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Palaeontologists claim to have unearthed 48 new prehistoric species including dinosaurs, from cliffs of the Isle of Wight dubbed as Britain’s Jurassic Park.

A team at the Portsmouth University, led by Dr Steve Sweetman, actually made the discovery during their painstaking search of what has been nicknamed the “Dinosaur Island” over a period of four years.

Their haul includes eight dinosaurs, six mammals and 15 different types of lizard dating back to 130 million years, all taken from cliffs of Isle of Wight, ‘The Daily Telegraph’ newspaper reported.

Highlights include the remains of a creature similar to a giant velociraptor — similar in size to those portrayed in the ‘Jurassic Park’ film — and pterosaurs and long-necked Sauropods like the massive Brachiosaurus, seen in the movie.

Thousands of Macedonians took to the hills and forests on Wednesday to plant six million trees in a single day as part of a mass reforestation drive in the Balkan country.

The main aim of the campaign was to replant Macedonia’s forests after extensive wild fires over the past two summers, and organizers trumpeted the scheme’s environmental benefits at a time of global warming.

“Our goal is to make Macedonia “greener” and make people more aware of the needs of this planet,” said Macedonian opera singer Boris Trajanov, who initiated the project.

Thousands of people were bused to the planting sites, including more than 1,000 soldiers who planted some 200,000 seedlings at 14 sites.

“Just as we take care of our homes, we should take care of our planet,” said Silvana, boarding a bus with her two children. “We have no other place to live, that’s why I’m going.”

Trajanov told Reuters he hoped to spread the campaign across the whole Balkan region next year.

“If Macedonia, a country of two million people, can plant six million trees, we can only imagine how many trees can be planted in other, bigger countries,” he said.

A new study has shown ammonia emissions from seabirds to be a significant source of nitrogen in remote coastal ecosystems, contributing to nutrient enrichment (eutrophication) and acidification in ecosystems.

While most ammonia emissions originate from domesticated animals such as poultry and pigs, seabirds are the most significant emitters of ammonia to the atmosphere in remote regions.

A recent study, “Temporal variation in atmospheric ammonia concentrations above seabird colonies”, has shown how emissions may vary between seabird species, with a higher proportion of ammonia volatilized from bare ground nesting birds compared to burrow nesters.

Seabird populations are fluctuating, with some species increasing as others undergo dramatic declines.

This has a significant effect on seabird-mediated marine to terrestrial nutrient flow—and atmospheric acidification.

Lead author, Dr.Trevor Blackall believes that the “results presented in this paper will help scientists to predict the likely changing contributions of seabirds to atmospheric emissions of ammonia.”

“The findings will help further understanding of the effects of biodiversity loss and climate change on ecosystem function,” said Dr Blackall.

According to Chief Editor Peter Brimblecombe, this study is “fascinating in the context that birds excrete uric acid unlike mammals, where excreted urea is readily converted to ammonia. Ammonia is the only major alkaline gas in the atmosphere and has a major effect on atmospheric acidity. This work uncovers a potentially large biological source of ammonia.”

“The results should be of interest not only to scientists, but to the wider public, in particular people with ornithological interests,” emphasized Elsevier publisher Friso Veenstra.

Poachers in Congo have killed a fifth of the elephants in Africa’s oldest national park this year as China buys more ivory, the park’s director said on Friday.Rwandan rebels have killed seven Savannah elephants in the past 10 days alone in the Virunga National Park, along Congo’s eastern border with Rwanda and Uganda, Emmanuel de Merode told Reuters.

“We’ve definitely lost 20 percent of the population this year and probably more,” he said. “We have rangers with them, and we’re trying to reinforce them. But (the rangers) are outnumbered 20 to one.”

The 790,000-hectare (2 million-acre) reserve was home to one of central Africa’s largest Savannah elephant herds in the 1970s numbering around 5,000.

But a brutal 1998-2003 war, heavy poaching, corruption and mismanagement of the park have taken a heavy toll. Today conservationists believe no more than 300 elephants remain.

China, among the world’s main destinations for illegal ivory, was granted permission last month to buy 108 tonnes of ivory stocks from Botswana, Namibia, South Africa and Zimbabwe by the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species.

