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For more headlines on Breaking, National, Business, Finance, Sports and World News, visit our home page Bangladesh Sun.com http://www.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/ct/10/id/9d3b36ac41649d93/ en-us Thu, 09 Feb 2012 18:51:34 -0500 Thu, 09 Feb 2012 18:51:34 -0500 30 NEW YORK - After three decades, the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission Thursday granted licences to a consortium of utilities led by a Fortune 500 company Southern Co to build two new nuclear reactors i http://story.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/9d3b36ac41649d93/id/203361069/cs/1/ Thu, 09 Feb 2012 14:33:36 -0500 Bangladesh Sun.com http://story.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/9d3b36ac41649d93/id/203361069/cs/1/ The world's biggest and most magnificent trees face a dire future - thanks to logging, deforestation, pest invasions and effects of climate change. http://story.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/9d3b36ac41649d93/id/203347839/cs/1/ Thu, 09 Feb 2012 01:30:06 -0500 IANS http://story.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/9d3b36ac41649d93/id/203347839/cs/1/ New data from the annual report by the International Service for the Acquisition of Agribiotic Applications shows where farmers are growing GM crops around the ... http://story.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/9d3b36ac41649d93/id/203360494/ Thu, 09 Feb 2012 13:04:39 -0500 The Guardian http://story.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/9d3b36ac41649d93/id/203360494/ Taptu Guardian Environment App is a social news reader dedicated to the environment. It puts all the news from the most popular environmental web sites and blogs with a spotlight on the ... http://story.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/9d3b36ac41649d93/id/203361217/ Thu, 09 Feb 2012 13:04:36 -0500 The Guardian http://story.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/9d3b36ac41649d93/id/203361217/ , who reports for us monthly on voluntary work with asylum-seekers in Leeds and conservation on the North York Moors. She's just back from a week's break in the Baltic and at ... http://story.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/9d3b36ac41649d93/id/203361218/ Thu, 09 Feb 2012 13:04:34 -0500 The Guardian http://story.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/9d3b36ac41649d93/id/203361218/ A Nature study has shocked researchers by finding that the Himalayas have lost no ice over the past decade. Leo Hickman, with your help, investigates. Get in touch below the line, email your views ... http://story.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/9d3b36ac41649d93/id/203360495/ Thu, 09 Feb 2012 13:04:28 -0500 The Guardian http://story.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/9d3b36ac41649d93/id/203360495/ There's a lot of information in the press on gardening for butterflies, but much less on gardening for moths. I can see why. On the whole, garden butterflies are easier to identify than moths ... http://story.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/9d3b36ac41649d93/id/203361219/ Thu, 09 Feb 2012 13:04:03 -0500 The Guardian http://story.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/9d3b36ac41649d93/id/203361219/ Professor Bob Cywinski is every inch the academic: a wavy-haired, bearded man with a voice like hot coffee poured on a Sunday morning. But he is also a man with a dream: to change the nuclear ... http://story.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/9d3b36ac41649d93/id/203361220/ Thu, 09 Feb 2012 13:03:55 -0500 The Guardian http://story.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/9d3b36ac41649d93/id/203361220/ study published in Nature has found that the world's largest mountain chain, running from the Himalayas to Tian Shan on the border of Kyrgystan and China, has not experienced any net loss of ... http://story.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/9d3b36ac41649d93/id/203361221/ Thu, 09 Feb 2012 13:03:46 -0500 The Guardian http://story.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/9d3b36ac41649d93/id/203361221/ BG will slash its shale gas production as prices slide. Pictured: a natural gas drilling platform owned by its US rival Chesapeake. Photograph: Robert ... http://story.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/9d3b36ac41649d93/id/203360332/ Thu, 09 Feb 2012 13:03:36 -0500 Guardian http://story.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/9d3b36ac41649d93/id/203360332/ Canada officially announced today that the Glacier Discovery Walk project has met all required environment assessment guidelines and is a project that is acceptable within Parks Canada's ... http://story.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/9d3b36ac41649d93/id/203361222/ Thu, 09 Feb 2012 12:29:59 -0500 CNW Group http://story.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/9d3b36ac41649d93/id/203361222/ Feb. 9, 2012 /CNW/ - Francois Screve, founder of Deltaway Energy International, Inc., has co-authored a comprehensive resource for waste-to-energy (WTE) field professionals and clients. The book, ... http://story.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/9d3b36ac41649d93/id/203361223/ Thu, 09 Feb 2012 12:29:57 -0500 CNW Group http://story.