Environment Waikato secures funding for peat lake (Scoop.co.nz)

Environment Waikato is being given nearly $100,000 of funding to enhance two peat lakes near Hamilton that are under threat from human land use activities.

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UN officials push for creation of monitoring system for marine environment (People’s Daily)

Significant gaps exist in the understanding and management of the complex processes and trends at work in the world’s oceans and seas, which cover 70 percent of the Earth’s surface, warned senior United Nations officials here on Monday as they urged governments to approve expert recommendations establishing a system that plugs the holes. At the opening of a week-long governmental session tasked …

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OKI Offers Environment Information Collection Service, "Web Sensing" (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance)

TOKYO—-OKI Electric Industry today announced the offering of “Web Sensing,” an environment information collection service, to the Japanese market starting September 17, 2009. The service measures and collects environment information from the office with sensor networks, and sorts the data on a server via Internet.

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EarthTalk: Questions and answers about our environment (Spooner Advocate)

[NOTE-- From the editors of E/The Environmental Magazine, a new column concerning the environment. EarthTalk covers all the key and emerging environmental issues – from recycling to climate change, from the “global village” to our own backyards.]

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How Mercury Becomes Toxic In The Environment (PollutionOnline)

Naturally occurring organic matter in water and sediment appears to play a key role in helping microbes convert tiny particles of mercury in the environment into a form that is dangerous to most living creatures

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Northern Ky. U. program saves money, environment (Metro Magazine)

A Northern Kentucky University collaboration with the Transit Authority of Northern Kentucky (TANK) allowing NKU faculty, staff and students to ride all regular TANK bus routes and university shuttles for free, which was launched two years ago, has saved students and employees money and has a positive impact on the environment.

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New York, 31 August 2009 - Deputy Secretary-General’s remarks on the Marine Environment to the Ad Hoc Working Group of … (United Nations)

I congratulate Ambassador Davide of the Philippines and Ambassador Pálsson of Iceland on their appointment as Co-Chairpersons of the Ad Hoc Working Group of the Whole, which has been convened pursuant to General Assembly resolution 63/111 on the state of the marine environment.

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Germans hoard energy-guzzling bulbs ahead of EU ban (Reuters via Yahoo! News)

Germans, who sometimes see themselves as guardians of the environment, are hoarding energy-guzzling incandescent light bulbs ahead of a looming European Union-wide ban, the GfK market research agency said.

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Recession helps cut EU greenhouse gas levels: agency (AFP via Yahoo! News)

Greenhouse gas emissions in the European Union fell for the fourth year running in 2008, thanks to the economic recession, the European Environment Agency (EAA) said Monday.

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FAA welcomes Register of Environment Impact Assessment Consultants (Maltamedia.com Daily News)

Flimkien għal Ambjent Aħjar (FAA) welcomed the setting up of a Register of Environment Impact Assessment Consultants, which the FAA itself had been calling for since its inception. The FAA said the Registration and Review Board would ensure that professionals carrying out environment assessments have the right qualifications and experience, while the Board would also monitor

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