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- Niger's vanishing forests: last hope to keep desert at bay
- NIAMEY AFP — It is not yet daybreak when the trucks, the donkeys and the camels pour out of Niamey across the Kennedy bridge. Night has fallen when they return, loaded down with huge cargoes of wood from south western Niger's last forests. Local people continue to cut down...
- Research articles 2007-12-11
- SALAZAR FIGHTS DEVELOPMENT
- LAKEWOOD - Colorado's Air Force bases need to move more quickly to keep encroaching development from threatening their future, U.S. Sen. Ken Salazar said Monday. The Democratic senator's comments came as he finds himself in the middle of a battle over whether the Army should study...
- Research articles 2007-10-09
- Asian land grabs highlight class friction, bureaucratic failures
- TRAPEANG KRASAING, Cambodia AFP — Monsoon rains have brought new misery to the residents of this resettlement site outside the Cambodian capital. Already uprooted from their homes, the hundreds of families living here now have to contend with near daily downpours that flood their shacks with putrid water. ...
- Research articles 2007-07-24
- Encroachment: where national security, land use, and the environment collide
- Introduction Sprawl is a phenomenon with wide-ranging implications for urban and suburban populations. One of the many definitions for sprawl includes "low-density development on the edges of cities and towns that is poorly planned, land-consumptive, automobile-dependent [and] designed without regard to its surroundings." (1) Development away from the city...
- Research articles 2006-07-01
- Great apes face imminent extinction from habitat destruction: UN
- NAIROBI AFP — Increasing human encroachment of equatorial rainforests in Africa and southeast Asia threatens imminent extinction of earth's dwindling population of great apes, the UN Environment Programme UNEP said. In a report released ahead of an international conference next week on saving the highly endangered species from total...
- Research articles 2005-09-01
- Taylor: No question of Hopi sovereignty
- Norrell, Brenda Indian Country Today Lakota Times 08-03-2005 KYKOTSMOVI, Ariz. - Hopi Chairman Wayne Taylor Jr. said the Hopi Tribe is struggling to maintain its ancestral lands and sacred sites and appreciates some aspects of the recently introduced Navajo-Hopi Land Settlement ...
- Research articles 2005-08-03
- Taylor: No question of Hopi sovereignty
- Norrell, Brenda Indian Country Today Lakota Times 08-03-2005 KYKOTSMOVI, Ariz. - Hopi Chairman Wayne Taylor Jr. said the Hopi Tribe is struggling to maintain its ancestral lands and sacred sites and appreciates some aspects of the recently introduced Navajo-Hopi Land Settlement Amendments of 2005. "The Hopi people and our...
- Research articles 2005-08-03
- Commentary: Techlink-Franchising and the Internet revolution
- The Internet has profoundly affected how companies conduct businesses by revolutionizing operating methods and changing the field of competition. The same is true for franchising. Besides reshaping their businesses, the Internet will change how franchisors satisfy federal and state disclosure requirements to prospective franchisees and alter competitive protection...
- Research articles 2005-06-03
- France to host major forum on species loss
- PARIS AFP — Proposals to counter the possible extinction by the end of the century of elephants, great apes, tigers and lions due to the encroachment by humans will be at the center of a major conference on biodiversity that opens in Paris Monday. The forum, taking place at...
- Research articles 2005-01-22
- Base sitting pretty, or not
- As the deadline approaches to appoint the nine members of the 2005 Base Realignment and Closure Commission, the tension of not knowing if the local base will be shut down is starting to build.According to BRAC analysts in Washington. D.C.. the selection process has already started. and the commission could...
- Research articles 2005-01-23
- Carson's cushion
- At the time many of the nation's military bases were established, most were islands of splendid isolation, a safe distance from business or residential centers. But no longer. Today, many of these facilities have been engulfed by development -- are being "encroached" upon, in the Pentagon's parlance -- leading to...
- Research articles 2005-01-20
- MILITARY READINESS AND ENVIRONMENTAL SECURITY-CAN THEY CO-EXIST?
- Editors' Synopsis: This Article reviews the effects of the Migratory Bird Treaty Act, the Endangered Species Act, and the Sikes Act on issues of encroachment and military readiness training. The Department of Defense land holdings provide habitats for a disproportionate number of endangered species in addition to providing military training...
- Research articles 2004-07-01
- Protected forests still threatened: WWF
- KUALA LUMPUR AFP ? More money and urgent action are needed to combat the threats faced by protected forests around the world, according to a major study released by the WWF conservation group. Described as "the largest ever global assessment of the management of forest protected areas", the survey...
- Research articles 2004-02-08
- Predicting environmental impact of military training.(tech talk)(Regional Simulation model)(Brief Article)
- Growing concerns about "urban encroachment" around military bases have prompted scientists to develop a Web-based simulation that can help predict the impact of military training on the environment. Called Regional Simulation model RSim, the technology will assess the effects of military training on...
- Research articles 2004-02-01
- Florida Greenway Project to Help Habitat, Military.
- By Jerome R. Stockfisch, Tampa Tribune, Fla. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Nov. 13--TALLAHASSEE, Fla.--Conservationists, the Pentagon and the Florida Cabinet joined forces Wednesday on a project that supporters say will help fulfill two of the state's priorities: protecting the environment and...
- Research articles 2003-11-13
- Military Training: DOD Approach to Managing Encroachment on Training Ranges Still Evolving.
- GAO-03-621T April 2, 2003 DOD faces growing challenges in carrying out realistic training at installations and training ranges--land, air, and sea--because of encroachment by outside factors. These include urban growth, competition for radio frequencies or airspace, air or noise pollution, unexploded ordnance and munition components, endangered species habitat,...
- Research articles 2003-05-01
- Urban Sprawl Nibbles at Edges of Eglin Air Force Base in Florida.
- By Mladen Rudman, Northwest Florida Daily News, Fort Walton Beach Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Dec. 18--EGLIN AFB, Fla.--The rumbling, though some may characterize it more as grumbling, from Arlington, Va., has been felt from sea to shining sea. Encroachment --...
- Research articles 2002-12-18
- Green Marines/ When endangered species also endanger soldiers
- U.S. Marines have performed admirably in Afghanistan, according to the recent assessment of Lt. Gen. Edward Hanlon Jr., commander of the Marine Corps Combat Development Command, though they reportedly came up short in at least one important battlefield fundamental - many apparently hadn't learned how to dig foxholes. ...
- Research articles 2002-09-07
- D-day nears on 3G frequencies.
- WASHINGTON--A General Accounting Office report set for release next month will say the Pentagon has yet to make a case that combat training obstacles--such as competition for radio spectrum--are undermining military readiness, a damaging but not necessarily lethal blow to Department of Defense efforts to protect...
- Research articles 2002-05-20
- DoD News briefing.
- M2 PRESSWIRE-4 April 2002-US DOD: DoD News briefing C1994-2002 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:03042002 Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Readiness Dr. Paul Mayberry Wednesday, April 3, 2002 (Interview with National Public Radio, "The Connection." Also participating...
- Research articles 2002-04-04
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