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Posts Tagged ‘turkey’
Recycling, Videos & Documentaries, Aug 26th, 2011,
Around the world, ambitious artists are creating sculptures out of disused materials. In Denizli Provence, Turkey, University students from 12 countries are constructing a sculpture of the ancient city of Hierapolis and the Pamukkale travertine (the natural carbonate terraces the city sits atop) out of 40,000 recycled plastic bottles. The students have so far collected 30,000 plastic bottles for the sculpture project, with the hope of raising awareness about the environment and recycling in Turkey. As part of the project “From Waste to Art” developed by the European Youth Association and supported by the Denizli Municipality and Denizli Municipal…
Tags: art, Iran, recycled, Recycling, sculpture, turkey
Climate Change, Nature, Aug 23rd, 2010,
Moscow and other parts of Russia recently experienced welcome relief in the form of cool rains after a summer dominated by deadly record temperatures and wildfires. Turkey and Greece, however, are in the midst of their own heat wave, which is resulting in forest fires causing evacuations in both countries. Strong winds are now buffeting Turkey and Greece after a two week heatwave during which temperatures topped 39 Celsius. –Euronews For more on the story, including a short video report go to the following article from Euronews: Forest fires hit Turkey and Greece after heatwave Meanwhile, on the other side…
Tags: Bolivia, fires, forest, Greece, heat, turkey, wave, wildfires, winds
Climate Change, Mar 8th, 2010,
Early this morning an earthquake hit Turkey in the mountainous region of the southeastern part of the country. At least 51 people were killed and 71 injured. The earthquake had a magnitude of 5.8 on the Richter scale and hit at 4.32 a.m. local time. In the hours following the earthquake, the region was struck by dozens of after shocks, some of which with a magnitude of up to 5.5 on the Richter scale. Mehmet Ali Saglan, the Deputy governor of Elazig, the region that was hit by the earthquake, reports: “According to the information that we got from the…
Tags: disasters, earthquake, turkey
