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Nepal Temporarily Halts All Logging – More Trees Cut in Last Few Months Than From 2000-2005

Illegal logging is on the increase in the Terai, the lowland areas of Nepal. Photo: Librex via flickr. A quickie on a seriously shocking situation: As Mongabay and BBC News report, Nepal has announced a two month temporary ban on all logging in the country. This comes as forestry officials learned that in the past few months alone more than 250,000 acres of forest have been cleared. That’s more than was cleared between… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Wretched Excess Dept: a Lamborghini in the Living Room

Koichi Torimura Some people love their cars, so much that they wish they could be in their living room. But what if you have nine of them? Japanese architect Takuya Tsuchida had such a client, who also said “Oh, and the living room needs a tall tree.”… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Noise Pollution Harms Fish Populations, Locations, Habits

Photo by Puliarf Whales aren’t the only marine species negatively affected by human-generated noise pollution in the oceans. Sound is an important, and well developed sense in many fish, more species of which are being threatened by the increase in noise made by oil and gas rigs, ships, boats and sonar. In a new review, scientists look at how the rise in sounds over the last hundred years as humans have taken to the oceans has impacte… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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First Graders Early Adopters Of E-book

Shanghai Daily – In the e-book era, local students will soon be reading digital textbooks. The Shanghai Education Commission has set an ambitious plan to make all primary school grade one pupils use e-textbooks within five years. The technology will be promoted to higher grades later, Ni Minjing, a Shanghai Education Commission official in charge of elementary education, told Shanghai Daily. “Singapore and Korea have developed their digital textbooks through five-year plans,” he said. “Shanghai, as a big metropolis in the world, should not lag behind. “Parents won’t need to pay for the e-textbooks or digital textbook reader with the increase in government investment in education these years.” > > Read More First Graders Early Adopters Of E-book is a post from: Daily World Buzz Continue reading

Students protest tuition

Los Angeles, California (CNN) — About 70 students avoided arrest early Sunday morning when they surrendered the administration building they had occupied for nearly four days at the University of California-Santa Cruz, according to a school spokesman. Angry students took over Kerr Hall after the University of California's regents board approved a 32 percent increase in tuition Thursday

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House plan boosts taxes on rich to 20-year high

Increasing taxes is a bad idea. The economy needs to grow to recover from the recession.