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JAPAN
Trust Deficit - Worst Fallout of Fukushima
By Suvendrini Kakuchi
TOKYO - Kazuya Tarukawa, 36, left a secure job in the Japanese capital to tend to his family’s organic farm located 100 km away from the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear reactor.
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ARGENTINA
Three-Quarters of "Breadbasket" Is Drylands
By Marcela Valente
BUENOS AIRES - How has Argentina managed to maintain its image as one of the world's breadbaskets when a full three-fourths of its territory consists of drylands? This was one of the questions raised by the scientists who decided to create the National Observatory on Land Degradation and Desertification this year.
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Somalia's Rich Maritime Resources Being Plundered, Report Says
By Thalif Deen
UNITED NATIONS - The international community has failed to grapple with the real underlying political and economic issues facing the troubled East African nation of Somalia, which has been surviving without an effective government for over two decades, according to a new study released here.
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Scientists Urge Reform for a Broken Global System
By Stephen Leahy
VANCOUVER - Unless governments work actively to build a brighter future for humanity, climate change, poverty and loss of biodiversity will worsen and continue to exacerbate existing global problems, top scientists warned ministers at the United Nations Environment Programme's (UNEP) governing council meeting in Nairobi, Kenya, on Monday.
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Scientists Denounce Climate Change Denial, Censorship
By Stephen Leahy
VANCOUVER, Canada - Amid revelations of a well-funded U.S. organisation's plans to deliberately distort climate science, scientists and journalists at a major scientific conference called on the Canadian government to stop its muzzling of scientists.
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INDONESIA
Community Radio Helps Revive Forests
By Kanis Dursin*
JAKARTA - Irman Meilandi unhesitatingly attributes the return of birds, wildlife and the forests around his hilly village of Mandalamekar in West Java province to conservation advice streaming in over community radio.
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Paper Industry Decimating Indonesia's Tigers
By Charundi Panagoda
WASHINGTON - The survival of Sumatra's tigers, elephants, orangutans, rhinos, as well as indigenous communities, is threatened by the "world's fastest deforestation rate", caused by none other than the pulp and paper industry, according to the World Wildlife Fund (WWF).
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Q&A
‘World Bank in Tiger Territory – No Greenwashing’
Marwaan Macan-Markar interviews KESHAV VARMA, director, Global Tiger Initiative
BANGKOK - When World Bank president Robert Zoellick steps down in June, the tiger will lose an ally who worked to prevent the decimation of Asia’s iconic animal by a voracious demand for its bones and parts in newly affluent China.
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Building Sustainable Future Needs More Than Science, Experts Say
By Stephen Leahy
VANCOUVER - Contrary to popular belief, humans have failed to address the earth's worsening emergencies of climate change, species' extinction and resource overconsumption not because of a lack of information, but because of a lack of imagination, social scientists and artists say.
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ENVIRONMENT
Weed Threatens Indian Rhino's Last Refuge
By Ranjita Biswas
KAZIRANGA, India - While shoot-at-sight orders are now effectively keeping rhinoceros poachers at bay, an aggressive weed is threatening the one-horned ungulate in one of its last retreats - the Kaziranga National Park (KNP) in eastern Assam state.
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CLIMATE CHANGE
Barbados Looks to Beaches as First Line of Defence
By Desmond Brown
BRIDGETOWN - Like most of its neighbours in the English-speaking Caribbean, Barbados's main economic asset is its coastal zone.
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ARGENTINA
Paraná River Not What It Used to Be
By Marcela Valente
BUENOS AIRES - Lower water levels and increasing pressure from overfishing in the Paraná river are causing an unprecedented decline in fish stocks in the river that is regarded as the second most biodiverse in South America after the Amazon river.
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LATIN AMERICA
Research Decodes Dialogue Between Rainforest and Water
By Alice Marcondes *
RIO DE JANEIRO - An alteration of the relationship between the Amazon rainforest and the billions of cubic metres of water transported by air from the equatorial Atlantic Ocean to the Andes Mountains could endanger the resilience of a biome that is crucial for the global climate, warns a recently concluded two-decade research project.
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GUATEMALA
"Only the Mayor Will Benefit from the Mine"
By Danilo Valladares
GUATEMALA CITY - "No one will pay for the damages when work at the mine has finished," says María del Rosario Velásquez, who lives in a town near the Oasis mine 100 km southeast of the Guatemalan capital.
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Bangladesh Braves Climate Change With Community Radio
By Naimul Haq
DHAKA - "Welcome to Krishi (farming) Radio. You are listening to FM 98.8 megahertz and I am your hostess Shahnaz Parvin," the local community radio crackles over the mobile phones and transistors of residents in coastal Barguna district.
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The world's multilateral credit institutions have often faced the criticism that they cause more problems than they prevent. As challenges like climate change grow, the debate is shifting to environmental financing.

The Fourth Assembly of the Global Environment Facility (GEF) is being held May 24-28 in the Uruguayan resort city of Punta del Este.

GEF is the principal multilateral fund for the environment. Although the numbers are modest given the huge environmental problems that humankind faces, GEF is the financing instrument behind key international agreements, including the Conventions on Climate Change, Persistent Organic Pollutants, Biodiversity and Desertification.

Find out how public environmental moneys will be spent over the next four years through IPS's exclusive news coverage.