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/9d3b36ac41649d93/id/203361223/ People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) sued SeaWorld Inc. in San Diego on Oct. 6, 2011, for allegedly violating the anti-slavery 13th Amendment rights of orca ... http://story.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/9d3b36ac41649d93/id/203361216/ Thu, 09 Feb 2012 12:16:34 -0500 MSNBC http://story.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/9d3b36ac41649d93/id/203361216/ Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company has become a part of Suppliers Partnership for the Environment (SP). SP is an innovative partnership between auto-manufacturers, their suppliers, and the US ... http://story.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/9d3b36ac41649d93/id/203361224/ Thu, 09 Feb 2012 10:54:58 -0500 AZoM http://story.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/9d3b36ac41649d93/id/203361224/ Airlines face a carbon pollution bill of 505 million euros ($670 million) for this year under a controversial EU emissions trading scheme, an analysis by Thomson Reuters Point Carbon on Thursday ... http://story.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/9d3b36ac41649d93/id/203350802/ Thu, 09 Feb 2012 05:09:05 -0500 Trade Arabia http://story.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/9d3b36ac41649d93/id/203350802/ WASHINGTON -; Some senior officials at the Federal Air Marshal service made fun of veterans, homosexuals and minorities, creating what employees described as an unpleasant work environment at an ... http://story.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/9d3b36ac41649d93/id/203350800/ Thu, 09 Feb 2012 05:01:27 -0500 San Diego Union-Tribune http://story.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/9d3b36ac41649d93/id/203350800/ birds to control another common food crop pest; rodents? Food crops and their rodent pests are a common problem everywhere. But when faced with putting out poisons -- poisons that not only kill ... http://story.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/9d3b36ac41649d93/id/203350799/ Thu, 09 Feb 2012 04:34:21 -0500 The Guardian http://story.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/9d3b36ac41649d93/id/203350799/ The total volume of water that has melted from all of the world's polar ice sheets, ice caps and mountain glaciers over the past decade would repeatedly fill Britain's largest lake, ... http://story.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/9d3b36ac41649d93/id/203350795/ Thu, 09 Feb 2012 03:57:59 -0500 The Independent http://story.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/9d3b36ac41649d93/id/203350795/ Amazon campaign , may not be your archetypal hero (we've never seen him don tights), but we're proud to announce that he has just been awarded the honour of "Forest Hero" by the ... http://story.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/9d3b36ac41649d93/id/203350798/ Thu, 09 Feb 2012 03:15:23 -0500 Greenpeace http://story.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/9d3b36ac41649d93/id/203350798/ Standard & Poor's has said it has affirmed its 'B' long-term and 'B' short-term foreign- and local-currency sovereign credit ratings for Lebanon with 'Stable' ... http://story.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/9d3b36ac41649d93/id/203350797/ Thu, 09 Feb 2012 02:31:43 -0500 AME Info http://story.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/9d3b36ac41649d93/id/203350797/ Jews, Palestinians plant trees together in West Bank In joint effort to block hazardous dust, settlers and Palestinians come together to plant grove Akiva Novick YNET Published: 02.08.12, 21:21 / ... http://story.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/9d3b36ac41649d93/id/203350806/ Thu, 09 Feb 2012 02:24:49 -0500 IMRA http://story.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/9d3b36ac41649d93/id/203350806/ SUVA, Feb. 9 (Xinhua) -- The Secretariat of the Pacific Community (SPC) has embarked on a program to build capacity in mapping land/forest cover in Fiji using very high resolution satellite images, ... http://story.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/9d3b36ac41649d93/id/203350805/ Thu, 09 Feb 2012 02:23:25 -0500 SINA http://story.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/9d3b36ac41649d93/id/203350805/ Abu Dhabi will unveil a new utility bill for its customers starting from next month that will provide more information, mainly on managing their water and power consumption across the emirate. All ... http://story.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/9d3b36ac41649d93/id/203339427/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 19:03:44 -0500 Trade Arabia http://story.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/9d3b36ac41649d93/id/203339427/ Lost in the Trees . I was in my hometown of Raleigh, N.C., driving in my car, listening to the local college station. The host mentioned that local musician Ari Picker and his band would be ... http://story.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/9d3b36ac41649d93/id/203339426/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 18:49:01 -0500 NPR http://story.