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At times when the global financial crisis is still far from being a thing of the past, funding military operations is a real challenge. Apart from generating material losses and destruction, the Taliban have also managed to disrupt the balance of forests from Pakistan.
At the beginning, the Taliban relied on so-call... |
17 January 2012
07:45 GMT |
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Green technologies developed to help people cope with natural disasters don't have to be advanced or expensive to provide satisfactory results.
This theory is confirmed by the Environment Agency (EA), using abandoned Christmas trees to come up with an eco-friendly method of reducing flood impact.
The 's... |
3 January 2012
10:44 GMT |
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NASA relies on a computer modeling study to demonstrate that climate change would generate dramatic environmental changes by 2100. Experts from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory and the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, California have succeeded in highlighting how land-based ecosystems, like forest... |
19 December 2011
04:14 GMT |
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Beowulf Mining, a British company operating in Jokkmokk, Northern Sweden has been widely criticized for illegal drilling. A new Sapmi report reveals that the enterprise has been carrying on with its work even hough it did not have a valid work plan. The Swedish Sami Association was alerted on this and compelled the... |
15 December 2011
05:16 GMT |
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Disney's Finding Nemo has managed to capture the interest of animal fans worldwide. Experts want to exploit the popularity of the show to raise the public opinion's level of awareness regarding biodiversity and vulnerable creatures.After monitoring 1,568 species, a team of Canadian and American researchers ... |
13 December 2011
11:14 GMT |
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Biologists have a new reason to believe that biodiversity is far from being a closed chapter. They have discovered 208 new species in various ecosystems in the forests, waters and wetlands of the Greater Mekong region. Experts managed to identify 145 plants, 28 reptiles, 25 fish, 7 amphibians, 2 mammals and 1 bird... |
13 December 2011
02:40 GMT |
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Poaching activities, correlated with climate change and illegal trade have made the hen harrier population vulnerable, according to a recent study issued by the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB) and Natural England. Conservation groups managed to reintroduce the creatures after they were declared ext... |
8 December 2011
08:25 GMT |
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Japan's whaling fleet is preparing for an ambitious goal. Participants plan to kill 900 minke whales and 50 fin whales this year, relying on taxpayers' money. This rumor has raised the anger of conservation groups, whose members say the unwanted, unnecessary operation is wasting an approximately 2.28 billio... |
7 December 2011
05:54 GMT |
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A new study issued by the University of Victoria in British Columbia, Canada indicates farmed fish production aiming to be sustainable and “eco-friendly” is in fact worse than its traditional competitor, in terms of ecological footprint.
After analyzing several kinds of “eco-labels,” the lea... |
7 December 2011
05:08 GMT |
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The Brazilian Senate gives green light to a new controversial legal framework, meant to change the Forest Code, stipulating how many acres of forest can be wiped off private lands every year. Eco-groups talk about an emerging “disaster,” but their protest is useless at this point in time, since the... |
7 December 2011
03:04 GMT |
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BP has launched a serious accusation, incriminating Halliburton of destroying important evidence that could shed some light on the case of the major Gulf of Mexico oil spill that took place in 2010.
BP has tried to shift responsibility, affirming in court that the US oil services company failed in providing “... |
6 December 2011
03:54 GMT |
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Currently, Italy has one of the most prosper canned tuna markets in Europe. The entire industry flourishes, bringing a more than decent profit to major brands operating in this line of business. A recent report indicates that 140.000 tons of tuna are sold every year. Greenpeace notes the manufacturing companies that ... |
1 December 2011
11:20 GMT |
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Frequently, preservation measures drawn up to conserve unique ecosytems come against the obscure interests of major companies that put the environmental balance of such regions at great risk. In this case, the Arctic is threatened by the influence of notorious oil companies like Shell, BP and Statoil. These three ma... |
1 December 2011
09:23 GMT |
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Rising levels of CO2 emissions trigger the acidification of oceans, a process that is putting the fate of oysters in great danger in every part of the Globe. Scientists are now able to correlate high acidity with the large number of deaths among oyster larvae in the Pacific Northwest.
Furthermore, biologists state t... |
23 November 2011
03:27 GMT |
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Coca Cola proves once again it is on the right path to an eco-conscious conduct, through countless efforts visible in several charitable campaigns.This time, the major enterprise might decide to dismiss Santa from their commercial in order to make room for the cute, lovable yet endangered polar bears. The beverage c... |
21 November 2011
11:32 GMT |
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Companies and organizations that disrupt the natural balance of certain regions should pay for their actions. This path will be followed by the California Department of Transportation (Caltrans).
Caltrans is a government department in the U.S. state of California which took care of the construction and the maintenan... |
18 November 2011
07:54 GMT |
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WWF officials are working in partnership with Banco de Oro Unibank (BDO), with the purpose of raising young people's level of awareness regarding the climate change phenomenon that is threatening biodiversity. The Seeds of the Future foundation is trying to improve the eco-conscious conduct of public elementar... |
18 November 2011
02:42 GMT |
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The environmentally-friendly campaign launched by WWF on October 24 is returning the first results. After raising over 65,000 signatures, the initiative will ensure the preservation of approximately 250,000 hectares of virgin forests in Romania, which represent a unique ecosystem. At this point in time, the Ministe... |
16 November 2011
02:38 GMT |
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The recent events which shook and washed Japan made the researchers redefine trees' importance in fighting natural catastrophes of such proportions. Experts say that Indonesia could have had less victims after the tsunami which washed its surface in 2004, if only it relied on the benefits provided by coastal tre... |
8 November 2011
08:33 GMT |
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Everybody knows that fries cooked in palm oil are the best afternoon treat. Peanut butter also has a lot of fans and the same thing goes for Haribo, Pringles or Good Fellas Pizza.
