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A global tax on banking transactions would curb speculation and the proceeds could break the deadlock on Copenhagen climate talksThe response was predictable. No sooner had Gordon Brown expressed enthusiasm for a global transaction tax than the backlash began. Not something we like, said the Americans. We want lower not hig (Read More)
guardian.co.uk Politics:
We look at the sacking of the government's chief drugs adviser David Nutt. It came a day after he claimed ecstasy and LSD were less dangerous than alcohol. We ask what role scientific advisers should play in politics. Read all our coverage of the Professor Nutt controversy. In the newsjam we discuss whether it's over for Co (Read More)
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A new planning body that puts the national interest ahead of local concerns is welcome, but must be closely watched'I became green everywhere in the first spring, after London ended, so that all the country looked alike," wrote Richard Jeffries at the start of his entrancing but rarely read novel After London. He was a Vict (Read More)
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Government to open new central authority in March to fast-track nuclear applications and avoid red tapeThe government will tomorrow identify further sites around Britain that could be suitable for building a nuclear plant, as part of a scheme to fast track a new generation of reactors.Ed Miliband, the energy and climate cha (Read More)
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Tories will suffer for their referendum divisions. But because of Labour's lack of confidence this will be after the electionSo Europe is back. Like a zombie flesh-eater in another movie remake, issues of national sovereignty and the popular will are marching across the political landscape, leaving marks on the major partie (Read More)
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In the end, Democrats in the House of Representatives answered the call of history, as their president put it. Not since 1965, when Medicare and Medicaid were created, has a chamber of Congress passed a measure to vastly increase medical coverage. Universal healthcare, the centrepiece of Barack Obama's first term as preside (Read More)
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The continuation of the GoodPlanet project "6 billion Others" about climate change shown during the Copenhagen Summit in December 2009. A project supported by ADEME, French Ministry of sustainable developement and United Nations.
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BYU scientists take lawmakers to task on climate change issuesSalt Lake TribuneThey challenged lawmakers for giving the "fringe" position of a climate skeptic equal weight to that of the broad, scientific consensus that climate change ...BYU scientists rip lawmakers over climate changeLocalNews8.comall 6 news articles ». (Read More)
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Forthcoming book examines the role of humans in the eradication of species, and its findings are not likely to be pleasantAt first sight it seems an unlikely topic for a landmark publishing deal: a fee of about half a million dollars for a book about dead animals – or, to be more precise, extinct animals.Nevertheless the su (Read More)
The Guardian:
International levy on financial trading would help developing world deal with climate changeA row blew up last night after Gordon Brown promoted plans for an international tax on City dealing that could raise funds for the world's poor and help developing countries tackle climate change.No sooner had the prime minister floa (Read More)
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Study condemning UK energy strategy set to embarrass government as it prepares to unveil new climate change initiativeBritain's claim to be a world leader in green energy investment has been called into question by an authoritative new study that will embarrass ministers as they prepare to launch an important climate change (Read More)
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Nothing will harm climate change campaigners as much as a judge decreeing that the green movement is a faithFollowing Mr Justice Burton's ruling that green beliefs should enjoy the same protection as religious ones, many committed recyclers will have been wondering how green you have to be to become unsackable. Would buying (Read More)
The Guardian:
Soaring demand for food and land may not stop the world's rural communities from plunging deeper into povertyThe villagers of Thatarber Manihatty in south India knew they had no choice but to mortgage their small plots of farmland when they found they could not afford to bury dead relatives or send children to school withou (Read More)
The Guardian:
Twenty years on Europe and the US have squandered their victory, Russia is mired in depression and China has new powerThose who witnessed that night 20 years ago in Berlin, or elsewhere in Germany, will never forget what happened – the night the Berlin wall came down.History in the making is all too often tragic. Only rarel (Read More)