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November 21, 2010
The use of traditional cooking stoves using open woodfires contributes to deforestation in the Philippines. But a new cooking stove was developed, using coconut oil. Also the Abaca or Manila hemp ...
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November 21, 2010
Tourists come to Bwindi in Uganda to see the world famous mountain gorillas that only live in this forest. But a growing population and consequent deforestation reduced their habitat and ...
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November 21, 2010
The first ministry for the environment in the Dominican Republic created the conditions for development organizations such as IDDI (Instituto Dominicano de Desarrollo Integral) to work with local ...
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November 21, 2010
In a pioneering scheme Costa Rica is finding ways to charge those who benefit from the forests' environmental services and pass this money on to those who own the land to enable them to ...
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November 21, 2010
Spain periodically suffers from severe water shortages. It’s not that there is a lack of water, it's that too much is squandered.
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November 21, 2010
The Dana project was a pilot project in the Middle East for an integrated approach to nature conservation with human economic development.
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November 17, 2010
Remote areas pose the greatest challenges to providing preventive healthcare. Medicines and vaccines cannot be transported easily because they lose their effectiveness if not kept cold. But now ...
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November 17, 2010
Recognizing the economic potential of small-scale cultivation of sea moss, the Caribbean Natural Resources Institute (CANARI), has been working with farmers in Saint Lucia to cultivate sea moss ...
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November 17, 2010
Scandinavian Silver Eel (SSE) is a Swedish eel farming company producing eels for consumption, restocking and on growing. The farm was set up by Kemira Kemi AB, a chemical company based in ...
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November 17, 2010
Freshwater fish are a very popular food in Hungary. The climate and geography in Hungary make it particularly suitable for the development of pond farming.
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November 17, 2010
In Malawi, the Makoka Research Station, part of the government’s Agricultural Research Department, is encouraging farmers to plant certain trees for commercial benefit and it is helping to ...
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November 11, 2010
In 1997, two million hectares of rainforest burned out of control in Indonesian Borneo. But the smoke and pollution did not obscure the real cause of this disaster: big plantation companies ...
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November 09, 2010
Although90% of disaster deaths occur in developing countries, unnatural disasters are not the sole preserve of the poor. In 1997 the River Oder in Germany burst its banks as flood water from ...
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November 09, 2010
In London, some of the world’s largest insurance companies are swallowing ever-harder as they consider the mounting losses which they attribute specifically to man-made climate change.
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November 09, 2010
Dr. Dan Fagre of the U.S Geological Survey studied the changes of the glaciers at the Glaciers National Park in Montana. He says that across the globe there has been a measurable amount of ice ...
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November 09, 2010
Unless like Congress, the public opinion in the United States now seems to be moving in favor of accepting limits to greenhouse gas emissions.
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November 09, 2010
The global climate change is already affected the US in many ways, like the recent hurricanes, sea level rise and coastal erosion. There is a need for action from the Congress in the US.
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November 09, 2010
This video is about the Patagonian toothfish, better known as sea bass, which fetches such high prices that fishing 'pirates' will play a ruthless game of cat-and mouse with ...
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November 09, 2010
In the French island port of Reunion lie five pirate vessels caught by the French Navy. For these boats the price of pirating will far exceed the millions they may have made selling their ...
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November 09, 2010
Until recently, many of the pirate ships were owned by Norwegian operators. But pressure form the conservation NGO Isofish has all but shut down their business.
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