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Time’s green hero Dilawar Mohammed fights for the sparrow

Posted by smeddum on October 8, 2008

Time’s green hero Dilawar Mohammed fights for the sparrow

October 7th, 2008 – 5:17 pm ICT by IANS – Thaindian News

Mumbai, Oct 7 (IANS) Dilawar Mohammed, one of the winners of Time magazine’s Heroes of the Environment-2008, is a crusader for the almost ignored bird – the common sparrow.He is almost single-handedly struggling to raise awareness about conserving the common sparrow, which he feels is facing a severe threat from humans. Read the rest of this entry »

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Electronic smog ‘is disrupting nature on a massive scale’

Posted by smeddum on September 7, 2008

As I have said before the USDA has given no details on its experiments, and that in itself leaves its scupper of the influence of emf on bees open to question. CCD has been described as a conglomerate of everything that attacks bees, and it is not clear, and indeed not defined, what parameters and what places these experiments were conducted.
The Independent then comes up with a so-called expert on sparrows who does not address the issue at all as though magnetite did not exist in sparrows 

New study blames mobile phone masts and power lines for collapse of bee colonies and decline in sparrows

By Geoffrey Lean, Environment Editor Independent
Sunday, 7 September 2008

AP
Bees are able to change the polarity of their antennae at will. It is believed that that it is this that enables them to navigate using the Earth’s magnetic forces Read the rest of this entry »

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Study on sparrows urgently required say experts

Posted by smeddum on August 23, 2008

Study on sparrows urgently required say experts The Hindu
Mumbai (PTI): Voicing concern over the depleting population of sparrows, experts have suggested a census of the bird to prevent its chirping from being lost forever. Read the rest of this entry »

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