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Asian giants want Western countries to take lead in reversing global warming, but are reluctant to accept legally binding cap on their emissions of greenhouse gases Anjana Pasricha | New Delhi 27 November 2009 Traditional Kashmiri boats make a forma
Beijing to ban vehicles that fail to meet emission standards BEIJING - Beijing will ban gasoline-powered vehicles that fail to meet the National Emission Standard II from entering the city's Sixth Ring Road starting January 1 of next year to cut poll
By Brian Wagner Miami 13 July 2007 The governor of the southern U.S. state of Florida has signed some of the nation's toughest laws aimed at reducing greenhouse gases. In Miami, VOA's Brian Wagner reports that environmentalists are urging Florida and
By Anjana Pasricha New Delhi 04 December 2007 The fumes from household cooking fuels pose a huge and largely unrecognized health hazard to inhabitants, especially women and children -and India, with its huge rural population, suffers an inordinate nu
By Tom Rivers London 19 November 2007 British Prime Minister Gordon Brown is urging all nations to rise to the challenges of combatting global warming, which he compared to the challenge of recovery after World War II. For VOA, Tom Rivers in London r
By Phil Mercer Sydney 30 May 2007 Ministers from members of the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation forum - known as APEC - have decided at a meeting in Australia that development of clean energy technologies should take priority over a carbon-trading
By Nancy-Amelia Collins Jakarta 30 August 2007 Climate change and trade liberalizations are expected to top the agenda at the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation gathering in Sydney next week. Regional security also will be addressed. But, as VOA corre
By Michael Bowman Washington 29 May 2008 A U.S. government scientific report concludes that future decades will see significant climate change in the United States, caused primarily by human activity. VOA's Michael Bowman reports from Washington. The
By Daniel Schearf Bangkok, Thailand 28 September 2009 United Nations talks on climate change have opened in Bangkok with more than 4,000 participants from 177 countries trying to narrow differences on ways to reduce global greenhouse gas emissions.
Automakers Vie for Market Share in China Featuring more than 1,100 flashy, new vehicles, the Beijing Auto Show is now among the largest in the world. Car News web magazine editor Tycho de Feyter says it's an important showcase of China's economic clo
The European Space Agency has launched into orbit, two space observatories that will help scientists understand the information of the universe. A visitor watches an Ariane rocket in an exhibition at the Gasometer in Oberhausen, western Germany, 01
Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Timor Leste and Papua New Guinea have set new plans to protect the Coral Triangle - a 5.5 million square kilometer area that holds the largest biodiversity in the oceans. Scientists consider it to be the marine
European leaders, environmentalists hail as good news President Obama's decision to attend at least part of December's climate summit in Copenhagen Liza Bryant | Paris 26 November 2009 European Union flags wave in the wind outside EU headquarters in
G-8 leaders in Italy pledged to cut global emissions 50 percent by 2050. But advocacy organizations say that the commitment is much too weak and too vague for sub-Saharan Africa, which is already facing serious challenges due to a changing climate.
AUDIE CORNISH, HOST: Think about some of the things that spew nasty contaminants into the air - automobiles, power plants. How about leaf blowers? Those annoyingly loud, gas-powered, backpack-like machines are about to pass cars as the worst air poll
Dolphins Dumb Down Calls to Compete with Ship Noise The oceans are getting louder. And coastal areas are some of the noisiest, as in this underwater recording, captured 17 miles off the coast of Ocean City, Maryland. 海洋的声音越来越大。在这
By Chad Bouchard Jakarta 17 December 2007 Discussions over the aims and timing of a new global climate change treaty have wrapped up in Bali after two weeks of often turbulent bargaining. The next step will be two years of negotiations over the new t
By Nancy-Amelia Collins Bali, Indonesia 11 December 2007 Debate at the U.N. climate-change conference has intensified over whether to include greenhouse gas emissions targets in a new climate accord. As VOA Correspondent Nancy-Amelia Collins reports
U.S. President George Bush and Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh are backing a controversial deal to sell U.S. nuclear fuel to India. The two men met on the sidelines of a meeting of the Group of Eight leading industrial nations. 美国总统布什和
By Daniel Schearf Bangkok 09 October 2009 Activists carrying masks of world leaders protest outside the UN regional office in Bangkok, Thailand (File) United Nations talks on climate change have ended in Bangkok with little sign of progress. There a