Positive news from Spain
Secretary-General pledges ‘green’ UN complexUnited Nations - Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today pledged that the United Nations will help safeguard the planet by making its own in-house practices more climate-neutral and environmentally sustainable. |
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Spain stops construction of motorway to save lynxMadrid, Spain - The Spanish Environment Ministry has decided to stop the construction of a 300-kilometre motorway to save the Iberian lynx, the world's most threatened feline species. |
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Abroad by boardDevon, England, UK - A Devon man is set to make his first trip abroad -- on a skateboard. Sam Benson, 20, is planning to skate 2,500 miles across five European countries in 10 weeks. |
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Most European Beaches Clean, EU Report ShowsBrussels, Belgium - Europe's holiday beaches won generally high ratings on Thursday from the European Commission, which reported nearly nine out of 10 in good condition on the coasts, but only six out of 10 inland. |
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T. Rex, Other Big Dinosaurs Could Swim, New Evidence SuggestsCameros Basin, Spain - Predatory dinosaurs such as the mighty Tyrannosaurus rex could swim, say scientists who claim they have found definitive proof of the behavior. |
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Vaccines Getting to Poor Nations FasterAmsterdam, Netherlands - The timeline for getting new vaccines to poor countries that need them most is being shortened from decades to less than two years, an alliance of U.N. agencies and government and private groups said Friday. |
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Applied Materials equipping solar factory start-upsAustin, Texas, USA - Applied Materials has said for the past year that it will build turnkey equipment for start-up solar-panel factories, and it appears that the company has begun doing just that. |
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Digital Tricks Preserve Thousands of Dinosaur TracksEastern Pyrenees, Spain - Digital technology has "frozen in time" thousands of fossilized dinosaur tracks, bringing to life a caravan of paleo-beasts, from towering sauropods to Tyrannosaurus rexes, that stampeded over a rocky Earth millions of years ago. |
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Solar Power TowerSeville, Spain - This solar power tower in Spain acts as a powerful electricity generator and graceful work of landscape art ... The 40-story high concrete tower is bathed in powerful rays of bright sunlight and it can be seen for miles. |
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‘Follow the Women - Women for peace’ cycle ride gets underwayAleppo, Syria - 'Follow the Women - Women for Peace' cycle ride started from Aleppo University in northern Syria on Saturday, with 249 female riders from 30 countries crossing the start line and heading straight into the first 30km road section from Aleppo to the site of the historic Saint Simeon Citadel. |
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News from Europe
- Six million turn out for global garbage clean-up
- Swiss Parliament Passes Plastic Bag Ban
- French move boosts shark sanctuaries
- First liver cancer ‘chemo-bath’ in the UK
- Scientists uncover gene behind skin disease
- Europe Now Creates Enough Solar Power to Fuel Austria
- London’s Eco-Friendly Olympic Games
- Portugal commissions world’s first Nissan Leaf electric car police fleet
- Long hunt detects possible ‘God particle’
- After damning research, France proposes banning pesticide linked to bee collapse