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Trees planted in Snyder Park
The nearly 35 volunteers from Whitehall and neighboring South Hills communities who came together May 4 for the tree planting and park improvement event, included residents from the Whitehall Place, formerly Prospect Park, housing complex and members of the borough's public works ...
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Fact not fiction Renewable energy is safer than nuclear power
"The harbour of Antwerp is being filled with windmills, and the chemical industry is next to it. If there is an accident like a break in one of the wings, that is a guillotine. If that goes through a chloride pipe somewhere, it will be a problem of a bigger magnitude than what can happen at [Belgian nuclear power plant] ...
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18 injured as thunderstorm batters Romanian capital trees uprooted 1 person in coma
BUCHAREST, Romania - Authorities say 18 people have been taken to hospitals, including one in a coma, after a tent collapsed when heavy rain and strong winds hit the Romanian capital. Interior ministry spokeswoman Andra Chesaru said trees were uprooted in and around the capital and billboards collapsed during the hour-long thunderstorm. The National Weather Institute says winds reached 80 ...
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Greenpeace asks Philippinegovernment to halt Bt eggplantex...
MANILA, Philippines – The Greenpeace on Friday asked the Philippine Department of Agriculture (DA) to stop the field trials of the genetically engineered (GE) Bt eggplant because it won’t be helpful and there are a lot of safety ...
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Locust plagues point to grim future of climate change
desert locust , the most notorious of about a dozen locust species for its ability to rapidly multiply and travel long distances, threatens an area of 32 million square kilometres, stretching across 50 countries from west Africa to India.The fearsome insect has been farmers' foe since the earliest days of agriculture.When solitary, locusts are harmless. But when they congregate into groups ...
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Glowing cockroach and social media lacewing
A glow-in-the-dark cockroach, a harp-shaped carnivorous sponge and the smallest vertebrate on Earth are among the top 10 newly discovered species selected by the International Institute for Species Exploration at Arizona State University. A global committee of taxonomists - scientists responsible for species exploration and classification - announced its list to coincide with the anniversary of ...
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Illegal waste boss jailed after arrest on Heathrow runway
Illegal waste site in Slough, run by Amrik Johal, 55, has now been jailed for three years after he was stopped while boarding a flight to Delhi on 16 May. Photograph: Environment ...
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Matt Ridleys misguided climate policy | Dana Nuccitelli
Matt Ridley discussed his interpretation of a new paper which suggests that the Earth's climate sensitivity may be a bit lower than current best ...
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Finding Income In A Zero Rate Environment
The Federal Reserve seems to be the enemy of savers and the enabler of a government addicted to debt. Its zero-interest-rate policy accommodates deficit spending at the expense of people who want to put their money somewhere safe and collect a decent income stream. These days you need to take on risk if you want respectable yields, a fact probably not lost on Fed ...
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Indonesia’s forests Logging the good news
INDONESIA'S president, Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, is not known as a conviction politician. Rather, his leadership has been characterised by compromise. On the environment, though, Mr Yudhoyono has been uncommonly courageous. In 2009, two years after world leaders met on the island of Bali to agree on a "road map" to slow climate change, Mr Yudhoyono pledged Indonesia to cutting its ...
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Trudeau raises environmental questions over pipeline
Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau says a proposed west-east pipeline project will not go forward unless it addresses key environmental concerns. Calgary-based TransCanada Corp. is in the process of lining up potential producers who would use the proposed pipeline, which would run from Alberta to New Brunswick. The federal Liberal leader told the CBC's Information Morning Fredericton on ...
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What are your training tips for hill climbs
. Three-quarters of the way from London to Brighton, on my biggest training challenge yet, I turned to my riding partner and laughed smugly at the people who had tried to frighten us with tales of hilly woe. We both agreed we must be much fitter than we thought, our fears about riding 100 miles in August quickly fading.Those of you who have ridden the 56-mile route before are probably having a ...
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Secret life of climate trolls part two
The secret life of internet trolls: part one - video Climate Desk are invited to dinner by their most pernicious, climate-denying troll, Hoyt ...
