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CyG - semantic object - raw view

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cyg-one.net - Tripura is the third-smallest state in India, bordered by the states of Assam and Mizoram and by Bangladesh. The Kokborok-speaking Tripuri people (children pictured) are the major group among 19 tr...

See what it's like to be eaten by a Grizzly bear in Alaska (video from GoPro camera) : TreeHugger

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treehugger.com - Brad Josephs was trying to get footage of Grizzly bears for the BBC’s Great Bear Stakeout (I've never seen it, so I'm not quite sure what it's like -- maybe some of our readers from the UK can let ...

Vietnam latest news - Thanh Nien Daily | Vietnamese man caught smuggling 5kg of rhino horn

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thanhniennews.com - Customs officers at Ho Chi Minh City's Tan Son Nhat International Airport seized more than five kilograms of rhino horn allegedly smuggled in by a passenger Monday, just two weeks after Vietnam and...

What Exporting U.S. Natural Gas Means for the Climate

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insights.wri.org - This post originally appeared on The National Journal’s Energy Experts blog. The U.S. Department of Energy made a big announcement late last week, green lighting the country’s second liquefied natu...

Mountain of Petroleum Coke From Oil Sands Rises in Detroit - NYTimes.com

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nytimes.com - Detroit’s ever-growing black mountain is the unloved, unwanted and long overlooked byproduct of Canada’s oil sands boom. And no one knows quite what to do about it, except Koch Carbon, which owns i...

Cairo’s Waste-Eating Pigs Make a Quiet Comeback

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greenprophet.com - In 2009 during the height of the swine flu epidemic, Egyptian law officials ordered the culling of thousands of pigs belonging to the Coptic Christian community in Cairo. The pigs were used to chom...

Latest News - LionAid

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lionaid.org - “The Ministry of Environment, Wildlife and Tourism has strongly warned farmers against staging livestock predation incidents, adding that the full strength of law will be applied to such offenders....

On climate change, Obama faces an attack from his left flank

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washingtonpost.com - If you want to get a sense of how impatient some of President Obama’s most loyal supporters are getting when it comes to climate change, consider this: They’re planning to conduct protests at meeti...

The Baker Stove is a Safer, Energy-Efficient Cookstove for the Developing World

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inhabitat.com - The majority of women in the developing world do their cooking on what is called a “three-stone fire“: three stones supporting a pot with a fire beneath it. That type of fire is both inefficient, b...

Why Penguins Cannot Fly: Scientific American

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scientificamerican.com - Why do testicles hang the way they do? Is there an adaptive function to the female orgasm? What does it feel like to want to kill yourself? Does “free will”... Read More » Like many birds, penguins...

Scientists in Finland Invent Biodegradable Diapers Made from Recycled Cardboard

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inhabitots.com - Europe generates around 60 million tons of recyclable paper annually, 40% of which is made up of cardboard. VTT Technical Research Centre based in Finland has figured out how to use recycled cardbo...

Marine Harvest agrees to limit pesticides and seal killings

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guardian.co.uk - One of the world's largest fish farm companies, Marine Harvest, has voluntarily agreed to much tougher limits on its pesticides use and seal killing by joining a strict new environment scheme. Mari...

Deep Sea Mining: Economic Bonanza or Environmental Boondoggle?

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theworld.org - After decades of dreaming and scheming, companies say they’re finally ready to start mining the bottom of the world’s oceans for valuable minerals. Christopher Werth reports from London on one comp...

China says its legal ivory trade not to blame for poaching

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reuters.com - BEIJING (Reuters) - China's small traditional trade in carving uses ivory acquired through legal auctions and in no way encourages or worsens the problem of elephant poaching in Africa, a senior Ch...

Stock Theft Unit winning rhino poaching war

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uniteagainstpoaching.co.za - The escalating number of rhinos which were being poached in the province prompted the provincial commissioner of Limpopo Lt Gen Simon Mpembe to assign the Stock Theft Unit to crack rhino poaching s...

Updates: news releases and updates

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foe.org - Friends of the Earth is deeply devoted to curbing both deforestation and averting catastrophic climate change. Yet FoE’s international forests campaign has been actively engaged in opposing Califor...

Salt Lake City congregation opts to divest endowment’s fossil fuel assets

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sltrib.com - The First Unitarian Church of Salt Lake City, inspired by the fossil-fuel divestment movement underway at the nation’s universities, voted Sunday to scrap any assets in oil, gas coal, tar sands and...

