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Earth Summit Earth Summit
Earth Summit On June 3 and 4, 1992, the Earth Summit (formally the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development or UNCED) met in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, as a twenty-year follow-up to the United Nations Conference on the Human Environment (UNCHE, held in Stockholm). The goal of the 120... Read more
Reykjavik Summit 1986 Reykjavik Summit 1986
REYKJAVIK SUMMIT A summit meeting of U.S. president Ronald Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev took place in Reykjavik, Iceland, on October 11–12, 1986. This second meeting of the two leaders was billed as an "interim summit" and was not carefully prepared and scripted in advance as... Read more
Olympus Olympus
Olympus , Gr. Ólimbos, mountain range, c.25 mi (40 km) long, N Greece, on the border of Thessaly and Macedonia, near the Aegean coast. It rises to c.9,570 ft (2,920 m) at Mt. Olympus, the highest point in Greece. The peak was first ascended in 1913. In Greek mythology the summit, shut from... Read more
island island
island relatively small body of land surrounded entirely by water. (As the oceans form a continuous mass of water on the earth's surface, all continents are islands in the strict sense of the word.) The largest islands on earth are, in descending order of size, Greenland , New Guinea , Borneo , ... Read more
Glassboro Glassboro
Glassboro borough (1990 pop. 15,614), Gloucester co., SW N.J.; settled 1775, inc. 1920. It is a trade and processing center for a fruit-growing (especially apples) region and has light manufacturing. The founding industry, glass, is still important. Glassboro State College (renamed Rowan State... Read more
plateau plateau
plateau elevated, level or nearly level portion of the earth's surface, larger in summit area than a mountain and bounded on at least one side by steep slopes, occurring on land or in oceans. Some plateaus, such as the Deccan of India and the Columbia Plateau of the NW United States, are basaltic... Read more
Gary Oldman Gary Oldman
OLDMAN, Gary Nationality:British. Born:London, England, 21 March 1958. Education:Attended Rose Buford College of Speech and Drama, London. Family:Married 1) Donya Fiorentino, 1997, two sons: Gulliver Flynn and Charlie John; 2) Lesley Manville... Read more
continent continent
continent largest unit of landmasses on the earth . The continents include Eurasia (conventionally regarded as two continents, Europe and Asia ), Africa , North America , South America , Australia , and Antarctica . Geographic Distribution of the Continents More than two thirds of the... Read more
Table Mountain Table Mountain
Table Mountain 3,567 ft (1,087 m) high, Western Cape, South Africa. It overlooks Cape Town and Table Bay . The summit is flat, and the dense white mist that often covers it is called the "tablecloth." A cableway (built 1929) carries visitors to the summit.... Read more
International Geophysical Year International Geophysical Year
International Geophysical Year (IGY), 18-month period from July, 1957, through Dec., 1958, during a period of maximum sunspot activity, designated for cooperative study of the solar-terrestrial environment by the scientists of 67 nations. The only prior combined international scientific efforts... Read more

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Take care of Mother Earth
Newspaper article from: New Straits Times ...under way to inculcate the habit of caring for the environment in schoolchildren...Agenda 21 came about following the Earth Summit in Brazil in 1992, which stipulated principles for...hour hotline 03-8885-8200 to report environmental polluters. (Copyright...
Is big business coming clean?Activists see more spin than actual progress
Newspaper article from: International Herald Tribune ...They say they are caring and understanding about...business interests at the 1992 UN Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro.The...and open markets. In a report on ''Doing Business...the 2002 Johannesburg Earth Summit, it teamed up with another...
Sport and the environment.(Guest Editorial)
Magazine article from: Environmental Health Perspectives ...leadership and encourage partnership in caring for the environment by inspiring...organizing committee's sustainability report (TOROC 2006b) demonstrates a detailed...as UNEP and documents such as the 1992 Earth Summit's Agenda 21 but also a growing...
PROFESSOR SIMON THIRGOOD
Newspaper article from: The Independent (London, England) ...Redpath, of a landmark report on birds of prey and red...in the run-up to the 1992 Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro. He...produced their well-known report on grouse moors, Birds...often amusing, and deeply caring about wildlife, society...

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