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Governments that Dream

Late March 2012 the government of Denmark agreed with most opposition parties on a plan of public investments in renewable energy and goals for future levels of sustainability. While the agreement was received with enthusiasm and envy by the environmentally inclined segment of th …

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Hello Newsvine, would you like to read my book?

Hello, my name is Benno Hansen. You may remember me from such articles as Virgin Mary Anal Sex isn't Blasphemy or Female Brazilian soccer referee to pose in Playboy magazine, such epic seeds as Man with rifle and 10 pounds of pot caught driving over 90mph while taping h …

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Man's childhood comic collection fetches $3.5M

Billy Wright plunked down dime after dime for comic books while growing up in the late 1930s and early 1940s, caring for the collection he started around the age of 9 until his death more than half a century later. On Wednesday, most of that collection sold for a whopping $3.5 million.

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Mystery disease kills thousands in Central America

Jesus Ignacio Flores started working when he was 16, laboring long hours on construction sites and in the fields of his country's biggest sugar plantation.

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EU agency: air pollution costs exceed $134 billion

Air pollution isn't just harmful — it's expensive, resulting in health care and environmental costs of more than euro100 billion ($130 billion) in 2009, the European Union's environment agency said Thursday.

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IPCC gives some revised probabilities on climate change

Read some of the previews of what the summary from the updating for policy makers from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) would say and you might think much of this climate change business was being overstated.

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Denmark's new government more green than red

On Thursday the 15th of September 2011 the Danish right wing government of the past decade lost its slim majority.

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Climate change still naturally occurring, based on flawed science and linked to moon volcanoes

Thought the public debate over climate change was over after the onslaught of COP15 related climate change buzz in 2009? Wrong! The hard core deniers are still unfazed by reality. The honest skeptic has been convinced by the steady flow of scientific reports supporting anthrop …

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While everyone's on holiday: Ghosts of the past, crises of the present and warnings for the future

From the distant and near past   The Washington Post reports Oil leaks from 233 World War II shipwrecks could threaten US coast as vessels corrode.

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Heavy rain break records in Copenhagen

Last Saturday it rained here in Copenhagen. Now my basement is dry, traffic is normal again, (my) video(s) and photos are online and I found the time to look up the statistics. The average precipitation for the month of July is 68 mm in Copenhagen, Denmark.

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The last excitement in European football

Most is settled. Where is the last excitement to find in European football? English Bronze: Manchester City or Arsenal? Manchester City are one point ahead and miss playing no.

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Climate change deniers are worse people than Holocaust deniers

The film director Lars von Trier was kicked out of the Cannes film festival the other day. But every day many people freely publish outright dangerous statements. Come on guys, Trier is not a talker, he's a director.

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Top 5 European leagues: status & predictions

Get updated on the top five European football leagues in a flash. Statistics based, curated by experience.

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Touching. Brutal. Unfair.

It isn't safe leaving the cocoon of Treehugger.com and Change.org RSS-feed summaries of the world around us to actually experience it. Not only do you risk getting caught up in a revolution. You risk seeing nasty stuff. Touched by Africa

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Current and future water wars

After a somewhat poetic introduction and a dusty chronology of the histories of man and water here is an instant update on both current and future water wars.

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A brief history of water wars

As promised in my first article I'll blog a bit about "water wars". First, a very brief look at historical conflicts over water or just battles with water involved.

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A history of beauty, production… and violence

We live on Earth – The Blue Planet. A rock floating through empty space along with many other rocks. Yet this particular rock is veiled in a thin layer of cosmologically rare organic materials and unstable gasses which is only present thanks to an abundance of water.

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Explosion at Kenya bus station leaves 1 dead

A bomb exploded at a downtown bus station in Kenya's capital late Monday as passengers boarded a bus, killing at least one person and wounding up to 39 others, police said. Suspicions centered on a Somali militant group.

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Copenhagen qualifies for knockout stage in Europe

FC Copenhagen became the first Danish team to reach the Champions League knockout stage, while holder Inter Milan missed out on top spot in its group by losing 3-0 at Werder Bremen on Tuesday.

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Wikileaks > Secretary General of NATO, Anders Fogh Rasmussen

Anders Fogh Rasmussen, former prime minister of Denmark and head responsible for his nation joining the 'Coalition of the Willing' now Secretary General of NATO is mentioned in the latest leaks on Wikileaks.org.

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Cut beer cans placed around seagulls' necks

Why would anyone slap cut beer cans around the necks of seagulls? A wildlife group made aware of the incidents in the San Francisco Bay Area isn't certain but it calls it torture and is fighting back with a $2,000 bounty.

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How to blog about things nobody wants to read

People read to have their prejudices confirmed. And they don't trust some unknown blogger. If you are smart and want to explain yourself in the blogosphere what do you do?

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Last tips and insight from prima development bloggers

September 20th to 22nd 2010 the United Nations gather in New York to evaluate progress on the Millennium Development Goals. To help create a buzz and to experiment with new media European Journalism Center is hosting the TH!NK ABOUT IT #3: Developing World blogging project.

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The willing

MDG GOAL 8: DEVELOP A GLOBAL PARTNERSHIP FOR DEVELOPMENT.Target 4: In cooperation with pharmaceutical companies, provide access to affordable essential drugs in developing countries.Monitor: Proportion of population with access to affordable essential drugs on a sustainable bas …

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More tips and insight from leading development bloggers

If you want to know how to blog then reading a bit of the wisdom below might be a good start!

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  • Mexico drug war's latest toll: 49 headless bodies

    Authorities struggled Monday to identify the 49 people found mutilated and scattered in a pool of blood in a region near the U.S .border where Mexico's two dominant drug cartels are trying to outdo each other in bloodshed while warring over smuggling routes.

  • Rio+20 : A mirage for Africa?

    With a population of a little over one billion (according to the UNFPA report) Africa is certainly one of the continents that is faced with huge challenges of under-development, poverty, food insecurity, environmental degradation, water scarcity, pollution and land degradation. …

  • Wrecked Brazilian ship leaking oil in Antartica

    A wrecked Brazilian ship is trapped in ice and spilling fuel in Antarctica, with no hopes of containing the damage until the long South Pole winter eases next October.

  • New Police Strategy in New York - Sexual Assault Against Peaceful Protesters

    On March 17 there were numerous reported cases of police intentionally grabbing women’s breasts, and in later nightly evictions from Union Square, the practice became so systematic that at least one woman told me her breasts were grabbed by five different police off …

  • Kazakh Foreign Minister Says Borat Responsible for Tourism Boom

    Borat, a film once banned in its "native country" of Kazakhstan, has actually done wonders for the former Soviet republic, according to Foreign Minister Yerzhan Kazykhanov. Speaking before lawmakers in the transcontinental country's capital city, Astana, Kazykhanov acknowledge …