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Maps
Global Burnt Area mapping excerise, organised and led by the Joint Research Centre’s Global Vegetation Monitoring Unit, based in the Insistute for Environment and Sustainability. A global land cover map and global burnt area ...
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Pirate Utopias (Do or Die)
British trade with the colonies, and crippling the emerging system of global exploitation, slavery and colonialism.(2) We can easily imagine the ... of the crew of Bartholomew Roberts "openly and in the daytime burnt and destroyed... vessels in the Road of Basseterre [St. Kitts] ... the coast of Madagascar, Misson found a perfect bay in an area with fertile soil, fresh water and friendly natives. Here the ...
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No Evolution Without Revolution (Do or Die)
SNH is wary of getting its hands burnt by dealing with a far more controversial creature than the innocuous, ... from exposure and higher productivity, on a fraction of the land area.[54] The bulk of the land is thus freed up for ...
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Warrah Issue 15 Highlights
International, to inaugurate its Seabird Conservation Programme in 1997, with a global review of seabird mortality caused by longline fisheries as its ... the natural and built environment (environmental conservation). This is an area of work which is likely to assume greater importance once ... . All the oil in the storage tank has now been burnt and the remaining oily water decanted into 40-gallon drums ...
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Friends of the Earth: Briefing: A better quality of investment: Friends of the Earth's Seventh 'Blueprint for a Green Budget'
Sitemap | Contact Home ---------- Join ---------- Campaigns Biodiversity Campaign Express Climate Corporates Global Trade Policy/Research Real Food Transport Waste ---------- Local ... and recycling; encouraging mainstream investment firms to develop this area of their business; increase the awareness of individual ... of waste most of which is buried or burnt rather than re-used or recycled. Despite the ...
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FMI - Research - Atmosphere - Ozone and UV radiation
The skin may still get burnt even in the shade, because half of the radiation is composed ... restoring reactions. If the Sun has already began to radiate the area after the Arctic night, the catalytic ozone loss process will get ... hemispheres. Mid-atmospheric cooling and low-atmospheric warming caused by the global climate change can, however, make it possible for an Antarctic-like ...
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1250-1050 BC -- An Example of an Historical Cycle
Thoreau George Santayana Keywords: History, 13th-11th Centuries BC, global catastrophes, ancient authors, religion, mythology, Gaia theory, coming Earth changes, ... or moved to some unknown location(s), leaving the area behind for the fundamental, even ethnic changes that occurred ... and fields are burnt with fire. The heat of him has burnt their countries. The fire of Sekhmet has burnt the lands of ...
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biodiesel
Most scientists now agree that the earth’s temperature is rising much ... 7% of its land to grow the crops needed – a huge land area, but feasible. However, this figure rises to 30% in the USA, and over ... not fossil fuels. Biofuel crops absorb the carbon dioxide emitted when biofuels are burnt a home-made ...
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Military Consequences of a War and Occupation of Iraq - Security Council - Global Policy Forum
Secretary General DONATE NOW Military Consequences of a War and Occupation of Iraq - Security Council - Global Policy Forum Consequences of the War and Occupation of Iraq Military Consequences Picture Credit: Where ... around. At the end of their tour, the soldiers say the area is littered with trash, open sewers and burnt out houses and cars. One soldier remarked that he will leave “being ...
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Lubee Bat Conservancy :: Conservation Programs :: Madagascar West Indian Ocean
Berenty is protected, the bats are still at risk from hunting in this area. Hunting for subsistence food is considered a major threat to these bats. They are caught ... dominated by savanna-type grassland (Koechlin 1993). In central and western Madagascar these prairies are burnt annually for cattle grazing (Lowry et al. 1997). This barren habitat cannot support fruit bats ...
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