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Rice - Crop - Farming - Agriculture
China   Climate   Crop   Photos   Wikipedia: Crop yield  
 Independent online 
 Warmer temperatures to reduce crop yields
| Hong Kong - With the climate set to get warmer from greenhouse gases, Chinese scientists predicted on Thursday that freshwater for agriculture will shrink further in China, reducing crop yields in t... (photo: WN / Rubielyn Bunag)
Bottled Water
Dubai   Education   Photos   Water   Wikipedia: Bottled water    
 Gulf News 
UAE's bottled water stored in unhygienic conditions
| Dubai: Bottled drinking water supplied to homes in the UAE is being stored in extremely unhygienic conditions - in some cases even in garbage rooms - an XPRESS investigation has revealed. | Behind t... (photo: WN / Sweet Radoc)
 In this photo released by Centre of Marine Studies, The University of Queensland, fish swim amongst bleached coral near the Keppel Islands in the Great Barrier Reef, Australia, on Monday, Jan. 23, 2006. An international team of scientist´s studying  Deccan Chronicle 
Under threat
--> Under threat | Share ARTICLEURL | Bleaching causes havoc | One of the most destructive and swift coral bleaching events ever recorded is taking place in the waters off Indonesia and all because wa... (photo: AP/Ove Hoegh-Guldberg, Centre for Marine Studies, The University of Queensland, HO)
Conservation   Global Warming   Photos   Wikipedia: Coral bleaching   Wildlife  
Water - Drinking Water  The Press Democrat 
Feds: Don't drink contaminated water in Wyo. town
| The announcement by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services coincided with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency releasing its latest findings from testing water wells in the Pavillion a... (photo: WN / Rubielyn Bunag)
Contamination   Health   Photos   Water   Wikipedia: Drinking water  
Top Stories
Fresh vegetarian pasta The Examiner
7 ways becoming a vegetarian will improve your health (and your environment)
| Giving up meat.  The concept, which sounds crazy to most meat-and-potato-eating Americans, is actually gaining in popularity in recent years.  According to a 2008 V... (photo: Creative Commons / Bot)
Environment   Health   Meat   Photos   Vegetarian  
Ricefield - Crops - Climate - Clouds PhysOrg
Climate: Risks loom for China: study
--> | A Chinese farmer tends to crops on the outskirts of Beijing in June 2010. Climate change could reduce key harvests in China by a fifth if the gloomiest scenarios pr... (photo: WN / Rubielyn Bunag)
China   Climate   Photos   Risks   Wikipedia: Climate change  
Algae The Columbus Dispatch
Geauga County lake subject of latest toxic-algae advisory
|   | The state is now warning against touching the water or boating in LaDue Reservoir in Geauga County. | State agencies issued the no-touch, no-boating advisory y... (photo: WN / Arturo Ubaub)
Lake   Photos   Toxic   Warning   Wikipedia: Algae  
Fruits - Vegetables  - Food - Healthy Foods Newsvine
Sustainable survivability and the food chain: fruits and vegetables
| Most of us can remember growing up to the ever-present reminders of; “eat your vegetables...” If our parents had known then what we know now it might have b... (photo: WN / Rubielyn Bunag)
Food   People   Photos   Vegetables   wikipedia:Vegetables  
Heavy rains flooded some portions of a terminal in Surallah, South Cotabato in this May 18, 2009 file photo. Star Tribune
Afghan refugees hit by Pakistani floods forced to start over yet again
| AZAKHEL, Pakistan - After fleeing the Soviet invasion of his country with nothing, Afghan refugee Ziarat Gul spent three decades building a new life in neighboring Paki... (photo: WN / Janice Sabnal)
Nature   Pakistani   Photos   World   wikipedia:Pakistani  
trees in a forest - ecology - environment Merinews
Needed enhanced ecological literacy to save the environment
THAT ECOLOGICALLY India has been facing tough times has been known for some time. Things have not been happy and what is perhaps more forbidding is that they ar... (photo: WN / Aruna Mirasdar)
Assam   Environment   India   Photos   Wikipedia: Ecology  
Climate Change Environment and Nature
- Climatic change of heart, global CO2 down, mental exercise v
- Dramatic climate change is unpredictable
- Climate Change Chocolate Update
- Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change must keep its eye
Rice Field - Crop - Farming - Agriculture
Climate change poses big risks to China's crops and economy, study finds
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- Key to limitless energy
- Oil-platform explosion in the Gulf. Yes, another one.
- Feds lease prime solar land, but narry a panel is in sight
- Battling to preserve Nigeria's rainforest
Newly appointed Director General of the ITER (originaly International Thermonuclear  Experimental Reactor) Organization, Japaneze Professor Osamu Motojima, poses for photographers, during a press conference, at CEA (Atomic Energy Authority) headquarters in Cadarache, near Saint-Paul-lez-Durance, southern France , Wednesday, July 28, 2010.
Key to limitless energy
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Desalination Hydrology
- Multiplying the Yield of an Oasis
- The New Republic: The Environment Paradox
- Asian Shares Higher But Caution Prevails
- How China Could Avert a Water Crisis Without Uprooting 330,0
Tap Water - Water - Drinking Water
Quality of Jordan’s drinking water: Filtering fact from fiction
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- Mekong River rises to near-alarm level in Laos
- Naturalist Dan Whitten's "Waterfalls of the Upstate
- Storm triggers widespread rainfall, flood
- Pre-info system combats flood impact
The Bakun dam can be imagined as Egypt's tallest pyramid planted upside down
The Bakun dam can be imagined as Egypt's tallest pyramid planted upside down
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Hydropower Oceans and Seas
- Mekong River rises to near-alarm level in Laos
- Uganda seeks bids for Karuma hydropower plant
- Mahat for encouraging hydel investors
- Kyrgyzstan opens first unit of Kambarata-2 hydropower projec
James Cameron on stage at ted
Avatar Director James Cameron To Global Warming Skeptics—You're Swine!
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- Sea birds and marine life still dying and need rescuing
- Ellen MacArthur: 'I can't live with the sea any more
- Tiny Gulf Sea Creature Could Shed Light on Oil Spills Impact
- Saved from Pakistan's endless sea
File:Blanding's Turtle Laying Eggs.jpg
Fla Fish and Wildlife Conservation Comm. Ends Relocation of Sea Turtle Eggs in Franklin, Gulf Cos.
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Global Warming Water Pollution
- Discovery Channel Building Taken Over by Crazed Global Warmi
- 6 global warming skeptics who changed their minds - The Week
- Global warming could spell disaster for corn crops
- Noted anti-global-warming scientist reverses course
Corn Crop - Agriculture - Maize
Global warming could spell disaster for corn crops
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- Tibetan nomads struggle as grasslands disappear from the roo
- 'Fracking' yields fuel, fear in Northeast
- Federal Register
- The New Republic: The Environment Paradox
Water - Drinking Water
Feds: Don't drink contaminated water in Wyo. town
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