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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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Heartland Institute wastes real scientists time – yet again | John Abraham
100,000 copies were sent out . What was it about this little book that got us talking? Many things. First, a coordinated mailing of a book is unusual. But what is more unusual is a book that purports to be the "real story" ...
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Flight recorders from crashed U.S. military plane found in Kyrgyzstan
Searchers found flight recorders from a U.S. military plane that crashed in Kyrgyzstan in early May, Kyrgyz's Transport and Communication Ministry said Monday. A ministry spokesman said the recorders were found in debris at the crash site and turned over to U.S. officials for analysis, RIA Novosti reported. The Boeing KC-135 refueling tanker with a three-member crew crashed into a gorge ...
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Summit being held on beetle-killed trees
Crew leader and head sawyer Tom Pryor checks the potential hazards of a large dead trees before attempting to cut them down. (Helen H. Richardson, The Denver Post ...
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RNA can Catalyze Single Electron Transfer in an Oxygen-Free Environment
Georgia Tech School of Chemistry and Biochemistry postdoctoral fellow Chiaolong Hsiao (left) and professor Loren Williams examine on a light box a polyacrylamide gel surrounded by an iron solution to determine whether RNA is stable in the iron solution.(Credit:Georgia Tech Photo: Gary Meek) The study shows that RNA is capable of catalyzing electron transfer under conditions similar to those of ...
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Better tools needed to assess farmings environmental footprint
THE beef and lamb sector is working hard to address environmental issues, but more work is needed to define how the carbon footprint of all agricultural sectors is measured to assess its environmental impact. The statement came from a group of MPs who have been feeding into an inquiry on the positive and negative effects of livestock on the environment.The committee, led by Neil Parish MP (Con, ...
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Green heating payments to double for householders
Payments to help householders switch from heating their homes with oil to greener systems such as biomass boilers and solar thermal will double in most cases, the government is to announce on Monday.The grants were intended as a stopgap measure until the start this summer of the government's ...
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Protection for trees from pests and disease held back by skills gap
caterpillars that strip oaks of leaves are being hampered by a "skills gap", a government-appointed taskforce has warned.The taskforce, set up in the wake of a fungus that kills ash trees being found across England last year, also called for plant health to be put on a par with animal health, and for the creation of a chief plant health officer akin to the government's chief ...
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Strong storms leave Kansas City with power outages downed trees damaged roofs
The feared tornadoes didnt come Sunday evening. But the heavy winds, which split trees and downed power lines on both sides of the state line, sure did. West of Kansas City, a tornado touched down in rural Lyon County, Kan., causing structural damage to homes ...
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Dog-meat mafia fuels Thai canine trade
Thai authorities are struggling to stop dogs from being stolen and smuggled to northern Vietnam, where a million dogs are eaten each year. This video report ...
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Chelsea flower show a guide to edible flowers
Visitors to this year's show can pop down to a nearby restaurant and try a flower-based lunch menu. Is it just a novelty - or something worth taking ...
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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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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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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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