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South Africa: Women Demand More Climate Action
Posted by BuaNews: None Given on September 5th, 2011
BuaNews: A two-day environmental conference ended in Pretoria on Sunday with a call by delegates for the South African government to move urgently towards the implementation of policies that would ensure more participation of women on issues of climate change adaptation and mitigation.
Delegates at the Women in Media and Environment Conference, convened by government, also pledged to utilise "every available opportunity at our disposal" to raise awareness of climate change among South Africa's women. ...
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Colombia: popular revolt against gold mining
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on September 5th, 2011
Rainforest News: The price of gold is rising for the tenth consecutive year. As a result, more and more investors, financial market operators and central banks are turning to gold as a safe haven in the face of global economic instability. This has troubling consequences, because gold mining is one of the most destructive and polluting of all mining activities.
Mining companies have set their sights on Latin America, and a genuine gold rush has broken out in Colombia. In response, popular opposition to mining...
Scientist ‘gob-smacked’ at glacier break-up
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on September 5th, 2011
BBC: New pictures have revealed the extent to which a huge glacier in northern Greenland has broken up in just two years, claims a glaciologist.
Dr Alun Hubbard of Aberystwyth University said he was "gob-smacked" by the scale of the Petermann Glacier's break-up since he last visited in 2009.
The glacier is 186 miles (300km) long and 3,280ft (1000m) high - over three times the height of the Eiffel Tower.
Last year, it shed a piece of ice measuring 77 square miles (200 sq km).
Dr Hubbard has...