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| WORLD BRIEFING | THE AMERICAS; Canada: Huge Conservation Area Set for North The government plans to convert 25.5 million acres of northern woodland into a new national park and wildlife protection area that will be one of North America’s largest conservation areas. nytimes.com |
Jewish Soldiers Serving in German Military Remembered (Deutsche Welle) Some 85,000 Jewish soldiers served in World War I for the German Empire. Many of them were later killed in concentration camps. A new association has been founded to honor those unsung heroes. us.rd.yahoo.com |
Forest City Ratner Companies Breaks Ground on Ridge Hill in Yonkers (FinanzNachrichten) Government officials from the City of Yonkers, County of Westchester and State of New York joined Bruce Ratner, Chairman and CEO of Forest City Ratner Companies (FCRC), today as ground was broken on Ridge Hill, a dynamic and diverse mixed-use project in Yonkers. us.rd.yahoo.com |
Nature's climate talks, or is the web a climate savior or climate doom? [Re-posted from Greenery & Other Fine Things to Look At]You don't have to fly all the way to Bali to participate in some form of climate negotiation, you merely need an avatar and the ability to teleport him, her or it to Second Nature, the Nature journal's archipelago in Second Life.They're hosting a series of chats, including one with George Monbiot, archdruid who wants us all to stop flying immediately among other parts of the climate change plan outlined in his book Heat (an intriguing read). rss.sciam.com |
How do earthquakes stop? [Ask the Experts] Every earthquake starts small. Beginning at one point, it extends outward, causing tremors in and around its path. At some point, though, all earthquakes stop. So what brings this mighty process to a halt?That’s an important question, because the duration of an earthquake helps determine how much damage it will do. Will the tremor be of mild magnitude--say, a magnitude 4 on the Richter scale, the kind that occur all over the world every day--or a 9, which happens no more than once a decade on average? [More] rss.sciam.com |