Positive news from Portugal
Portugal commissions world’s first Nissan Leaf electric car police fleetPortugal's Police has put the world's first Nissan Leaf police car fleet on the streets. The eight-car fleet will help PSP in its goal to reduce its carbon footprint.
"We pride ourselves in being the first police force in the world to incorporate cars with zero-emission technology as part of our 5,000 vehicle fleet,"
- Superintendent Paul Gomes Valente, National Director of PSP |
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Portugal commissions world’s first Nissan Leaf electric car police fleetPortugal's Police has put the world's first Nissan Leaf police car fleet on the streets. The eight-car fleet will help PSP in its goal to reduce its carbon footprint. |
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Water is LifeIn southern Portugal, a pilot model shows how the desertification of the Mediterranean and other threatened places in the world can be stopped. It is also a model for regional food autonomy. |
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Portugal finds a power niche in the sunAmareleja, Portugal - Broad fields of giant solar panels as big as houses tilt toward the sun in this torrid patch of the Iberian peninsula. |
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Skies to be swept for alien lifeHat Creek, California - The switch has been thrown on a telescope specifically designed to seek out alien life. |
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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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UNESCO adds 23 new sites to global network of biosphere reservesUnited Nations - Remote cloud forests in Viet Nam, hundreds of atolls in Micronesia and mangroves in El Salvador are featured in the 23 ecosystems which were added today to a United Nations network set up to fight biodiversity loss and promote sustainable development that helps local communities. |
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Weird Creatures Found on Deep-Sea “Mountain Range”Mid-Atlantic Ridge, North Atlantic Ocean - Abundant new and rare marine species have been discovered on a deep-sea mountain range in the middle of the North Atlantic, scientists say. |
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The new 7 Wonders of the World are NamedLisbon, Portugal - As reported earlier today, the new 7 Wonders have been announced at a show in Lisbon tonight. |
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Portugal Opens 11-MW Solar Power PlantSerpa, Portugal - Portugal is doing its part to invest in renewable energy with the dedication of a new 11-megawatt (MW) solar plant. |
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Man leaves money to strangersLisbon, Portugal - A Portuguese man left money in his will to 70 people he randomly picked out of the phone book. |
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- London’s Eco-Friendly Olympic Games
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- After damning research, France proposes banning pesticide linked to bee collapse