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Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy New Global Contract Needed to Re-Assert Basic Rights Protect Environment
WTO Doha Collapse Requires a New Direction in Multilateralism MINNEAPOLIS - August 6 - Global institutions enforcing trade and finance rules have overridden fundamental human rights, stalled international development and harmed the environment, finds three new papers released today by the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy. A new system is badly ...
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Greenpeace Documents Chemical Contamination In Ghana
Research Confirms Microsoft and Dell Electronic Waste in Africa INTERNATIONAL - August 5 - A Greenpeace science team visiting two scrap yards in the capital city Accra and the city of Korforidua, Ghana, has confirmed that soil and sediment taken from two electronic waste (e-waste) scrap yards are severely contaminated with hazardous chemicals. This information was released today in a report ...
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Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility Climate Staff Urge EPA to Come Clean Before Congress
"Professional Staff at EPA Has Nothing to Hide" Says Joint Letter to Johnson WASHINGTON - August 5 - The professional staff charged with developing greenhouse gas regulations at the Environmental Protection Agency want Administrator Stephen Johnson to come clean on how decisions were reached on key climate change issues, according to a joint letter released today by Public Employees ...
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Observer Ethical Awards 2013 ceremony - video
Now in its eighth year, the Observer Ethical Awards ceremony took place on 13 June at One Marylebone in central London. Here, we catch up with some of our judges and winners at the event including awards host Lucy Siegle, our awards partner Ecover and our unsung local hero winner Francis ...
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Green Column How Reliance on Trees Can Help Forests
A huge number of trees are cut down to feed the company's needs. Every year, Tetra Pak's paper suppliers need to harvest the equivalent of a million hectares, or almost 2.5 million acres, of forest -- an area about the size of ...
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Why Im an Eco worrier | Ian Marchant
'If Eco continues unabated, householders up and down the country could face higher prices in order to finance this well-intentioned but flawed scheme.' Photograph: Christopher Thomond for the ...
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China to continue improvement of investment environment official
China will continue to facilitate foreign investment and enhance the protection of intellectual property rights in efforts to improve the investment environment, a senior official said Wednesday. "Improving investment environment and protecting the legal rights of foreign investors are not only the government's promises but also what the government is doing," Yu Jianhua, assistant ...
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UN marks East Rennell region in world heritage in danger list
New York, June 19 : The East Rennell area in the Solomon Islands was inscribed Tuesday on the United Nations Scientific, Cultural, and Educational Organization's (UNESCO) list of endangered sites due to logging that is affecting the island's ...
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APRIL walks away from the FSC
APRIL has had a chequered history with the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC). But late last week we heard that the relationship has finally came to an end - and in a most unexpected way. News came last Friday that before an NGO-initiated FSC complaint process even had an opportunity to begin to investigate APRIL's deforestation practices, the company had effectively walked out on the ...
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UAEs efforts to preserve environment exemplary UAE Paper
WAM ABU DHABI, June 19th, 2013 (WAM) -- Authorities in charge of tackling environmental issues in the UAE have not been resting on their laurels since receiving an acknowledgment from the World Wildlife Fund in 2010, of being number one in the world in terms of having the biggest ecological footprint, commented a UAE daily. The ecological footprint is a measure of a country's sustainability ...
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UKs spell of awful summers is set to continue
summer is on its way - but you might have to wait until 2023.As the prospect of another gloomy Glastonbury and wet Wimbledon looms, leading climate scientists have warned that the UK could be set for a further five to 10 years of washout summers.The grim conclusion was delivered after an unprecedented gathering of scientists and meteorologists at ...
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Can the flying bike rise above the daily grind | Erinn Kerr
For those of us whose ups and downs in the saddle depend only on potholes, the Paravelo might sound like an exciting way to rise above the daily grind. But is taking to the skies really the answer?The British duo behind the ...
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Environment ministry ignoresstates opposition approvesGM...
NEW DELHI: The environment ministry's Genetic Engineering Appraisal Committee (GEAC) has cleared field trials for genetically modified rice, wheat, maize and castor for the Kharif season of ...
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Worlds poorest will feel brunt of climate change warns World Bank
World Bank has warned.Droughts, floods, heatwaves, sea-level rises and fiercer storms are likely to accompany increasing global warming and will cause severe hardship in areas that are already poor or were gradually emerging from poverty, the bank said in a major new report.Food shortages will be among the first consequences within as little as two decades, along with damages to cities from ...
