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(PICS) Best Rock N’ Roll Cakes: Iggy Pop, Prince & More

Want an homage of your favorite rock star? Try a cake depicting Iggy Pop, Dr. Dre or Debbie Harry–in chocolate.

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(PICS) Best Rock N’ Roll Cakes: Iggy Pop, Prince & More

Climate change could kill 250,000 children next year

Climate change could kill 250,000 children next year, and the figure could rise to more than 400,000 by 2030, according to Save the Children. The charity warns that over 900 million children in the next generation will be affected by water shortages and 160 million more children will be at risk of catching malaria – one of the biggest killers of children under five – as it spreads to new parts of the world

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Polar Bear Habitat Proposed for Alaska

WASHINGTON — The Interior Department on Thursday proposed designating more than 200,000 square miles of land, sea and ice along the northern coast of Alaska as critical habitat for the shrinking polar bear population. The area, the largest single designation of protected habitat for any species, encompasses the entire range of the two polar bear populations that exist on American land and territorial waters.

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Sen. Graham: ‘We need to use the coal that God has given us’

Senator Lindsay Graham (R-SC) has announced that he is willing to support some form of climate change legislation, but only if the current Kerry-Boxer bill is overhauled to look a lot more like a traditional Republican program of energy independence. “There will be no climate change bill with my vote unless you have offshore oil drilling,” Graham told Fox News on Thursday. “I won't vote for any climate change bill that doesn't allow a dramatic increase in nuclear power.

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Sen. Graham: ‘We need to use the coal that God has given us’

U.S. Chamber of Commerce faces revolt over its opposition to global warming legislation

As California Sen. Barbara Boxer prepares to unveil the Senate's climate change legislation on Capitol Hill today, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce — a strong opponent of the global warming bill passed by the House and a likely foe of the Senate bill — faces a high-profile revolt by some of its members

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U.S. Chamber of Commerce faces revolt over its opposition to global warming legislation

The Apocalypse? It’s Now. And It’s Australian.

A record-setting dust storm swept across Sydney yesterday and obscured basically everything , including the famed Opera House, which can sorta be seen here. One visitor described the scene as “like a nuclear winter morning.” The beginning of a dystopian day? Scientists, it’s worth noting, aren’t pinning the blame on climate change , although an unusually dry summer did contribute.

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US officials confident of greater clean energy ties with China

Top US trade and energy officials said Thursday they were confident China and the United States would step up cooperation on climate change after meeting with Chinese leaders. US Trade Secretary Gary Locke and Energy Secretary Steven Chu, both ethnic Chinese, came to China seeking to open the Asian giant's markets to US green technology while urging Beijing to set hard targets on gas emissions. “Secretary Chu and I measured the success of this trip by answering the simple question of whether America and China can increase their cooperation in the development..

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Environmentalists angry at perceived failure of G-8 on climate

What Barack Obama hailed as a “historic consensus” on climate change at this week’s G8 summit in Italy has been greeted with widespread disappointment, and even outrage, by environment and development campaigners. Greenpeace activists on inflatable boats yesterday painted a coal ship in Civitavecchia, near Rome, with the message “G8: FAILED” at the end of a week of protests in Italy and elsewhere calling on world leaders to set a more ambitious agenda. More than 100 activists occupied, painted, blocked and hung off cranes at five Italian coal-fired power stations, pointing to coal as “the world’s worst climate killer”

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Environmentalists angry at perceived failure of G-8 on climate