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document.write('<p class="rss_title"><a class="rss_title" href="http://www.iema.net/news" target="_self">IEMA - Environmental News</a><br /><span class="rss_item">Institute of Environmental Management and Assessment</span></p>');
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document.write('<li class="rss_item"><a class="rss_item" href="http://www.iema.net/news/envnews?aid=19669" title="Aviation and aerospace experts will gather in Iceland next month to coordinate the global response to future volcanic eruptions, Icelandic officials said...." target="_self">Airline experts to assess volcano risks in Iceland</a><br />');
document.write('<span class="rss_date">posted on August 19, 2010 05:00:00 pm</span><br />');
document.write('Aviation and aerospace experts will gather in Iceland next month to coordinate the global response to future volcanic eruptions, Icelandic officials said.');
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document.write('<li class="rss_item"><a class="rss_item" href="http://www.iema.net/news/envnews?aid=19668" title="Coral that survived the 2004 tsunami is now dying at one of the fastest rates ever recorded because of a dramatic rise in water temperatures off north western Indonesia, according to conservationists. ..." target="_self">Tsunami coral dying due to temperature rise</a><br />');
document.write('<span class="rss_date">posted on August 19, 2010 05:00:00 pm</span><br />');
document.write('Coral that survived the 2004 tsunami is now dying at one of the fastest rates ever recorded because of a dramatic rise in water temperatures off north western Indonesia, according to conservationists. ');
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document.write('<li class="rss_item"><a class="rss_item" href="http://www.iema.net/news/envnews?aid=19667" title="A rare British bat has developed remarkable stealth technology to sneak up on the moths which are its principal prey, new research has shown. ..." target="_self">Bat \'mutes sonar signal to sneak up on its prey\'</a><br />');
document.write('<span class="rss_date">posted on August 19, 2010 05:00:00 pm</span><br />');
document.write('A rare British bat has developed remarkable stealth technology to sneak up on the moths which are its principal prey, new research has shown. ');
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document.write('<li class="rss_item"><a class="rss_item" href="http://www.iema.net/news/envnews?aid=19666" title="Sydney risks falling short of its air pollution targets for photochemical smog and ozone, as growing population and traffic congestion erodes the gains made by the switch to unleaded petrol in the 1980s...." target="_self">Growth undermining improved Sydney air quality </a><br />');
document.write('<span class="rss_date">posted on August 19, 2010 05:00:00 pm</span><br />');
document.write('Sydney risks falling short of its air pollution targets for photochemical smog and ozone, as growing population and traffic congestion erodes the gains made by the switch to unleaded petrol in the 1980s.');
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document.write('<li class="rss_item"><a class="rss_item" href="http://www.iema.net/news/envnews?aid=19665" title="It has taken humanity less than nine months to exhaust its ecological budget for the year, according to data from  Global Footprint Network, a California-based environmental research organisation...." target="_self">On August 21st, we exceed nature\'s budget</a><br />');
document.write('<span class="rss_date">posted on August 19, 2010 05:00:00 pm</span><br />');
document.write('It has taken humanity less than nine months to exhaust its ecological budget for the year, according to data from  Global Footprint Network, a California-based environmental research organisation.');
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document.write('<li class="rss_item"><a class="rss_item" href="http://www.iema.net/news/envnews?aid=19664" title="A new online resource centre developed by the United Nations seeks to help reduce the damage done to the environment during humanitarian and relief activities in the aftermath of natural disasters, conflicts and other crises...." target="_self">New UN initiative seeks to help humanitarian operations go green</a><br />');
document.write('<span class="rss_date">posted on August 19, 2010 05:00:00 pm</span><br />');
document.write('A new online resource centre developed by the United Nations seeks to help reduce the damage done to the environment during humanitarian and relief activities in the aftermath of natural disasters, conflicts and other crises.');
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document.write('<li class="rss_item"><a class="rss_item" href="http://www.iema.net/news/envnews?aid=19663" title="Japan\'s government plans to subsidize domestic plants producing clean-energy and energy-efficient goods under steps to support the slowing economy, the Nikkei newspaper said, as the murky outlook keeps firms from boosting spending at home...." target="_self">Japan to subsidise energy-efficient plants</a><br />');
