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Commuters wait on the platform shrouded by fog in London

Climate change not man-made, say majority of Britons: poll

Space & Earth / Environment

created Nov 15, 2009 | popularity 3.4 / 5 (16) | comments 46

Less than half of Britons believes that human activity is to blame for global warming, according to a poll carried out for The Times newspaper and published on Saturday.


EU probes mismanagement in prized Spanish wetland (AP)

EU probes mismanagement in prized Spanish wetland

Space & Earth / Environment

created Oct 22, 2009 | popularity 3.2 / 5 (5) | comments 1

(AP) -- The European Union has launched an investigation into a prized Spanish wetland that has turned bone dry through mismanagement of water resources and is now on fire underground, white smoke now rising ...


EPA appoints czar for Great Lakes clean up (AP)

Cameron Davis appointed as Great Lakes czar

Space & Earth / Environment

created Jun 04, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- Cameron Davis, leader of a Chicago-based environmentalist group, has been appointed to oversee President Barack Obama's initiative to clean up the Great Lakes.


Business is booming at Ismail Dauda's crocodile tannery in northern Nigeria

Skin demand threatens Nigeria crocs

Biology / Ecology

created May 12, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Business is booming at Ismail Dauda's crocodile tannery in northern Nigeria, but environmentalists fear soaring demand for skins could be driving the reptiles to extinction.


Obama expected to kill key Bush EPA program

Space & Earth / Environment

created Mar 16, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (4) | comments 0

The Obama administration intends to close an EPA program heavily promoted by the Bush Administration that rewards voluntary pollution controls by hundreds of corporations with reduced environmental inspections and less stringent ...