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The Brazilian government has begun producing condoms using rubber from trees in the Amazon.
The health ministry says the move will help preserve the largest rainforest in the world.
It will also cut dependence on imported contraceptives, which are g..
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The UK government's chief scientific adviser, Sir David King, is to call for a rethink on GM crops in his farewell speech before leaving his post.
He will be making his comments to a group of senior scientists at the Foundation for Science and Technolo..
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California is suing the US federal government over its failure to back the state's tough new anti-pollution laws regulating greenhouse gas emissions.
Two years ago, California passed legislation requiring car-makers to cut vehicle emissions by 30% by 2..
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The government is inviting communities in the UK to volunteer to host radioactive waste from the country's half-century of nuclear power.
Local authorities are urged to consult widely before coming forward, and may win financial support.
Ministers h..
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The power generated by the proposed Severn Barrage could be produced more cheaply using other green technologies, a report says.
The �15bn dam across the Severn estuary from Cardiff to Weston-Super-Mare in Somerset could supply 5% of the UK's electri..
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The government should go ahead with a system of personal "carbon credits" to meet emissions targets, MPs have said.
The Environmental Audit Committee said the scheme would be more effective than taxes for cutting carbon emissions.
Under the scheme p..
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Iceland's commercial whale hunt is set to begin, after the government granted a small minke quota on Monday.
Whalers had been seeking a quota of about 100, but ministers settled on 40, which they say is commercially viable.
The decision came after w..
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The number of government grants made to people who want to fit solar panels or other green energy systems to their homes has halved, the BBC has learned.
It comes after the low carbon buildings programme cut the maximum grant on offer from �7,500 to..
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MPs are to debate controversial government proposals to change the law on the use of human embryos.
Warnings of a rebellion mean Labour MPs will get a free vote on issues that include allowing embryos to be created using human DNA and animal cells...
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Hundreds of UK power substations and water treatment plants are potentially at risk from flooding, a confidential government study suggests.
BBC News has seen the conclusions of research commissioned after the devastating floods of 2007.
Yorkshire a..
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A judge has told the US government to decide within weeks whether to list polar bears as an endangered species.
The decision was hailed by conservation groups which have been hounding the government on the issue for years.
The federal judge rejected..
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Plans to construct one of Europe's largest onshore wind farms has been refused by the Scottish Government.
It said Lewis Wind Power's (LWP) 181-turbines for Lewis on the Western Isles did not comply with European law protecting sensitive environments...
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The 15 locations shortlisted for the first new towns in England in 40 years have been revealed by the government.
Bordon, Coltishall, Curborough, Elsenham plus Ford in West Sussex have made the list, as well as Hanley Grange, Imerys, Leeds and Manby...
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The government is due to publish its long-awaited Marine Bill, designed to regulate better the various activities taking place in UK waters.
The bill will include new provisions for protecting ecologically important areas, regulating inshore fisheries..
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Government plans to cut congestion via a national road charging scheme are "in tatters", the Conservatives have said.
The claim came as Transport Secretary Ruth Kelly admitted concerns about privacy, fairness and enforcement could not yet be satisfacto..
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Giant chunks of manmade space junk — like the dead satellite that the U.S. government is trying to shoot down — regularly fall to Earth. Yet no one has ever been reported hurt by them.
Chunks of debris weighing two tons or more from satellites and..
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A target to end fuel poverty in England by 2010 will be missed, according to the Government's advisers on the topic.
The Fuel Poverty Advisory Group says more than a million vulnerable households will spend more than a tenth of their income on fuel by..
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The UK's carbon emissions fell by just 0.1% last year, and the government has admitted it must do more to tackle climate change.
The figures would have been worse if the UK's share of pollution from global flights and shipping had been included.
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The government will ignore a plea from the EU to create a clean technology fund from a levy on pollution, BBC News has learned.
Instead the UK wants to divert the proceeds of the levy - which could stretch to �1bn a year - into general Treasury funds..
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A second public consultation into whether new nuclear stations should be built has "failed", a report suggests.
The Nuclear Consultation Working Group said key issues had not been addressed "in any meaningful way" and it had been designed to "provide l..
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