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UN: 1.6 Billion People Still Have No Access To Electricity

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New York - The United Nations called Monday for a clean energy revolution that would provide electricity to the world population, including the 1.6 billion people who currently have no access to it.

UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said in an address to the Fourth World Future Energy Summit in Abu Dhabi that energy provisions can help fight poverty and improve health care services as part of the Millennium Development Goals for the developing world.

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UN: 1.6 billion people still have no access to electricity

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Conservation Group Sues To Stop California Solar Plant

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Author: Nichola Groom

A U.S. conversation group has sued the federal government over its approval of a major solar power plant in the California desert, the latest in a string of challenges to the nation's renewable energy goals from the environmental community.

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Figures On Global Climate Show 2010 Tied 2005 As The Hottest Year On Record

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By JUSTIN GILLIS

New government figures for the global climate show that 2010 was the wettest year in the historical record, and it tied 2005 as the hottest year since record-keeping began in 1880.

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2010 Tied 2005 as Hottest Year, Climate Figures Show - NYTimes.com

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The Ocean's Accelerator

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Scripps researchers see evidence that melting polar ice could alter climate by slowing ocean circulation...or speeding it up

January/February 2011

By Robert Monroe

Imagine the ocean as a giant swimming pool - devoid of topographical features like seamounts and trenches and with smooth walls instead of jutting continental shelves or jagged coastlines.

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Explorations Magazine : Scripps Institution Of Oceanography, UCSD, San Diego, California

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