The European Investment Banks will part-finance investments in the sector as part of climate change mitigation efforts.
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Magazine publishers creating ‘iTunes for magazines’
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9/11 pager messages published by Wikileaks
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Big Bang atom smasher starts speeding proton beams
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Icebergs head from Antarctica for New Zealand
Giant chunks of ice have snapped off the Antarctic shelf and drifted far north as a result of unusual weather. -
Google to digitize Iraq’s National Museum archives
Nearly 14,000 digital images taken at the museum would be freely available online next year: Google CEO
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Facebook suicide group on police radar
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Jet-winged adventurer crashes in Atlantic
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China’s pandas worth more than Tiger Woods
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China harnesses mountain wind power
Wind energy projects – both big and small – are multiplying across the Asian giant.
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Nearly 4.7 million people in Asia are living with HIV in 2008, including 350,000 infected over the previous year.
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The venomous red-back spiders are on the march in Japan, where they are believed to have arrived years ago on cargo ships.
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The additional rain will likely fall too late in the year to benefit crops, meaning food scarcity is likely to worsen.
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Global fresh water demand will be 40 per cent higher than current supplies, which could dry up its river basins.
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It is vanishing as water which previously flowed into the lake is being diverted to service industry and agriculture.
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The import fell by 66 per cent in 2008-09 falling to $130 million from the previous year’s $446 million.
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