Nature
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Vintage Czech aircraft reaches North Pole
At the weekend two Czech pilots made history by flying a vintage Czech aircraft to the North Pole. The small twin-engine plane known as the Morava L-200 flew first took…
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Steve Lichtag – Up close & personal with the Great White
Steve Lichtag, 54, is a respected Czech-American filmmaker who has travelled the world mapping everything from activity on coral reefs to the life of the Blue Whale. But…
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Parliament fails to lift ban on full-contact dog training
The Czech Parliament has failed to overrule a presidential veto of a bill which was meant to lift a ban on the use of foxes in the training of burrowing dogs. Under the…
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Hurricane-force winds wreak havoc, kill two, in Czech Republic
Meteorologists warned the country would be hard hit by hurricane-force winds on Saturday and in the end, when the windstorm hit, the damages were extensive. Downed high…
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Czech bee population decimated by parasite
Czech bee colonies have been stung by a warmer-than-usual winter. The balmy temperatures in the Czech Republic over the last couple of months have provided an ideal…
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Magazine
Killing your boss is no joke, another driver pays the price of taking a shortcut across Lipno lake and, the Prague Zoo helps save the cloud rat from extinction. Find out…
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MPs loosen fox-hunting regulation, provoking outcry from animal rights groups
Fox hunting in the Czech Republic may not come with all of the red coats and horses that you might expect to see elsewhere – often it’s more a case of one man and his dog…
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President Klaus makes new comments about climate change, do they echo the views of Czechs?
Czech President Václav Klaus is notorious for his outspoken views on climate change. He calls evidence of global warming “bogus” and ambitious environmentalism "a threat…
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Under EC proposal Czech Republic to double “green energy” production by 2020
On Wednesday, the European Commission made public its planned reforms in its fight against climate change. The proposed measures are aimed to help the EU slash greenhouse…
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Global warming could change bird population of Czech Republic and much of continent
The bird populations of many European states could change drastically by the end of this century, warns a freshly released study entitled “A Climatic Atlas of European…
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Jiří Josef Kamel: The botanist who gave his name to the camellia
Jiří Josef Kamel was a botanist and missionary born in Brno in 1661. When he was 26, he was sent to the Philippines by the Jesuits to spread God’s word, but it seems that…
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Greenpeace protest against carbon dioxide emissions – halfway up a power plant’s smokestack
On Thursday, 11 members of the environmental organisation Greenpeace set up camp halfway up one of the chimneys at the Prunerov power plant in northern Bohemia. The group…
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