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Zombie climate sceptic theories
According to an email obtained by Media Matters, Bill Sammon imposed an order on Fox News journalists to cast doubt on climate change. Photograph: Stan Honda/AFP/Getty ...
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When disaster strikes its survival of the sociable
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Chinese Environmental Protesters Demand Transparency
Chinese demonstrators shout slogans during a protest against a planned refinery project in downtown Kunming in southwest China's Yunnan province, May 16, ...
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Bloodthirsty wildlife documentaries lack reality and ethics | Adam Welz
wildlife comes from a screen. If you're North American or get US-produced satellite TV, you've probably learned a lot about wildlife from outlets like the Discovery Channel, Animal Planet and History. You might trust these channels because you've seen educational, factually accurate shows on them, unlike the 'trashy' material that dominates free-to-air network TV. But ...
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Puffin census examines impact of winter on breeding numbers - video
Patrick Barkham heads to the north-east of England to visit the Farne Islands, where the National Trust is undertaking an vast puffin census over the next two months. Researchers want to know whether extreme weather has affected breeding ...
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Global warming has not stalled insists worlds best-known climate scientist
Suggestions that global warming has stalled are a "diversionary tactic" from "deniers" who want the public to be confused over climate change, according to the world's best-known climate scientist. Prof James Hansen, who first alerted the world to climate change in 1988, said on Friday: "It is not true that the temperature has not changed in the two ...
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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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