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Oxfam to G-8: Climate change will spread hunger (AP)

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AP - Chronic hunger may be "the defining human tragedy of this century," as climate change causes growing seasons to shift, crops to fail, and storms and droughts to ravage fields, an advocacy group said.

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CA-CANADA Summary (Reuters)

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Reuters - Canadian police probe sixth gas pipeline bombing

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Nigerian militants claim attack on Shell facility (AP)

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A member of the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) poses with a heavy machine-gun in the Niger Delta in 2008. MEND rebels announced on Sunday they had launched a fresh attack on an oil facility run by the Anglo-Dutch group Shell in the restive Niger Delta.(AFP/File/Pius Utomi Ekpei)AP - Nigeria's main militant group says it has attacked a Royal Dutch Shell oil facility in southern Nigeria.


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California water plan aims to save Puget Sound orcas (McClatchy Newspapers)

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McClatchy Newspapers - WASHINGTON — A plan to restore salmon runs on California's Sacramento River also could help revive killer whale populations 700 miles to the north in Puget Sound, as federal scientists struggle to protect endangered species in a complex ecosystem that stretches along the Pacific coast from California to Alaska.

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SKorea firm buys into Canada uranium producer: report (AFP)

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Samples of the six major steps in the uranium refining process, with final step at right. South Korea's state-run power company has bought a 17-percent stake in a Canadian uranium producer, securing a stable source of fuel for its nuclear power plants, a report said(AFP/File/David Boily)AFP - South Korea's state-run power company has bought a 17-percent stake in a Canadian uranium producer, securing a stable source of fuel for its nuclear power plants, a report said.


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Spanish winemakers look to higher ground (AFP)

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Grapes at a Spanish vineyard near Barcelona. Climate change, which could transform the Iberian peninsula into a semi-desert, is forcing winemakers in Spain to consider moving their vines to higher ground to escape the blistering heat.(AFP/File/Josep Lago)AFP - Climate change, which could transform the Iberian peninsula into a semi-desert, is forcing winemakers in Spain to consider moving their vines to higher ground to escape the blistering heat.


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Energy-pioneering Austrian town exports its model (AFP)

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The exterior of a new European Center for Renewable Energy plant that produces gas from wood in Guessing, southeastern Austria, paving the way toward new possibilities in renewable energy. The facility in Guessing, a town renowned for being entirely energy self-reliant, can produce some 100 cubic metres of bio-gas per hour.(AFP/EEE/Ho)AFP - After 20 years investing in renewable energy, the small Austrian town of Guessing, a model of energy self-sufficiency, is spreading its pioneering technology far and wide.


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Canadian police probe sixth gas pipeline bombing (Reuters)

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Reuters - An explosion damaged a natural gas pipeline in northeast British Columbia on Saturday, the sixth attack on an energy facility in that area of the Canadian province in recent months.

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Costa Rica tops happiness, ‘green living’ poll (AFP)

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AFP - Costa Rica is the happiest place on earth, and one of the most environmentally friendly, according to a new survey by a British non-governmental group.


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SoCal Asian communities aim to weed out toxic fish (AP)

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In a Thursday, June 4, 2009 photo, Hoang Van Nguyen holds milkfish at Thuan Phat market in Westminster, Calif. State and county authorities are inspecting Asian markets in Southern California to try to weed out the sale of white croaker, which has been contaminated by chemicals released into the Pacific Ocean from the 1950s to the 1970s. (AP Photo/Nick Ut)AP - John Fallan's trained eye scans rows of iceboxes brimming with tiger fish and shrimp in a Vietnamese supermarket, searching for one pesky fish that threatens the health of seafood lovers.


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