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Sunflower fields of Phatthana Nikhom
Hearing   Photos   Plant   Power   Sunflower		  Kansas City Star 
Hearings set for Monday on Sunflower power plant permit
Fri 30 Jul 2010
More News Two public hearing will be held Monday in Overland Park to allow comments on a permit for the proposed Sunflower coal-fired power plant near Holcomb, Kan. The Sunflower Electric Power Corp.... (photo: Creative Commons / Ahoerstemeier)
Mountains covered with ice -climate change-ice at the highest point on mountain-India
Climate Change   Environment   Global Warming   Photos   Wikipedia: Climate change		  The Siasat Daily 
World has 12 years to go before its ice melts
Fri 30 Jul 2010
Thailand, July 30: The world has less than 12 years to go before it faces major ice-melting and potentially catastrophic effects if nothing is done to reduce carbon emissions, a Thai environmental... (photo: WN / Sayali Santosh Kadam)
Cheetah (Acinonyx jubatus)at zoo  Irish Times  Fri 30 Jul 2010
Cheetah to return to India as part of wildlife sanctuary plan
RAHUL BEDI in New Delhi THE LITHE and graceful cheetah is poised to sprint once again in India nearly half a century after it became extinct. The fastest mammal on Earth and the only one whose name... (photo: Public Domain / Vassil)
India   Nature   Photos   Wikipedia: Cheetah   Wildlife
Air pollution in Pune is on the alarming level- India  The Times of India  Fri 30 Jul 2010
Pune's task on hand is to clear the air
PUNE: Air pollution in Pune, one of the three problems which the city has to deal with urgently, is rising due to an increase in vehicles on the road. The Environment Status Report (ESR), a report... (photo: WN / Aruna Mirasdar)
India   Photos   Pollution   Pune
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File - This image of the Centauri-Hellas Montes region was taken by the Compact Reconnaissance Imaging Spectrometer for Mars (CRISM) at a portion of a trough in the Nili Fossae region of Mars is shown in enhanced color in this image from the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter BBC News Fri 30 Jul 2010
Mars site may hold 'buried life'
Researchers have identified rocks that they say could contain the fossilised remains of life on early Mars. The team made their discovery in the ancient rocks of Nili... (photo: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Univ. of Arizona)
Environment   Photos   Science   Space   Wikipedia: Life on Mars
In this photo taken on Wednesday, July 28, 2010, a man carries his belonging on a flooded path in Changchun in northeast China's Jilin province. Gulf News Thu 29 Jul 2010
Floods dump scores of chemical containers into China river
Beijing: Workers began cleaning up a chemical spill in northeastern China Thursday after more than 3,000 containers of chemicals were washed into a river by the... (photo: AP)
China   Disaster   Floods   Photos   Wikipedia: People's Republic of China
Waved Albatross (Phoebastria irrorata). Several waved albatrosses Punta Suarez, Espanola, Galapagos Islands. Fernandina (Narborough) Island: The name was given in honor of King Ferdinand II of Aragon, who sponsored the voyage of Columbus Hong Kong Standard Thu 29 Jul 2010
Galapagos Islands off danger list at gallop
Unesco's World Heritage Committee said it has removed Ecuador's Galapagos Islands from its list of endangered sites, due to protective efforts in the Pacific archipelago.... (photo: European Community / Snowmanradio)
Environment   Galapagos   Photos   UNESCO   Wikipedia: Galápagos Islands
A worker monitors water in Talmadge Creek in Marshall Township, Mich., near the Kalamazoo River as oil from a ruptured pipeline, owned by Enbridge Inc, is attempted to be trapped by booms Thursday, July 29, 2010. The New York Times Thu 29 Jul 2010
Estimate Rises of Oil Spill in Michigan
BATTLE CREEK, Mich. — More than one million gallons of oil may have spilled from a pipeline into the Kalamazoo River this week, significantly more than the... (photo: AP / Paul Sancya)
Environment   Michigan   Oil Spill   Photos   Wikipedia: Great Lakes
In this photo taken Wednesday, Jan. 20, 2010, people wait to board trains at the West Railway Station in Beijing, China. The New York Times Thu 29 Jul 2010
Population Research Presents a Sobering Prognosis
With 267 people being born every minute and 108 dying, the world's population will top 7 billion next year, a research group projects. Lower birthrates and longer life... (photo: AP)
Economy   Infrastructure   Photos   Population   Wikipedia: Population growth


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Pakistani villagers wade through water after heavy rain fall caused flooding in Nowshera near Peshawar, Pakistan on Thursday, July 29, 2010. 400 Killed in Flooding in Pakistan, Officials Say The New York Times
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, white shirt, surveys the area as he visits the village of Verkhnyaya Vereya, Russia, on Friday, July 30, 2010. Wildfires sweeping Russia kill at least 25 The Star
A local resident runs near a peat fire in a forest near the town of Lubertsi, southeast of Moscow in Shatura, late Thursday, July 29, 2010. Heat Wave Batters Russia The New York Times
Local residents carry buckets of water to extinguishes a peat fire in a forest near the town of Shatura, some 130 km (81 miles) southeast of Moscow, Thursday, July 29, 2010. Peat swamps started burning in central Russia following an unprecedented heat wave. Sweltering heat breaks new record in Moscow The Star
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Potato - Potatoes. (ps1) Potato blight down dramatically CBC
A Pakistani army soldier collects evidence at the site of Wednesday's deadly plane crash, in the mountains surrounding Islamabad, Pakistan on Thursday, July 29, 2010. DNA tests on to identify remains of crash victims Gulf News
Devotees being carried on ponies to the shrine of Hindu God 'Shiva' during the annual Amarnath Yatra (Pilgrimage), some 14 Km from Baltal in Indian-administered Kashmir on June 16, 2009,Some 600,000 pilgrims are expected to visit the holy Amarnath Cave this season where a Shiva Lingam, an ice stalagmite shaped as a fallus and symbolising the Hindu God Shiva, stands for worship. The Lingam which forms naturally every year in the Himalayan region of Kashmir, measures 12 feet in height, the Shrine Board authorities said. Amarnath yatra suspended for the second day from Jammu Deccan Chronicle
In this photo taken on Wednesday, July 28, 2010, sand bags are used to block the flood water outside women's house in Changchun in northeast China's Jilin province. China flood death toll nears 1,000 Al Jazeera
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NASA astronauts Scott Altman and Mike Massimino ring 'The Closing Bell'. NASA's Mars Rover may not survive The Examiner
Charging the Blackberry Cellphone - Smartphone Blackberry picked over Apple iPhone, Droid, Android by corporations, governments-- reasons why The Examiner
solar water heater - renewable energy Competing subsidies fail to ignite solar geysers Business Report
INDIA-ELEPHANT-ALIPUR-ZOO Alerting officials ahead of approaching elephants The Hindu
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