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AFP reports here at Yahoo News: BRASILIA – The Brazilian government has presented new legislation intended to protect the Amazon from deforestation by banning any new planting of sugar cane, widely cultivated for ethanol production.

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BBC News reports here: This summer’s melt of Arctic sea ice has not been as profound as in the last two years, scientists said as the ice began its annual Autumn recovery.

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Spiegel Online reports here: Germany’s automakers are proudly showing off their concept electric cars at the Frankfurt motor show, which opens to the public Thursday. But the shiny new designs on display are just a pipe dream. It’s still not clear when, or even if, viable electric cars will make it onto the [...]

BBC News reports here: US retail sales rose sharply in August, boosted by the “cash for clunkers” scheme that offered motorists incentives to buy new cars.

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CNN reports here: If you listen to inventor Dean Kamen, the biggest health problem facing the world today is not AIDS, obesity or malnutrition. It’s a shortage of water. So the man who designed the Segway has invented a device called the Slingshot, a portable, low-energy machine designed to purify water in remote [...]