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QA Last Survivor of a Dramatic World War II Rescue
For the most part, we got along pretty well, but there were a few people who rubbed each other the wrong way. When you're hungry, cold, and tired, you forget about almost everything else and are only thinking about surviving. Watson, one of the nurses, said, "Anything a medic can do, I can do," and that's exactly what she did. That's how most of the nurses were. They ...
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Uganda Norway Pledges Funds for Forests
Uganda loses nearly 100,000hectares of forest cover annually through encroachment, exposing the population to the risks and costly consequences of climate change. It is therefore for this reason that the Norwegian Embassy has pledged continued support to Uganda in form of increased funding in forest restoration, environment management and conservation as part of their micro-development projects ...
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Cicadageddon escalates as insects emerge on Staten Island New York – video
Millions of cicadas are emerging across the US east coast for the first time in 17 years. The Guardian traveled to the New York City borough of Staten Island where Adam Gabbatt found cicadas and their exoskeletons littering the area as the insects prepare to mate -and then ...
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Be the Architect of a Positive Work Environment
those workplaces that just feel … off . Negativity fills the air. You can practically cut the tension with a knife. People look miserable. The environment makes you want to turn around and run as far away as possible – and that's whether you're a client or an employee. Clearly, these negative work spaces can have devastating consequences on the people who inhabit them and ...
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Fukushima Nuclear Crisis Update for May 21st to May 22nd 2013
Japan's Nuclear Regulation Authority (NRA) announced this week that it will accept findings from a panel of experts, which determined that fault lines running beneath reactor #2 at Japan Atomic Power Company's (JAPC) Tsuruga nuclear plant in Fukui Prefecture are active. Japanese law prohibits operation of nuclear reactors over active faults, because of the risk they could incur if a ...
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Running shoes have large impact
running shoes typically generates 30lbs of carbon dioxide emissions, the researchers found.That's an unusually high carbon footprint for a product that does not use electricity, or require sophisticated components. The researchers said it compared to leaving a 100-watt bulb burning for an entire week.Sports apparel companies have been leaders in trying to reduce their environmental impact. ...
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Will green energy prove cheaper than gas
The Committee on Climate Change argues that, in the long term, low-carbon energy will cost less than gas. Leo Hickman, with your help, investigates. Post your views below, ...
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Addressing land rights can make social change possible
land rights .If you work on food security, climate change, women's empowerment, conflict or economic growth, chances are that you've also encountered the land elephant - the big, complex, disruptive element that frustrates so many development efforts.Precisely because land is a complex and controversial issue - one that can be expensive to address in addition to being politically and ...
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Tesco pledges action on food waste
food wasted by its customers and elsewhere in its international supply chain.After criticism of the prevalence of supermarket "bogofs" (buy one get one frees) and other deals which help to create an annual mountain of ...
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Turtle Recall
World Turtle Day , I hatched a plan. I know that to an international audience 'turtle' covers a multitude of reptile species, but rather than getting all Queens' English-y over what is ...
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South Africa Minister of Water and Environmental Affairs Edna Molewa Launches the Mining and Biodiversity Guideline and Receives Life - State of South Africas Biodiversity Report
The Minister of Water and Environmental Affairs, Mrs Edna Molewa today, 22 May 2013 on the occasion of the International Day for Biological Diversity (IDB), launched the Mining and Biodiversity Guideline: Mainstreaming biodiversity into the mining sector, in Kirstenbosch, Cape Town. The South African National Biodiversity Institute (SANBI) also handed over the Life: State of South Africa's ...
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New construction in tourism industry – signs of recovery or misplaced optimism?
The whole of Central America has been affected by the global downturn. One of the industries effected most has been tourism, and while many construction and expansion projects were planned during the heady days of 2007 and early 2008, the region may now be facing a huge oversupply problem in terms of hotel accommodation, although there are signs of light on the horizon.
In 2006, the Tourism Ministers of various countries in the region came together at San Ramon for a conference and told Central American news providers that the tourism industry for the region as whole had grown by an average of 11%, which account for, on average, 5% of the region’s GDP for that year, in addition, there was astounding growth in the number of European tourists travelling to Central America, a 147% increase in fact. Read more
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