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Mind the water hazard...floating golf course to be built in Maldives |
| The Islands of the Maldives, confronted by rising oceans and a landscape that is just a few feet above sea level, is poised to build a floating golf course and convention centre in what could be the first of a series of futuristic off-shore developments designed to counter the threat of global warming. |
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Industry welcomes climate policy draft |
| The government's consultation on its new climate change planning policy has met with widespread approval from leading members of the sector. |
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Green policy views sought |
| The government has announced a consultation on its natural environment planning policy. |
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U.N. climate panel faces major review |
 The world's biggest scientific guns are being called in to mop up after a trickle of unsettling errors in the authoritative reports written by a global warming panel.
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Help on way for loggerhead turtles? |
 The Obama administration recommends listing seven populations of loggerhead turtles as endangered, a decision that could have big implications for the fishing industry.
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Everglades dying along with Crist? |
 Gov. Charlie Crist's grand plan to revive the dying Florida Everglades by buying back the land could be on the cusp of collapse and deal another blow to his Senate hopes.
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Iowa nuke workers: Government not living up to promises. |
| Iowans who got sick working for the nuclear weapons industry during the Cold War were promised that a federal program would provide them medical benefits and payments for illnesses associated with their work. Only a third of Iowans with claims have seen payment. |
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US coal town above mine fire claims massive fraud. |
| Residents of a coal mining town in PA have long believed the government's demolition of it was part of a plot to swipe the mineral rights to anthracite coal worth hundreds of millions of dollars - and not, as officials said, the solution to an out-of-control underground mine fire that menaced the town with toxic gases. |
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Former mine boss pleads guilty to lying about methane levels. |
| A former foreman admitted that he lied about conducting a key safety test, as a federal criminal probe continued into allegations that Patriot Coal officials covered up evidence of explosive methane levels at their Federal No. 2 Mine. |
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Cyprus conflict closes leaders’ eyes to water shortage |
| BBC: The war I'm interested in is the water war - not an armed conflict, but a struggle nonetheless, between people and a rapidly disappearing resource. The alarming thing, for those working to ease this new conflict, is that Cypriots don't even seem to realise that hostilities between them and nature have begun. Charalampos Theopemptou is the Greek Cypriot side's Environment Commissioner, and it was he who told me the story about the old man in the classroom. He explains its ...BBC: The war I'm interested in is the water war - not an armed conflict, but a struggle nonetheless, between people and a rapidly disappearing resource. The alarming thing, for those working to ease this new conflict, is that Cypriots don't even seem to realise that hostilities between them and nature have begun. Charalampos Theopemptou is the Greek Cypriot side's Environment Commissioner, and it was he who told me the story about the old man in the classroom. He explains its ... |
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Uganda: Landslides – Experts Warn Worst is Yet to Come |
| Inter Press Service: Fourteen-year-old Isaac Wadyegere of Bundesi village in Bududa district woke up to a rainy and chilly Monday morning and went to school as usual. But Mar. 1 was not a usual day in eastern Uganda. When he heard the sound of rocks and soil tumbling down Mountain Elgon on a path to destroy part of his school, Wadyegere, along with other pupils, fled home. But instead of finding the refuge he hoped for, disaster awaited Wadyegere. His house and family were ...Inter Press Service: Fourteen-year-old Isaac Wadyegere of Bundesi village in Bududa district woke up to a rainy and chilly Monday morning and went to school as usual. But Mar. 1 was not a usual day in eastern Uganda. When he heard the sound of rocks and soil tumbling down Mountain Elgon on a path to destroy part of his school, Wadyegere, along with other pupils, fled home. But instead of finding the refuge he hoped for, disaster awaited Wadyegere. His house and family were ... |
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United Kingdom: Gardeners urged to stop using peat-based compost |
| Independent (UK): The star of the BBC's Gardeners' World has been drafted in by the Government as they try to persuade the public to stop using peat compost. Ministers hope that Diarmuid Gavin will help them convince gardeners to stop using peat, which is present in almost half of all compost sold by garden centres. Yesterday the Environment Secretary Hilary Benn announced a new target to phase out the use of peat compost in amateur gardens by 2020 but shied away from imposing a ban, provoking ...Independent (UK): The star of the BBC's Gardeners' World has been drafted in by the Government as they try to persuade the public to stop using peat compost. Ministers hope that Diarmuid Gavin will help them convince gardeners to stop using peat, which is present in almost half of all compost sold by garden centres. Yesterday the Environment Secretary Hilary Benn announced a new target to phase out the use of peat compost in amateur gardens by 2020 but shied away from imposing a ban, provoking ... |
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Natural Gas drilling chemicals a concern |
President Barack Obama's top environmental adviser urged the natural gas industry on Tuesday to disclose the chemicals it uses in drilling, warning that the development of massive U.S. shale gas reserves could be held back otherwise.
