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1. Write on: letters to the editor

   well — it never died. Tom McEvoy Reynella SA [Abridged.] Dying rivers As each year passes, the water ... fishermen, on the one side, blaming the farmers, on the other side, for using too much irrigation water ... for those properties, which in effect means that more water remains in the rivers. Expressions of ...

2. The clash of ignorance

   the ford, between the deep waters of tradition and modernity". But we are all swimming in those ... waters, Westerners and Muslims and others alike. And since the waters are part of the ocean of history, ...

3. Our world is not for sale

   Protections critical to human or planetary welfare, such as food and water, basic social services, education, ... health, education, energy distribution, water and other basic human services must not be subject to ... remains the same, and we reject all these seemingly watered-down approaches which have the same ultimate ...

4. Contracting work: who's safeguarding the future?

   solutions." There is evidence that contaminated ground water is already reaching the nearby Columbia River. ... after raising concerns about contaminated ground water. This decision is being appealed by Hanford ... blast punched a hole in the roof of the facility and broke a fire sprinkler line; spilling water washed ...

5. Privatisation is theft

   infrastructure needed for private economic development: railways, telegraph lines, water supply and sewerage ... have always charged for the provision of water, power, transport and so on, but both the scale and ... infrastructure we all depend on: roads, bridges, railways, power generation and distribution, water supply and ...

6. Environment: Why cutting immigration won't help

   degradation, pesticide poisoning, air pollution, deforestation and water depletion that result. While ... exist, on the drawing board as well as in limited application around the world: land and water ... as more species are lost forever, more water supplies poisoned beyond repair, and more forests and ...

7. Trade wars: APEC's secret agenda

   The study found that: The environmental costs of air and water pollution already exceed US$1 billion ... availability of water constrains development in northern China, and surface and ground water quality is ...

8. Refugees from Burma's dictators

   there for about three weeks. The water dried up and we could not stay there any longer. We had to move ... cooking fishpaste. Children carry water from the well; men take guns out into the forest to hunt. It is ... for two or three days, very little water was given. They burned down the houses, took the food and ...

9. Write on

   climate away from water catchment areas, to be stored in an area of low population and to be stored at ... geographical faults, in the Wivenhoe Dam catchment (S.E. Queensland's water supply) and where so many ... farms. This water is used for irrigation. Produce from the Esk area goes to Brisbane markets. Foods under ...

10. Fighting the nuclear threat in central Europe

    the first two units. Safety problems The VVER power plant is a variant of the pressurised water ... systems on US, Japanese and Swedish BWRs (boiling water reactors), including even the most recent designs. ... leakage of primary system water into the secondary system, and around the vulnerability of a number of ...

11. The science and politics of Gaia

    1980s. The Gaia Hypothesis postulates that the Earth's biosphere (that band of air, land and water ... sustain itself, in much the same way that the human body's processes maintain the body's water ... has grown 30% hotter (enough to boil the water off the planet, as in Venus). Without life's ...

12. 'Think globally, act locally': Can greens change the world?

    water, and the various life forms sustained by these elements, bore the brunt of capital's newly ... and the use of local biomass for food and energy and the redistribution of water supplies to small ... problems of land use, transportation, water supplies, air pollution, soil degradation, congestion, health ...

13. Malaysian govt fears Bersih movt will make Merdeka Sq its 'Tahrir'

    fire tear gas and water cannons. Arutchelvan says there is some evidence of “funny business” going on ...

14. An Australian in Ferguson: 'They are not broken'

    affection among protesters, offering each other water, food and cigarettes. Or just a friendly: “How are you ... things such as bringing water to protesters. Then they organised donations via Twitter and now organise ...

15. Enemy of Big Oil, Ken Saro-Wiwa showed power of resistance

    Africa, the Ogoni people consume contaminated water containing known cancer-causing agents in lethal ... over. But instead their blood watered the seeds of the revolution in Ogoniland. Not one drop of oil has ...

16. Drugs of modernity – crystal methampetamine

    early 1980s. In its white crystalline powder form, cocaine hydrochloride is a water-soluble salt that ... When these two drugs were withdrawn in 1962 and 1963, demand for a powdered form of water soluble speed ...

17. John Pilger: How Australia betrayed East Timor

    longer, they were reported in a watered-down, very generalised way, so that even our own sourcing was ... a “respected diplomatic intellectual”. Journalists watered at the Australian embassy in Jakarta, notably those ...

18. February temperature spike bombshell

    spikes we see in global temperature. By spreading warm surface water across a large swath of the tropical ... was probably related to interactions among warm air streaming into the Arctic, warm water extending ...

19. Turkey wages war on its Kurdish population

    wounded citizens were trapped in three different basements, without food and water, for weeks. Security ... a smell similar to tear gas, has entered residents' homes through water drains in kitchens and baths. ...

20. Western Sahara liberation leader dies

    French and US oil companies are involved in prospecting for oil and gas in Western Sahara's waters ... in children. A lack of water resources makes the future viability of the camps uncertain. ...

21. Refugee crisis, activism and alternatives

    who endure freezing and wet conditions in flimsy tents without access to adequate fresh water, food or ... year, 16 volunteer networks in the Greek Islands who have being diving into the water to rescue refugees ...

22. How Australia is screwing East Timor

    the next rainy season, the drought is cause for alarm. “The drought has led to water and food ... walking long distances to collect water, with some from dirty sources.” Australian governments express ...

23. Bernie Sanders: 'The political revolution must continue'

    a result of lead in the water in that city, of many thousands of homes in California and other communities ... unable to drink the polluted water that comes out of their faucets… “It is about ending the disgrace that ...

24. Canada: New oil train crash highlights severe dangers

    month. The rushing water of the Bow River, which passes through the centre of the city, may have weakened ... of the town when most of the 72-wagon train derailed. The surrounding ground and waters have been ...

25. Hypocrisy reigns in International Criminal Court debates

    These policies have left Kenya’s rural and urban poor majority destitution. The country’s land and water ... political violence is dwarfed by the number killed through lack of food, clean water and access to health ...

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