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A gray nurse shark 1
A grey nurse shark with an identity tag attached swims in the ocean off the southeast coast of Australia in this handout photo released July 22, 2005. The grey nurse is one of the fiercest-looking but most docile marine creatures, and despite it being...
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Artic pollution
Undated photo provided by the journal Science shows ponds containing fallen contaminants from seabird guano in the Canadian high arctic. A major source of chemical contamination in the Arctic turns out to be _ bird droppings. Wind currents and human activities...
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Katrina and the rescued dog
Miami-Dade rescuers feed water to a dog belonging to 39-year-old Reyne Johnson, who was freed from his home in New Orleans Parish, in New Orleans , September 18, 2005. Johnson, afraid to come out of his home, had been holed up with his dog since Hurricane...
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Whaling controversy
A young Japanese woman bites into a whale burger, a 380 yen ($3.50) slice of fried minke whale in a bun, which went on sale at Lucky Pierrot, a restaurant chain in the port city of Hakodate on Japan's northernmost island of Hokkaido, June 23, 2005. With...
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Ophelia
This NOAA satellite image taken Friday, September 16, 2005 at 14:15 EDT shows Tropical Storm Ophelia on the extreme northern edge of the image. The storm is expected to move northeast up the East Coast of the United States. Clouds associated with cold...
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An eruption of an underwater volcano in Japan
An aerial view of an eruption of an underwater volcano is seen in the Pacific Ocean near the uninhabited Minami Iwojima Island, about 1,400km (870 miles) south of Tokyo July 3, 2005. The Japanese Coast Guard sent a plane to investigate the approximately...
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Water pours in New Orleans
Water pours out of pipes connected to pumping stations sucking water out of flooded neighborhoods in New Orleans, Louisiana . Sediment left by receding floodwaters in New Orleans is laden with bacteria and hydrocarbons at levels that may be harmful for...
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Pipes pump in Louisana
Large pipes pump water from flooded neighborhoods into the Inner Harbor Navigation Canal in new Orleans, Louisiana September 15, 2005. The canal carries possibly contaminated floodwaters into both Lake Pontchartrain and the Mississippi River . All the...
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Whaling controversy 2
Japan suffered yet another setback on June 23, 2005 in its bid for more whaling when an international commission rejected a plea to allow Japanese coastal communities to hunt whales. An annual meeting of the International Whaling Commission in Ulsan voted...
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Katrina winds
This display shows how the size of the storm has changed, and the areas potentially affected so far by sustained winds of tropical storm force (in orange) and hurricane force (in red). The display is based on the wind radii contained in the set of Forecast/Advisories...
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Katrina and a dog alive
A dog stands on a flooded street of the ninth area in New Orleans September 18, 2005. The death toll from Hurricane Katrina climbed to 883 on Sunday after Louisiana officials raised the number of confirmed fatalities in that state to 646, up from 579...
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Animal condition in circuses
Hello, everybody, My name is Françoise, but just call me Fran. I live in Paris, France and this is the first time i've started blogging for this theme. I'm particularly concerned by the place of animals in our societies, especially for scientific and...
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Extincted species
‘Extinct’ birds in comeback but no hope for dodo by Ed Stoddard JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - Scientists beware: don't count your extinct bird species because one of them may hatch. Several supposedly extinct birds have recently been "rediscovered," raising...
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Is she kidding?
The Sky Isn't Falling; Despite Decades of Dire Predictions by 'Environmentalists,' Earth's Future Is Greener Than Ever, Reports Competitive Enterprise Institute To: National and Assignment Desks, Environment Reporter The 1970's brought us many things,...
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Consensus?
Global Warming Consensus? The phrase scientific consensus suggests something approaching unanimous agreement among scientists. However even a rudimentary survey of scientific literature reveals there to be very little agreement on the subject of climate...
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Disappearance of a lake in Russia
Lake vanishes overnight in Russia CBC News MOSCOW - Villagers in central Russia are mystified by the sudden disappearance, overnight, of the town's lake. Russia 's NTV channel showed a muddy basin where the lake once was, in the village of Bolotnikovo,...
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China & alternative energies
Beijing Conference Shows Renewable Energy Booming Worldwide BEIJING , China , November 7, 2005 (ENS) - The fastest growing energy technology in the world is grid-connected solar photovoltaic, which grew in capacity by 60 percent per year from 2000 through...
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Hurricanes and global warming
Global Warming Making Hurricanes Stronger Is global warming making hurricanes more ferocious? New research suggests the answer is yes. Scientists call the findings both surprising and "alarming" because they suggest global warming is influencing storms...
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Animal condition in circuses n°2
Hello, everybody, I'd like to illustrate my own views about the condition of animals in circuses with this video from the Humane Society of the US. It stresses the abuses on animals defenceless and the lack of laws to protect them. It's just a very sad...
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Protocole de Kyoto
Protocole de Kyoto Adopté en décembre 1997, ce protocole à la Convention cadre des Nations unies sur le changement climatique met en lumière la nouvelle attitude de la communauté internationale face au phénomène du changement climatique. En effet, en...
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Canker in citrus trees
Canker toll at millions of trees Susan Salisbury Palm Beach Post Staff Writer More than 3.6 million commercial citrus trees have been, or are scheduled to be, felled in the fight against citrus canker, new figures from the state Agriculture Department...
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Climate change in Britain
Coastline faces a new enemy - climate change By Steve Connor, Science Editor Climate change has replaced pollution and overfishing as the biggest threat to the coasts of Britain, a study by the government's Environment Agency has found. Higher temperatures...
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The variety of species in the oceans
Scientists decry loss of big ocean predators Washington — The variety of tuna, marlin, swordfish and other big ocean predators has declined up to 50 per cent over the past half-century due to overfishing, scientists say. For the first time, ecologists...
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Model on greenhouse
How Hot Will the Greenhouse World Be? Richard A. Kerr S cientists know that the world has warmed lately, and they believe humankind is behind most of that warming. But how far might we push the planet in coming decades and centuries? That depends on just...
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The first cloned dog in South Korea
S.Korean scientists create world's first cloned dog by Jon Herskovitz SEOUL (Reuters) - Man can now reproduce his best friend -- South Korean scientists announced on Wednesday they had created the world's first cloned dog. Woo-Suk Hwang and his team of...