Joseph Aldy, special assistant to the president for energy and the environment, said concerns about water contamination from drilling chemicals could lead to states requiring disclosure and that could deter additional investment. |
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Staying Young by Learning |
An old proverb states that to stay young is to keep alert and active or: "An idle mind is the devil's workshop."
University of California neurobiologists are providing the first visual evidence that learning promotes brain health — and, therefore, that mental stimulation could limit the debilitating effects of aging on memory and the mind.
Using a novel visualization technique they devised to study memory, a research team found that everyday forms of learning animate neuron receptors that help keep brain cells functioning at optimum levels. These receptors are activated by a protein called brain-derived neurotrophic factor, which facilitates the growth and differentiation of the connections, or synapses, responsible for communication among neurons. BDNF is key in the formation of memories. |
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Hydrocarbon development threatens the Amazon |
Because hydrocarbons are now being exploited at a rate 7 times higher than in 2003, the impacts of oil and gas activities need to be scientifically studied.
These studies should rigorously identify and measure the effects on biodiversity, indigenous groups and wilderness areas in this region.
This view was expressed to SciDev.Net by MartĂ Orta-Martinez from the Universidad Autonoma de Barcelona (UAB) and co-author of a study on the predation of the Peruvian Amazon in this century by the granting of land for gas exploration and oil. |
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Rare Rhinos Relocated from Czech Republic to Kenya |
| This month, conservationists in the Czech Republic and Kenya launched an audacious bid to save one of the world's rarest animals: the northern white rhinoceros. Four of the last eight known northern whites in the world, two male and two female, were packed into wooden crates and sent from a Czech zoo to Kenya, where scientists hope they will get down to the business of breeding. |
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Brazil Announces National Policy on Climate Change |
| Brazil's President introduced national legislation that will guide efforts to reduce projected emissions by 36.1 to 38.9 percent by 2020. This legislation comes on the heels of the COP-15 climate change conference held in Copenhagen earlier this month, and demonstrates Brazil’s eagerness to make significant and immediate progress against global climate change. |
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Tropical Storm Tomas calls for alerts in south Pacific |
| (NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center) System 97P was looking pretty impressive on NASA satellite imagery early today, March 11, and by 10 a.m. ET, it strengthened into Tropical Storm Tomas. |
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3 FASTSAT instruments pass tests |
| (NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center) The outer layers of Earth's atmosphere hold many secrets yet to be uncovered and three scientific instruments will fly soon on the FASTSAT-HSV01 satellite and seek to uncover them to benefit us here on Earth. Known as MINI-ME, PISA and TTI, these instruments recently passed a series of important final tests to prove their readiness for spaceflight. |
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Proposed mission would return sample from asteroid 'time capsule' |
| (NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center) Meet asteroid 1999 RQ36, a chunk of rock and dust about 1,900 feet in diameter that could tell us how the solar system was born, and perhaps, shed light on how life began. It also might hit us someday. |
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Project Open Hand |
| San Francisco's Project Open Hand is in a lot of hot water these days.
About 170,000 gallons a year, to be exact. And it's heated by clean, non-polluting energy.
The organization is a non-profit that provides meals for the homebound and elderly. Recently, the group went solar with financing from a local utility. The new solar hot water system makes this people-friendly organization environmentally friendly as well.
This system is also expected to eliminate up to a million pounds of greenhouse emissions over its lifetime. And once plans to triple its capacity are completed, it should save Project Open Hand up to $12,000 a year in energy costs -- enough to provide 6,700 more meals for the needy.
