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UBD To Plant Trees For Green Wave Campaign
View Comments Bandar Seri Begawan - Universiti Brunei Darussalam will be holding a tree planting activity tomorrow (May 22) at the university campus to mark its Green Wave campaign, according to a press release. The Green Wave is a multi-year campaign to raise awareness on biodiversity that contributes to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) programme of work on Communication, Education ...
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Why Did Penguins Stop Flying The Answer Is Evolutionary
leopard seals at the water's edge would also be easier if penguins could take flight-so scientists have often wondered why and how the birds lost that ability. A popular theory of biomechanics suggests that the birds' once-flight-adapted wings simply became more and more efficient for swimming and eventually lost their ability to get penguins off the ground. More efficient diving, on ...
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A Tornado Chaser Talks About His Science and Craft
While officials start to tally injuries, wrecked homes, and upturned lives, tornado researchers and chasers are swinging into high gear. Despite a suite of sophisticated instruments at their disposal, ...
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7-Eleven finds convenient business environment
/enpproperty--> Megumu Ubasako, chairman of 7-Eleven (Chengdu) Co Ltd, has made the capital of Sichuan province his home. "I am already a local here," said the 57-year-old Japanese national, joking that he feels like a business traveler when he returns to his home in Saitama prefecture near Tokyo every year. His affection for the city is partly due to the family like ...
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Deep Sea Mining Economic Bonanza or Environmental Boondoggle
This computer generated image from Lockheed Martin suggests how the company could mine manganese nodules from the sea floor, using underwater vehicles that vacuum up nodules and transport them to a ship on the ocean surface. (Source: Lockheed ...
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REUTERS SUMMIT-Argentina seeks U.S. environmental okay on biodiesel
Mon May 20, 2013 5:19pm EDT (For other news from Reuters Latin America Investment Summit, click here) BUENOS AIRES May 20 (Reuters) - Argentina is pursuing U.S. environmental approval to export biodiesel more easily to that market and revitalize a local industry in "crisis" due to trade problems with the European Union, Argentina's main biofuels chamber said on Monday. The head of ...
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Saloon bar politics by Ukip could harm Britains climate change credibility and drag Tories to right on environment warns minister
The rise of Ukip risks fuelling climate change scepticism as Conservative politicians embrace the populist "saloon bar" politics of Nigel Farage's party, the Energy Secretary, Ed Davey, has ...
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Country diary Coombs Dale Derbyshire
The high limestone country north of Longstone Edge has its own strange energy, a consequence perhaps of the quarrying there, both ancient and modern. The land is scarred and nicked, like the face of a veteran fighter, a blue-collar countryside.It's also rich with tales of horror, now recruited for the purposes of tourism. The notorious highwayman Black Harry, hanged at nearby Wardlow Mires, ...
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Opinion Three Ways to Avoid Another Mount Everest Fight
For those climbing Mount Everest, meeting the challenge has always relied on teamwork, friendship, communication, trust, dedication, and shared values. But those virtues have recently been undermined by crowds and misunderstanding on the mountain--and, late last month, by a fight ...
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Syrias makeshift oil refineries It is like hell – video
As a result of the rush to make quick money, open-air refineries have been set up in al-Raqqa province. Crude is stored in ditches and heated in metal tanks by wood fires, shrouding the region with plumes of black smoke, and exposing the local population to the dangers of the thick smog and the frequent explosions at the improvised ...
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Plague of deforestation sweeps across south-east Asia
deforestation is dizzying, threatening the region's remarkable biodiversity, which includes more than 1,700 species discovered in the last 15 years alone. Many of the forests in Vietnam have been cut down for the furniture export market and the trees replaced by coffee bushes; in less than 10 years, Vietnam has gone from zero to number two in global coffee production. So much forest has ...
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Op-Ed Gamma Rays and the Grand Canyon
denied their motion to overturn the Salazar decision on constitutional grounds. A tactical, piecemeal circumvention of the ban has had better luck in the bureaucracy of the U.S. Forest Service. The USFS, despite the anti-mining intent of their boss President Obama, authorized a Canadian company to dig uranium six miles from the South Rim of the Grand Canyon. ...
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How Productive Meetings Are Like Bonsai Trees
.' In other words, socialize your content before the meeting using quick huddles, office fly-bys, one-on-one conversations." By doing these small meetings, May says, you can gather a team's input and build a soft consensus. In this way, you can pay down the transaction cost of ...
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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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