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Bangladesh Set to Take the Reins at Rio+20
By Naimul Haq
DHAKA - Experts believe that the upcoming United Nations Earth Summit, Rio+ 20, scheduled to take place in Brazil from Jun.20-22, could be a real opportunity for Bangladesh to negotiate a road to sustainable development.
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Can 'Blue Forests' Mitigate Climate Change?
By Manipadma Jena
YEOSU, South Korea - Fifty-five percent of global atmospheric carbon captured by living organisms happens in the ocean.
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Jakarta Poaches on Farmland Waters
By Kafil Yamin*
SUKABUMI, Indonesia - The 18,000 litres of clean water that Jakarta consumes per second are expected to hit 26,000 litres by 2015. The solution? A 54-km stretch of toll road cut through prime paddy land to access the water resources of this salubrious hill district.
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Industrialised Countries Under Critical Spotlight at U.N. Meet
By Julio Godoy
BONN, Germany - The latest session of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), taking place May 15-25 in the former German capital Bonn, is the perfect opportunity to reaffirm the enormous and growing body of scientific expertise on policies to tackle global warming.
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Colombian River Basin Passes the Test of El Niño and La Niña
By Constanza Vieira *
NEIVA, Colombia - Patricia Gómez, an engineer, is leading a training workshop for a group of 11 men at the fire station in Neiva, the capital of the department of Huila in southwest Colombia.
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Adding Rice Farmers to the Rio+20 Agenda
By Amantha Perera
COLOMBO - The year 2011 was one of extremes for the small Sri Lankan village of Verugal.
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Despite Economic Growth, Food Insecurity Lingers in Africa
By Brian Ngugi
NAIROBI - Everlyne Wanjiku, a single mother of five, has earned a living selling vegetables in the sprawling Kibera slum in Nairobi, Kenya, for over three decades. And even though her earnings were meagre, she was able to provide all her children with a tertiary education.
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Argentina Faces the Dilemma of Unconventional Oil and Gas
By Marcela Valente *
BUENOS AIRES - Vast reserves of natural gas and oil trapped underground, whose exploitation would signify major environmental impacts, will be the greatest challenge facing YPF, the Argentine oil company that recently returned to state control.
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Private Sector and Conservationists Meet on a Big Date
By Manipadma Jena
YEOSU, South Korea - As schools of whales move to music undersea at image definitions of 6.54 million pixels on the giant ceiling mounted LED screen, 218 X 30 metres in length and width, expectations run high from the International Exposition Yeosu Korea 2012 at harbour town. The expo showcases 104 participating countries’ visions and achievements on the Expo theme: ‘The Living Ocean and Coast: Diversity of Resources and Sustainable Activities’.
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Financial Middlemen Muddle Climate Commitments
By Sabina Zaccaro
ROME - The European Union has been using all means necessary to fill the multi- billion-euro fund for climate change, including the controversial mobilisation of public resources through private financial intermediaries.
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Indonesia Galvanises Youth Ahead of Rio+20
By Kanis Dursin
JAKARTA - Clutching a plastic bag containing a tree sapling in his right hand and a slim notebook in his left, 11-year-old Rizki Fauzi is the picture of a young climate change expert.
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Chile’s Native Communities Find Ally in Supreme Court
By Marianela Jarroud
SANTIAGO - Indigenous groups in Chile celebrated a recent court ruling that represented the latest victory in the struggle for respect for their right to be previously consulted about major projects which directly affect their communities.
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Jamaica's Rich Biodiversity Faces Multiple Threats
By Zadie Neufville
KINGSTON - Jamaican authorities are going all out to achieve environmental sustainability as one way of minimising the expected impacts of climate change on the local biodiversity.
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Q&A
Women Farmers Are Key to a Food-Secure Africa
Busani Bafana interviews JANE KARUKU, the first woman president of the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa
BULAWAYO - While women constitute the majority of food producers, processors and marketers in Africa, their role in the agricultural sector still remains a minor one because of cultural and social barriers.
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Plastic Seas Altering Marine Ecology
By Stephen Leahy
UXBRIDGE, Canada - Plastic trash is altering the very ecology of the world's oceans. Insects called "sea skaters", a relative of pond water striders, are now laying their eggs on the abundant fingernail-sized pieces of plastic floating in the middle of the North Pacific Ocean instead of relying on a passing seabird feather or bit of driftwood.
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