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London (AFP) June 14, 2012 - The number of cars built in British factories rocketed more than 42 percent in May compared with 12 months earlier, when Japan's tsunami disaster hit exports of auto parts, industry data showed Thursday.

Atlanta GA (SPX) Jun 15, 2012 -
Major new supporters, including Republican strategist Karl Rove, emerged for the campaign to keep U.S.

Tokyo (AFP) June 15, 2012 - Japan's prime minister is set to defy fierce public sentiment this weekend and order nuclear reactors back online for the first time since Fukushima, as he seeks to head off a summer energy crunch.

Rio De Janeiro (AFP) June 14, 2012 - The International Red Cross sounded the alarm at the UN conference on sustainable development here Thursday about the damage caused by unexploded munitions and other weapons.

New Delhi (AFP) June 15, 2012 - Large parts of New Delhi were struggling with acute water shortages on Friday after a neighbouring state cut its supplies at the peak of summer, officials said.

Durham NH (SPX) Jun 15, 2012 - Communities of microbial organisms - species such as nematodes, protists and fungi - on beaches along the Gulf of Mexico changed significantly following the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in April 2010...

Gothenburg, Sweden (SPX) Jun 15, 2012 - Recent years' warming in the Arctic has caused local changes in vegetation, reveals new research by biologists from the University of Gothenburg, Sweden, and elsewhere published in the prestigious j...

Shanghai (AFP) June 14, 2012 - China said Thursday that from next month people who use a lot of electricity will have to pay more under a trial scheme aimed at encouraging consumers to save energy.

Rockville MD (SPX) Jun 15, 2012 -
Greensmith Energy Management Systems continues its growth, now with fourteen customers, including eight electric utilities using the company's field-tested suite of product offerings.

Medicilandia, Brazil (AFP) June 13, 2012 - A chocolate factory nestled deep in the Amazonian jungle in Brazil's northern state of Para offers a sweet antidote to rainforest deforestation.

Baghdad (UPI) Jun 14, 2012 -
Amid the profound political changes sweeping the Arab world, there are moves to rewrite contentious water-sharing agreements that are becoming a major source of friction in the Middle East as water supplies shrink.

Beijing (AFP) June 15, 2012 - Chinese dairy maker Yili said it had started recalling batches of baby formula after authorities found they contained high levels of mercury, in the latest food safety scare to hit the country.

Bochum, Germany (UPI) Jun 14, 2012 -
A fish dubbed a living fossil that hasn't changed fundamentally for 400 million years is still able to genetically adapt to its environment, researchers say.

Newport, OR (SPX) Jun 15, 2012 - When debris from the 2011 earthquake and tsunami in Japan began making its way toward the West Coast of the United States, there were fears of possible radiation and chemical contamination as well a...

by Max Frankel Biofuels have fallen out of favor in many environmental and political circles.