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/9d3b36ac41649d93/id/203339426/ By funding environmental programmes, the European Union can create more jobs at a lower cost, according to a new WWF report by an alliance of environmental non-governmental organisations. The ... http://story.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/9d3b36ac41649d93/id/203339434/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 18:48:05 -0500 New Europe http://story.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/9d3b36ac41649d93/id/203339434/ Farmed oysters - perfect for a Valentine's meal - are back on the menu after being added to the updated list of sustainable fish published by a leading marine charity.But fans of deep-fried ... http://story.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/9d3b36ac41649d93/id/203339421/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 18:30:35 -0500 The Guardian http://story.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/9d3b36ac41649d93/id/203339421/ Australia , Gina Rinehart's name is likely to be met with quizzical looks - but all that could be about to change, because the 57-year-old from Western Australia is on track to become the ... http://story.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/9d3b36ac41649d93/id/203338774/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 18:30:30 -0500 The Guardian http://story.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/9d3b36ac41649d93/id/203338774/ Police chiefs running operations to monitor political activists face another challenge on Thursday, this time in the High Court.John Catt, an 86-year-old pensioner, is launching a landmark legal ... http://story.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/9d3b36ac41649d93/id/203339423/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 18:30:24 -0500 The Guardian http://story.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/9d3b36ac41649d93/id/203339423/ Rio summit , vowing to transform development aid, help provide renewable electricity to the world's neediest people, and strengthen the United Nations environment ... http://story.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/9d3b36ac41649d93/id/203339422/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 18:30:17 -0500 The Guardian http://story.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/9d3b36ac41649d93/id/203339422/ A new interactive Google Earth map showing the impacts of a 4C world. Google came top in a Greenpeace ranking of IT firms. Photograph: ... http://story.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/9d3b36ac41649d93/id/203339424/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 18:30:11 -0500 The Guardian http://story.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/9d3b36ac41649d93/id/203339424/ NEW YORK, New York, February 7, 2012 (ENS) - Girl Scouts of the USA has launched Girl Scouts Forever Green, its signature 100th year anniversary action project focused on environmentally positive ... http://story.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/9d3b36ac41649d93/id/203339419/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 18:21:52 -0500 Environment News Service http://story.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/9d3b36ac41649d93/id/203339419/ . The reorganization came about after an in-depth review of FPInnovations' business model which required a series of changes to better position the organization as a strategic partner to ... http://story.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/9d3b36ac41649d93/id/203339430/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 17:57:20 -0500 CNW Group http://story.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/9d3b36ac41649d93/id/203339430/ The biomethanisation of farmer residues will allow a dairy farm in Franklin, Vermont, to produce electricity, heat and bedding for its animals, while using a renewable energy ... http://story.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/9d3b36ac41649d93/id/203339431/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 17:57:19 -0500 CNW Group http://story.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/9d3b36ac41649d93/id/203339431/ www.thermalenergy.com ) ("Thermal Energy" or "the company") is pleased to announce that it has received an offer of funding from the Canadian government to support a product ... http://story.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/9d3b36ac41649d93/id/203339432/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 17:57:17 -0500 CNW Group http://story.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/9d3b36ac41649d93/id/203339432/ PLACERVILLE, Calif.  — California's Gold Rush was more than a century-and-a-half ago, but its Wild West spirit lives on in a dispute between government agencies and a landowner in ... http://story.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/9d3b36ac41649d93/id/203339417/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 17:43:42 -0500 MSNBC http://story.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/9d3b36ac41649d93/id/203339417/ The melt-off from the world's ice sheets, ice caps and glaciers over eight years of the past decade would have been enough to cover the United States in about 18 inches (46 centimeters) of ... http://story.