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Dragonflies Go Thirsty in Mediterranean, Threatened with Extinction : TreeHugger
Bad news for dragonflies and damselflies as the global water crisis crunches down on us. Due to climate change and poor land management leading to habitat degradation, one fifth of Mediterranean dragonflies and damselflies are threatened with extinction, according to a report by the IUCN.
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Reductions of 10 and 20 percent respectively are likely to be the European Union’s bid at UN-led climate talks in Bangkok this week.
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Bra girl charged for posing as a Pc | News
Eleven G20 campaigners are being prosecuted for impersonating police officers despite some being half-dressed and wielding toy machineguns
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RTÉ News: 90 jobs set for Clare water bottling company
90 new jobs are to be created over the next three years by a Co Clare based bottled water company.
The Clare Spring Water Company is investing over €4m in the development of what they say is Ireland’s first bio-degradable and compostable plastic bottle.
This is a bad idea, it takes far more energy to bottle and transport water than to use water from the tap.
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British firm Mabey and Johnson convicted of bribing foreign politicians | Business | guardian.co.uk
BAE the next target as bridge-building firm becomes first major UK company to be convicted of foreign bribery
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Autumn comes early because of drought – Telegraph
Autumn is coming early this year with leaves falling off the trees faster than usual and plants dying back because of a drought, according to experts
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Nestlé defends buying milk from Grace Mugabe’s dairy
Workers living on pittance despite farm producing 6 500 litres a day
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The World’s Top 10 Worst Pollution Problems: Scientific American
From the residue of mining to untreated sewage, the world is grappling with a host of environmental problems – here is a list of 10 of the worst
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Australian Town Bans Sale Of Bottled Water For Environmental Reasons | World News | Sky News
A small town in Australia has become the first in the world to ban the sale of bottled water.
People in Bundanoon in New South Wales voted in favour of the ban three months ago and since then, chilled filtered water dispensers have been installed throughout the town.
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Spider Wranglers Weave One-Of-A-Kind Tapestry : NPR
This week in New York, the American Museum of Natural History unveiled something never before seen: an 11-by-4-foot tapestry made completely of spider silk.
Weavers in Madagascar took four years to make it, and the museum says there’s no other like it in the world.
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EnerNOC ‘scratching surface’ of demand response market | Cleantech Group
Tim Healy is seeing utilities doubling what they spent in 2007-08 on new energy efficient technologies and products.
So he, and some of his competitors, are trying to usher that vision along, filing a protest yesterday with the U.S. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) for new market rules to make energy efficiency more appealing to American utilities than building new power generation.
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Nissan to lease LEAF battery for $150/month — Autoblog Green
Aside from the issue of limited range, the biggest problem with electric vehicles in the near term is expected to be cost. Mitsubishi has already announced that the starting price for its diminutive iMiEV in Japan will be approximately $47,000 before incentives and Tesla’s Model S will start at $57,000 (before incentives) and likely go up rapidly from there. One of the ideas being floated for reducing the up front cost of EVs is battery leasing
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Dangers for journalists who expose environmental issues
The following is the text of report [PDF] released by Reporters Without Borders. It looks at 13 cases of journalists and bloggers who have been killed, physically attacked, jailed, threatened or censored for reporting on the environment, and highlights the need for a free press to tackle ecological challenges.
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