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The target of halving greenhouse gas emissions by 2050 agreed by G8 leaders at their Toyako summit in Japan has been described as “pathetic” and “dangerously short of what is needed” by Kim Carstensen, Director of WWF Global Climate Initiative.
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G8 leaders in Hokkaido, Japan (7-9 July) have the responsibility to fight climate change through committing to binding emission reduction targets and ending the global food crisis by addressing the causes behind it.
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NASA has selected two science proposals to be the agency's next Explorer Program Mission of Opportunity investigations.
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Greenpeace shows how Japan can generate 60% of energy from renewables by 2050.
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Greenpeace's ship the Rainbow Warrior today ended a three-day blockade of the Pagbilao coal-fired power plant, 150 kilometres southwest of Manila, as leading politicians joined the organisation's call for the Philippines to "Quit Coal".
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A powerful stellar explosion detected March 19 by NASA's Swift satellite has shattered the record for the most distant object that could be seen with the naked eye.
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NASA is targeting May 25 at 7:26 p.m. EDT for the launch of the space shuttle Discovery's STS-124 mission from the Kennedy Space Center, Fla.
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After safely reaching its launch pad Monday at NASA's Kennedy Space Center, the space shuttle Endeavour now awaits its next major milestone for the upcoming STS-123 mission.
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NASA has assigned crews for the STS-127 space shuttle mission and the Expedition 19 International
Space Station mission.
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NASA announced Thursday
that members of the general public from around the world will have a chance to suggest a new name for the cutting edge Gamma-ray Large Area Space Telescope, otherwise known as GLAST, observatory before it launches in mid-2008.
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A California earthquake early warning system now being tested accurately predicted the ground shaking in San Francisco a few seconds before the city felt the Oct. 30, 2007, magnitude 5.4 quake near San Jose, according to a statewide team of seismologists.
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For the past 60 years, the National Academies have studied the health effects of radiation exposure in Japanese survivors of the atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan.
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CMS, Inc., the worldwide market leader in radiation treatment planning and workflow management solutions, in partnership with Toshiba America Medical Systems, Inc., are providing a comprehensive diagnostic imaging and virtual simulation solution to St. Luke's Mountain States Tumor Institute (MSTI) in Boise, Idaho.
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Kawasaki Heavy Industries, Ltd. announced today that it has shipped a payload fairing for the H-IIA No.13 (H-IIA F13) launch vehicle to the Tanegashima Space Center of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA).
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The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency said Tuesday that a key antenna on
Japan's largest satellite didn't unfold successfully due to a technical glitch, a release
mechanism failed to operate properly.
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