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G-8 disappoints Syrian rebels, makes progress on corporate tax evasion
Leaders of the G-8 agree on a plan to clamp down on money launderers, illegal tax evaders and corporate tax avoiders, while pushing for immediate peace talks on Syria.
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China has pledged to hold local government leaders responsible for improving air quality, officials say, after heavy smog nationwide earlier this year stoked social discontent. The State Council of the People’s Republic of China, the equivalent of its Cabinet, announced the move along with a range of other policies aimed ...
A lost medieval city that thrived on a mist-shrouded Cambodian mountain 1,200 years ago has been discovered by archaeologists using ...
Almost two months after revelers in most of Japan began partying beneath cherry blossoms in mid-March this year, we hardy ...
“That’s where they’re going to spray.” Organic farmer Naoki Tachikawa, 43, is standing on the edge of one of his tiny rice fields in the Shiga district of Matsumoto, central Nagano Prefecture, pointing at two low hills that embrace the upper reaches of the ...
Global emissions of carbon dioxide from energy use rose 1.4 percent to 31.6 gigatons in 2012, setting a record and putting the planet on course for temperature increases well above international climate goals, the International Energy Agency said in a report issued Monday. The ...
More pest species are becoming resistant to the most popular type of genetically modified, insect-repellent crops, but not in areas where farmers follow expert advice, a study showed Monday. The paper delves into a key aspect of so-called Bt corn and cotton — plants ...
By the 2050s, more than 800,000 New York City residents could be living in a flood zone that covers a quarter of the city’s land, with New Yorkers sweating out as many 32 Celsius days as is now normal for Birmingham, Alabama, as effects ...
China’s lesser-developed heartland is responsible for 80 percent of carbon dioxide emissions related to goods consumed along the wealthier coast, international researchers said Monday. China is the world’s largest emitter of carbon dioxide, and has vowed to reduce such emissions per unit of gross ...
The government moved Friday to end endangered species protections for gray wolves in the lower 48 states, contending that the population of the apex predator has recovered from decades of hunting that drove it to virtual extinction. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) ...
The Atlantic Puffin population in North America is at risk, and there are signs the seabirds are in distress in other parts of the world. In the Gulf of Maine, the comical-looking pelagic seabirds known to science as Fratercula arctica have been losing body ...
Less than three months after being battered by snow and ice, Central Europe now finds itself fighting floods — and some scientists are pointing the finger at human interference with the climate system. Leading the charge is the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research ...
Conservationists fighting to save coastal coral reefs should think first about combating local deforestation rather than attacking the wider peril of global warming, suggests an unusual study published Tuesday. Sediment washed downriver by tree-depleted land can cripple near-shore corals, as it clouds the water ...
A dispute over a proposed copper and gold mine near Alaska’s Bristol Bay may be one of the most important environmental decisions of President Barack Obama’s second term — yet few are even aware that the fight is happening. At issue is a proposed ...
A stainless steel tank the size of a basketball court lies buried in the sandy soil of southeastern Washington state, an aging remnant of U.S. efforts to win World War II. The tank holds enough radioactive waste to fill an Olympic-sized swimming pool. And ...
The common Japanese term mottainai, meaning “what a waste,” has become an international concept.