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Federal grant to upgrade Great Bend sewer system
Kansas City :: KS :: USA | 2 days ago
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The Wichita Eagle Great Bend has been awarded a $291,000 federal grant to upgrade its sanitary sewer system, the Environmental Protection Agency announced today. Great Bend has been working to improve its sewer pipes and manholes so the system's capacity...
Tags: federal grant, Kansas City, Environment, Manhole, Subterranea, Sanitary sewer, Sewerage, Environmental engineering, Water pollution
Health minister offers to quit over U.S. beef decision
Taipei :: Taiwan | 2 days ago
Credibility Taiwan's health minister on Saturday offered to resign over the controversial decision to lift the ban on U.S. beef on the bone despite mad cow disease concerns. "Of course I will resign if there is a demand. I will take the responsibility," health minister...
Tags: U.S, health minister, Taiwan, Taipei, Environment, Creutzfeldt￢ﾀﾓJakob disease, Offal, Bovine spongiform encephalopathy, Beef, Transmissible spongiform encephalopathies, Political controversies, Prions, Neurology
Fire safety means no 'white' Christmas
East Dubuque :: IL :: USA | 2 days ago
Credibility The East Dubuque Fire Department has a simple goal this holiday season: Keep the string of lights on their two holiday wreaths red. For about eight years, the fire department has participated in the annual "Keep the Wreath Red" program. Fire Chief Joe...
Tags: fire safety, East Dubuque, Christmas tree, Candle, Environment, Tree worship, Wreath, Christmas, Germanic paganism, Balsam Hill, Floristry, Interior design, Tree, Disaster Accident, Christmas decorations
Pantomime season comes early to Canada in climate debate with sceptics
Toronto :: Canada | 2 days ago
Credibility Oh no it isn’t." "Oh yes it is.” Photograph: PR I've just returned from Canada, where I've been involved in efforts to stop the government's disastrous campaign of sabotage against the Copenhagen climate talks .
Tags: Bjorn Lomborg, Canada, Nigel Lawson, James Delingpole, climate change, Toronto, Environment, Bjￃﾸrn Lomborg, Copenhagen Consensus, Debate, Stern Review, Environmental skepticism, Global warming, The Economist
Iran says needs 20 nuclear sites: report
Tehrān :: Iran | 2 days ago
Credibility Iran has one nuclear power plant, under construction by Russia. NPT Iran says its enriched uranium is only for electricity generation. The measure passed by a 25-3 margin with six abstentions, smoothed by rare backing from Russia and China, which have...
Tags: NPT Iran, National Iranian Oil Co., Tehran, uranium enrichment, nuclear sites, South Pars, Iran, Tehrān, Politics, Nuclear program of Iran, Foreign relations of Iran, Environment, Science and technology in Iran, Enriched uranium, Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, Nuclear proliferation, Nuclear power, National Iranian Oil Company, Oil reserves in Iran, Iran ￢ﾀﾓ United States relations, Energy in Iran, Economy of Iran, Nuclear fuels, South Pars / North Dome Gas-Condensate field, Israel￢ﾀﾓTurkey relations, Iranian Revolution, Iranian Plateau, Ali Larijani, Bashar al-Assad, Saeed Jalili, Yadavaran Field
Climate change could cut into Kenyan GDP: study
Nairobi :: Kenya | 2 days ago
Credibility Kenya could lose up to 3 percent of its $35 billion GDP annually by 2030 due to global warming, a donor-funded study on the impact of climate change on east Africa's biggest economy showed on Friday. Like other countries on the world's poorest continent,...
Tags: climate change, Kenya Airways, global warming, Kenya, Nairobi, Environment, Individual and political action on climate change, Mitigation of global warming, Meles Zenawi, Economics of global warming, Effects of global warming, Low-carbon economy
NASA calendar celebrates a decade of research
Nuuk :: Greenland | 2 days ago
Credibility The calendar contains unique images and highlights historic space exploration milestones and educational facts about the international laboratory.
Tags: Greenland, Nuuk, Environment, Carbon finance, Climate change, NASA, Global warming, NASA Environmental Management System, International Space Station, Science On a Sphere, IPCC Fourth Assessment Report, Human spaceflight, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Greenhouse gas, Space stations, Scientific opinion on climate change, Education, Earth Observing System, Space exploration, William H. Gerstenmaier
UN stresses aid role of business
Banda Aceh :: Indonesia | 2 days ago
Credibility UN aid chief stresses relief role of private sector The UN's aid chief has said there needs to be a more effective partnership between humanitarian organisations and the private sector. But Sir John Holmes said it could only be achieved by a change of...
Tags: private sector, sir john, John Holmes, Indonesia, Banda Aceh, Environment, Humanitarian principles, Consolidated Appeals Process, Non-governmental organization, Civil Affairs, Humanitarian aid, Development, Disaster Accident, Aid, Natural disasters
Out of This World
Greenbelt :: MD :: USA | 2 days ago
Credibility Trumpler 14 is not only the youngest, but also one of the most populous clusters within the nebula. Astronomers counted about 2,000 stars in the very central parts of this cluster. This image so far covers the widest area of the sky, and is based on data...
Tags: NASA, Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, Earth, Spitzer Space Telescope, Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity, black hole, space shuttle, space centered, shuttle atlantis, supermassive black, Greenbelt, Environment, Cosmic Background Explorer, Milky Way, Space exploration, Galaxy, Hubble Space Telescope, Astronomy, Chandra X-ray Observatory
Once again water level could increase upto 4.5 feet in sea.
There was held a major study on climate change in Antarctica,which has revealed that, by 2100 the level of global sea water could rise four and a half feet more. Significantly, the various governments committee on climate change have estimated...
Tags: climate change, green, New York City, Climate of Antarctica, Antarctica, Current sea level rise, Environment, Colin Samarheyjh, water level
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