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Plane hits trees crashes near airport
A small plane crashed near the Gregg County Regional Airport Thursday night.Sgt. David Roberts, with the Rusk County Sheriff’s Office, said the crash occurred about 6:30 p.m. on County Road 2156D and Farm-to-Market Road 2011, near the county line.The crash site was near the Elderville-Lakeport Volunteer Fire Department, which arrived within ...
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Environment Minister Alex Attwood blasted by Unesco over Causeway resort
BY LINDA STEWART - 24 May 2013 Environment Minister Alex Attwood has been accused of presiding over a "broken planning system" after a damning report by Unesco criticised the handling of a planned 100m golf resort development that threatens the setting of the Giant's ...
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Improved Models Predict Active 2013 Hurricane Season
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration expect that unusually warm water and other factors will produce as many as six major hurricanes during a busy 2013 Atlantic hurricane ...
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Pictures Top 10 Newly Discovered Species of 2012
Opala (map) . The teacher had received the monkey from a family member who had killed the youngster's mother. The lesula monkey is one of ten newly described species from the past year that researchers at Arizona State University (ASU) hope will help raise awareness of biodiversity on Earth. On Thursday, the ASU researchers released their list of what they say are the top 10 newly ...
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NH Forest Officials Find Invasive Beetle In 5-Percent Of Concord Trees
CONCORD, N.H. (AP) -- New Hampshire forest officials say an invasive beetle that destroys ash trees has been found in about 5 percent of trees surveyed in central Concord. Officials discovered the beetle earlier this year in Concord and Bow. Agencies have been testing ash trees within a six-mile radius. Gov. Maggie Hassan has declared this Emerald Ash Borer Awareness Week. The state has put a ...
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Taking Cover A Guide to Tornado Shelters
tornado safety guide recommends going into an enclosed basement or underground shelter if a tornado is imminent. But many suburban homes built in so-called Tornado Alley don't have basements due to rocky soil conditions and high water tables, which often make building basements impossible. An interior room or closet--often recommended for those without basements--may not be effective when ...
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Country diary Allendale Northumberland Hedgehogs have everything they need in this garden
Honesty is flowering all around the dark pile of leaves. Hellebores, fading from burgundy to antique pink, are creating a screen. Under the leaves a hedgehog is sleeping out the daytime, here in the same place that it spent the winter. This is its hibernaculum made from leaves that I heaped on this border last autumn. Perhaps thanks to my feeding it in November, it has survived the lengthy ...
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What Makes Us Feel an Itch Answer Surprises Scientists
Mark Hoon , a molecular geneticist at the National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research in Bethesda, Maryland, said in a statement. And because mice and people share similar biology, the scientists suspect that people also have this circuit. The discovery could also someday identify a way to block the molecule from producing itching--a potentially life-changing intervention for millions ...
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Arctic bacteria found living in Mars-like environment
Scientists say they've found bacteria growing in the Canadian arctic at temperatures below freezing, nearly as cold as the surface of Mars. Growing at just 5 degrees Fahrenheit, the coldest temperature ever reported for bacterial growth, the bacterium offers clues about some of the necessary preconditions for microbial life on other worlds, such as Saturn's moon Enceladus and Mars, ...
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Booker sees boost from horsemeat scandal
horsemeat scandal as more caterers have turned away from processed meats and started making meals from scratch, according to the company. Chief executive Charles Wilson said: "We are the biggest meat supplier to the catering industry in the country and since the scandal we have seen quite a lot of the caterers turning back to making their own burgers and lasagnes. So, we've moved from ...
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Nonprofits find difficult funding environment Video
Jeanne Bell, CEO of CompassPoint Nonprofit Services, talks to the Pittsburgh Business Times about the state of the nonprofit industry. If you talk to the executive director at any nonprofit, they will tell you there is no such thing as too much funding. The recession, federal and state funding cuts, and now the sequester, have all an impact. Nonprofits are finding it more difficult than ever to ...
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Environmental group to spend in Mass. election
BOSTON - A group of environmental activists led by California billionaire Thomas Steyer that spent nearly $900,000 during the U.S Senate primary in plans to return to the state to work against Republican nominee Gabriel Gomez.Chris LeHane, a spokesman for the NextGen Committee, said in a memo to Steyer's Massachusetts supporters on Thursday that the group planned to be a "politically ...
