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At the Camp David Summit, G8 Leaders recognized that the development of and universal access to environmentally safe, sustainable, secure, and affordable sources of energy is essential to global economic growth and to their overall efforts to address climate change. As such, they identified several actions for the G8 to take together:

Global energy major Total has been successful in plugging a gas leak on a North Sea oil platform, according to the operators.

UNDP Administrator Helen Clark (pointing) on a visit to Kenya to highlight food security.

The World Wide Fund For Nature warns the world is consuming more of the Earth's resources than the planet can bear. WWF is launching its Living Planet Report just five weeks before nations gather at the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro (the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development (Rio+20) to press political leaders into action to protect the earth for future generations.

Asia-Pacific’s share of world domestic material consumption grew from under 25 percent in 1975 to over 53 per cent by 2005

Today in Rotterdam, a Big Lie report will be released, titled, "2052: A Global Forecast for the Next Forty Years," authored by the anti-growth Club of Rome, which is the latest iteration of their original Limits to Growth report issued in 1972, and with the same message: The Earth's resources are depleting, so population must be drastically cut.

An abrupt cooling in Europe along with an increase in humidity and especially in windiness coincided with a sustained reduction in solar activity 2800 years ago, researchers say.

A deadly tornado has ripped through Japan, killing a 14-year-old boy.

Mexico City has started distributing 483,000 masks to residents who might need protection from the ash being spewed by the Popocatepetl volcano.