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MMC drives recovery road (06 October 02:03) |
| Oct 6 - Japan's Mitsubishi Motors came back from bailout, but the global credit crunch is testing the traction of that recovery.
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Death by beetle (02 October 07:55) |
| Oct 2 - Canadian forests are being ravaged by the voracious mountain pine beetle.
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Brazilian government accused (01 October 04:13) |
| Oct 1 - The government tops a list of 100 illegal loggers in the country's Amazon rain forest.
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Whale freed in daring rescue (28 September 05:24) |
| Sep 28 - A whale which became entangled in shark nets off Australia's Gold Coast has been freed after a daring seven hour rescue operation.
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Fair trade sex emporium (25 September 10:16) |
| Sep 25 - Sam Roddick, founder of sex emporium Coco de Mer, talks to Reuters about the ethos behind her business philosophy.
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Polar bear Knut's keeper dies (23 September 09:32) |
| Sep 23 - A German zookeeper who lovingly raised celebrity polar cub Knut at Berlin zoo has died of a heart attack aged 44.
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System-reload for eco-designers (22 September 09:55) |
| Sep 22 - Designers meet in London to show how sustainability and environmental issues are re-shaping their work.
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Ivory Coast's toxic problem (20 September 04:58) |
| Sept. 20 - Two years ago, tonnes of poisonous chemicals were dumped near residential neighbourhoods in Abidjan.
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Kenya's endangered forest (20 September 06:11) |
| Sept. 20 - Mau forest is Kenya's biggest water catchment area providing a lifeline for millions of people but scientists warn that continued destruction of the woodland will have serious eff... |
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Treasure trove of marine species (19 September 09:54) |
| Sep 19 - Australian scientists have discovered hundreds of new types of coral and marine species during an expedition off the Great Barrier reef.
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Denmark's mammoth eco-gardeners (18 September 08:31) |
| Sep 18 - Danish biologists have come up with an unusal way of maintaining a local nature reserve - instead of machines they're using elephants.
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SUVs and the city (18 September 07:42) |
| Sep 18 - Uncertainty in oil prices and environmental concerns are denting the prestige of SUVs or 4x4s for city drivers in the UK.
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Panda birth caught on film (18 September 03:00) |
| Sep 18 - A panda in Japan has become the first to successfully give birth through natural cross-breeding.
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Let there be less light (17 September 08:23) |
| Sep 17 - A new book offers church leaders in the UK practical advice on how to reduce their carbon footprint, including cutting down on lighting costs.
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Working on The Fox Project (11 September 11:58) |
| Sep. 11 - Fox charity in southern England works with injured foxes and promotes humane controls to those who don't want them in their gardens!
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Clean coal for the future? (09 September 10:48) |
| Sep 9 - What's billed as the world's first coal-fired power station to capture and store environmentally harmful carbon dioxide emissions opens in eastern Germany.
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Japan polar bears go green (09 September 09:55) |
| Sep 9 - Algae in their pool at Higashiyama Zoo in Nagoya is dying their dazzling white fur.
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Lake Baikal's environmental crisis (08 September 10:39) |
| Sep 8 - Lake Baikal's environmental crisis.
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Plug in, recharge, drive off (08 September 10:05) |
| Sep 8 - Car maker Daimler and utility company RWE plan to open recharging stations for electric autos in Berlin from the end of 2009.
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Nigeria's toilets (07 September 07:39) |
| Sept. 7 - A businessman in Lagos, Nigeria is making a success out of building better public conveniences for his country who are in desparate need of them.
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Europe's first artificial reef (04 September 09:59) |
| Sep 3 - Work begins on northern hemisphere's first artificial reef off the southern coast of England.
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Animals flee Indian floodwater (04 September 04:52) |
| Sep 4 - In India's northeastern state of Assam heavy rains have caused the Brahmaputra river to burst its banks and flood most of Kaziranga National Park.
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Climate protest targets logging (04 September 03:00) |
| Environmental activists from Greenpeace prevent a logging operation from taking place in Papua New Guinea.
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Kenya's weather is snow joke (03 September 10:16) |
| Sep 3 - Residents in Kenya's Rift Valley celebrate the area's first ever snowfall with snow ball fights and a day off work and school.
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Turtles on the beach (03 September 03:35) |
| Sep. 2 - Olive Ridley Marine turtles are heading to shore to lay eggs in Oaxaca, Mexico.
