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ENVIRONMENT-CHINA: Afflicted by Automobile Addiction (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 10-03-2006 at 12:00:48
| BEIJING, Oct 3 (IPSIFEJ) - On a recent 'Car Free Day' in Beijing,
the capital was clogged with vehicles and the sky a drab shade of
grey. The sheer number of cars on the roads had made a mockery of
the city initiative to make dwellers ride their bicycles or use
the public transport. |
LATIN AMERICA: Nuclear Energy Reborn (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 10-03-2006 at 03:01:02
| MEXICO CITY, Oct 3 (IPSIFEJ) - Just 3.1 percent of Latin America's
electricity comes from nuclear sources, but if expansion plans in
Argentina, Brazil and Mexico succeed, that proportion could more
than double in a decade -- much to the annoyance of
environmentalists. |
ENVIRONMENT-CHINA: Afflicted by Automobile Addiction (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 10-03-2006 at 03:01:02
| BEIJING, Oct 3 (IPS/IFEJ) - On a recent 'Car Free Day' in Beijing,
the capital was clogged with vehicles and the sky a drab shade of
grey. The sheer number of cars on the roads had made a mockery of
the city initiative to make dwellers ride their bicycles or use
the public transport. |
ENVIRONMENT: Dams on Salween - Test for Burmese, Thai Juntas (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 10-03-2006 at 03:01:02
| BANGKOK, Sep 29 (IPS/IFEJ) - Will South-east Asia's last untouched body of
water, the Salween river, emerge as a testing ground for the
future relationship between this region's oldest military
regime, in Burma, and the new junta on the block, in Thailand?
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ENVIRONMENT: 'Show Off a Failed Dam' (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 10-03-2006 at 06:00:36
| REYKJAVIK, Iceland, Oct 3 (IPS) - A novel solution has been proposed to block the
building of a controversial dam that sits over a fissure and that
environmentalists say will harm plant and animal life. |
LATIN AMERICA: Nuclear Energy Reborn (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 10-03-2006 at 06:00:36
| MEXICO CITY, Oct 3 (IPS/IFEJ) - Just 3.1 percent of Latin America's
electricity comes from nuclear sources, but if expansion plans in
Argentina, Brazil and Mexico succeed, that proportion could more
than double in a decade -- much to the annoyance of
environmentalists. |
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