Archive for the Category ‘NEWS’
An excavator cutting through a forest during development of palm oil plantation at the concession area of PT SMART, the palm oil unit of Sinar Mas in Ketapang district in West Kalimantan on Borneo island Photograph: Romeo Gacad/AFP/Getty Images Greenpeace said today it had fresh evidence that palm oil firms linked to Indonesian agribusiness giant Sinar Mas have bulldozed rainforest and destroyed endangered orang-utan habitats in Kalimantan.
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‘Sit back and relax! You guys can see how to party!’ the Situation says about new season in Miami premiering Thursday.
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‘[Director Burr Steers] doesn’t do sappy, you know what I mean? Burr is very grounded,’ actor says of his new movie. By Kara Warner Zac Efron as Charlie St
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In what has become the long-running saga of the unsubstantiated claim by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) about the potential effects of global warming on the Amazon rainforest, the fact that George Monbiot has weighed in so heavily to the “Amazongate” issue is perhaps a measure of its importance. One cannot help but enjoy the irony of Monbiot’s apology for troubling his readers over an issue which he claims is “trivial”, then spending so much time and effort exploring it
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Indesit Company and Freescale have collaborated to come up with a Smart Washer that uses a Freescale ZigBee node, allowing it to adjust its cycle starting time according to the variable energy cost, accessing information from the local power utility via a ZigBee enabled Internet connection to the Smart Grid. With all our home appliances becoming smarter and smarter, we’re looking forward to the day where we don’t have to do anything to keep our house and clothes clean anymore.
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View Larger Map Name of project Upper Thames Reservoir Describe the site currently, including details of protected or threatened habitat or species The four square mile development site is currently occupied by prime agricultural land, 70 per cent of which is very high quality productive farmland which is protected by national planning policy. Some studies have shown that Thames Water’s proposals for the reservoir could create great environmental damage and habitat destruction on and around the reservoir site. A report by Dr Clive Spinage, who has studied in close detail the area of the proposed reservoir, highlights the scale of destruction of wildlife habitats over this huge area.
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Squirrel meat is proving popular in a north London supermarket. Photograph: Mike Hutchings/Reuters The owner of a local Budgens supermarket has defended selling squirrel meat as a sustainable way of feeding people and says it has a “lovely” taste.
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A new book claims that schemes to protect habitats of endangered animals, such as the Sumatran tiger, often end up criminalising local communities. Photograph: Bagus Indahono/EPA Ecotourism and western-style conservation projects are harming wildlife , damaging the environment, and displacing and criminalising local people, according to a controversial new book
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If you ever decided that you needed to digitize your books, you’ll probably figure out that it’s quite a painstaking process, and if you had some tools to help you along, your life would probably be a lot more enjoyable. Enter the BookLiberator frame, which should help make you get the job done a lot faster, though it it’s not automated, so you’ll still need to be actively involved in the whole process. The design calls for a frame where you can mount the cameras, and keep the pages for the book pressed down while you hit the shutter button, getting the scans that you want.
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