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Greek odyssey fuelled by chip fat
Green fuel campaigners are driving from London to Athens on cooking fat to further their cause.
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Country profile: Burma
Key facts, figures and dates
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Eurozone inflation at record 4%
Inflation in the euro area rose to 4% in June as food and fuel costs continue to accelerate, official figures show.
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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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Healing Florida's 'River of Grass'
US conservationists hail a deal under which Florida will buy a huge tract of land from a sugar company, in a move to restore the Everglades.
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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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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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Xerox plans the future of today
The famed Xerox Parc labs invites the BBC to view the best of its latest crop of research projects
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Fumes 'leaking into plane cabins'
An aviation pressure group claims thousands of air passengers are at risk from toxic fumes leaking into aircraft cabins.
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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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Subsidised fuel weighs on India's budget
India will not let higher oil prices to filter down to consumers. Some says soaring subsidy bills could threaten overall economic prosperity.
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School finds green fuel solution
With diesel costing more than £1 a litre, could cooking oil be the answer for cash-strapped motorists?
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A future where your brain is better
The BBC News website looks at the prospect of a future where mind improving drugs become the norm.
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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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Fed delivers second US rate cut
The US Federal Reserve cuts interest rates from 4.75% to 4.5% to help kick start housing and credit markets.
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How to run your car on chip oil
Why more and more people are turning to home-made biofuel to run their family cars.
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Tax rise fuels petrol price fears
Analysts fear record high prices at the pumps after a 2p rise in fuel duty comes into effect.
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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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Oil prices drop as storm weakens
Oil prices fall by more than $2 after Cyclone Gonu weakens in the Gulf and amid concerns about higher interest rates.
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