document.write('<span class="rss_date">posted on August 19, 2010 05:00:00 pm</span><br />');
document.write('Japan\'s government plans to subsidize domestic plants producing clean-energy and energy-efficient goods under steps to support the slowing economy, the Nikkei newspaper said, as the murky outlook keeps firms from boosting spending at home.');
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document.write('<li class="rss_item"><a class="rss_item" href="http://www.iema.net/news/envnews?aid=19662" title="Rising temperatures in the past decade have reduced the ability of the world\'s plants to soak up carbon from the atmosphere, scientists have said...." target="_self">Rising temperatures reducing ability of plants to absorb carbon, study warns</a><br />');
document.write('<span class="rss_date">posted on August 19, 2010 05:00:00 pm</span><br />');
document.write('Rising temperatures in the past decade have reduced the ability of the world\'s plants to soak up carbon from the atmosphere, scientists have said.');
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document.write('<li class="rss_item"><a class="rss_item" href="http://www.iema.net/news/envnews?aid=19661" title="The microscopic plants that support all life in the oceans are dying off at a dramatic rate, according to a study that has documented for the first time a disturbing and unprecedented change at the base of the marine food web...." target="_self">Global warming blamed for decline in phytoplankton</a><br />');
document.write('<span class="rss_date">posted on August 19, 2010 05:00:00 pm</span><br />');
document.write('The microscopic plants that support all life in the oceans are dying off at a dramatic rate, according to a study that has documented for the first time a disturbing and unprecedented change at the base of the marine food web.');
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document.write('<li class="rss_item"><a class="rss_item" href="http://www.iema.net/news/envnews?aid=19660" title="Honeybees in towns and cities enjoy a more diverse diet than their rural counterparts, experts said today. The urban bees find a richer diversity of pollen because they visit a much wider range of flowers than bees foraging in the countryside...." target="_self">Urban bees fare better, research reveals</a><br />');
document.write('<span class="rss_date">posted on August 19, 2010 05:00:00 pm</span><br />');
document.write('Honeybees in towns and cities enjoy a more diverse diet than their rural counterparts, experts said today. The urban bees find a richer diversity of pollen because they visit a much wider range of flowers than bees foraging in the countryside.');
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document.write('<li class="rss_item"><a class="rss_item" href="http://www.iema.net/news/envnews?aid=19659" title="A device thought to be the largest tidal turbine of its type to be built in the world has been described by its developer as \"simple and robust\"...." target="_self">Largest tidal power device unveiled</a><br />');
document.write('<span class="rss_date">posted on August 19, 2010 05:00:00 pm</span><br />');
document.write('A device thought to be the largest tidal turbine of its type to be built in the world has been described by its developer as \"simple and robust\".');
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document.write('<li class="rss_item"><a class="rss_item" href="http://www.iema.net/news/envnews?aid=19658" title="Peru\'s health ministry has sent emergency teams to a remote Amazon region to battle an outbreak of rabies spread by vampire bats. ..." target="_self">Deforestation drives vampire bats to attack?</a><br />');
document.write('<span class="rss_date">posted on August 19, 2010 05:00:00 pm</span><br />');
document.write('Peru\'s health ministry has sent emergency teams to a remote Amazon region to battle an outbreak of rabies spread by vampire bats. ');
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document.write('<li class="rss_item"><a class="rss_item" href="http://www.iema.net/news/envnews?aid=19617" title="A \"plastic soup\" of waste floating in the Pacific Ocean is growing at an alarming rate and now covers an area twice the size of the continental United States, scientists have said...." target="_self">The world\'s rubbish dump</a><br />');
document.write('<span class="rss_date">posted on August 10, 2010 05:00:00 pm</span><br />');
document.write('A \"plastic soup\" of waste floating in the Pacific Ocean is growing at an alarming rate and now covers an area twice the size of the continental United States, scientists have said.');
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document.write('<li class="rss_item"><a class="rss_item" href="http://www.iema.net/news/envnews?aid=19616" title="Increasingly affluent and energy-hungry nation reflects the dramatic increase in the wattage of China\'s economy...." target="_self">China overtakes US as world\'s biggest energy consumer</a><br />');
