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29/8/2008
A plan to redevelop Phnom Penh’s largest remaining natural lake into a residential and shopping precinct has ignited a storm of protests and claims that it could result in the largest eviction in Cambodia’s post-war history.
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29/8/2008
To some they are a rural escape in the centre of the city, to others they are a chance to test their green fingers and design skills. Now London mayor Boris Johnson has found a new use for urban roof gardens - as a key weapon on the front line ...
29/8/2008
Canada is awash with the world's most precious commodity, and it's not oil, gold, potash or uranium. It's fresh water -- an essential element for life on Earth -- and a Quebec think-tank says the province should look at shipping it out for big ...
29/8/2008
Official Met Office figures show that Britain managed just 96.3 hours of sunshine in the first 26 days of the month - 40 per cent below the average of 165.1 hours the country would see in a typical August.
Despite the prospect of sunny ...
29/8/2008
Villagers were eating uncooked rice and flour mixed with polluted water in an eastern Indian state, officials said on Friday, as hunger and diseases accompanied the worst-ever floods in 50years.
The Kosi river burst a dam in neighbouring ...
29/8/2008
Climate change could seriously threaten quality of life in London and the capital's position as a leading world city, Mayor Boris Johnson said.
He issued the warning as he launched a strategy, the first for a major city, detailing action ...
28/8/2008
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28/8/2008
The British government should end subsidies for biofuels and instead use the funds to slow destruction of rainforests and tropical peatlands argues a new report issued by a U.K.-based think tank.
The study, titled "The Root of the ...
28/8/2008
The overuse of ground water resources is becoming a huge threat to Asian nations, warned environmental experts at a seminar in Bali, Indonesia.
Professor Brahma Chellaney, from the India-based Strategic Studies Centre for Policy ...
28/8/2008
Hydro power has always been hailed as the solution to the increasing world energy needs. But since mid 1980`s, the hydro power sector of the energy industry has been plagued with difficulties as political opposition to construction of new dams ...
28/8/2008
Five years after going public, geothermal company Raser Technologies Inc is on the verge of a major milestone: earning real revenue.
Later this year, the renewable energy producer will open its first power plant in the Utah desert near ...
28/8/2008
The United States, Australia and Iceland signed the charter of an agreement Thursday to promote geothermal technologies, the U.S. Energy Department said.
The International Partnership for Geothermal Technology will help promote energy ...
28/8/2008
The Montreal Economic Institute's dive into a 40-year controversy over bulk water exports ran into a tide of skepticism yesterday.
Marcel Boyer, chief economist of the Montreal think tank, made public a 31-page study that claims Quebec ...
28/8/2008
On the approach to Exit Glacier in southeastern Alaska, wooden signs mark nearly 200 years of the ice’s retreat. They begin at 1815, about a mile and a half from the ice’s current terminus. That was the end of a several centuries-long cold spell ...
28/8/2008
The Senate will hold an urgent inquiry into the immediate availability of water for the Murray River, the Coorong and lower lakes in South Australia.
Greens leader Bob Brown said he believed the inquiry would be better able to determine ...
27/8/2008
Rich nations will need to provide about $130 billion a year by 2030 to help developing countries cope with climate change, or about five times current flows, the WWF conservation group said on Wednesday.
A WWF study showed that there ...
27/8/2008
TOORALE station in northwestern NSW is expected to be purchased by Canberra in partnership with NSW for an estimated $25 million, in response to mounting pressure on the Rudd Government to respond more quickly to the water crisis in the ...
27/8/2008
Food riots erupted on Wednesday in eastern India, where more than 2 million people have been forced from their homes and about 250,000 houses destroyed in what officials say are the worst floods in 50 years.
One person was killed in ...
27/8/2008
Ten months after a wildfire swept through his neighborhood in Ranch Bernardo, a community nestled in the coastal mountains north of San Diego, Brian Toth is incredulous.
“I’m looking at homes with dead trees and fields of brown grass, ...
27/8/2008
Ghana is hosting a United Nations conference on climate change, where environmental policy leaders from around the world are discussing solutions to global warming. While the conference delegates debated the future of international environmental ...
27/8/2008
THE federal Opposition has vowed to support a plan to launch a senate inquiry into ways of securing vital water for South Australia's Coorong wetlands and the lower lakes of the Murray River.
The Australian Greens want to investigate the ...
26/8/2008
Forests and peatlands have a unique role to play in the battle against climate change. Living forests and peatlands can sequester carbon emissions, while dying ones release previously stored carbon. Every year the annihilation of these two ...
26/8/2008
Opponents of the HidroAysen project continue to mobilize against the controversial hydroelectric venture, which was submitted earlier this month for approval by the Chilean government's National Environmental Commission (CONAMA).
This ...
26/8/2008
Results showed that in the 2000s alpine lakes became clearer, warmer, and mixed to deeper depths, relative to the 1990s. Click here to enlarge image A recent study forecasts that increased climatic variability poses serious consequence for both ...
26/8/2008
Between 75 and 250 million people in Africa stand at the risk of being faced with a serious water supply deficit by 2020, a Ghanaian environmental protection agency director predicted.
William Kojo Agyemang-Bonsu told the United Nations ...