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MIDEAST: Where Water Leaves a Bitter Taste
07 10 2008 BARCELONA, Oct 6 (IPS) - Palestinian villagers drink unsafe agricultural water rather than trusting water provided by an Israeli company, says Buthaina Mizyed, who has worked in Arraneh village near the conflict-laden West Bank city of Jenin.
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ENVIRONMENT: Twisted As Unnaturally as the Banks
07 10 2008 BARCELONA, Oct 6 (IPS) - The financial meltdown in most of the industrialised world presents an opportunity for a new economic model that would end short-sighted search for high returns, according to leading economists attending the IUCN World Conservation Congress here.
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ENVIRONMENT: EU Stepping Back from Cleaning Up
06 10 2008 BRUSSELS, Oct 6 (IPS) - Most of the European Union's promised cuts in greenhouse emissions could be undertaken outside the bloc under a proposal to be considered by law-makers this week.
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Q&A: "Future Prosperity Is in Green Technologies"
04 10 2008 TORONTO, Oct 3 (Tierramérica) - Achim Steiner, the eloquent executive director of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), believes that Mexico could take a leadership role in the new "green" economy.
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BOLIVIA: Water, Energy Everywhere - But Not for Locals
04 10 2008 LA PAZ, Oct 3 (IPS) - Peasant farmers in 42 villages along the Zongo valley in western Bolivia stand by and watch as the flourishing electricity industry harnesses the swift-flowing river while, paradoxically, their own farms are languishing from lack of water and energy.
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AGRICULTURE-SOUTH AFRICA: GM Sorghum Test Approved
03 10 2008 JOHANNESBURG, Oct 3 (IPS) - As Africa grapples with the question of food insecurity, biotechnology buffs seem to have an answer: genetically modified crops that could feed a continent vulnerable to famine and food deficits. But environmentalists warn of new dangers.
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ARGENTINA: Guardians of the River
03 10 2008 PUERTO RECONQUISTA, Argentina, Oct 2 (IPS) - "There is no water…there are no fish," says Olga Ledesma, her skin weathered from 40 years of small-scale fishing, as the boat slowly winds its way along a branch of the Paraná river, South America’s second-longest river.
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ARGENTINA: Guardians of the River
02 10 2008 PUERTO RECONQUISTA, Argentina, Oct 2 (IPS) - "There is no water…there are no fish," says Olga Ledesma, her skin weathered from 40 years of small-scale fishing, as the boat slowly winds its way along a branch of the Paraná river, South America’s second-longest river.
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ENVIRONMENT-INDIA: In Sore Need of E-Waste Regulation
02 10 2008 BANGALORE, Oct 2 (IPS) - India’s lack of safe electronic waste-disposal is growing to a crisis situation, needing strong laws to control the situation, say experts.
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HEALTH: Dengue Threatens Asia Pacific Region
02 10 2008 MANILA, Oct 2 (IPS) - Over the past three decades, dengue fever has affected more and more countries in the Asia-Pacific region and is now regarded as the fastest of emerging mosquito-borne diseases.
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ENVIRONMENT-AUSTRALIA: Discoveries Highlight Danger to Reefs
02 10 2008 MELBOURNE, Oct 2 (IPS) - Efforts to create an inventory of life on Australia’s major coral reefs -- to be used as part of a baseline to determine the impacts of global warming and overfishing upon reefs -- have turned up hundreds of previously unknown and rare species.
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ENVIRONMENT: Companies Scramble for Ever-Scarcer Resources
02 10 2008 NEW YORK, Oct 1 (IPS) - As humanity runs out of oil and minerals, the extraction of previously untouched deposits suddenly pays off -- financially. But experts warn that it will likely further accelerate climate change and seriously damage the environment.
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ARGENTINA: Women Create Food and Jobs in Wetlands
02 10 2008 SANTA FE, Argentina, Oct 1 (Tierramérica) - Wearing a cap and a white apron, Melina Lucero cuts the heads and tails off fish caught in the Paraná River, before skilfully filleting them. Her co-workers will process and package the fish to sell as traditional, small-scale fish preserves at food fairs along the banks of the river in Argentina.
