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Environmental group WWF urges G8 to make climate pledge (AFP)

The environmental group WWF, urged the Group of Eight industrialised nations to show global leadership by making a commitment to keep climate change in check at their summit next week. Echoing a call by German Chancellor Angela Merkel a day earlier, the WWF said the G8 summit in L'Aquila, Italy, must commit to keeping the rise in global average temperature AFP - The environmental group WWF on Friday urged the Group of Eight industrialised nations to show global leadership by making a commitment to keep climate change in check at their summit next week.

Australia discovers 3 new large dinosaurs (Reuters)

Reuters - Fossils of three new species of dinosaurs have been discovered in Australia, including a meat-eater larger than Velociraptor from the Jurassic Park movies, suggesting Australia may have a more complex prehistoric past.

Indian FM urges 'ambitious but fair' climate targets (AFP)

Indian Foreign Minister S.M. Krishna with Japan's Prime Minister Taro Aso in Tokyo on July 3. India's foreign minister on Friday called for an ambitious but fair greenhouse gas reduction target under a new climate treaty, saying any pact should not hinder the economic growth of developing countries.(AFP/Pool/Kim Kyung-Hoon) AFP - India's foreign minister on Friday called for an ambitious but fair greenhouse gas reduction target under a new climate treaty, saying any pact should not hinder the economic growth of developing countries.

Opposition wants climate change action from Ottawa (AFP)

Canada's opposition leader Michael Ignatieff, pictured in 2006. The Liberal Party, Canada's main opposition group, warned the government Thursday against blocking an international deal to combat climate change, due to be negotiated in Copenhagen this December.(AFP/File/David Boily) AFP - The Liberal Party, Canada's main opposition group, warned the government Thursday against blocking an international deal to combat climate change, due to be negotiated in Copenhagen this December.

Climate change shrinks wild sheep: scientists (AFP)

Soay sheep are seen in France in 2004. Climate change has caused a flock of wild sheep on a remote northern Scottish island to become smaller, according to an unusual investigation published on Thursday. The wild Soay sheep live on Hirta, in the St. Kilda archipelago in the storm-battered Outer Hebrides, and have been closely studied for nearly a quarter of a century.(AFP/File) AFP - Climate change has caused a flock of wild sheep on a remote northern Scottish island to become smaller, according to an unusual investigation published on Thursday.

Spain backtracks on nuclear power phase-out (AFP)

Workers of the Garona nuclear plant demonstrate, holding banners reading AFP - Spain's government said Thursday it would allow the country's oldest nuclear reactor to operate beyond its intended 40-year lifespan, reversing a policy of gradually phasing out nuclear power.

Baaad news? Global warming now shrinking sheep (AP)

Soay sheep are seen in France in 2004. Climate change has caused a flock of wild sheep on a remote northern Scottish island to become smaller, according to an unusual investigation published on Thursday. The wild Soay sheep live on Hirta, in the St. Kilda archipelago in the storm-battered Outer Hebrides, and have been closely studied for nearly a quarter of a century.(AFP/File) AP - Like the wool sweater that emerges from the dryer a size too small, global warming seems to be shrinking sheep.

EPA allows TVA to dump spilled coal ash in Ala. (AP) AP - The nation's largest utility can dump millions of tons of coal ash from a Tennessee spill into an Alabama landfill, federal regulators said Thursday, despite criticism that the plan is unfair to one of Alabama's poorest counties.

Another endangered elephant dies in Indonesia: WWF (AFP)

A Sumatran elephant (Elephant maximus Sumatranus) with her one day old baby at Taman Safari in Bogor, seen here in 2003. An elephant calf has starved to death in Indonesia, the eighth endangered Sumatran elephant to have died in the wild since May. There are about 2,400 to 2,800 Sumatran elephants in Indonesia, of which 200 to 250 are in Riau, according to WWF.(AFP/File/Adek Berry) AFP - An elephant calf has starved to death in Indonesia, the eighth endangered Sumatran elephant to have died in the wild since May, environmental group WWF said Thursday.

2010 species pledge set to fail, warns conservation group (AFP)

A soldadinho-do-araripe, a bird from the family of Manakins is seen in Brasilia. The soldadinho-do-araripe is one of the species in critical danger of extinction. The world's paramount authority on species loss has warned that pledges to roll back the threat to biodiversity by 2010 were running into the sand.(AFP/Brazilian Environment Ministry/File/Ciro Albano) AFP - The world's paramount authority on species loss warned on Thursday that pledges to roll back the threat to biodiversity by 2010 were running into the sand.

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