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Future ”˜Battlegrounds’ for Habitat Conservation Very Different to Those in Past (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 03-02-2008 at 08:01:19
| Their study, published online February 28 in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B, provides a guide for conservationists of the areas of our planet where conservation investments would have the most impact in the future to limit extinctions and damage to ecosystems due to rapid human-driven climate and land-use change. |
Yemen sleepwalks into water nightmare (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 03-02-2008 at 08:01:19
| BEIT HUJAIRA, Yemen (Reuters) - Black-clad women trudge across a stony plateau in the Yemeni highlands to haul water in yellow plastic cans from wells that will soon dry up.
"We come here three or four times a day," says Adiba Sena, as another woman draws water six metres (20 feet) to the surface and pours it into jerry cans lashed to her grey donkey. "We use it to clean, cook, wash -- we have no pipes that reach us." |
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