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Report highlights species decline in Britain
Conservationists say 60 percent of animal and plant species studied in Britain have declined in the past 50 years with bees and wildflowers the most vulnerable. A State of Nature report put together by 25 British wildlife organizations and assessing 3,148 species said reasons for species decline are "many and varied" but include rising temperatures and habitat degradation, the BBC ...
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Lessons From Joplin’s Tornado Recovery Effort
The Monday tornado that leveled a 20-mile stretch south of Oklahoma City, with winds exceeding 200 miles per hour, brings back harrowing memories of the deadly tornado that ripped apart Joplin, Missouri, exactly two years ago ...
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Some 100 Species of Fungus Live on Our Feet
There's a fungus among us --a hundred different species in fact--and nearly all take up residence on our feet, according to a study that appears in the ...
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Real Books From Real Trees for Real People Microsofts Fun eBook Predictions From 1999
created an ad for its upcoming 'Microsoft Reader' software . The headline blared, "This is a story about the future of reading," and underneath the story about the company's actual product, the marketers inserted a timeline based on "the best estimates of Microsoft researchers and developers" of what was going to happen to books in the future. The Microsoft ...
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Whos the Next Host of the Geography Bee
Read about 2013'stop ten National Geographic Bee finalists .)A well-traveled journalist, O'Brien has reported on breaking news worldwide.In 2011, she won an Emmy for Crisis in Haiti in the category of Outstanding Live Coverage of a Current News Story Long Form. O'Brien was also part of the coverage teams that earned CNN a George Foster Peabody award for its BP oil spill and ...
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Alex Trebek On Hosting the Geography Bee
National Geographic Bee to test what our nation's stellar geography students know about Bavarian mountain ranges, borders in Eastern Europe, and Asian capital cities on the Han River, among other subjects. (Those were all questions asked during last ...
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National Geographic Bee Do You Have What It Takes
The state champs have been chosen from among thousands of competitors. They'll now face off in challenging tests of their geographic knowledge. Only one will be crowned the 2013 National Geographic Bee champ. (See ...
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Task force appointed to protect environment
Abu Dhabi: A task force has been appointed to deliberate on key issues to achieve sustainable development in the UAE, the Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research announced on ...
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Pioneering wave power farm renews green energy hope
WAVE energy hasn't had a great time of it in recent years. Despite advances in research, getting wave power up and running in any meaningful commercial sense has not been very successful - and that's putting it mildly. In 2008, for example, the ...
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Spectacular mountain running – in pictures
From the Italian Alps to the Grand Canyon, no terrain is too grueling or too treacherous for these intrepid runners. Photographed as part of a newly-published series by David Clifford, the subjects are dwarfed by the epic scenery around them, making the scale of their athletic pursuits all the more outstanding. We chose the image of Susan Sauze running in the Alps as ...
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Tesla Motors Success Gives Electric Car Market a Charge
Workers cheer on the first Model S cars sold at the Tesla factory in Fremont, California, last year. The Model S has helped propel Tesla to recent success, but the automaker has more to prove over the long ...
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Barren uplands grazed to destruction
the Today programme on Wednesday , Sir David Attenborough named the rising human population as the first of the factors causing the loss of the UK's wildlife. Though in general he has done an excellent job in promoting the State of Nature report, on this issue he is wrong. That an increasing number of people makes a contribution is undeniable, as more land is used to build houses, and as ...
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Boriss Bus Part 39 Next Stop The Treasury
reasons not hard to guess - may have had a restraining effect, though a more likely explanation is that an appearance of statesmanlike sobriety will cut more ice than the usual chortling with ministers at the treasury. The outcome of the comprehensive spending review is due in just over a month, and fears that the GLA group faces a giant funding chop are rife. Transport grant, in particular, is ...
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1000 trees to be planted in CR to commemorate Citizenship Day
A total of 1,000 trees would be planted by school children, churches and traditional leaders in the various districts during the week-long celebration, from Wednesday, May 22 to Wednesday, May ...
