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Inside Fukushima Draining a radioactive flood
AN ALARM lets off a shrill beep as a dosimeter on the bus hits 1500 microsieverts of radiation. "Do not open the windows," an official warns. We are inside ...
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U.S. Pet Poll Most Prefer Dogs 18 Percent Want Dinosaur
Americans love their pets--and a new poll shows just how much we dote on our critters, while revealing some curious attitudes toward animals (and ...
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Ethiopian sacred forests sold to Indian tea producer
Despite opposition from Ethiopia's President and environmental authorities, a rainforest area providing livelihood to an indigenous people has been leased out to make tea ...
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Earthworks effect on environment irreversible
Massive earthworks carving through difficult country for Auckland's next highway will dwarf excavations for the Waterview motorway tunnels. A report for Auckland Council consideration today says the $760 million first stage of the Puhoi to Wellsford tolled highway - one of the Government's seven "roads of national significance"- will need more than nine million cubic metres of ground moved from ...
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Atlantic Ocean to Disappear in 200 Million Years
A newly discovered crack in the Earth's crust could pull North America and Europe together and cause the Atlantic Ocean to vanish in about 220 million years, scientists ...
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Invasive Snails are Target of UI USGS Environmental DNA Study
MOSCOW, Idaho – Researchers at the University of Idaho and the U.S. Geological Survey have developed a way to identify New Zealand mudsnail infestations in their earliest stages – using only the small bits of DNA the snails shed in the water. When New Zealand mudsnails move into a stream, they can wreak havoc on their new habitat. The tiny, invasive mollusks – barely larger ...
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Will the World Bank act boldly
groundbreaking report that warned about a 4 degrees Celsius warmer world, the bank has now looked at what that warming would mean for South Asia, South East Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa. The picture is dramatic, as ...
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Government abandons plan to sell forests
The sale of the harvesting rights for the country's state-owned forests has been abandoned.Simon Coveney, Agriculture Minister, said the Government will instead focus on creating a new company - merging Coillte and Bord na Mona - to develop commercial bio-energy and forestry interests.The minister said the decision to stall the sale of about one million acres of trees was based on concerns ...
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Thunderstorms Down Trees Power Lines in Delaware
Thunderstorms with large hail knocked down trees, flooded roads and left thousands in the dark in New Castle County. As many as 11,000 customers lost power Monday night after the storms blew through the region. By Tuesday morning Delmarva Power reports that power had been restored to all but 1,500 in New Castle County, Del., and 300 in Kent County, Md. The company says service to some customers ...
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Environmental Education in Santiago de Cuba Bay
Santiago de Cuba, Jun 19 (Prensa Latina) Several environmental education actions are implemented today in this eastern city, striving to reduce its pollution levels and restore vitality to the marine ...
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Take it from a composting veteran it is easier than you think | Sadhbh Walshe
announced plans to introduce composting into the city's garbage mix with the goal of making it mandatory in a couple of years. The scheme has barely gotten off the ground and already some New Yorkers are fretting about the prospect of a future where they will be required to throw a banana peel in one bin and the non biodegradable sticker that was once attached to it in another. Terrifying ...
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Whale harpooned in Iceland after two-year whaling ban – video
Greenpeace video shows whaling vessel Hvalur 8 at Hvalfijordur port, Iceland, with its first kill after the end of a two-year suspension on whaling. Activists describe the operation as 'cruel and brutal', adding it is in breach of a commercial ban imposed by the International Whaling Commission. The animal, butchered at the port, will probably be sold for meat in ...
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Giving the street back to whom it belongs
"The people finally woke up" and they won't be going back to sleep. This phrase, heard from the four corners of Brazil this Monday, reflected a infectious sentiment felt everywhere. The hours past midnight saw thousands of people still on the streets - and on social networks - sharing emotions, images and memories of a day that has already become history in the country. ...
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Scuppered barges plug dyke to hold back German flood
Similar "blocking events" have been responsible for many other extreme weather events in the northern hemisphere in recent years - including the European heatwave in 2003, the Russian heatwave and the Indus river flood in Pakistan in 2010, and the 2011 US heatwave. Some climate scientists think the surge of blocking events is linked to the rapid warming in the Arctic. In March, for ...
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Study to question popularity of environmental investing
GLG Partners will work with Mercer’s investment consulting business to determine whether environmental investing has become the norm. Issues surrounding climate change and other major environmental issues will be examined, and their effect, if any, on the approach and focus for mainstream investment. ';We believe that environmental liabilities are already changing the ...
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Russia will spend $437.4 million closing down Baikal paper mill
A Russian paper mill blamed by environmentalists for damaging the world's deepest freshwater lake will finally be shut down, Russia's prime minister ...
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Coastal Bend Environmental Science
Coastal Bend Environmental Science Summer 2013 Free Teachers Workshops. Coastal Bend Environmental ScienceJune 19-20Coastal Bend Environmental ScienceElementary Teacher Workshop- 18 CEUsJune 24-26Register for these workshops at ...
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Laws boost for environment at coal and gas projects
See your ad here Under laws passed yesterday, coal and gas projects can be ''called in'' under a ''water trigger'' added to the federal Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act.While the mining lobby has complained about the changes, green groups are worried that another aspect of the laws could weaken existing protections.In a series of ...
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Time for the World Bank to fund a clean energy future – Greenpeace
Amsterdam.- In response to the World Bank's latest climate change report, Turn Down The Heat: Climate Extremes, Regional Impacts, and the Case for Resilience, Greenpeace International climate campaigner Stephanie Tunmore said: "Fossil fuels are being extracted and burned in the name of development and prosperity, but what they are delivering is the opposite, as the World Bank's ...
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Redford to promote energy industry environmental performance in New York
Premier Alison Redford says she's prepared for "frank" talk in New York on Wednesday as she promotes Alberta's energy sector in the face of environmental black eyes for the province and uncertainty over the proposed Keystone XL oil pipeline.Redford is slated to be the keynote speaker at the Foreign Policy Association's North American Energy Independence Conference.The ...
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Chicago activists lobby for plastic bag ban
Rahm Emanuel is trying to get more information on the environmental and economic impacts of the proposal before deciding whether to support it, mayoral spokesman Tom Alexander said. "The mayor will work with members of City Council to reach a consensus on this issue," Alexander told the Chicago Tribune. Alderman George Cardenas, the council's Heath Committee chairman, has ...
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Environmental Groups Court Strikes Down Bush Administration Pollution Monitoring Loophole Upholds Publics Right to Know
Throws out EPA rule that waived pollution monitoring requirements for thousands of factories and power plants WASHINGTON - August 19 - A federal appeals court ...
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Environmental Groups Judge Dismisses Inyo County Lawsuit to Open Roads in Remote Death Valley Wilderness
threw out a lawsuit by Inyo County, Calif., to open highways through remote roadless areas of Death Valley National Park. Inyo County officials had hoped to take control of three ...
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Environmental Defense Fund Co-sponsor of Global Warming Solutions Act to Provide Testimony at San Jose Public Workshop on Draft Scoping Plan to Implement Law
Media Advisory for Friday, August 8, 9:30am-4pm WASHINGTON - August 7 - WHAT: A co-sponsor of ...
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Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy New Global Contract Needed to Re-Assert Basic Rights Protect Environment
WTO Doha Collapse Requires a New Direction in Multilateralism MINNEAPOLIS - August 6 - Global institutions enforcing trade and finance rules have overridden fundamental human rights, stalled international development and harmed the environment, finds three new papers released today by the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy. A new system is badly ...
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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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