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Rare Amazon Jungle Dog Caught on Video
2016-07-04 03:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
National Geographic: One of the Amazon rain forest's most elusive inhabitants, the short-eared dog, has been caught on video in southeastern Peru. About the size of a fox, these jungle canines are incredibly difficult to spot. In fact, a journey to the Amazon is far more likely to yield a jaguar sighting than a glimpse of a wild short-eared dog. In late May, 2014, conservation biologist Lary Reeves set up a camera trapnear a white-lipped peccary carcass. Wanting to record what he'd heard was a "king vulture fiesta"...
With entire lion pride in Gir caged for first time rumblings in jungle
2016-06-11 13:56:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Indian Express: As the sun pales on a sweltering summer day, sharecropper Raju Charola, 33, his wife Champa and mother Labhu quickly tuck into their dinner of potato curry, chapati and mango pickle, inches from their makeshift chullah, at a farm in Ambardi village in Dhari taluka of Amreli. Darkness descends quickly, with the eight-hour agricultural power supply to these parts snapped at 7 pm. The water of the Shetruji river laps nearby, but the three hold their ears out for what lies just beyond -- the 400-hectare...
Watch Amazon's 'Mozart in the Jungle' for Free This Weekend
2016-01-14 22:02:48| PC Magazine Software Product Guide
Amazon is celebrating its Golden Globe-winning original series with 20 free episodes starting at 12 a.m. Saturday.
How Calais 'Jungle' migrant camp has become a mini city with free wifi
2015-12-07 05:46:44| Wireless - Topix.net
Camp started as a stopping place for migrants as they waited to be smuggled illegally out of France to Britain Eight months later, the notorious 'Jungle' migrant camp in Calais, has grown into a self-contained mini-city - a permanent magnet for people trying to get to Britain. More than a dozen shops have opened, along with restaurants, libraries, and even makeshift hotels - and, inevitably, an information centre offering advice on how to get asylum in Britain.
Panama jungle island is nerve center for climate researchers
2015-12-07 01:49:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Agence France-Presse: In a manmade lake in the Panama Canal sits an island whose compact jungle is teeming with researchers studying biodiversity and climate change -- a tropical outcrop hailed as vital for understanding the world's forests. Barro Colorado Island is 15.6 square kilometers (six square miles), roughly four times the size of New York's Central Park. Located in Gatun Lake, created in the early 20th century, it is run by the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute and currently boasts 350 scientific...
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