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Herakles Cameroon palm oil project starts to run off the rails
Bruce Wrobel, the chief executive of Herakles Farms, claims his company's efforts to flatten a chunk of Cameroon's dense rainforest to develop a palm oil plantation are borne of a desire to address a "dire humanitarian need". Yet this week Herakles has had to suspend its activities in Cameroon following a forestry ministry order for the company to halt clearing work at their ...
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Canada’s boreal forests are the ‘Amazon of the north’ report
As resource companies look to northern forests in search of untapped minerals and energy, scientists and conservancy groups say too little heed is being paid to the environmental wealth created by Canada's boreal regions.The Boreal Songbird Initiative and Ducks Unlimited are marking the United Nations International Day for Biological Diversity on Wednesday with the release of a report that ...
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Paint it red artists find new life in west Cumbrias disused iron ore mine
Alan Cleaver on how four artists in Egremont, west Cumbria, are breathing new life into a disused iron ore mine by using the haematite to produce high-quality ...
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Scotland warned independence could cost billions in renewable subsidies
renewable energy projects if it voted for independence, putting its green energy revolution at risk.Davey told a renewable energy conference in Aberdeen that more than one-third of the UK's subsidies for wind, wave and tidal projects - currently 1.4bn a year - was spent in Scotland. That was worth 530m, even though only 9% of all UK electricity sales were in Scotland.The energy secretary ...
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International Day for Biological Diversity – Greenpeace Statement
Jakarta.- The fragile state of Indonesia's oceans and forests are a clear reminder of how marine and forest life is at risk from industrial overfishing and relentless deforestation, Greenpeace International warned on International Day for Biological Diversity. Coinciding with the UN-designated biodiversity day, the Greenpeace ship the Rainbow Warrior is currently visiting Indonesia, where ...
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BJP says UPA govt led to an environment of gloom and pessimism
The BJP on Wednesday targeted Prime Minister Manmohan Singh for the "failures" of the UPA-II government in the last four years, saying the presence of two power centres and his "indecision, inability and silence" have led to an environment of "gloom and pessimism" in the country. "UPA-II's anniversary is being celebrated in an environment of gloom, ...
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The farmed halibut thats better to eat than its wild brothers
fish the size of doors, changing colour as you watch, from matt black to pebble-and-sand. Fish farmer Bob Wilkieson pulls one up in a net. It is 7kg of dense, thrashing muscle, utterly alien with its twisted face and deltoid wings.These are four-year-old Atlantic halibut, and they may be the future of fish-farming: raised without chemicals and on organic feed. Unlike the flabby, slimy stuff we ...
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Ancient redwood forests evoke look of future in After Earth
Jaden Smith walks in a redwood grove in Humboldt Redwoods State Park, where part of the Columbia Pictures movie "After Earth" was filmed last ...
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Consultant Selected for Environmental Review of Longview Project
Cowlitz County approved a contract for environmental consulting company ICF International to help local, state and federal governments prepare an environmental impact statement (EIS) to evaluate a proposed coal export terminal along the Columbia River near Longview, ...
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Charge investigation of Texas fertilizer blast hampered by in-fighting
The federal safety agency investigating the West Fertilizer Company explosion in Texas has accused other investigators of hampering his agency's work. Chairman Rafael Moure-Eraso of the U.S. Chemical Safety Board said in a letter that the Texas state fire marshal and the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives blocked access to key witnesses for three weeks after the April ...
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12 Greenpeace activists arrested in Spain
Spanish police said they arrested 12 Greenpeace activists for parking a fishing boat outside the Ministry of Agriculture and chaining themselves to it. Greenpeace members organized the demonstration to encourage the Spanish government to meet with the group and discuss promoting more environmentally friendly ways of conducting trade. Celia Ojeda, a spokeswoman for Greenpeace, said that ...
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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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