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- Owl monkey only primate to exhibit 'early birds' and 'night owls' behaviour - University of Pennsylvania anthropologists have shown that in Azaro's owl monkeys, temperature and light are just as important environmental factors as the circadian rhythm that regulates periods of sleep and wakefulness.
- Microrobots Could Be Used For Search And Rescue, Agriculture, Environmental Monitoring - 0 posts Engineers at Harvard University have created a millionth-scale automobile differential to govern the flight of minuscule aerial robots that could someday be used to probe environmental hazards...
- Shark spotted off Plett coast - Cape Town - A five metre long shark has been spotted at a beach in Plettenberg Bay, on Saturday, the National Sea Rescue Institute (NSRI) said. Spokesman Craig Lambinon said the shark was seen at t...
- China halts loans to firms that break environment rules - China has ordered banks to stop new lending to companies that pollute excessively or consume too much energy, as part of a drive to make its economy more energy efficient, state media said Saturday. ...
- Environment lobbyists face exhausting fight - To combat the problem, a number of European cities have introduced Lez – also known as environment zones - in the past few years. All vehicles entering the zones must meet certain emission standards...
- School environment should be free from fear says PM - With some incidents of harsh punishments meted out to children apparently weighing heavy on his mind, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Friday said the school environment should be "free from fear, tra...
- Study looks at best spots to plant trees in Nashville - But Davidson County's first-ever tree assessment, including its most urban areas, shows where more trees could be added, including a possibility that trees could shade almost two-thirds of downtown.
- Bid to suspend California global-warming law gets $1 million from billionaire brothers' firm - Flint Hills Resources, said the company "may consider additional support." The Kochs' company has estimated annual revenues of $100 billion, owns refineries in Alaska, Texas and Minnesota, and control...
- Oil platform fire is a disaster, but mainly for PR - Thursday's fire caused no leak or injuries; its cause is still being investigated. But the incident resounds through the oil-dependent region, and on Capitol Hill.
- Fleet of robots designed to clean up oil - MIT have developed a fleet of oil-absorbing robots — Seaswarm — that clean the ocean by collecting oil with a super-absorbent "nanofabric." First tested in the Charles River in Boston i...
- Nuclear cleanup at Santa Susana facility would finish by 2017 under settlement - In a major victory for community activists worried about health risks linked to a contaminated former nuclear research facility overlooking the west San Fernando Valley, state and federal authorities ...
- Failed blowout preventer removed from BP well - BP 's broken oil well Friday, an important step toward killing the well for good and a hopeful development for federal investigators who view the device as key evidence that will be inspected to deter...
- Stop those killer trees! - A word of advice next time you go for a ramble in Central Park: Don't forget to look up. As The Post reported Sunday, the park's private caretakers frequently ignore their own computerized watch list ...
- Plan for travellers' body heat to warm homes - The warmth generated by human bodies in the Parisian metro will help heat a public housing project in the city centre, according to the French capital's largest owner of social housing. The building,...
- Westside subway won't relieve much traffic, according to MTA's draft environmental impact report - While the proposed Westside subway extension is expected to provide substantial benefits to transit riders, the multibillion-dollar project -- contrary to one of its selling points -- will do little t...
- Arctic defenders still in police custody - We are still waiting for our climbers to be released but hoping they will be back on board the Esperanza soon. They are sorely missed - especially Timo's lovely guitar playing in the evenings. Anais i...
- Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill's 30-Year Legacy - WASHINGTON, Sep 3, 2010 (IPS) - A surprisingly small number of scientists have studied the impacts of the oil spill resulting from the 1979 blowout at the Ixtoc I oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico. Wes ...
- Google building infested by bed bugs - They are reddish-brown, smaller than an apple seed, have a taste for human blood and when they bite they itch like hell. And now the onward march of the common bedbug has extended into cyberspace.The ...
- UN debuts website for tracking climate aid - Due to drought and lack of green grass for their cattles, Turkana pastoralist women are migrating in the area of Lorengippi, Northern Kenya. Developing countries are hoping for more 'climate aid' from...
- Bjorn Lomborg's climate change sparks environment debate - Changed climate views by "skeptical environmentalist" Bjørn Lomborg should be celebrated by environment advocates, says one public opinion expert, instead of being met with derision.Lomborg, 45, is b...
- Dolphins herded in Japanese cove but none killed - TOKYO (AP) - Japanese fishermen herded dolphins into a cove made famous by an Oscar-winning documentary about the hunt but did not kill any Friday, as conservationist groups ramped up scrutiny of the ...
- Goats rescued after 2 days on 6-inch ledge in Mont - HELENA, Mont. (AP) - Two young goats wandered onto the thin ledge of a railroad bridge and spent nearly two days high above the ground until rescuers in a towering cherry picker plucked them from thei...
- Rally continues vigorous fight for Parkway trees - Community leaders will be there every step of the way to save the beautiful mature lindens and oaks on Pelham Parkway from the axe. On Saturday, August 28, members of the Pelham Pelham Parkway Preserv...
- If Rajendra Pachauri goes, who on Earth would want to be IPCC chair | John Vidal - the InterAcademy Council (IAC) report into the IPCC's processes earlier this week (which also found Pachauri not guilty of any misconduct), commentators and editorials in
- Gene-Altered Salmon Safe for Eating and Environment, FDA Says - Sept. 3 (Bloomberg) -- Aqua Bounty Technologies Inc.’s genetically engineered salmon are safe to eat and unlikely harm the environment, said U.S. regulators weighing whether to approve the first...
- Traffic Safety Measures In Place At Little Long Generating Station - /CNW/ - To ensure public safety during construction on the Lower Mattagami River project, Ontario Power Generation (OPG) and its design build contractor, Kiewit Alarie Partnership, are implementing ...
- Facebook reacts to Greenpeace anti-coal campaign - Greenpeace has launched an effort to pressure Facebook to stop polluting with coal, but Facebook counters by saying its newest data center will be a model energy efficiency. On Wednesday, Greenpeac...
- Tropical forests slashed for farmland - A new study led by a Stanford researcher shows that more than 80 percent of the new farmland created in the tropics between 1980 and 2000 came from felling forests, which sends carbon into the atmosph...
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