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Walking - Exercise - Health - Fitness The slow death of purposeless walking
A number of recent books have lauded the connection between walking - just for its own sake - and thinking. But are people losing their love of the purposeless walk? | Walking is a luxury in the West.... (photo: WN / Sweet Radoc) BBC News
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File - Chief Interior Communications Technician Curtis N. Fox, assigned to USS Blue Ridge, enjoys an open water recreational scuba dive at Manta Ray Bay Reef on the Great Barrier Reef during a four-day port visit to Cairns, Australia. Unesco warns Australia over Great Barrier Reef
Unesco has threatened to list the Great Barrier Reef as a World Heritage in Danger site, amid controversy over a plan to dump dredged sediment. | Reef authorities granted permission for the dumping in... (photo: US Navy / Chief Photographer's Mate John S. Stadelman) BBC News
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EU to give $391 mn for environment, climate projects EU to give $391 mn for environment, climate projects
Tweet | Brussels, May 1 (IANS) The European Commission Wednesday approved funding for 225 new projects under the LIFE programme -- the European Union's environment fund, and will provide 282 million e... (photo: European Community / EC) Newstrack India
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Efforts to tackle impacts of climate change Efforts to tackle impacts of climate change
  Asian institutes will be part of a new multi-partner research cosoritia | Added At:  2014-04-30 11:05 PM |    Last Updated At: 2014-04-30 11:05 PM | The Himalayan Times... (photo: WN / Marzena ) The Himalayan
Africa and Asia   Climate   Development   Photos   Wikipedia: Climate change  
UK - London Government backs UK launch site plan for space tourism
The government has backed plans for a four-fold expansion of the UK space industry to £40bn by 2030. | It is also considering developing the necessary legal framework to permit a spaceport to be set ... (photo: WN / marzena) BBC News
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Philippine corn farming hit by El Nino , farmer in the Philippines feared for there crops. El Nino seen exacerbating drought in south-east Asia
The most-severe drought in 17 years is threatening supplies of palm oil from Indonesia and Malaysia, the world's biggest producers, and forecasters say an El Nino weather pattern this year may cause e... (photo: WN / Jelly Clam) Canberra Times
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