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Indonesia rejects "world's third-largest emitter" tag

JAKARTA (Reuters) - A World Bank study that cited Indonesia as the world's third-largest emitter of greenhouse gases was wrong, an Indonesian report sent to the United Nations on Monday said, although it did not provide its own ranking.

How monkey grandmothers take up the maternal role

Grandmother macaques care for their abandoned grandchildren, behaviour not recorded before in non-human primates.

Protesters arrested as climate debate rages

Over 100 protesters have been arrested at Parliament House while demonstrating against the Government's actions on climate change.

Warming’s impacts worsened since Kyoto

Since the 1997 international accord to fight global warming, climate change has worsened and accelerated — beyond some of the grimmest of warnings made back then.



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Predatory fish nearing Great Lakes ecosystem

Asian carp may have breached an electronic barrier designed to prevent the giant invaders from upsetting the ecosystem in the Great Lakes and jeopardizing a $7 billion sport fishery.

Fish 'at risk' in acidified ocean

Fish reared in water acidified by CO2 may become "fatally attracted" to the smell of their predators, say scientists.

Asian carp may be near U.S. Great Lakes

There are signs Asian carp may have breached barriers designed to keep the prolific fish out of the Great Lakes, which could spell ecological disaster for the vital source of fresh water, authorities said on Friday. Concentrations of DNA discovered by Notre Dame University researchers may indicate the presence of bighead and silver carp upstream from two electrical barriers designed to bottle up the invasive fish.

Feared Asian carp may be near U.S. Great Lakes

CHICAGO (Reuters) - There are signs Asian carp may have breached barriers designed to keep the prolific fish out of the Great Lakes, which could spell ecological disaster for the vital source of fresh water, authorities said on Friday.

Curbs to ship pollution would stoke global warming, study says

OSLO (Reuters) - Shipping is slowing climate change by spewing out sunlight-dimming pollution but a clean-up needed to safeguard human health will stoke global warming, experts said Friday.