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Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon (left) and Vuk Jeremi (right), President of the sixty-sixth session of the General Assembly, arrive in Doha, Qatar, for United Nations climate talks. They are met at the airport by Sheikh Meshal Hamad M.J. Al-Thani, Permanent Representative of Qatar to the UN, 3 December, 2012. Ban calls for compromise at UN climate talks
| Ban Ki-moon, the secretary-general of the United Nations, has called on world leaders to confront a global warming "crisis" and show "strong political commitment" and compromise in dealing with it. ... (photo: UN / Mark Garten) Al Jazeera
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Brassica oleracea cultivar Asturias flowering Castelltallat Catalonia. Fruit are from Earth, veggies are from Mars?
Beijing - Chinese astronauts are preparing to grow fresh vegetables on Mars and the moon after researchers successfully completed a preliminary test in Beijing, state media reported. | Four kinds of v... (photo: Public Domain / Victor M. Vicente Selvas) Independent online
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This image from the right Mast Camera (Mastcam) of NASA's Mars rover Curiosity shows a scoop full of sand and dust lifted by the rover's first use of the scoop on its robotic arm. In the foreground, near the bottom of the image, a bright object is visible on the ground. The object might be a piece of rover hardware. Mars Rover Detects Simple Organic Compounds
| NASA's Mars rover Curiosity has detected several simple carbon-based organic compounds on Mars, but it remains unclear whether they were formed via Earthly contamination or whether they contain on... (photo: NASA / JPL-Caltech/MSSS) National Geographic News
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Climate change - black clouds in the sky CLIMATE CHANGE: Dealing with loss and damage
| DOHA, 3 December 2012 (IRIN) - In a formal letter to Qatar - host of the 18th conference of the parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) - a coalition of 40 NGOs, backed by ... (photo: WN / Aruna Mirasdar) IRINnews
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MOTORISTS - TRAFFIC - AIR POLLUTION - PHILIPPINES - FILIPINOS - PEDESTRIAN LANE Study: Global carbon emissions reach new high
| Atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions rose by about three percent last year, according to a new study. | Last year, all the world's nations combined pumped nearly 38.2 billion tonnes of carbon ... (photo: WN / Renzelle Mae Abasolo) Al Jazeera
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Doha negotiations witness tremors in climate geopolitics Doha negotiations witness tremors in climate geopolitics
DOHA: The negotiations at Qatar National Convention Centre have so far played witness to tremors in the climate geopolitics with a slow cleaving of the relation between the 'allies' of previous climat... (photo: UN / Mark Garten) The Times Of India
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