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ECONOMY: Speculators Undermining Recovery, Report Says
By Haider Rizvi
UNITED NATIONS - The current economic meltdown will continue for years if the world community does not take firm and coordinated action to regulate the flow of capital, say researchers who have just concluded a new study for the United Nations.
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ENVIRONMENT: Desert Winds Stir New Hope
By Cam McGrath*
CAIRO - With oil and gas reserves running dry, the most populous country in the Arab world is eyeing wind power as a solution to its looming energy crunch.
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SOUTH AMERICA: Glaciers - Going, Going…Gone?
By Marcela Valente
BUENOS AIRES - South America is perhaps most often associated with the Amazon jungle, the world's largest tropical rainforest. But along its western edge, from Ecuador to southern Chile and Argentina, it also harbours huge glaciers which are rapidly melting due to global warming.
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BRAZIL: More Growth, Less Carbon
By Fabiana Frayssinet
RIO DE JANEIRO - Achieving sustainable growth is one of the major challenges facing Brazil, an emerging power and the fourth largest emitter of greenhouse gases in the world. To do this it will have to curb emissions, 30 percent of which are caused by industry and power generation.
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VENEZUELA: Alarm over First Contraction of GDP in Five Years
By Humberto Márquez
CARACAS - The Venezuelan economy, which has grown steadily for more than five years, contracted by 2.4 percent in the second quarter of this year, heightening fears of stagflation, an unwelcome combination of recession and high inflation.
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ENERGY-CANADA: "It's Like the Wild West Out Here"
By Chris Arsenault*
DAWSON CREEK, British Columbia - The once serene road to Tim and Linda Ewert's organic farm near Tomslake in northeastern British Columbia has become a mess of dust clouds, drilling rigs and hordes of pick-up trucks as the area transforms into the newest frontier of Canada's natural gas boom.
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DEVELOPMENT-US: Gentrification Fears Dog Sustainable Transport
By Matthew Cardinale*
ATLANTA, Georgia - As U.S. cities consider the urgent need for sustainable public transportation options, advocates are looking for ways to achieve the environmental benefits of such projects without displacing residents through gentrification of surrounding areas.
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MEXICO: Biological Remedy for Sickened Soil
By Emilio Godoy*
MEXICO CITY - Mexico is beginning to take on the environmental debts left by the oil industry, applying biological techniques to break down alcohols, solvents, glycerines, gasoline, benzene and acetone, turning them into carbon dioxide and water.
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ENERGY: Pipeline Sabotage Blows Image of Stable Canada
By Chris Arsenault*
POUCE COUPE, British Columbia - North America's largest natural gas corporation hopes a one-million-dollar bounty will take down the saboteur who is blowing up their pipelines in northern Canada.
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EUROPE: Wind Becomes More Energising
By Julio Godoy
BERLIN - The 12 giant wind turbines tower more than 100 metres above the sea, some 50 kilometres north of Borkum island in the North Sea close to the border with the Netherlands.
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DISARMAMENT: Africa Joins the Nuclear-Free Club
By Fareed Mahdy*
CAIRO - Africa, the second-largest continent after Asia, has now become the world's largest nuclear-free zone comprising 53 countries with about a billion people. This means denuclearisation of one of the richest uranium producing regions.
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EUROPE: Easterly Wind Picks Up
By Claudia Ciobanu
BUCHAREST - The natural conditions in Romania and Bulgaria make these countries some of the best placed in Europe for producing wind energy. Interest in investing in wind power is high in both countries, but legislative ambiguity and the limited capacity of national electricity grids are delaying the building of new wind parks.
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TRADE-VENEZUELA: Out with Colombia, In with Argentina
By Humberto Márquez
CARACAS - Ten thousands cars, 80,000 tons of beef, 100,000 tons of corn, 18,000 tons of milk, 9,000 tons of beans, 18 million eggs, two million pairs of shoes: Argentina has agreed to 1.1 billion dollars worth of sales to Venezuela, which has decided to stop importing goods from Colombia and get its supplies from other sources.
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EGYPT: Israel Gas Deal Inflames Opposition
By Adam Morrow and Khaled Moussa Al-Omrani*
CAIRO - Opposition figures and political activists have slammed a new deal to sell Egyptian liquefied natural gas (LNG) to Israel at what they say are vastly reduced prices.
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ENVIRONMENT-CHILE: Anti-Coal Plant Activists Get Death Threats
By Daniela Estrada
SANTIAGO - Five social activists and community leaders opposed to the construction of coal-fired thermoelectric plants near fishing villages in northern Chile filed a complaint with the prosecution service denouncing that they had received anonymous death threats warning them to stop their struggle.
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U.S.: Coal Power Hitting Roadblocks
By Matthew Cardinale
ATLANTA - As more and more states are turning against coal power facilities in the U.S., advocates have been using the legal system to halt new pending plants.
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GERMANY: Nuclear Power Fails, And Nobody Notices
By Julio Godoy
BERLIN - Seven German nuclear plants have failed to generate any electricity this month due to technical breakdowns. They have about half the production capacity of Germany's 17 nuclear reactors, but Germany did not suffer any power shortages.
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ENERGY: "Nuclear Steals Billions from Other Technologies"
By Stephen Leahy*
BERLIN - Why is nuclear energy back on the table?
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The war in Iraq, fear of one in Iran. Uncertainties in Europe over gas dependence on Russia. Greenhouse gases and the consequent fear of climate change. The battle over sources to power development in Asia, Africa and Latin America. The nuclear option, and its own dangers. One crisis after another round the world is at heart an energy crisis.