document.write('<span class="rss_date">posted on August 10, 2010 05:00:00 pm</span><br />');
document.write('Increasingly affluent and energy-hungry nation reflects the dramatic increase in the wattage of China\'s economy.');
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document.write('<li class="rss_item"><a class="rss_item" href="http://www.iema.net/news/envnews?aid=19615" title="Gatwick Airport announces the launch of its first sustainability plan as an independent airport and becomes the largest UK airport to achieve the Carbon Trust Standard, signalling its commitment to become a sustainable airport...." target="_self">Gatwick?s green stamp of approval signals decade of change</a><br />');
document.write('<span class="rss_date">posted on August 10, 2010 05:00:00 pm</span><br />');
document.write('Gatwick Airport announces the launch of its first sustainability plan as an independent airport and becomes the largest UK airport to achieve the Carbon Trust Standard, signalling its commitment to become a sustainable airport.');
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document.write('<li class="rss_item"><a class="rss_item" href="http://www.iema.net/news/envnews?aid=19614" title="Greenpeace has released a report titled ?Saving the last ocean: How seafood markets can help to save Antarctica?s Ross Sea?. The report details the destructive fishing practices used to catch Antarctic toothfish, known as Chilean sea bass in North America..." target="_self">Greenpeace: help save the Ross Sea </a><br />');
document.write('<span class="rss_date">posted on August 10, 2010 05:00:00 pm</span><br />');
document.write('Greenpeace has released a report titled ?Saving the last ocean: How seafood markets can help to save Antarctica?s Ross Sea?. The report details the destructive fishing practices used to catch Antarctic toothfish, known as Chilean sea bass in North America, and exposes how the fishing industry is engaged in a ?gold-rush? for toothfish in the remote waters of the Southern Ocean.');
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document.write('<li class="rss_item"><a class="rss_item" href="http://www.iema.net/news/envnews?aid=19613" title="Wind power generation across the eastern states of Australia grew by 40% last year as several large farms began operating...." target="_self">Turbine power grew to 40 per cent last year </a><br />');
document.write('<span class="rss_date">posted on August 10, 2010 05:00:00 pm</span><br />');
document.write('Wind power generation across the eastern states of Australia grew by 40% last year as several large farms began operating.');
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document.write('<li class="rss_item"><a class="rss_item" href="http://www.iema.net/news/envnews?aid=19612" title="WWF and Green Home, its partner NGO in Montenegro, welcomed the Montenegrin government?s decision to call off the original plans for four dams on the Mora?a River, which would have affected several protected areas. ..." target="_self">Green Home welcomes Montenegro dams rethink</a><br />');
document.write('<span class="rss_date">posted on August 10, 2010 05:00:00 pm</span><br />');
document.write('WWF and Green Home, its partner NGO in Montenegro, welcomed the Montenegrin government?s decision to call off the original plans for four dams on the Mora?a River, which would have affected several protected areas. ');
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document.write('<li class="rss_item"><a class="rss_item" href="http://www.iema.net/news/envnews?aid=19611" title="UN climate talks have moved backward rather than forward toward a hoped-for deal later this year as nations make slow progress on pledges to cut greenhouse gas emissions and add more proposals to the working document...." target="_self">UN climate deal retreats as Bonn talks end</a><br />');
document.write('<span class="rss_date">posted on August 10, 2010 05:00:00 pm</span><br />');
document.write('UN climate talks have moved backward rather than forward toward a hoped-for deal later this year as nations make slow progress on pledges to cut greenhouse gas emissions and add more proposals to the working document.');
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document.write('<li class="rss_item"><a class="rss_item" href="http://www.iema.net/news/envnews?aid=19610" title="China will soon publish a plan for what it called \"newly developing energy industries\" that will involve 5 trillion yuan ($739 billion) in investment through 2020...." target="_self">China to unveil \'new energy\' plan </a><br />');
document.write('<span class="rss_date">posted on August 10, 2010 05:00:00 pm</span><br />');
document.write('China will soon publish a plan for what it called \"newly developing energy industries\" that will involve 5 trillion yuan ($739 billion) in investment through 2020.');
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