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Chinese Environmental Protesters Demand Transparency
Chinese demonstrators shout slogans during a protest against a planned refinery project in downtown Kunming in southwest China's Yunnan province, May 16, ...
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Bloodthirsty wildlife documentaries lack reality and ethics | Adam Welz
wildlife comes from a screen. If you're North American or get US-produced satellite TV, you've probably learned a lot about wildlife from outlets like the Discovery Channel, Animal Planet and History. You might trust these channels because you've seen educational, factually accurate shows on them, unlike the 'trashy' material that dominates free-to-air network TV. But ...
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Puffin census examines impact of winter on breeding numbers - video
Patrick Barkham heads to the north-east of England to visit the Farne Islands, where the National Trust is undertaking an vast puffin census over the next two months. Researchers want to know whether extreme weather has affected breeding ...
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Global warming has not stalled insists worlds best-known climate scientist
Suggestions that global warming has stalled are a "diversionary tactic" from "deniers" who want the public to be confused over climate change, according to the world's best-known climate scientist. Prof James Hansen, who first alerted the world to climate change in 1988, said on Friday: "It is not true that the temperature has not changed in the two ...
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Using Unmanned Aerial Vehicles for Environmental Monitoring
IAEA officials and staff were treated to a demonstration of the capabilities of an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) or drone in connection with a consultancy meeting on using UAVS for rapid environmental monitoring that took place at IAEA headquarters from 14 to 17 May 2013. (Photo: D. ...
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Chinas Environment Ministry Approves Huge Hydro Dam
BEIJING -- China's environment ministry has given the go-ahead for the construction of what will become the country's tallest hydroelectric dam despite acknowledging it will have an impact on plants and rare fish. The dam, with a height of 314 meters (1,030 feet), will serve the Shuangjiangkou hydropower project on the Dadu River in southwestern Sichuan province. To be built over ...
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Worlds tallest dam approved by Chinese environmental officials
approved construction plans for what could become the world's tallest dam, while acknowledging that the project would affect endangered plants and rare fish species.The 314 metre-high dam (1,030ft) will serve the ...
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Where to park your bike The question often missing from the cycling debate
In the recent flurry of local authority initiatives to promote cycling, the focus has been on junctions, cycle lanes, lorries and training. One question seems be almost totally neglected: "Where could I keep a bike?" For many people, a lack of secure storage rules out cycling completely. What if you live at the top of a block of flats and aren't strong enough to carry a bike up ...
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Chinese blogger scared after appealing to Obama to help save Chinas environment
Washington, May 17 : A Chinese blogger aged nearly 20 has attracted the regime attention for appealing to President Barack Obama to help save China's ...
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Environmental journalism campaign launched
/enpproperty--> A major environmental journalism campaign was launched in Beijing on Friday. Combating air pollution was one of the main aims of the campaign, Chen Changzhi, vice-chairman of the National People's Congress Standing Committee, announced. Protecting water sources and promoting renewable energy will also be highlighted. Lu Hao, chairman of the Environment Protection and ...
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Fukushima Nuclear Crisis Update for May 14th to May 16th 2013
A panel of seismic experts from Japan's Nuclear Regulation Authority (NRA) has determined that a fault running directly beneath Japan Atomic Power Company's (JAPC) Tsuruga power plant in Fukui Prefecture is active, which means that the reactor will almost certainly never go online again. It is the first time since the March 2011 nuclear disaster that a reactor has been declared unsafe ...
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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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