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Astronauts install water recycler on space station

HOUSTON, Nov. 19, 2008 (Reuters) — Astronauts hooked up a water recycling system and installed two new bedrooms aboard the International Space Station on Wednesday while crew mates prepared for a second spacewalk to fix the outpost's power system. ...  > full story

Obama moves closer to key cabinet pick

CHICAGO, Nov. 19, 2008 (Reuters) — President-elect Barack Obama moved closer to filling a key spot in his cabinet on Tuesday as his transition team plotted a careful course to shaping the next U.S. administration. ...  > full story

Indonesia quake kills at least 4, tears down houses

JAKARTA, Nov. 17, 2008 (Reuters) — A powerful earthquake struck an area off Indonesia's northern Sulawesi early on Monday, killing at least four people and injuring nearly 60 after hundreds of houses collapsed, a disaster official said. ...  > full story

California fires destroy 1,000 homes, winds ease

LOS ANGELES, Nov. 16, 2008 (Reuters) — Wildfires hop-scotched around Southern California on Sunday although calmer winds slowed flames that have destroyed almost 1,000 houses, forced tens of thousands to evacuate and turned some neighborhoods into scenes resembling war zones. ...  > full story

IEA stokes doubts over world's climate fight

LONDON, Nov. 12, 2008 (Reuters) — The world will have to bet on extreme measures to avoid serious global warming, the International Energy Agency said on Wednesday, adding to growing worries that governments have under-estimated the problem. ...  > full story

Japan CO2 hits record

TOKYO, Nov. 12, 2008 (Reuters) — Japan's greenhouse gas emissions rose to a record high in the year to March, putting the world's fifth-largest carbon dioxide producer at risk of an embarrassing failure to achieve its Kyoto target over the next four years. ...  > full story

Global investors urge action on climate change

WASHINGTON, Nov. 11, 2008 (Reuters) — Global institutional investors holding more than $6 trillion in assets pushed policymakers Tuesday to quickly hash out a binding agreement to cut greenhouse gas emissions and promote clean technology. ...  > full story

NASA loses contact with Mars lander, ends mission

LOS ANGELES, Nov. 10, 2008 (Reuters) — The Phoenix Mars Lander, which made history by finding definitive proof of water on the Red Planet, has lost contact with Earth, effectively ending its more than five-month mission, NASA said on Monday. ...  > full story

Al Gore group urges Obama to create U.S. power grid

WASHINGTON, Nov. 7, 2008 (Reuters) — Al Gore's Alliance for Climate Protection has some environmental advice for the incoming Obama administration: focus on energy efficiency and renewable resources, and create a unified U.S. power grid. ...  > full story

China tells rich polluting nations to change lifestyle

BEIJING, Nov. 7, 2008 (Reuters) — Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao said rich nations must abandon their "unsustainable lifestyle" to fight climate change and expand help to poor nations bearing the brunt of worsening droughts and rising sea levels. ...  > full story
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