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EU agency: air pollution costs exceed $134 billion

Air pollution isn't just harmful — it's expensive, resulting in health care and environmental costs of more than euro100 billion ($130 billion) in 2009, the European Union's environment agency said Thursday.

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IPCC gives some revised probabilities on climate change

Read some of the previews of what the summary from the updating for policy makers from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) would say and you might think much of this climate change business was being overstated.

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Denmark's new government more green than red

On Thursday the 15th of September 2011 the Danish right wing government of the past decade lost its slim majority.

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Climate change still naturally occurring, based on flawed science and linked to moon volcanoes

Thought the public debate over climate change was over after the onslaught of COP15 related climate change buzz in 2009? Wrong! The hard core deniers are still unfazed by reality. The honest skeptic has been convinced by the steady flow of scientific reports supporting anthrop …

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While everyone's on holiday: Ghosts of the past, crises of the present and warnings for the future

From the distant and near past   The Washington Post reports Oil leaks from 233 World War II shipwrecks could threaten US coast as vessels corrode.

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Heavy rain break records in Copenhagen

Last Saturday it rained here in Copenhagen. Now my basement is dry, traffic is normal again, (my) video(s) and photos are online and I found the time to look up the statistics. The average precipitation for the month of July is 68 mm in Copenhagen, Denmark.

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The last excitement in European football

Most is settled. Where is the last excitement to find in European football? English Bronze: Manchester City or Arsenal? Manchester City are one point ahead and miss playing no.

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Climate change deniers are worse people than Holocaust deniers

The film director Lars von Trier was kicked out of the Cannes film festival the other day. But every day many people freely publish outright dangerous statements. Come on guys, Trier is not a talker, he's a director.

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Top 5 European leagues: status & predictions

Get updated on the top five European football leagues in a flash. Statistics based, curated by experience.

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Touching. Brutal. Unfair.

It isn't safe leaving the cocoon of Treehugger.com and Change.org RSS-feed summaries of the world around us to actually experience it. Not only do you risk getting caught up in a revolution. You risk seeing nasty stuff. Touched by Africa

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Current and future water wars

After a somewhat poetic introduction and a dusty chronology of the histories of man and water here is an instant update on both current and future water wars.

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A brief history of water wars

As promised in my first article I'll blog a bit about "water wars". First, a very brief look at historical conflicts over water or just battles with water involved.

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A history of beauty, production… and violence

We live on Earth – The Blue Planet. A rock floating through empty space along with many other rocks. Yet this particular rock is veiled in a thin layer of cosmologically rare organic materials and unstable gasses which is only present thanks to an abundance of water.

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Explosion at Kenya bus station leaves 1 dead

A bomb exploded at a downtown bus station in Kenya's capital late Monday as passengers boarded a bus, killing at least one person and wounding up to 39 others, police said. Suspicions centered on a Somali militant group.

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Copenhagen qualifies for knockout stage in Europe

FC Copenhagen became the first Danish team to reach the Champions League knockout stage, while holder Inter Milan missed out on top spot in its group by losing 3-0 at Werder Bremen on Tuesday.

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Wikileaks > Secretary General of NATO, Anders Fogh Rasmussen

Anders Fogh Rasmussen, former prime minister of Denmark and head responsible for his nation joining the 'Coalition of the Willing' now Secretary General of NATO is mentioned in the latest leaks on Wikileaks.org.

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Cut beer cans placed around seagulls' necks

Why would anyone slap cut beer cans around the necks of seagulls? A wildlife group made aware of the incidents in the San Francisco Bay Area isn't certain but it calls it torture and is fighting back with a $2,000 bounty.

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How to blog about things nobody wants to read

People read to have their prejudices confirmed. And they don't trust some unknown blogger. If you are smart and want to explain yourself in the blogosphere what do you do?

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Last tips and insight from prima development bloggers

September 20th to 22nd 2010 the United Nations gather in New York to evaluate progress on the Millennium Development Goals. To help create a buzz and to experiment with new media European Journalism Center is hosting the TH!NK ABOUT IT #3: Developing World blogging project.

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The willing

MDG GOAL 8: DEVELOP A GLOBAL PARTNERSHIP FOR DEVELOPMENT.Target 4: In cooperation with pharmaceutical companies, provide access to affordable essential drugs in developing countries.Monitor: Proportion of population with access to affordable essential drugs on a sustainable bas …

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More tips and insight from leading development bloggers

If you want to know how to blog then reading a bit of the wisdom below might be a good start!

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Tips and insight from top development bloggers

September 20th to 22nd 2010 the United Nations gather in New York to evaluate progress on the Millennium Development Goals. To help create a buzz and to experiment with new media European Journalism Center is hosting the TH!NK ABOUT IT #3: Developing World blogging project.

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Moving the movement of movements from COP to MDG

Tremendous traction was gained in the calls for a fair, ambitious and binding deal at the 2009 climate summit in Copenhagen. A hundred thousand people demonstrated on the streets of the Danish capital while millions voiced their hope online.

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Moynihan, as Nixon aide, warned of global warming

Documents released Friday by the Nixon Presidential Library show members of President Richard Nixon's inner circle discussing the possibilities of global warming more than 30 years ago.

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Climate talks kick off with squabbling in Germany

A new round of climate negotiations kicked off in Germany on Monday with squabbling over money and procedural questions that could threaten progress at the two-week U.N. conference.

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  • Iraqi Torture Scandal Touches Highest Levels of NATO: Obama Pointedly Refuses to Investigate US Torture

    An inquiry by "a Danish Defence Ministry official" regarding "what happened at the American Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq after media reports of torture and abuse in 2003." Subsequently, "Danish soldiers continued to hand over prisoners to the facility, however, even after the to …

  • Richard Stallman Was Right All Along

    Late last year, president Obama signed a law that makes it possible to indefinitely detain terrorist suspects without any form of trial or due process. Peaceful protesters in Occupy movements all over the world have been labelled as terrorists by the authorities.

  • Man found guilty of murders and rapes caught smuggling semen

    The 46 year-old has been convicted of two murders and six rapes in a campaign of terror which spooked the Copenhagen district for more than 23 years. According to police, the ‘family man’ conspired with another rapist to smuggle his semen out of jail and spread it  …

  • Far-right author kills two, then self in Florence

    An Italian far-right author shot dead two Senegalese vendors and wounded three in Florence on Tuesday before killing himself in a daylight shooting spree that prompted outpourings of grief in the historic city.

  • Four dead in armed attack in Liège

    Four people have been killed and seventy-five people injured in an armed attack in the heart of the Walloon city of Liège on Tuesday lunchtime.