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Q&A: 'Oil Prices Have Revived Interest in Dams'
30 09 2008 VIENTIANE , Sep 30 (IPS) - Concerns over the future of fisheries in the Mekong River floated to the surface at the first round of discussions held here late this month to shape a blueprint to build a series of mega dams across South-east Asia’s largest body of water.
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U.S.: Great Place for the Oil Business
30 09 2008 UXBRIDGE, Canada, Sep 30 (IPS) - Why do U.S. oil companies -- some of the most profitable corporations on the planet -- receive 20 to 40 billion dollars a year in subsidies from the U.S. government?
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Q&A: 'Oil Prices Have Revived Interest in Dams'
30 09 2008 VIENTIANE , Sep 30 (IPS) - Concerns over the future of fisheries in the Mekong River floated to the surface at the first round of discussions held here late this month to shape a blueprint to build a series of mega dams across South-east Asia’s largest body of water.
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VIETNAM: Heeding Climate Change Warnings
29 09 2008 HANOI, Sep 29 (IPS) - With a predicted sea level rise of one metre by 2100, Vietnam may end up being one of the nations worst hit by climate change. Such a rise would affect five percent of the land area, 11 percent of the population and seven percent of the agriculture.
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GUATEMALA: Lachuá, a Corner of the Jungle Resists
27 09 2008 GUATEMALA CITY, Sep 27 (Tierramérica) - Guatemala’s Laguna Lachuá National Park is a small corner of the Central American jungle that has withstood the encroachment of oil exploration, monoculture crops and road building, and serves as the area for sustainable development projects run by the indigenous people who live there.
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MALAYSIA: Power-Surplus Sarawak Funds Another New Dam
27 09 2008 PENANG, Malaysia, Sep 27 (IPS) - Preliminary work on a 3 billion ringgit (875 million dollar) dam in Murum in the north Borneo state of Sarawak has put the spotlight on a controversial scheme to build a string of public-funded dams to provide cheap electricity for energy-intensive industries to the state.
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MALAYSIA: Murum Dam - Public Funds for Corporate Profit?
27 09 2008 PENANG, Malaysia, Sep 27 (IPS) - Who will foot the bill for the Murum resettlement? ''Is it Sarawak Energy or will it be passed on directly to the state government and hence the tax payer,'' asked one Sarawak-based activist, who declined to be identified.
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DEVELOPMENT: Food Security Hostage to Climate Trends
26 09 2008 UNITED NATIONS, Sep 26 (IPS) - More than 50 African leaders meeting at the United Nations this week focused on strategies to overcome a myriad of interrelated problems -- food shortages, droughts, HIV/AIDS, an energy crisis, climate change and military conflicts -- on the troubled continent.
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ECONOMY-CUBA: No Calm After the Storm
26 09 2008 HAVANA, Sep 26 (IPS) - Contrary to the saying that after a storm comes a calm, in Cuba the shockwaves left by hurricanes Gustav and Ike will prevent any peace of mind for people living not only in the most affected areas but in the whole country for a long time to come, as they ask themselves if the worst is really over yet.
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ECONOMY: It Pays to Go Green
26 09 2008 UNITED NATIONS, Sep 25 (IPS) - A new report shows how a greener economy could eradicate poverty by creating tens of millions of new jobs. But it will not happen solely through the market's "magic hand".
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ENVIRONMENT-LAOS: Paying South-east Asia's Power Bill
25 09 2008 VIENTIANE, Sep 25 (IPS) - There is an uneasy calm that swirls through this South-east Asian capital, which sits on the banks of the Mekong River. White sandbags piled waist-high over a 13 km stretch along the river offer the reason why -- floods.
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CLIMATE CHANGE: Denmark, Norway Grapple with Growing CO2
25 09 2008 UNITED NATIONS, Sep 25 (IPS) - Even as Scandinavian leaders have assumed a prominent role in international efforts to cut greenhouse gas emissions and combat climate change, both Norway and Denmark have failed to reduce their own emissions.
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