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Special Trips
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25 Feb 2009 - 00:00 - 20 Mar 2009 - 00:00Destination Antarctica
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21 Mar 2009 - 00:00 - 29 Mar 2009 - 00:00Destination Islas Revillagigedos - also known as Socorro Island(s)
Event calendar
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18 Feb 2009 - 22:00 - 21 Feb 2009 - 22:00Moscow -
20 Feb 2009 - 08:00 - 22 Feb 2009 - 16:00Rosemont, IL - USA (Chicago) -
22 Mar 2009 - 03:00 - 23 Mar 2009 - 03:00Sydney, Australia -
22 Mar 2009 - 10:00 - 29 Mar 2009 - 20:00Ä°stanbul, Turkey -
3 Apr 2009 - 02:00 - 5 Apr 2009 - 09:003-1 Higashi Ikebukuro, Toshima- ku, Tokyo JAPAN
Photo & Video Events
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23 Nov 2008 - 07:00 - 3 Dec 2008 - 14:00Tulamben, Bali -
28 Nov 2008 - 18:00 - 30 Nov 2008 - 18:00Aliwal shoal
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17 Jan 2009 - 10:00 - 24 Jan 2009 - 10:00Grand Cayman -
21 Mar 2009 - 00:00 - 29 Mar 2009 - 00:00Islas Revillagigedos - also known as Socorro Island(s)
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3 Apr 2009 - 02:00 - 5 Apr 2009 - 09:003-1 Higashi Ikebukuro, Toshima- ku, Tokyo JAPAN
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31 Oct 2009 - 10:00 - 9 Nov 2009 - 18:00Lembeh Straits, Indonesia
Environment
Sumitomo Rubber plans tires free of oil
TOKYO (Reuters) - Sumitomo Rubber Industries Ltd, Japan's second-biggest tire maker, plans to start selling in Japan tires that include no petrochemical materials by 2013, a company spokesman said on Tuesday.
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Will Detroit's cash crisis kill the electric car?
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Call it an economic and environmental murder mystery in the making: Will a cash-strapped Detroit kill the electric car -- again?
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China farmer avoids jail in fake tiger photo trial
BEIJING (Reuters) - A farmer in northern China found guilty of doctoring photos of an endangered tiger after collecting a cash reward from wildlife authorities, has been handed a lighter sentence on appeal, local media said on Tuesday.
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Flood warning in Vietnam, but storm spares coffee
HANOI (Reuters) - Vietnam's government issued flash flood and landslide warnings on Tuesday as heavy rains followed tropical storm Noul, which weakened overnight and caused no damage to coffee production.
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California seeks one third renewable power by 2020
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - California committed to getting a third of its electricity from renewable sources by 2020 in a Monday executive order by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger.
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New carbon standard set for forestry trading
OSLO (Reuters) - A new standard for carbon trading will help link forestry and agriculture projects into a million-dollar market to help fight global warming, backers said on Tuesday.
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Scientific Assessment Finds Expanding Use of Climate Forecasts Could Mean Better Water Management
Expanding the use of seasonal to interannual climate forecasts, especially in drought-prone and semi-arid parts of the United States, can assist decision makers in the management of water resources, according to a new NOAA-led scientific assessment. The assessment is one in a series of synthesis and assessment reports coordinated by the U.S. Climate Change Science Program.
Ex-Soviet bloc leads rises in CO2 emissions: U.N.
OSLO (Reuters) - Greenhouse gas emissions in many industrialised nations are still rising, especially in the former Soviet bloc, despite agreements to cut back, the U.N. Climate Change Secretariat said on Monday.
Categories: Environment
Ex-Soviet bloc leads rises in CO2 emissions: U.N.
OSLO (Reuters) - Greenhouse gas emissions in many industrialised nations are still rising, especially in the former Soviet bloc, despite agreements to cut back, the U.N. Climate Change Secretariat said on Monday.
Categories: Environment
Japan's whaling fleet sets out for Antarctic
TOKYO (Reuters) - The main ship in Japan's whaling fleet set out for the Antarctic on Monday for its first hunt in the region since limping home with just over half its planned catch in April following clashes with militant anti-whaling activists, environmentalist group Greenpeace said.
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Focus on merbau trade
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Logging truck carrying merbau logs, Vanimo, Papua New Guinea; much of the merbau from PNG is exported to China and India Click photo to enlarge © James Compton / TRAFFIC Singapore, 17 November 2008—Merbau, a tropical hardwood whose deep red-brown colour makes it popular for interior finishing, paneling, strip and parquet flooring, furniture, veneer, decorative and novelty items, comes under the spotlight today at an international workshop organized by TRAFFIC Southeast Asia to discuss the sustainability of international trade in this valuable timber.
Participants from Australia, China, Germany, Indonesia, Malaysia, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, Singapore and Thailand, representing the CITES Secretariat, national CITES Management and Scientific Authorities, international organizations, trade associations and research institutes are meeting in Singapore to discuss concerns over excessive logging and unsustainable merbau trade leading to over-exploitation.
Australia presses Japan to end whale hunt
CANBERRA (Reuters) - Australia urged Japan to abandon its yearly whale hunt on Monday, launching its own scientific whaling study in the Southern Ocean to prove it was not necessary to kill the ocean mammals to study them.
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UN to honour leaders in addressing environmental emergencies
A new United Nations-backed award will recognize individuals, organizations, governments and companies which have made strides in reducing the suffering resulting from large-scale man-made and natural disasters.
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Qatar and UN pave way for paper-free global conferences
The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and the Government of Qatar are blazing the trail towards paper-free or near paperless conferences.
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Greenhouse gases from industrialized countries rise after 1990s drop, UN reports
Greenhouse gas emissions of 40 industrialized countries rose by 2.3 per cent between 2000 and 2006, while still about 5 per cent below the 1990 level, according to United Nations figures released today, two weeks before a major review conference on the issue.
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Greenpeace says blocking Rotterdam harbor basin
AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - Two Greenpeace ships are blocking a dock at Rotterdam port used to unload coal as part of a protest against the construction of a coal-fired power plant there, the environmental group said on Sunday.
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Climber plumps for portable toilets for Everest
KATHMANDU (Reuters) - A young Nepali climber is seeking to popularize a toilet fashioned from a plastic bucket with a lid to promote eco-friendly climbing on Mount Everest.
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Australians march against climate change
SYDNEY (Reuters) - Tens of thousands of Australians took part in mass protests around the country Saturday to call for tough government action on climate change, organizers said.
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California ordered to prepare for sea-level rise
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger on Friday ordered preparations for rising sea levels from global warming, a startling prospect for the most populous U.S. state with a Pacific Ocean coastline stretching more than 800 miles.
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Water restrictions ordered to help California fish
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - California officials ordered on Friday an additional 17 percent cut in the amount of water pumped from the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta to protect a fish in the most populous U.S. state's fresh water hub.
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