News tagged with park
Florida's Everglades put on world heritage endangered list
Florida's Everglades and Madagascar's tropical forest were added Friday to a list of imperiled world heritage sites by UNESCO officials who also registered lesser threats to Peru's Machu Picchu ruins and the ...
Jul 31, 2010 |
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Plugless Power soon to arrive for electric and hybrid vehicles
(PhysOrg.com) -- Evatran, a company from Virginia in the US, has developed a working prototype of a plugless induction charger for electric and hybrid vehicles, and demonstrated the system at this week’s Plug In ...
Technology / Energy & Green Tech
Jul 30, 2010 |
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Petition seeks to have wolves howl across US
(AP) -- Tens of thousands of gray wolves would be returned to the woods of New England, the mountains of California, the wide open Great Plains and the desert West under a scientific petition filed Tuesday with the federal ...
Jul 21, 2010 |
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Scientists counter brucellosis threat to livestock and wildlife
Armed with dart guns and medical pellets, Agricultural Research Service (ARS) scientists are vaccinating bison in and around Yellowstone National Park against brucellosis.
Jul 15, 2010 |
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Africa's national parks hit by mammal declines
AFRICAN national parks like Masai Mara and the Serengeti have seen populations of large mammals decline by up to 59 per cent, according to a study published in Biological Conservation.
Jul 12, 2010 |
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Parking lots could become 'solar groves' (w/ Video)
(PhysOrg.com) -- Architect Robert Noble, who specializes in sustainable design has come up with the idea of turning parking lots into "solar groves" that shade the vehicles, generate electricity, and serve ...
Technology / Energy & Green Tech
Jul 12, 2010 |
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New system helps locate car park spaces
A research group from the Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, Spain, led by Jose Lopez Vicario and Antoni Morell, took part in the development of a new system which locates unoccupied car park spaces and guides ...
Jul 07, 2010 |
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Researcher finds 10,000 year-old hunting weapon in melting ice patch (w/ Video)
(PhysOrg.com) -- To the untrained eye, University of Colorado at Boulder Research Associate Craig Lee's recent discovery of a 10,000-year-old wooden hunting weapon might look like a small branch that blew ...
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Jun 29, 2010 |
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Studies confirm presence, severity of pollution in national parks
Toxic contamination from pesticides, the burning of fossil fuels, agriculture, industrial operations and other sources are a continuing concern in national parks of the West, two new studies confirm.
Jun 23, 2010 |
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Malaysia seizes endangered Madagascan tortoises
Malaysian authorities said Monday they had seized hundreds of critically endangered live tortoises bound for pet shops.
Jun 14, 2010 |
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Wind turbines set out to conquer Sweden's great north
While community opposition often blocks or hampers new wind power projects, Sweden has managed to break ground for Europe's largest wind park counting more than 1,000 giant turbines, with barely a whisper ...
Technology / Energy & Green Tech
Jun 14, 2010 |
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Study Examines Competing Interests in Maine Forests' Future
(PhysOrg.com) -- In more than a decade of public debate about the future of Maine’s forestlands, sustainability has been a linchpin, with stakeholders arguing that it be either reinvented or restored, depending on their view ...
Jun 04, 2010 |
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Land Deal Likely to Improve Everglades, Ecologists Say
Tom Brokaw, Miss Florida, and the all stars of Florida Everglades advocacy came to Washington on May 19 to discuss the progress of restoration efforts. Packed into a small room down the street from the Capitol ...
May 20, 2010 |
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Can we predict when and where rock will fall?
(PhysOrg.com) -- Falling rock shatters the tranquillity of Yosemite National Park about every 10 days, and occasionally leads to fatalities. What forces trigger a rockfall? Are there precursor signals that ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
May 18, 2010 |
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Giant dinosaur footprints found in Argentine 'Jurassic Park'
Dinosaur footprints up to 1.2 meters (four feet) in diameter have been found in an area of Patagonia known as Argentina's "Jurassic Park," a scientist said Wednesday.
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
May 12, 2010 |
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