Berlin wheel threatens rhino sex life: activists
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German animal rights activists have  launched a campaign against plans to put up a giant ferris  wheel in Berlin, saying it would disturb the sex lives of  rhinos in a nearby zoo.
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BRUSSELS, Sep 13 (IPS) - Old tyres might sound like the unlikely cause of a  diplomatic row over potential implications for the level of  protection poor countries can offer to the environment or public  health.
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WINDHOEK, 24 November (IRIN) - A giant bright yellow condom was the centre of attraction in Namibia&#39;s capital, Windhoek, last Friday.
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Wildlife managers are looking to contraception as a way to control nuisance animals.
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Parking infraction ends in murder Those readers who believe the UK's traffic wardens are the emissaries of Satan should count themselves lucky that they don't live in Rio de Janeiro's Botafogo district - where infractions of local bylaws can have fatal consequences.â¦
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Science & environment: Campaigners demand action to curb shipment of millions of animals around the world for slaughter
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HANOVER, Germany  - Demonstrators in Germany chained themselves to a railway to stop a shipment of highly radioactive nuclear waste from France, a day after a protester was crushed to death under the train&#39;s wheels.
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The New York Public Interest Research Group (NYPIRG) has published its annual list of toys that it claims can harm or kill children, particularly those with small parts.
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On Saturday, a new form of social activism will go live on the net. John Borland reports from Berlin.
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BERLIN -- A European Union official called on Germany to give up the famous freedom of its highways and impose speed limits on the autobahn to fight global warming -- a demand that drew angry responses yesterday in a country that cherishes what it calls "free driving for free citizens."
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A plan by a German zoo to test the sexual appetites of a group of suspected homosexual penguins has sparked outrage among gay and lesbian groups, who fear zookeepers might force them to turn straight.
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Rights campaigners protested Tuesday over a device used to disperse unruly young people by emitting a high-pitched noise which only they can hear.
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Mutant earwig rampages across Google Earth Sharp-eyed Google Earth monitors have this morning alerted Vulture Central to the threat posed to humanity by a giant earwig which is as we speak rampaging its way across the German countryside:â¦
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Environmental group Greenpeace called on the European Union to ban the use of chemical plastic softeners in sex toys because they contained dangerous substances known as phthalates.
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Public stink over 'scent profiling' German police are compiling a Stasi-style "scent bank" database of potentially violent crusty protesters against global capitalism, according to reports.â¦
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Sex and the pornography industry takes center stage at next week's Berlin Film Festival after the leading actress in last year's Golden Bear winning film was publicly hounded over her earlier work as a German porn actress.
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German conservationists on Monday condemned the freeing of some 17,000 minks from a fur farm, apparently by animal rights activists, saying they would starve in the wild.