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/9d3b36ac41649d93/id/203338761/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 17:43:38 -0500 MSNBC http://story.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/9d3b36ac41649d93/id/203338761/ Right whales share their environment in the Bay of Fundy with noisy cargo ships. The noises are so low and loud it would take weeks to fully dissipate from the ocean, even if all ships were ... http://story.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/9d3b36ac41649d93/id/203339418/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 17:43:34 -0500 MSNBC http://story.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/9d3b36ac41649d93/id/203339418/ 2011 saw six of the world's biggest clothing brands commit to the elimination of hazardous chemicals and begin to Detox - all thanks to the power of the people. Pressure is now mounting on ... http://story.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/9d3b36ac41649d93/id/203339420/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 17:06:53 -0500 Greenpeace http://story.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/9d3b36ac41649d93/id/203339420/ IDG News Service - Technology companies are not just making their products less carbon-intensive; they are also increasingly designing products to improve energy efficiency in the industries that ... http://story.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/9d3b36ac41649d93/id/203339042/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 17:06:20 -0500 CIO http://story.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/9d3b36ac41649d93/id/203339042/ WAM Abu Dhabi, 8th Feb. 2012 (WAM): More than 100 winners of the 11th Annual Environment Competition were awarded yesterday in a ceremony organised by the Environment Agency - Abu Dhabi (EAD) the ... http://story.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/9d3b36ac41649d93/id/203339433/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 16:21:10 -0500 WAM http://story.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/9d3b36ac41649d93/id/203339433/ Emirates Green Building Council (Emirates GBC) highlighted the importance of promoting energy-efficient and sustainable-built environments at the Middle East Electricity which opened yesterday at ... http://story.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/9d3b36ac41649d93/id/203330162/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 11:16:57 -0500 Trade Arabia http://story.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/9d3b36ac41649d93/id/203330162/ The competitiveness and cost-savings that can be achieved by making sustainability a business priority for aviation and logistics companies will be on the agenda of high profile speakers at an ... http://story.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/9d3b36ac41649d93/id/203330163/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 11:16:54 -0500 Trade Arabia http://story.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/9d3b36ac41649d93/id/203330163/ Australia is not just that she is yet another billionaire media owner with corporate interests to promote and protect, but that she is renowned for her fiercely right-wing politics and promotion of ... http://story.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/9d3b36ac41649d93/id/203330159/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 10:46:02 -0500 The Guardian http://story.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/9d3b36ac41649d93/id/203330159/ Canada Heart and Stroke Foundation and Share the Road. Upon arriving at school, the entire school community will join in a national Daily Physical Activity (DPA) session. "Our ... http://story.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/9d3b36ac41649d93/id/203330164/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 10:16:37 -0500 CNW Group http://story.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/9d3b36ac41649d93/id/203330164/ Vodafone were among the companies receiving the most favourable ratings in the latest Greenpeace 'Cool IT' index of the technology sector's energy practices. ... http://story.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/9d3b36ac41649d93/id/203330165/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 10:14:04 -0500 Techworld http://story.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/9d3b36ac41649d93/id/203330165/ Cool IT Leaderboard has taken its latest twist, with Google grabbing the top spot ahead of 20 other tech companies, including Cisco and Ericsson. Pitching global IT companies against each other to ... http://story.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/9d3b36ac41649d93/id/203330157/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 09:37:49 -0500 Greenpeace http://story.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/9d3b36ac41649d93/id/203330157/ An area known as "Little Switzerland" because of its Alpine-like forestry could lose its nickname because of a tree-killing virus. Millions of Japanese larch trees have been felled across ... http://story.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/9d3b36ac41649d93/id/203330160/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 09:29:30 -0500 BBC http://story.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/9d3b36ac41649d93/id/203330160/