Nobel Peace Prize could go to climate campaigner
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The 2007 Nobel Peace Prize could go to a climate campaigner such as ex-U.S. Vice-President Al Gore or Inuit activist Sheila Watt-Cloutier, reinforcing a view that global warming is a threat to world security, experts say.
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Kenyan environmental activist Wangari Maathai, who Wednesday became the first-ever African woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize, has worked for decades to protect Africa&#39;s dwindling forests.
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Kenyan environmental activist Wangari Maathai won the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday for her work as leader of the Green Belt Movement, which has sought to empower women, better the environment and fight ...
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To the beat of African drums, Kenyan environmentalist Wangari Maathai received her Nobel Peace Prize on Friday, telling the audience of royals, celebrities and diplomats that protecting the world's resources is linked to halting violence.
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The recently announced Virgin Earth Challenge&#8212;the biggest science prize in history&#8212;aims to find a commercially viable way to combat global warming.
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Wangari Maathai, the Kenyan firebrand who mobilized the women of Africa in a powerful crusade against deforestation called the "Green Belt Movement," will receive the Nobel Peace Prize for 2004.
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Human rights and environmental activists have hailed the award of the 2004 Nobel Peace Prize to Wangari Maathai of Kenya as fitting recognition of the growing role of civil society
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Former Vice President Al Gore was nominated for the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize for his wide-reaching efforts to draw the world's attention to the dangers of global warming, a Norwegian lawmaker said Thursday.
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NPR.org, October 8, 2004 Â· Kenyan environmental activist and human rights campaigner Wangari Maathai has been awarded the 2004 Nobel Peace Prize.
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The decision by the five-member Nobel Committee to award this year&#39;s Nobel Peace Prize to an environmental activist prompted some prominent Norwegians to criticize the selection
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LONDON -- British billionaire entrepreneur Sir Richard Branson, with former vice president Al Gore at his side, offered a $25 million prize yesterday for anyone who can come up with a way to blunt global climate change by removing at least a billion tons of carbon dioxide a year from the earth's atmosphere.
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To the beat of African drums, Kenyan environmentalist Wangari Maathai received her Nobel Peace Prize on Friday, telling the audience of royals, celebrities and diplomats that protecting the world's resources is ...
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In awarding this year&#39;s Nobel Peace Prize to a Kenyan environmentalist, the Norwegian Nobel Committee admitted it had stretched the definition of an award that its founder, Alfred Nobel, said should go to the person who does the most to promote peace
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The Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to Al Gore and to a United Nations panel for their work on global warming.
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Kenyan environmentalist Wangari Maathai  became the first African woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize on  Friday, honored for her work planting tens of millions of trees  to save the environment. The award marks a new theme in  interpreting the 1895 will of Sweden's Alfred Nobel, who  founded the prize.
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Speculation grows ahead of Friday's announcement of the 2004 winner of the Nobel Peace Prize.
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Kenyan environmentalist Wangari Maathai  became the first African woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize  Friday for aiding the continent's poor with a campaign to plant  millions of trees to slow down deforestation.