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• From GPS noise, a signal achievement

  
  Discovery News - Technology — Authority: 671
  Researchers at the University of Colorado have teased from what most engineers think of as unwanted "noise" received by antennas of the Global Positioning System a signal that allows them to measure the depth of snow and the level of ...
  6 hours ago

• New home water and energy efficiency support for disadvantaged

  
  eco media — Authority: 423
  Australia’s Environment Minister Peter Garrett has announced a new program to help improve the energy and water efficiency of low-income and disadvantaged Australian households. The $130 million program will provide free home assessments, as well as installation of energy and water efficiency products such as pipe ...
  7 hours ago

• Camels get the hump…

  
  Ron's Rants... — Authority: 117
  Sorry. . . Anyway, in Australia, over 6,000 wild camels, in a herd that increases pretty much daily, have laid siege to the town of Docker River, in the Northern Territory. They’ve trapped people in their homes for days on end, damaged property and water tanks, demolished fences, stripped the local vegetation, both ...
  9 hours ago

• S. Arabia Nets Climate Change Q3 Dividends

  
  Fire Earth — Authority: 137
  Saudi Flood Death Toll Tops 88Saudi Arabia collects at least 88 dead in oil induced climate change Q3 profitsAt least 88 people have died in the heaviest flooding to hit Saudi Arabia in in living memory.As Muslim pilgrims were casting stones at walls representing the devil on the third day of the annual hajj, ...
  14 hours ago

• By Cell Phone, Scientists Assist African Farmers Facing Effects of Climate Change

  
  Solve Climate: Daily Climate News and Opinion — Authority: 626
  For much of the last 200 years, levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide hovered around 275 parts per million. In this century, with atmospheric carbon dioxide nearing 390 ppm, and climbing annually by about 2.5 ppm , we are already beyond what many scientists see as a critical threshold in climate change. Farmers ...
  16 hours ago

• Speed Blogging

  
  Aguanomics — Authority: 594
  Israeli companies in leak detection and water meters . A good post on the difference between drought (variations in supply) and shortage (the gap between supply and demand). Heres the picture: Want people to use less? Water meters need to be easy to read ; bills easy to understand; conservation easy ...
  17 hours ago

• Video: Thirsty camels lay siege to Australian town

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 987
  Feral camels have caused havoc in the small Australian town of Docker River as they search for drinking water
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• The Jesus Boat: Videos on the Discovery

  
  Particular Baptist Kev's Random Thoughts — Authority: 138
  In 1986, a long lost boat that was used by people living in the time of Jesus, was discovered in the Sea of Galilee. It was discovered following a drought that caused it be revealed after many centuries of lying beneath the sea of Galilee. These videos are about this boat: Posted in Archaeology, Bible, Israel [...]
  19 hours ago

• Eight dead, 15,000 evacuated in Argentina, Uruguay

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 725
  Buenos Aires, Nov 27 (DPA) Severe flooding claimed at least eight lives in Argentina and Uruguay, authorities said Thursday.About 15,000 people had to be evacuated from their homes in the northern portions of both neighbouring South American countries.In Argentina, two young men drowned in an overflowing river ...
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• Autumn in the backyard

  
  Dkzody's Weblog — Authority: 123
  Autumn in the backyard Originally uploaded by dkzody Although there is none of the usual tule fog for Thanksgiving in the Central Valley, the reason is bad news for us–no rain. The drought continues. Our weather is so glorious, the light is so golden, the trees are beautifully dressed in reds, yellows, and ...
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• Australian drought drives camels to overrun town

  
  PRI's The World — Authority: 598
  Download audio file (1126095.mp3) Download MP3 Thousands of wild camels have descended upon a small Australian down in a desperate search for water. Drought conditions in their usual habitat are forcing the camels into more populated areas. Anchor Marco Werman tells us more.
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• Camel cull angers Australian campaigners

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 987
  Campaigners urge trigger-happy Australian government not to shoot 6,000 camels causing chaos in Docker River In pictures: feral camels facing mass cull Animal welfare groups have accused the Australian government of being "trigger happy" over plans to shoot 6,000 camels that invaded an outback town in search of ...
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• Thirsty camels lay siege to Australian Outback town

  
  Family: News and advice on family matters children and parents — Authority: 970
  Docker River, an Australian Outback town, is under siege from 6,000 wild camels which have laid waste to the area in search of water.
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• Collective action needed to tackle price rise: Pawar

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 725
  New Delhi, Nov 26 (IANS) Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar Thursday called for a collective effort to tackle the issue of price rise, but there were fewer than 35 MPs present in the Lok Sabha to listen to the matter.“We have to improve agricultural production. We have to work together,” said Pawar in his reply in ...
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• Wild camels face mass cull in northern Australia

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 987
  26 November 2009: Northern Territory officials plan a mass cull of about 6,000 wild camels which have converged on the town of Docker River in search of water
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• Thirsty camels terrorise town

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 987
  Northern Territory officials plan mass cull after 6,000 wild camels run amok in Docker River in search of water Australian authorities plan to round up about 6,000 wild camels with helicopters and shoot them after they overran an outback town in search of water, trampling fences, smashing tanks and contaminating ...
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• TREE #3 OF 2009 – ROUND-LEAVED TEAK (PTEROCARPUS ROTUNDIFOLIUS)

  
  Kingfisher Landscaping — Authority: 115
  The round-leaved teak is the second rare tree that was appointed by the Department of Water and Environmental Affairs. The round-leaved teak is another gorgeous indigenous tree.  It can grow up to 10 meters in height and is deciduous, which means it looses it leaves during winter.  During spring and summer, the ...
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• Bundelkhand ruckus forces Rajya Sabha adjournment (Lead)

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 725
  New Delhi, Nov 26 (IANS) The use of the word “satyanas (ruined)” prompted an adjournment of the Rajya Sabha Thursday morning when a question on what the government was doing for the development of the four “BIMARU” states of Bihar, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh escalated into a full fledged row ...
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• Rajya Sabha adjourned over Bundelkhand ruckus

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 725
  New Delhi, Nov 26 (IANS) The Rajya Sabha was adjourned Thursday morning when a question on what the government was doing in the four ‘bimaru’ states of Bihar, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh escalated into a full fledged row.The opposition seemed to get riled when Satyavrata Chaturvedi of the Congress ...
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• Rain displaces 12,000 in Argentina

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 725
  Buenos Aires, Nov 26 (IANS) Heavy rain has killed three people and displaced 12,000 in northeast Argentina, authorities said.Two children drowned near Resistencia city, the capital of Chaco province, about 1200 km north of Buenos Aires, Xinhua reported.In Goya City, 730 km north of Buenos Aires, a seven-year-old girl ...
  2 days ago

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