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17/2/2010
Varun Pyke has come to the edge of the Indian island where he has spent all 50 years of his life, to recount the story of the riches that he has now lost.
He gloomily jabs a finger out toward the water, pointing well beyond the gray ...
5/4/2009
The rising sea has drowned two of Jalaluddin Saha`s small homes and threatens a third. Last monsoon surging water ruined his crops and he and his family ran for their lives. His livestock drank the brine and died.
In eastern India, this ...
18/3/2009
On the side of a road somewhere in southeastern Australia sits a man in a motionless pickup truck, considering the many ways in which his world has dried up. The two most obvious ways are in plain view. Just beyond his truck, his dairy cattle ...
4/9/2008
Faith can move mountains, but in Rajasthan, it helps grow
forests. Even in the era of global warming and fast depleting green cover, faith continues to sustain the canopy of green over the desert state. Now the officials of
forest department are ...
4/10/2007
At the heart of central Africa's great rainforests lies Kisangani, a small
city in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) some 1,300 miles from the mouth
of the Congo River. The town began as a Belgian trading post, Stanleyville, and ...
30/12/2006
"First of all, I would like you to know the difference between a real
forest
and a fake
forest," Akira Miyawaki tells participants at a tree-planting
ceremony at the Masaki dam in Kamikatsu, a mountainous area in Tokushima ...
26/3/2006
Environmentalists are to campaign for the protection of the ancient
sacred
sites of tribal religions, as a way of saving endangered wildlife.
The "skull caves" in Kenya, a Mexican desert where it is believed the sun was ...
17/3/2006
From skull caves in southern Kenya to Mexico's searing Chihuahuan desert,
preserving
sacred sites is key to slowing the loss of animal and plant species,
environmentalists said on Saturday.
Experts have pinpointed a string of ...
31/7/2005
MANCHAC, La. – Bald cypress, Louisiana's state tree, has never been
sacred.
If anything, using the great wood has always been the Louisiana way.
But that could change if Gov. Kathleen Blanco decides that Louisiana's sinking ...
9/7/2005
MANCHAC, La. (AP) - Bald cypress, Louisiana's state tree, has never been
sacred - even today as the Bayou State's coastline sinks and disappears into the
Gulf of Mexico.
From the outset of European settlement, Louisiana's vast ...
7/6/2005
This year, World Environment Day, June 5, fell on a Sunday. Since at least
three states, Nagaland, Mizoram and Meghalaya are predominantly Christian in
character, hopefully church-goers spared a thought for the depleting
forest
cover in ...
2/11/2004
The dichotomy between nature and man is an idea of recent vintage, and in
particular it is a Western vanity; perhaps it is related to another duality,
that between good and evil. Indic and other Eastern civilisations typically do
not ...
22/7/2004
The potential for indigenous people to help curb the destruction of
forests
is being overlooked by the international community, according to a report.
When
forest communities are given legal control over their own lands they are ...
13/5/2003
ACCRA, Ghana, May 13, 2003 (ENS) - An expanding international coalition of
public interest, human rights, labor and environmental groups has vowed to
resist mining in Ghana's
forest reserves.
At a press conference Thursday to ...
15/3/2003
HUMBOLDT-TOIYABE NATIONAL
FOREST, Calif. - Paul Hale edged his snowmobile up
to a sign marking the Mokelumne Wilderness and its 105,156 acres of pristine
bowls, ragged peaks and snowy canyons.
It was tempting, but not worth ...
4/3/2003
ACCRA, Ghana, March 4, 2003 (ENS) - Dozens of bulldozers and excavators
belonging to five multinational mining companies operating in Ghana are poised
to tear apart thousands of hectares of
forest reserves in the Ashanti, Western
and ...
18/1/2003
SANTA CRUZ, Calif. - Shrouded in the darkness of early morning, two men and
one woman hiked down a logging road in the Santa Cruz Mountains.
Every few minutes, Brian Connolly, 31, signaled his friends to halt. With
furrowed brows, ...
11/9/2002
WASHINGTON, DC, September 11, 2002 (ENS) - Americans have always turned to
nature for peace and solace during trying times. Since the terrorist attacks of
September 11, 2001, many Americans have sought out the natural beauty of the
nation's ...
26/7/2002
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11/1/2002
In this issue:
* OUR VIEWPOINT
- The International Monetary Fund: a major actor in deforestation
* LOCAL STRUGGLES AND NEWS
AFRICA
- International Monetary Fund and deforestation
- ...