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Cautious optimism precedes climate summit

  Over the next two weeks in Copenhagen, 192 nations will try to find common ground on how to reduce global warming. NBC’s Anne Thompson examines what’s at stake.



Consequences by NOOR
Slideshow: Picturing climate change

The charcoal operation in Rondon do Para had 47 ovens when photographed and plans were to increase that to 200 in the near future. The charcoal is used at a steel smelter in Maraba, Brazil.
















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Cancer Report Card: View the full study

The journal Interscience has published its Annual Report to the Nation on the Status of Cancer. Read the full report here.

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Cosmic Log: Virgin spaceship bared

Hundreds of paying space tourists and travel agents, rocket geeks and glitterati have gathered in the California desert town of Mojave to see what's likely to be the first commercial suborbital spaceship up close.

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