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                    [Title] => UN: World not close to avoiding dangerous global warming
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The world still isn't close to preventing what leaders call a dangerous level of man-made warming, a new United Nations report says. That's despite some nations' recent pledges to cut back on carbon dioxide emissions.

[DatePublished] => 2014-11-20 09:18:22 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1743093 [AuthorName] => Seth Borenstein [SectionName] => World [SectionUrl] => world [URL] => ) [1] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 1387265 [Title] => UN panel adopts landmark climate report [Summary] =>

The United Nations' expert panel on climate science on yesterday finished a report on global warming that the UN's environment agency said offers "conclusive evidence" that humans are altering the Earth's climate system.

[DatePublished] => 2014-11-02 07:18:22 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1436556 [AuthorName] => Karl Ritter [SectionName] => World [SectionUrl] => world [URL] => ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 1254019 [Title] => Environmental crime wave costs world billions [Summary] =>

The illegal cutting of timber and the poaching of elephants and rhinos are part of a "rapidly escalating environmental crime wave" that international governments must combat by increasing cooperation, police and environmental officials said yesterday.

[DatePublished] => 2013-11-07 06:04:25 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1375262 [AuthorName] => Jason Straziuso [SectionName] => World [SectionUrl] => world [URL] => ) [3] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 1246665 [Title] => UN sees mercury use phase-out within 3 decades [Summary] =>

A new global treaty could eliminate within three decades the commercial use of mercury in everything from batteries, paints and skin-lightening creams to utility plants and small-scale gold mining, the head of the U.N.'s environment agency said Thursday.

[DatePublished] => 2013-10-18 07:34:49 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1404776 [AuthorName] => John Heilprin [SectionName] => World [SectionUrl] => world [URL] => http://img17.imageshack.us/img17/5643/t1wf.jpg ) [4] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 915507 [Title] => UN calls for clampdown on illegal wildlife trade [Summary] =>

The world must clamp down hard on the illegal global wildlife trade, the head of the United Nations environment agency warned Sunday, calling it a

[DatePublished] => 2013-03-03 21:03:03 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => World [SectionUrl] => world [URL] => ) [5] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 703659 [Title] => UN reports surging investments in renewable energy [Summary] =>

Global investments in renewable energy jumped 32 percent to $211 billion last year, boosted by wind farm development in China and rooftop solar panels in Europe, U.N. officials said Thursday.

[DatePublished] => 2011-07-08 03:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => [SectionUrl] => [URL] => ) [6] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 592453 [Title] => Health and wellness seminar at ISIP Makati [Summary] =>

The Institute for Steiner’s Ideas in Practice (ISIP) Philippines is hosting a series of seminars and workshops on health and wellness on August 19-21.

[DatePublished] => 2010-07-13 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Health And Family [SectionUrl] => health-and-family [URL] => ) [7] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 589643 [Title] => Development should not damage environment: officials [Summary] =>

Officials of Chinese and international environment agencies Saturday asserted that economic development should no longer be at the cost of environmental degradation.

[DatePublished] => 2010-07-03 19:04:46 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => [SectionUrl] => [URL] => ) [8] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 586650 [Title] => Alaska man's goat milker sells well on Internet [Summary] =>

When Mike Henry began raising goats on his 5-acre (2-hectare) farm north of Anchorage, he found the milking tough going. His hands ached, and the milk wouldn't flow. He tied a piece of leather loosely around his doe's back legs to keep her from kicking, but she didn't like that at all.

[DatePublished] => 2010-06-23 16:45:11 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => [SectionUrl] => [URL] => ) [9] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 560237 [Title] => UN: Polluted water killing, sickening millions [Summary] =>

More people die from polluted water every year than from all forms of violence, including war, the UN said in a report yesterday that highlights the need for clean drinking water.

[DatePublished] => 2010-03-23 02:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => [SectionUrl] => [URL] => ) ) )
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