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EU Still Stuck on Green Fuels Target (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 03-05-2007 at 09:01:02
| European Union foreign ministers sought on Monday to narrow differences on how to combat climate change but resistance remained to a German bid to fix mandatory targets for the use of "green fuels." |
Older, Wiser but Ghana Is Less Green at 50 (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 03-05-2007 at 09:01:02
| The first country in sub-Saharan Africa to win independence, Ghana turns 50 this month. While it may be older and wiser, it is also decidedly less green. Originally forests covered 36 percent of Ghana's territory but by 2000 this had shrunk to just 10 percent, according to a 2004 report by the country's Environmental Protection Agency. |
Global Warming Is Human Rights Issue, Nobel Nominee Says (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 03-05-2007 at 09:01:02
| It sounds like a sick joke about global warming, with a series of horrible punch lines: How hot is it? So hot that Inuit people around the Arctic Circle are using air conditioners for the first time. And running out of the hard-packed snow they need to build igloos. And falling through melting ice when they hunt. |
U.S. Aid Sanctions Turn Taps Off Critical Palestinian Water, Wastewater Projects (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 03-05-2007 at 09:01:02
| One slip, and Issa Abu Shakr's 5-year-old nephew plunged into the fetid stream of sewage that flows outside the family's West Bank home.
The contact with the filthy water required multiple blood transfusions and a 10-day hospital stay, Abu Shakr says. |
Travel Business Group Rejects Calls for Germans to Vacation at Home (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 03-05-2007 at 09:01:02
| Travel-loving Germans are being urged to skip air travel and vacation at home instead to save the environment -- calls that the country's travel business association on Monday dismissed as "arrogant." |
Cambodian Leader Warns That Development Poses Threat to Great Lake (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 03-05-2007 at 09:01:02
| Cambodia's prime minister warned Monday that increasing population and over-exploitation of fisheries and wildlife pose a dire threat to his country's Tonle Sap, or "Great Lake," the largest freshwater lake in Southeast Asia. |
Yellowstone's Future - The Trend Toward Holistic River Restoration (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 03-05-2007 at 09:01:02
| The Corps of Engineers held a meeting recently in Livingston, Mont. to
solicit public comment on a special area management plan for the Upper
Yellowstone River. An important item the Corps may consider for the
Yellowstone is changing its guidelines on the use of hard armor riprap to
stabilize banks and prevent flooding. |
China's Wen Stresses Green Growth, Rural Welfare (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 03-05-2007 at 09:01:02
| China will do more to save energy and cut pollution in 2007 while striving to keep its economy humming following four straight years of double-digit growth, Premier Wen Jiabao said on Monday. |
ENN Weekly: February 26th - March 2nd (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 03-05-2007 at 09:01:02
| ENN rounds up the most important and compelling environmental news stories of the week. In the news February 26th - March 2nd: Elephant culling, dung power, carbon regulations, exotic ringtones, and much more. |
Wildlife on the Ho Chi Minh Trail Is Making a Comeback (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 03-05-2007 at 09:01:02
| Four decades after U.S. warplanes plastered it with bombs, a remote corner of the old Ho Chi Minh Trail in Cambodia is making a comeback as a treasure trove of endangered wildlife. |
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