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5 Tornado Myths Busted
deadly tornado ripped through the Oklahoma City area on Monday , leaving 24 dead. As rescue crews assist victims, scientists have fanned out across the Great Plains, seeking to better understand how severe storms form, and how people may better guard against their worst ...
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Greenpeace drops item on Swedish reactor from glider to make point
STOCKHOLM - Environmental pressure group Greenpeace on Tuesday said it flew a paraglider over a nuclear reactor building in south-western Sweden and dropped an item upon it from the air to show how vulnerable the facilities ...
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On the Scene in Tornado Hit Town Even Trees are Stripped of Everything
VOA correspondent Greg Flakus is at the site of the tornado damage in Moore, Oklahoma. He spoke with English broadcaster David Byrd Tuesday afternoon about what he is ...
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QA Reworking Finance to Serve People and the Environment
- The wake of the global financial crisis, as many national governments in Europe cut back on services to citizens and used public money to rescue banks, taught many people a valuable ...
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North Van RCMP charge three men alleging trees cut in Capilano park to improve homeowners’ view
Surrey RCMP are looking for a woman who allegedly assaulted an animal-rights protester at the Cloverdale Rodeo. The female victim said the woman punched and kicked her, and pulled her hair, after a ...
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Country diary Cotehele Tamar Valley Sid Coombe No 1 among this years thick and gorgeous apple blossoms
Cotehele 's formal gardens from the old orchard. The apple is particularly thick and gorgeous this year. It obscures mistletoe, and clothes limbs that until a few weeks ago were bare apart from lichen and moss. Most spectacular is the luminous Sid Coombe No 1 - a spreading tree planted here 25 years ago. Genetic testing has proved this variety to be unique, so it goes by the name of the ...
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Environmental First Nations activists protest at Sarnia oilsands meeting
SARNIA, Ont. -- About 50 environmental and First Nations activists gathered to protest in Sarnia, Ont., as a two-day national conference on oil sands bitumen opened Tuesday. Carrying signs reading "People Not Profits" and "Solidarity Against The Tar Sands," they gathered to demonstrate their opposition to Alberta oil sands development and proposed pipelines. They held a ...
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Mustard-filled munitions found in Utah desert
Informal stockpiles of buried World War II-era munitions were discovered during the cleanup of a Utah chemical depot, an Army spokeswoman said. The Deseret Chemical Depot, a 19,000-acre facility whose Chemical Agent Disposal Facility was closed in 2012, still contains 27 informal dumps where weapons and debris were burned in the years before environmental health hazards were understood. Among ...
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Joint Information Environment Serves Warfighters Official Says
By Claudette RouloAmerican Forces Press Service FAIRFAX, Va., May 21, 2013 The Joint Information Environment isn't a program, it's an end state, the Defense Department's deputy chief information officer for information enterprise said at an industry conference here today. The term "Joint Information Environment" simply describes the ability to deliver data to the ...
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Environmental Working Groups top sunscreens for 2013
The Environmental Working Group , a consumer organization, has released its annual report on sunscreens to come up with a list of recommendations for what people should slather on their skin this summer . The group analyzed hundreds of sunscreens currently on the market and gave them a score between 1 and 8, with "1" being considered a top pick. Read on to see examples of what the EWG ...
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Shell suffers embarrassing shareholder rebellion over executive pay
Peter Voser, chief executive of Shell, was awarded a 2.8m bonus after a year in which the company lost 1.05bn. Photograph: Ben Stansall/AFP/Getty ...
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Climate change will push up New Yorks heatwave deaths
Radley Horton of Columbia University in New York and colleagues have now calculated the net effect. They matched daily temperature data for Manhattan with death rates between 1982 and 1999 to estimate how sensitive the city's population is to temperatures, then used future temperature forecasts to estimate future death rates. In all their 16 models, temperature-related deaths increased ...
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Number of excellent quality UK beaches plummets
The proportion of UK beaches classed as "excellent" for the quality of their bathing water has fallen to its lowest level since 2000, new figures show. The number plummeted from 82.8% in 2011 to 58.2% in 2012, according ...
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Big-cat sightings is Britain suffering from mass hysteria
In 1995, government inspectors spent months on Bodmin moor in Cornwall looking for evidence of a 'beast' roaming wild there. They found nothing. Yet every year there are 2,000 similarly spurious big-cat sightings in Britain. What's going ...
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Oklahoma tornado followed by extreme weather warnings for four states
More than 50 million people across a swathe of the Great Plains states were braced for a second round of extreme weather on Tuesday, from hail storms ...
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Oklahoma Tornado Pictures 2-Mile Twister Destroys Town
tornado roared through the suburbs of Oklahoma City on Monday, destroying entire neighborhoods and leveling an elementary school, according to the Associated Press. ...
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Timing made Oklahoma tornado toll worse
The tornado that ripped through Moore, a suburb of Oklahoma City, on Monday was not a record-breaker in terms of its size, strength or duration. So why was it so ...
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In campaign to stem food waste UN agency spotlights traditional preservation methods
Print 21 May 2013 – Fermenting birds, naturally freeze-drying potatoes and squeezing meat on a saddle are some of the traditional methods used by cultures around the world to preserve food highlighted today by the United Nations environment agency, which is stressing the importance of reducing food waste. ';Reducing food waste and loss is an economic, ethical and environmental ...
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Sweet chestnut blight – the latest threat
ban imports of sweet chestnut saplings from foreign nurseries in an effort to stop the spread of a fungal blight that is already killing chestnuts across Europe and North America and now threatens the UK's estimated 44m specimens. An infection of the blight - known as Cryphonectria parasitica - is usually fatal to sweet chestnuts. It causes a characteristic bright brown cankered bark, in ...
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DR Congo waits on funding for Grand Inga
The dream of harnessing the mighty Congo River with the world's largest set of dams has moved closer, with the World Bank and other financial institutions expected to offer finance and ...
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How can tree stumps improve agricultural productivity
There's a received wisdom that tree stumps, shoots and bushes should be cleared from a field before planting crops. It seems logical, but the experience of farmers in southern Niger suggests otherwise. There, the practice of Farmer Managed Natural Regeneration (FMNR) has been found to significantly improve soil quality and crop yields, along with additional resources and income from tree ...
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Record Burmese python caught in Florida
Florida .It's a new record for the longest Burmese python caught in the wild in Florida. The previous record was a 17ft 7in python caught in August in Everglades national park.According to the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, the 18ft 8in snake was caught May 11 alongside a road in rural Miami-Dade County.Wildlife officials said Monday that a Miami man spotted about 3ft of ...
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Oklahoma Tornado Why So Destructive Unpredictable
A massive tornado that tore through the Oklahoma City suburb of Moore on Monday and killed scores of people was unusual not for its size or ferocity, but for the path it took, experts ...
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Captains Log Found a Baby Bird What Do I Do
Audubon Connecticut , for his perspective. Here's some advice for Sir Patrick and anyone else who encounters a bird, baby or adult, in need of help. Could a baby bird just take care of ...
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Nuclear power is safe and pigs can fly
That's the lesson Greenpeace Sweden sent to the nuclear industry once again today as we flew our paramotor glider over the unprotected Ringhals nuclear power plant in southwest Sweden, near Gothenburg. With simple gear and without hindrance, our Greenpeace activist dropped pig-shaped balloons from the glider onto the reactor roof as part of our ongoing "stress test" of nuclear ...
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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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