[Cameroon Tribune] Prime Minister Philemon Yang on May 16 received the institutions and #39; officials.

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What and #39;s it like to stare into the roiling mouth of an active volcano’ Pretty darn cool, say scientists who work at Antarctica and #39;s Mount Erebus, home of one of Earth and #39;s only long-lived lava lakes.

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A migration guru and his wife have been jailed for scamming the UK Border Agency.

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Immigration has leaped to its highest level in 16 years in Germany, with spikes in the number of arrivals from crisis-hit Spain and Greece, figures show.

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A moderate earthquake rattled an area in east Texas near the Louisiana border.

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The National Hurricane Center and #39;s director says his successor will face the same problem that has perplexed forecasters since Hurricane Andrew barreled into Florida two decades ago: predicting how bad a storm will be.

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A new study on chlorothalonil, one of the world and #39;s most common fungicides, shows it was lethal to a wide variety of freshwater organisms.

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The new U.S. ambassador to Malta has said farewell to 27 Somali and Eritrean refugees headed to the United States under a refugee resettlement program.

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A magnitude 6.0 earthquake shook Papua New Guinea on Wednesday morning, the US Geological survey reported. The quake struck 29 miles west of Kimbe town on the island of New Britain.

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During the 2008 Beijing Olympics, changes in air pollution were associated with changes in biomarkers of systemic inflammation and thrombosis (formation of blood clot) as well as measures of cardiovascular physiology in healthy young persons, according to a new study.

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Fresh thoughts on the challenges in attributing extreme weather to human-driven climate change.

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Fanbois drool over prospect of iOS-based home Silicon Valley cops arrested two Greenpeace activists who sealed themselves into a huge (i)Pod outside Apple HQ today, but chose not to cuff another bunch of activists who were dressed as giant iPhones.…

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[New Vision] Uganda has received a US$100m (about sh248b) World Bank loan for poverty reduction through enhanced service delivery, less than a week after rigorous Parliamentary consideration.

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Why do we only hear about certain eco issues, such as climate change’ What happened to acid rain and the ozone layer’ I agree that planet green has a tendency to be a little one-note. For a long while it and #39;s been singing a plaintive song (more of a wail, actually) about climate change. But you can see why this preoccupies us. In the run-up to the Rio climate conference we are without an agreed …

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Active-duty military personnel and their dependents will soon be able to enter every national park for free as part of an effort to thank service members and their families for the sacrifices they make, the Interior Department announced Tuesday.

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[SciDev.Net] Nairobi – A four-year project aimed at addressing the lack of knowledge about the impacts of climate change on food security, livelihoods and economic prosperity in mountain ecosystems has been launched in East Africa.

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The Government is putting short-term political aims above concerns over long-term migration with its plans to cut the number of international students coming to the UK, a think-tank said today.

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THE Scottish Government cannot give direct help to hundreds of asylum seeker families facing destitution in Glasgow, the Deputy First Minister said.

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The first planeload of refugees stranded for months in a camp in Sudan is flown to South Sudan – among 500,000 who may be forced to leave.

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Apple will drop Google Maps for the next incarnation of its mobile OS, and use its own 3D alternative.

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[BuaNews] Pretoria – South Africa needs to decide now where it wants to be in 2020 in terms of sustainable tourism, Tourism Minister Marthinus van Schalkwyk said on Saturday.

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The National Hurricane Center is tracking two pre-season storms in the Atlantic and Pacific oceans today.

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The Halemaumau crater is at the peak of Kilauea, visible here as a rising ash column in the background. United States Geological Survey

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The population of eastern Pacific gray whales shows a huge dip at the same point that whaling increased in the early 20th century, a new analysis of acient whale genes shows.

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[New Times] The government plans to transfer Congolese refugees from Nkamira Transit camp in Rubavu District, Western Province, which is congested, to a new location in Nyamagabe District in the Southern Province.

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The area of the globe covered by wetlands (swamps, marshes, lakes, etc.) has dropped by 6% in fifteen years. This decline is particularly severe in tropical and subtropical regions, and in areas that have experienced the largest increases in population in recent decades.

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The most successful investors in restaurants consider how a style fits an area and track who their customers are, said Hudson Riehle of the National Restaurant Association.

