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PERU: Little Help for Slum-Dwellers Left Homeless by Quake (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 09-01-2007 at 06:01:02
| PISCO, Peru, Aug 31 (IPS) - "We have come here because God sent us,"
says pastor Pedro Leyva DÃaz. He looks tired after distributing
food, clothes and sweets in dozens of poor communities devastated
by the earthquake in southern Peru. |
ENVIRONMENT: 21st Century May Belong to the Shrub (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 09-01-2007 at 06:01:02
| BROOKLIN, Canada, Sep 1 (IPS) - As atmospheric carbon dioxide levels continue to
climb shrubs and other woody plants will likely dominate
grasslands, altering pastoral lifestyles around the world, a U.S.
study has found. |
SOUTHERN AFRICA: Plans to Dam the Cunene River Are Shelved Again (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 09-01-2007 at 06:01:02
| JOHANNESBURG, Aug 31 (IPS) - Political interests and specialist lobby groups
appear once again to have stalled plans to dam the Cunene River
where it forms the border between Angola and Namibia. After years
of negotiations, several expensive feasibility studies and
considerable political rhetoric, the proposed Epupa Dam on the
Cunene River is not even close to the beginning of a construction
phase. |
ENERGY: Billions Up in Flames as Oil Firms Burn Gas (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 09-01-2007 at 06:01:02
| WASHINGTON, Aug 31 (IPS) - Energy producers waste about 40 billion dollars
every year by burning off gas released at oil fields, says a new
study commissioned by the World Bank. |
ENVIRONMENT-ZAMBIA: Efforts to Halt the Strangulation of Kafue (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 09-01-2007 at 06:01:02
| LUSAKA, Aug 31 (IPS) - The World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF), an
international conservation organisation, has launched an
initiative to protect Zambia's Kafue River from pollution: the
'Save the Kafue River Campaign'. At present, the river
provides potable water to over 40 percent of people in the
Southern African country. |
CLIMATE CHANGE: The New Utopia, Keeping the World As It Is (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 09-01-2007 at 09:00:44
| VIENNA, Sep 1 (IPS) - Utopias have always inspired humankind -- from the
defence of enlightenment against religious fanaticism during the
Middle Ages, to reconstruction after last century's wars, to
the end of colonialism. |
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