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  • CA-CANADA Summary (Reuters)

    Reuters - Canadian parliamentarians tucked into a meal of seal meat on Wednesday to defy both animal right activists and the European Union, which has banned imports of seal products. Some two dozen guests, surrounded on all sides by media, crammed into a small room off the main parliamentary restaurant to hear speeches backing the annual hunt off Canada's East Coast, which the EU says is inhumane.

  • Oil reverses gains, slides back below $82 (AP)

    Workers walk at the Halfaya oil field near the southern Iraqi city of Amara in 2009. The OPEC oil producers' cartel on Wednesday slightly upgraded its forecast for modest growth in world oil demand this year but warned that the slow pace of economic recovery was clouding the outlook.(AFP/File/Essam al-Sudani)AP - Oil prices reversed earlier gains by Wednesday afternoon as traders reconsidered the government's weekly crude inventory report, which showed a smaller increase in supplies than expected.


  • World's top scientists to review climate panel (AP)

    AP - At a tumultuous time in U.N.-led climate negotiations, one of the world's most credible scientific groups agreed Wednesday to plug the recent cracks in the authoritative reports of the United Nations' Nobel Prize-winning global warming panel.

  • China tells US to do more on climate change (AP)

    In this photo taken March 8, 2010, a view of Waigaoqiao No. 3 power station in Shanghai, China. China told the United States on Wednesday to make stronger commitments on climate change and provide environmental expertise and financing to developing nations. China, the world's largest emitter of heat-trapping greenhouse gases, has said it will cut its 'carbon intensity' — a measure of carbon dioxide emissions per unit of production — by 40 percent to 45 percent by 2020, compared with 2005 levels. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)AP - China told the United States on Wednesday to make stronger commitments on climate change and provide environmental expertise and financing to developing nations.


  • Obama pushes climate change in White House meeting (Reuters)

    A light snow settles on a tourist's umbrella as he takes a picture of the White House in Washington, December 5, 2009. REUTERS/Jonathan ErnstReuters - 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 an overhaul of U.S. energy policy.


  • Outside science academies to review warming panel (AP)

    AP - The beleaguered global warming panel has found an outside group to review how it writes its reports.

  • Red Carpet Awaits The Star In The 'Eco-Dress'

    At the Oscars this year, one star will grace the red carpet with an "eco-dress."

  • Changing Behaviors To Save Energy

    Energy Star labels and miles-per-gallon vehicle ratings aren't enticing enough consumers toward energy-saving options, according to economist Hunt Allcott. Allcott explains how new research in behavioral economics might help lead consumers to more energy-efficient choices.