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Grant to help 'Leave Paradise in its Place' --
Road Town :: British Virgin Islands | 40 minutes ago
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Grant to help 'Leave Paradise in its Place' Saturday, November 21st 2009 Virgin Islands government and conservation organizations have received a federal grant to educate tourists and residents about the ecological impact of pocketing pretty things washed...
Tags: Leave Paradise, Dee Osinski V.I., British Virgin Islands, Road Town, Conservation, Endangered species, University of the Virgin Islands, Coral, Island countries, Coral reefs, Anthozoa, Environment
Interior official visits stimulus recipient -- Solar water heater program benefits from federal funds
Road Town :: British Virgin Islands | 41 minutes ago
Credibility Assistant Secretary of the Interior for Insular Areas Tony Babauta and Delegate to Congress Donna Christensen toured the Career and Technical Education Center's Solar Water Heater Training Program on Friday morning to see first-hand how federal stimulus...
Tags: green technology, Babauta, solar water, British Virgin Islands, Road Town, Renewable energy, Grid parity, Photovoltaics, American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, Environment
Climate change to lash Britain with tropical storms
Carlisle :: United Kingdom | about 1 hour ago
Credibility They warn that, although no single event can be attributed to climate change, the warming of the atmosphere caused by greenhouse gases means such disasters will become more frequent. “We need to follow the example of tropical cities like Kuala Lumpur...
Tags: Britain, Environment Agency, climate change, Cockermouth, United Kingdom, Carlisle, Hydrology, Weather, Climate of the United Kingdom, United Kingdom floods, Water waves, Water, Flood, Disaster Accident, Environment
Armchair army to save rainforest
Lima :: Peru | about 1 hour ago
Credibility A conservation group led by a millionaire sports tycoon and a former Labour minister is launching an appeal today to recruit 100,000 green heroes to protect trees in the Amazon. With less than three weeks to go before the United Nations climate change...
Tags: Cool Earth, save rainforest, Peru, Lima, Rainforest, Ecosystems, Trees, Deforestation, Forest, Forestry, Johan Eliasch, Environment
It’s a grolar, the climate-change polar bear
Toronto :: Canada | about 1 hour ago
Credibility Scientists have already discovered one case of a hybrid “grolar” bear and are circulating requests to hunters and polar tour operators to look out for more. One possible explanation for closer interaction between the species is climate change, which has...
Tags: polar bears, grizzly bears, Robert Rockwell, Canada, Alaska, Toronto, Grizzly Bear, Grizzly￢ﾀﾓpolar bear hybrid, Bear, Wapusk National Park, Hybrid, Bears, Polar bear, Brown Bear, Environment
Rio costs up, output down in new Cameroon power deal
Yaoundé :: Cameroon | about 1 hour ago
Credibility Rio Tinto's aluminium operation in Cameroon has secured a 30-year power supply contract with the government but electricity costs have doubled and output from a smelter will fall due to cuts in power consumption, Rio said. Rio Tinto Alcan is a partner...
Tags: Alucam, Cameroon, cfa franc, Rio Tinto Alcan, CFA, Yaoundé, Aluminium smelting, Rio Tinto Group, Kribi, Environment
Pacific voyage back in time
Nasinu :: Fiji Islands | about 1 hour ago
Credibility Blessed with a kaleidoscope of culture, religion and tradition that entails the way of the Pasifika seafarers, the official launch was honoured by the presence of 11 of the 12 contestants who will be vying for the Miss South Pacific crown this year. The...
Tags: Miss South Pacific, Pacific Island, pacific voyaging, Fiji Islands Voyaging Society, Fiji Islands, Nasinu, Hokulea, Canoeing, Island countries, Fiji, Melanesia, Environment
Beyond Copenhagen there's more than just cutting CO2
Copenhagen :: Denmark | about 1 hour ago
Credibility Imagine for a minute that global warming is not changing our planet's biosphere and the ecosystems that sustain life on Earth. Imagine that climate change abetted by rising human-generated emissions of greenhouse gases does not threaten freshwater supplies,...
Tags: Earth, Copenhagen, Kyoto Protocol, climate changing, Japan Language, international cooperation, Denmark, Diplomatic conferences, Environmental economics, Carbon footprint, United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, Climate change, Carbon finance, Global warming, Environment
Dogmas may blinker mainstream scientific thinking
Berlin :: Germany | about 1 hour ago
Credibility The competing claims of Growing Earth Theory and Plate Tectonics Theory as presented in the accompanying article may appear to be a recent rivalry, but they are in fact following in a long tradition. Soon after accurate maps of the world were first drawn...
Tags: Germany, Berlin, Samuel Warren Carey, Subduction, Seafloor spreading, Wadati-Benioff zone, Geology, Environment, Plate tectonics, Expanding Earth, Alfred Wegener, Crust, Continental crust, Earth, Lithosphere, Volcano, Structure of the Earth
1000 flee Columbian volcano eruption
Galeras :: Colombia | about 2 hours ago
Credibility Some 9000 people live in the vicinity of the volcano, which erupted at 8:37 pm Friday (12:37 am Sunday), will be forced to leave their homes and seek refuge in temporary accommodations if the alert is prolonged, the Colombia Institute of Geology and Mining...
Tags: Colombia, Galeras, Igneous rocks, Volcano, Andes, Nevado del Huila, Stratovolcanoes, Pasto, Disaster Accident, Environment
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