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Indonesia, Malaysia, Brunei to hold "Heart of Borneo" meeting
"Indonesia, Malaysia and Brunei Darussalam will hold the Second Tri-lateral Meeting of Heart of Borneo in Pontianak, West Kalimantan, from April 4 to 5, 2008.The upcoming meeting was a follow up of the the First HoB (Heart of Borneo) Tri-Lateral Meeting which was organized in...
Google Goes Black- Raising Awareness of Energy Conservation
"Google users in the United States will notice today that we "turned the lights out" on the Google.com homepage as a gesture to raise awareness of a worldwide energy conservation effort called Earth Hour. As to...
created by ifindtrends | 5 years ago | updated 5 years ago
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1146 views | 2 recommendations | 5 comments
Sumatran tiger population in Seblat park down to 136
"The tiger population in the park now was only 136, down from 150 spotted in 2007, coordinator for Sumatra of Flora Fauna International (FFI), Debby Martin, said in a report on the results of her research here Thursday.Hunting and land clearing had become the main threat to... Dolphin rescues stranded NZ whales
This is a whale of a story! and it's all over the news. Observers were amazed to see that a dolphin could communicate with a whale! Most humans have lost contact with nature –the wonder, the 'every-day' miracles of life! We've come to think we're the only species that can...
created by Maireid Sullivan | 5 years ago | updated 5 years ago
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600 views | 9 recommendations | 10 comments
Florida woman hit by sting ray died of blunt force trauma
A sad and unusual conclusion to this rare incident. See NowPublic member Politisite's commentary here. "A woman who died after she was hit by a spotted eagle ray leaping from the water off the Florida Keys...
created by Rachel Nixon | 5 years ago | updated 5 years ago
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1808 views | 0 recommendations | 0 comments
New bird species found in Togian islands
"Bogor (ANTARA News) - A new bird species named Kacamata Togian or Togian white-eye (Zosterops somadikartai) has been discovered in the Togian Islands, Gulf of Tomini in Central Sulawesi, a University of Indonesia...Does Your Diet Affect the Environment? A Look at Global Warming, Pollution, D...
When I started writing this article, it was 74°F in Norfolk, Va., unseasonably warm weather for February, when temperatures usually dip down into the 20s and 30s. The thought of warmer wintertime temperatures is tempting, but the threat of floods, melting ice caps,...Four More California Condors Released into the Wild
"Four California Condors have been released to the wild in the Vermilion Cliffs Monument in northern Arizona. The young birds were bred and hatched in captivity at the Peregrine Fund’s World Center for Birds of...
created by JonBaker | 5 years ago | updated 5 years ago
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1523 views | 10 recommendations | 14 comments
Sumatran tigers on brink of extinction
Banda Aceh (ANTARA News) - The Leuser International Foundation (YLI) said, according to its data, Sumatran tigers (Panthera tigris Sumatrae) still exist in the Leuser ecosystem area (KEL) but they were very endangered.Poaching and human encroachment on their habitat had...Researchers investigate bat deaths (2/23/2008)
"Thousands of sick bats have been found in caves in New York state. While bat experts do not know what is causing the bats' demise, telltale signs include weight loss and white fungus around their noses." Popularity of shark fins puts species on endangered list
Another species is to be added to the endangered list because of the greediness of humans. The population of the scalloped hammerhead shark, found in the waters around China among other world locations, is... WWF: African white, black rhinos make comeback
""We have seen an increase in rhino populations of at least 5 percent per year over the last decade, which is encouraging," said George Kampamba, coordinator for World Wildlife Fund International?s African Rhino... Population of Sumatran tigers decreasing
Padang, West Sumatra (ANTARA News) - The population of the Sumatran tiger (Panthera Tigris Sumatrae) in 21 conservation areas in West Sumatra has decreased continuously over the past five years due to land clearance and illegal logging activities, a nature conservation... New System Frame of Cap-and-Trade:A Post-Kyoto Economics
A new system frame of global economic and political benefit negotiations for post-Kyoto was proposed recently by an independent Chinese economist group-Greency Group. It published in the start issue of Greency Magazine (Dec. 16, 2007). This unaided research of environmental... Ontario clothesline ban to be thrown to the wind
Clotheslines are illegal in parts of Ontario, apparently because they're ugly. I applaud the government for at last letting loose laundered loungewear hanging in the air."It's a law many consider outdated...
created by Rob Peters | 5 years ago | updated 5 years ago
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2106 views | 1 recommendation | 11 comments
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