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• Scientists welcome climate pact but still alarmed

  12-12-2015 23:50
  
  Climate scientists Saturday welcomed a pact to battle global warming as a major political advance, but warned of a gaping hole -- the lack of a detailed roadmap for cutting greenhouse gases that cause the problem.
  
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• UN climate deal blow to fossil fuels: green groups

  12-12-2015 23:19
  
  A global accord for taming global warming, sealed at UN talks in Paris on Saturday, represents a potential body-blow to the fossil-fuel business, Greenpeace and other prominent environment groups said.
  
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• Obama story on Twitter comment on climate accord withdrawn

  12-12-2015 22:00
  
  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The story on Obama making a comment on the climate accord on Twitter is wrong and is withdrawn. The tweet was not sent by President Obama, but by staff at Organizing for Action under the handle @BarackObama. (Washington newsroom)
  
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• Engineering climate: from pariah to saviour?

  12-12-2015 21:39
  
  Once dismissed as dangerous science fiction, schemes to stave off global warming by re-engineering Earth's climate may well gain in traction as a result of the Paris agreement.
  
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• Time to turn words into climate action: IMF chief

  12-12-2015 21:26
  
  Words must be put into action to save the planet, IMF chief Christine Lagarde warned, after envoys from 195 nations approved in Paris Saturday a historic accord to stop global warming.
  
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• Joyful ministers seal landmark Paris Agreement to stop global warming

  12-12-2015 21:01
  
  Cheering envoys from 195 nations approved in Paris Saturday a historic accord to stop global warming, offering hope that humanity can avert catastrophic climate change and usher in an energy revolution.
  
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• Factbox - World reacts to new climate accord

  12-12-2015 20:59
  
  (Reuters) - From business leaders to politicians, world figures reacted on Saturday to news that climate negotiators in Paris had approved a breakthrough accord that will for the first time unite rich and poor nations in combating climate change. Below are select comments and quotes: U.S. PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA: This is huge: Almost every country in the world just signed on to the #ParisAgreement on climate change-thanks to American leadership EUROPEAN COMMISSION PRESIDENT JEAN-CLAUDE JUNCKER To
  
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• Obama calls Paris climate agreement 'huge' on Twitter

  12-12-2015 20:16
  
  U.S. President Barack Obama called the landmark accord on climate reached in Paris on Saturday "huge" and touted U.S. leadership in reaching the agreement on Twitter. "This is huge: Almost every country in the world just signed on to the #ParisAgreement on climate change-thanks to American leadership," he tweeted. Global climate envoys reached the landmark agreement in Paris on Saturday, setting the course for a transformation of the world's fossil fuel-driven economy within decades in a bid to
  
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• 195 nations approve historic climate accord

  12-12-2015 19:47
  
  The Paris climate talks end with delegates from 195 nations releasing a hard-fought agreement to curb climate change and limit warming to 2 degrees Celsius.
  
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• World's First Global Deal to Combat Climate Change Adopted in Paris

  12-12-2015 19:45 via rss.sciam.com
  
  Paris pact represents the first worldwide effort to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in next decade
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• Melting glaciers blamed for subtle slowing of Earth's rotation

  12-12-2015 19:34
  
  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The melting of glaciers caused by the world's rising temperatures appears to be causing a slight slowing of the Earth's rotation in another illustration of the far-reaching impact of global climate change, scientists said on Friday.
  
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• Bloc of 134 developing nations also 'happy' with climate pact: spokeswoman

  12-12-2015 18:58
  
  The G77 bloc of 134 developing nations, including China, gave the nod Saturday for a hard-fought UN climate rescue pact due to be presented for adoption in Paris.
  
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• World powers voice support for UN climate pact

  12-12-2015 17:24
  
  World powers voiced support for a planned accord to defeat global warming, raising hopes the historic deal would be swiftly endorsed Saturday at 195-nation UN talks in Paris.
  
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• Highlights of the proposed UN climate accord

  12-12-2015 16:22
  
  Envoys from 195 nations zeroed in Saturday on a historic climate rescue pact after host France released a final draft for ministers to peruse and adopt.
  
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• Planned UN climate deal blow to fossil fuels: green groups

  12-12-2015 16:13
  
  A global accord to tame global warming pending approval at UN talks in Paris on Saturday would be a huge blow to the fossil-fuel industry, Greenpeace and other prominent environment groups said.
  
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• UK astronaut's launcher 'complete'

  12-12-2015 16:08 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The Russian Space Agency has finished assembling the space vehicle that will blast UK astronaut Tim Peake into orbit.
  
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• Christmas drone invasion predictions concern authorities

  12-12-2015 16:00 via cbc.ca
  
  The number of drones flying unmanned through the skies of North America is about to get a boost, say industry insiders — causing serious safety concerns among authorities.
  
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• Traces of a 'Lost' Stonehenge Appear in Rock Quarry

  12-12-2015 15:31
  
  A few tantalizing pieces of evidence hint that there may have been an earlier, lost precursor to Stonehenge somewhere in Wales. Some of Stonehenge's bluestones were mined from a rocky outcrop called Craig Rhos-y-felin, part of Preseli Hills in Wales. This raises the possibility that one or two of the bluestones from Stonehenge may have first been used in some other, earlier henge in Wales before being removed from that monument and transported to the Salisbury Plain in England.
  
