Nature
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Will gale-force winds change the face of Czech forests?
Rolling hills and coniferous forests are what you would call typical Czech landscape, but with the climatic changes affecting central Europe that may be about to change…
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Czech forests recording worst damage in fifteen years
Foresters around the country are busy clearing the damage of last week's gale force winds. The extent of the devastation is still being assessed but latest estimates say…
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How warm winters saved the communist regime from collapsing earlier
A temperature record after temperature record is being broken this week. Looking out of the window, one would hardly guess it is the middle of January, supposedly the…
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Storm ravages Czech Republic and neighbouring countries
High winds battered the Czech Republic Thursday evening and Friday morning, damaging buildings, interrupting traffic, and taking at least four lives. It was part of a…
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Czech scientists take part in International Polar Year in both polar regions
The North and South Poles are not exactly the world's most popular destinations for tourists, but their rich mineral deposits and unspoiled environments make them a…
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Ski resorts struggling in warm weather
Like the rest of Central Europe, we're having an unusually warm winter here in the Czech Republic. Some towns and cities have even posted record temperatures often…
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Czech researchers depart for new Antarctic station
In early 2006, the Czech Republic completed construction on a state-of-the-art research centre on James Ross Island, Antarctica. The project has taken a full six years to…
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Weather for the birds
Friday, December 22, is technically the first winter day here in the Northern Hemisphere. But looking out of the window in Prague, one would hardly guess it's nearly…
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Czech firms benefit from carbon trading scheme, but climate change seems here to stay
Years from now, 2006 may be remembered as the year the world started to get really scared about global warming. Al Gore's film "An Inconvenient Truth", was a hit, and here…
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Ski hill operators not worried about lack of snow yet
One thing missing so far from this Christmas season is proper Christmas weather: snowy conditions and temperatures well below zero degrees Celsius. So far this month, the…
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Anglers descend on Prague for the first ever fly fishing competition in the city centre
Preparations are in full swing for the first-ever international fly fishing competition which is to be held on the Vltava River in Prague this weekend. On Tuesday the…
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Villages alarmed by large dam-building plan
A plan just released by the Agriculture Ministry specifies some 200 locations around the Czech Republic where dams could be built in the future. The document has alarmed…
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