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 Stockholm (AFP) Aug 10, 2009 
Greenpeace activists have started an operation to sink nearly 180 boulders into EU-protected cod fishing grounds off Sweden to impede bottom-trawling, the environmental group said on Monday. The boulders will be thrown into the sea in the Kattegat sound between Sweden and Denmark, Greenpeace said, alleging that trawl nets used by fishermen cause serious damage to marine wildlife. Greenpe ... read more
East Geelong, Australia (SPX) Aug 11, 2009A Research Collaboration Agreement between CSIRO Livestock Industries' Australian Animal Health Laboratory (AAHL) in Geelong and the Gordon Institute of TAFE aims to strengthen biosafety and bio-containment expertise within Australia and globally. Signed in Geelong, the agreement is the first step towards establishing a specialised international bio-containment training course for people ... more
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Prisoners used to shovel snow-bound US capital
Heavy rain, snow disrupts transport in Spain Washington slaps fee on plastic shopping bags Vietnam says parched Red River at record low Philippine volcano darkens New Year for 50,000 villagers Shocked residents survey Australia wildfire wreckage Honduras declares state of emergency amid drought Residents flee terrifying Australian wildfires Sarkozy scrambles to salvage carbon tax Thrill-seeking tourists flock to Philippine volcano 
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Kabul, Afghanistan (SPX) Aug 11, 2009Scientists are racing to arm Afghanistan against a new invader-a deadly, airborne wheat rust disease that threatens wheat production and food security in this war-torn nation and the region that stretches east across neighboring Pakistan and into India. Known as "Ug99", this deadly new virulent race of wheat stem rust has thus far been found in Kenya, Uganda, Ethiopia and Sudan, and has ... more 
Canberra, Australia (SPX) Aug 11, 2009PHASE Two of the pilot scheme recruiting up to 2,400 employees from Pacific Island nations to fill chronic labour shortages on Australian horticultural farms is gearing up for the sector's peak harvest season, which kicks-off from September. Phase One of the scheme, granting temporary visas under a Federal Government-regulated program, saw 56 seasonal workers from Tonga and ... more 
Canberra, Ausytralia (SPX) Aug 11, 2009The National Farmers' Federation (NFF) has declared that international developments have overtaken the Australian Government's proposed Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme (CPRS) as far as agriculture in concerned, petitioning key Ministers to "carve agriculture's direct emissions out permanently". "As the CPRS currently stands, agriculture won't be covered until 2015 at ... more |
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Providence, RI (SPX) Aug 05, 2009This image of Earth taken from 200 kilometers (124 miles) above the lunar surface was taken by the Moon Mineralogy Mapper, one of two NASA instruments onboard the Indian Space Research Organization's Chandrayaan-1 spacecraft. Australia is visible in the lower center of the image. The image is presented as a false-color composite with oceans a dark blue, clouds white, and vegetation an enha ... more 
Brasilia (AFP) Aug 4, 2009Deforestation in Brazil's Amazon rainforest in June was four times more devastating than the month before, further depleting what is seen as one of the biggest buffers against global warming, official data revealed Tuesday. Satellite imagery analyzed by Brazil's National Institute for Space Research showed 578 square kilometers (223 square miles) of Amazon woodland was burned or cut down. ... more 
London (AFP) Aug 5, 2009A new plastic beehive was launched in Britain on Wednesday to encourage people to keep bees in their gardens or on rooftops to help boost declining honeybee populations. The bees seemed to like their ultra-modern home as they buzzed happily in and out of the postbox-like slot in the grey and yellow 'beehaus' on the roof of state-backed conservation agency Natural England's London offices. ... more |
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