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The Department of Energy (DOE) and the Visayan Electric Co. (Veco) have signed a memorandum of agreement (MOA) for the distribution of more than two million energy-saving compact fluorescent lamps (CFLs) to Veco customers in Metro Cebu. DOE will provide...

Denmark's prime minister says the country's climate minister will leave her Cabinet post to head next month's Copenhagen climate summit. Prime Minister Lars Loekke Rasmussen says Climate Minister Connie Hedegaard has been named minister in charge of the two-week international...

Researchers with the project have found about 5,600 new species on top of the 230,000 known. They hope to add several thousand more by October 2010, when the census will be done At 2,750 meters deep in the Northern Gulf...

Brazil — British pop star Sting says Brazil's government should listen to the voices of local indigenous groups before building a massive hydroelectric dam in the Amazon rain forest. Sting told a news conference Sunday in Sao Paulo the decision...

We can expect more extreme weather events, more water and more drought situations,” said Ms. Wahlström, a Swedish national with over 25 years of experience in disaster management, development and humanitarian issues, and served as UN Special Coordinator for assistance...

The aim of the fund, which is backed by 35 countries, is to begin cutting the rate of deforestation immediately, without waiting for the United Nations to complete negotiations on its own scheme for saving rainforests. Payments will be made...

We are therefore urging donors to respond quickly to this appeal so that assistance can be provided to those affected without delay,” he added of the appeal, launched jointly with non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and the Government of El Salvador.

Conservation groups said lower quotas for Atlantic tuna fishing set in a meeting in Brazil would encourage illegal fishing and diminish long-term gains. The International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas in Recife, Brazil, set the quota for the...