenhouse gas emissions.

A 90 million-year-old dinosaur with striking bird-like features may force scientists to re-write part of the family tree of the extinct reptiles.