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Rio+20: megacities strive to survive – and thrive
Posted by Christian Science Monitor: Taylor Barnes on June 13th, 2012
Christian Science Monitor: In Rio de Janeiro, a gray-green river running thick with waste is flanked by the squatter settlement of Mandela on one side and the ornate turrets of the national public health ministry on the other. Kids paddle on hoods of cars and swim in the murky water, which the state environmental service condemned as having "pathological contamination" from sewage.
Local pastor Antônio Carlos Costa says there is nowhere else for kids to play, though he pleads with them not to swim in "Copacalama," as the...
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Barack Obama skips Rio+20 Earth summit
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on June 13th, 2012
Guardian: Barack Obama will skip a United Nations summit billed as a "once in a generation opportunity" to make progress on global development, sending Hillary Clinton in his place.
The US state department announced on Tuesday that Clinton, as secretary of state, would lead America's delebation to the Rio+20 global development summit next week.
She will be joined by the head of the Environmental Protection Agency, Lisa Jackson, and the White House environmental official Nancy Sutley, as well as state...