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Gustav becomes a hurricane (30 August 04:45) |
| Aug. 29 - Gustav strengthened into a hurricane as it headed for the Gulf of Mexico on the third anniversary of Hurricane Katrina's strike.
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Hospital for bats (29 August 10:09) |
| Aug 29 - Reuters visits a bat hospital in Sussex, southern England, ahead of European Bat Weekend.
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Brazil's dead penguin mystery (29 August 06:28) |
| Aug 20 - Environmental police are investigating the deaths of at least 180 oil-soaked penguins which have been washed ashore in southern Brazil in the past week.
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Tofu waste turns to gas (28 August 05:06) |
| Aug 28 - Tofu factory waste is being turned into energy in Indonesia.
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Panda birth captured on video (28 August 03:19) |
| The birth of a Giant Panda baby is captured on video in what is being celebrated as Japan's first successful birth by an artificially inseminated panda in 20 years.
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Grease is the word! (27 August 11:31) |
| Aug. 27 - Environmentally-aware motorists have been driving across Europe in cars generated by recycled cooking oil.
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Ancient mummy unearthed (27 August 10:02) |
| Peruvian archaeologists discover an intact mummy of the Wari civilization in a tomb in Lima.
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Our hidden water consumption (22 August 10:32) |
| Aug 22 - The concept of 'virtual water' reveals the shocking amounts contained in the products we consume.
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Sad end for orphaned whale (22 August 02:48) |
| Aug 22 - A baby whale abandoned by its mother in Australia is put down by rangers after attempts to save it failed.
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Life without a toilet (21 August 10:12) |
| Aug 21 - With billions around the world living without a toilet, sanitation experts are pushing to get this most basic need on the political agenda.
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Whale whisperer at work (21 August 05:53) |
| Aug 21 - An Aboriginal whale whisperer joins the last-ditch battle to save an abandoned baby humpback.
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Tamarins buck the trend (20 August 02:33) |
| Aug 19 - While most primates face the threat of extinction, in Brazil, Golden Lion Tamarins are bucking the trend.
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''Listening'' reveals plant health (18 August 10:17) |
| Aug 18 - Israeli scientists develop a way to detect water pollution by "listening" to algae.
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New entrance to Mayan underworld (17 August 08:47) |
| Aug. 17 - Maya-hunters find a new system of caves and underground temples in Mexico's Yucatan peninsula.
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Concern over shark hunting (17 August 04:06) |
| Aug. 17 - Shark hunting in Madagascar is big business. But without any conservation projects in place to protect them environmentalists fear the shark could disappear all together.
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Garden plots boom in UK (14 August 10:40) |
| Aug 14 - With food prices rising and concerns over transport and the envioronment, allotments have never been so much in vogue.
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Whales saved, whalers watched (13 August 10:30) |
| Aug 13 - Greenpeace calls for the whaling ban to stay, despite recovering numbers of some types.
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Sat nav for seals (13 August 04:08) |
| Aug 13 - Seals in the Antarctic join the effort to measure climate change.
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Whale numbers up since hunt ban (13 August 02:56) |
| Aug 13 - Some large whale species such as the humpback, minke and southern right whale are recovering from the threat of extiction since the curb on hunts in the 1980s.
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Efforts to save endangered eagles (13 August 08:02) |
| Aug 13 - Conservationists at the Buenos Aires Zoo in Argentina work to return an endangered Crowned Solitary Eagle to her habitat.
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Kenya turns waste into cards (12 August 01:07) |
| Aug. 12 - Many people who live in Kenya's Kibera slum often go hungry because they can't afford to put a meal on the table.
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Time to tidy up (11 August 06:15) |
| Aug. 10 - For much of the 90’s Burundi experienced a civil war that killed over 300,000 people. Now that there’s peace, the government is mobilizing citizens to help rebuild the country.... |
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Climate change campers converge (09 August 09:39) |
| Aug. 09 - A British coal-fired power station is the focus of attempted disruption - and heavy policing.
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UK eco-village lives carbon neutral (09 August 12:06) |
| Aug. 8 - Climate change campaigners set up their hamlet in Kent, southern England, trying to set an example in the shadow of a coal power station.
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Eco-village lives carbon neutral (07 August 10:56) |
| Aug 7 - Climate change campaigners set up their hamlet in Kent, southern England, trying to set an example in the shadow of a coal power station.
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