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By GALLOWAY, Jill  16 farmers in the region are hoping to be finalists. ------------ --------   Sixteen farmers in Horizon's Manawatu-Wanganui region are going for the top environment prize, hoping to be finalists in the region's Ballance Farm Environment awards.
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Three thousand Indian tribal chiefs in one of the world&#39;s wettest regions have invited ex-US vice president Al Gore to pick up an award for creating awareness about climate change.
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Australia will host a conference here this week to try to win international support for a campaign to save endangered seabirds from being wiped out by fishing and pollution, the government said.
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A LEADING charity today called on the Scottish Executive to act after it emerged Scotlandâs appetite for coal, gas and oil is damaging the worldâs most precious wildlife.
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Kenya&#39;s Nobel Peace Prize winner, Wangari Maathai, on Monday urged wealthy nations to ratify the Kyoto protocol on climate change to ease the burden of pollution on poor countries.
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Science & environment: Scientists hope evidence will save other areas of land given over to timber and oil-palm plantations.
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Business leaders, consumer groups, and prominent politicians, come together to call for a new environment agency.
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A series of X-Prizes for breakthroughs in science or technology that solve the world's greatest challenges are planned.
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It could be tiny fibers that may one day replace steel, or catalysts that have led to environmentally friendly plastics. Guessing the winner of the Nobel Prize for chemistry has often stumped researchers and pundits alike.
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LONDON - Airline tycoon Richard Branson announced on Friday a $25 million prize for the first person to come up with a way of scrubbing greenhouse gases out of the atmosphere in the battle to ...Comment
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Environmentalists are thinking ahead to the effect of tourists and investors on a landscape of crucial habitats.
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A coalition of environmental activists and investors is asking the Securities and Exchange Commission to require companies to disclose the risks that climate change may pose to their bottom lines.
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Calling humanity a threat to the planet,  Kenyan environmentalist Wangari Maathai urged democratic reform  and an end to corporate greed after becoming the first African  woman to collect the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday.
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By DAVID HIGGERSON  BETTER marketing of the region's natural assets could unlock an extra pounds 115m for the economy, a new group set up to promote the environment said last night.
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PITTSBURGH, March 6  /PRNewswire/ -- The Pennsylvania Environmental Council and Dominion, sponsors of the Western Pennsylvania Environmental Awards Program, are still accepting nominations for the 2007 Environmental Awards, to be presented at the Westin Convention Center Hotel on June 7, 2007.
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Nobel Peace Prize laureate Wangari Maathai was today set to warn that the planet is under attack from a litany of threats, ranging from disease, deforestation and war, and urge a shift in human thinking to save the earth.
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Saying the planet is at risk from human  activity, Kenyan environmentalist Wangari Maathai urged  democratic reforms and an end to corporate greed when she  collected the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday.