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Mammal expert Martua Sinaga holds a 3-pound (1.4-kilogram) rat that may be a species new to science. The rat was found in the remote Foja Mountains of western New Guinea, Indonesia, on a June 2007 expedition, experts announced yesterday.

BALI, Indonesia (Reuters) - The United States said on Monday it would seek a new global deal to fight climate change after Australia's move to ratify the Kyoto Protocol isolated it as the only developed nation outside the current U.N. pact."We're not here to be a roadblock," U.S. delegation leader Harlan Watson said on the opening day of a December 3-14 meeting of almost 190 nations in Bali, Indonesia, seeking to agree a roadmap to work out a successor to Kyoto which runs to 2012.

Malthusianism: Malthus' (Thomas Robert 1766-1834) theory that population tends to increase faster than food supply."Populations tend to increase at a geometrical rate, whereas the means of subsistence increases at just an arithmetical rate. Without the checks of disease, famine, and war, human populations will double their size every 25 years." (Malthusianism)

Madrid - By the end of this century, Spanish summers will come as waves of scorching heat, leaving southern regions as parched as the Sahara and bathing northern areas in a climate more akin to the present-day Mediterranean.Fresh, clean drinking water will become increasingly scarce, rising sea levels will shrink beaches by dozens of meters and higher levels of atmospheric contamination will spawn new diseases.

A UN-China program to help the country fight and better adapt to climate change will kick off next year.Releasing the plan, UN resident coordinator and UN Development Program (UNDP) resident representative in China Khalid Malik, said Wednesday: "It's a landmark inter-agency initiative to bring the UN's full force to bear on China's mitigation and adaptation challenges."The UN-China Climate Change Partnership Framework (CCPF) will attract $19 million, Malik said.

TALLAHASSEE -- Stopping global warming. The melting of the Greenland ice cap.

Experts say it’s a growing problem across the country that of all things could end up affecting our health. More than 315 million personal computers are considered obsolete. In South Carolina last year, only 1,100 tons of e-waste were recycled, out of 50,000 tons generated.

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Salt Lake Tribune - Cannon questions man's link to warming

Warming Up To A Challenge -- Courant.com

Greenpeace blasts Nintendo in e-waste report | csmonitor.com

Graduate textiles students recycle used clothing through projects - Campus News

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