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California emergency grows as wildfires spread south
San Francisco - California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger extended California's state of emergency Thursday, declaring disaster status in Santa Barbara county where a wildfire threatened the coastal community of Goleta. The Gap Fire has burned some 9...

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[Posted on : 2008-07-03 ] Category : [ Nature (Environment) ]

Hot weather fuels California fires, Big Sur evacuated - Summary
San Francisco - Hot weather and swirling winds Wednesday fanned flames of a huge fire close to the tourist town of Big Sur, leading authorities to order the evacuation of one of the most scenic areas on the state's Pacific coastline. The Basin Comple...

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[Posted on : 2008-07-03 ] Category : [ Nature (Environment) ]

Wildlife groups call for Asian effort to save pangolins
Singapore - Wildlife groups fear the pangolin, once common across Asia, is being systematically wiped out and could become extinct unless governments do more to stop poaching, they said in a published report on Thursday. Citing China's appetite for e...

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[Posted on : 2008-07-03 ] Category : [ Nature (Environment) ]

Hot weather fuels California fires
San Francisco - Hot weather and swirling winds Wednesday fanned flames of a huge fire close to the tourist town of Big Sur, leading authorities to order the evacuation of one of the most scenic areas on the state's Pacific coastline. The Basin Comple...

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[Posted on : 2008-07-02 ] Category : [ Nature (Environment) ]

Alarming fall in the number of Nepal's endangered tigers
Kathmandu - A survey into the number of Nepal's endangered Tigers has shown the population has declined to dangerous levels, report Wednesday. The survey carried out in western Nepal's Bardiya National Park estimated the number of Royal Bengal Tigers...

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[Posted on : 2008-07-02 ] Category : [ Nature (Environment) ]

Weather aids California in battle on fires
San Francisco - Fires continued to rage throughout northern California Tuesday, though cooler weather and light winds helped an army of firefighters make progress against some of the worst blazes. According to the state fire agency Cal Fire a total o...

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[Posted on : 2008-07-01 ] Category : [ Nature (Environment) ]

Llaima volcano erupts in Chile
Santiago - The Llaima volcano erupted in southern Chile, near the border with Argentina, spewing lava down one of its slopes towards Cherquenco, in the municipality of Vilcun, some 85 kilometres north of the Chilean city of Temuco. About 25 people we...

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[Posted on : 2008-07-01 ] Category : [ Nature (Environment) ]

Belize delights with mixture of howling monkeys and barrier reefs
San Ignacio, Belize - The Central American country of Belize has a great variety of exotic attractions such as canoe rides through the lush jungle, boisterous pub tours in San Ignacio and scuba diving trips on a colourful barrier reef. Belize's Maya ...

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[Posted on : 2008-07-01 ] Category : [ Nature (Environment) ]

Dragonflies may provide alert system for water pollution
Singapore - Dragonfly young could soon be the aquatic version of the canary in a coalmine, a researcher said in a published report on Sunday. Just as the singing birds were used by miners to warn them of toxic air, young dragonflies that live in rese...

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[Posted on : 2008-06-29 ] Category : [ Nature (Environment) ]

Latin America campaigns to prevent whale hunting in southern seas
Santiago - Latin American countries agreed on Thursday to launch a diplomatic campaign to get the International Whaling Commission (IWC) to ban in 2009 the hunting of cetaceans in the southern hemisphere. The decision was adopted during the 60th IWC ...

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[Posted on : 2008-06-26 ] Category : [ Nature (Environment) ]