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Nike's New Ball Celebrates the World's Oldest Football Tournament

2016-02-23 08:06:15| Apparel - Topix.net

To mark the 100th year of the storied Copa America , US sports giant Nike has released a special iteration of its Ordem football. To be used throughout this summer's tournament and centenary celebrations, the Nike 'Ordem Ciento' is emblazoned with flashes of colour and a special crest to mark the unprecedented anniversary.

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Nike's New Ball Celebrates the World's Oldest Football Tournament

2016-02-23 04:46:04| Footwear - Topix.net

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Australia: Wildfires Are Burning Some of the Worlds Oldest Trees

2016-01-28 00:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Climate Central: Northwest Tasmania is home to part of the Gondwana forest. It's a stretch of primeval-looking temperate rainforest, much like the one found in the Pacific Northwest's Olympic National Park. Trees more than 1,000 years old tower above ancient ferns, forming a connection to the distant past. It's why the region has been designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site. But that connection is being broken by climate change. Fueled by extremely dry conditions that stretch back two years, major bushfires have...

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Forest loss increased annually for 25 yrs at oldest Amazon mega-dam

2016-01-14 23:03:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Mongabay: Researchers examining changes in forest cover encircling the Amazons oldest mega-dam have found that hundreds of square kilometers of forest have been lost each year of the dams 25-year history. The study, published in Applied Geography late in 2015, was undertaken by an international team from the US, Brazil, and the Netherlands. They describe the Tucuruí dam, constructed in the 1980s, as an ideal case for understanding the long-term impact of mega-dams on rainforest loss. Great rivers across...

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