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Klaus tones down anti-Green rhetoric in UN address on climate change
Czech President Vaclav Klaus took the opportunity to discuss one of his favourite topics on Monday, when he spoke at the first ever conference on climate change at the…
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The fairest of the seasons
I remember as a nervous eighteen-year-old being packed off to Oxford for my very first term with the reassurance of my parents that I couldn't be going at a better time …
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President Klaus criticized for planned U.N. speech on climate change
President Vaclav Klaus has been criticised by a number of Czech politicians for a speech he is going to deliver at a conference on climate change held by the Secretary…
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A Short Cut to Mushrooms
Back when I was in my early teens one of my favourite books was J.R.R. Tolkien's Lord of the Rings, which I must have read at least a dozen times. Along with more…
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Czech president new face of US media campaign
Czech president Vaclav Klaus has become the face of a media campaign questioning the impact of global warming. The campaign is run by the free-market think-tank Heartland…
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Czech Republic hit by regional floods
A three day flood simulation exercise unexpectedly turned into the real thing on Thursday night as rain-swollen rivers broke their banks in many parts of the Czech…
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Horse chestnuts are here, so say good-bye to the summer
Coming out of my house the other day, I noticed with horror that the horse chestnut tree in our street was heavy with spiky green balls. Not that there is anything strange…
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Sumava National Park to open its forbidden zones to public
Sumava National Park is one of the Czech Republic's last remaining untouched nature reserves. It stretches some 120 km across south-western Bohemia along the German border…
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The Czech Republic's swarms of beekeepers
There are more than 50 thousand beekeepers in the Czech Republic, responsible for the upkeep of over half a million colonies of bees. For a country of around 10 million…
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A new season begins for Czech mushroom-pickers
Twenty-six million kilograms of mushrooms - that's how much Czechs picked in the forests across the country in 2006. According to a survey carried out by the University of…
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Czechs bracing themselves for weather extremes
With recent weather forecasts predicting droughts and risk of fires, it can be easy to forget that this month five years ago Prague was hit by one of the most disastrous…
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Number of ticks and tick-transmitted infections on the rise in Czech Republic
Every summer, a ghastly image of an enlarged tick appears in the papers all over the Czech Republic, warning people against the dangers of these small, blood-sucking…
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