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17/5/2008
Water supplies, food prices a concern for Africa, SABC
Global initiatives of boosting agricultural development to curb rising food prices will not be successful if water supply in Africa is not improved. This came out at the conclusion of a three day high level meeting of global ...   
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16/5/2008
Biodiversity Loss Puts People At Risk, Science Daily
Future generations face hunger, thirst, disease and disaster if we carry on losing biodiversity. And as biodiversity plummets our use of resources soars - WWF now estimates that biodiversity has declined by more than a quarter in the ...   
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16/5/2008
Wildlife populations 'plummeting', BBC
Between a quarter and a third of the world's wildlife has been lost since 1970, according to data compiled by the Zoological Society of London. Populations of land-based species fell by 25%, marine by 28% and freshwater by 29%, ...   
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16/5/2008
Humans responsible for third of nitrogen in oceans, Indo-Asian News Service
Human activity is responsible for a lot of the nitrogen finding its way into the sea from the atmosphere and influencing the nitrogen cycle, according to the latest findings by an international team of scientists. The presence of ...   
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16/5/2008
Climate change threatens French truffle, Reuters
The black truffle, one of the most exclusive and expensive delicacies on the planet, is under threat from climate change. A mysterious species of underground fungi with reported aphrodisiac and therapeutic properties, the ...   
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16/5/2008
Biodiversity on Earth is declining, United Press International
The WWF, also known as the World Wildlife Fund, says more than a quarter of the Earth's wildlife has been lost during the last 35 years. The organization's Living Planet Index -- produced for the WWF by the Zoological Society of ...   
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15/5/2008
Human intervention alters natural systems: NASA study, Indo-Asian News Service
Human intervention has caused widespread climatic alterations like permafrost thawing, premature blooming of plants across Europe and declining lakes in Africa, according to a NASA study. Cynthia Rosenzweig of NASA and co-author of the ...   
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15/5/2008
Mankind is the 'Earth's biggest threat', Telegraph
Researchers who analysed 30,000 academic studies dating back to 1970 said man was responsible for changes that ranged from the loss of ice sheets to the collapse in numbers of many species of wildlife. "Humans are ...   
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15/5/2008
World's wildlife and environment already hit by climate change, major study shows, Guardian
Global warming is disrupting wildlife and the environment on every continent, according to an unprecedented study that reveals the extent to which climate change is already affecting the world's ecosystems. Scientists examined ...   
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15/5/2008
Giant Study Pinpoints Changes From Climate Warming, Reuters
Human-generated climate change made flowers bloom sooner and autumn leaves fall later, turned some polar bears into cannibals and some birds into early breeders, a vast global study reported on Wednesday. Hundreds of previous ...   
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15/5/2008
Lula Seen Putting Brazil Economy Ahead Of Amazon, Reuters
Hailed as Brazil's first "green president" when he took office, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva appears to have thinner environmental credentials than ever after the resignation of Amazon defender Marina Silva. The former rubber tapper ...   
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15/5/2008
Canada: It’s time to put a lid on bottled water, Westender
The water that comes out of most city taps in Canada is pretty clean. Yet many people prefer to spend money on bottled water, believing that it is somehow safer. Now we’re learning that the stuff in plastic water bottles may be more ...   
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15/5/2008
Researchers warn of nitrogen hazard to environment, Associated Press
While carbon dioxide has been getting lots of publicity in climate change, reactive forms of nitrogen are also building up in the environment, scientists warn. "The public does not yet know much about nitrogen, but in many ...   
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15/5/2008
Ocean nitrogen only limited help for climate: study, Reuters
Rising amounts of nitrogen entering the oceans from human activities are less beneficial than previously thought as a fertiliser for tiny fertilizermarine plants that help slow global warming, scientists said on ...   
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15/5/2008
Man-made nitrogen 'climate threat', Press Association
Up to a third of the nitrogen entering the world's oceans is man-made and could have significant effects on the global climate, scientists said. Nitrogen from agricultural fertilisers and the burning of fossil fuels entering the ...   
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14/5/2008
Global warming under way 'earlier', Australian
PLANTS, animals, ice and waters worldwide have all been significantly affected by global warming triggered by human activity, says the first research to link the phenomenon to changes in biological and natural systems. Among the ...   
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14/5/2008
In Spain, the Pain of No Rain, Time Magazine
On May 15, a tanker ship from Marseilles will pull into a specially equipped dock in Barcelona's busy port, connect to a new pipeline, and discharge a liquid cargo essential to the running of the city. The ship will not, however, be ...   
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14/5/2008
California: How Schwarzenegger Is Trying to Finagle More Big Dam Construction, CounterPunch
California Governor Schwarzenegger wants to build two new dams -- Sites and Temperance Flat. They are being sold as necessary to cope with the reduction in Sierra Nevada, Cascade and Klamath Mountains snowpack expected as a result of ...   
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14/5/2008
Sustainable Management of Tropical Peatland, Innovations Report
They play an important role in climate regulation. Peatland reclamation for agriculture disrupts this role. UNIMAS is currently working on a sustainable management of the peatlands in Sarawak that would benefit the ecosystem and its ...   
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14/5/2008
Uganda: Remedying Water Pollution, Monitor
The ever increasing lake pollution that has affected the ecological health of Lake Victoria as a result of a rapidly growing population, a booming fish-export industry, the disappearance of several fish species native to the lake and ...   
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14/5/2008
Indonesia gets into hot water, Asia Times
In the shadow of steep volcanic mountains, Indonesia is seeking to develop a cleaner future for its energy industry. Pressurized steam from a score or more of wells is piped to power generation plants a few kilometers away, feeding into ...   
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14/5/2008
Hutchison sets up water unit to tap rising demand, Reuters
Hutchison Whampoa (0013.HK: Quote, Profile, Research), billionaire Li Ka-shing's ports-to-telecoms flagship, said on Wednesday it has launched a new water division to tap rising demand for water globally. Hutchison Water, which ...   
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14/5/2008
Cash tap turned on for water in Murray-Darling, Australian
MORE than $900 million will be spent to upgrade water infrastructure in the Murray-Darling over the next two years ahead of the Government's 10-year plan to buy back water allocations from irrigators. The accelerated investment ...   
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13/5/2008
Massive deforestation of mangroves may have worsened scale of disaster in Burma, Mongabay
Weeks after the devastating cyclone Nagris struck Myanmar's Irrawaddy Delta on May 2nd, scientists and the media are debating the role in the scale of the disaster played by the region's deforestation of mangroves. According to recent ...   
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13/5/2008
Mosquito Thrives; So Does Dengue Fever, New York Times
On a recent visit to Cambodia, outside a children’s hospital a block from my hotel, I saw a large red-and-white sign that warned of a severe epidemic of dengue hemorrhagic fever. Years ago, the disease killed our tour guide’s 5-year-old ...   
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