je.st
news
Tag: lost
Extent of Peruvian Amazon lost to illegal goldmines mapped first time
2013-10-29 12:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: The area affected by illegal gold mining in Peru's south-eastern Amazon region increased by 400% from 1999 to 2012, according to researchers using state-of-the-art mapping technology. Using airborne mapping and high-satellite monitoring, researchers led by the Carnegie Institution for Science also showed that the rate of forest loss in Madre de Dios has tripled since the 2008 global economic crisis, when the international price of gold began to rise to new highs. Until this study, thousands...
'50,000 construction workers lost jobs in 1 yr'
2013-10-29 08:20:27| Furniture - Topix.net
NO fewer than 50,000 workers lost their jobs in the nation's construction and furniture industry in the last one year, the National Union of Civil Engineering Construction, Furniture and Wood Workers, NUCEFWW, said, yesterday, in Ibadan, Oyo State.
Tags: jobs
lost
construction
workers
'Lost world' of Australian rainforest yields up three new species
2013-10-29 03:24:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Scientists have discovered three new species of animals in a rainforest 'lost world' in Australia, protected for millions of years by almost impenetrable stacks of granite boulders. The new animals are a leaf-tail gecko, a golden-colored skink and a boulder-dwelling frog living in the unique rocky rainforest in Cape Melville, some 1,500 km (900 miles) north west of Brisbane, Australia's third most populous city. "They just look completely distinct, so as soon as you see them you think 'Wow,...
Tags: world
lost
australian
species
LightSquared lost $55.5m in September, $934m since Chapter 11 filing
2013-10-18 02:00:00| Total Telecom industry news
U.S. firm attributes bulk of its losses to interest costs on debt.
Tags: september
lost
filing
chapter
26 Years Later, Google Earth Helps Lost Indian Boy Go Home
2013-10-17 00:25:18| TechNewsWorld
Indian Saroo Munshi Khan used Google Earth to track down his long-lost family 26 years after accidentally falling asleep on a train. Then 5-year-old Saroo reportedly took a break from searching for change with his brother in Berhanpur, India, and hopped onto a stationary train where he fell asleep. Hours later, he woke up in Calcutta, alone and more than 900 miles away from home.
Sites : [84] [85] [86] [87] [88] [89] [90] [91] [92] [93] [94] [95] [96] [97] [98] [99] [100] [101] [102] [103] next »