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Credit crunch hits NI motor market
Falling sales and redundancies are now the reality for Northern Ireland's motor industry.
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Time to leave the comfort zone
Civic leaders must be willing to make tough choices if we are going to live in green cities.
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Burma diary - the relief effort
Save the Children's Burma director, Andrew Kirkwood, sends his diary of the days following Cyclone Nargis.
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Volcano fear prompts pupil offer
An offer for two Patagonian pupils to continue lessons in Gwynedd is made after fears over a volcano in Chile.
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Green movement forgets its politics
Why climate campaigners should stop trying to persuade people into lifestyle changes and start dealing with the politics.
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'Cruise control' for spacecraft
A British-built engine powered by ions makes its first space trip this summer on Europe's gravity explorer probe.
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Antarctic diary: Polar year
The BBC's Martin Redfern is spending a month in the Antarctic reporting on International Polar Year.
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'Greenwash' is losing its shine
Time is running out for advertisers who are a lighter shade of green, as eco-cliches fall out of fashion.
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Eight people found inside tanker
The driver of a tanker and eight people who were found in it are arrested on suspicion of immigration offences.
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Society depends on more for less
If the world is to end the threat from climate change, we need to be able to produce more with less energy.
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Motorists enter the emission zone
A look at the new London Low Emission Zone which aims to improve the capital's air quality.
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Firms look to drive green sports agenda
Sport and its sponsors are starting to realise the industry must find ways to become more carbon-friendly.
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Humanity is the greatest challenge
It is time to take radical action to curb rising population and consumption levels, or face "unspeakable consequences".
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Paradise lost in fiery California
California's blue skies are hidden by soot and ash, and residents speak of hellish scenes, reports Joanne Griffith.
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Burmese monks 'to be sent away'
Thousands of Burmese monks are to be sent to prisons in the far north of the country, sources tell the BBC.
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Technology powers F1 Williams team
BBC Radio 4's Click On team look at the technology powering the Williams Formula 1 team
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Pulling the plug on wasting water
Water is a finite resource and attitudes towards its consumption have to change if we do not want the taps to run dry.
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YouTube changes face of US debate
The first US presidential debate to use only voters' video questions submitted online is being hailed as changing the political dynamic.
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Car dealer fined for poor service
A Belfast car dealership which charged a customer for work it failed to carry out is fined £2,000.
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Sex sells, but at what cost?
"Sex sells", but humans' fixation with status symbols is threatening efforts to tackle climate change.
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