This progressive non-profit isn't the only one that can save with solar. With a little investment, you can reap some of these same benefits at home. Federal tax credits are available, and many states, municipalities, and utilities also offer rebates and other incentives for going solar.
Then who knows? With some of the savings, maybe you'll have an extra opportunity to help out a charity in Your Town, USA.
Script by Stephen Webb |
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Virus Battery |
| The environmentally polite thing to do in the future might be to give your battery the flu.
That's right: Batteries may soon run on a virus.
Researchers at MIT developed the battery. It's so cool, that the president of MIT showed off the battery to President Obama.
It's powered by a common, harmless virus called a bacteriophage. The battery is non-toxic, isn't produced with harmful solvents, and has the same energy capacity as state-of-the-art rechargeable batteries being tested for plug-in hybrid cars.
MIT says manufacturing the battery would be an environmentally benign process.
Lead researcher Angela Belcher got the idea after she engineered viruses to coat themselves with metal, like tiny suits of armor, and form microscopic wires.
After that, her team developed viruses that first coat themselves with iron phosphate, then grab hold of atomic-sized carbon filaments. Combined they create an extremely conductive material that transfers energy as fast as any battery on the market.
The batteries can't be re-charged as many times as conventional batteries. Yet. But still, it's a promising advance in clean battery technology.
And arguably, it's the first virus to be formally introduced to a President.
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A Place for DDT |
| For many who are environmentally-minded, the mere mention of DDT sets them on edge. After all, it disrupted ecosystems around the globe crashing bird populations and nearly eliminating our national symbol -- the bald eagle -- from wild places including California's Channel Islands.
Yet, like so many environmental issues, there is another side.
According to US AID, there are 1.2 million mosquito-related malaria deaths each year. And for countries struggling to manage diseases like malaria, DDT can be an inexpensive and efficient insecticide that, when combined with other mosquito eliminating measures, can save lives.
The World Health Organization recommends that in countries like Africa, where malaria is taking a great human toll, DDT should be applied to the inside walls of homes once a year. It not only kills mosquitoes when they come into contact with it, but they are also repelled.
This recommendation is a very different scenario than what happened in the 1940s. In those days, DDT was sprayed by crop dusters over thousands of acres and waterways. With proper training for users and careful application, residue in the environment could be minimized while saving human lives -- one household at a time.
Script by Pat Florez |
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INDONESIA: Waste Composting Project Blazes Cleaner Path |
| JAKARTA, Mar 11 (IPS) - Battling the pain from a boil on his left thigh,
45-year-old Inggit Tukino pulled his two-wheeled cart through the
overcrowded alleys of a slum in Rawabebek, Penjaringan hamlet in
here North Jakarta. |
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EDUCATION-URUGUAY: Gardens of Knowledge |
| MONTEVIDEO, Mar 10 (IPS) - "Nature is wise, and if we take the time to
observe it, we can learn so much" is the underlying
philosophy of a number of innovative programmes being carried out
in Uruguayan schools that are using gardens as a teaching
resource, explained Edith Moraes, director of the national
Primary Education Board. |
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TANZANIA: Weather Changes Turn Farming into Gamble with Nature |
| DAR-ES-SALAAM, Mar 10 (IPS) - Changes in weather patterns have turned agriculture
into a gamble with nature for Tanzanian farmers. Prolonged
droughts and floods have made the lives of small-scale farmers,
who don’t have access to irrigation, extremely difficult.
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Out of step. |
| Recent changes in the seasonal timing of biological events such as flowering and migration have been linked to warmer temperatures. Now a study shows that such seasonal shifts are becoming increasingly common in the UK and could wreak havoc across ecosystems as they disturb the delicate balance of nature. |
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Review of U.N. climate panel won't re-examine errors. |
| An outside review of a U.N. climate panel after flaws were uncovered in its most recent report on climate change will not recheck that report's conclusions and will instead focus on improving procedures for the future, officials said Wednesday. |
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Introducing the newest scientific measurement: A "Rosenfeld" for energy savings. |
| It may not roll off the tongue like the ohm, watt or volt, but it would follow in their tradition. Many call Arthur Rosenfeld, a recently retired member of the California Energy Commission, the "godfather of energy efficiency." |
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