Wallace J Nichols: A Billion Baby Sea Turtles?

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huffingtonpost.com - If you've watched Animal Planet you know that odds are generally working against sea turtles. From the moment an egg is deposited in a sandy nest on a tropical beach, to the first time a baby turtl...

Wildlife Extra News - Chinese police seize ivory, rhino horn and live animals in illegal wildlife trade clampdown

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wildlifeextra.com - The targeting of Beijing's markets-traditionally points of sale for antiques, flowers and pets and popular with collectors including tourists an local residents-was part of a nationwide operation c...

Phys.Org Mobile: A storage power plant on the seabed

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m.phys.org - The idea of an underwater pumped hydroelectric power plant may sound like Jules Verne fiction, but then it was hatched by a German engineer who has spent much of his professional life working in ae...

New Carbon Pollution Level Confirms We Have Entered the Era of Extreme Weather | Frances Beinecke's Blog

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switchboard.nrdc.org - Scientists recently reported that the level of carbon in the atmosphere has passed 400 parts per million. Carbon pollution causes climate change, and many experts believe we need to bring this leve...

Tropical Butterfly Surveys and Conservation in the rainforests of Cameroon

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africanconservation.org - Butterflies are magical creatures, found in many colours and sizes. In Cameroon there are about 1593 butterfly species, 110 of which are endemic. The Lebialem Highlands of south west Cameroon are a...

Over 5 kg of rhino horns seized at airport

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tuoitrenews.vn - Ho Chi Minh City customs officers at Tan Son Nhat airport seized more than six sections of rhino horn hidden in the suitcase of a passenger who arrived from a European country yesterday. >> Hanoi p...

Climate Warnings, Growing Louder - NYTimes.com

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nytimes.com - America cannot solve a global problem by itself. But as Mr. Obama rightly observed in his inaugural address, the United States, as both major polluter and world leader, has a deep obligation to hel...

Wild Hogs Roiling Louisiana Park – News Watch

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newswatch.nationalgeographic.com - Jean Lafitte National Park’s Barataria Preserve, south of New Orleans, faces serious challenges. Rising seas may drown the preserve in the next century. Canals dredged for shipping and oil explorat...

2013 UN International Year of Water Cooperation - ecogreen4us

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ecogreen4us.com - The UN General Assembly then reacted to establish 22 March 1993 as the first World Water Day. Every year World Water Day highlights important aspect of freshwater and coordinated by the UN Water me...

iafrica.com | travel | travel news

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iafrica.com - “We already have a solid relationship with the people surrounding our reserve thanks to the work that we do with our community development partner, Africa Foundation. We are delighted that we can f...

Delaware bans the shark fin trade - Tampa Bay Environmental News

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examiner.com - Delaware became the seventh state to ban the shark fin trade this week in an effort to protect the threatened marine predators from overfishing globally, reported the Huffington Post on Friday, May...

NRDC: LEED for Neighborhood Development

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nrdc.org - Environmental Issues > Sustainable Communities Main Page > All Sustainable Communities Documents A Citizen's Guide to LEED for Neighborhood Development is a hands-on introduction that NRDC develope...

BBC News - Marine Harvest under fire over fish farms

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bbc.co.uk - Scotland's biggest producer of farmed salmon is facing renewed calls to move its farms away from wild salmon rivers to prevent parasite transmission. This is despite Marine Harvest signing up to a ...

Surprise encounter with a basking shark in Brittany - Ecology - OCEAN71

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ocean71.com - In the evening of Wednesday, May 8th 2013, Philippe Henry, one of OCEAN71 Magazine’s photographers, was able to take a close look at a 3 meters long female basking shark. Philippe wasn’t far out at...

Alien plant to blame for rhino ‘pink lips’ - IOL SciTech

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iol.co.za - Durban - The surprise discovery of rhinos with bright pink lips and swollen eyes in northern KwaZulu-Natal has raised alarm bells over the potentially devastating spread of an alien invader plant w...

Plague of deforestation sweeps across south-east Asia | Environment

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guardian.co.uk - In 1968, during the six-month siege of Khe Sanh — one of the most bitterly fought battles of the Vietnam War — a special U.S. Air Force outfit flew defoliation missions. Called the Ranch Handers, t...

Disaster Fund | British Red Cross

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redcross.org.uk - Disaster: ongoing fighting has exacerbated existing problems in Mali with food insecurity. There are at least 267,265 displaced people and over 4.3 million require humanitarian assistance. For: sup...

