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• Tribe vows to fight North Dakota pipeline through winter

  29-10-2016 21:26
  (Reuters) - Native American leaders vowed on Saturday to protest through the winter against a North Dakota oil pipeline they say threatens water resources and sacred lands and are weighing lawsuits over police treatment of arrested protesters. Standing Rock Sioux Chairman Dave Archambault II said he and other tribal leaders were working on providing food, heat and shelter for protesters opposed to the $3.8 billion Dakota Access Pipeline. "We're just working through some technical details as far
  
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• Venezuela crisis, Colombia peace dominate Latin American summit

  29-10-2016 18:41
  By Julia Symmes Cobb CARTAGENA, Colombia (Reuters) - Venezuela's fast-escalating political crisis and Colombia's stuttering peace process looked certain to dominate the Ibero-American Summit on Saturday rather than an official agenda about youth, entrepreneurship and education. Amid a swing to the political right around the region, Peru's president and former investment banker Pedro Pablo Kuczynski was leading calls to put Venezuela at the top of the agenda. The oil-rich country's socialist gove
  
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• OPEC meets non-OPEC nations for oil talks, Russia still on board

  29-10-2016 15:42
  By Alex Lawler VIENNA (Reuters) - Officials from OPEC and non-member oil producing countries met on Saturday aiming to build support for an OPEC plan to reduce output one day after OPEC members were unable to agreed on how to implement the deal. Arriving for the meeting with OPEC's High Level Committee of exporters, only the representative of non-OPEC Azerbaijan made comments supportive of the need for producer action to help prop up prices. "Today we will discuss the recognised positions of cou
  
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• Elon Musk unveils Tesla solar tiles on Desperate Housewives set – video

  29-10-2016 14:57 via theguardian.com
  
  Tesla chief executive Elon Musk addresses an audience in Los Angeles as he unveils his company’s newest energy product - solar roof tiles. Musk outlined the benefits of an “integrated future” which would allow consumers to charge electric vehicles with renewable solar power, showcasing the tiles on homes once used as the set for US drama Desperate HousewivesTesla boss Elon Musk unveils solar roof tilesContinue reading...
  
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• OPEC meets non-OPEC nations for oil talks, gets Azeri support

  29-10-2016 12:02
  By Alex Lawler VIENNA (Reuters) - Officials from OPEC and non-member oil producing countries met on Saturday aiming to build support for an OPEC plan to reduce output one day after OPEC members were unable to agreed on how to implement the deal. Arriving for the meeting with OPEC's High Level Committee of exporters, only the representative of non-OPEC Azerbaijan made comments supportive of the need for producer action to help prop up prices. "Today we will discuss the recognised positions of cou
  
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• Tesla unveils stunning solar roof tiles

  29-10-2016 11:53
  
  Tesla's chief executive Elon Musk unveiled the company's much anticipated solar roof tiles earlier today (29 October), claiming that the success of the product and the new integrated Powerall would hinge on a mooted merger with SolarCity.
  
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• Tesla boss Elon Musk unveils solar roof tiles

  29-10-2016 09:56 via theguardian.com
  
  Musk showcases new energy products to illustrate benefits of merging his firm with solar installer SolarCityThe Tesla chief executive, Elon Musk, has unveiled new energy products aimed at illustrating the benefits of combining his firm, which makes electric cars and batteries, with solar installer SolarCity. The billionaire entrepreneur showed off solar roof tiles that eliminate the need for traditional panels and a longer-lasting home battery, which Tesla calls the Powerwall, aimed at realising
  
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• Indian farmers fight against climate change using trees as a weapon

  29-10-2016 09:00 via theguardian.com
  
  As the world passes a critical barrier for climate change, radical techniques for turning farms into carbon sinks are growing in popularity in India
  In 19 years, Ramu Gaviti’s six acres of land have gone from barren, dry and sparsely vegetated to fertile, moist and thick with biomass. Peacocks, wild pigs and rabbits have reappeared and in rejuvenated rivers, boys trap fish in baskets. Gaviti once scratched $29 (£23) worth of millet and grass per acre per year. In bad years he left hi
  
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• Return of the mandarin ducks

  29-10-2016 06:30 via theguardian.com
  
  Strathnairn, Highlands I counted 18 of them coming in to feed on the mixed grain we spread out on two ground-level bird tables below the apple treesI was up at first light the other day, listening for the ritual morning call of birds flying low across the field from the river Nairn. Their croaking sounded like moorhens, but I knew that these would be the mandarin ducks coming in to feed in the garden. These are the birds that bred in this part of the strath earlier this year – only about 1
  
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• Choking Delhi to install air purifiers at intersections for Diwali

  29-10-2016 03:31 via theguardian.com
  
  Indian capital plans to combat dangerous levels of smog during the festival of lights with mist fountains and air cleaners to ‘help pollutants settle’Delhi’s government will install air purifiers and mist-making devices at major road intersections in the Indian capital to curb choking levels of pollution.
  Delhi has been shrouded in a toxic soup as residents gear up for the Hindu festival of lights, Diwali, which is marked by ear-splitting fireworks that cause days of dark smoke
  
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• Venezuela crisis should be addressed at Latin American summit -Peru president

  29-10-2016 01:42
  Venezuela's political crisis should be among top discussion items at a regional summit for Latin American leaders taking place this weekend in Cartagena, Colombia, Peruvian President Pedro Pablo Kuczynski said on Friday. The oil-rich country's socialist government is confronting political protests in the streets and in Venezuela's Congress after opposition leaders accused President Nicolas Maduro of blocking efforts to hold a recall vote aimed at ousting him. "I think it will be an important mee
  
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• From swimming sloths to lions in Botswana, this is Planet Earth II

  29-10-2016 01:01 via theguardian.com
  
  A decade after the groundbreaking Planet Earth, the BBC’s six-part sequel looks set to be even more spectacular. Here are some of its stars Continue reading...
  
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• BBC series Planet Earth II will be unparalleled, says Attenborough

  29-10-2016 01:01 via theguardian.com
  
  Shot over three years in 40 countries, the spectacular wildlife blockbuster returns after a decade hiatus with a high-definition twistA lone eagle soars high above craggy mountain tops, the tips of its wings lifting lightly in the wind. A lemur leaps from tree to tree in a dense forest, the camera following the animal with every bound. An enormous grizzly bear wriggles his back against a tree, as if caught in an embarrassing dance.This is planet Earth, but not as you have ever seen it before. Th
  
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• Exhausted snow geese head to Canada wildlife facility to rest up for migration

  29-10-2016 00:13 via theguardian.com
  
  At least three birds were found this week and brought to Gibsons Wildlife Rehabilitation Centre, showing no energy to rejoin their ‘snowstorm’ of birds After a long migration, a few snow geese in British Columbia, Canada, just needed a little break.At least three birds were found on the ground this week and were brought to Gibsons Wildlife Rehabilitation Centre, according to the Coast Reporter. Irene Davy from the centre said she knows of at least three or four more that may also be
  
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