WAHLI, an environmental group from Indonesia, will file papers in court against Aceh's governor, Irwandi Yusuf, accused of disrupting the natural balance of forests after approving a palm oil plantation located in Tripa peat swamp, earlier this year. He now risks spending the next five years in prison. The or... |
24 November 2011
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Rainy Mondays are not an ideal way to start your week and some of us might even find them depressing - however, for the beauty addicts among us, they are the perfect excuse to stay home after work and browse the Internet for fresh ideas to put into practice in warmer, sunnier days. As a result, we have a real treat f... |
26 May 2008
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Since prehistory, people have been consuming about 3,000 plant species. Of these species, about 150 have been cultivated systematically, and the development of agriculture just made humans to exclude "marginal" species, for focusing on an increasingly smaller number of plant species. This resulted in the fact that no... |
9 April 2008
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Giant pandas represent a symbol in the fight for preserving the biodiversity of the world. A couple of decades ago, there were less than 1,500. Today, there are 3,000 giant panda bears living in bamboo rich coniferous forests, on over 23,000 square km, in 6 mountain massifs of southwestern China, in the middle of the... |
6 December 2007
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We don't know when we will be able to cultivate bananas in the open in Alaska, but in New York it seems sooner than we might have thought. A new research, published in "Nature Geoscience", points out that the Earth's tropics may have traveled northward in the past 30 years, more than global warming could ha... |
4 December 2007
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To your left you have the first background screenshots of the PC game 'So Blonde.' Visuals are at their peak as you can see. The developer has released them to show some of the first backgrounds of some first in-game locations. However, there are no characters in them.The background drawings have been speci... |
16 May 2007
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