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Bombardment Unleashes Oil, Killing Fish and Turtles in Lebanon (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 08-02-2006 at 06:00:38
| In Lebanon, a country of Mediterranean beaches and snowcapped mountains, Israeli bombing that caused an oil spill has created an environmental disaster. And cleanup cannot start until the fighting stops, the U.N. says. |
Where Are the World's Looming Water Conflicts? (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 08-02-2006 at 06:00:39
| Sri Lankan jets pounded Tamil Tiger positions on Tuesday in a battle to regain control of a rebel-held water source for about 50,000 people. Here are five flashpoints for potential "water wars" some experts say are looming |
Federal Court Weighs Legality of Bush's Forest Service Road Plan (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 08-02-2006 at 06:00:39
| The Bush administration had the right to overturn a ban on road construction in untouched parts of national forests, but may have needed to weigh possible environmental effects at the same time, a federal judge said Tuesday. |
Major World Cities Team Up to Fight Global Warming (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 08-02-2006 at 06:00:39
| Los Angeles, London, New York, Seoul and 18 other cities joined forces Tuesday in a global warming project aimed at reducing greenhouse gas emissions.
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U.S. Praises Malaysia, Indonesia, Brunei for Conservation Project on Borneo (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 08-02-2006 at 06:00:39
| ates praised Malaysia, Indonesia and Brunei for a new environmental project to conserve 220,000 kilometers (136,710 miles) of equatorial rain forest that straddles their shared border on Borneo. |
New Fight over Canadian Environmental Battleground (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 08-02-2006 at 06:00:39
| Environmentalists vowed Tuesday to fight a plan they say will renew logging in Clayoquot Sound, an area that has become a landmark in the quest to protect old growth forests on Canada's Pacific Coast. |
China to Divert Tibet's Waters to Parched West (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 08-02-2006 at 06:00:39
| China's quest to master its future through vast engineering feats could test new limits as Beijing prepares a controversial scheme to channel water from Tibet to the parched Yellow River in the country's west. |
Pilots Fly the Flag for South Africa's Environment (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 08-02-2006 at 06:00:39
| The Bateleurs is a South African group of 124 pilots who volunteer their time and aircraft to provide a free aerial view of environmental problems for policymakers, conservationists and students among many others. |
Senate Approves More Offshore Drilling in Gulf, Sets up Confrontation with House (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 08-02-2006 at 06:00:39
| The Senate voted Tuesday to open 8.3 million acres of federal waters in the central Gulf of Mexico to oil and gas drilling, setting up a confrontation with the House which wants even more drilling in waters now off-limits. |
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