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Scientific name: Theridion grallator
Motive: The ‘happy face spider,’ found only in rain forests of the Hawaiian Islands, has one peculiar way to scare its predators. It makes a smiling face, which confuses the...
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Pro Bowl receiver Chad Johnson won’t be practicing with the Cincinnati Bengals for a while because his right ankle hasn’t fully recovered from surgery.
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Playboy has announced to publish the pictorial of the sexiest women from the My Space Community. The contest is on till 1st March 2005 and to apply you are just...
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A two-year battle over a New Jersey beach town’s plan to buy boardwalk wood from the Amazon rain forest is ending.
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Eco Factor: Sustainable housing inspired by equatorial rainforests.
Population explosion along with rapid industrialization has already affected millions and the views...
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‘Pay indigenous people to protect forests’
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Few people are fortunate enough to go on a trip to a place that can bring drastic change in their life. I don’t know the names of such people but surely I know...
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Quite often, we waste our earnings on apparently unimportant ostentatious items. If a small fraction of our money could be spent on making our planet greener and that...
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Rainforests are known to be our savior from global warming, but a new revelation has sent shivering waves around the globe. It has been found that global warming...
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It seems like in most of the poor countries, the rain forests are threatened. People don’t seem to understand the importance of conserving these forests. The...
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Sulawesi forests harbor a hoard of endemic species: More than 60 percent of its mammals and more than one third of its birds are found nowhere else on the planet....
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Some people in the UK have come up with a unique way of saving rainforest - “buy it”.
Cool Earth, a new charity aims to let people ‘buy’ parts...
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If you love to observe primates in there natural surroundings then this trip is definitely for you! World Primate Safaris specializes in trips to observe the...
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The best story I have read so far today. Rainforest.org is an organization that purchases trees directly from landowners thus saving them from imminent...
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In this March 28, 2007, file photograph, Georgina Shanley stands on the worn boards of the boardwalk in Ocean City, N.J. Ocean City will vote Thursday night Feb. 26, 2009 on whether to settle a lawsuit with a Baltimore lumber company that was to sell...
