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Uganda: Authorities fail to save 5,400 hectares of Lwamunda forests from better organized illegal loggers, sand extractors
Thanks to the as usual menace of the illegal loggers and the sand extractors for the Mpigi district's Wantai and Katabalalu forests' almost total disappearance from the world map. About 1,261 hactres of Wantai and Katabalalu forests -- once a hide-out...
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NOAA hurricane experts go airborne to promote Hurricane awareness at East Coast
Based on the elevated forecast for the 2007 hurricane season, the Atlantic Seaboard can be threatened by a devastating hurricane. People living within the region need to be made aware of the likely forthcoming calamities. To raise such awareness,.
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On British beaches surf on your peril
It just not the number of people, who flock to sun-baked British beaches which has seen an unprecedented increase, with it the chances of getting drowned at British beaches have also gone up many folds. Courtesy poor rescue equipment and lack of...
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Germany gets a new 8-Point Plan to cap greenhouses gas emissions by 40% within 2020
Now it's the turn for Germany to go 'green'. To cap its irreversible emissions of greenhouses gases into the air, the country's German Environment Minister Sigmar Gabriel has come up with an eight-point plan. As par the new plan, the country's...
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Mountain gorillas rebounding: But population still small enough to be vulnerable
It was in the last decades of the 20th century, loss of habitat, disease and poaching in the Bwindi Impenetrable National Park in Uganda has disappointingly led to the decreasing number of the gorillas in the last places where mountain gorillas still...
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10,000-year-old camel bones unearthed in Arizona
You never know, what's in store under your house! It may once day turn out to be an archeological site. This is exactly what happened with Greenfield Citrus Nursery owner John Babiarz in Mesa. Once to hold a Wal-Mart store in near future, the site in.
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Hong Kong likely to adopt new pollution alert system
Finding it's existing pollution alert system outdated, Hong Kong is considering to draft a new pollution alert to tackle the growing menace of pollution. The new colour-coded alert system similar to one, which warns citizens of approaching...
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New emissions capture technology using 'aluminium-making process by-product' launched
Western Australia heads for another baby step towards the cause for the environment. It's all happening in Kwinana. A Kwinana-based refinery, which is responsible for emission of greenhouse gases, recently got a new technology that will be capturing the..
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Twin koalas born in China
An Australian koala has given birth to rare twin cubs in a safari park in south China's Guangdong Province. The twin koalas, born in Xiangjiang Safari Park in Guangzhou, capital of Guangdong, made their first public appearance on April 17, 2007. ..
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Toxic algae-bloom killing birds, dolphins and sealions in California
Are you a lover of sea food delicacies? Then be aware of those served in California! An ocean algae is blooming across the seas sickening and killing birds, sea lions and dolphins, washing them up on shores from San Diego to San Francisco...
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Eight weird tree sculptures carved by nature
Plants and trees have excellent flexibility. They are capable of creating strange works of unintentional art that you just watch them bewildered. There are artists who have given meaningful shapes to trees such as of tables and mirrors. Tree sculptures ar
The Big Question: Are vertical farms really green?
Why we are asking this nowThe concept of vertical farming is receiving a number of positive as well as negative feedback, right from its inception. Many agriculturalists and socialists have analyzed the usefulness of this concept in the practical world. I
10 Innovative curtains designed to conserve energy
Curtains are primarily meant to avert sunlight and heat from entering our rooms. Draping over the windows and doors curtains secure us. Here we talk about ten innovative curtains that can conserve energy in various ways. There are curtains embedded with s
What’s Next: Future homes to eschew apocalypse
As we know it The claims of an apocalypse-like situation may be wrong. But, it can't be denied that millions of people around the world die every year because of natural disasters like earthquake, flood, tsunami and tornado. The world faces about 600 disa
