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29/8/2008
THE long battle over the proposed Tasmanian pulp mill may soon be over, with proponent Gunns unable to give an assurance that the controversial project will proceed.
In a marked change of tone, the timber company last night told the ...
29/8/2008
In 1925 British adventurer Colonel Percy Fawcett disappeared into the wilds of the Amazon, never to be heard from again after going there in search of a lost city he called Z. But decades later, a city of sorts—actually a series of settlements ...
29/8/2008
The city of Austin, Tex., approved plans on Thursday for a huge plant that will burn waste wood to make electricity, the latest sign of rising interest in a long-dormant form of renewable energy.
When completed in 2012, the East Texas ...
29/8/2008
Over 90 per cent of vines twist anti-clockwise, according to a massive Australian study of plants in 75 locations from Zambia to Patagonia.
The discovery is one of many likely to come from a huge and ongoing study into the global ...
29/8/2008
Sumatra's endangered elephants and tigers should get a boost from an Indonesian government move to expand one of their last havens, a four-year-old national park on the island, conservation body WWF said on Thursday.
But WWF warned that ...
28/8/2008
Natives will have significantly more clout over forestry in British Columbia after a court ruling that found the provincial government renewed licences granting the right to log in public forests in northern B.C. without meaningful consultation ...
28/8/2008
The raucous honking of a cistern truck carrying potable water rouses residents from their homes here each morning, clanging plastic bottles and tin pots in hand.
''When will it stop,'' says 64-year-old Rufina Najera, lugging a yellow ...
28/8/2008
Scientists have found that the continent of Australia has been largely untouched by humans, and stands as one of the world's top five wilderness havens, ranking alongside the Amazon forest and the Sahara desert.
A report by two ...
28/8/2008
Brazil is considering a "significant increase" in defense spending to help the fast-growing power guard its seas and forest borders from unspecified threats, the country's strategic affairs minister said Wednesday.
Roberto Mangabeira ...
28/8/2008
They aren't the lost cities early explorers sought fruitlessly to discover.
But ancient settlements in the Amazon, now almost entirely obscured by tropical forest, were once large and complex enough to be considered "urban" as the term ...
28/8/2008
A vast region of the Amazon forest in Brazil was home to a complex of ancient towns in which about 50,000 people lived, according to scientists assisted by satellite images of the region.
The scientists, whose findings were published on ...
28/8/2008
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28/8/2008
The British government should end subsidies for biofuels and instead use the funds to slow destruction of rainforests and tropical peatlands argues a new report issued by a U.K.-based think tank.
The study, titled "The Root of the ...
28/8/2008
More than 40 percent of Australia, an area the size of India, remains untouched by humans, making the country as critical to the world's environment as the Amazon rainforests, a study said on Wednesday.
Australia has some of the last ...
28/8/2008
Palm oil companies operating in Indonesia have opposed any moratorium on forest and peat land conversions, saying it will play havoc with the industry and the national economy.
The Indonesian Palm Oil Producers Association (GAPKI) said ...
28/8/2008
The transition from the mostly ice-free Greenland of three million years ago, to the ice-covered region that we see today, can be attributed to changes in the carbon dioxide (CO2) levels.
Though there have been many reports in the media ...
28/8/2008
Dozens of densely packed, pre-Columbian towns, villages, and hamlets arranged in an organized pattern have been mapped in the Brazilian Amazon, anthropologists announced today.
The finding suggests that vast swathes of "pristine" rain ...
28/8/2008
A new census in Cambodia reveals remarkably large populations of two monkey species that are threatened with extinction.
The monkey tally, announced today, represents the largest known populations of these species in the ...
28/8/2008
I lost the household battle over organic foods years ago. I had argued that organic foods were outrageously expensive, that some of the fertilizers used on them—animal poop, to be precise—might be risky to our health, and that organic standards ...
28/8/2008
Hydro power has always been hailed as the solution to the increasing world energy needs. But since mid 1980`s, the hydro power sector of the energy industry has been plagued with difficulties as political opposition to construction of new dams ...
28/8/2008
The groundbreaking legislation would help meet the goal of reducing greenhouse gas emissions through smarter regional planning. August 28, 2008
The number of miles Californians drive is growing almost twice as fast as the state's ...
28/8/2008
The United States, Australia and Iceland signed the charter of an agreement Thursday to promote geothermal technologies, the U.S. Energy Department said.
The International Partnership for Geothermal Technology will help promote energy ...
28/8/2008
On the approach to Exit Glacier in southeastern Alaska, wooden signs mark nearly 200 years of the ice’s retreat. They begin at 1815, about a mile and a half from the ice’s current terminus. That was the end of a several centuries-long cold spell ...
28/8/2008
Palm oil companies operating in Indonesia have rejected a proposed moratorium on clearing forests and peatlands for oil palm plantations, reports the Jakarta Post.
The Indonesian Palm Oil Producers Association (GAPKI) -- a group with 250 ...
28/8/2008
Exxon Mobil agreed to pay out 75 percent of a US$507.5 million damages ruling to settle the 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill off Alaska, the Anchorage Daily News reported on Tuesday.
Citing both Exxon and the plaintiff's lawyer, the Anchorage ...