Dr. Dave Randle: Sustainable Tourism Includes Protecting Coastal Habitat and Cultural Heritage

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huffingtonpost.com - Protecting coastal habitat, marine environments and cultural heritage is a key strategy for sustainable tourism. Sea life depends on the beaches, estuaries, marshes, sea grass, and wetlands for the...

Assam: Kaziranga faces crisis as 17 rhinos killed in 4 months

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ibnlive.in.com - Assam: Despite all government assurances and efforts, India's best known national park still remains vulnerable to poaching. Around 17 rhinos have been killed in the last four months in Kaziranga. ...

The Few, the Proud, the Tortoises: Marines Protect Endangered Species - Wall Street Journal - WSJ.com

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stream.wsj.com - TWENTYNINE PALMS, Calif.—U.S. Marines are taught to overcome obstacles with a minimum of help. But when some Marines prepared to charge a hill in a training exercise here a few months ago, they wer...

Mission Impossible? | Dan Lashof's Blog

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switchboard.nrdc.org - On Friday I had the honor of being the commencement speaker for Berkeley’s Energy and Resources Group, where I obtained my Ph.D. 26 years ago. Here is a lightly edited version of my speech (some in...

Tornadoes in America: The Oklahoma Disaster in Context - Alexis C. Madrigal - The Atlantic

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theatlantic.com - A massive and powerful tornado hit Moore, Oklahoma this afternoon, causing widespread destruction, including at least 51 deaths. It's the deadliest tornado since 2011, and one of the worst in the l...

Mahal the orangutan died from a tapeworm infection

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fox6now.com - MILWAUKEE CO. (WITI) — The Milwaukee County Zoo confirms the orangutan youngster who died unexpectedly in December 2012 died from a tapeworm infection. Zookeepers originally believed Mahal died fro...

TRAFFIC - Wildlife Trade News - Royal event to tackle illegal wildlife trade

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traffic.org - London, UK, 21st May 2013—His Royal Highness The Prince of Wales and the UK Government are today hosting a conference calling for action at the highest level to end the trade in illegal wildlife—a ...

One-third of animal species will be hit by climate change, scientists warn | Environment

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guardian.co.uk - One-third of common land animals could see dramatic losses this century because of climate change, scientists predict. More than half of plants could be hit the same way as habitats become unsuitab...

India cracks down on "thin-film" exemption, but may give tardy solar companies a $ billion reprieve for slowed plans. | Kristina Johnson's Blog

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switchboard.nrdc.org - India Green News is a selection of news highlights about environmental and energy issues in India MUMBAI: Climate change is no longer an environmentalist's concern. Erratic weather, change in tempe...

Momentum for Change Urban Poor pillar

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unfccc.int - Although urban centres are often ill-prepared to meet the basic needs of rapidly expanding populations, the urban poor are incredibly resourceful populations, with their own networks and the proven...

The Oklahoma Mega-Twister Is More Weather Than Climate Change

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science.time.com - When do you hope a drought will last as long as possible? When it’s a tornado drought—and a historic tornado drought is exactly what the U.S. experienced between May 2012 and April 2013. During tha...

Princes Call For Wildlife Trafficking Ban

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news.sky.com - Prince Charles and Prince William are hosting a conference to call for a global partnership to stop illegal trade in wildlife. Along with Environment Secretary Owen Paterson they will tell delegate...

GhostNets funding goes missing at sea - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

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abc.net.au - An organisation which removes abandoned fishing nets from oceans will shut down at the end of June because of a lack of funding. Since 2002, GhostNets Australia has removed more than 12,000 fishing...

Malaysia hydropower meeting to open amid controversy - Channel NewsAsia

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channelnewsasia.com - KUCHING, Malaysia: The world hydroelectric industry's decision to meet in a Malaysian state where dams have uprooted rainforests and native peoples is drawing bitter fire from environmental and tri...

Your Local MP - TigerTime

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tigertime.info - Having political support is vital if we are to save the tiger in the wild. We need politicians to recognise that there is a problem and to act to save the wild tiger before it is too late. You have...

Clean energy in Colorado needs Governor Hickenlooper's leadership | Noah Long's Blog

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switchboard.nrdc.org - Colorado Governor John Hickenlooper’s signature on SB 252 to improve and expand the amount of renewable energy that utilities must provide will propel him into national leadership on clean energy b...