Almost 90% of coral reefs hit by the Indian Ocean tsunami escaped severe damage, according to research.
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The ozone layer has stopped shrinking but it will take decades to start recovering, U.S. scientists reported Tuesday.
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via BBC | GNN staff |
Wed August 31, 2005
The marshlands of Iraq, which were drained during the early 1990s, are returning to their original state.
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A new coal-powered fuel cell may lead to a more efficient way of extracting energy from the fossil fuel than simply burning it.
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Migratory birds have only a low likelihood of being able to pass on a deadly strain of flu that has so far rampaged through six regions in Russia, the European Commission said on Monday.
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The western Indian state of Maharashtra on Friday said it is banning most plastic bags, blaming them for choking drains and causing floods a month ago that left more than 1,000 people dead, most in Bombay.
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Fears that the most fertile agricultural land in the Indonesian province of Aceh has been wrecked by seawater that swept inland from the December 26 tsunami are unfounded, scientists say.
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via ENN | GNN staff |
Thu August 25, 2005
The ancient Iraqi marshlands drained by Saddam Hussein as punishment against their occupants are back to almost 40 percent of their former level, the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) said on Wednesday.
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Nine Eastern states have reached a preliminary agreement to freeze power plant emissions at current levels and reduce them by 10 percent by 2020, The New York Times reported today, citing a confidential memorandum circulated among the states involved in the pact.
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In a major setback for the Coca-Cola company, the Kerala State Pollution Control Board has ordered the company's bottling plant in south India to "stop production of all kinds of products with immediate effect."
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Heavy rains over the weekend provided what officials said Sunday could be the decisive blow in a three-nation battle to extinguish forest fires on the Indonesian island of Sumatra.
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Greenland will introduce hunting quotas on polar bears as of January 2006 to protect the species threatened by global warming in the Arctic, but will also allow a limited tourist hunt, officials said on Thursday.
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A federal judge Friday ordered the Bush administration to step up efforts to restore the gray wolf to four northeastern states, a ruling environmentalists called a major victory.
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Two timber certification schemes are adopting new ethical and legal standards so they will comply with the U.K. government's requirements for timber and wood products used in the public sector.
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