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Nairobi (pronounced /narobi/) is the capital and largest city of Kenya. The city and its surrounding area also forms the Nairobi Province. The name "Nairobi" comes from the Maasai phrase Enkare Nyirobi, which translates to "the place of cool waters". However, it is popularly known as the "Green City in the Sun" and is surrounded by several expanding villa suburbs.[2
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Sun won't stop global warming if dims as in 1600s
The Star
| OSLO (Reuters) - A dimming of the sun to match conditions in the "Little Ice Age" of the 17th century would only slightly slow global warming, a study indicated on Wednesday. A chimney billows smoke as the sun shines through haze on a cold winter's day in Beijing in this December 24, 2009 file pho...
Perito Moreno Glacier Patagonia Argentina. Glacier ice is the largest reservoir of fresh water on Earth, and is second only to oceans as the largest reservoir of total water. Glaciers cover vast areas of the polar regions and are found in mountain ranges of every continent except Australia.
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World's top scientists to review climate panel
The Guardian
| SETH BORENSTEIN | AP Science Writer= WASHINGTON (AP) — The world's biggest scientific guns are being called in to mop up after a trickle of unsettling errors in the authoritative reports written by a global warming panel. | The United Nations and the beleaguered Intergovernmental Panel on Climat...
U.N. launches review of criticized climate panel
The Star
| UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said on Wednesday that a group of national science academies would review U.N. climate science to restore trust after a 2007 global warming report was found to have errors. The sun sets ...
Reality of Climate Change and Lies of Some Scientists
Khaleej Times
We appear to have been battered to a submissive intellectual pulp by the pro climate change lobby, although it was only 35 years ago, when I interviewed the world's principal climate experts for the Washington Post, the consensus was that the earth w...
Sun won't stop global warming if dims as in 1600s
The Star
| OSLO (Reuters) - A dimming of the sun to match conditions in the "Little Ice Age" of the 17th century would only slightly slow global warming, a study indicated on Wednesday. A chimney billows smoke as the sun shines through haze on a cold winter's...
UN asks Dutch organization to review climate change findings
m&c
| New York - The United Nations on Wednesday asked a Dutch- based scientific group to conduct an independent review of UN climate change findings after coming under criticism over errors in its report. | UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said he and t...
Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., is interviewed by the Associated Press in his office on Capitol Hill, Wednesday, July 19, 2006, in Washington. When Obama travels to Africa next month for a five-nation, 15-day tour, he will have one credential no other U.S. senator can claim: he is the son of an African. ``As the only African-American in the U.S. Senate, there is obviously some symbolic power to my visit,'' Obama said.
AP / Lawrence Jackson
Obama pushes climate change in White House meeting
DNA India
| WASHINGTON: President Barack Obama, weighing in on the Senate's efforts to pass a climate change bill, gathered republican and democratic lawmakers on Tuesday to try to jumps...
President Barack Obama speaks as Archbishop Demetrios, Primate of the Greek Orthodox Church in America, listens during a ceremony honoring Greek Independence Day in the East Room of the White House in Washington, Tuesday, March 9, 2010.
AP / Gerald Herbert
Obama pushes climate change in meeting
Khaleej Times
WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama, weighing in on the Senate's efforts to pass a climate change bill, gathered Republican and Democratic lawmakers on Tuesday to try to jumpstart ...
A cane cutter works in Batatais, Brazil, in this Aug. 28, 2007 file photo. Booming Brazil is in overdrive with test drilling at a potentially mammoth offshore oil field, trucks jamming ports to offload soy shipments for China, biofuel production galore and plenty of cash for mega-infrastructure projects ranging from bridges to dams
AP / Andre Penner
EU faces court challenge over biofuels reports
Daily Star Lebanon
| Wednesday, March 10, 2010 | - Powered by | Pete Harrison | Reuters | BRUSSELS: Four environmental groups have sued the EU’s executive for withholding documents they say wil...
Anti-Global Warming/Green Industry Lobby Sponsors Carbon-Belching Racecar
Newsvine
| This could be an epic demonstration of hypocrisy – an institution that wants the public to "be green," but engaging in business practices that are far from that same standard. | In a press release sent out March 10, the National Green Energy Coun...
Calif. GHG Emissions Law Will Cost Jobs in Short Term, State Analysts Find
The New York Times
| California policymakers used flawed economic models to justify a state effort to curb emissions of greenhouse gases, according to a new state report. | The California Legislative Analyst's Office found the state's 2006 climate law, A.B. 32, is unli...
Oil Execs Chortle as Obama Admin Promotes Renewables
The New York Times
| HOUSTON -- Renewable energy is being praised in Washington, but it is generating snickers here in the nation's traditional energy capital, where oil, gas and utility leaders are gathered for a major industry conference. | Leaders of two of the worl...
Environment

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Children's health on agenda at European WHO conference
m&c
| Parma, Italy - A three-day conference of Europe's 53 members of the World Health Organisation (WHO) opened Wednesday in Italy, focussing on clean water, sanitation, air pollution and dangerous chemicals. | A declaration, to be signed on Friday, the conference's closing day, will commit governments to achieve clear goals by 2020. | The conference ...
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President Barack Obama speaks about health care reform, Wednesday, July 15, 2009, in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington.
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Obama Tells Haitian Leader That U.S. Aid Will Continue
The New York Times
| WASHINGTON — Even as the United States military withdraws the forces it sent urgently to Haiti after its devastating earthquake in January, President Obama on Wednesday pledged a lasting commitment to aid and assistance. Win McNamee/Getty Images | President Barack Obama with President Rene Preval of Haiti during a news conference outside th...



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