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World heritage bid on track
THE federal Environment Minister has rejected claims the United Nations World Heritage Committee is set to knock back a bid to extend the Tasmanian World Heritage ...
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How Dividend Chasers Are Missing The Forest For The Trees
Forest (Photo credit: Moyan_Brenn) Conventional wisdom in the market these days says interest rates are going higher. Some investors have tried to get ahead of that trend by pouring money into dividend stocks in recent years, but to Meb Faber a laser-like focus on dividends is akin to missing the forest for the trees. Faber, chief investment officer at El Segundo, California's Cambria ...
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Googles Loon Project Puts Balloon Technology in Spotlight
Google's Project Loon aims to bring remote parts of the globe online with a ring of floating balloons. The balloons will drift through the ...
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Federal Reserve faces pressure to provide clarity in uncertain environment
WASHINGTON - Federal Reserve officials begin a pivotal two-day meeting Tuesday facing a dilemma. The economy is showing enough improvement to justify dialing back some of the Feds life support, yet financial markets are terrified of what might happen and are taking it out on the housing sector. Members of the rate-setting Federal Open Market Committee are expected to announce on Wednesday ...
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In Global First Philippines to Destroy Its Ivory Stock
On June 21 the Philippines will destroy five tons of seized ivory, becoming the world's first ivory-consuming nation to destroy its national ivory ...
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Germany leans on EU states to weaken car emissions law
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Senior members of the German government have warned EU member states that German automakers could scale back or scrap production plans in their countries unless they support weakened carbon emissions rules, according to diplomatic ...
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China has arrested 118 linked to pollution investigations
Chinese police have arrested 118 people in investigations into environmental pollution cases since January, the Ministry of Public Security said Tuesday. Of the 118 arrests, 24 people have been charged by prosecutors and await trial, the ministry said in a statement. The ministry began a national campaign against environmental polluters earlier this year, and as part of that campaign, they ...
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Turkish police detain nearly 200 in search for protest organizers
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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One month not enough for public consultation on BRAI Bill Greenpeace
The controversial Biotechnology Regulatory Authority of India (BRAI) bill, introduced in the Lok Sabha in April, has been released for public consultation on June 11. Once tabled in Parliament, BRAI will be a regulatory authority for all Genetically Modified Organisms including controversial genetically modified (GM) crops in the ...
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Fukushima Nuclear Crisis Update for June 14th to June 17th 2013
After spending just 15 minutes on the fourth floor of reactor #1, Nuclear Regulation Authority (NRA) inspectors said they determined yesterday that a massive magnitude 9.0 earthquake in March 2011 did not damage isolation condensers there (critical for emergency cooling), despite a Diet-sponsored investigative report that raised concerns about earthquake damage. Workers had reported that they ...
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Medvedev calls for tougher penalty for concealing information about environmental crimes
LISTVYANKA VILLAGE /Irkutsk region/, June 18 (Itar-Tass) - Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev called for tougher responsibility for concealing information about environmental crimes. "Concealing information /about such crimes/ is a graver offense," Medvedev said at a meeting on Tuesday with the expert council under the government over increasing the effectiveness of environmental ...
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UNESCO removes Iranian World Heritage site of Bam from danger list
The UNESCO World Heritage Committee decided that given improvements in the management and conservation of the World Heritage site of Bam and its Cultural Landscape in Iran, the property could be removed from the List of World Heritage in Danger, according to a UNESCO press statement on Monday.Bam was inscribed on the World Heritage List in 2004, shortly after it was struck by a major earthquake, ...
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Legarda calls for ‘environmental audit’
Senator Loren Legarda. INQUIRER FILE PHOTO MAKATI CITY, Philippines–Senator Loren Legarda said she will call for an ';environmental audit'; by three oversight committees when the next Congress convenes in July as she agreed with observations that the Philippines has now turned into a ';water world.'; The three are the oversight committees on clean water, clean air and ...
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118 suspects detained in environmental pollution cases
Chinese police have detained 118 suspects involved in environmental pollution cases since January, the Ministry of Public Security announced on Tuesday.Of the total, 24 suspects in four major cases have been charged by prosecutors and are awaiting trial, said a ministry statement.There have also been breakthroughs in investigations into other cases, it added.Most of these pollution cases ...
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UNESCOs World Heritage Fatehpur Sikri in Agra India
Photo taken on June 15, 2013 shows the Fatehpur Sikri in Agra, Uttar Predesh, India. Fatehpur Sikri, meaning the City of Victory, was built during the second half of the 16th century by the Mughal Emperor Akbar. Due to the shortage of water, it served as the capital of the Mughal Empire for only some 10 years. The well-preserved complex of monuments and temples, all in a uniform architectural ...
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Canberra windfarm protesters demand end to renewable energy scam
Three Coalition politicians and one candidate attended the "wind power fraud rally" in front of parliament house on Tuesday where around 150 protesters called for the abolition of the renewable energy target and a ban on all new windfarms. Signs at the rally urged: "Stop the wind power fraud," and referred to a "renewable energy scam", insisting that "wind ...
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The energy bill debate is distorted by climate contrarians
energy bill resumes in the Lords on Tuesday and is set to be distorted by a small but influential group of global warming contrarians. This group arrogantly believe they have a better understanding of the complicated science ...
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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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