De Merode singled out China’s growing appetite for ivory as one of the root causes of this year’s increase in elephant killings, as poachers attempt to launder their illegal ivory for legitimate sale.

“It’s very difficult to distinguish between legal and illegal stocks,” he said.

Despite the official end of the conflict in Congo, the eastern borderlands remain a volatile patchwork of rebel strongholds and militia controlled zones.

Armed clashes between rival armed groups are a regular occurrence, limiting the rangers’ ability to patrol, and providing cover for poaching.

The Savannah elephant is a sub-species of the African elephant, which is classified as a vulnerable species by the International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources.

fleas?????? We are infested…!!!! Help..! Please..! T Y..

we’ve already tried sevan powder, spray & some other crap that isn’t working and I’m getting very grumpy over this…………..!

Are you using a product like Sentinel? My dogs have been on it for 3 years and have never had fleas.

Picked up these green tidbits from eartheasy.com:

Pour a cup of boiling water over a sliced lemon. Include the lemon skin, scored to release more citrus oil. Let this mixture soak overnight, and sponge on your dog

Add brewer’s yeast and garlic, or apple cider vinegar, to your pets’ food

Plant fleabane in yards

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Roy W. Spencer is a principal research scientist for University of Alabama in Huntsville. In the past, he served as Senior Scientist for Climate Studies at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama. Spencer is a recipient of NASA’s Medal for Exceptional Scientific Achievement.
He is principally known for his satellite-based temperature monitoring work, for which he was awarded the American Meteorological Society’s Special Award. He is also a supporter of intelligent design and is skeptical of the scientific consensus that human activity is primarily responsible for global warming.

In 2006 Spencer criticized Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth saying, “For instance, Mr. Gore claims that the Earth is now warmer than it has been in thousands of years. Yet the latest National Academies of Science (NAS) report on the subject has now admitted that all we really know is that we are warmer now than we were during the last 400 years, which is mostly made up of the ‘Little Ice Age.’”

Al Gore likes to say that mankind puts 70 million tons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere every day. What he probably doesn’t know is that mother nature puts 24,000 times that amount of our main greenhouse gas — water vapor — into the atmosphere every day, and removes about the same amount every day. While this does not ‘prove’ that global warming is not manmade, it shows that weather systems have by far the greatest control over the Earth’s greenhouse effect, which is dominated by water vapor and clouds.
Contrary to popular accounts, very few scientists in the world - possibly none - have a sufficiently thorough, “big picture” understanding of the climate system to be relied upon for a prediction of the magnitude of global warming. To the public, we all might seem like experts, but the vast majority of us work on only a small portion of the problem.

Nice info…but…problem is the idiots and the greedy.
There will always be that one last hold out thinking he know’s everything and simply won’t let himself be changed from his point of view. Why else does the Flat Earth society stick around ? A harmless jab there for fun..but you will always have the uneducated, or those that sit in their ivory towers or just are too stubborn to admit they are wrong. Some might even violently hold to their beliefs since their otherwise useless life would have no other meaning than to fight for mother earth….even though Mother Earch has been doing it for herself for quite a long time without help.
On the other hand…the greedy have jumped on a band wagon, including Al Gore, that is making them lots of money, and I imagine they will fight tooth and nail to keep people confused to keep what they have.

actually always i thnk that i will plant a tree but somehow due to many reasons i cannot plant. In my city there’s so much power cut.This is happening because of no rain, so much of heat, population, pollution friendly people etc etc…
From 1 month my family has decided that everybody will get 5 mins to bathe in shower or 1 bucket only. we are following that everyday(though 1-2 days i we use more water), but still i am not very happy with this so please tell me more how can i save more(the resources ) so that they can last long……

