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Arctic ice second-lowest ever; polar bears affected WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Arctic sea ice shrank to its second-lowest level ever, U.S. scientists said on Wednesday, with particular melting in the Chukchi Sea, where polar bears were recently seen swimming far off the Alaskan coast. Ghana climate talks make progress to save forests ACCRA (Reuters) - The world has made progress on ways to save tropical forests as part of a planned new U.N. pact to slow global warming, the U.N.'s top climate official said at 160-nation talks in Ghana ending on Wednesday. Cut greenhouse gases to save coral reefs: scientists WASHINGTON (Reuters) - To keep coral reefs from being eaten away by increasingly acidic oceans, humans need to limit the amount of climate-warming greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, a panel of marine scientists said on Wednesday. CEZ to build biggest onshore wind park in Europe PRAGUE (Reuters) - Czech power group CEZ plans to build a 1.1 billion euro ($1.62 billion) wind park in Romania, the largest of its kind in Europe, in a move to offset emissions from dirtier coal-fired power plants. Perfect Wind to invest $306 mln in Turkey ISTANBUL (Reuters) - French wind power producer Perfect Wind will invest 210 million euros ($306 million) in Turkey for a 150 megawatt wind power station, the company said in a statement on Tuesday. Russians laud size, not fuel economy at car show MOSCOW (Reuters) - Fuel-guzzling trucks and sports utility vehicles took centre stage at the Moscow car show, flaunting the indifference of Russian buyers to fuel economy and climate change as they project growing wealth through their cars. Iconic California county backs offshore drilling LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - California's Santa Barbara County, site of a major oil spill that rallied opposition to offshore oil production 40 years ago, voted on Tuesday to support new coastal oil exploration and extraction. EU carbon hits 1-month high on firm oil LONDON (Reuters) - European carbon emissions prices hit a 1-month high on Wednesday on the back of rising oil prices and concerns over the Norwegian gas pipeline, traders said. Protection zones not helping reefs, study finds LONDON (Reuters) - Conservation zones in the Indian Ocean set up to protect fish stocks are not preventing coral reefs from collapsing due to warmer temperatures or helping to speed their recovery, researchers reported on Wednesday. Almost half of Australia untouched by humans: study CANBERRA (Reuters) - More than 40 percent of Australia, an area the size of India, remains untouched by humans, making the country as critical to the world's environment as the Amazon rainforests, a study said on Wednesday.