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The head of the U.N. refugee agency says deepening humanitarian crises across the Middle East and North Africa combined with persistent global economic woes have created a and #34;nightmare scenario. and #34;

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The progressive disappearance of seed-dispersing animals like elephants and rhinoceroses puts the structural integrity and biodiversity of the tropical forest of South-East Asia at risk. Experts have confirmed that not even herbivores like tapirs can replace them. Megaherbivores act as the and #39;gardeners and #39; of humid tropical forests: They are vital to forest regeneration and maintain its structure and …

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May 9, 2012: A new update to Google Maps offers not just maps of indoor locations but walking directions within buildings. Google

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These biodiversity hotspots and wilderness areas must be among our top priorities for terrestrial conservation if we hope to preserve Earth and #39;s natural ecosystem services and biodiversity for future generations of people.

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Dayton, Ohio – The corner of East Third Street and Bell in Dayton’s East End offers a view of what happens when the American Dream leaves town. Paints peels off the wood siding of vacant homes. Feral cats roam among the overgrown weeds and ivy that have overtaken a crumbling parking lot.

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THE politician who has helped attract major firms and investment to Edinburgh has been re-appointed to his role as part of the new city coalition.

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An environmental activist who disrupted an oil and gas auction for land near Utah and #39;s national parks did so in protest, bringing attention to parcels that shouldn and #39;t have been for sale, his lawyers…

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SANTIAGO, Chile — A wrecked Brazilian ship is trapped in ice and spilling fuel in Antarctica, with no hopes of containing the damage until the long South Pole winter eases next October.

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This is without doubt the worst financial crisis in over eight decades. There is a growing disquiet on the issues of fairness and justice of open markets economies.

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An environmental activist is asking a federal appeals court to overturn his two-year prison sentence for disrupting an auction of drilling parcels on public lands near Utah and #39;s national parks….

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Natural disasters, unstable weather and global warming may have a “significant” impact on economies, causing increased volatility and political misjudgment, according to a report today from U.K. investment manager Standard Life Investments Ltd.

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The earthquake and tsunami that rocked Chile in 2010 unleashed substantial and surprising changes on ecosystems there, yielding insights on how these natural disasters can affect life and how sea level rise might affect the world, researchers say.

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Volcanoes emit a broad spectrum of sonic energy. In the case of basaltic eruptions, most of that acoustical energy in the infrasound range. A new study reveals that this low-frequency sound can give scientists an enhanced understanding of the behavior of volcanoes and a tool to monitor the lifecycles of their eruptions.

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An attempt to highlight Latino voter outeach is stepped on by RNC official.

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A United Nations High Commission for Refugees report says that Afghan refugees constitute the highest number of asylum seekers in the world – but life is not always easy for those who return home.

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Kellen Bolden was only 10 years old when an asthma attack took his life, but his mom still remembers him as a and #34;little man and #34; with big aspirations. and #34;He often said to himself, and #39;Good morning, Mr. Millionaire, and #39; and #34; recalled Rhonda Mitchell.

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Biodiversity hot spots — the world and #39;s biologically richest and most threatened locations on Earth — and high biodiversity wilderness areas — biologically rich but less threatened — are some of the most linguistically diverse regions on our planet, according to a team of conservationists.

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The tabletop mountains near the Amazon rain forest can be isolated, but they support a wide diversity of species that are found nowhere else on the planet.

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A modeling study from the European Alps suggests that population declines to be observed during the upcoming decades will probably underestimate the long-term effects of recent climate warming on mountain plants. A European team of ecologists has presented a new modeling tool to predict migration of mountain plants which explicitly takes population dynamic processes into account.

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Whatever the Supreme Court and #39;s decision on Arizona and #39;s controversial law, it should be a wake-up call about why our immigration policy must be established on a national not state level

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[Sudan Tribune] Washington – The newly independent state of South Sudan is quickly headed towards an economic cliff in light of its decision to shut down oil production which went into effect earlier this year, says a confidential report by the World bank.

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Treated to a hero’s welcome, Turkey’s prime minister has met Syrian refugees for the first time since his country opened its doors to tens of thousands of Syrians fleeing their government’s crackdown on a popular uprising.

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Alexander Kumar watched the sun set last night over Antarctica and #39;s dazzling white horizon. The next time he will see it will be in August.

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