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Email Fired UT judicial affairs director claimed hostile work environment discrimination before dismissal
Jenny Wright, former director of the Office of Student Judicial Affairs at the University of Tennessee, under investigation for whether she had improper relationships with student-athletes. (University of ...
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Trees planted in Snyder Park
The nearly 35 volunteers from Whitehall and neighboring South Hills communities who came together May 4 for the tree planting and park improvement event, included residents from the Whitehall Place, formerly Prospect Park, housing complex and members of the borough's public works ...
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Fact not fiction Renewable energy is safer than nuclear power
"The harbour of Antwerp is being filled with windmills, and the chemical industry is next to it. If there is an accident like a break in one of the wings, that is a guillotine. If that goes through a chloride pipe somewhere, it will be a problem of a bigger magnitude than what can happen at [Belgian nuclear power plant] ...
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18 injured as thunderstorm batters Romanian capital trees uprooted 1 person in coma
BUCHAREST, Romania - Authorities say 18 people have been taken to hospitals, including one in a coma, after a tent collapsed when heavy rain and strong winds hit the Romanian capital. Interior ministry spokeswoman Andra Chesaru said trees were uprooted in and around the capital and billboards collapsed during the hour-long thunderstorm. The National Weather Institute says winds reached 80 ...
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Greenpeace asks Philippinegovernment to halt Bt eggplantex...
MANILA, Philippines – The Greenpeace on Friday asked the Philippine Department of Agriculture (DA) to stop the field trials of the genetically engineered (GE) Bt eggplant because it won’t be helpful and there are a lot of safety ...
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Locust plagues point to grim future of climate change
desert locust , the most notorious of about a dozen locust species for its ability to rapidly multiply and travel long distances, threatens an area of 32 million square kilometres, stretching across 50 countries from west Africa to India.The fearsome insect has been farmers' foe since the earliest days of agriculture.When solitary, locusts are harmless. But when they congregate into groups ...
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Glowing cockroach and social media lacewing
A glow-in-the-dark cockroach, a harp-shaped carnivorous sponge and the smallest vertebrate on Earth are among the top 10 newly discovered species selected by the International Institute for Species Exploration at Arizona State University. A global committee of taxonomists - scientists responsible for species exploration and classification - announced its list to coincide with the anniversary of ...
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Illegal waste boss jailed after arrest on Heathrow runway
Illegal waste site in Slough, run by Amrik Johal, 55, has now been jailed for three years after he was stopped while boarding a flight to Delhi on 16 May. Photograph: Environment ...
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Matt Ridleys misguided climate policy | Dana Nuccitelli
Matt Ridley discussed his interpretation of a new paper which suggests that the Earth's climate sensitivity may be a bit lower than current best ...
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Finding Income In A Zero Rate Environment
The Federal Reserve seems to be the enemy of savers and the enabler of a government addicted to debt. Its zero-interest-rate policy accommodates deficit spending at the expense of people who want to put their money somewhere safe and collect a decent income stream. These days you need to take on risk if you want respectable yields, a fact probably not lost on Fed ...
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Indonesia’s forests Logging the good news
INDONESIA'S president, Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, is not known as a conviction politician. Rather, his leadership has been characterised by compromise. On the environment, though, Mr Yudhoyono has been uncommonly courageous. In 2009, two years after world leaders met on the island of Bali to agree on a "road map" to slow climate change, Mr Yudhoyono pledged Indonesia to cutting its ...
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Trudeau raises environmental questions over pipeline
Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau says a proposed west-east pipeline project will not go forward unless it addresses key environmental concerns. Calgary-based TransCanada Corp. is in the process of lining up potential producers who would use the proposed pipeline, which would run from Alberta to New Brunswick. The federal Liberal leader told the CBC's Information Morning Fredericton on ...
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What are your training tips for hill climbs
. Three-quarters of the way from London to Brighton, on my biggest training challenge yet, I turned to my riding partner and laughed smugly at the people who had tried to frighten us with tales of hilly woe. We both agreed we must be much fitter than we thought, our fears about riding 100 miles in August quickly fading.Those of you who have ridden the 56-mile route before are probably having a ...
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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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