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• A Walk in the Mist

  
  Visual Thoughts Photography — Authority: 135
  This is a very special place called Ravens Roost on the Blue Ridge Parkway in Virginia. © 2009 D L Ennis, All rights reserved. NOTE: Permission for the use of my images is granted for personal websites and blogs but is to include a link back to this site and proper credit given to me, D L Ennis. Link to be ...
  6 hours ago

• Wild Angles – News from the National Wildlife Refuge System

  
  AmmoLand.com — Authority: 627
  Wild Angles – News from the National Wildlife Refuge System The National Wildlife Refuge System, managed by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, is the world’s premier system of public lands and waters set aside to conserve America’s fish, wildlife and plants. U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service ...
  7 hours ago

• Costa Rica proposes to downgrade Las Baulas National Park, threatening leatherback sea turtles

  
  Mongabay.com News — Authority: 137
  Costa Rica is considered by many to be a shining example of environmental stewardship, preserving both its terrestrial and marine biodiversity while benefiting from being a popular tourist location. However, a new move by the Costa Rican government has placed their reputation in question. In May of this year the ...
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• Financing for water pipeline project gets go-ahead from Travis County

  
  Salsa Verde — Authority: 121
  Travis County Commissioners approved a financing plan for a pipeline project that will bear water from Burleson County to the Manor area by a 3-2 vote on Tuesday. Cross County Water Supply Corp. required approval from Travis County so it could quality for up to $40 million in bond money. The pipeline would be ...
  8 hours ago

• Speed Blogging

  
  Aguanomics — Authority: 602
  Bad news : "Diarrhea kills over a million over-fives each year" Cause: unsanitary water. Note that this number has to be added to the million-plus UNDER-5s who die each year. "A judge in Britain ruled that, in line with laws tackling religious discrimination, the head of green issues at a property company ...
  9 hours ago

• IBM figures rail transit is going to get faster and cleaner

  
  GreenTech Pastures — Authority: 554
  High speed rail transit is happening in many lands. IBM is part of the action.
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• Article Title Unknown

  
  4IQREAD — Authority: 108
  Hollyer, Beatrice. Our World of Water: Children and Water Around the World. Henry Holt and Company In association with Oxfam. 2008. Zadie Smith writes in her forward to this beautiful photo-essay that many people “forget what a miracle water is. We forget that it supports everything that lives…” She asks the ...
  9 hours ago

• American electric motorcycle price lowered

  
  GreenTech Pastures — Authority: 554
  Brammo make major price cut on their electric motorcycle.
  10 hours ago

• Please sign my Anti pollution petition to Downing Street

  
  ForumGarden — Authority: 156
  All anglers and those who care about our waterways should sign this petition to put pressure on the government to increase the fines to a deterent level. The fines currently imposed are just small change to these big companies. http://petitions.number10.gov.uk/pollutionfines/ Many thanks, Peter Lake
  10 hours ago

• Getty Institute Will Work With Egypt to Conserve King Tuts Tomb

  
  ArtsBeat — Authority: 796
  Tutankhamens tomb will be monitored and maintained.
  12 hours ago

• Satellite detects bulldozing of uncontacted tribes forest

  
  NatGeo News Watch — Authority: 131
  The only uncontacted tribe in South America outside the Amazon is having its forest rapidly and illegally bulldozed by ranchers who want their land to graze cattle for beef, Survival , a British-based charity that advocates for indigenous people, said this week. Satellite image shows deforestation of the ...
  12 hours ago

• Senator Burr Supporting National Park Land Grab Eliminating Hunting Access

  
  AmmoLand.com — Authority: 627
  Why Is Senator Burr Supporting National Park Land Grab Eliminating Hunting Access Grass Roots North Carolina for Firearms Education North Carolina - - (AmmoLand.com) - As we were alerted by members in the Blowing Rock area months ago, the Town of Blowing Rock plans to turn over town-owned land that local ...
  12 hours ago

• Zhuhai Takes Measures For Water Conservation

  
  ChinaCSR.com — Authority: 431
  Zhuhai in Guangdong province has initiated a new measure for water conservation.Zhuhais water affairs department has said that if a company or individual uses more water in November than in October, then their water supply will be stopped.According to the measure, each household is encouraged to save about 1 cubic ...
  12 hours ago

• ‘Tio’ Light Switch System Teaches Kids to Conserve Household Energy

  
  Inhabitots — Authority: 540
  Kids will be the world’s key decision-makers in the next 30 years, which is why it is crucial that we empower them now with the education and the tools to help reduce energy consumption. Designer Tim Holley’s Tio ghost is a wall-mounted light switch system which enables children to demonstrate their ...
  13 hours ago

• Do The White Thing: 7 More Amazing Albino Animals

  
  Life within me — Authority: 137
  Albinism is one of the few visible genetic “aberrations” humans share with other animals . This distinctive lack of pigment displayed by albino animals , along with the beauty and rarity of its presentation, has given rise to numerous myths, legends and practices, not all of them positive in tone. Albino Sea ...
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• A Whale of a Truce?

  
  Discovery News - Technology — Authority: 736
  Yet another guest post from our friend Debbie Salamone of the Pew Environment Groups Campaign to End Overfishing in the Southeast: President Barack Obama will meet the new Japanese prime minister, Yukio Hatoyama, on November 12-13 -- about the same ...
  14 hours ago

• The dirty car badge of honor

  
  Oceans Waves Beaches — Authority: 127
  I drive a Mini Cooper S and Im like all good Californians, I love my car. I love how fun it is to drive. I love that it gets 40mpg on the highway. I love that I can carry three surfboard inside. Go ahead, admit it... you love it to. One thing Ive noticed over the past few months is how dirty the outside of my car ...
  14 hours ago

• The Earthrace: Whale protection just got sleeker!

  
  Gadget Reviews — Authority: 146
  Post originally from this Gadget Blog – gizmodose.com (this line of text is here for scrapers!)Original article: The Earthrace: Whale protection just got sleeker!The Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, was founded to save the whale. They have used controversial methods to stop whaling craft in the past, and critics ...
  14 hours ago

• Saving Malayan flying foxes

  
  Animal News: Animal Planet — Authority: 421
  Jonathan Epstein with the Wildlife Trust releases a Malayan flying fox/Copyright © 2009 Wlldlife Trust The Malayan flying fox ( Pteropus vampyrus ), doesn’t look like your ordinary bat. They eat fruit rather than insects, have large eyes, and a huge wing span of up to five feet across. Parents might know ...
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• Yangtze delta warned to prepare for effects of climate change

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 982
  Delta has been warming faster than global average for a decade, and the impact is already being felt, according to WWF China Chinas most populous river needs massive investment and careful planning to ease the impact of climate change, which is causing floods, droughts and storms to intensify, a new report (pdf) ...
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