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PHOTOS: Amazing Sea Butterflies
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19.5.2013 |
Green on HuffingtonPost.com |
| We're consistently impressed by the variety of biodiversity out there, but these sea butterflies are really something else. The creatures, also known as pteropods, were... |
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[flenvcenter :: Biodiversity]
[flenvcenter :: Insects]
[flenvcenter :: Biodiversity]
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Spezza to return to Senators lineup for Game 3
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19.5.2013 |
Yahoo: Top Stories |
| OTTAWA (AP) — Jason Spezza doesn't have much time to return to form if the Ottawa Senators want to extend their season. ... |
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Will Power grabs early lead in race for Indy pole
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19.5.2013 |
Sports |
|  INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Will Power was the most relieved man in Roger Penske's garage Saturday.
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Sharks fined $100,000 for GM's comments
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19.5.2013 |
Sports |
| SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) — The NHL fined the San Jose Sharks $100,000 on Saturday for general manager Doug Wilson's public comments about forward Raffi Torres' suspension. |
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As fireworks crackle, Beckham plays last home game
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19.5.2013 |
Sports |
| PARIS (AP) — Never a stranger to the big stage, David Beckham was finally overwhelmed and reduced to tears as he went out in a burst of fireworks and cheers Saturday in his final home game for Paris Saint-Germain before retirement. ... |
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Bradley keeps lead after 3 rounds at Nelson
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19.5.2013 |
Sports |
| IRVING, Texas (AP) — Keegan Bradley overcame two early bogeys and maintained his lead at the Byron Nelson Championship with 2-under 68 in the third round Saturday. ... |
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[flenvcenter :: Environment]
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Oxbow upsets Orb in Preakness
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19.5.2013 |
Sports |
|  BALTIMORE (AP) — Oxbow has won the Preakness, ruining Orb's bid to capture the Triple Crown.
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Member of Pakistani cricket star's party killed
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19.5.2013 |
World |
| KARACHI, Pakistan (AP) — Police say gunmen on a motorcycle have shot and killed a senior member of a leading Pakistani political party. |
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Assad: Syria transition talks are internal matter
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19.5.2013 |
Mideast Conflict |
| BEIRUT (AP) — Syrian President Bashar Assad said in a newspaper interview Saturday he won't step down before elections and that the United States has no right to interfere in his country's politics, raising new doubts about a U.S-Russian effort to get Assad and his opponents to negotiate an end to the country's civil war. ... |
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20 flights without bags after Egypt airport strike
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19.5.2013 |
Mideast Conflict |
| CAIRO (AP) — Egyptian officials say baggage handlers in Cairo's airport have gone on strike to protest a colleague's death, leaving passengers on 20 international flights from Europe and Arab countries waiting several hours for luggage. |
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[flenvcenter :: Unions]
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Funeral held for mom, son found dead in home
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19.5.2013 |
Yahoo: US National |
| TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — Funeral services have been held for the New Jersey woman and boy whose bodies were found in their home after a 37-hour hostage standoff last weekend. |
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Up to 60 injured after car drives into Va. parade
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19.5.2013 |
Yahoo: US National |
| DAMASCUS, Va. (AP) — About 50 to 60 people were injured Saturday when a driver described by witnesses as an elderly man drove his car into a group of hikers marching in a parade in a small Virginia mountain town. ... |
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Official: Broken rail eyed in Conn. train crash
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19.5.2013 |
Yahoo: US National |
| FAIRFIELD, Conn. (AP) — Officials investigating a train collision in Connecticut have ruled out foul play and are studying a rail fracture where a derailed commuter train was struck by another bound for New York City. ... |
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[flenvcenter :: Rail]
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Federal report documents inmate sex abuse in US
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19.5.2013 |
Yahoo: US National |
| INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — A new federal report says inmates at jails in Indianapolis, Baltimore, St. Louis and Philadelphia face the nation's highest levels of sexual abuse at the hands of guards. |
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Alaska volcano shoots lava up hundreds of feet
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19.5.2013 |
Yahoo: US National |
| Alaska's remote Pavlof Volcano was shooting lava hundreds of feet into the air, but its ash plume was thinning Saturday and no longer making it dangerous for airplanes to fly nearby. |
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U.S. state cancels subsidy for investment from Pakistani company
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19.5.2013 |
Yahoo: US National |
| By Susan Guyett INDIANAPOLIS (Reuters) - Indiana has canceled subsidies for a planned $1.8 billion fertilizer plant in the state because of concerns that a Pakistani company involved in the project makes products used in improvised explosives that kill and injure U.S. troops in Afghanistan. Midwest Fertilizer Corp, which has sought to build the plant in southern Indiana, is 48 percent owned by Fatima Group, which produces a calcium ammonium nitrate fertilizer in Pakistan known to have been used in improvised explosives in Afghanistan. Indiana Governor Mike Pence, a Republican, had put a $1. ... |
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Republican cites IRS scandal in close Virginia governor's race
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19.5.2013 |
Yahoo: US National |
| By Gary Robertson RICHMOND, Virginia (Reuters) - Virginia Republicans on Saturday formally nominated Ken Cuccinelli for governor in the nation's marquee 2013 political race, and the conservative attorney general wasted no time reminding voters of the scandals facing President Barack Obama. "I am not a true conservative because I have not been investigated by the IRS," joked Cuccinelli, referring to the controversy that has engulfed the federal tax collection agency over its targeting of conservative Tea Party groups. ... |
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WATCH: Deer Crashes Through Bus Windshield, Escapes Through Door
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16.5.2013 |
Green on HuffingtonPost.com |
| Silly deer, that's not how you board the bus! In an amazing piece of raw footage taken Tuesday from a CamTran city bus in Johnstown,... |
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[flenvcenter :: Insects]
[flenvcenter :: Fish]
[flenvcenter :: Fish]
[flenvcenter :: Alternative Vehicles]
[flenvcenter :: Alternative Vehicles]
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Food supply under assault as climate heats up
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16.5.2013 |
MSNBC |
| Food supply under assault as climate heats up |
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[flenvcenter :: Plants]
[sattva_1 :: climate]
[flenvcenter :: Policy]
[demo :: Greenhouse Gases]
[demo :: Floods n Droughts]
[demo :: Agriculture]
[demo :: Disease]
[sattva_1 :: health]
[flenvcenter :: Fungi]
[demo :: Climate change]
[flenvcenter :: Impacts]
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EPA Approves New Pesticide Highly Toxic to Bees
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15.5.2013 |
Organic Consumers Association News Headlines |
| In apparent contradiction to its stated intention to protect pollinators and find solutions to the current pollinator crisis, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) approved the unconditional registration of the new insecticide sulfoxaflor, which the agency classifies as highly toxic to honey bees. Click here to read this article |
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[flenvcenter :: Four Corners Region]
[flenvcenter :: Education]
[flenvcenter :: Pesticides]
[flenvcenter :: National]
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