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If you want to change the world you have to get your hands dirty | Nafeez Ahmed
Activist from Kew Bridge 'Eco Village' and the Parliament Square 'Democracy Village' apprehended by police after a sit-down protest Two years before the Occupy movement sprang forth in New York and London, a motley group of land rights activists occupied a piece of disused land in west London to create an alternative model of moneyless, sustainable living. Little did ...
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Crape Myrtle Trees on Sale
The Ledger's Annual Crape Myrtle Sale to benefit Newspapers in Education, a Polk County Schools literacy program, will be held on Saturday in the main parking lot of The Ledger building, 300 W. Lime St., in ...
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Ex-UNESCO chief visits Cambodias World Heritage Preah Vihear temple
Koichiro Matsuura, ex-director general of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), on Tuesday visited Cambodia's Preah Vihear temple, a world heritage site, a Cambodian spokesman said.Dim Sovannarom, spokesman for the 37th session of the World Heritage Committee (WHC), said that Koichiro Matsuura, accompanied by Dr. Jiang Mingjun, President of the ...
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For Some Arctic Birds Time of Day Is Irrelevant
Arctic summers mean migrating animals, a bounty of breeding opportunities, and 24 hours of sunlight. Many plants and animals experience 24-hour cycles telling them when it's time to rest and when it's time to get up--called ...
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Cheetah-Cub Robot Created See Other Nature-Inspired Machines
And like its real-world counterparts, the cheetah-cub robot is nimble and stable, providing a platform for future research in all types of efficient robot ...
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Greenpeace asks Philippinegovernment to halt Bt eggplantex...
MANILA, Philippines – The Greenpeace on Friday asked the Philippine Department of Agriculture (DA) to stop the field trials of the genetically engineered (GE) Bt eggplant because it won’t be helpful and there are a lot of safety ...
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Country diary Wenlock Edge Could the psychedelic blueness of these bugle flowers help to heal the land
Blue as an ambulance light, the patch of bugle flowers in the wood. Once open, maybe a long-abandoned garden before trees took hold, this place becomes the dreamy point of midsummer, with its own reality surrounded by a pervading anxiety. At the entrance to the wood is a pull-in off the lane where cars stop for dog walkers, fly-tipping, canoodling. A man gets out. "A good day for a ...
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Albino Gorilla Was Result of Inbreeding
Snowflake the gorilla gained notoriety for being the only known albino of his species. Now the late ape is making headlines again over the recent postmortem discovery that he was ...
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New Female Astronauts Show Evolution of Women in Space
NASA announced that eight new astronauts would be joining the U.S. space program. Of the eight new recruits, four are women--marking the first time NASA has selected an equal number of men and women for an incoming astronaut class. ...
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U.N. human rights official calls for change in Turkish police tactics
Protesters battle riot police in Taksim Square in Istanbul, Turkey on June 11, 2013. Calm returned to the square on June 12, 2013 after the protesters were cleared from the area after two weeks of protests against the modernization of the square that quickly became an anti-government protest. UPI/Nasir ...
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The weather may be grim but lets learn to enjoy it | Richard Mabey
Everyone bewildered by the seemingly unprecedented weirdness of this year's summer might spare a thought for those living in 1783, who went through another kind of trial by weather. Gilbert White of Selborne's account of the events of 23 June to 20 July is a masterpiece of deadpan gothic: "The sun, at noon, looked as blank as a clouded moon, and shed a rust coloured ferruginous ...
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New construction in tourism industry – signs of recovery or misplaced optimism?
The whole of Central America has been affected by the global downturn. One of the industries effected most has been tourism, and while many construction and expansion projects were planned during the heady days of 2007 and early 2008, the region may now be facing a huge oversupply problem in terms of hotel accommodation, although there are signs of light on the horizon.
In 2006, the Tourism Ministers of various countries in the region came together at San Ramon for a conference and told Central American news providers that the tourism industry for the region as whole had grown by an average of 11%, which account for, on average, 5% of the region’s GDP for that year, in addition, there was astounding growth in the number of European tourists travelling to Central America, a 147% increase in fact. Read more
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