Environment

Herald Sun, 03.09.10 10:30 UTC

Sutton wins Button prize

ANTHROPOLOGIST Peter Sutton has won the second John Button Prize for his book on the state of indigenous Australians in remote communities.

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Seattle Times, 03.09.10 09:43 UTC

4 killed in Russian forest fires

Russia's emergencies ministry says forest fires in the country's south have killed four people.

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Daily Mail, 03.09.10 09:41 UTC

Is this the country's most confusing roundabout? Junction has 58 sets of traffic lights... and council wants to add MORE

Blackpool is quite rightly famed for its eye-catching display of colourful lights - but Southampton's rather different illuminations are drawing nothing but criticism from the city's hard-pressed ...

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Huffington Post, 03.09.10 09:40 UTC

Prop23: Who Needs BP When You've Got the Koch Brothers to Overturn California's Climate & Energy Laws?

OPPONENTS OF PROP23 IN CALIFORNIA FACE A DAUNTING NEW OPPONENTSan Francisco, September 2 Late Thursday night, those who support progress on climate & energy policy received bad news that we expected, ...

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Huffington Post, 03.09.10 09:40 UTC

Game On. Overturning California's Climate & Energy Laws the Second Front for Billionaire Koch Brothers & Texas Oil (Prop23)

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Telegraph, 03.09.10 08:52 UTC

China farmers under siege from wild boar invasion

Farmers in eastern China are grappling with an explosion in the population of wild boars that is wreaking a trial of devastation across the crop fields of the countryside.

China Zhejiang the China Daily Shanghai

guardian.co.uk, 03.09.10 08:52 UTC

Live chat: Peter Melchett kicks off Organic Fortnight

With Organic Fortnight starting today, join us at 1pm to discuss organic food, products and farming with Peter Melchett, policy director of the Soil Association

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Herald Sun, 03.09.10 07:10 UTC

Five dead in new forest fires in Russia

FIVE people died in southern Russia after new forest fires broke out, a regional official told news agencies on Friday.

head of Volgograd region head of Volgograd region's investigative committee Mikhail Murzayev Russia RIA Novosti

Seattle Times, 03.09.10 07:09 UTC

Thousands of trucks stuck in China traffic jam

Thousands of coal trucks were backed up for miles on a northern China highway Friday, the latest in a series of monster jams that have plagued the overloaded road since construction began on a parallel route earlier this summer.

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Telegraph, 03.09.10 07:08 UTC

Whale put to death with explosives: the rescue attempts

Australian officials used explosives to blow up a terminally ill humpback whale that became stranded on a beach near Perth two weeks ago, it emerged on Thursday. Here are some other cases of whale beachings and how rescuers tried to save them.

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