Spanish troops intervened Tuesday as a wildfire near the eastern city of Valencia spread to a nature reserve after laying waste to some 1,400 hectares (3,500 acres) of land, regional authorities said.
Environment
Jul 26, 2016
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Argentina's last polar bear, Arturo, has died aged 31, officials at the controversial zoo where he lived said Monday.
Plants & Animals
Jul 4, 2016
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Using molecular genetic tools, scientists have demonstrated the existence of a grandchildren's generation of capercaillies in the south of Brandenburg in East Germany. A pilot conservation project reintroduced these endangered ...
Ecology
Jan 19, 2016
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Belgium and the Netherlands are frantically trying to stop the spread of oil leaking from a collision Tuesday morning between a freighter and a tanker in the North Sea before the slick sullies a coastal nature reserve.
Environment
Oct 6, 2015
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A Brazilian nature reserve has agreed to take in an orangutan who shot to fame when a court ruled she was a "non-human" being unlawfully held at a zoo, lawyers said Thursday.
Plants & Animals
Oct 2, 2015
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Germany agreed Thursday to turn more than 60 former military bases into nature preserves, with the aim of creating vast new green oases and sanctuaries for rare species of birds.
Ecology
Jun 18, 2015
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On February 5, 2015, several bushfires were raging near the city of Northcliff, located in southern Western Australia, triggering smoke alerts and generating aerosols that were detected by NASA-NOAA's Suomi NPP satellite.
Earth Sciences
Feb 5, 2015
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The Mediterranean Sea's most mountainous island, Corsica, dominates this image from the Landsat-8 satellite.
Earth Sciences
Jan 30, 2015
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A major pipeline leak has caused oil to gush into the Arava desert in southern Israel, threatening a protected nature reserve, officials said Thursday.
Environment
Dec 5, 2014
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TransCanada on Thursday filed for regulatory approval of a proposed Can$12 billion (US$10.7 billion) pipeline to carry western Canadian oil to Atlantic coast refineries and terminals, for shipping overseas.
Environment
Oct 30, 2014
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