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Mohamed Nasheed, the deposed Maldives president, is doing a media tour to promote The Island President, the movie about his work on climate change and Copenhagen (out this week in theaters!).

A laser satellite map of tropical forests indicates how much carbon they hold.

In the North Sea, an offshore drilling platform is leaking natural gas.