Did Live Earth make a difference? While international media seem undecided about the lasting effects of July 7's worldwide event aimed at educating the public about climate change, individual participants are coming under scrutiny.

MSN declared itself the new record holder for the biggest online entertainment audience, reporting more than 10 million streams on Saturday for its coverage of Live Earth.

The "Live Earth" concert planned for Copacabana Beach in Rio de Janeiro is back on after concert organizers reassured Brazilian authorities about security concerns.

The global Live Earth concerts have got under way in Sydney, with tens of thousands of people pouring into the Sydney Football Stadium for the first of a series of events which will end in New York tomorrow.

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A surprise concert in Washington, D.C. has been added to the Live Earth lineup. Tentatively scheduled to begin at 10:30 a.m. Eastern Time, the July 7 event will be the earliest U.S. concert.

It is an uphill battle for green-themed Live Earth organizers to pull off concerts around the world in the name of curbing global warming while avoiding their own contribution to landfill and emissions from the event. Animal lovers have already complained that the meaty food sold on the sidelines is cruel and wastes energy.

Brazil may become the second country to cancel its leg of this Saturday's Live Earth global concerts, leaving artists Lenny Kravitz, Pharrell Williams and Macy Gray out of a gig after slow ticket sales around the world.

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Live Earth is ambitious: eight concerts featuring the biggest names in music, playing for a 24-hour period across the globe. But like its template - 2006's Live 8, the global concert devoted to poverty in Africa - the mission of Live Earth is somewhat amorphous. Its aim is to "trigger a global movement to solve the climate crisis."

The multi-continent "Live Earth" concerts to raise awareness of global climate control will take place on July 7. Shows will take place in New York, London, Shanghai, Sydney, Johannesburg, Rio de Janeiro, Hamburg, Chiba and Tokyo.

Istanbul is likely to cancel its Live Earth concert part of a series of concerts around the world on July 7 to raise climate change awareness, for there is no support from Government and sponsors, organizers said Thursday.