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Timeline: How the world discovered global warming
Dec 01, 2011 14:40 EST
(Reuters) - U.N. climate talks in Durban, South Africa, from November 28-December 9 are aimed at agreeing new measures to stem rising emissions of planet-warming greenhouse gases.
Special report: In Breivik's past, few clues to troubled future
Aug 02, 2011 13:35 EDT
RENA, Norway (Reuters) - On a taxi ride to his farmhouse the day before he killed 77 people, Anders Behring Breivik talked easily of a future he must have known would never come.
Norway police raise attack death toll to 77 from 76
Jul 29, 2011 12:15 EDT
OSLO (Reuters) - Norwegian police said on Friday that the death toll in a bombing and shooting massacre by anti-Islam attacker Anders Behring Breivik a week ago had risen to 77 from 76.
Search for bodies on Norwegian island ends
Jul 28, 2011 15:35 EDT
OSLO (Reuters) - Norwegian police on Thursday ended a six-day search for bodies on the island where Anders Behring Breivik shot dead 68 people, and said they were increasingly certain he acted alone.
Search for bodies on Norwegian island ends
Jul 28, 2011 13:36 EDT
OSLO (Reuters) - Norwegian police on Thursday ended a six-day search for bodies on the island where Anders Behring Breivik shot dead 68 people, and said they were increasingly certain he acted alone.
"Why didn't you come earlier?," survivors asked police
Jul 25, 2011 14:37 EDT
OSLO (Reuters) - "Why didn't you come earlier?," survivors screamed when Norwegian police arrived after an hour in which Anders Behring Breivik had wandered the wooded island of Utoeya shooting dead 68 people, most of them teenagers.
Analysis: Brutal attack tests Norwegian society
Jul 24, 2011 14:56 EDT
OSLO (Reuters) - Before Friday's deadly attacks by a Norwegian on a self-styled mission to save European "Christendom" from Islam, it was not uncommon to see Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg taking public transport to work and senior ministers walking in Oslo without bodyguards.
Norway massacre suspect calls deed necessary: lawyer
Jul 23, 2011 17:48 EDT
OSLO (Reuters) - The man suspected of a gun and bomb attack in Norway has called his deeds atrocious yet necessary, his defense lawyer said on Saturday.
Teenagers swam for their lives in Norway carnage
Jul 23, 2011 04:30 EDT
NESLANDET, Norway (Reuters) - Norwegian teenagers at a lakeside summer camp fled screaming in panic, many leaping into the water to save themselves, when an attacker dressed as a policeman began spraying them with gunfire.
Teenagers swam for their lives in Norway carnage
Jul 23, 2011 04:30 EDT
NESLANDET, Norway (Reuters) - Norwegian teenagers at a lakeside summer camp fled screaming in panic, many leaping into the water to save themselves, when an attacker dressed as a policeman began spraying them with gunfire.
Witness says saw 20 dead at Norway youth camp
Jul 22, 2011 15:08 EDT
OSLO (Reuters) - A witness said he saw at least 20 bodies after a shooting at a youth camp of the Norwegian Labour party on Friday. Police declined comment on the toll and there was no independent confirmation.
U.S. seeks exemption to EU aviation CO2 plan
Jun 22, 2011 15:00 EDT
OSLO (Reuters) - The United States demanded on Wednesday that the European Union exempt U.S. airlines from an EU law widening carbon permits to aviation, hardening a standoff over a scheme due to start in 2012.
Indonesia forest moratorium breached on first day: group
Jun 17, 2011 03:05 EDT
JAKARTA (Reuters) - Indonesia's freshly inked two-year forest moratorium was breached on its first day as a plantation company burned carbon-rich peatlands on Borneo island, an investigation by an environmental group said.
Analysis: Gas is killing green energy in price war
Jun 16, 2011 15:57 EDT
LONDON (Reuters) - A widening shale gas revolution is killing the economics of renewable energy, even as falling costs allow wind and solar to overtake fossil fuels in niche areas, say energy executives and analysts.
Indonesia forest decree to help CO2 projects
May 31, 2011 05:36 EDT
SINGAPORE (Reuters) - A landmark forest protection ruling by Indonesia might be good for investors trying to save carbon-rich forests, but only if a ban is enforced and progress is made in using the market to save the environment.
Greenpeace sends vessels to protest Greenland oil
May 24, 2011 16:56 EDT
COPENHAGEN (Reuters) - Environmental group Greenpeace has sent two vessels into the northern North Sea to protest against oil exploration off Greenland, the organization and officials said on Tuesday.
Indonesia forest moratorium softens blow for planters
May 20, 2011 06:56 EDT
JAKARTA (Reuters) - Indonesia revealed a long list of exemptions on Friday to a two-year moratorium on new permits to clear forest, a concession to the hard-lobbying plantation industry in the world's top palm oil producing nation that vexed green groups.
Norway could retire permits to meet CO2 goals: OECD
May 19, 2011 11:25 EDT
OSLO (Reuters) - Norway could buy and retire carbon permits from the European market to achieve promised deep cuts in greenhouse gas emissions by 2020, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) said on Thursday.
Arctic nations step up cooperation on safety, oil
May 12, 2011 17:36 EDT
NUUK, Greenland (Reuters) - Arctic nations agreed on Thursday to improve cooperation including on preventing oil spills as a thaw of ice and snow opens access to the remote region's rich mineral and petroleum resources.
Hillary Clinton lands in Greenland for Arctic summit
May 11, 2011 18:49 EDT
NUUK, Greenland (Reuters) - Secretary of State Hillary Clinton arrived in Greenland on Wednesday for an Arctic summit to improve management of a vast, pristine region being rapidly transformed by climate change.