But the people who enjoy the taste of these products while also cherishing green values should know that the companies that opera... |
5 November 2011
04:28 GMT |
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Every living thing has its importance in nature, but there are some keystone species, like the Tibetan pika, that can influence the survival of millions.A keystone species is an animal that has an incommensurate effect on the environment relative to its biomass.After analyzing the biology and the environmental impact... |
4 January 2011
06:18 GMT |
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A new scientific analysis, recently published in the journal Nature, concluded that loosing biodiversity in any kind of ecosystem, rises the risks of the transmission of infectious diseases in humans, other animals and plants.Until now, it's been quite difficult to quantify this relationship between the emerging... |
3 January 2011
05:15 GMT |
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Dinosaurs once ruled our planet but after they disappeared 65 million years ago, it was the time for mammals to thrive, the proof being that there were some that even got a thousand times bigger than they used to be.This is the first study that actually proves that there was a new pattern of increased body size in ma... |
26 November 2010
05:27 GMT |
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A very rare cold water coral reef with living animals has been discovered off the coast of Mauritania in Northern Africa, and this is the first time such a reef has been found so far south, a new report says.Scientists have found a thriving coral ecosystem in deep cold water, right in the middle of huge rock formati... |
13 November 2010
06:01 GMT |
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Climate change along the east coast of the United States, has severely reduced the geographic region where blue mussels can survive, found a new research carried out by University of South Carolina researchers and published in the Journal of Biogeography.Because of the increase in water and air temperatures along the... |
17 August 2010
03:01 GMT |
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Just six weeks before Obama is sworn in, Bush seems to be desperately trying to do as much harm as possible to the environment, for reasons known only to him and, most likely, to those who fund these actions. In just 4 months, the White House revised legislation protecting endangered species and decided that they wer... |
12 December 2008
07:37 GMT |
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The acidification of oceans is one of the most pressing concerns that trouble scientists, along with increased levels of pollutants being spilled in the waters everyday. This is bad news especially for coral reefs, which stand to be destroyed by both algae and sand moving in, as well as by increased quantities of car... |
12 November 2008
14:01 GMT |
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Plastic, the worst kind of thrash, doesn't affect only people, as the latest research indicated, but it also has an impact on oceans and on their ecosystems, to a greater extent than one would imagine. In fact, large portions of the oceans are becoming synthetic, from all the slowly decomposing plastic items th... |
5 November 2008
09:19 GMT |
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A new research seems to indicate that dinosaurs didn't take over their habitat right after they first appeared, but instead underwent millions of years of constant change, until they became perfectly adapted to the environment. Professors at the University of Bristol say that dinosaur evolution was a very slow p... |
1 October 2008
04:12 GMT |
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Researchers discovered that the oceans hide a small number of brine-water lakes and rivers on their floor, especially in the Gulf of Mexico region. These in turn house their own variety of life, adapted to and relying on their saline features. Thinking of what lurks beneath the ocean waves, very few people, if a... |
26 September 2008
06:53 GMT |
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Microsoft is preparing Windows 7 to boldly go... where previous editions of Windows have gone before, especially Vista. And in this context, the Redmond giant will perpetuate a model that has been criticized, namely continuing to support legacy software and hardware products with the next iteration of the Windows cli... |
19 September 2008
11:14 GMT |
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It is the "father of all rivers". With 6,800 km (4,250 mi) in length, it overpasses the Nile (6,695 km or 4,184 mi). But the Amazon's debit is 60 times bigger than that of the former: 200,000 cubic meters/second (the largest in the world, delivering 20 % of the freshwater volume penetrating the oceans). While th... |
24 November 2007
04:00 GMT |
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Microsoft owns no less than 40% of the world, the IT world that is. The Redmond based software maker is no longer limited to the Washington state in the U.S. and has grown to the point where its global presence can easily impact the international IT market. Microsoft's oscillations have the potential to reverber... |
18 October 2007
09:54 GMT |
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This is the river of the superlatives. Nile is consensually considered the longest river on Earth, with 6,695 km in length, but some say the Amazon has this honor, with 6,800 km in length. Some researchers even state that Amazon is 7,100 km long. The problem is that nobody could tell where Amazon ends, due to its hug... |
3 July 2007
12:10 GMT |
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When the cat's away/The Mice will play. Prey animals, like the moose, caribou, bison and elk can lose their fear of predators if they are not constantly hunted by them, as found by Joel Berger of the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) in New York. But they were also found to "relearn" their fears very quickly, ... |
21 June 2007
05:48 GMT |
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WidSets, a popular consumer Internet service powered by Nokia, and Netvibes, the pioneer of the personalized startpage, recently announced that they will publish the Netvibes Ecosystem's 85,000+ feeds on the WidSets service, making them easily accessible on most mobile devices. WidSets is a phone manufacturer-... |
19 April 2007
03:04 GMT |
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