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  • Tornadoes tear through central US

    Tornadoes tore through three central American states of Kansas, Oklahoma and Iowa with baseball-sized hail and wind blasts ripping roofs off homes and turning trees to matchsticks, as severe weather swept the region. A large "violent and extremely dangerous" tornado was spotted Sunday night on the southwest side of Wichita, Kansas and a second confirmed one was seen near Edmond, Oklahoma, the ...

  • Discovery Channels North America – in pictures

    North America's diverse climate, geography and wildlife are the subject of an impressive new series on the Discovery Channel. It is narrated by Chiwetel Ejiofor and spans the continent from the Canadian Rockies to the jungles of ...

  • China to continue improvement of investment environment official

    China will continue to facilitate foreign investment and enhance the protection of intellectual property rights in efforts to improve the investment environment, a senior official said Wednesday. "Improving investment environment and protecting the legal rights of foreign investors are not only the government's promises but also what the government is doing," Yu Jianhua, assistant ...

  • Doubts raised over timber credentials

    There is concern Forestry Tasmania may not be able to gain key environmental credentials for the state's wood supply for more than a year. The impact of Forest Stewardship Council certification on overseas markets was considered a key plank of the forest peace deal. Forestry Tasmania Chairman Bob Annells has warned gaining FSC certification is essential to the survival of the company. ...

  • PGA partners with local groups to plant trees

    BALLWIN, Mo. (KSDK) - Bellerive Country Club will host the 2013 Senior PGA Championship later this week, but Sunday the PGA of America teamed up with local organizations and volunteers to plant 200 trees in Queeny Park. The PGA says the new trees will help offset the paper that will be used for the 74th Senior PGA event. The area where they will be planted was once covered by brush ...


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Movie Review

Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl

Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl

There is a real sense of giddy pleasure in Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl that is all too often missing from big-budget Hollywood spectacles. In an era marked by Matrix-stylized seriousness or Charlies Angels-like postmodern overload, Pirates of the Caribbean pulls off a neat balancing act between nostalgic adventure and self-aware humor. Forget ... ...

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  • EU judgement Ruling on assessment of costs in legal challenges on environment

    Where a national court is assessing costs against such a person, the cost of the proceedings "must neither exceed the financial resources of the person concerned nor appear, in any event, to be objectively ...

  • Mother wasps do the work Country diary 100 years ago

    The mother wasps, founders of the future colonies, are now busily house-hunting, town-planning, wood-pulp paper-making, or hunting for food for their first hungry infants. These wasps, large if compared with their children of later in the summer, work along the banks, creeping into possible holes, fly along the hedgerows in search of flies or to find suitable wood or fibres for conversion into ...

  • US Virgin Islands environment head arrested for drug trafficking

    A seaside view from St. Croix in the U.S. Virgin Islands, where the head of the three-island U.S. Caribbean territory's environment agency was arrested on drug trafficking charges. (Martinne ...

  • Drug charge for Virgin Islands environment officer

    KINGSTON, Jamaica -; Federal agents have arrested the top enforcement officer for the U.S. Virgin Islands environment agency on drug trafficking charges after he was allegedly caught with a cache of cocaine on a government patrol ...

  • Weatherwatch Keeping warm under a snowy blanket

    insects , reptiles, amphibians and mammals all take advantage of warmer temperatures, near constant humidity and an absence of biting winds. However, Jonathan Pauli, from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and his colleagues are concerned about signs that the subnivium is retreating.Writing in the journal Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment, they say that since 1970 snow cover across the ...

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