- WWF Living Planet map of ecological footprints worldwide
A global map of the relative ecological footprint per person in 2007
2007年には一人あたり相対的なエコロジカルフットプリントの世界地図
- John Wagstaff obituary
My former colleague John Wagstaff, who has died aged 92, was one of the earliest medical officers to be parachuted into France and to cross Pegasus Bridge on D-day. A member of the 6th Airborne Division, he saw action in the Ardennes and participated in the crossing of the Rhine. He then served in Palestine, experiencing the attack on the King David hotel on 22 July 1946.Perhaps what best demonstrates John's self-effacing character is an incident in the Ardennes recorded by his fellow serviceman LJ Carrier. It relates to a time, early in 1945, when the German advance had been halted, but they sought to cover their retreat with defensive minefields.While attempting to cross one such minefield carpeted in fresh snow, a member of the patrol of 22nd Independent Company Paras was severely injured when treading on a mine. The corporal in charge sent for medical help and a mine detector, and then set out to aid the wounded man. In doing this, the corporal was injured, as were two of the RAMC medical orderlies who arrived subsequently to help. Thus, four men with severe leg injuries were now lying trapped in a deadly minefield hidden under snow.It was at this stage that John arrived. After ordering no one to follow him, he entered the minefield, treading in the footprints left by the wounded men, and tended to each in turn. John then remained with the furthest man, until all the mines in the vicinity had been located. Mines were discovered on each side of the wounded men, including one directly behind John. Through his courage, the casualties survived.John was born in London, at Haberdashers' Aske's school, where his father was headteacher. He read medicine at Emmanuel College, Cambridge, and did his clinical training at the London hospital, graduating in 1942. Six months later 92歳で死亡した私の元同僚のJohnワッグスタッフは、最古の医官の一人がフランスにパラシュートにD -当日ペガサス橋を渡っていた
- Elephant deaths soar as ivory sales debated
Tracking the wounded elephant to its death bed was easy for the ranger in Tsavo East National Park, Kenya. Hit by a poison arrow, the huge mammal could only drag its hind leg, creating a wide gash across the bush.Poachers' footprints... 追跡は、死の床には負傷した象のツァボイースト国立公園、ケニアのレンジャーに簡単でした
- Commonwealth Games in Dehli: Inside the athletes' village
Dirty bathrooms, exposed electricity cables, bedsheets covered in animal footprints, and flooding in filthy toilets
汚れたバスルーム、公開される電力ケーブル、動物の足跡に覆わシーツと、不潔なトイレの洪水
- Few companies meet carbon reporting norms
Most British businesses fail to comply with government guidance on reporting their carbon footprints, a Deloitte survey of 100 listed firms reveals. ほとんどの英国企業は二酸化炭素排出量を報告に関する政府の指導に準拠して失敗、100上場企業のデロイトの調査では明らかにする
- BIRKENSTOCK footprints PICCADILLY BRN/BRN
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- More than 3,000 dinosaur footprints found in China
Archaeologists in China say they have discovered more than 3,000 dinosaur footprints, all facing in the same direction. 中国の考古学者は、3,000人以上の恐竜の足跡を発見しているすべての直面していると同じ方向です
- Thousands of dinosaur footprints uncovered in China
Archaeologists in China have uncovered more than 3,000 dinosaur footprints, state media reported, in an area said to be the world's largest grouping of fossilised bones belonging to the ancient animals. 中国の考古学者、国営メディアは、地域で報告3,000人以上の恐竜の足跡を発見した化石骨は、古代の動物に属している世界最大規模のグループになるという
- Good to meet you … Wendy Swan
An ex-Buddhist fundamentalist reader on using the Guardian for enlightenment – and firelightingI never buy the Guardian as being on benefits it would seem like an outrageous extravagance. However, I do manage to get a great free read of it everyday as I'm laying the coal fire. A friend saves his daily copy for me for firelighting purposes, and every few weeks he hands over a couple of carrier bags' worth. A real treat.The idea is that they'll be used for lining the cat's litter tray, firelighting, and for spreading over newly washed lino in the hall to soak up muddy footprints on rainy days. But not before they've had a thorough skim, followed by tearing out of articles and sections for later scrutiny.Thirty years ago, as an inner-city social worker with offenders and homeless people, I was a regular Guardian reader. Then came a long personal media drought when I jacked it all in and moved into our local Tibetan monastery to become a full-time Buddhist fundamentalist (yes, they exist!). After 10 years of no radio or television, no computers, newspapers or literature, I returned to the wider community. I'd seen the light.It took several years to cope with the utter weirdness that was television. Learning to use a computer much came later, and newspapers were the last sources of information that I managed to get to grips with.In the early 1960s, at home we were a family of singing, whistling broadsheet readers on a largely tabloid-reading council estate, although as a child of course one doesn't think in those terms. As a family, I think we were rather isolated by being English in one of the Scottish new towns; in fact that era offered useful songwriting material for one of my brothers, Jackie, who teamed up with fellow Fife writer Ian Rankin to produce a collaborat 啓発のためのガーディアンを使用して元の仏教原理主義のリーダー - とfirelightingI利点は、法外な浪費のように見えるだろうとしてガーディアンを購入することはありません
- In praise of … fossil footprints | Editorial
Polish discovery reveals that the ancestors of all birds were small, light and four-footedFossil footprints have a special place in scientific research. They are testimony to bygone life in action. New research today in a journal gnomically known as Proceedings of the Royal Society B reveals that dinosaurs were alive and scuttling about the planet millions of years before the first evidence from fossilised bones. Sets of footprints beautifully preserved in the mountains of Poland confirm that pioneers of the lineage were already afoot in the Triassic around 250 million years ago, soon after the calamitous Permian extinction that wiped out 90% of life on Earth. Fossil footprints freakishly preserved in ancient mud provide concrete evidence of the size, gait and identity of their makers. These tracks, the largest no more than 40mm, were made by little creatures now called dinosauromorphs, ancestors of the birds. A set of ancient hominid footprints preserved 3.6 million years ago in volcanic ash in Laetoli, Tanzania, are so clear that palaeontologists have been able to argue that they might have been made by a couple, perhaps holding hands. The world changed for Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe when a naked human footprint in the sand showed that he had company on his desert island. Every footprint tells a moving story, and the Polish discovery reveals that the ancestors of all birds were small, light and four-footed. Like some Hollywood disclaimer, the footprints also assure us of another comforting thing: no dinosauromorphs were injured in the making of this picture.DinosaursFossilsZoologyEvolutionPolandguardian.co.uk © Guardian News & Media Limited 2010 | Use of this content is subject to our Terms & Conditions | More Feeds
ポーランドの発見は、すべての鳥の祖先は、光と小型四- footedFossil足跡は、科学研究の中で特別な場所を持っていたことが明らかになった
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