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Guyana considers implications of new EU’s laws on illegal timber
Posted by Kaieteur News: None Given on January 24th, 2011
Kaieteur News: Europe has passed new legislation to counter the flow of illegal timber into its markets. With Guyana last year exporting timber to the tune of US$5M ($1B) to the European Union, the market is one that the country could ill-afford to lose.
Next Wednesday, the Forest Products Association of Guyana (FPA) will be holding a workshop with the assistance from the Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) of the United Nations, to increase awareness of the EU’s Forest Law Enforcement, Governance and Trade...
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Comments Off on Guyana considers implications of new EU’s laws on illegal timberCan the sea solve China’s water crisis?
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on January 24th, 2011
Guardian: The highest-tech effort yet to ease China's water crisis sits between a wide, flat grid of salt farms and two giant cooling towers that rise up from a vast expanse of reclaimed land on the western shore of the Bohai Sea.
Odourless, quiet and billowing clear white smoke into a sharp blue sky, the Beijiang desalination and power plant contrast sharply with the tangled pipes, dirty chimneys and foul waterways more usually associated with China's traditional industrial landscape.
The 12.1bn yuan...
United Kingdom: Activists plan Scotland Yard blockade to expose spies who used sexual tactics
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on January 24th, 2011
Guardian: Women activists are to blockade Scotland Yard today, intending to demand to know the identity of any undercover police who have infiltrated their organisations.
As evidence continued to emerge of police officers having had sexual relations with people they were monitoring, the women said they wanted to know if they had been "abused" by police.
Though senior police insisted that sleeping with activists during such operations was banned, a former agent claimed such "promiscuity" routinely had...
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Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on January 24th, 2011
ScienceDaily: A new scientific study shows that debris coverage -- pebbles, rocks, and debris from surrounding mountains -- may be a missing link in the understanding of the decline of glaciers. Debris is distinct from soot and dust, according to the scientists.
Melting of glaciers in the Himalayan Mountains affects water supplies for hundreds of millions of people living in South and Central Asia. Experts have stated that global warming is a key element in the melting of glaciers worldwide.
Bodo Bookhagen,...
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