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PERU: Mining Companies Venture into the Amazon (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 07-03-2008 at 10:00:50
| LIMA, Jul 3 (Tierramérica) - The conflicts surrounding extractive industries in
Peru could shift from the mountains to the jungles due to the
rising number of concessions granted for the Amazonian regions of
San MartÃn, Madre de Dios and Amazonas, and which are being
strongly opposed by the local indigenous communities. |
ENVIRONMENT-US: Funding Questions Dog Everglades Clean-Up (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 07-03-2008 at 04:00:44
| TAMPA, Florida, Jul 3 (IPS) - Environmentalists in Florida are excited over the
state's planned 1.75-billion-dollar buyout of 187,000 acres
of land owned by the United States Sugar Corporation as part of a
restoration of the vast Everglades wetlands, although many of the
details of the deal remain sketchy. |
ENERGY: Don't Write Off Biofuels Yet, Advocates Say (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 07-03-2008 at 08:00:43
| TOKYO, Jul 4 (IPS) - Japan wants countries to reconsider biofuels as an
alternative technology to fight climate change by using fuel cell
cars at the Group of Eight (G8) Summit on Jul. 4-7. The vehicles
will transport the leaders of the world's major
industrialised nations when they gather on the northern Japanese
Island of Hokkaido. |
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