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  • US couple donates land to Argentine park

    The Conservation Land Trust, a project of US philanthropists and environmental activists Douglas and Kris Tompkins, donated 15,000 hectares for the expansion of Perito Moreno National Park in southern Argentina. The donation was formalized at a ceremony presided over by Argentine Tourism Minister Enrique Meyer, who described the CLT's action as "moving". Nine years ago, the CLT provided 60,000 ...

  • Playing Russian Roulette With a Volcano

    January 1981 issue of National Geographic , describes how, in the week running up to the disaster, he and others were drawn into a "strange kind of Russian roulette" with the mountain. While Findley lived to tell the tale, others were not so lucky, and the article includes richly drawn character studies of some of the mountain's ...

  • Kenya Kenya May Soon Reap Millions From Its Forests Says Kefri Researcher

    A scientist at the Kenya Forestry Research Institute has said the forests may soon earn Kenya millions of shillings when the carbon offset scheme begins. Researcher Chemuku Wekesa said the scheme will start once the development policies are set by the Environment ministry and discussions take place at the national and international levels. "The carbon trading business is big and will soon ...

  • Ask a grown-up who invented clothes

    The Flintstones , which is set a very, very, very long time ago, Wilma Flintstone and Betty Rubble wear some absolutely darling dresses, hair accessories and even the occasional swimsuit.No one knows who was the first person to invent clothing, but at some point in the very distant past, your ancestors and mine decided to put on some animal skins to keep themselves warm. But more important than ...

  • Court rules hydro project can proceed without environmental assessment

    Peter Robinson, Chief Executive Officer of the David Suzuki Foundation, and David Suzuki are pictured during a meeting with the Editorial Board at The Globe and Mail in 2012. The foudation was part of a coalition that demanded an environmental assessment for 10 power plants planned for northeastern British Columbia. (Deborah Baic/Deborah Baic/The Globe and ...


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    Roman sky on May 2.Every photograph is actually a time exposure--images may be recorded in a fraction of a second or over hours. Shutter speed can be adjusted to do either very long or instantaneous ...

  • NASA says meteor impact on the moon glowed like a star

    NASA's lunar monitoring program has detected hundreds of meteoroid impacts. The brightest, detected on March 17 in Mare Imbrium, is marked by the red square. Credit: ...

  • Space Pictures This Week Martian Dust Devils Weekend Spacewalk

    International Space Station (ISS), including U.S. astronaut Chris Cassidy (pictured), completed a 5.5-hour spacewalk on May 11 to repair a leaky coolant ...

  • Energy Dept. approves natural gas export catalyst

    The U.S. Department of Energy has approved a $10 billion natural gas exporting facility in Texas that has significant economic implications, manufacturers say. The project called the Freeport LNG facility was "not inconsistent with the public interest," said the Energy Department, which studied the facility's "economic, energy security, and environmental impacts." The ...

  • Letters Hot topic of high-speed rail and airport expansion

    HS2 rail project has 3.3bn funding shortfall, warns spending watchdog , 16 May) is the land-bound equivalent of Concorde; both scams for spending billions of pounds of citizens' hard-earned wealth in order to benefit a tiny minority of very rich businessmen and multinational corporations so they can reach their destination a few minutes before they otherwise would.This reckless expenditure ...

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