Seventeen members of the Everglades Earth First! environmental group were arrested Saturday on charges of trespassing and resisting arrest, after camping out near the Barley Barber Swamp in Florida for more than a week. Their action was prompted by growing concerns that the Florida Power & Light (FPL) utility company... |
12 January 2009
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Doñana National Park is located in southwestern Spain, at the mouth of the Guadalquivir River. It was created in 1969, initially having a surface of 37,000 hectares. In 1978, the park was augmented to 50,720 hectares, to which 26,540 hectares of protected areas, located at its periphery, are added.The park is in a co... |
9 April 2008
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Everglades National Park was founded in 1947 in southern Florida to protect the fauna and flora of a territory of 600,000 hectares (6,000 square km or 2,400 square mi) of an unique but fragile beauty, one of the ecologically most menaced American territories. 1.400 mi (2.200 km) of canals and 125 surveillance structu... |
29 February 2008
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In Spanish "pantano" means marshland and Pantanal is indeed the world's largest swamp, in a gently sloping relief with meandering rivers. Pantanal is located in southwestern Brazil, but small areas are also found in the neighboring Bolivia and Paraguay, covering a surface of 150,000 square kilometers, more than... |
29 November 2007
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Have you ever wondered why the Chinese represent 14 % of the planet's population? The secret is in the rice: by cultivating it, they could feed large populations during the Stone Age, overcoming easily in number the surrounding hunter-gatherer groups. Today, the diet of over 2 billion people worldwide is based o... |
28 September 2007
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