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INDIA-FARMER-SPRAY-PESTICIDE-GREEN-PADDY-FIELDIndia Farmer Spray Pesticide on the greem paddy field at Burdwan on Wednesday 08 September 2010 in Eastern India ----- WN/BHASKAR MALLICK Banned pesticides may be having wider environmental impacts
A new report indicates that a class of pesticides linked to the deaths of bees may be harming other wildlife species. | Neonicotinoids have now been banned by the European Union because of concerns ov... (photo: WN / Bhaskar Mallick) BBC News
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Sunset at Danga Bay Life returns to Danga Bay's rivers
I WAS among many people who were riled up at recent news pictures of animal carcasses being dumped into rivers that are a source of drinking water to millions in China. | But pollution of rivers is no... (photo: Creative Commons / Azmeen Afandi) New Straits/Business Times
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2 found dead in area burned by Colo. wildfire 2 found dead in area burned by Colo. wildfire
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — Firefighters have at least temporarily battled to a "draw" with a fast-moving fire that has already killed two people and destroyed at least 360 homes, giving weary aut... (photo: US DoD / Skye A. Robinson) Kansas City Star
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BLACK FOREST, COLO. Pilots and crewmembers of the 2nd General Support Aviation Battalion, 4th Aviation Regiment, 4th Combat Aviation Brigade, 4th Infantry Division, go into the thick smoke to release water onto the burning fires during their bambi bucket mission at Black Forest, Colo., June 12, 2013.(Photo by Sgt. Jonathan C. Thibault, 4th Combat Aviation Brigade Public Affairs Office, 4th Infantry Division/Released) Black Forest Fire Turns Deadly: 2 Found Dead In Colorado Springs-Area Fire
The remains of two people have been found in an area burned by the Black Forest Fire, according to El Paso County Sheriff Terry Maketa. | They have not been identified as of Thursday evening but they ... (photo: US Army / Sgt. Jonathan C. Thibault) Huffington Post
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A Palestinian patient is treated by the use of a bee sting at the clinic of Ahmed Zoarob, a Palestinian agronomist turned healer, in the southern Gaza Strip city of Rafah on January 24, 2013. Ahmed Zoarob uses bees stings, which are anecdotal and have not been proved to the satisfaction of scientists. Believers say it helps relieve pain from multiple sclerosis, rheumatoid arthritis and certain other ailments. Photo by Ahmed Deeb/ WN Honey bee losses double in a year due to poor winter
This winter's losses of honey bee colonies were the worst since records began six years ago, according to a survey carried out by the British Beekeepers Association. | It says more than a third o... (photo: WN / Ahmed Deeb) BBC News
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Entrance to the ili station of the Istanbul Metro in front of Istanbul Cevahir, Europe's largest shopping mall. Construction works of the Istanbul Metro (M2) began in 1992 and the first completed section between Taksim and 4. Levent entered service on 16 September 2000 Taksim Square is not Tahrir Square
The unrest in Istanbul's Taksim Square and Gezi Park has been underway for almost two weeks now. Initially an environmentalist protest against the Istanbul municipality’s Taksim Project, which w... (photo: Creative Commons / Danbury) Al Jazeera
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