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Peter Parks - (AFP/File)06-05-2007 , 07h10 , © 2007 AFP
BEIJING (AFP) - Chinese authorities have ordered all polluting industries around the country's third largest freshwater lake to close down after a crisis in which the drinking water of millions was contaminated, a leading official said Tuesday. Read Article
Peter Parks - (AFP/File)06-05-2007 , 05h58 , © 2007 AFP
TAIPUSI, China (AFP) - Officials in Inner Mongolia say they have established a living barrier of trees, grass and shrubs wide enough to hold back the Gobi desert and to curb the sandstorms blowing over northeast Asia and hitting the United States. Read Article
Robert Francois - (AFP/File)06-05-2007 , 05h36 , © 2007 AFP
NEW YORK (AFP) - Newly elected French President Nicolas Sarkozy called US President George W. Bush's plan to combat global warming insufficient, in an interview published Tuesday. Read Article
Alexander Joe - (AFP/File)06-05-2007 , 00h48 , © 2007 AFP
THE HAGUE (AFP) - Chad's President Idriss Deby Itno has detached 400 regular army soldiers to defend the remnants of a once-thriving elephant population decimated by poachers, the country's top conservation official said. Read Article
- (AFP/NASA/File)06-04-2007 , 11h03 , © 2007 AFP
TROMSOE, Norway (AFP) - The melting of the Earth's ice has accelerated in recent decades, an alarming phenomenon that could affect hundreds of millions of people across the world, the United Nations warned in a report on Monday. Read Article
Jimin Lai - (AFP/File)06-04-2007 , 11h39 , © 2007 AFP
THE HAGUE (AFP) - Some 150 hardcore wildlife advocates packed into a conference room Monday differed sharply on whether the world body charged with regulating the trade of endangered species should worry about protecting people too. Read Article
Fabrice Coffrini - (AFP/File)06-04-2007 , 16h58 , © 2007 AFP
GENEVA (AFP) - Scientists seeking to uncover the secrets of the universe will have to wait a little longer after the CERN laboratory in Switzerland on Monday confirmed a delay in tests of a massive new particle accelerator. Read Article
Peter Parks - (AFP/File)06-04-2007 , 14h19 , © 2007 AFP
KATHMANDU (AFP) - Himalayan glaciers are retreating fast and could disappear within the next 50 years, experts warned Monday at a conference in Nepal's capital looking at the regional effects of global warming. Read Article
Martin Bureau - (AFP)06-04-2007 , 20h12 , © 2007 AFP
PARIS (AFP) - French prosecutors on Monday called for the maximum fine against oil group Total SA and tough sanctions for the manager and the owner of a tanker which sank off France in 1999, causing a major oil spill. Read Article
- (AFP/NASA-HO/File)06-04-2007 , 18h23 , © 2007 AFP
MUSCAT (AFP) - Oman has evacuated 7,000 people from coastal areas amid warnings that a cyclone packing winds of up to 176 kilometres per hour (109 miles per hour) is headed for the Gulf sultanate, police said Monday. Read Article
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