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| Articles about Ecology |
| Arab business leaders vow to preserve ecology | | 2007-12-01 10:33:00 | | ABU DHABI – Arab business leaders have promised to take positive action against environmental damage at a conference held here yesterday.The Arab Corporate Environmental Responsibility Summit, attended by business leaders from the region, environmentalists and United Nations experts, concluded with a declaration on corporate environmental responsibility and cleaner production.“Being aware of the magnitude of environmental challenges facing the Arab region and the world, realising that low-carbon will be the economy of the future and recognising that taking the environment fully into account is key to achieving sustainable development,” the business leaders said in the declaration and resolved to take concrete steps in preserving and conserving the environment.
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| | China needs to double ecology protection efforts in Three Gorges Reservoir area | | 2007-11-10 14:10:00 | | Chinese Vice Premier Zeng Peiyan has urged the governments of Chongqing Municipality and Hubei Province to double efforts in treating geological disasters and protecting the ecology in the Three Gorges Reservoir area. He was speaking during a field survey on the construction, operation and management of the world's largest water conservancy project launched in 1993 involving a budget investment of 180 billion yuan (22.5 billion U.S. dollars). Claiming the project had brought benefits in flood prevention, power generation and shipping, Zeng said all enterprises participating in the project should beware of production accidents, improve production safety and produce local ecology.
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| | Ecology fines port on light-rail project | | 2007-10-24 11:44:00 | | The state Department of Ecology has fined the Port of Seattle and two contractors $20,000 for water quality violations at Sea-Tac International Airport.Ecology found that the port, which operates the airport, and the contractors allowed four releases of muddy stormwater from Sea-Tac north expressway project into storm systems that drain to Gilliam Creek and Des Moines Creek.The violations occurred in November and December 2006, and January and August this year.
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| Renewable energy creation could alter Severn estuary ecology | | 2007-09-07 16:23:00 | | The issue was raised by the government as it applied to the European Union (EU) for special conservation status for three estuaries - the Severn, Dee and Humber.Joan Ruddock, biodiversity minister, said: "In submitting these sites the government has demonstrated its commitment to the protection and restoration of the UK's richly diverse, and internationally important, wildlife habitats. "We will work towards ensuring that our environmental protection agenda and our aim to develop renewable sources of power are complementary."
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| | Forest fires damage ecology in Algeria | | 2007-08-12 23:13:00 | | Forest fires in Batna that spread over 5,000 hectares over the past 20 days have caused an ecological catastrophe in the region, El Khabar reported on Wednesday (August 8th). Thousands of rare plants and trees in the forests of Bni Fdala and Larbaa Municipalities, 20 of which could be found only in Algeria and Morocco, were destroyed. Many rare birds and animal species died, the paper quoted the local forest department as saying.
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| | Without ecology there is no economy | | 2007-08-08 02:22:00 | | Indian-born Kumar, who visited Sydney recently to promote his ideas, has devoted his life to investigating links between ecology and spirituality, literally walking the talk. At the age of nine he became a child monk, going barefoot, begging for food and wearing a cloth over his mouth to avoid inadvertently killing an insect.Then, in 1962, he became inspired and outraged by the incarceration of the English philosopher and peace campaigner Bertrand Russell and decided to walk to the four nuclear capitals of the world. Over 18 months, he trekked to Moscow, Paris, London and Washington in a protest against nuclear arms.
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| Ecology Action Center continues to push recycling | | 2007-07-31 00:48:00 | | The Ecology Action Center, which monitors recycling for McLean County, Bloomington and Normal governments, estimates that 33 percent of materials that could be thrown away is diverted from the trash through recycling, reuse and composting. That's 76,000 tons of stuff that didn't hit the landfill in 2006 alone.
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| | 'Arctic Tale' breaks the ice on ecology | | 2007-07-30 01:41:00 | | USA TODAY - Like a junior and kid-friendly An Inconvenient Truth, it makes the threat of global warming more real by weaving that message into a pair of absorbing narratives. Queen Latifah provides a friendly and gently funny narration for the two tales of the challenges faced by a mother walrus and her pup and a polar bear and her two cubs in the Arctic.
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| | EU Grants 200 M for Ecology Projects in Bulgaria | | 2007-07-29 00:38:00 | | Over 200 million EUR from the EU funds will be granted for the construction of rectifying station and improving the quality of waters. This was announced today by the Minister of Environment and Waters Djevdet Chakurov. He explained that by the end of the year a part of the contracts on the Environment Program have to be concluded.
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| | UGA starts nation's first school of ecology | | 2007-07-18 01:51:00 | | The bust of one of science's most respected ecologists stands at the entrance to what is the country's first university-level school of ecology with a ready reminder: The ecosystem is greater than the sum of its parts. The quote and the bust honor Eugene Odum, the legendary University of Georgia ecologist and namesake of the school, which officially opened last month. And now the late scientist's favorite mantra is being put to the test.
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| | China to spend $2.63B on Tibetan ecology | | 2007-07-17 16:51:00 | | BEIJING, July 16 (UPI) -- China, which has controlled Tibet since the 1950s, said Monday it will spend $2.63 billion over 20 years on several projects to protect the region's ecosystem. The projects will include construction of nature reserves, protection of natural forests, restoration of grassland and pastures and prevention of desertification, the official Xinhua news agency reported.
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| | Birds role in Ecology | | 2007-07-12 07:00:00 | | Muskogee phoenixGardeners and farmers understand the import role birds play in every day ecology.
In back yards and nature preserves, bird watchers flock together during the early morning hours to catch sight of migrating and local birds.
The more you know about the lifestyle of the birds in your neighborhood, the more easily you will be able to attract them as well as recognize their songs and calls... | | By: The Flower Expert - Flowers Encyclopedia | | |
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