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Climate change causes forced migration (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 06-04-2008 at 10:01:03
| Johannesburg - Forced migration is to be discussed at a two-day Climate Change Summit starting on Monday, hosted by the City of Johannesburg in partnership with the SA Local Government Association.
"The issue of the link between the way climate change will impact on Africa and the political implications thereof is a burning one.
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Last Flight of the Honeybee? (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 06-04-2008 at 10:01:03
| Dave Hackenberg's bees have been on the road for four days. To reach the almond orchards of California's Central Valley, they pass through the fertile plains of the Mississippi, huge cattle ranches and oilfields in Texas, and the dusty towns of New Mexico on their 2,600-mile journey from Florida. The bees will have seen little of the dramatic landscape, being cooped up in hives stacked four high on the back of trucks. |
U.S. Sets Policy to Protect the Arctic from Industrial Fishing (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 06-04-2008 at 10:01:03
| President Bush today established a U.S. policy halting the expansion of industrial fishing into the Arctic until we have more information. The policy in part states that "the decline of several commercially valuable fish stocks throughout the world's oceans highlights the need for fishing nations to conserve fish stocks and develop management systems that promote fisheries sustainability," and also states that until international agreement for managing Arctic fishing are in place, "...the United States should support international efforts to halt the expansion of commercial fishing activities in the high seas of the Arctic Ocean."
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