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Food and climate change: the looming disaster?
with which plants use water. But field experiments suggest that the boost to crop yields from this ... farmland. Might not technology come to the rescue? New irrigation methods, perhaps? But fresh water in key ...
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Festival of nature to celebrate beauty and diversity of life
depend on the diversity of nature for clean air and water, food and the many other essentials of life. ... Please bring paper and paints, texta or pencils and a bottle of water. At 2.15pm an experienced guide ...
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Peru: Mining conflict heats up
Quilish, the source of much of Cajamarca’s drinking water. In 2000, a Yanococha truck spilled 150 kilograms ... water network that supports thousands of small farming families will face certain contamination as four ...
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Letters to the editor
which out of several inadequate market mechanisms will get a chance to be watered down before the public ... climate future. Cleaner air, less depletion of fresh water resources, cheaper electricity (after an ...
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Letters to the editor
to 250,000 years or more the cycle of contamination through the food chain, air and water means that ... into drinking water and onto fruits and vegetables. The greatest risk away from Japan is particle ...
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Africa forced to clean up after a party it didn't go to
debt." His examples are diverse: "Nutrients in exports including virtual water, the oil and minerals ... tailings, the harm to health from flower exports, the pollution of water by mining, the commercial use of ...
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Community action against big power
and Priority 1 water catchment areas. The Collie-Eastern Terminal transmission line upgrade would also ... (primarily a priority 1 water catchment area to the east of Kalamunda). However, SETS discovered that ...
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Coal addiction: Can Australia kick the habit?
sulphur and sulphides whose bio-toxicity increases when exposed to air or water, and can form acid ... pollution also affects our vegetation, trees, crops and water quality", Warden said. Power plants have ...
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In Africa, a tale of two bailouts
to medicines and water. And at the very same time, the money that the richest countries cannot find ... gap, $20 billion over the same period to close the energy gap, $5.7 billion to provide clean water, $11 ...
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Brookland Greens: bad laws and developer greed
collection pipes help, they will never capture all the gas, and when the water table rises or the cap leaks, ... many of the pipes get blocked by water and/or clogged by sludge", he said. Meanwhile, the EPA is ...
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Fortress Australia claims more lives
It was the sixth vessel carrying asylum seekers to arrive in Australian waters this year and was ... it when it arrived in Australian waters. Australia April 18, 2009 791 Analysis ...
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The challenge of climate change: We need an eco-revolution
on the Antarctic Peninsula has collapsed. Oceanographers fear that extra fresh water pouring into the ... putting an irreplaceable source of water at risk. Instead of disaster, fossil-fuel companies see business ...
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Boats a last resort — let them stay
reach Australian waters to 10 this year. There is, in fact, a genuine surge around the world of people ... way to Australian waters by boat hardly win preferential treatment for their risks. "The UN has ...
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The world's biggest solar bullshit artists
focus it on water pipes. The heated water is pumped to a central power block where heat exchangers use ...
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Privatisation: state-wide campaign heats up
Party, have tried to water down that potential." Benedek said the main challenge was to bring the ... a low-carbon or zero-carbon economy when you've got your key assets like water, energy, transport and ...
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Refugee policy risks more lives
authorities refused to take responsibility for it, because the incident occurred in Indonesian waters, said ... smuggling" in an attempt to stop those fleeing war and conflict from making it to Australian waters. Prime ...
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Israel imprisons Palestine solidarity activists
them, they beat him up." They were taken from international waters to Israeli territory where they ... Port Authorities before we departed, and at no time did we ever approach Israeli waters." Former ...
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Pacific Islanders struggle against climate change
water table and plant, can no longer be done because the underground water has been salinated by the ...
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South Africa: Shack dwellers under attack
water and electricity. Levels of human development are now lower than in 1994. South Africa has ... organised to bring the dividends of housing, water, education, health care, employment and food to their ...
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Don't be hoodwinked on climate change
claim. Because it results in deforestation, unsustainable water use and dependence on chemical ... transportation of uranium, is highly energy intensive and wastes huge amounts of water. There is no safe way to ...
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Get on board a coal-free future
coalmining on health, water, agriculture and other local industries. But we want to see a transition away ... coalmining would undermine underground water supplies and threaten agriculture. In Mudgee we'll meet ...
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Iraq: Occupation continues suffering
November 1: "It was a scene from hell, dead bodies, flesh, body parts. Fires, water, broken pipes, ... the streets of many towns and cities, the lack of clean water, fuel and electricity, and the ever ...
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Honduras: Coup regime prepares massive repression
disperse protests, the riot police unit is equipped with video cameras and a high capacity water cannon, in ... addition to a mechanism to leave whoever gets hit by the water marked for 48 hours. The armed forces have ...
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Afghanistan: 'Change' at US-run prison camp?
isolation cells, forced to live on dry biscuits and water for several weeks at a time, held in cold ... isolation cells, not allowed to pray or receive water for ablution, and subjected to sleep deprivation over ...
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Where is the aid in Haiti?
the catastrophic earthquake on January 12. As life-saving medical supplies, food, water purification ... damage. Stuart appealed for international relief, saying that food and water supplies would soon run out ...