First of all that five minutes to shower isn’t going to work … nor is the ‘one bucket’ of water to wash in. Better to bathe every other day, and limit the shower (time the water is on … and it should be turned off during the soaping) to seven minutes.
Change ALL of the light-bulbs in your house/apartment to lower wattage or the new ‘high light, low wattage’ bulbs being sold … this is expensive at first, but will actually cost you much less over time. TURN LIGHTS OUT when you leave a room. Use ONLY the amount of light you need to see, not enough to make the rooms ‘bright’ … especially in the summer, when the lights can overheat the room.
Use the bus, walk, ride your bike instead of taking the car. Get a push mower instead of the gas or electric lawn mower. Plant ‘low water’ plants (it’s called xeriscaping) so you don’t need to water them, and take the lawn up, put gravel/stone paths down between your garden beds. Get your family involved in the planting so you don’t have to ‘do it all yourself.’
Look not just at the things you’re buying, but at the PACKAGING. Buy things with the least packaging … and you may also write to the companies who sold what you ‘really’ wanted and tell them you didn’t buy it because of the ‘over-packaging’ …
RECYCLE RELIGIOUSLY. If you have a dishwasher, use it ONLY when it’s completely full. Separate glass from aluminum from ‘tin’ cans, start a compost heap in your yard, or separate out the ‘compostables’ and take them to a place that can use them if you don’t have a ‘compost garbage’ option where you live.
To save electricity, put surge suppressors with ‘off/on’ buttons on every appliance or electronic device that normally stays on even when its turned off, and flip that switch to turn things OFF when you aren’t using them.
This list could go on much longer … but now that I’ve given you a start, you should be able to do a search and find even more ways you can help stop global warming and make life much easier for ALL of us.
By the way, I did not ‘refer’ to any book to find this stuff out … I’m 57 years old, and when I was 3, my grandfather took me to the city dump and gave me a lecture I’ll never forget … he said the world would look like the dump by the time I was 60 if we didn’t start recycling and using other things to ’save the world.’ He was an ‘ecologist’ when the world didn’t even know there was such a word … and I do this because it’s the way I was raised. It’s easy, it saves money, and it will save the world if we all do our part.

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i is a good question and its answer is simple that only one person or family cant save the resources it is the duty of all the nation. so if u want to do something start convincing different peoples and tell them the problem that they r facing and will face if the resource ran out.

Hand harvested gear : little damange, pump or dredge boats lots of destruction.

So, I’ve started to drink a lot of bottled water lately, both at work and at home. That starts to add up to a lot of empty water bottles. It kills me to throw them away.

I’m looking for creative ways to use the water bottles. Can anyone think of any uses for all the water bottles other than throwing them away?

Your best bet is to buy a filter pitcher and a sports bottle. You can filter your tap water (that is what Aquafina and other brands are anyway) and just refill your sports bottle. It is a lot cheaper and creates a lot less waste than buying bottled water. They can be washed in the dishwasher if you are concerned about germs. Refill the ones you have. You can fill and freeze them and use a bottle in your lunch bag or cooler as a refrigerant instead of ice.
I have seen bird feeders made out of 2 liter bottles so I would guess you can do the same with 1/2 liter(water) bottles.
But I would definitely suggest you stop paying for new bottles every time.

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Orthopedic Picture Archiving and Communication System, also known as PACS, is one of the most modern technological advancements in the orthopedic field. The emergence of PACS imaging brought a huge and scalable effect in information infrastructure. It has been injecting significant outcomes in the practice of orthopedics. It served as the efficient digital solution for the comfort of patients. This modern approach towards medical imaging also makes use of computed radiography to replace standard x-ray films. This then saves everyone from x-ray film recycling.

PACS also replaced the place of typical x-ray machines in radiology reading rooms. From films and view boxes, radiology reading rooms now switched to computer workstations. However, according to a research conducted by Dr. Elliot Siegel M.D., that transformation caused a lot of radiologists to suffer from more intense eye strains, neck strains, and carpal tunnel syndrome. This condition then caused the need to ergonomically revamp existing radiology reading rooms to complement the modern technology and its demands.

Since PACS entered the spotlight, x-ray films have faded its worth. X-ray films have become an expensive material to be used since PACS became available. Because of the high cost, film recycling has been an option. Film recycling became possible through the recovery of polyester that contains a polyvinylidene chloride binder layer and blue dye from x-ray film that is still usable.