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- OSCE forum calls for stepped up cooperation to save earth's resources
- PRAGUE AFP — Spanish Foreign Minister Miguel Angel Moratinos called here Monday for closer cooperation to conserve the earth's resources in order to safeguard global security and economic development. "Environmental cooperation can be an effective catalyst for reducing tensions," said Moratinos, currently chairing the Organisation for Security and Co-operation...
- Research articles 2007-05-21
- Energy award presenters castigate US environment policy
- BRUSSELS AFP — Backers of the international Energy Globe awards, hosted by the European parliament on Wednesday, castigated the US for its global role in conflicts and environmental degradation. The prime movers behind schemes for solar power systems in southern India homes and to dry vegetables in Kenya were...
- Research articles 2007-04-11
- Bird flu, climate change among Asia's threats
- SINGAPORE AFP — Asian nations must unite to confront bird flu, climate change and a growing list of other issues that threaten the region, analysts said at a conference. The outbreak of avian flu and the 26 December 2004 tsunami that killed 220,000 people in Asia showed that no single...
- Research articles 2007-01-08
- Some forests faring well
- A surprising study from the National Academy of Sciences recently showed that a large and increasing number of countries are reversing the trend of forest destruction, the New York Times reports. While forest degradation is serious and worsening in countries like Brazil and Indonesia, the study shows that, in the...
- Research articles 2007-01-01
- Central Asian states launch program to reverse desertification
- MANILA AFP — Five former Soviet republics have launched a 1.4 billion-dollar program funded by development lenders and aid agencies to halt and reverse the spread of deserts in Central Asia, the Asian Development Bank has said. Over the next 10 years Philippines-based ADB will coordinate overall activities of the...
- Research articles 2006-11-16
- Prevention vital against desertification: UN expert
- TOKYO AFP — Parched Asian nations such as Mongolia and China must act swiftly to prevent the creeping spread of deserts which costs the global economy 42 billion dollars a year, a UN expert has said. "Regaining lost land is too expensive. Prevention is the only solution for countries that...
- Research articles 2006-08-24
- Tanzania steps up measures to save environment
- DAR ES SALAAM AFP — In a move designed to curb further environmental degradation, Tanzania has ordered the eviction of pastoralists from forests and banned the use of thin plastic bags. In a weekend address to the nation, Vice President Ali Sheni blamed the east Africa nation's deteroriating environment...
- Research articles 2006-04-03
- China to step up environmental protection efforts
- BEIJING AFP — Chinese government officials who "sacrifice" the environment for economic development will be punished as part of stepped-up efforts to control the nation's ecological degradation. China's environmental and supervisory authorities said they would team up to investigate and better enforce existing anti-pollution laws. "As the pace...
- Research articles 2006-02-20
- Bhutan: World Bank supports sustainable land management.
- M2 PRESSWIRE-18 January 2006-WORLD BANK: Bhutan: World Bank supports sustainable land managementC1994-2006 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:17012006 WASHINGTON - The World Bank's Board of Directors today approved a US$7.66 million grant from the Global Environment Facility GEF to strengthen institutional and community...
- Research articles 2006-01-18
- Medicinal plants offer unexplored health and economic opportunities for African dryland communities; World Bank report reveals niche products for niche markets.
- M2 PRESSWIRE-27 October 2005-WORLD BANK: Medicinal plants offer unexplored health and economic opportunities for African dryland communities; World Bank report reveals niche products for niche marketsC1994-2005 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:27102005 NAIROBI, KENYA -- Dryland areas in Sub-Saharan Africa have a niche...
- Research articles 2005-10-27
- World Bank calls upon action at all levels to address land degradation; Climate change, among others, is compounding scale of land degradation in developing countries.
- M2 PRESSWIRE-28 October 2005-WORLD BANK: World Bank calls upon action at all levels to address land degradation; Climate change, among others, is compounding scale of land degradation in developing countriesC1994-2005 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:25102005 NAIROBI, KENYA - The World Bank today...
- Research articles 2005-10-28
- UN launches world's largest program to fight desertification in Africa
- NAIROBI AFP — The United Nations and international lenders launched a multi-billion-dollar initiative to fight desertification in Africa, billed as the world's largest scheme to prevent land degradation. TerrAfrica plans to invest four billion dollars (3.3 billion euros) over 12 years to stem the expansion of African deserts and...
- Research articles 2005-10-24
- Brazil's Amazon rainforest twice as deforested as estimated: study
- WASHINGTON AFP — Stealthy selective logging under the dense canopy of Brazil's Amazon rainforest has left twice the amount of the fragile forest degraded by human activities as previously estimated, a US study said. The worse-than-expected degradation of the Amazon, known as "the lungs of the world" for its...
- Research articles 2005-10-21
- UN urges early warning systems to combat desertification
- NAIROBI AFP — More than 250 million people worldwide are directly affected by creeping desertification, the United Nations said, urging the creation of early warning systems to fight the expansion of deserts. At a meeting here, senior officials from the 179 states party to the UN Convention to Combat...
- Research articles 2005-10-17
- Burden Of disease increased by environmental degradation; 'Environment Matters 2005' highlights trend in developing countries.
- M2 PRESSWIRE-6 October 2005-WORLD BANK: Burden Of disease increased by environmental degradation; 'Environment Matters 2005' highlights trend in developing countriesC1994-2005 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:05102005 WASHINGTON - Close to one-fifth of the burden of disease in developing countries can be attributed...
- Research articles 2005-10-06
- The effects of world society on environmental protection outcomes.
- The world environmental regime has encouraged nations to adopt new environmental policies and laws worldwide. But, scholars question the impact on the environment, suggesting that national policies may be 'decoupled' from outcomes. We fill a gap in neo-institutional theory by specifying the circumstances in which institutions will affect outcomes--namely, when...
- Research articles 2005-09-01
- Validation of the reciprocity law for coating photodegradation.(First Place 2004 Roon Award Competition Paper)
- Accelerating the photodegradation of commercial polymeric materials has great practical importance in the weathering community. However, questions exist as to whether high radiant flux exposure results can be extrapolated to in-service exposure levels. Based on the reciprocity law, the photoresponse of a material is dependent only...
- Research articles 2005-07-01
- Harsh Justice: Criminal Punishment and the Widening Divide Between America and Europe.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
- HARSH JUSTICE: CRIMINAL PUNISHMENT AND THE WIDENING DIVIDE BETWEEN AMERICA AND EUROPE. By James Q. Whitman. New York: Oxford University Press. 2003. Pp. viii, 311. $39.95. The spring 2004 release of the grusome pictures of sexual humiliation and torture at Abu Ghraib prison outside...
- Research articles 2005-05-01
- Inextricably Intertwined - Environmental Management and the Public
- I. INTRODUCTIONOver the last forty years, the idea that the public holds a legal right to participate generally in government decision-making has gained wide acceptance both domestically and internationally.1 This fact is especially true within the realm of environmental law, where government decisions greatly impact the environment in which all...
- Research articles 2005-04-01
- Pesticide pathways: close chemical consideration of the hydrolytic degradation of organophosphorus pesticides will lead to refined environmental risk assessment.
- Anthropogenically synthesized pesticides constitute a number of different structural types--the principal ones being triazines, organochlorines, carbamates, and organophosphorus pesticides. (2) A number of reviews, including structure-activity correlations, are available to the interested reader. (2-5) This article is restricted to consideration of organophosphorus OP pesticides, which...
- Research articles 2005-04-01
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