Environment
- Calibrating Catastrophes: Where Does The BP Spill Rank?
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"From Disaster to Catastrophe-- What's Obama's Endgame In the Gulf?" Fox News headline, July 15. The headline suggests that there is a difference between a disaster and a catastrophe, and that catastrophes are worse. I suppose most pe ...
Article - Dave Deamer - Jul 15 2010 - 4:32pm
- What Price Freedom Of Information?
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What Price Freedom Of Information? There has been a great deal of fuss over a few emails and the topic of freedom of information in relation to the University of East Anglia's Climate Research Unit. At the core of the debate is the issue of whether o ...
Article - Patrick Lockerby - Jul 15 2010 - 11:52am
- Arctic Heroes #2- North Pole 1
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Arctic Heroes #2- North Pole 1 The first ever weather station on an ice floe was North Pole 1, set up May 21 1937 by a team of Russians and manned by four heroes. The record of that event shows that there was more ice in 1937 than today, it was thicker, ...
Article - Patrick Lockerby - Jul 16 2010 - 12:29am
- Bridges That Build Themselves
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Bridges That Build Themselves The two oldest types of bridge are the arch bridge and the corbel bridge. It takes a lot of time and effort to build them, but they can last for thousands of years. Rockfalls can make natural bridges over streams, but the &# ...
Article - Patrick Lockerby - Jul 20 2010 - 10:49am
- Save water and vegetation of Jaipur Save heritage save Jaipur
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Blog Post - Ashwani Kumar - Jul 19 2010 - 10:50pm
- Mansager lake has been filled with sand to make it tourist attraction see it for yourself
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Blog Post - Ashwani Kumar - Jul 19 2010 - 10:53pm
- Amber fort lake has gone dry
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Blog Post - Ashwani Kumar - Jul 19 2010 - 11:07pm
- Hills of Nahargarfort (Tiger fort of Jaipur) are now barren Its water pond is dry
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It used to be filled with water. ...
Blog Post - Ashwani Kumar - Jul 19 2010 - 11:34pm
- Gardens at their best- the Versailles Palace of King Louis XIV of France
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If you can withstand a two hour wait in the queue (on Sunday the 18th July) to purchase the ticket costing Euro 25 for the Palace and gardens there is no other place as beautiful as the garden of the palace of Versailles, just one hour from Paris. It has ...
Blog Post - Ashwani Kumar - Jul 20 2010 - 2:30pm
- If Barcelona road could have trees on them Jaipur had it 3 centuries ago but not now.
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Roads of city centre in Barcelona or leading to it are having trees on both the sides. A feature that Maharaja of Jaipur laid down when he founded Jaipur. You can still see some trees on some roads of Jaipur within the walled city. However when I saw this ...
Blog Post - Ashwani Kumar - Jul 22 2010 - 12:25pm
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