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Top UN official upbeat as many Member States commit to emergency relief fundUnited Nations - The United Nations humanitarian chief announced today that around $380 million was pledged to its emergency relief fund that can be quickly accessed by the world body, potentially saving thousands of lives when responding to disasters. |
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Humpbacks make a comeback in PacificNorthern Pacific Ocean - Humpback whales appear to be returning from the brink of extinction in the North Pacific Ocean, a new study shows. |
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Bamboo, dubbed ‘vegetal steel,’ superb for buildingGirardot, Colombia - Forget steel and concrete. The building material of choice for the 21st century might just be bamboo. |
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Rain Power: Harvesting Energy from the SkyGrenoble, France - Researchers who study energy harvesting see energy all around us – we just need to find a way to capture that energy. One of the latest energy harvesting techniques is converting the mechanical energy from falling raindrops into electricity that can be used to power sensors and other electronics devices. |
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Lawsuits Force Listing of Six Rare Birds as EndangeredWashington, D.C., USA - The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has listed six rare birds from around the world as endangered under the U.S. Endangered Species Act. |
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Al Gore & IPCC Share Nobel Peace Prize For 2007Oslo, Norway - The Norwegian Nobel Committee has decided that the Nobel Peace Prize for 2007 is to be shared, in two equal parts, between the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and Albert Arnold (Al) Gore Jr. for their efforts to build up and disseminate greater knowledge about man-made climate change, and to lay the foundations for the measures that are needed to counteract such change. |
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Rotary Club donates money to help Matamoros school; Mexico’s club is also contributing grantHarlingen, Texas, USA - The Rotary Club of Harlingen has donated $3,500 Friday to the Rotary Club of Matamoros, Mexico, to help with construction costs of a school cafeteria there. |
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149 Exotic Parrots Seized From Smugglers, Returned to MexicoSan Diego, California, USA - One hundred and forty-nine exotic parrots -- protected by U.S. and international law, and confiscated from smugglers at the U.S. border with Mexico -- were returned to Mexico this morning at the Otay Mesa Port of Entry near San Diego, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced today. |
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Five Entrepreneurs Changing the Alternative Energy Picture in New York and the Surrounding AreaLackawanna, New York, USA - The managing director of BQ Energy, Paul Curran, 50, has overseen what he describes as the first large-scale wind project inside an American city ... Earlier this summer his Putnam County-based company, working with UPC Wind of Newton, Mass., placed eight wind turbines on the site of an old Bethlehem Steel mill in Lackawanna, N.Y., a suburb south of Buffalo. |
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Cocaine use by workers dropsWashington, D.C., USA - Crackdowns on drug traffickers by Colombia and Mexico are credited with a drop in cocaine use by U.S. workers, according to the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy. |
