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- ENVIRONMENT DAY: Fuel-Rich UAE Sends Green Signals
DUBAI, Jun 5 (IPS) - Despite producing nearly 2.5 million barrels of crude oil a day in a region that contributes about 30 per cent of the world's oil output and controls nearly 40 per cent of proven gas resources, the United Arab Emirates is determined to take giant strides on the path towards sustainable development. - /ARTS WEEKLY/CUBA: Fascination with Argentine Culture Spans Generations
HAVANA, Oct 30 (IPS) - Carlos Gardel album covers, newspaper clippings and yellowed photographs once covered every inch of the walls in the narrow entryway on Havana's Neptuno Street where someone had turned their home into a tango museum. - ENVIRONMENT-SOUTH AFRICA: Limpopo Steps Out of the Shadows
POLOKWANE, South Africa, June 9 (IPS) - Tourism has long been viewed as one of the holy grails of job creation in South Africa, which is burdened by an unemployment rate of more than 30 percent. Certain parts of the country - Cape Town, and its surrounds for example - have become firm favourites with local and international visitors. Now the lesser known province of Limpopo is also hoping to take its place at the table. - ENVIRONMENT: Community Nurtures Puerto Rican Forests
SAN JUAN, Jun 5 (IPS) - The government of this Caribbean island is widely perceived to be doing nothing to protect the environment, especially its forests and other green areas. - ENVIRONMENT-MEXICO: Violence Brewing in Montes Azules Reserve
MEXICO CITY, Jun 5 (IPS) - Lacandon Indians in Mexico are threatening to use force to stop other indigenous groups from clearing out land and creating settlements in the Montes Azules Biosphere Reserve. - ENVIRONMENT: Paraguay's Forests in Danger of Vanishing
ASUNCION, Jun 4 (IPS) - Native forests have virtually disappeared in eastern Paraguay due to the advance of the agricultural frontier and indiscriminate logging by large landowners and landless peasants. - ENVIRONMENT: Subsidies in North Help Drain Oceans of Fish
BROOKLIN, Canada, Jun 4 (IPS) - Fishing subsidies in the world's rich countries and development that pushes poor farmers off their land are two reasons why the world's oceans have been over-harvested, leading to a drastic drop in fish stocks, say experts. - ENVIRONMENT-INDIA: Decline of Vultures an Ecological, Health Risk
PINJORE, India, Jun 4 (IPS) - At Asia's first Vulture Care Centre in this northern Indian city, scientists are battling to save the scavenging bird, which faces extinction due to a mysterious viral infection that is upsetting the ecological balance and is a serious public health menace. - ENVIRONMENT: Activist Resigns as McDonald's Takes 'Green' Seat
WASHINGTON, Jun 3 (IPS) - The recent appointment of fast food giant McDonald's to the advisory board of an environmental group has drawn accusations of ''green washing'' from environmentalists and led one board member to resign in protest. But both the company and the group strongly deny the accusations. - ENVIRONMENT-LATAM: No Forest for the Trees
SANTIAGO, Jun 3 (IPS) - A tree plantation is not a forest, says forestry engineer Rodrigo Herrera, of Greenpeace-Chile, one of many environmentalists in Latin America fighting to preserve native forests as integral ecosystems -- with many frustrations and relatively few advances to show for their efforts. - ECUADOR: Logging Activity Forms Backdrop to Conflict between Indians
PUYO, Ecuador, Jun 3 (IPS) - Illegal logging activity in Ecuador's Amazon region appears to form the backdrop to conflict between indigenous groups that recently claimed the lives of around 30 Tagaeri Indians at the hands of the Huaorani in the remote eastern jungle province of Pastaza. - ENVIRONMENT-LATIN AMERICA: A Dangerous Splash in the Sea
SANTIAGO, May 31 (IPS) - From Acapulco to Viña del Mar, the most beautiful beaches of Latin America are turning into dangerous places for bathers, the result of increasing contamination from various sources, but mostly from sewage discharged into the sea. - ENVIRONMENT: Brussels Gears Up For 'Green Week'
BRUSSELS, May 30 (IPS) - The European Union will assess the development of its green policies since the last year's Earth Summit next week as it welcomes environmental actors to Brussels. - PHILIPPINES: Harvest of GM Corn Reaps Fears of Contamination
MANILA, May 30 (IPS) - As genetically modified corn began to be harvested for the first time this month, the focus of the Philippines' debate on biotechnology crops is shifting to fears that the commercial planting of this corn variety may lead to the contamination of other agricultural produce. - ENVIRONMENT-SENEGAL: Researchers Turn to Schools to Protect Rare Plants
MBOUR, Southern Senegal, May 28 (IPS) - Frustrated by years of fruitless campaigns, researchers are now turning to the last line of defence: schools - to protect Senegal's endangered medicinal plants.
