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Israel aims to reverse Sea of Galilee fish decline
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on April 18th, 2010
Reuters: Israel hopes to fill the Sea of Galilee with a great multitude of fishes. Responding to a decline in the number of fish in the Biblical lake -- where the Gospels say Jesus miraculously produced huge catches for his disciples' nets -- Israel has banned fishermen from trawling the waters for two years. "This stems from a desire to maintain an ecological balance, preserve water quality and revive fishing which has nearly died out in the Kinneret," Prime Minister Benjamin ...
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Bolivia: In Defence of Pachamama
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on April 18th, 2010
Inter Press Service: Through their ancestral knowledge and traditions, indigenous peoples will make a unique and invaluable contribution to the World People's Conference on Climate Change and the Rights of Mother Earth, which begins Monday, Apr. 19 in the central Bolivian city of Cochabamba. Julio Quette of the Confederation of Indigenous Peoples of Eastern Bolivia (CIDOB) told IPS that the 74 different indigenous groups who inhabit South America's Amazon region "have traditionally coexisted with nature ...
White honey grows scarce as bees abandon Ethiopia’s parched peaks
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on April 18th, 2010
Observer: The truffle of the apiary world – rare white honey from Ethiopia's highest peaks – is in danger of disappearing, according to beekeepers in the Tigray region. "No rain for the flowers,'' said Ashenaf Abera as he stood on his rocky, parched slope in the northern Ethiopian region whose famine inspired Bob Geldof to stage Live Aid in 1985. "The bees need high-altitude flowers for the white honey. When they cannot find them, they go to other plants and produce yellow honey.'' Abera is ...
UK water use ‘worsening global crisis’
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on April 18th, 2010
BBC: The amount of water used to produce food and goods imported by developed countries is worsening water shortages in the developing world, a report says. The report, focusing on the UK, says two-thirds of the water used to make UK imports is used outside its borders. The Engineering the Future alliance of professional engineering bodies says this is unsustainable, given population growth and climate change. It says countries such as the UK must help poorer nations curb ...
Gore takes cash for water campaign from chemical firm
Posted by Water Conserve: Water Conservation RSS Newsfeed on April 18th, 2010
Independent (UK): Al Gore, the self-styled squeakiest-clean and deepest-green politician in American history, has some explaining to do this weekend. His environmental organisation has taken money to raise awareness about the need for clean water from a controversial chemicals company involved in the aftermath of one of the world's worst pollution disasters. Dow Chemical, the US firm which now owns the leaking pesticides factory responsible for thousands of deaths in Bhopal, India, is sponsoring Life ...
Anglo American under fire for prospecting in the Alaskan wilderness
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on April 18th, 2010
Observer: Anglo American, the London-listed mining group, will this week face accusations that it risks damaging one of the world's most valuable salmon habitats. Alaskan tribal leaders and fishermen will come to London on Thursday to tell the company's annual meeting that plans to build an open-pit gold and copper mine in the Bristol Bay region will destroy the breeding grounds of sockeye salmon. They claim that mining the ore deposit, which is located underneath some of the most ...