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How Four Cities Wrestle with Climate Challenge

Fighting climate change means different things in different cities, as this snapshot illustrates:

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Trafficked Chimp Leaves Iraq for New Kenya Home

A young chimpanzee smuggled across Syria to northern Iraq three years ago was on his way to a sanctuary in Kenya Wednesday after three years in a private zoo.

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Storm Blocks Arz Road with Snow, Causes Damage in Tripoli

The Arz-Ainata road was blocked by snow on Wednesday as the northern city of Tripoli witnessed material damage with the arrival of this season's first storm.

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EU Unveils Plans to Boost 'Clean Energy' Use

The EU on Wednesday unveiled "clean energy" plans to boost renewable use, cut waste and reduce subsidies for coal power in a bid to meet its commitments to the Paris climate deal.

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Nuclear Cover Up: Chernobyl's Giant Dome

The new metal dome encasing Ukraine's infamous Chernobyl nuclear power plant contains enough metal to build three Eiffel Towers with a few thousand tonnes to spare.

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Campaigners Say China Risks Wasting $490 Billion on Coal Plants

China could waste as much as half a trillion dollars on unnecessary new coal-fired power stations, a climate campaign group said Monday, arguing the world's top carbon polluter already has more than enough such facilities.

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Gulf State Qatar Hit by Flooding

Rainfall caused widespread flooding in Qatar on Saturday, potentially raising fresh concerns about infrastructure in the Gulf country due to host the 2022 football World Cup.

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Greenpeace Urges Microbead Ban to Protect Ocean Life

Environmental group Greenpeace is calling for a ban in Britain on plastic "microbeads", found in many cosmetics, which they warn pollute the oceans and poison marine life.

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Tokyo Gets November Snow for First Time in 54 Years

Tokyo woke up Thursday to its first November snowfall in more than half a century, leaving commuters to grapple with train disruptions and slick streets.

Snow began falling before dawn with the mercury approaching zero as a cold weather system moved south. 

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Trump to NYT: 'Open Mind' on Quitting Climate Accords

U.S. President-elect Donald Trump said Tuesday he has an open mind about pulling out of world climate accords and admitted global warming may be in some way linked to human activity.

"I think there is some connectivity. Some, something. It depends on how much," he told a panel of New York Times journalists. 

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