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BREGENZ, Austria, July 21 /PRNewswire/ -- Satellite broadcast directly after the opening of the festival on 23 July 2008, from 1:30 - 1:50 p.m. (British Summer Time BST (= London Time) / 8:30 - 8:50 a.m. Eastern Daylight Time EDT (= New York City Time) (Photo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20080721/314531 ) Pre-Cut TV Material by Satellite Downlink The Bregenz Festival will make footage available to television stations for the purpose of media coverage of the festival. The...

The numbers of overwintering waterbirds at Lake Constance, a large lake on the borders of Germany, Austria and Switzerland, have increased fourfold since the early 1960s, with a daily average of 162 500 waterbirds from September to April as shown by a study published in the august issue of Freshwater Biology. This massive increase coincides with the major expansion of zebra mussels in the lake, originating in the Caspian-Aral basin, and a major pest in Europe and North America. The main avian...