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Brazil, UK Asked To Help End Kyoto Climate Rifts
06-Dec-2010; 07:22
Date: 06-Dec-10
Country: MEXICO
Author: Alister Doyle

Participants in United Nations climate talks asked Brazil and Britain on Sunday to help break a deadlock over the future of the Kyoto Protocol for fighting global warming as host Mexico expressed cautious hope for a deal.Delegates called for swifter progress at the November 29 to December 10 meeting among almost 200 nations on a modest package of measures after a summit in Copenhagen last year failed to produce agreement on a treaty and damaged relations between rich and poor countries.
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Climate Activists Shut Down Australian Coal Conveyor
06-Dec-2010; 07:23
Date: 06-Dec-10
Country: AUSTRALIA
Author: RETURES

Two climate change activists chained themselves to a conveyor belt carrying coal to one of Australia's largest power stations on Saturday, temporarily shutting the belt down, supporters said.
The Camp for Climate Action protesters chained themselves by their necks, stopping movement of coal for more than two hours, group spokeswoman Ellen Roberts said. They were cut free by police and arrested, and the belt restarted.

China Hopes For "Positive Results" At Climate Talks
06-Dec-2010; 07:24
Date: 06-Dec-10
Country: CHINA
Author: Sui-Lee Wee

China is hopeful of "positive results" in the U.N. climate talks in Cancun, its chief negotiator to climate change talks said in comments published by state news agency Xinhua on Sunday.
There is widespread pessimism about the ongoing talks, as rich and developing nations have clashed over the future of the Kyoto Protocol for fighting global warming.

Climate Change Fans Deep-Burning Fires In Alaska
06-Dec-2010; 07:25
Date: 06-Dec-10
Country: USA
Author: Deborah Zabarenko

Climate change is fanning longer- and deeper-burning fires in interior Alaska, changing the area from a carbon sink -- where planet-warming gases are stored naturally in the soil -- to a carbon emitter, scientists reported on Sunday.The shift has occurred within the last 10 years and is due in large part to a longer burning season, according to a study published in Nature Geosciences.

Forest Projects Inch Forward Despite Climate Talks Logjam
06-Dec-2010; 07:27
Date: 06-Dec-10
Country: MEXICO
Author: Timothy Gardner

International projects generating voluntary carbon credits by protecting forests are slowly moving forward despite blocked U.N. climate talks, emissions markets developers said.
Many delegates at the 190 nation talks that go on until December 10 at a resort in Mexico are trying to push forward a program called reduced emissions from deforestation and degradation, or REDD, because forest destruction releases up to 17 percent of mankind's carbon emissions.