Set of various interior design pictures.

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]]> Swedish flat-pack furniture seller Ikea will stop offering plastic or paper bags at any of its US stores from this month. Each year, Americans also throw away some 100 billion polyethylene plastic bags, and less than one per cent of them are recycled.
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]]> All doubts regarding the sighting of a tigress after 50 years in Chitradurga have now been cleared. Medical tests prove that the eight-year-old tigress had strayed into the urban fields in Chitradurga as she did not have three canines and was unable to
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]]> Joe Biden won the night. The word comes from former members of the Bush administration and even John McCain's former press secretary.
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]]> In most cases, this type of oversight on the part of a politician could be dismissed -- maybe even attributed to nerves. But when Afghanistan is exploding and on the verge of failure, details matter.
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]]> Not only do purple carrots contain all of the phytochemicals found in orange carrots, they also contain anthocyanins, potent antioxidants.
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]]> The traditional wintering site for tens of millions of monarch butterflies in central Mexico is under continuing threat after conservationists failed to halt the onslaught of illegal logging in the area.
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]]> This picture of Hurricane Ike from earlier today was downlinked by the crew of the International Space Station, flying 220 statute miles above Earth.
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]]> The Church of England will officially apologise to Charles Darwin for misunderstanding his theory of evolution.In a bizarre step, the Church will address its contrition directly to the Victorian scientist himself, even though he died 126 years ago.
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]]> Human-caused climate change has impacted a wide range of Earth's natural systems, from permafrost thawing to plants blooming earlier across Europe to lakes declining in productivity in Africa.
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]]> Shoppers on Regents Street in central London likely got more than they bargained for this afternoon. In a dramatic illustration of how sharks are caught and killed for their fins.
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]]> Eco Cities of the Mediterranean is a 3-day regional Forum that aims to create momentum in addressing environmental challenges and opportunities in metropolitan cities across the Mediterranean region and the world.
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]]> A series of fossilised forests the size of small cities have provided prehistoric evidence of how tropical rainforests are destroyed by global warming.
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]]> Fans of classical music and jazz are creative, pop lovers are hardworking and, despite the stereotypes, heavy metal listeners are gentle, creative types who are at ease with themselves.
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]]> Yesterday, at federal court in Ft.Myers, FL, farm bosses from Immokalee pleaded guilty to "numerous charges of enslaving Mexican & Guatemalan immigrants, brutalizing them & forcing them to work in farm fields, 1 of most extreme stories of exploitation...
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]]> The number of trees cut down annually for the production of books sold in the U.S. is now estimated in 30 million trees, an increase of 10 million trees from the last estimate. Why is that and is the book industry going forward or backwards?
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]]> Overfishing, war, and pollution have decimated the dolphins, and only a few dozen of them are left. Environmentalists have begun a project aimed at contributing to the development of the villages and to saving the dolphins....
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]]> First-hand account of changing North Pole

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]]> Musical tastes and personality type are closely related, according to a study of more than 36,000 people from around the world. The research, which was carried out by Professor Adrian North of Heriot-Watt University, is said to be the largest such study
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]]> Mariners have long told of nighttime events in which the ocean glows brightly for many miles. A vast region of luminescence in the Indian Ocean was photographed by satellite. Such events are chronicled in Doomwatch Legacy by Sunstroke author David Kagan.
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]]> What would happen if a huge meteor hit planet Earth!
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]]> “Tree planting is a contribution towards addressing the issue of global warming, but only as a complement to the most important action – reducing the use of fossil fuels, and the emissions of carbon dioxide that entails.”
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]]> As Labor Day approaches at home,a Washington law firm, have filed a suit against US contractor KBR.This concerns,an apparent case of forced labour,involving a number of Nepalise workers.
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]]> On Friday 29 and Saturday 30 August, the National Forestry Commission, with the support of 300 planters in various parts of Durango, will attempt to break the world record by planting 300,000 trees in 24 hours.
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]]> Playing the "numbers game" is not good enough when it comes to identifying what species are at risk from extinction, says Nicolas Entrup. In this week's Green Room, he argues that we need to re-evaluate how we decide what creatures need our help....
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]]> Scientists on Wednesday said they had discovered deep-sea viruses to be an unexpectedly potent driver of the so-called carbon cycle that sustains oceanic life and helps dampen global warming.
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]]> More than 40 percent of Australia, an area the size of India, remains untouched by humans, making the country as critical to the world's environment as the Amazon rainforests, a study said.
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]]> The team behind NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope is celebrating the orbiting observatory's fifth birthday with a glittering, multigenerational picture of a star-forming region.
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]]> Education today! School Board has suspended a 27 year veteran teacher for assigning her students The Freedom Writers Diary (inspirational best seller and a Hilary Swank film) about intercity gang teens changing their lives and their zealous teacher
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]]> Japanese scientists said Friday they had derived stem cells from wisdom teeth, opening another way to study deadly diseases without the ethical controversy of using embryos. "This is significant in two ways," team leader Hajime Ogushi told AFP.
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]]> Burning incense may create a sweet scent, but regularly inhaling the smoke could put people at risk of cancers of the respiratory tract, researchers reported Monday. In a study of more than 61,000 ethnic Chinese living in Singapore who were followed for
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]]> California's largest utility company has signed deals to build the world's two biggest solar plants that would supply electricity to 250,000 homes and reestablish the United States as the global
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]]> Eric Ruder argues that the antiwar movement needs to respond clearly to the growing focus of U.S. military might on Afghanistan.
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]]> People who eat smaller, more frequent meals have lower cholesterol, lower blood pressure and healthier blood sugar than people who eat fewer, larger meals, according to a study
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]]> Stores stock thousands of brands of cosmetics to help us look like the latest Hollywood actress. We bought the ads and the products lock, stock and barrel to the tune of $200 billion in retail sales in the year 2000.
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]]> Abusive child labor is a symptom directly related to the problems of poverty in the developing world.
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]]> By 2050, minorities will be the majority in America, and the number of residents older than 65 will more than double, according to projections released Thursday by the U.S. Census Bureau.
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]]> This is a great local effort in West Virginia fighting against coal and for wind power - you can help in their efforts!
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