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Hungary to sell carbon credits to Japan
December 17th, 2007
Hungary will Tuesday sign a framework agreement to sell carbon credits to Japan, Hungary’s Environment Ministry said in a statement Tuesday. Environment Minister Gabor Fodor and Japanese Ambassador to Hungary Shinichi Nabekura will sign the agreement, although it is not yet clear how many credits Japan will buy.
Rare eight-million-year-old trees uncovered in Hungary
October 9th, 2007
Archaeologists have unearthed the rare remains of an eight-million-year old forest of swamp cypresses at a mine in Hungary. The tree trunks have not fossilized or petrified and, amazingly, retain the wooden texture from their pre-historic past. The trees went on display this month at a Hungarian nat…