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Lack of jobs slows migration to African cities

AlertNet: A shortage of job opportunities has slowed migration from rural to urban areas in many parts of Africa over […]

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Democratic Republic of Congo: Severe loss to great ape habitat

BBC: Great apes, such as gorillas, chimps and bonobos, are running out of places to live, say scientists. They have […]

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High-Arctic Summers Are Warmer than Any Time in 1,800 Years, Study Shows

Yale Environment 360: Summer temperatures on the Norwegian archipelago of Svalbard in the High Arctic are now higher than during […]

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Another Week Brings More Pessimistic Drought News

Climate Central: As has been the case throughout the month of September, the latest weekly drought update shows that drought […]

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Mars images ‘show old streambed’

Nasa’s Curiosity rover turns up its first clear evidence of past flowing water at its landing site in Mars’ equatorial […]

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Wallace works collected online

The collected writings and drawings of Alfred Russel Wallace, who formulated evolutionary theory independently of Darwin, are digitised and posted […]

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Texas Tar Sands Tree-Sit Launches to Halt Keystone XL Indefinitely

Truthout: Shannon Bebe and Benjamin Franklin locked themselves to construction equipment working nearly 300 yards away from a tree village […]

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Drought area widens in U.S., farmers frustrated

Reuters: More than 65 percent of the contiguous United States was under at least “moderate” drought as of September 25, […]

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Atlantic.Net Selects Mellanox’s InfiniBand Solutions to Interconnect its World-Leading Cloud Hosting Platform

(1888PressRelease) Cloud hosting powerhouse utilizes Mellanox’s QDR 40Gb/s InfiniBand solution to build one of the most optimized, cost-effective clouds on the […]

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Families Get Away Together At Muskoka Recovery Center

(1888PressRelease) Why not be able to Vacation together as a family even if one of you is a recovered addict or […]

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Innova Biosciences Signs Out-Licensing Deal with StressMarq Biosciences

(1888PressRelease) Innova Biosciences , inventor of the world’s easiest to use bioconjugation kits, is pleased to announce that the company has […]

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VSS Monitoring Inks Distribution Partnership with Westcon Middle East

(1888PressRelease) Value-add distributor to offer entire range of VSS Monitoring’s network packet broker solutions.

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Behavior Analysis in the Land of Enchantment

(1888PressRelease) ABAI’s Theory and Philosophy Conference will discuss the contributions of theory and philosophy to the science and application of behavior […]

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Creta Maris Green Team European Day Without A Car

(1888PressRelease) Creta Maris Beach Resort Green Team celebrated the European Day Without a Car by organizing cycling involving hotel guests, but […]

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Red Hat Reports Second Quarter Results

(1888PressRelease) Second quarter revenue of $323 million, up 15% year-over-year Second quarter subscription revenue of $279 million, up 17% year-over-year Second […]

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Comguard To Unveil Newer Technology Solutions At Gitex 2012

(1888PressRelease) Comguard to showcase its growing portfolio of products and solutions during Gitex Technology Week.

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Factbox: Carbon trading schemes around the world

Reuters: Carbon trading schemes are emerging all over the world as governments try to meet greenhouse gas emissions reduction targets […]

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Protecting the people, not the polluters, says Greenpeace

Mongabay: Greenpeace is dedicated to ending deforestation and preventing catastrophic climate change. We are often recognized for putting our lives […]

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Quakes point to seafloor break-up

The sequence of huge earthquakes that struck off the coast of Sumatra in April may signal the creation of a […]

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Climate Change Reducing Global GDP by $1.2 Trillion

Bloomberg: Climate change and pollution related to carbon-dioxide emissions are reducing the world’s gross domestic product by 1.6 percent a […]

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Penguins face a slippery future

Mongabay: Penguins have spent years fooling us. With their image seemingly every where we turn-entertaining us in animated films, awing […]

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Adapting Gas-Fired Power to a Greener Grid

New York Times: Making electricity from natural gas is cleaner than making it from coal or oil, but as gas […]

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Flood waters raise fears over home insurance

Guardian: In a week when hundreds of households have had their homes swamped by water, a war of words has […]

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Amazing view of Universe captured

The Hubble Space Telescope has produced one of its most extraordinary views of the Universe to date – an extreme […]

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Google Maps dives to coral reefs

Google adds images from coral reefs around the world to its Street View mapping service after teaming up with a […]

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Zinnov Annual Business Conference ‘TechTonic 2012’ – To Focus on Maximizing IT Possibilities and Winning in India

(1888PressRelease) ‘TechTonic 2012’ – Maximizing IT Possibilities and Winning in India.

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Yeosu Declaration: The Oceans In Peril Go To The Expo (Planet Inspired)

(1888PressRelease) South Korea in the forefront on research and innovation also hosts a UN center.

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Environmental Source Samplers, Inc. Announces Successful Completion of Industrial Air Testing Project in the Dominican Republic

(1888PressRelease) The successful completion of an international stack testing project in the Dominican Republic by Environmental Source Samplers, Inc. (ESS) has […]

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IQ Tech Pros Debuts a Virtual Class to Enhance Job Search Skills

(1888PressRelease) Tested Techniques Offered in a Free Webinar “How to Land a Hot IT Project” — an Advanced Marketing Workshop Featuring […]

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Sandisk Announces Development Of CFAST Memory Cards For Next-Generation Professional Photo And Video Applications

(1888PressRelease) SanDisk Corporation has announced that it is developing flash memory cards based on the new CFast2.0 specification introduced today by […]

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