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Vancouver, BC -
Environmentalists hailed a decision by Canfor Corp. on Thursday to defer logging in a region of Alberta's foothills that is home to a threatened caribou herd.
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Washington -
The Bush administration on Thursday ordered reductions in smog and soot pollution across 28 states - including Minnesota - with the goal of making the air cleaner to breathe for people downwind of coal-burning power plants.
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New Delhi -
Worried about children falling prey to the couch-potato syndrome, former Union Minister Karan Singh and internationally acclaimed mountaineer M S Kohli plan to set up adventure and leadership camps for schoolchildren in each parliamentary constituency of India.
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Jakarta, Indonesia -
Indonesia's president pledged to wage war against deforestation, promising harsh penalties for officials involved in the illegal logging that continues to destroy massive areas of woodland annually.
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One of nature's most versatile microorganisms – a bacterium called Pseudomonas putida – could help mop up the toxic by-products caused by the destruction of the chemical weapon mustard, write Russian researchers in Journal of Chemical Technology and Biotechnology this month.
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USA -
Why is this important? Well, the tiny ocean plants help regulate our atmosphere and the health of our oceans. Phytoplankton produce half of the oxygen generated by plants on Earth.
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Los Angeles, CA -
The United Nations now estimates that five million people (mostly children) die each year from drinking contaminated water. To help solve this growing international problem a former United States Navy Captain with a background in Civil and Sanitary Engineering has invented a unique pour-through water filter Disket that does not require any electricity.
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San Francisco, CA -
Legislators in San Francisco city voted to ban smoking in public parks on Tuesday, becoming the first major American city to embrace such an expansive ban on tobacco use.
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South Africa -
On a grassy plain in South Africa, thousands of miles from home, four zoo-bred South China tiger cubs are learning to hunt in the wild.
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St. John's, Nfld. -
Fisheries Minister Geoff Regan announced five-year allotments for the majority of Atlantic fisheries Thursday, saying the longer-term plans will bring stability to fishermen and put the onus on them to conserve stocks.
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