On the Road Again (Bay Weekly) All you need is the plan, the road map and the courage to press on to your destination....more...Queen may be scrapped from UK passports (Daily Telegraph) References to the Queen could be taken out of British passports in a bid to make them more European, it has emerged....more... Mortal combat (The New Statesman) China's first emperor, Qin Shi Huangdi, searched obsessively for the secret of eternal life. And perhaps he found it; although he died aged only 50, the extraordinary legacy of his burial chambers lives on....more... Map 'shows effects of climate change' (Channel 4) The effects of global climate change can be seen on a new atlas that shows shrinking lakes and rising sea levels, a map maker has said....more... Soil and Crop Sciences (AgNews) September 18 2007 Toro Gives $73,000 to Texas A&M University Turfgrass Program COLLEGE STATION ? Toro Company has given a $73,000 grant to Texas A&M University's turfgrass program to support undergraduate activities and research, officials said Tuesday....more... BROUGHT TO BOOK ON CLIMATE CHANGE (Daily Record) A NEW world atlas has shown how global warming has redrawn the map of the planet. Soaring temperatures mean whole stretches of the Rio Grande and Colorado rivers in America are drying out each year, with the water sometimes not even reaching the sea....more... Tabloids for broadsheet readers | FORUMS (Anorak) What is most wrong with today's Britain? Loading ... Portuguese authorities have dismissed as groundless all leads on sightings of Madeleine McCann in other countries rather than Portugal, namely in Morroco and Malta, said Polícia Judiciária (PJ), Portuguese CID, spokesman Olegário de Sousa (...)...more... Times Atlas shows how global warming is changing the world (Times Online) Maps are having to be redrawn as global warming and man?s use of rivers alter the shape of countries and continents around the world....more... Vanishing lakes prove impact of man (The Scotsman) A GENERATION ago it was a vast deep blue sea teeming with life. Now the Aral Sea is sick and green and a fraction of the size it once was....more... |