Archive for ‘germany’
Polar Bear Sees Double
February 1st, 2008
Germany’s polar bear cub Flocke is enamored with her own reflection in the mirror. The cute cub is almost five-weeks old.
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The first kite-powered cargo ship
January 23rd, 2008
“Beluga SkySails” is fitted with a giant computer-guided kite, which helps the engines to power the ship - thereby reducing fuel consumption and emissions. The ship is the result of co-operation between two German companies, who hope this first journey is just the start of a comeback for harnessing…
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A polar bear cub named “Flocke”
January 19th, 2008
Nuremberg zoo received over 50.000 name suggestions sent from around the world for the five-week-old polar bear cub that was taken from her moth Vera after keepers feared that it might come to harm. (The mother was seen walking around her compound with the live cub in her mouth, dropping it on the…
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German polar bear cub gets the name Flocke
January 18th, 2008
A female polar bear cub that has become Germany’s latest animal attraction has been named Flocke, or “flake” as in snow flake, officials in the southern city of Nuremberg Friday.
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German company building solar factory in ABQ
January 14th, 2008
GERMAN-BASED ‘SCHOTT A-G’ WILL BREAK GROUND ON THE FACTORY NEXT MONTH. THE COMPANY WILL BUILD A 200- THOUSAND SQUARE FOOT PLANT IN THE MESA DEL SOL AREA. THE 500- MILLION DOLLAR FACILITY SHOULD OPEN IN 2009 AND COULD CREATE UP TO 15-HUNDRED JOBS. ‘i’m very excited about this. When we land companies like schott, I mean, this is a homerun …
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Baby Polar Bear Gets Check-up
January 14th, 2008
The four-week-old polar bear cub who was taken from his mother at the Nuremburg zoo in Germany is being hand-fed and given check-ups regularly as it is raised by humans.
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Follow Germany on renewable energy, Clinton says
January 12th, 2008
Democratic U.S. presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton wants America to follow Germany’s lead — and her own — in using environmentally friendly fuel sources and making homes and buildings more energy efficient.
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Grey seal baby boom
January 12th, 2008
Grey seals returned to the North Sea island in the late 1980s. They are now thriving thanks to a plentiful supply of fish and no natural predators. The Heligoland seal pups are being tagged to track their movements and better understand their behaviour. Scientists think female grey seals return to…
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Car makers rethinking strategy for 2008
January 9th, 2008
German car makers are rethinking their model strategies for 2008 amid a new car sales slump and the growing image problems faced by performance cars with high carbon dioxide emissions.
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“New Knuts” vanish at German zoo
January 7th, 2008
Two polar-bear cubs which had been hailed as the successors to Knut, a white Berlin cub shown worldwide last year on TV, suddenly vanished Monday in their zoo den.
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German ban on polluting cars
January 4th, 2008
German cities are taking action against car pollution aiming to ban dirty and polluting vehicles.
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German car sales slump, but exports hit record high
January 3rd, 2008
German car sales slumped 9 per cent in 2007 to their lowest level since the nation’s historic unification more than 17 years ago, data released Thursday showed, as soaring energy prices and an unpopular tax rise hit the auto sector.
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Knut: the movie?
January 3rd, 2008
Berlin Zoo says it has received an offer from Hollywood producer Ash R. Shah to buy the movie rights to Knut’s story to make a film in the style of “Shrek” or “Finding Nemo”. The polar bear was abandoned by his mother before capturing the hearts of the public across the world.
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Chicken manure fuels German biogas plant
December 28th, 2007
A biogas plant fueled largely by chicken manure was launched at a poultry farm south of Berlin on Friday.
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Germany angry at EU rule on CO2 emissions
December 19th, 2007
Germany voiced dismay Wednesday at the way the European Union (EU) Commission plans to enforce new C02 emissions limits, charging that the penalties are biassed against its makers of big cars.
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