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MAF approves $3.4m for East Coast erosion plantings (NZPA)
Gisborne :: New Zealand | 2 days ago
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Forestry officials have approved 19 new applications worth more than $3.4 million for funding tree planting on the erosion-prone East Coast, with the area being planted only slightly down on last year. In the 2009 funding round, projects covering planting...
Tags: East Coast Forestry Project, New Zealand, Gisborne, Environment, Skills, Erosion, Land management, Treeplanting, Environmental soil science, Soil conservation, Environmental issues, Forestry
French first lady to appear in Allen film
Paris :: France | 5 days ago
Credibility S first lady, singing ex-supermodel Carla Bruni-Sarkozy, has agreed to star in US auteur Woody Allen's next movie, she told a television interviewer. "He suggested I appear in his next film. I don't know what the role would be, but I said yes," the 41-year-old...
Tags: Carla Bruni, Woody Allen, France, Paris, Nicolas Sarkozy, Carla Bruni, Entertainment Culture, Human Interest, Environment, Erosion, Hungarian nobility, Government of Andorra, Grand Croix of the Lￃﾩgion d'honneur, Mars, Valley
Giant ocean covered Mars, new map reveals
London :: United Kingdom | 5 days ago
Credibility A single ocean once covered much of the northern half of Mars, supplied with water from a belt of rain-fed rivers, new research suggests. Scientists have produced a map showing that Martian valley networks are more than twice as extensive as had previously...
Tags: Red Planet, global map, United Kingdom, London, Climate of Mars, Mars, Groundwater sapping, Geology of Mars, Environment, Valley, Erosion, Geomorphology, Hydrogeology
Davao residents seek stop to ridge subdivision project
Davao :: Philippines | 12 days ago
Credibility Philippines�Residents in the village of Maa here are calling for a stop to the construction of an upscale subdivision at a nearby ridge, saying it might lead to environmental destruction. One sizable area of the ridge, which is being developed by the...
Tags: Davao Gulf, Norma Javellana, Philippines, Davao, Davao City, Erosion, Homeowners' association, Environment
KYRGYZSTAN: Fewer glaciers = more deserts
Bişkek :: Kyrgyzstan | 13 days ago
Credibility Rapidly melting glaciers in mountainous regions of Kyrgyzstan over the next few decades could lead to increased desertification and land degradation, according to experts...The figures are also contained in Kyrgyzstan's submission to the UN Framework...
Tags: The World Bank, Kyrgyzstan, Bişkek, Business Finance, Isfana, Batken, Glaciology, Climate change, Desertification, Erosion, Environmental soil science, Environmental issues, Global warming, Environment
El Salvador washes away...again
The tiny & impoverished country of El Salvador has been hard hit with the rians from Hurricane Ida. Flooding and mudslides have innundated many villages and destroyed roads. There have been 91 reported deaths so far. I can remember going to Central...
Tags: el salvador, erosion, resources, relief, forestry
Humans Causing Erosion Comparable To World’s Largest Rivers And Glaciers
A new study finds that large-scale farming projects can erode the Earth's surface at rates comparable to those of the world's largest rivers and glaciers. Published online in the journal Nature Geoscience, the research offers stark evidence of how...
Tags: Human, Erosion, Comparable, World Largest, Rivers, Glaciers, Study, Research
The Dead Sea is Dying!!!
A recent study conducted by Shahrazad Abu Ghazleh and his colleagues from the University of Technology in Darmstadt, Germany stated that the water level at the deepest point on Earth – The Dead Sea is dropping at an alarming...
Tags: Dead Sea, desalinization, erosion, water consumption, potash extraction, evaporation, precipitation
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