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• World climate accord hailed as turning point from fossil fuels

  12-12-2015 15:08
  
  By Alister Doyle and Barbara Lewis PARIS (Reuters) - French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius presented a landmark global climate accord on Saturday, a "historic" measure for transforming the world's fossil fuel-driven economy within decades and turning the tide on global warming. At the tail end of the hottest year on record and after four years of fraught U.N. talks often pitting the interests of rich nations against poor, imperilled island states against rising economic powerhouses, Fabius urge
  
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• Planned UN climate accord a blow to fossil fuels: green groups

  12-12-2015 15:00
  
  A planned global accord to tame global warming released at UN talks in Paris on Saturday would be a huge blow to the fossil-fuel industry, Greenpeace and other prominent environment groups said.
  
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• France's Fabius says final draft text is ambitious, balanced, historic

  12-12-2015 12:34
  
  French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius said a draft climate pact hammered out after two weeks of talks in Paris was ambitious, balanced and if adopted would be an "historic turning point" to keeping temperature rises well below 2 degrees Celsius. Cracking with emotion after talks ran into a day of over time, Fabius said the text nearly 200 governments must now endorse constituted "the best balance possible". It seeks to keep temperature rises "well below" 2 degrees Celsius and if possible to lim
  
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• On brink of climate deal, nations set turning point from fossil fuels

  12-12-2015 10:42
  
  By Richard Valdmanis and Valerie Volcovici PARIS (Reuters) - Climate negotiators in Paris appeared on the verge of clinching a landmark accord on Saturday to transform the world's fossil fuel-driven economy within decades and turn the tide on global warming. At the tail end of the hottest year on record and after four years of fraught U.N. talks often pitting the interests of rich nations against poor, imperilled island states against rising economic powerhouses, France's foreign minister will p
  
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• VIDEO: Inside Russian space hero's living quarters

  12-12-2015 09:31 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A look at the life of Yuri Gagarin, ahead of Tim Peake becoming the first British astronaut in space.
  
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• The Latest: Climate protests planned across Paris

  12-12-2015 09:20
  
  LE BOURGET, France (AP) — The latest on the U.N. climate conference outside Paris (all times local):
  
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• COP21: Rwanda's Green Party says renewable energy is essential

  12-12-2015 09:00
  
  IBTimes UK has spoken with Frank Habineza, leader of Rwanda's opposition Democratic Green Party (DGPR), on how the country has been negatively impacted by climate change. Habineza explained that, although Rwanda is at the forefront in the fight against rising temperatures, more has to be done to ensure people can use renewable energy and enjoy a green economy. Days before world leaders gathered in Paris for the UN Climate Change Conference, also known as COP21, the Rwandan government called on t
  
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• Slalom course for ski areas facing future without snow

  12-12-2015 08:42
  
  As temperatures rise there is less of it or sometimes even none at all -- global warming is forcing ski areas to think about the once unthinkable, a future without snow.
  
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• In final push for climate deal, nations seek turning point from fossil fuels

  12-12-2015 08:31
  
  By Richard Valdmanis and Valerie Volcovici PARIS (Reuters) - At the tail end of the hottest year on record, climate negotiators in Paris will aim on Saturday to seal a landmark accord that will transform the world's fossil fuel-driven economy within decades and turn the tide on global warming. After four years of fraught U.N. talks often pitting the interests of rich nations against poor, imperilled island states against rising economic powerhouses, French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius will pr
  
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• Astronaut Calls For British Mission To Mars

  12-12-2015 06:35
  
  The first Briton in space has urged the government to continue funding human spaceflight so the Union Flag one day flies on Mars. Helen Sharman, who was part of a Russian mission 24 years ago, said it was "better late than never" for the UK to fund its own return to space. Dr Sharman, now a scientist at Imperial College London, told Sky News: "The rest of the world is getting on with human space flight.
  
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• PC steel wires on concrete and steel bridges now visible with terahertz waves

  12-12-2015 06:00
  
  (Tohoku University) Researchers at Tohoku University have found a way to make covered or hidden PC steel wires visible, by developing a new terahertz wave light source featuring both light and radio-wave characteristics. This new technology will be especially useful in the safety inspection of extradosed and other types of bridges that use PC steel wires hidden inside external cables covered by resin jackets.
  
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• In final push for landmark climate deal, end of fossil fuel era nears

  12-12-2015 05:37
  
  By Alister Doyle and Barbara Lewis PARIS (Reuters) - At the tail end of the hottest year on record, climate negotiators in Paris will aim on Saturday to seal a landmark accord that will transform the world's fossil fuel-driven economy within decades and turn the tide on global warming. After four years of fraught U.N. talks often pitting the interests of rich nations against poor, imperilled island states against rising economic powerhouses, French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius will unveil the
  
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• Northrop says it will bid if Pentagon opens GPS satellite tender

  12-12-2015 01:26
  
  PALMDALE, Calif. (Reuters) - Northrop Grumman Corp this week said it would bid if the U.S. Air Force opens a fresh competition for next-generation GPS satellites next year, as expected, and perhaps later on a new ground control system.
  
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