News tagged with emerging nations
Lethal air pollution booms in emerging nations
Mar 23, 2009 |
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International experts are warning that potentially lethal air pollution has boomed in fast-growing big cities in Asia and South America in recent decades.
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Asia to drive mobile broadband Internet access
Mar 26, 2009 |
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Broadband-service providers will see their revenue from mobile services jump to 137 billion dollars worldwide by 2014, up 450 percent from 2008, a report said Thursday.
Study Finds Narrowed Cultural Gap With Mexico
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Sep 23, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- The cultural divide that has existed between the U.S. and Mexico is slowly diminishing, research by a UT Dallas professor finds.
Draft Copenhagen deal targets maximum 2 C warming
Dec 11, 2009 |
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The first official draft blueprint for a deal at the UN climate talks sees targets of limiting global warming to 1.5 or 2.0 degrees Celsius (2.7 or 3.6 degrees Fahrenheit), according to a document seen by ...
Climate talks ending with rich-poor rift wide open
Oct 09, 2009 |
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Two weeks of crucial UN climate talks were due to conclude Friday after exposing huge rifts between rich and poor nations, just weeks ahead of the deadline for sealing a planet-saving global deal.
US in spotlight as UN climate talks resume
Mar 29, 2009 |
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UN talks tasked with forging a global climate treaty by year's end were set to resume here on Sunday, with all eyes on the debut appearance of US negotiators from the administration of US President Barack ...
US, Russia in dispute over computer attacks: report
Jun 28, 2009 |
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Less than two weeks before President Barack Obama's visit to Moscow, the United States and Russia cannot agree how to counter the growing threat of cyberwar attacks that could wreak havoc on computer systems ...
192 nations at UN climate conference in Copenhagen
Dec 07, 2009 |
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(AP) -- The largest and most important U.N. climate change conference in history opened Monday, with organizers warning diplomats from 192 nations that this could be the best, last chance for a deal to protect ...
Nanotech promises big things for poor -- but will promises be kept?
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Feb 27, 2007 |
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"Nanotechnology has the potential to generate enormous health benefits for the more than five billion people living in the developing world," according to Dr. Peter A. Singer, senior scientist at the McLaughlin-Rotman Centre ...
Developing countries lack means to acquire more efficient technologies
Dec 09, 2008 |
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Contrary to earlier projections, few developing countries will be able to afford more efficient technologies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in the next few decades, new research concludes. The study, by researchers at ...
UN demands removal of China poster at Net event
Nov 16, 2009 |
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(AP) -- United Nations officials forced free-speech advocates to take down a poster over its reference to China's Web restrictions at an Internet conference focused on freedom, saying Monday that it violated a ban on posters ...
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