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Country: USA/FRANCE Author: Tom Doggett and Muriel Boselli Governments will have to grapple with sharply higher upfront costs to deploy clean energy technologies and halve carbon emissions by 2050, the International Energy Agency said on Thursday.

A crop-killing fungus is spreading out of Africa towards the world’s great wheat-growing areas

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Boston, Massachusetts The world is running out of water.

By DONALD G. McNEIL Jr.

MUKONO, Uganda — Lynet Nalugo dug a cassava tuber out of her field and sliced it open.

Source: Reuters

By EDITH M. LEDERER (AP) – Jun 23, 2010 UNITED NATIONS — The global economic crisis has slowed the fight against poverty but the developing world is still on track to meet a key U.N.

A 4 percent decrease in forest was associated with a nearly 50 percent rise in malaria cases in western Brazil.

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Source: Reuters