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Posts from the ‘NATURE-GREEN’ Category

Siberian tigers and chicken

March 17, 2011

Siberian tigersSiberian tigers look up waiting for a chicken to land at the Siberian Tiger Park in Harbin, China. Visitors to the park can buy birds for 50 yuan (£4.50), pieces of meat, or even a live calf to be fed to the tigers…

Life is too short for the wrong job

March 17, 2011

Life is too shortA new video commercial released by German employment website jobsintown joins the company’s playful visual representations of their slogan ‘life is too short for the wrong job’.
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Japan earthquake not the “Big one”?

March 16, 2011

Japan earthquakeThough Friday’s Japan earthquake—which spawned a tsunami and damaged a nuclear power plant—was the largest to strike the country since the dawn of modern seismology, it wasn’t the long dreaded “big one,” experts say.
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500 days for the Olympic Games

March 16, 2011

London Olympic Games

Fireworks light up the BT telecom tower in central London to celebrate 500 days to go till the start of the London 2012 Olympic Games.

You’ll never walk alone

March 16, 2011

Japan picturesInter Milan’s Yuto Nagatomo carries a Japanese flag after his team won their Champions League round of 16 second leg match against FC Bayern Munich in Munich, Germany.  Picture: AP

Home counties

March 16, 2011

Kris DutsonA storm brews over a field of barley in Wiltshire close to Sixpenny Handley in a dramatic image caught by photographer Kris Dutson who has spent a decade capturing images.
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World’s first hybrid solar energy plant, in Florida

March 16, 2011

hybrid solar energyFlorida the sunshine State is embracing solar energy with the launch of the world’s first hybrid solar energy plant — the Martin Next Generation Solar Energy Center.
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National tennis center, Beijing

March 16, 2011

tennis center
tennis center

The ‘National tennis center’, from Chinese architects atelier 11, currently under construction in Beijing, China. Projected to be complete in june 2011, the stadium will be the city’s largest stadium for tennis games with state-of-the-art equipment and facilities.
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Largest set of prehistoric shark jaws

March 16, 2011

prehistoric shark jaws

The largest set of prehistoric shark jaws ever assembled is set to be auctioned. The jaws measure 11 feet across and almost nine feet tall. They come from the 90-foot long predator Megalodon shark, the largest predator ever to have existed on Earth, at 60 feet in length or more.
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Pictures from Japan’s disaster- floating house

March 15, 2011

Japan’s desaster

A house floats in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Japan after the earthquake and tsunami.