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THAILAND: Coastal Folk Flex Collective Muscle to Restore Mangroves
By Ron Corben*
SAMUT PRAKAN, Thailand - Looking across the bay while at a restaurant built on stilts over water, Bonchai Chayapat muses over the transformed landscape once lush with a mangrove forest that today has all but vanished.
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ENVIRONMENT: Back to Traditional Farming to Beat Climate Change
By Anil Netto*
PENANG, Malaysia - When organisers of an international conference on climate change and the food crisis first scheduled the event here for late September, little did they realise the event would be sandwiched by two typhoons buffeting the region. Ironically, the first typhoon, ‘Ketsana’, delayed the arrival of conference delegates from the Philippines.
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MEXICO: Underwater Museum to Protect Coral Reefs
By Verónica Díaz Favela*
MEXICO CITY - Four sculptures in human forms, made of concrete, will be submerged in November in the Mexican Caribbean - the first of 400 figures that will comprise the world's largest underwater museum.
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BRAZIL: Electric Car Revolution in the Making
By Mario Osava*
RIO DE JANEIRO - The electric vehicle - pure or hybrid - will trigger an energy and industrial revolution worldwide in the coming decades, dealing a blow to liquid fuels. But plant-based ethanol will survive and grow, say Brazilian experts consulted for this report.
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MEXICO: The Goal: Not a Drop Wasted
By Emilio Godoy*
SAN FELIPE DEL PROGRESO, Mexico - In his novel "México sediento" (Mexico in a Drought), author Francisco Moreno postulated that drought would lead to war in 2010, just as water shortages helped trigger the fight for Mexico's independence from Spain in 1810 and the Mexican Revolution in 1910.
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ENVIRONMENT: Making Wetlands Count
By Lowana Veal*
REYKJAVIK - Iceland wants wetland restoration to be assessed for emission reduction units at the summit to work out a new deal on climate change in December in Copenhagen.
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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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ARGENTINA: Clean Energy from Manure
By Marcela Valente*
BUENOS AIRES - With its enormous potential for biogas production, Argentina is gearing up for this clean energy alternative - which has already seen good results on ranches that transform manure into energy.
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MEXICO: Houses Put to Flood and Hurricane Test
By Verónica Díaz Favela*
MEXICO CITY - Federico Martínez was born in a land of hurricanes. As a young boy in Mexico he saw the wind uproot trees and roll wooden houses "as if they were shoe boxes." As an adult, he developed a house that can withstand winds up to 300 kilometres per hour and floods three metres deep.
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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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WATER-NAMIBIA: For What Does It Profit a Man...
By Servaas van den Bosch*
OKOMBAHE, Namibia - "Our profit so far is 5,000 Namibian dollars, divided by twenty people," reports Anna Nauses. Silence descends on the office of the Prosopis Project in Okombahe as all do the math. Sixteen months of hard labour felling water-thirsty trees along the Omaruru River has yielded just 30 U.S. dollars per person.
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CHILE: The Environmental Fight Starts in Your Neighbourhood
By Daniela Estrada*
SANTIAGO - A working-class neighbourhood on the outskirts of the capital, which stood united against the dictatorship of General Augusto Pinochet in the 1970s and 1980s and today is doing so against climate change, is launching the country's first "ecobarrio" project.
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MALAWI: Activists Look Askance at New Mine
By Jessie Boylan*
KAYELEKERA, Malawi - "We are serious about the integrity of the environment," says Neville Huxham, the country director for Paladin Energy Africa. "We're taking the uranium out of the ground, we're exporting it to be used for productive purposes, so we should be getting a medal for cleaning up the environment."
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