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File - Elephants head toward forest cover, as dusk approaches, in Kenya's Amboseli National Park, Friday, Dec. 6, 2013.
(photo: AP / Rebecca Blackwell)
The Greatest Predators on Earth
WorldNews.com
Article by WN.com Correspondent Dallas Darling | The Greatest Predators on Earth | Having endured a series of colonial extermination campaigns, thirty-seven years ago, one year before his body returned to Mother Africa, President Jomo Kenyatta announced a ban on big game hunting. Kenyatta, Kenya's f...
Thailand - Luxury Hotels - Travel and tourism
(photo: WN / marzena)
World attends travel event
Independent online
Cape Town - Responsible Tourism was high on the agenda at Africa Travel Week which saw thousands of international and local members of the travel industry descend on Cape Town for the highlight of the tourism calendar. | The largest international travel industry event, it is made up of three shows: ...
In SF Bay, towing ultra-large ships with little tugs
CNET
A group of maritime agencies ran a first-of-its-kind exercise this week to see if they were ready to pull a giant container vessel that had lost power. Knowing it's possible is essential in an emergency loss of power. by 24 May 2014 5:00 PM BST | fac...
Towing giant ships with little tugboats (pictures)
CNET
...Prev Next... | PREV NEXT | 1 of 9 | Little tug, giant ship | SAN FRANCISCO BAY--What happens if a giant container ship loses power and needs to be towed to safety? | Thanks to new legislation in California that aims for cleaner air, ships are now ...
How To Make Sure You Still Get Texts If You Ditch Your iPhone (AAPL)
San Francisco Chronicle
Apple was sued last week by a former customer who claims she could no longer receive texts on her new Samsung phone because texts to her phone number get held hostage in Apple's iMessage system. | We've heard from hundreds of former Apple users that ...
>How To Make Sure You Still Get Texts If You Ditch Your iPhone (AAPL)
Seattle Post
Apple was sued last week by a former customer who claims she could no longer receive texts on her new Samsung phone because texts to her phone number get held hostage in Apple's iMessage system. | We've heard from hundreds of former Apple users that ...
Won't fund Adani's coal port expansion in Aus: Deutsche Bank
Deccan Chronicle
Melbourne: Deutsche Bank has refused to fund the expansion of one of the world's biggest coal ports by India's Adani Group near the ecologically sensitive Great Barrier Reef in Australia after protests by green activists. Australia approved the major...
>Expert: Climate changes likely mixed for moose
Seattle Post
FAIRBANKS, Alaska (AP) — The decades ahead could be chaotic ones for Alaska's moose population, with the potential for shifting habitat, warmer temperatures and the introduction of deadly new parasites, according to University of Alaska Fairbanks a...
Expert: Climate changes likely mixed for moose
San Francisco Chronicle
FAIRBANKS, Alaska (AP) — The decades ahead could be chaotic ones for Alaska's moose population, with the potential for shifting habitat, warmer temperatures and the introduction of deadly new parasites, according to University of Alaska Fairbanks a...
World's first jellyfish database created
The Times Of India
LONDON: Jellyfish and other gelatinous zooplankton are present throughout the world's oceans, with the greatest concentrations in the mid-latitudes of the northern hemisphere, showed the scientists who created the world's first global jellyfish datab...
Forfeiture office defends its record
Canada Dot Com
  | B.C.'s civil forfeiture office has settled a handful of controversial cases after recent judicial and public criticism. | Executive director Phil Tawtel, however, maintained in an exclusive interview that his office continued "very much doing wh...
Eat less meat or else the planet will starve
London Evening Standard
Farmageddon: The True Cost of Cheap Meat by Philip Lymbery with Isabel Oakeshott (Bloomsbury, £12.99) | Is meat going out of fashion? After half-a-century of fantastic carnivorous indulgence, Britons do seem to be eating less of it. One in six young...
World's first jellyfish database created
Newstrack India
Tweet | London, May 24 (IANS) Jellyfish and other gelatinous zooplankton are present throughout the world's oceans, with the greatest concentrations in the mid-latitudes of the northern hemisphere, showed the scientists who created the world's first ...
Meet 8 promising Portland outdoor and apparel startups
Business Journal
Mason Walker New Media Manager- Portland Business Journal Email  |  Twitter  |  Google+ | As the home of footwear and apparel giants like Nike, Columbia and Adidas, it's not surprising that a healthy ecosystem of new companies des...
Environment
Das Logo von Google markiert einen Sitz des Internetunternehmens in Bruessel, Belgien (Foto vom 23.03.10).
(photo: AP / Virginia Mayo)
Mary Anning: Google doodle celebrates fossil collector and paleontologist's 215th birthday
The Independent
Google has celebrated the 215th birthday of Mary Anning, the British fossil collector and paleontologist. | The image shows Anning brushing dirt away from a giant dinosaur skeleton that spells out ‘Google’, while her tools rest in a basket beside her. | Anning made some of the most significant geological discoveries of all time, including croco...
Weather
Nepal 2001. Mount Everest is the peak with the clouds to the left. Ama Dablam is the peak to the far right.
(photo: GFDL / Dnor)
Global warming threatens more deadly Everest-like avalanches
Khaleej Times
Nepal’s total glacier area is decreasing fast, with individual glaciers 'shrinking, retreating, and fragmenting'. | Mountaineering tourism in Nepal faces a threat from global warming as melting glaciers feed the risk of more deadly disasters such as the avalanche on Mount Everest that killed 16 people last month, scientists said on Tuesday. | More ...



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